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A13980	The historie of Iustine Containing a narration of kingdomes, from the beginning of the Assyrian monarchy, vnto the raigne of the Emperour Augustus. VVhereunto is newly added a briefe collection of the liues and manners of all the emperours succeeding, vnto the Emp. Rodulphus now raigning. First written in Latine by that famous historiographer Iustine, and now againe newly translated into English, by G.W.; Historiae Philippicae. English	Justinus, Marcus Junianus.; Trogus, Pompeius. Historiae Philippicae.; G. W., fl. 1606.; Wilkins, George, fl. 1607, attributed name.; Victor, Sextus Aurelius. De Caesaribus.	1606 (1606)	STC 24293; ESTC S117759	462,376	347

upon the King of England And so against my will they made me to learne English and taught me what I should doe and say and after this they called me Richard Duke of Yorke second sonne to Edward the fourth because King Richards Bastard sonne was in the hands of the King of England And upon this the said Iohn VValter and Stephen Poytowe Iohn Tyler Hubbert Burgh with many others as the foresaid Earles entred into this false quarrell and within short time after the French King sent ambassadours into Ireland whose names were Lyot Lucas and Stephen Frayn and thence I went into Fraunce and from thence into Flanders and from Flanders againe into Ireland and from Ireland into Scotland and so into England Thus was Perkins bragge twighted from a milpost to a pudding pricke and hanged was he the next yeare after Then in the yeare 1501. King Henry made Lieutenant of Ireland his second sonne Henry as then Duke of Yorke who afterwards raigned To him was appointed Deputy the aforesaid Gerald Earle of Kildare who accompanied with Iohn Blacke Major of Divelin warred upon VVilliam de Burgo O-Brien and Mac Nemarra Occarrol and the greatest power of Irish men that had beene seene together since the conquest under the hill of Knoctoe in English the hill of Axes sixe miles from Galway and two miles from Ballinclare de Burgoes mannor towne Mac VVilliam and his Complices were there taken his Souldiours that escaped the sword were pursued flying five miles great slaughter done and many Captaines gotten not one English man killed The Earle at his returne was created knight of the Noble Order and flourished all his life long of whom I shall bee occasioned to say somewhat in the next Chapter CAP. IX Henry the eight GErald Fitz Gerald Earle of Kildare a mighty made man full of honour and courage who had beene Lord Deputy and Lord Iustice of Ireland thirtie foure yeares deceased the third of September and lyeth buried in Christs Church in Divelin Betweene him and Iames Butler Earle of Ormond their owne jealousies fed with envy and ambition kindled with certaine lewd factions abbettors of either side ever since the ninth yeare of Henry the seventh when Iames of Ormond with a great army of Irish men camping in S. Thomas Court at Divelin seemed to face the countenance and power of the Deputy these occasions I say fostered a mallice betwixt them and their posterityes many yeares after incurable causes of much ruffle and unquietnes in the Realme untill the confusion of the one house and nonage of the other discontinued their quarrels which except their Inheritours have the grace to put up and to love unfainedly as Gerald and Thomas doe now may hap to turne their countryes to little good and themselves to lesse Ormond was nothing inferiour to the other in stomacke and in reach of pollicy farre beyond him Kildare was in governement a milde man to his enemies intractable to the Irish such a scourge that rather for despite of him then for favour of any part they relyed upon the Butlers came in under his protection served at his call performed by starts as their manner is the duty of good subjects Ormond was secret and drifty of much moderation in speech dangerous of every little wrinkle that touched his reputation Kildare was open and passionable in his moode desperate both of word and deede of the English welbeloved a good lusticier a warriour incomparable towards the Nobles that he favoured not somewhat headlong and unrulie being charged before Henry the seventh for burning the Church at Cashell and many witnesses prepared to avouch against him the truth of that article he suddainely confessed the fact to the great wondering and detestation of the Councell when it was looked how he would justifie the matter By Iesus quoth he I would never have done it had it not beene told me that the Archbishop was within And because the Archbishop was one of his busiest accusers there present merrily laught the King at the plainenesse of the man to see him alleadge that intent for excuse which most of all did aggravate his fault The last article against him they conceived in these tearmes finally all Ireland cannot rule this Earle No quoth the King then in good faith shall this Earle rule all Ireland Thus was the accusation turned to a jest the Earle returned Lord Deputy shortly after created Knight of the Garter and so died Marvell not if this successe were a corrosive to the adverse party which the longer it held aloofe and bit the bridle the more eagerly it followed his course having once the sway and roome at will as you may perceive hereafter Gerald Fitz Gerald sonne of the aforesaid Earle of Kildare and Lord Deputy who chased the nation of the Tooles battered Ocarrols Castles awed all the Irish of the land more more A Gentleman valiant and well spoken yet in his latter time overtaken with vehement suspition of sundry Treasons He of good meaning to unite the families matched his Sister Margaret Fitz Gerald with Pierce Butler Earle of Ossory whom he also holpe to recover the Earledome of Ormond whereinto after the decease of Iames a Bastard brother had intruded Seven yeares together Kildare kept in credit and authority notwithstanding the pushes given against him by secret heavers enviers of his fortune and nourishers of the old grudge who fett him up to the Court of England by commission and caused him there to be opposed with diverse interrogatories touching the Earle of Desmond his Cousin a notorious traytor as they said He left in his roome Morice Fitz Thomas Lord Iustice. After whom came over Lord Lieutenant Thomas Howard Earle of Surrey Grandfather to this Duke of Norfolke accompanied with 200. of the Kings guarde While he sate at Dinner in the Castle of Divelin hee heard newes that Oneale with a mighty army was even in the mouth of the borders ready to invade Immediately men were levyed by the Major and the next morrow joyning them to his band the Lieutenant marched as farre as the water of Slane where having intelligence of Oneales recoyle hee dismissed the footemen and pursued Omore with his horsemen which Omore was said to lurke within certaine miles That espied a Gunner of Omore and watching by a wood side discharged his peece at the very face of the Deputy strake the visard of his helmet and pierced no further as God would This did he in manner recklesse what became of himselfe so he might amaze them for a time breake the swiftnesse of their following and advantage the flight of his Captaine which thing he wanne with the price of his owne blood for the Souldiours would no further till they had searched all the corners of that wood verily suspecting some ambush thereabout and in severall knots ferretted out this Gunner whom Fitz VVilliams and Bedlowe of the Roche were faine to mangle and hewe in peeces because

to preserve at the motion of the Lady Sidney then abiding in Droghedagh came Master Sarsfield then Major of Divelin with a chosen band of goodly young men Citizens and brake the rage of the enemies The Deputy returning made him Knight and finding it now high time utterly to weede and roote out the Traytor he furnished a substantiall army and with the readines thereof hartened the Irish whom Oneale had impoverished cut off his adherents and all accesse of succour chased him and his into corners spent him cast him into such despaire that he consulted with his Secretary Neale Mac Connor to present himselfe unknowne and disguised to the Deputy with an halter about his necke begging his pardon Ere you doe so quoth his Clarke let us prove an extreame shift and there he perswaded him to joyne with the Scots whom he had lately banished of whom should he be refused or finde inconvenience at any time submission to the Deputy might then be used when all faileth Shane knew himselfe odious to the Scots especially to them whom he thought to lincke with the brother and kindred of Iames Mac Conill yet in those hard oddes hee devised rather to assay their friendship then to grate upon mercy which so oft and so intollerably he had abused Mac Conill whom Shane overthrew left two brethren and a Sister whereof one Suarly Torwy remained with Oneale entertayned after his brothers death The other was Alexander Oge who with 600. Scots incamped now in Clanebov The woman was Agnes Ilye whose husband Shane slew in the said discomfiture Agnes had a sonne Mac Gillye Aspucke who betrayed Oneale to avenge his Fathers and Vncles quarrell At the first meeting for thither he came accompanied with Torwy and his Secretary and 50. horsemen the Captaines made him great cheere and fell to quaffing but Aspucke minding to enter into his purpose there openly challenged his Secretary as the Author of a dishonourable report that Mac Conils wife did offer to forsake her country and friends and to marry with Shane Oneale her husbands destruction Mary quoth the Secretary if thine Aunt were Queen of Scotland it might beseeme her full well to seeke such a marriage To this brawle Oneale gave eare upheld his man advaunced his owne degree The comparison bred a fray betweene their Souldiours Out sprang Aspucke and beat Oneales man and then suddainely brought his band upon them in the tent where the Souldiours with their slaughter-knives killed the Secretary and Shane Oneale mangled him cruelly lapped him in an old Irish shirte and tumbled him into a pit within an old Chappell hard by whose head foure dayes after Captaine Pierce cut off and met therewith the Deputy who sent it before him staked on a pole to the Castle of Divelin where it now standeth It is thought that Tirlagh who now usurpeth the name of Oneale practised this devise with Agnes Alexander and Torwy when he perceived Shane discouraged and not able to hold out Thus the wretched man ended who might have lived like a Prince had he not quenched the sparkes of grace that appeared in him with arrogancy and contempt against his Prince The next Tumult in Ireland proceeded of the folly especially of Sir Edmund Butler Pierce and Edward his Brethren who being unable in law to maintaine his title to certaine landes whereof he held possession whereunto Sir Peter Carew laide very direct and manifest claime for Carew is an ancient Barons house in Ireland confedered with Iames Fitz Morice of the south and others began commotion more dangerous to the Realme then the late stirre of Oneale such was their opportunity of place the rebels so friended their number so furnished that the Deputy passing forth against them in haste requisite with such shift as the suddaine mischiefe asked was thought to have put his person in great adventure but in conclusion he wanne by that journey great martiall honour started them from hole to hole and ransackt every veine of the land so as the Butlers craving protection shortly recoyled and stand now at the Queenes mercy To appease the country reforme the lewdnes of his Brethren Thomas Earle of Ormond came from the Court of England home and in quieting the said broyles shewed also for his part a right good peece of service worthy to be remembred After this ensued a Parliament the particulars whereof are expressed in the acts lately drawne to be published in Print somewhat before the last session a seditious libell intituled Tom Troth let fall in the streetes of Divelin nipped by name diverse honourable and worshipfull of the Realme certaine officers of the Deputyes houshold for greeving the land with impositions of Cesse whereupon followed a proclamation bearing date the twenty eight of Ianuary which if it may bee executed in all points would cut off many such murmures and leave a blessed memory of the Governour that devised it The day of prorogation when the Knights and Burgesses of the Cominalty resorted to the Lordes of the upper house much good matter was there uttered betweene the Deputy and the Speaker whereof comming home to my lodging I tooke notes and here I will deliver them as neere as I can call them to minde in the same words and sentences that I heard them First the Speaker Iames Stanihurst an Esquire of worship Recorder of Divelin and for the Citty Burgesse at that present began thus Rather of custome and dutyfull humility then for doubt of your honourable disposition so well knowne to us all and to every of us in private that it little needeth my praise we are to request your Lordship in the behalfe of our selves and our countryes whom we represent in this Parliament to accept our service and endeavour in driving these conclusions where by to the uttermost of our skill we have intended without injury the Crowne to enrich treasons to chastise to better the state traffique to further learning to cherish and in briefe to maintaine with our best advice those benefits which the Prince hath inferred upon this Realme by you and you with your sword and wisedome have performed An ordinary suite it is in the end of such assemblies to crave executions of law for it sufficeth not to keepe a statute tanquam inclusum in tabulis as a thing shut up in parchment rolles but law must speake and walke abroad to the comfort and behoofe of good subjects Otherwise vve shall resemble the folly of him that once in every houre saluted his gold never using it but onely bad it lye still and couch Of the necessity thereof I cannot say so much as your Lordship conceiveth and I desire not to discourse a matter generally felt and confessed In particular the zeale which I have to the reformation of this Realme and to breede in the rudest of our people resolute English hearts moveth me to pray your Lordships helping hand for the practise namely of one statute which is

hurt to the Welch men and brought away the shrine of Saint Cubius and placed it in the Church of the holy Trinitie in Dublin The same yeere on the Eeven of the feast of the blessed Virgin Iames Butler Earle of Ormond dyed at Raligauran whose death was much lamented whilest hee was Lord Iustice of Ireland unto whom succeeded Girald Earle of Kildare Anno 1406. in the seaventh yeere of King Henry on Corpus Christi day the citizens of Dublin with the country people about them manfully vanquished the Irish enemies and slue divers of them and tooke two Ensignes bringing with them to Dublin the heads of those whom they had slaine The same yeere the Prior of Conall in the Plaine of Kildare fought valiantly and vanquished two hundred of the Irish that were well armed slaying some of them and chasing others and the Pryor had not with him but twenty English men and thus God assisteth those that put their trust in him The same yeere after Michaelmas came into Ireland Scroope Deputie Iustice to the Lord Thomas of Lancaster the Kings Sonne Lord Lievetenant of Ireland The same yeere dyed Innocent the seaventh to whom succeeded Gregorie in the Popedome The same yeere a Parliament was holden at Dublin on the feast of Saint Hillary which in Lent after was ended at Trym and Meiler Birmingham slue Cathole O Conghir in the end of Frebruary and there dyed Sir Ieffery Vaulx a Noble Knight in the Countie of Carlogh Anno 1407. a certaine most false fellow an Irish man named Mac Adam Mac Gilmori that had caused forty Churches to be destroyed who was never baptized and therefore hee was called Corbi tooke prisoner Patricke Savage and received for his ransome two thousand markes and afterwards slue him together with his Brother Richard The same yeere in the feast of the exaltation of the holy Crosse Stephen Scroope Deputy to the Lord Thomas of Lancaster the Kings sonne Lord Lievtenant of Ireland with the Earles of Ormond and Desmond and the Prior of Kilmainan and divers other Captaines and men of warre of Meath set from Dublin and invaded the land of Mac Murch where the Irish had the better part of the field for the former part of the day but afterwards they were valiantly rescued by the said Captaines so that Onolad with his sonne and divers others were taken prisoners But then and there being advertised that the Burkens and Okeroll in the County of Kilkenny had for the space of two dayes together done much mischiefe they rode with all speed unto the Towne of Callan and there encountring with the adversasaries manfully put them to flight slue Okeroll and eight hundred others and it was averred by many that the Sunne stoodstill for a space that day till the Englishmen had ridden 6. miles which was much to be wondred at The same yeere Stephen Scrope went over into England and Iames Butler Earle of Ormond was elected by the Country L. I. of Ireland The same yeere in England neere unto Yorke was slaine Henry Percy Earle of Northumberland and the Lord Bardolf and the Bishop of Bangor were taken prisoners Anno 1408. The said Lord Iustice held a Parliament at Dublin in which the Statutes of Kilkenny and Dublin were established and the Charter granted under the grear Seale of England against Purveiors The same yeere the morrow after Lammas day the Lord Thomas of Lancaster the Kings sonne Lord Lievtenant of Ireland landed at Carlingford and in the weeke following he came unto Dublin and arrested the Earle of Kildare comming to him with three of his familie hee lost all his goods being spoiled and rifled by the Lord Lievtenant his servants and himselfe kept still in the Castle of Dublin till he had paid three hundred markes fine The same yeere on the day of Saint Marcell the Martyr the L. Stephen Scrope died at Tristledermot The same yeere the said L. Thomas of Lancaster at Kilmainan was wounded and hardly escaped death and after caused summons to be given by Proclamation that all such as ought by their tenures to serve the King should assemble at Rosse and after the Feast of Saint Hillary he held a Parliament at Kilkenny for a tallage to be granted and after the 13. of March he went over into England leaving the Prior of Kilmainan his Deputy in Ireland This yeere Hugh Mac Gilmore was slaine in Cragfergus within the Church of the Fryers Minors which Church hee had before destroyed and broken downe the Glasse-windowes to have the Iron barres through which his enemies the Savages entred upon him Anno 1409. Of King Henry the fourth in Iune Ianico de Artois with the Englishmen slue fourescore of the Irish in Vlster The same yeere on the day of Saint Iohn and Paul Alexander the fifth of the Order of Fryers Minors was consecrated Pope and Pope Gregory and Antipope Clemens were condēned for heretickes and by these meanes unity was made in the Church The same yeere a heretick or Lollard of London was burned because he did not beleeve in the sacrament of the altar Anno 1410. Pope Alexander died on the day of the Apostles Philippe and Iacob at Bononia to whom succeeded Iohn the XXIII Anno 1411. On Thursday before Septuagesima marriage was celebrated betwixt William Preston and the daughter of Edward Paris and on Saint Valentines even and day marriages were celebrated between Iohn Wogan and the daughter of Christopher Preston and Walter de la Hide and the second daughter of the same Christopher with a great deale of charges Anno 1412. About the feast of Tiburtius and Valerianus Oconthird did much mischiefe in Meath and tooke a hundred and three score Englishmen The same yeere Odoles a Knight and Thomas Fitz Maurice Sherife of Limerick slue each other The same yeere on the nineth Kalends of Iune there died Robert Mountaine Bishop of Meath to whom succeeded Edward Dandisey sometimes Archdeacon of Cornward The same yeere in Harvest the Lord Thomas of Lancester Duke of Clarence went over into France and with him went the Duke of Yorke the Earle of Ormond and Green-Cornwall with many others The same yeere on Saint Cutberts day King Henry the fourth departed this life To whom succeeded Henry the fifth his eldest sonne Anno 1413. On the fifth Ides of Aprill namely the first Sunday of the Passion of our Lord A. being the Dominicall letter Henry the fifth was crowned King of England at Westminster The same yeere on the first of October there landed in Ireland at Clontarf Iohn Stanley the Kings Lievtenant in Ireland he departed this life the 18. of Ianuary The same yeere after the death of Iohn Stanly Lievtenant Thomas Crawly Archbishop of Dublin was chosen Lord Iustice of Ireland on the 11. Kalends of February the morrow after Saint Mathias day a Parliament began at Dublin and continued for the space of 15. daies In which time the Irish burned all that stood in their way as their usuall custome was in times

let you see what it now is and also what it may bee by good care and amendment Not that I take upon me to change the policy of so great a kingdome or prescribe rules to such wise men as have the handling thereof but onely to shew you the evills which in my small experience I have observed to be the cheife hinderance of the reformation and by way of conference to declare my simple opinion for the redresse thereof and establishing a good course for government which I doe not deliver as a perfect plot of mine owne invention to be onely followed but as I have learned and understood the same by the consultations and actions of very wise Governours and Councellours whom I have sometimes heard treate hereof So have I thought good to set downe a remembrance of them for my owne good and your satisfaction that who so lift to overlooke them although perhaps much wiser then they which have thus advised of that State yet at lest by comparison hereof may perhaps better his owne judgment and by the light of others fore-going him may follow after with more ease and haply finde a fairer way thereunto then they which have gone before Eudox. I thanke you Irenaeus for this your gentle paines withall not forgetting now in the shutting up to put you in minde of that which you have formerly halfe promised that hereafter when wee shall meete againe upon the like good occasion you will declare unto us those your observations which you have gathered of the antiquities of Ireland The end Faults escaped PAg 25. lin 45. for and he read he is pag. 27. lin 28. in some copies for Albany read either Albion or England pag. 32. lin 22. for admirall read admirable pag. 33. lin 38. for af●er read before pag. 48 lin 14. for Term●ssa read Tecmessa pag. 54. lin 34. 46 for Talkmot●● read Folkmo●es and in the Margent add vid. D. Hen. Sp●lmanni Glossarium pag. 74 lin 44 for Sinerwicke read Swerwicke ANNOTATIONS VPon review of that part which was printed before I began to inserte any notes these few animadversions are added Pag. 6. lin 39. the first originall of this word Tanist and Tanistry came See whether it may not be more fitly derived from Thane which word was commonly used among the Danes and also among the Saxons in England for a noble man and a principall officer Pag. 11. lin 14. duke of Clarence who having married the heire of the Earle of Vlster c. It was not George Duke of Clarence here spoken of by the author but Lionell Duke of Clarence third sonne of King Edw. the 3. who married the Earle of Vlsters daughter and by her had the Earledome of Vlster and although Edw. the 4. made his brother the Duke of Clarence Lo. Lieutenant of Ireland yet the place was still executed by his Deputyes which were at severall times Thomas Earle of Desmond Iohn Earle of Worcester Tho. Earle of Kildare and William Shirwood Bishop of Meth the Duke himselfe never comming into Ireland to governe there in person Pag. 26. lin 26. Kin is English and Congish affinity in Irish. I conceive the word to be rather altogether Irish. Kin signifying in Irish the heads or chiefe of any septs Pag. 27. The discourse from the word Scythians in the 11. line unto the end of the parenthesis in the 30. line is wholly to be crossed out as being then agreeable to the best MS. Copie onely after Scythians add which Touching the Scythians or Scotts arrivall in Ireland see Nennius an ancient Brittish author who lived in the yeare of Christ 858. where among other things we have the time of their arrivall Brittones saith he venerunt in 3. aetate mundi in Britanniam Scythae autem in 4. obtinuerunt Hiberniam Pag. 28. lin 35. remembrances of Bards Of the ancient Bards or Poets Lucan makes this mention in the first booke of his Pharsalia Vos quoque qui fortes animas belloque peremptas Lauaibus in longum vates dimit●itis aevum Plurima securi fudistis carmina Bardi Concerning the Irish Bardes see pag. 51. The word signified among the Gaules a singer as it is noted by Mr Camden and Mr Selden out of Festus Pompeius and it had the same signification among the Brittish Sr Iohn Price in the description of Wales expounds it to bee one that had knowledge of things to come and so saith he it signifieth at this day taking his ground amisse out of Lucan's verses Doctor Powell in his notes upon Caradoc of Lhancarvan saith that in Wales they preserved Gentlemens armes and pedegrees At this time in Ireland the Bard by common acceptation is counted a rayling Rimer and distinguished from the Poet. Pag. 29. lin 10. an Irish Scot or Pict by nation Bede tells us that the Picts were a colony of Scythians who first comming into Ireland and being denyed residence there by the Scots were perswaded by them to inhabit the North parts of Britaine But Mr Camden out of Dio Herodian Tacitus c. and upon consideration of the customes name and language of the Picts conceives not improbably that they were naturall Britons although distinguished by name Pag. 29. lin 28. Those Bardes indeed Caesar writeth Concerning them I finde no mention in Caesar's commentaryes but much touching the Druides which were the Priests and Philosophers or Magi as Pliny calls them of the Gaules British Illi rebus divinis intersunt saith he sacrificia publica ac privata procurant religiones interpretantur Ad hos magnus adolescentium numerus disciplinae caussâ concurrit magnoque ij sunt apud eos honore c. The word Dr oi had anciently the same signification as I am informed among the Irish. Pag. 30. lin 30. and Cornelius Tacitus doth also strongly affirme the same Cornelius Tacitus in the life of Iulius Agricola saith thus Silurum colorati vultus torti plerumque crines positus contra Hispaniam Iberos veteres trajecisse easque sedes occupâsse fidem faciunt This he speaketh touching the Silures which inhabited that part of South-Wales which now we call Herefordshire Radnorshire Brecknockshire Monmouth shire and Glamorganshire And although the like reason may be given for that part of Ireland which lyeth next unto Spaine yet in Tacitus we find no such inference Buchanan indeed upon the conjecture of Tacitus hath these words Verisimile a. non est Hispanos relictâ à tergo Hiberni● terrâ propiore coeli soli mitioris in Albium primùm descendisse sed primùm in Hiberniam appulisse atque inde in Britanniā colonos missos Which was observed unto me by the most learned Bishop of Meth Dr Anth. Martin upon conference with his Lordship about this point One passage in Tacitus touching Ireland in the same booke I may not heere omit although it be extra oleas Quinto expeditionum anno saith he nave primâ transgressus ignotas ad tempus gentes crebris simul

al. 1014. Guil. de Nangiac Polid l. 8. Angl. hist. An. Dom. 900. Flatsbury An. Dom. 94● 11●2 1162 1167. This Chapter concludeth the 1. and 2. booke Cambrens de conquest Hiberniae delivered unto me by Francis Ag●rd Polichron Plat. in Ad● 4. Io. Stell in Chr Iohn Stow. The Kings letter Lo. Strongbow al. Chepstowe Fitz Stephens Fitz Gerald. Conditions of peace Reymond le Grose 11●0 Divelin assaulted 〈◊〉 the Normans Hasculphus the Norman 1171. 1172. Regni sui 17. Aetatis 41. Merlines Prophecy Irish Prophets Fab. part 7. c. 237. Pol Virg lib. 13 Angl. Hist. Synode of Cashell King Henry returneth into England Ororick with one eye Earle Strongbow Strongbow Lord Warden of Ireland Pol. Virg. lib. 13 Angl. Hist. 1175. Flatsbury Basil the wife of Reymond le Grose Reymond Lord Protectour of Ireland Vlster conquered 1176. 1177. Hugh Lacye Protectour Flat●bury 1178. 1179. 1180. 1182. S. Patrickes Church in Divelin founded Infra cap. 4● S. Patrickes booke of recordes Girald Camb. Ioh. Lord of Ireland In these notes I used the conference of 3. coppies much different sent me the one by my Lord of Trimlestone another from M Agard the third from M. Stanyhurst Lacy murdered 1189. Monast. de beatitudine 1187. 1198. 1199. 1●●● Title to Meth. Title to Mounster Title to Vlster Connaght Burke Earle of Vlster and Connaght 11●9 1199· S●ow Gra●ton Arth●rus P●sthumas 120● Iohn Courcye 1●04 Hugh de Lacy Earle of Vlster King Iohn entreth Ireland the second time Anno 1210. Stow. Polid. lib. 15. In the supplication of soule Fabian 1212. Henry Scorchbill Lord Iustice ●228 Morice Fitz Gerald Lord Iustice. 124● 1259· 1260. 1261. 1267· 126● 1270. 1280. Divelin fired Records of Christ Church It was first a Priory and Canons now Deane and Chapiter Cap. Randolfe ●●87 Blundus lib. ● 1281. 1294. 1294. Bewmarishe 12●6 1299 1307. Templers 1. Ty● l. 12. c. 7. Ga●uin hist. Gal. l. 7. Tom. 3 Con● Plat. in Clem. 5 chargeth them with treason against the Christians 1309. Iohn Decer Pierce of Gavestone S●ow 1311. 1313. 1314. 1315. Iohn Hussee The wordes of Okelly 1317. This is of some called the first Earle of Kildare· Mortimer· Edward Bruise raigneth in Vlster Donald sonne of Arthur Mac Murrowe 1317. Famine horrible 1318. The Scots vanquished An. 1320. Vniversity at Dublin 1321. Alice Kettle a Sorceresse 13●7 Adam Duffe· 1●2● The Lord Iustice cleared of a slander· 1229. Bermingham hanged 1335· Darcye and Sussex 1337. 1338. 1340. The first notable dissention of the English in Ireland 1345. 1346. 1348. Bar. Carew 1350. Sherman Major of Divelin Sir Robert Savage 1356. 1357. 1359. 1360. 1361. Leonell Duke of Clarence 1367. 1369. 1377. Recordes of th'exchequer fought up by M. Iohn Thomas remembrancer Iohn Stow. Records of excheq an 9. Rich. 2. 1385. 1394. 1399 1329. Recordes of Exch. Iames Young in precepts of governement to the Earle of Ormond cap. 5 1402. Records of Ch●ist-Church in Divelin A letter from Corke coppied out of an old Record bearing no date An. 1408. Register of Majors Recordes of Exch. 1421. The chaste Earle of Ormond Iames Yong. In the translation of Cambrensis c. ●7 Prec of government c 27. ca. 2● ca. 41. Lieutenants their deputyes Records of ex●h●quer An. 7. An. 1● An. 20. An. 22. An. 26. An. 27 Richard Duke of Yorke Records of Christ-church 1450. Io. Ma. l. 6 c. 16 1458. The Letter 1459. 1460. Ann Reg 1. Ann. D. 1460. Duke of Clarence Lieutenant and his Deputies 4· An. Reg. ● An. Reg. 7. An. 10. An. 18. 1467. Patrick Sein●leger in his collections 1469. 1470. Flatsbury 1481. Edw. 5. Rich 3. Henr. 7. 1490. 1494. an Hen. 7.14 Perkins confession 1499. 1501. Recordes of Christ-Church 1504. 1513. From henceforward I hav● followed the relation of the wi●est and most ind●fferent persons that I could acquaint my selfe withall in Ireland Register of Majors 1516. 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Bartholanus in Ireland Oceanus invadeth Ireland Victory with cruelty turneth to the hurt of the conquerors A grievous infection Of Ruanus Of Cesara and Fintan Anno mundi 2317 Nemedus and his foure sonnes arrive Arrivall of Gathelus the Greek Scot. Hist. lib. 4 Hector Boet. in descript regni Scotia Et lib. ● histor Scot. Iohannes Capgrave in vita Sancti Colum. Idem in vita Sancti Fiacrij Beda Ang. hist. lib. 1. cap. 1. Volat geograph lib. 3. Io. Maior de gest Scot. l. 1. c. 4. De rebus Hiber lib. 1. Io. Maior hist. Scot. lib. 1. c. 9. Laur. Surius ver in orbe gest ud annum 1501 Bodinus Pausanias Camb. descrip Brit. cap. 7. Five sonnes of Dela arrive in Ireland anno mundi 2535. First division of Ireland Meth why so called Invasion of Scythians Anno mundi 2828 Anno mundi 3580 Gurguntius meeteth with Bartholin Hiber and Hermon Gurguntius giveth Ireland to them Booke of Houth Hiber and Hermon divide Ireland into two parts One brother killeth another The second Monarch of Ireland Ireland divided into five kingdomes Divers divisions in Ireland A Monarch alwaies in Ireland Ireland called Hibernia Divers names of Ireland Stainhurst de reh Hib. pa. 17. Camden in Hebernia Lanquet ad Annum 3652. Anno mundi 36521 Fergusius Buchanan Armes of Fergusius Tanistrie of Ireland used in Scotland Anno mundi 3750. Reuthar Iosina Thereus Io. Bale cent 14. Gillus Fridelenus the Dane taketh Dublin Frotho King of Denmarke Alb. Krant Dan. lib. 1. cap. 32. Saxo Gr. hist. Dan. lib. 5. IESVS CHRIST is borne Claudius Arviragus Flor. histor Beda eccles hist. Angl. lib. 1. c. 3. Eutropius rerum Rom. lib. 8. Camden pa. 557 Brigantes Florianus del Campo Seneca Arviragus Saxo Gram. hist. 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more must now bee used to reforme them so much time doth alter the manners of men Eudox. That seemeth very strange which you say that men should so much degenerate from their first natures as to growe wilde Iren. So much can liberty and ill examples doe Eudox. What liberty had the English there more then they had here at home were not the lawes planted amongst them at the first and had they not Governours to curbe and keepe them still in awe and obedience Iren. They had but it was for the most part such as did more hurt then good for they had governours for the most part of themselves and commonly out of the two families of the Geraldines and Butlers both adversaries and corrivales one against the other Who though for the most part they were but Deputies under some of the Kings of Englands Sonnes Brethren or other neare kinsmen who were the Kings Lieutenants yet they swayed so much as they had all the Rule and the others but the title Of which Butlers and Geraldynes albeit I must confesse there were very brave and worthy men as also of other the Peeres of that Realme made Lo Deputies and Lo Iustices at sundry times yet thorough greatnes of their late conquests and seignories they grew insolent and bent both that regall authority and also their private powers one against another to the utter subversion of themselves and strengthning of the Irish againe This you may read plainely discovered by a Letter written from the Cittizens of Corke out of Ireland to the Earle of Shrewsbury then in England and remaining yet upon record both in the Towre of London and also among the Chronicles of Ireland Wherein it is by them complained that the English Lords and Gentlemen who then had great possessions in Ireland began thorough pride and insolency to make private warres one against another and when either part was weak they would wage draw in the Irish to take their part by which meanes they both greatly incouraged and inabled the Irish which till that time had beene shut up within the mountaines of Slewlogher and weakened and disabled themselves insomuch that their revenues were wonderfully impaired and some of them which are there reckoned to have been able to have spent 12. or 1300. pounds per annū of old rent that I may say no more besides their Commodities of Creekes and havens were now scarce able to dispend the third part From which disorder and through other huge calamities which have come upon them thereby they are almost now growne like the Irish I meane of such English as were planted above towards the West for the English pale hath preserved it selfe thorogh nearenes of the state in reasonable civilitie but the rest which dwelt in Connaght and in Mounster which is the sweerest soyle of Ireland and some in Leinster and Vlster are degenerate yea and some of them have quite shaken off their English names and put on Irish that they might bee altogether Irish. Eudox. Is it possible that any should so farre growe out of frame that they should in so short space quite forget their Countrey and their owne names that is a most dangerous Lethargie much worse then that of Messala Coruinus who being a most learned man thorough sickenesse forgat his owne name But can you count us any of this kinde Iren I cannot but by report of the Irish themselves who report that the Mac-mahons in the north were aunciently English to wit descended from the Fitz Vrsula's which was a noble family in England and that the same appeareth by the signification of their Irish names Likewise that the Mac-swynes now in Vlster were aunciently of the Veres in England but that they themselves for hatred of English so disguised their names Eudox. Could they ever conceive any such dislike of their owne naturall Countryes as that they would bee ashamed of their name and byte at the dugge from which they sucked life Iren. I wote well there should be none but proud hearts doe oftentimes like wanton Colts kicke at their Mothers as we read Alcibiades and Themistocles did who being banished out of Athens fled unto the Kings of Asia and there stirred them up to warre against their Country in which warres they themselves were Cheifetaines So they say did these Mac-swines and Mac-mahons or rather Veres and Fitz Vrsulaes for private despight turne themselves against England For at such time as Robert Vere Earle of Oxford was in the Barons Warres against King Richard the second through the mallice of the Peeres banished the Realme and proscribed he with his kinsman Fitz Vrsula fled into Ireland where being prosecuted and afterwards in England put to death his kinsman there remaining behinde in Ireland rebelled and conspiring with the Irish did quite cast off both their English name and alleagiance since which time they have so remained still and have since beene counted meere Irish. The very like is also reported of the Mac-swines Mac-mahones and Mac-Shehies of Mounster how they likewise were aunciently English and old followers to the Earle of Desmond untill the raigne of King Edward the fourth At which time the Earle of Desmond that then was called Thomas being through false subornation as they say of the Queene for some offence by her against him conceived brought to his death at Tredagh most unjustly notwithstanding that he was a very good and sound subject to the King Thereupon all his Kinsemen of the Geraldines which then was a mighty family in Mounster in revenge of that huge wrong rose into Armes against the King and utterly renounced and forsooke all obedience to the Crowne of England to whom the said Mac●swines Mac-shehies and Mac-mahones being then servants and followers did the like and have ever sithence so continued And with them they say all the people of Mounster went out and many other of them which were meere English thenceforth joyned with the Irish against the King and termed themselves very Irish taking on them Irish habits and customes which could never since be cleane wyped away but the contagion hath remained still amongst their posterityes Of which sort they say be most of the surnames which end in an as Hernan Shinan Mungan c. the which now account themselves naturall Irish. Other great houses there bee of the English in Ireland which thorough licentious conversing with the Irish or marrying or fostering with them or lacke of meete nurture or other such unhappy occasions have degenerated from their auncient dignities and are now growne as Irish as O. Hanlons breech as the proverbe there is Eudox. In truth this which you tell is a most shamefull hearing and to be reformed with most sharpe censures in so great personages to the terrour of the meaner for if the Lords and cheife men degenerate what shall be hoped of the peasants and baser people And hereby sure you have made a faire way unto your selfe to lay open the abuses