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england_n	chancellor_n	lord_n	treasurer_n	4,725	5	10.9378	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09178	A briefe description of Ireland: made in this yeare, 1589. by Robert Payne, vnto xxv. of his partners for whome he is vndertaker there. Truely published verbatim, according to his letters, by Nich. Gorsan one of the sayd partners, for that he would his countreymen should be partakers of the many good notes therein contayned	Payne, Robert, fl. 1589.; Gorsan, Nicholas.	1589 (1589)	STC 19490; ESTC S102904	7,777	18

A Briefe description of Ireland Made in this yeare 1589. by Robert Payne vnto xxv of his partners for whome he is vndertaker there Truely published verbatim according to his letters by Nich. Gorsan one of the sayd partners for that he would his countreymen should be partakers of the many good Notes therin contayned AT LONDON Printed by Thomas Dawson 1589. To his very good friend M. Nicholas Gorsan of Trowell in the Countie of Nottingham and the rest of his xxv partners for Ireland giue these LET not the reportes of those that haue spent all their owne and what they could y any meanes get from others in England discourage you from Ireland although they and such others by bad dealinges haue wrought a generall discredite to all English men in that countrie which are to the Irishe vnknowne These men will say there is great danger in trauelling the countrie and much more to dwell or inhabite there yet are they freed from three of the greatest dangers first they cannot meete in al that land any worsse then themselues secondly they need not feare robbing for that they haue not any thing to loose lastly they are not like to run in debt for that there is none wil trust them The greatest matter which troubleth them is they cannot get any thing there but by honest trauell which they are altogether ignorant of These men cannot tel what good fruites England hath the which Ireland wanteth neyther can they iustly say but that it lyeth better for the vent of all commodities then England doth What these men haue reported or what the simple haue credited that woulde rather beleeue a runneagate then trauell to see I care not But what I haue discouered or learned in that countrey I will herein recite vnto you First the people are of three sortes the better sort are very ciuill and honestly giuen the most of them greatly inclined to husbandrie although as yet vnskilfull notwithstanding through their great trauel many of them are rich in cattel some one man there milketh one hundred kine and two or three hundred yeawes and goates and reareth yearely most of their breed Their entertainement for your dyet shal be more welcome and plentifull then cleanly and handsome for although they did neuer see you before they will make you the best cheare their countrey yeeldeth for two or three daies take not any thing therefore Moste of them speake good English and bring vp their children to learning I sawe in a Grammer schoole in Limberick one hundred and threescore schollers most of them speaking good and perfite English for y● they haue vsed to conster the Latine into English They keepe their promise faythfully and are more desirous of peace then our English men for that in time of warres they are more charged And also they are fatter praies for the enemie who respecteth no person They are quicke witted and of good constitution of bodie they reforme them selues dayly more and more after the English manners nothing is more pleasing vnto them then to heare of good Iustices placed amongst thē They haue a common saying which I am perswaded they speake vnfaynedly which is Defend me spend me meaning from the oppression of the worser sort of our countreymen They are obedient to the lawes so that you may trauell through all the land without any danger or iniurie offered of the very worst Irish and be greatly releeued of the best The second sort being least in number are called Kernes they are warlike men most of that sorte were slayne in the late warres The third sort are a very idle people not vnlike our English beggers yet for the moste part of pure complexion and good constitution of body one of the greatest ouersights in the better sort is for y● they make not that idle sort giue accompt of their life They haue the Englishe lawes and gouernours as is in England First there is a Lord deputy ouer the whole land that representeth her Maiestie also a Lord Chancellor a Lord Treasurer a Lord chiefe Iustice and all other Magistrates Officers and Courtes in like maner as belongeth to Westminster The land is deuided into fiue great parts that is to saye Munster Lanster Conath Meath and Vlster In Munster are these vit great countries Owrmwood Deasmond Corke Waterford Typerare Lymbericke and Carrey a great part of Munster was forfited to her Maiestie by meanes of the Deasmondes late rebellion There is two very riche countries called Kennory and Conelogh both within the countie of Lemereck they are called the gardens of the land for the varietie and great plentie of all graine and fruites and also there is more plentie of venison fish and fowle then els where in Ireland although in euery place there is great store This land belonged sometime to the knight of the valley who for high treason was executed at Lemerecke Ouer euery part is an Englishman liefetenant which hath authoritie as fully as the Marshall to erecute Marshall lawes vpon the Irishe offēders at al times Also there are Iudges of assize for euery circuit who keepe their assises as our Iudges doe if any matter be to be tryed there betweene an English man and an Irish the Iury is half English and halfe Irish There is a sheriffe of euery countie with vndersheriffes Arrant Bayliffes al other officers appertaining Also there is a conuenient number of Iustices of peace in euery countie with Constables and pettie Constables who keepe their quarter sessions orderly The countrey is scituated some what neerer the Equinoctiall lyne then England but yet for that it lyeth more vpon the Ocean seas is full of Riuers smal brookes it is not so hote in summer as England neyther is it so cold in winter for that the seas fretteth away the Ice Snowe there much more then in England The general Map of Ireland which is ioyned with the olde Map of England is moste false The authour as it seemeth drew them both by report and the common computation of myles and made his Scale after the English measure that is one thousand paces or fiue thousand footes to the myle but therein he greatly deceiued himselfe for the shortest myles in England are much longer then that measure and an Irish myle is longer then two of those myles by which meanes he hath made the Map of England lesse by the halfe then it should be Notwithstāding he hath ouer reached in his nūber of parish Churches and the Map of Ireland littell more then one fourth of that it would be if it were truely drawen This seemeth strange and hath deceiued many ignorant in Geometrie but alwayes take this for a principle that the square of two myles contayneth iust foure tymes so much as the square of one myle and so of al proportions from the greatest to the least wherefore as much may be sayd of the long myle which containeth two short myles Some mistrust that the Spaniardes will