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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	duke_n	lord_n	marquis_n	2,519	5	10.8284	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95324	The true way to render Ireland happy and secure, or, A discourse; wherein 'tis shewn, that 'tis the interest both of England and Ireland, to encourage foreign Protestants to plant in Ireland In a letter to the right honourable Robert Molesworth, one of His Majesty's honourable Privy Council in Ireland, and one of the members of the honourable House of Commons, both in England and Ireland.	Molesworth, Robert Molesworth, Viscount, 1656-1725.	1697 (1697)	Wing T3129; ESTC R232990	29,409	28

to take a great deal of pains both in Labouring the Ground and in Handicraft Occupations to get a Livelihood The streights they were put to made them Ingenious in their Inventions and when they found they were pinch'd both in the narrowness and produce of their Earth they were forc'd to look for room and provisions in the Sea By this means they fell into Navigation and Traffick grew vastly Rich Built great Cities and became the Envy of some of their Neighbours and the Admiration of Europe These are the Natural and Necessary Effects of much people Countries must be Improv'd and Enrich'd by them and those sooner than others which have the richest Soil and are most favour'd by the Sea England is as great an instance of this as any other Country for that great Wealth which it has acquired by the Improvement of the Woollen Manufacture which is an unknown Treasure is owing to the Walloons to whom Queen Elizabeth gave the greatest Encouragement to come for shelter into England from the Fury of the Duke of Alva's Pesecution But I shall make this plainer to the People of Ireland by giving them a short view of somethings here in our own Country There is in the North of Ireland an Estate which was the Lord Conway's which the Lord Marquess of Normanby the other day enjoy'd in Right of his Lady but now belongs to Mr. Popham Seym●r This Estate was formerly purchased by Sir Foulk Conway Uncle to the late Lord for about Five hundred pounds The Rent-role of this Estate is now about Five thousand pound per Annum Thô there are many great and profitable Leases in it some worth about Four hundred pounds per Annum clear The Land does not lye upon the Sea the Ground but very indifferent 't was altogether a Wood as the name Kilulta the Wood of Vlster denotes and yet in the Memory of men now living has been thus improv'd by a Colony of Yorkshire people and orhers brought over and Settled here by the Lord Conway and manag'd by Sir George Rawdon The same Remarke may be made on the Neighbouring Country of Clan Hugh Boy or O Neal's Country about Belfast and Carrickfergus the former of which Towns is the third in Ireland for Number of People and Trade and yet grew up to what it is from nothing in the Memory of People who liv'd but t'other day since Sir Arthur Chichester got that Estate But why should I mention particular Improvements We know that till about the same time the profits of Ireland in General were very inconsiderable The Rent which the Landlords receiv'd was no more than what he and his Followers eat in their Coshers and the Publick Revenue was not equal to the Charge of the State till of late years All the Advances which the Country made towards a better Fortune were in proportion to the number of People who came over into this Island In Queen Elizabeth's time after the Rebellions of Munster were quell'd some English came over an● Settled in the Plantations there And after that towards the latter en● of Her Reign that Province was render'd more Secure by the Defeat o● the Spanish Forces others came over in King James his Reign These by the Management of the Government and the Care of the Presidents o● Munster put the Country into a little better Condition than 't was in before The same Effect about the same time had the Plantations in the County of Wicklow and part of W●xford where the English had a very ancient Settlement after that the Tools Birn's and Cavenash's had been rooted out And in the King 's and Queen's County after the quieting of the Insurrections of the O Connor's and the O More 's Vlster which before could only afford ordinary Food to the Kerns of the Country and some Military men from the latter end of Queen Elizabeth and the Reign of King James the First began to thrive and alter it's Condition for the better This was occasion'd by the Care which was then taken in Planting the Escheated Countres with new Protestant Inhabitants the Londoners Building Derry and Colrane and sending people to Inhabit them English Colonies Improving the Lands of Chichester and Conway and the Neighbouring places and the concourse of the Scotch out of Scotland These were only the first dawnings of Happiness After the War which began with the Rebellio● in Forty One was ended and the Kingdom was settled in Peace it began to Flourish indeed and Improv'd every day Then Houses were Built Manufactures set up Lands Improv'd and as they now yielded a considerable Rent to the Landlord so were they reckon'd able to pay a Quit Rent to the King This was the Condition of Ireland in the Reign of King Charles the Second it grew every day in Prosperity And the cause of this is very Obvious the number of the British here was grown greater then ever before The Army with which Cromwel Subdued the Irish was considerable after the War was over these continued in the Land the Souldiers most of them set down upon their Debentures a great many Adventurers came over brought English with them and Planted the Estates which were given them for the Money they laid out to carry on the War These were men of another Spirit generally and more opposit to the Irish and their Barbarous Customs then the English who came over before which must be imputed to the great aversion and prejudice which the Bloody Massacre in Forty One had Created in them This new Colony put the English who came over before who according to the old Custom were Degenerating and growing Irish in mind of their Origin and help'd to keep them tite to the English Interest and Protestant Religion By their means Trade Manufactures and the Rents of Lands Increased dayly and the State of the Kingdom was so Improv'd that in the latter end of King Charles the Second's Reign Ireland which before us'd to put England to a considerable charge raised a Revenue of about 330000 l. per Annum Since the late Troubles the condition of the Country is much worse and 't will be in a worse condition than 't is now many fair Houses and some Towns were Bu●●ed and great Numbers of the People Destroyed so that of course Man●●actures must be Imp●ired and Lands Untenanted But people would soon recover it and m●ke it's condition better than ever it was all Forreigners are valuable but some more than others The Du●ch are worth the B●●bing it they could be drawn in that way When we consider how little Land is to be Purchased in Holland what horrible Devastations have been in the 〈◊〉 and the continual danger of the Protestants upon the Rhin● and elsewere we may reckon that abundance of those people would willingly upon any Encouragement flock hither But the French Protestants are the people that we have the greatest expectation from at present and to me they seem to be such as this Country should desire