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A59994	The true impartial history and wars of the Kingdom of Ireland its situation, division into provinces; shires &c., its ancient inhabitants, manners, customs and the state it was in at its being first invaded and conquer'd by the English in the reign of K. Henry II : with the several revolts and rebellions of the natives and by what means they have been reduced to obedience in the reign of our several kings and queens : but most particularly relating to all the memorable skirmishes, battels, sieges ... since the grand revolution under the reign of Their Present Majesties K. William and Q. Mary ...	Shirley, James, 1596-1666.	1692 (1692)	Wing S3489A; ESTC R30144	94,983	204

having been well tutored and of a graceful Carriage so well acted his part that not only the Lieutenant but a great many of the Irish Nobility sided with him raising considerable Forces to espouse his Quarrel Crowning him King in Dublin and not content to keep him there they brought him with a considerable Army into England landing in Lancashire and Proclaiming him But the King's Forces advancing they were in a Set-battel over-thrown and the Imposter taken Prisoner the Priest hanged c. They likewise in the King's Reign aided another called Perkin or Peter Warbeck who stiled himself Duke of York younger Son to Edward the Fourth but in this they had no better success than in the former a great many being killed the Impostor taken after several Attempts and bloody Encounters having engaged the Scots as well as Irish on his part marrying the Lady Catharine Gourdon Niece to that King he was first obliged to confess his Impostor how he was set on maintained and encouraged by the Dutchess of Burgundy Sister to Edward the Fourth and then being publickly punished was sent to the Tower from whence endeavouring to escape he was executed and with him the real Earl of Warwick who had been kept a Prisoner there a considerable time all that was alledged against him was that he attempted to make his Escape with Perkin to raise new Commotions In the Reign of Henry the Eighth great Commotions were stirred up which were at first suddenly appeased but the Earl of Kildare being Deputy the People exhibited their Complaints against him to the Court of England as the cause of many Disturbances by his severe using them and amongst other Articles they had this viz. All Ireland is not able to Rule this Earl Then said the King this Earl is the fittest Man to Rule all Ireland and thereupon he continued him Deputy it appeared this hatred against him proceeded only from the strict hand he had over them to keep them from rebelling And another was That he had caused to be burned the Cathedral Church of Cashal The Archbishop of that place being his chief Accuser and when every one would have denied it he humbly replied By Chreest I would never have done it had I not byen told the Archbishop was in it Which plain dealing made the King smile and the Archbishop storm and fret however the Earl was ordered to rebuild it at his own charge and so continued in his Deputyship but often fell into displeasure by reason of his plain downright dealing and Cardinal Wolsey now ruling all at Court for speaking too plain to him upon his Examination at the Council-Board where Wolsey sat as President he sent him to the Tower and ordered a Warrant for his Execution without the King's Knowledge of which the King having Notice by the Lieutenant was mightily incensed at Wolsey and that great Favourite soon after falling into Disgrace the Earl was released and sent to Ireland with one Sir William Sheington who was made Deputy however the O Moors fell into Rebellion but being opposed by Forces drawn out of Dublin they were dispersed and many of them killed and for that time the Tempest blown over however it lasted not long for the Earl of Kildare's Enemies having again upon many grievous Complaints prevail'd to have him sent for to England he was committed to the Tower whereupon his Son the Lord Thomas notwithstanding the Perswasions of the Chancellor to avert him from it fell into Rebellion and drew great Forces after him yet driven at last to extream Necessities he was perswaded by the Lord Grey then Deputy of the Kingdom to submit himself to King Henry's Mercy without hope of Pardon but some of his Followers having killed Alen Archbishop of Dublin he was upon his Arrival committed to the Tower and King Henry being informed That the Geraldine Family had vowed never to have Peace with him he sent for the Earl's five Brothers in Custody when one of them during their crossing the Seas demanded of the Master what the Name of the Ship was who replied The Cow Nay then said he looking on the rest with a dejected Countenance we are all lost Men for now a Prophecy comes into my head that says Five Brethren of an Earl should be carried into England in the Belly of a Cow and never come back again and I doubt not but all things hitting so pat we are they And indeed so it happen'd for being Accused of the late Rebellion though two of them were ignorant of it the Lord Thomas Son to the Earl was beheaded on Tower-hill and the five Brethren hang'd drawn and quartered at Tyburn and the Earl soon after died in the Tower of Grief which destroyed the Center of that Noble Family for although one Brother escaped yet travelling through many Countries he at last came to Naples and there died Childless Nor did the Lord Grey escape for being countermanded and accused of holding Correspondency with this Family though without any notable Proof he was Condemned for High-Treason and beheaded on Tower-hill The Kings of England the better to please the Natives of Ireland having been all this while only called Lords of Ireland the Parliament sitting at Westminster in the 33d year of Henry's Reign invested with the Title of King of Ireland whereupon the Earl of Tyrone and divers others rebelled but in some bloody Encounters being defeated the Earl was at last subdu'd and brought Prisoner for England yet upon his humble Submission released and sent over upon promise of keeping the Country in quiet which he pretty well observed during the short Reigns of King Edward the Sixth and Queen Mary only some petty Commotions happened that were soon quieted In the Year 1566. being the Seventh year of Queen Elizabeth's Reign one of the chief Lords of Ireland named Donald Mac Carti More upon some little stirs that happened came over and not only cleared himself to the Queen but delivered up to her all his Territories vowing perpetual Fealty but she in gratitude restored them again and made him Earl of Glencare giving him a considerable Sum to bear his Expences so that by his great Authority amongst the Natives it was thought the Kingdom would be kept quiet but it proved otherwise for after some private Conspiracies that never broke out were defeated the Earl of Desmond the Eleventh Earl of that Title who had great Territories and abundance of Followers broke into open Rebellion and did great damage to the English driving them out of many places killing divers Gentlemen in Revenge as he said of the Earl of Kildare and his Family being put to death and amongst others one with whom he had contracted a strict Friendship and usually called Father who when he saw him with his drawn Sword breaking into his Chamber and relying upon his former Friendship cried out What is the matter Desmon my Son to whom the bloody Earl sternly replied I am no longer thy Son nor thou my Father but

delighted Nations from the Storms of Discontent and Trouble From all which we may conclude That if Ireland ever was desirous to be in a prosperous state the time is come that puts that Opportunity into the hands of her Inhabitants to become a happy People When on the other hand had things succeeded as too many of them unadvisedly wished some few Months since they might instead of being at perfect Liberty been the Sons and Daughters of Slavery and the most severest of Bondages under the French Tyranny which how easie that Yoke is to bear the Subjects of France have fatally experienced in the Reigns of many of their former Kings but more especially under Lewis XIV to avoid which the more discerning part have undergone a voluntary Exile and become a scattered People over the Face of the Earth finding better usage in barbarous Nations This I hope may suffice to warn the Irish to consider where their Interest lies and to embrace their Majesties Protection as their true Asylum A TRUE and IMPARTIAL HISTORY OF THE Kingdom of Ireland DESCRIBING Its Situation Ancient Inhabitants Manners Customs and the State it was found in at the Time it was Invaded and Conquered by the English in the Reign of King Henry II. c. THE Kingdom of Ireland is of no mean Extent but rather very large and considerable It is an Island it is bounded on the East with England and Scotland on the West with the main Ocean on the South with part of France and Normandy and on the North with the Ducalidonian Sea It is as all other Islands sur●ounded with Water containing in Length 40● and in Breadth 200 Miles and is especially parted or divided into four Provinces viz. Munster which is again divided into the Counties of Limerick Kerrey Waterford Cork Desmon and the Holy Cross in Tipperary 2. The Province of Leinster divided into the Counties of the East and West Meaths Kilkenney Caterlough King's County Kildare Wexford Dublin and Wicklow 3. The Province of Conno●●●● divided into the Counties of Clare Thumond Majo Sligo Letarim and Roscomon 4. The Province of Vlster divided into the Counties of Tyrconnel Tyrone Cavan Coleraine Monaghan Antrim Down Armah and Lough and these are for the most part at this day replenished with many considerable Cities and Towns of which I shall have occasion to speak in the Series of this History as they shall fall in their proper places The Country is naturally very fruitful and seems by the Soil always to have been so though the Natives have not appear'd very active in improving it as being naturally given up to floath or to live by War and Rapine As for the first Peopling it after Noah's Flood it remains very much if not altogether in the dark the Natives having been imposed on by Monks and Bards a sort of Rimers and Fortune-Tellers with Fables for Reality though it is conjectured by the Learned that this Island was Peopled upon the Confusion of Tongues at Babel soon after the Flood and the Irish Historians of the best account tell us That one Bastolenus encouraged by the Example of Nim●od in Syria settled his Monarchy in the Western Islands and amongst others peopled this yet where he kept his head Residence no mention is made but that his three Sons ruling there had War with Giants that grew up in the Land and rebelled against them and that afterward divers Scythians roving to seek Adventures got footing there and so they go on in the doubtful Paths of Uncertainty a great way farther But true it is that according to our own Histories and those of other Nations the Irish began very early to rove abroad and in their Boats and such kind of Ships as they had coming frequently ashore in England and Scotland and other Places did great Mischief by Burning and Plundering but were frequently met withal and a great many of them killed Nor do we find that the Romans when they conquered Britain extended their Arms to Ireland It is held they were Converted to the Christian Religion by St. Iames the Apostle and some give large grounds for it but their Authors will have it done by one Pala●inus sent thither to that purpose by Pope Celestine but more especially perfected by St. Patrick to whom they ascribe a thousand Incredibilities But to leave these Conjectures that are not greatly pertinent to our Matter we now come nearer to that for which we have more Warrant and Certainty The first Acquaintance that the English had with the Irish as to any thing that is remarkable was in the Reign of Henry the Second of England their chief Communication being with France whether they sent several Bands of Soldiers to help them against the English who were Waring there under their King for the Recovery of his Right in the Provinces that were his Grand-father's which he having pretty well settled turned his Thoughts upon Ireland where he heard they were at Variance among themselves the whole Land being divided under many Petty Princes when it luckily happened a business fell out that gave him an easie Inlet to the Conquest of it for in the Year 1167. the Eastern Part of the Island along the Sea being possessed by Dormat Mac-mur King of Leinster his Cruelties had highly incensed his Subjects against him and what more raised their Fury was the Injury he did to Morice King of Meath by wheedling away his Queen and living with her in Adultery so that the inraged Husband seeking Reparation and Revenge invaded his Countries by the Assistance of Roderick O Conor King of Connaught at the Terror of whose Approach Dormat being detested by and forsaken of his Subjects was forced to flie to England and there implored Protection which upon taking an Oath of Fidelity and Obedience to the King was freely given him and Henry with a Sum of Money procured leave of Pope Adrian an English-man promoted to St. Peter's Chair that he might Conquer Ireland promising moreover throughly to establish the Christian Religion and bring it to an Acknowledgment of the See of Rome but whilst he was preparing to pass the Seas new Troubles arose in his French Territories that required his Presence yet by his Letters Patents he gave Leave with Encouragement to his Nobles and such others as were willing to go for Ireland Dormat impatient of his Exile mainly upon this Concession solicited Richard the King's Son promising not only his Daughter a very beautiful young Lady in Marriage but great Possessions in the Country when he should be restored and all his Territories after his Death The young Prince being of a Warlike Temper and thirsting after Glory resolved though his Father was absent to undertake this Expedition and early the next Spring sailed from Bristol with divers Ships on Board which were thirty Knights sixty Esquires and three hundred Archers the first English-men ever known to land in a Hostile-manner in Ireland and being met by Dormat with such Forces as he

The True Impartial HlSTORY and WARS OF THE Kingdom of IRELAND DESCRIBING Its Situation Division into Provinces Shires c. It s ancient Inhabitants Manners Customs and the state it was in at its being first Invaded and Conquer'd by the English in the Reign of K. Henry II. WITH THE Several Revolts and Rebellions of the Natives and by what means they have been re●uced to Obedience in the Reign of our several Kings and Queens BUT More particularly relating to all the Memorable Skirm●shes Battels Sieges and other Extraordinary Transactions since the Grand Revolution under the Reign of their present Majesties K. William and Q. Mary to the Siege and Surrender of Lymerick and that has since happened to Iune 1692. Being a History full of Variety and worthy the perusal of the Ingenious Reader The Second Edition with Additions LONDON Printed for Nicholas Boddington at the Golden Ball in Duck-Lane 1692. THE EPISTLE TO THE READER Reader IN this small Book you are presented with a long Prospect of an Opulent Kingdom not only in its Dimension and Description but Historically treated of from the time it was first known to be peopled to this present Year 1691. as well before the English had any knowledge of it or so much as navigated the rough Hibernian Seas as after it allured them to its Conquest in the Reign of Henry II since which time it has been a dependant Kingdom by Right of Conquest and now inseparably annexed to the Imperial Crown of England To shake off which Soveraignty it has often strugled in vain and smarted under the many Wars and Rebellions that have been raised on that Account yet as if infatuated those Warnings have been little available to the Natives as will appear in the Relation we give you of what has happened worthy of Notice in the Reigns of our Kings and Queens since its Subjection but more particular in the Transactions for Three Years past as relating to Councils Policies Skirmishes Sieges and what else materially happened A History so full of variety that we cannot conceive but it will give ample satisfaction beyond what has been published of this kind And so not doubting but upon that score it will find Acceptance and Approbation in the hands of the Impartial and Vnprejudic'd Perusers I make bold to subscribe my self the Candid Reader 's Well wisher and Most humble Servant I.S. THE INTRODUCTION THat Ireland has been very anciently inhabited it appears not only by their own but many other Historians to whom a greater Credit is to be given and tho' the Natives being little given to Navigation its Fame has not much spread into the remoter parts of the World yet for its Situation and Fertility if the provident Care and Frugality of the Irish would but have help'd the Soil in any reasonable degree it might be compared with most Islands in producing things necessary not only for the supplying its Inhabitants but such as could command the most valuable Commodities of Europe yet the People of the ancient Stock not accustoming themselves to Labour but rather to Spoil and War desirous to live idly upon the Product of the Country and Manufacture of the industrious English by such unlawful ways as opportunity has put into their hands have in a great measure neglected their own Patrimonies and suffered them in many places to become of no considerable value as being eaten up by the encroachment of Boggs and over-grown with such Excrements of Nature as hinder Fertility and this mainly out of not altogether so much sloth and neglect as their irreconcilable hatred to those of the Brittish Nation that inhabit amongst them that they should get nothing by their Lands tho' by their friendly Instruction and Conversation they might have been exceedingly bettered in their Fortunes and Manners and such Manufactures of sundry kinds improved as might have redounded not only to their particular Interests but to the Inhansment of the value of the Island among the neighbouring Nations for it not only abounds in Iron but other useful Minerals and many other things that might if well improved set the poorer sort on work and not only put an end to that Poverty that too much pinches the Natives but likewise make their Traffick abroad considerable enough to be taken Notice of and bring them a Trade that in a short time would much contribut to the encrease of a greater Plenty and prove a comfortable Maintenance to some thousands who for several yearts past have been destitute of such a Livelyhood as might render them capable of subsisting and for want of which they have been forced to travel abroad and serve other Nations where they are for the most part treated little better than Slaves as well in War as other Employments many of them if we impartially consider their Merits as to Education Natural Endowments deserving better usage for it must be confessed by all unbiafied Persons that the Irish Gentry are qualified sufficiently at least the greatest number of them for great Undertakings if they would according to what they understand labour to improve their own advantage by putting themselves forward in the World to acquire those Preferments and Undertakings they are capable of and might be very serviceable to the Government but that most of them being Roman Catholicks and so superstitiously zealous in their way that they are absolutely swayed and guided in all their Undertakings by their Priests who labour all that in them lies to keep up their Idolatrous Traditions and themselves in esteem to their great advantage in gathering the Wealth of the Kingdom and as they see their opportunity stir them up to a disesteem of the Government which has been the occasion of much Bloodshed and brought Misery and Desolation upon the Land that at sundry times has made it uneasie for many years and we are not insensible that in the last Revolt which has been a smarting one to the Irish the Priests hurried them especially the meaner sort into a fruitless Rebellion by Threats of Excommunication and all the bugbear Fulminations of the Romish Church Tho' at last it is hoped seeing the Stream of Blood is now so kindly stopped in the Kingdom that the Natives will see their former Errors and stick to their Obedience notwithstanding any Insinuations or under-hand Dealings that may hereafter be inculcated or cladestinely carried on Never had the Irish Nation a better opportunity to lay hold on for settling a lasting happiness to themselves and their Posterities under the Auspicious Reign of a King and Queen who make it their utmost Endeavours and think it their greatest Felicity to do their Subjects good sparing no Charge nor shunning any Hazard or Danger that may conduce to the Settlement of a glorious Peace not only in their own Dominions but in all Europe and restore thereby as far as lies in Human possibility the Golden Age wherein all appeared serene and calm whilst universal Joy spread her downy Wings to shelter the