c. for his Reward Hook 79. 1495 Henry Dean Chancellor of Ireland L.J.  1496 Girald E. of Kildare L.L. The Obrians Mac Nemarras â—o Carylls c. with the greatest Power of Irish seen together s ince the Conquest up in Arms routed and slain not one Englishman lost Camp 105  1501 Henry Duke of York after King Hen. 8. L L. Earl of Kildare D.  1503 Fitz Simons Arch-Bishop of Dublin L.D.  Henry the Eighth  1509 Earl of Kildare continued This was he of whom the King spake If all Ireland cannot rule this Earl then this Earl shall rule all Ireland Campion 107.  1513 Girald the Son of Girald late Earl of Kildare L.J. In his time the 23. of Hen. 8. it was enacted that none should be elected L.J. but an Englishman born in England except by Patent from the King  1515 Lord Visc Gormanstown L.J.  1515 Earl of Kildare continued Lord Dep. In order to unite the Families married his Sister with Pierce Butler Earl of Ossery Campion 107.  1519 Sir Thomas Fitz Maurice of the House of Kildare L.J.   1520 Earl of Surrey L.L. Vlster in Rebellion Campion 108. 1521 Earl of Ormond L.D.  1524 Girald Earl of Kildare L.D. About this time the Geraldines arrived to their greatest height of Power and the Butlers to the greatest height of Spirit against them but the Earl of Ormond more politick and of a cooler temper gained ground and ran Kildare out of breath Campion 106.  1526 Thomas Fitz Girald of Leislipe and Richard Nugent Baron of Delvin L.J.  1528 Pierce Butler E. of Ossery L.D.   1530 Sir William Skiffington L.D. Vanquished the Tools and the Bourns Camp 107. 1532 Girald Earl of Kildare L.D.  1534 Thomas Son to the Earl of Kildare L.D. Who upon a false Report of his Father then Prisoner in the Tower was beheaded tauntingly threw up the Insignia Regalia killed the Arch-Bishop of Dublin defied the King and his Authority proclaimed open War destroyed and burnt all before him none resisting till the Butlers raised their Country to oppose him upon which he wrote a Letter to his intimate Acquaintance and Cousin James Butler whose Answer thereto is so loyal pertinent and smart I es teemed it worth a place amongst my Annotations as a good Pattern for young Noblemen to write by when under the like temptation Taking Pen in hand to write to you my resolute Answer I muse in the very first line by what Name to call you my Lord or my Cousin seeing your notorious Treason hath destained your Honour and your desperate Lewdness shamed your Kindred you are so liberal in parting Stakes with me that a man would ween you had no right to the Game so importunate in craving my Company as if you would perswade me to hang with you for good fellowship and think you that James is so mad to gape for Gudgeons or so ungracious to sell his Truth for a piece of Ireland Were it so as it cannot be that the Chickens you reckon were both hatched and feathered yet be thou sure I had rather in this Quarrel dye thine Enemy than live thy Partner Camp 119.  1534 Sir William Skiffington L.D.  1535 Leonard Lord Grey Lord Viscount Graney in Ireland L.D. Thomas Earl of Kildare c. tainted   1540 Sir Anthony St. Leger D. In his time the King and his Successors enacted in Parliament to be stiled Kings of Ireland and the Supremacy granted to the Crown 1540 Sir Will. Brereton Baron of Loghlin in Ireland L.J.  1543 Sir William Brabazon L.J. The Cavenaghs rebel  1544 Sir Anthony St. Leger the second time L.D. James Earl of Ormond at the Kings desire saileth into Scotland to aid the Earl of Lenox returns to London himself and fifty of his Servants poisoned at a Supper of which eighteen died he by Will ordained his Heart should be interred in Ireland on whom was made this Epitaph vid. Hook 105. The living Heart where lay ingraven The care of Country deer To Country lifeless is restor'd And lies ingraven here Now heartless lives his Country then Alass what Joy is left Who se hope whose hap whose heart he was Till Death his Life bereft What Honour then is due to him For him what worthy Rite But that each heart with heartiest love His worthiest Heart requite My Author gives him this character A man no less politick in Peace than valiant in War that as he would not begin any Martial Broil rashly or unadvisedly so he would not seem to put it up lightly or easily  1546 Sir William Brabazon a second time L.J.  Edward the Sixth  1547 Sir Anthony St. Leger L.D. He subdued the Byrns Tooles C Conners c.  1548 Sir Edward Bellingham L.D. Dublin Bailiffs made Sheriffs Camp 123.  1549 Sir Francis Bryan Marshal of Ireland L. Just Elected by the Kings leave  1449 Sir William Brabazon the third time L.J. The Cavenaghs then in Rebellion  1550 Sir Anthony St. Leger a fourth time L.D. He subdued the Cavenaghs  1551 Sir James Crofts L.D. Vlster King at Arms first instituted and the Liturgy printed and enjoined to be read in English  1552 Sir Thomas Cusack and Sir Garret Aylmer L.J.  Queen Mary  1553 Sir Anthony St. Leger the fifth time Lord Deputy   1556 Lord Radcliff Viscount Fitz Walters L.D. 1557 Hugh Corwin Arch-Bishop of Dublin and Sir Hen. Sidney L.J.  1557 Sir Henry Sidney Treasurer of Ireland L.J. Shane O Neal rebels  Queen Elizabeth  1558 Radcliff Earl of Sussex L.L. Sir Henry Sidney his Dep. Subdued the O Conners O Moors O Dempseys c  1559 Sir William Fitz Williams L.J.  1559 Earl of Sussex returned L.L. Shane O Neal submitted Campion 125.  1561 Earl of Sussex L.L.   1565 Sir Nicholas Arnold L.J. 1565 Sir Henry Sidney L.D. Shane O Neal attainted and the Name extinguished in Parliament the Presidency of Munster and Connaght were instituted  1567 Dr. Weston Lord Chancellor and Sir Will. Fitz Williams Lord Treasurer of Ireland L.J.  1586 Sir Henry Sidney L.D.  1571 Sir William Fitz Williams L.D.  1575 Sir Henry Sidney L.D.   1578 Sir Will. Drury L.J. Desmond rebels  1579 Sir Will. Pelham L.J. Rescued Carickfoyle from the Spaniard  1580 Lord Grey L.D. Who drove the 700 Spaniards and Italians out of Kerry and destroyed them with the Irish that joined with them 1582. Adam Loftus Arch-Bishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland with Sir Henry Wallop Treasurer of Ireland L.J. Desmond surprised and his Head sent to England  1584 Sir John Perrot L.D. 1588 Sir William Fitz Williams L.D.  Both blamed for suffering the Irish to be first trained up in Arms This year the University of Dublin founded and endowed with many Priviledges by the Queen  1594 Sir William Russel L.D. Sir John Norris sent as
1544. the 35 th of his Reign proclaimed Gold to 48. and Silver at 48. the Ounce in value and at the same time coyn base Mony to wit pieces of 1 s. 6 d. 4 d. 2 d. 1 d. and continue currant at that rate until the 5. of Edward the 6. when they were brought down the Shilling to 9 pence the Groat to 3 d. c. and so continued until the 2. of Elizabeth and although the Queen was exceeding curious in the affairs of her Mint and tender of her Honour therein yet was convinc'd by her Council there was a necessity of debasing her Mony for Ireland the Irish War against Tyrone that cost her 160000 l. per ann would drain England dry of Coyn the Arguments Buckhurst Lord Treasurer c. used were 1. It would abate the Charge of the War a fourth part when her Shilling currant in Ireland was not worth above 9 pence 2. It would much weaken the Hands of the Rebels who drew most of the good Mony into their power for Provisions c. and made use of it to supply themselves with Arms and Ammunition c. from Foreigners which a course Coyn would prevent 3. It would discourage Foreigners from aiding them when they considered they must receive their Pay in bad Mony c. Upon which consideration the Mony she after sent was debased in iâ— Allay a fourth part Brass the Irish shilling currant being but nine pence intrinsique value Errata per contra Pag. in line 4. for 36 s. 9 d. read 3 s. 9 d. in line 6. for Silver at 48 s. the Ounce r. Silver at 4 s. the Ounce And it is notorious that France Holland and most part of the Hance Towns in Germany as they have had as good Mony as the world affords so they have as bad which stands them in great stead as to their petty Commerce that the Tradesmen oft times give Exchange to have the Rix-Dollar turned into base Mony of currant value though not the sixth part of the intrinsique so that although Monsieur Bodin and others of his opinion deserve the esteem of knowing and judicious persons yet I judge the contrary Practice of all Princes and States we have any account of may ballance them that such may be the state of a Common-wealth that debasing and enhancing Coyn may be not only expedient but necessary 1. In case of War as before 2. If other Neighbour Princes inhance or debase their Coyn as in the Examples mentioned 3. In case of Scarcity and thereby increase of the rate or value of Bulloin for if England had not enhanced their Coyn as Bulloin rose from 26 in Edward the thirds time to 60 pence in Queen Elizabeths it is not reasonable to believe England would have had a Silver spoon or a six pence left and if Bulloin should yet increase in value to six or seven shillings per Ounce if we enhance not our Coyn proportionably it is not rational to believe we shall have a penny left 4. In ease of the wrong Ballance of Trade there is a necessity to do something to alter it or the Kingdom 's drained of its Coyn for so much as we buy more than we sell must be paid for in Mony as is shewn in that Chapter and there is but two ways to reform the Ballance of Trade which is either to increase the Quantity and improve the Quality of our natural Growth or restrain Consumption of Foreign Goods the first is a work of time and the latter difficult to effect and the most rational Expedient to stem the Tide till it turn is to make our Mony a worse and our Commodity a better Commodity for Transportation for the Merchant only considers what is most gainful and whilst our Coyn is the best Commodity to export he will not meddle with our Goods but if Gold and Silver were the best Commodity to import and the worst to export there would need no other Law but the Common Law of Interest to preserve and increase Coyn. And although it might be more convenient for me to keep to generals and leave Expedients to those more concerned and capable to reform yet considering I may be misunderstood I judge it necessary to explain my self more particular in this case there being extreams on both hands for the having of no good Mony in the Body politick would be as dangerous as no good Blood in the Body natural First I would propose that all our good Mony either English or foreign Coyn that is near the intrinsique value it goes for viz. Gold of two in twenty four and Silver of one in twelve Allay may inhance five per Cent. above its current rate in the Countries where we Trade which cannot fall heavy upon any but future Cofferers and I think Five per Cent. is too low a Fine upon them and its increase of value would bring out all Mony now coffered Secondly that all our course Mony may be altered in its specie and coyned in Shillings Six pences and Threepences to its present intrinsique value viz. the first rate in Shillings the second in Six pences and the worst into Threepences whereby all persons will have their own at the same current and intrinsique value they delivered it into the Mint and the Mint deducting the Charge of Coyning which is so inconsiderable the Mony will be little the worse and yet the Interest of all persons secured Thirdly A certain Sum as the Government may judge convenient of very course Mony about the Allay of the Dutch double Stiver be coyned in Twopence and Penny pieces Fourthly That the like proportionable Sum be coyned of Copper or rather Tin compounded with Copper it being our own Material in Halfpence and Farthings these three last sorts of Mony we shall be sure to keep which of themselves will be sufficient to manage our Home-trade if our best Mony should be drained from us and if our native Growth and Manufactures will not furnish us with foreign Commodities sufficient for our necessary Consumption we are better without them If we had fewer Silk-Shops and Taverns it would be no great Grievance whilst we want not Drapers and Mercers Shops and Ale-houses c. and no Country in the world less depends upon Foreign supply than Ireland for Necessaries and it is improvident to consume our selves in Superfluities THE SUPPLEMENT Objection IF the Government of Ireland by its own Members be of so great advantage as you affirm Part 2. Chap. 3. to the Trade and Wealth of that Kingdom whence was it the Trade c. were no more promoted under the Justices 1661 1662 and why did not the Duke of Ormond in his seven years Government no more improve the Trade and Wealth of Ireland Answer 1. Though the then Justices were members of Irelands Common-wealth and consequently interested in its common Good yet the various Interests of Ireland being undetermined all they could do was to keep all quiet by keeping each
the Account cleared without receiving or paying a peny of Money The which is also practicable in most other cases and all these Assignments have the security of a Bond of the Staple whereby not only the hazard and trouble of Moneys as before but the hazard of disappointment and the charge and delay of Law-suits is wholly prevented and this is not only as to intire sums but the 100 l. may be as easily assigned to 20 persons with a little more trouble in writing and will not only be useful in this case of Traffick and prevent the hazard and charge many Merchants now undergo by the ignorance or unfaithfulness of their Casheers but also accommodate other persons that have occasion to pay or receive Money As for example A Gentleman having an Estate in several parts of the Kingdom far distant from his dwelling may order his Rents to be paid in the next adjacent Bank and being there lodged he may transmit it to any other Bank in the Kingdom and thou assign a Debtor or other person to receive it And this sort of payment being all visible in Bank will be a more certain Discharge or Acquittance than any other that can be given and will wear all other Specialties much out of use and prompt all men to choose Bank-Security before any other where he may have his Money on Rebate at any time before it 's due Besides this Bank-credit will be a conveniency and great incouragement to young Merchants who may be both ingenious and industrious yet their small Stocks being lodged in Goods which they cannot dispose by reason the Market is cloyed or other accidents whereas upon the security of these Goods they may have Credit in Bank to keep up their Trade and pay off such Debts out of the product of such Goods as they can dispose of them to their best advantage Or suppose a Clothier Tanner or Chandler c. have disburst their Stocks in providing Cloath Leather or Tallow and Markets fail at the season expected the charge of Ware-Houses and Servants c. lye upon them though they have no free Stock to keep them at work are thereby eaten up but if they have this Bank to come unto proportionable to the quantity of their Commodities they are supplyed with Money or Credit to go on chearfully in their Callings Or it may happen an honest and sufficient Man may be indebted upon a Statute or Judgment and cannot raise the Money by the time limited nor the Creditors occasions for his Money suffer him to forbear it the Credit of one is preserved and the Want of the other supplyed without extremity of charge and damage to either since the Bank upon Security answers the Money And besides the general benefit to the Kingdom by increasing Trade and Commerce there will not be a person of the highest or lowest Rank but will find a conveniency and benefit by the Bank A Nobleman of 10000 l. per ann may have occasion for 500. or 1000 l. more or less some short time before his Rent come in but without Mortgaging part of his Estate and paying six months Interest no man will trouble himself to pay and receive Money whereas if himself or any friend of his have Credit in Bank he is supply'd for what weeks or days he pleases And so a poor man ingenious and industrious could put himself into a way to maintain his Family comfortably could he procure but a smal Sum of Money if he goes to Pawn-brokers it is ordinary with them to demand Six pence or Four pence a week for every Pound which for a year is more than the Principal whereas by the Bank Lumber he may be supplied if not gratis yet at less than legal Interest and by this the Jews and Dutch preserve themselves from Beggers the feeblest amongst them if not bed-rid are put into a capacity to get their livelihoods and for others Hospitals are provided Therefore let not this Bank Traffique be rejected as an unpracticable notion for it is beyond contradiction that England c. have raised themselves from little to great Trade thereby and so may Ireland if not wanting to it self This expedient of Banks and Company-trade were the first foundation of the great Traffique of other Countries flourishing in Trade as Venice Florence Belgia c. where the very Constitutions of their Government are form'd principally for the promotion of Trade their Princes and Nobles being their chief Merchants and their Senates Councils of Trade And the Hans-Towns of Germany raised their Trade by this means who were the first Corporation of Trade we read of above sixty Towns and Cities united their Stocks and Policies of which Lubeck Brumswick Danzick and Cullen were the chief places of their Residence and so great was their Trade and Credit under that Constitution that all Princes granted them Priviledges and they kept their Courts by their Deputies and Councils at Bergen Novagrade Antwerpe and London where King Henry 3. granted them great Priviledges and the Still-yards for their residence which they enjoyed near 300 years and managed their Trade by an Alderman and Council c. called the Yeild of the Hans ingrossed the Trade of England for Grain Cables Mast Pitch Tar c. until by their example each Country learnt the knowledge of Trade themselves and dismissed them And in the year 1551. being the 5. of Edw. 6. upon complaint of the English Merchants their priviledges were seised into the Kings Hands and the Trade ever since enjoyed by the Merchants of London to the great enriching of that famous City And the best president I can lay before Ireland is England who untill the Reign of Hen. 3. was as confused and consequently as low in Trade as Ireland is now but hath been especially for these last 140 years the most flourishing Kingdom in Trade in the world and they must commence the rise and growth of their Trade from their beginning to trade by united Stocks and Policies for which a Patent was first obtained by the Merchant Staplers from Edw. 3. from which time we find our Statute Books crowded with excellent Laws for the encouraging and regulating Trade which yet did not arrive to its height and splendor until about the beginning of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth who did not only confirm what was done by her Predecessors but augmented and greatly enlarged the Priviledges of that ancient Company of Staplers and confirmed the Charter of the Muscovy Company newly granted by Philip and Mary and ordained in her time three new Corporations for Trade which enlarged the Trade of England abundantly viz. the East-India the Levant and Eastland Companies the Priviledges of all which have been confirmed and enlarged with great respect by all her Successors in Parliament and His Majesty that now is hath added the African and Canary Companies that if we had no other Argument to prove united Stocks and Policies in Trade the great if not the only means to
a considerable standing Army and Fleet to prevent French Invasion at double the charge of preserving Ireland now and the Invader with two ordinary Squadrons of Ships one at Brest and the other at Baltimore Bantrie or any of those bold Western Harbours they would so distress the Trade of England a Ship should with much difficulty pass Southward without a great Convey but they would seize him and then possessing the Wools of Ireland they would utterly ruine the Clothing Trade of England and if nothing else can that will convince England when too late that the strength of the English Interest of Ireland is their Bulwark as to foreign Invasion of their Country and violent wresting from thence their Trade The second Reason is because Englands neglect herein hath been the cause of that intolerable charge Ireland hath cost England in preserving and recovering its Interest in Ireland in times past more than Ireland was worth to be bought and sold when Henry the second first conquered it Cambden in his Appendix to Eliz. tells us Tyrones War cost England one million one hundred ninty eight thousand seven hundred and seventeen pounds Borlacy in his History of the Rebellion of 1641. computes the Charge of England in that War unto twenty two millions one hundred ninty one thousand two hundred fifty eight pounds three shillings then compute the Charge of its first Conquest by Henry the second with the suppressing of the several Rebellions from that time unto Tyrones Rebellion 1595. to cost England but double as much as Tyrones Suppression did which if Spencer mistakes not were every seven years in the Queens time and he writ his View of Ireland in the later end of her long Reign of forty four years which were at least six Rebellions in the Queens time and it is evident by our Histories as I have noted in my Catalogue Ireland never enjoyed seven years peace together from its first Conquest to that time then Ireland hath cost England twenty four millions five hundred eighty eight thousand six hundred ninty two pounds which is near three pounds per Acre one with another for all the Land they possess in Ireland which is above double its value now and above four times its worth to purchase Anno 1172. when Henry the second conquered it and so sensible were our Predecessors hereof that in the 11th year of Queen Elizabeth Sir Henry Sidney Lord Deputy in the Preamble to the Act of Parliament for a Subsidy they thus expressed themselves to the Queen viz. Considering the infinite masses of Treasure able to purchase a Kingdom that your most noble Progenitors have exhausted for the Government Defence and Preservation of your Majesties Realm of Ireland and in the body of the said Act thus We for the Alienation of some part of your Majesties inestimable Charge do revive the said Subsidy yet after this Desmond and towards the later end of the Queens Reign Tyrone were chargeable Rebels to Ireland and that most excellent Governour of whom Campion gives this Character A man much beloved stately without disdain familiar without contempt very continent learned in many Languages a great Lover of Learning skilful in Antiquities in utterance happy c. This Noble person who had spent the most part of his Life in Ireland viz. from the third of Queen Mary to the thirteenth of Elizabeth March 25. 1571. in his most elegant Speech in Parliament printed at large by Campion in Reply to some that grumbled at the Charge of the Army reasons thus Many a good fellow talks of Robin Hood that never drew in his Bow and many an idle Head is full of Proclamations c. but let me see which of them can justifie that Ireland can spare the Army c. Are your Enemies more tractable are they fewer are your selves of force to match them if you be then were England stark mad to disburse thirty thousand pounds a year for no other purpose but to vex and grieve you that were like the Husband who gelded himself to anger his Wise c. whose Arguments are still in force for the keeping up a potent Army in Ireland notwithstanding the Charge I could give many instances of the vast Charge Ireland hath put England unto above what it was ever worth to purchase all which intolerable Charge hath proceeded from the not improving the English Interest in Ireland by Trade and Manufactures whereby the English Planters have been constrained to betake themselves to Husbandry amongst the Irish for their livelihood and the Irish being better acquainted with the nature of the Soyl and accustomed to a more frugal way of living have eaten up the substance of the English by which they have been constrained to court their Friendship and by their Fosterings and mixtures by Marriage multitudes of them have embraced their Religion Customs and Manners and degenerated to their Interest as was manifest in the last Rebellion the strength of the Irish consisted in the degenerate English And as Ireland is thus altered in its Estates strong Holds c. treble to what it ever was before so the Inhabitants both Irish and degenerate old English are many of them now English Protestants there are many of the Tooles Burns Cavenaghs Releys ô Neales ô Bryans ô Moores ô Sulivants Mac Cartys Mac Laughlins Mac Guires c. are now English Protestants and more might have been long since saith Spencer if the English Government had done their parts to have supplied the Country with learned pious and painful Preachers that would have out-preach'd and out-liv'd the Irish Priests in holy and godly Conversations which that most intelligent Observer of Englands Defects in the Irish Affairs pag. 113. saith thus In planting of Religion thus much is needful to be observed c. that it be not sought forcibly to be impressed into them with terror and sharp penalties as now is the manner but rather delivered and intimated with mildness and gentleness so as it may not be hated before it be understood and their Professors despised and rejected And therefore it is expedient that some discreet Ministers of their own Countrymen be first sent over amongst them which by their meek persuasions and instructions as also by their sober lives and conversations may draw them first to understand and afterwards to embrace the Doctrine of their Salvation for if the ancient godly Fathers which first converted them when they were Infidels to the Faith were able to pull them from Idolatry and Paganism to the true Belief in Christ as St. Patrick and St. Columb how much more easily shall godly Teachers bring them to the true understanding of that which they already profess wherein it 's a great wonder to see the odds which is between the Zeal of Popish Priests and the Ministers of the Gospel for they spare not to come out of Spain from Rome and from Rhemes by long toyl and dangerous travelling hither where they know peril of Death awaiteth them and
from thence to Dublin to whom all the petty Kings and great Lords of Ireland submit and swear Fealty the King returns for England and leaves Hugh Lacy Lord Justice to interest him gave him Meath in Fee Irish English Henry the Second  Anno 1172. Hugh de Lacy Lord Justice Spell 331. Orourk Prince of Meath c. rebels Lacy in great danger rescued by Maurice Fitz Gerald vvho killed Orourk Hanm. 139.  1173. Earl Strongbow L. Warden of Ireland By right of his Wife Prince of Leinster found all in confusion but with the aid of Raymond le Grossreduceth them to subjection Hanm. p. 140. 1175. Strongbow dies Camp 64. Donald Prince of Leinster rebels all in confusion Camp 65  1177. Raymond Le Gross L. Protector Brother in Law to Strongbow subdues Donald and relieves the Citie of Dublin  1177. Fitz Andelm L.J. Courcey Fitz Stephen and Miles de Cogan his Counsellors Han. p. 157. The Ancestors of the Bourks now Earl of Clanricard Cambrensis chap. 17. Courcey subdued Vlster the Kingdom of Cork setled on Fitz Stephens and Cogan in Fee Fitz Stephens the Ancestor of the Barrysof Cork  1179. Hugh Lacy and Robert le Power L.J. Power the Ancestor of the Powers of Waterford  1181. Hugh de Lacy Governor Hollinshead O Connor King of Connaght rebels with 2000 men Lacy subdues him and marries his Daughter after s lain by a Scologh in Meath Hook p. 60. 1181. John Constable of Cheshire and Richard de Peck Justices Hovend p. 685.  1184. Philip de Brees Governor 1185. Earl John the Kings Son made King of Ireland and sent Governor Hovend 1187. This young Prince with his Counsellors ran all into confusion Young Arms make good Souldiers but young Heads ill Couns ellors Witness Rehoboam c.  1185. John de Courcey Earl of Ulster Gov. Chose by the King to be his Champion against a Frenchman who quitted the Stage and run being frighted by the grim looks and great limbs of Courcey Hanmer p. 181.  Richard the First  1189. Hugh de Lacy the younger L.J.  1190. Dublin burnt to ashes Hanm. 179.  1191 William Marshall and William Pettit Just Marshall by right of his Wife Strongbows Daughter Prince of Leinster who built the Castle of Kilkenny and gave the Town a Charter Hanm. 183.   1197. Hamo de Valis L.J. King John  1199. Myler Fitz Henry the Kings Son Governor Han. p. 183.  1210. K. John in person Composed all Differences settled Affairs and returned Camp 75.   1210. John Gray Bishop of Norwich L.J. He reformed the Irish Coin to the Standard of England 1213. Henry Laundres Arch-Bp of Dublin L.J. Built the Castle of Dublin  Henry the Third  1214. St. Patricks Church founded by Comin Arch-Bp of Dublin Camp p. 76. 6000 Scots under Bruce invade Ireland  1215. Geoffery Marisco Keeper of Ireland with Sir Edmond Butler L.J. Connaghtup in Arms Fitz Gerald built the Castle of Sligo  1219. Bishop Laundres and Maurice Fitz Gerald L.J. Han. p. 189.  1220. Meath in Arms the Castle of Trym builded the Irish generally rebel 11000 slain in Connaght by the Bourks and Berminghams Bruce routed near Dundalk Bermingham for his good Service created Earl of Louth Baron of Ardee and Athenrie  1227. Rich. de Burgo L.J.  1230. The Provost of Dublin made Mayor  1232. Maurice Fitz Gerald L.J.  1233. Richard Marshall Brother to William L.J. Slain in Battel near Kildare  1245 Sir Jo. Fitz Geoffery L.J.  1247. Theobald Butler Lord of Carick and Joh. Cogan L.J.   1255. Allen de la Zouch L.J. O Neils of Vlster and Mac Cartys of Munster rebel 1259. Stephen de Long Espee L.J.   1260. William Dean L.J.  1261. Rich. de Rupella L.J.  1266. A great Earthquake Hook p. 62. 1267. Sir David de Barry L.J. Who subdued the Mac Cartys   1268. Sir Robert de Ufford L.J. A great Dearth Mortality  1269. Ricardus de Exonia L.J. 1270. Sir James Audley Constable of Ulster L.J.  1272. Maur. Fitz Maurice L.J.  1273. Geoffery Lord Genevil L.J. Lord of Meath by right of his Wife  1276. Sir R. de Ufford the second time L.J.  1279. Bish of Waterf L. J  1280. Dublin burnt Strongbows Tomb spoiled by the fall of Christ-Church when on fire Camp p. 78. Meath rebels  1282. Stephen de Fulborn L.J.  1288. Arch-Bp of Dublin L.J.  1290. Will. Vesey L.J. Who to interest him in the prosperity of Ireland had given him the Manner Lords hip of Rahangan c. in the County of Kildare but engaging himself against John Fitz Gerald Baron of Ophaly lost himself and the Baron sent back first Earl of Kildare and Veseys Estate conferred on him  1307. Knights Templers for their Debauchery dissolved Knights of the Road constituted Camp p. 80. Connaght in Arms.  1308. Lord Bourk L.J. The Ancestor of the House of Castle Connel and Leitrim  1309. Lucan Bridge built  1312. Sir Edmond le Butler Deputy He unites the Earls of Vlster and the Geraldines who caused great troubles and subdu'd the Rebels of Connaght Camp 82.  1314. Lord de Verdon L.J. Had a great Estate in Meath in right of his Wife Hook 62.  1314. Sir Edmond le Butler Earl of Carrick L.J. Subdued the Irish at Castle-Dermot ..  1317. Roger Mortimer L.J. but the Lord Bermingham General Bruce invades Ireland Vlster joins with him overrun the Kingdom soon after subdued  1318. Will. Fitz John L.J.  1320. Earl of Kildare L.J. He built Loghlin Bridge the Pope granted the priviledge of an University to Dublin  1321. Lord of Athenry L.J. Slain with others by Mac Gohagon   1322. Ralph de Gorges L.J. 1323. Sir Jo. Darcy L.J. The Irish universally rebel vanquished by JamesEarl of Ormond Bermingham hanged Camp 88.  1327. Earl of Kildare L.J.  1328. Prior of Kilmainham L.J. In his time the Geraldines Butlers Bermingham at variance with the Powers and Bourks a Parliament s ummoned to accord them  1329. Sir John Darcy a second time L.J. Irish of Leinster in Rebellion Camp 87.  1330. Prior of Kilmainham L.J.  1331. Sir Anthony Lacy L.J. A great slaughter by the English of the O Conners c. in Leinster Marleborough 210.  1332. Sir John Darcy a third time L.J. Great slaughter on the Obrians Mac Cartys in Munster Marl. p. 211.  1333. Thom. de Burgh L.J.  1336. On St. Lawrence day ten thousand Irish slain in Connaght Marlb p. 212.   1337. Sir John Charleton L.J. The Irish generally rebel are quell'd by the Earl of Kildare and Desmond Camp 88. 1340. Prior of Kilmainham L.J.   1341. Sir John Maurice L.J. 1344. Sir Ralph Ussord Husband to the Countess of Ulster L.J. Desmonds first discontents Vssord died unlamented by his ill
08 Bishoprick of Meath 206 13 00 Bishoprick of Londonderry 142 08 00 Bishoprick of Clogher 105 08 00 Bishoprick of Conner 44 00 00 Bishoprick of Rapho 86 12 00 Bishoprick of Dromore 20 12 00 Bishoprick of Down 16 16 00 Bishoprick of Killmore 59 08 00 Bishoprick of Ardagh 12 12 00 total 875 06 08 Subsidies of the several Bishopricks of the Diocess of Dublin Arch-Bishoprick of Dublin 247 14 00 Bishoprick of Kildare 101 12 00 Bishoprick of Ossory 88 00 00 Bishoprick of Fernes 111 08 00 Bishoprick of Leighlin 44 08 00 total 593 02 00 Subsidies of the several Bishopricks of the Diocess of Cashell Arch-Bishoprick of Cashell 51 12 00 B. of Waterford and Lismore 102 09 06 Bishoprick of Cork and Ross 32 16 00 Bishoprick of Cloyne 41 04 00 Bishoprick of Limerick 31 12 00 Bishoprick of Killalow 20 08 00 Bishoprick of Ardfart 04 05 00 total 284 06 00 Subsidies of the several Bishopricks of the Diocess of Tuam Arch-Bishoprick of Tuam 22 16 00 Bishoprick of Elphin 34 04 00 Bishopr of Athconry Killala 12 00 00 Bishoprick of Clonfart 30 08 00 Bishoprick of Kilmacough 07 00 00 total 106 08 00 Provincial Subsidies Leinster CIty of Dublin 601 18 01 ob County of Dublin 551 18 01 ob County of Catherlough 147 10 07 ob County of Kildare 477 12 10 ob County of Kilkenny 479 02 00 Â City of Kilkenny 44 02 04 ob County of Wexford 323 10 09 Â County of Wicklow 154 16 06 Â Queens County 242 13 09 Â Kings County 224 09 03 Â County of Longford 145 07 00 Â County of West Meath 356 17 04 ob County of Meath 659 13 04 ob County of Louth 217 13 09 Â Villa de Drogheda 053 11 06 ob total 4580 08 04 ob Munster County and City of Cork 1364 18 00 Â City of Waterford 97 01 00 Â County of Waterford 265 15 00 Â County of Tiperary 1039 17 00 Â City of Limerick 97 01 00 Â County of Limerick 492 08 00 Â County of Kerry 209 19 03 Â total 3566 19 03 Â Connaght County of Gallway 153 15 01 ob Town of Gallway 82 10 06 Â County of Roscommon 350 17 04 ob County of Mayo 385 18 04 ob County of Leitrim 160 05 06 Â County of Sleigo 295 10 03 Â County of Clare 386 14 06 Â total 2515 11 07 ob Ulster County of Antrim and Town of Carickfergus 402 13 06 Â County of Down 387 16 02 Â County of Donnagall 461 19 06 Â Coun. Cit. of Londondery 374 01 10 ob County of Ardmagh 258 15 03 Â County of Monaghan 267 05 03 Â County of Cavan 272 09 09 Â County of Fermannagh 237 07 06 Â County of Tyrone 367 18 10 ob total 3030 07 08 Â total of the four Provinces 13693 06 11 Â CHAP. VI. Of Coyns INSisting more largely on the original Increase and Value of all the species of Mony that have been or now are currant in the world in my Treatise of Traffick I shall only here briefly insist on this one Question it having been more controverted with less agreement in the Council of Trade than any other point Quest Whether it be advisable for the Government of Ireland to inhance the Value or debase the Allay of the currant Mony Answ 1. Such as have been in the negative have maintained their Arguments from these Reasons 1. It would be a Dishonour to the Government Coyn bring the Standard or Measure of all other things it would weaken our Credit in our foreign Traffique And also intringe the Laws of foreign Commerce and nothing more reflects upon a Prince or State than being inconstant in their Measures and Weights respecting Trade 2. Silver and Gold being foreign materials we by inhancing their Value raise the rate of a foreign Specie on our selves 3. If we raise its value our Neighbour Princes c. will rise also and then we are where we were 4. It lessens the Repute of the Kings Revenue when estimated by its currant Value much above its intrinsique 2. It is a great damage to the Subject 1. All our Lands Rents Wares c. are proportionably undervalued as we inhance or debase our Coyn when the currant value of one Hundred pound in our Coffer is intrinsiquely worth but ninty five pound our Estate is no more really though reputively 2. It will cause Controversies and Suites of Law in the paying of Rents and Specialties when the Condition is currant lawful mony of and in England 3. No man knows what he sels his Goods for when he knows what sort of Mony he shall receive payment in In brief if our Mony which must rule the Price of all things be mutable and uncertain no man can make a sure and clear estate of what he hath Contracts Bargains Rents Taxes Wages will all be uncertain These Objections contain the Substance of what were offered in the negative Now though it is granted these Notions are very sound as to a well settled Commonwealth yet we say there is no general Rule without an exception for sick States as well as sick Bodies Physick is more necessary than Food and that this practice of inhancing the Rate and debasing the Value of the Coyn hath been used by the wisest of Statesmen upon some urgent cases our Histories give plentiful examples of First for the debasing the Allay though Monsieur Bodin argues against it yet himself gives many instances as well in his own Countrey of France as in all other Kingdoms and States of Europe he determines the finest Gold to be 23 Carrets and Silver 11 Deniers that is one 24th part Alloy in Gold and one 12th part in Silver and yet blames the Goldsmiths of France 688. that they made their work at 20. yea oft-times at 19 Carrets and so it had about the 5th part of Silver or Copper Allay and then spend five leaves in instances both of former and latter times of Princes changing the finest and value of their Coins which may be not only lawful but expedient in these and the like causes First in time of Wars or difference of Neighbour-Princes who may contrive to draw out our Money from us in order to weaken our hands and Moneys being deservedly called the sinews of War which project Francis the First carried on by setling a Bank at Lions declaring Interest at 8 per C. the general rate in Italy c. being 5. he drew a great part of the Money of Italy and Germany into his custody Bodin 673. the Emperor Charles the fifth and Henry the 8th of England did the like Holl. 674. From German Merchants for 100000 Crowns at 12 per C. and about the same time viz. 1526. by Proclamation on the 6th of September inhance the rate of his own Coyn and raised the value of Gold to 45 shillings and Silver to 36 shillings 9 pence and again in the year
such a dread of the like Miseries that might be perpetrated in England by them moved the Parliament to desire of the King the Ordering the Militia on pretence for the better security of the Nation against Papists and speedier Suppression of the Irish Rebellion upon which Head arose that woful Breach on which that unnatural War with all its dismal consequences succeeded from that time began the rude Tumults of London Apprentices c. and all other misbehaviour as you may read in Scobels Collections of that years Transactions And on that occasion succeeded that Petition and large Remonstrance from the Parliament presented to the King December 14. 1641. which laid the foundation of all our succeeding Miseries so that all Englands Scotlands and Irelands Troubles since Henry the eighth shak'd off the Papal Yoke have arose either from the Papists Struggles to recover their tyrannical Dominion over these Kingdoms or the Divisions they have made amongst Protestants by their wily sleights And what their Plots have been against the Life of Charles the second and the Peace of England of late we are wearied with reading the Discoveries and Evidences in Print I shall only insert their Oath of Secresie which will serve for an Epitome of the whole Plot at least the Design of it and indeed it is the truest Explanation of all their former Oaths of Confederacy extant In this the Monks Hood is thrown by of defending and maintaining His Majesties just Rights c. They here clearly renounce and disown any Allegiance and do swear to help his Holiness's Agents c. to extirpate and root out and destroy the said pretended King of England c. The Oath of Secrecy given by William Rushton to me Robert Bolron February 2. 1676. In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen I Robert Bolron being in the presence of Almighty God the blessed Mary ever Virgin the blessed Michael the Arch-Angel the blessed St. John Baptist the holy Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul and all the Saints in Heaven and to you my Ghostly Father do declare and in my heart believe the Pope Christs Vicar General to be the true and only Head of Christs Churh here on Earth and that by vertue of the Keys of Binding and Loosing given his Holiness by our Saviour Christ he hath Power to depose all Heretical Kings and Princes and cause them to be killed Therefore to the utmost of my power I will defend this Doctrine and his Holinesses Rights against all Usurpers whatever especially against the now pretended King of England in regard that he hath broke his Vows with his Holinesses Agents beyond Seas and not performed his Promises in bringing into England the holy Roman Catholick Religion I do renounce and disown any Allegiance as due to the said pretended King of England or Obedience to any of his inferour Officers and Magistrates but do believe the Protestant Doctrine to be Heretical and Damnable and that all are damn'd which do not forsake the same and to the best of my power will help his Holinesses Agents here in England to extirpate and root out the said Protestant Doctrine and to destroy the said pretended King of England and all such of his Subjects as will not adhere to the holy See of Rome and the Religion there professed I further do promise and declare that I will keep secret and private and not divulge directly or indirectly by Word Writing or Circumstance whatever shall be proposed given in charge or discovered to me by you my Ghostly Father or any other engaged in the promoting of this pious and holy Design and that I will be active and not desist from the carrying of it on and that no hopes of Rewards Threats or Punishments shall make me discover the rest concerned in so pious a Work and if discovered shall never confess any Accessaries with my self concerned in this Design All which I do swear by the blessed Trinity and by the blessed Sacrament which I now purpose to receive to perform and on my part to keep inviolable and do call all the Angels and Saints in Heaven to witness my real intention to keep this Oath In testimony whereof I do receive this most holy and blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist By this Oath it is evident Popelings are no Changelings Hildebrands Principles commencing an Dom. 606. are here repeated in their full strength above a thousand years after and why these treasonable Plots and Principles were not since the time of this Oath effectually perpetrated is so notoriously manifest in the multitudes of Prints published on that occasion it evidenceth it was not for want of good will on their parts And although God hath gratiously and wonderfully preserved the precious Life of the King and in him the Lives of us all that value our Religion Yet have these Incendiaries not lost their labour but have accomplished that which is next to cutting all our Throats viz. the fomenting a Misunderstanding and Jealousie betwixt the most indulgent and compassionate Prince and his faithful and loyal Subjects A doleful consideration it is to all serious loyal Hearts to observe a Prince so lately received with all expressible passions of Joy not only by those that expected Gain and Advancement but by others that knew they should suffer Loss as to their private Fortunes yet were so weary of their past and then present Confusion and so well satisfied in the Kings Gratious Declarations and Intentions they could and did say as Mephibosheth to David For as much as our Lord the King is come again in peace let Zibah take all let Royalists but not Papists take our Crown and Bishops Lands our Regiments and Troops c. our Hearts shall joyn with our Hands to lift the King into his Throne which we defie all other Hands to do without us so England c. may be once more settled And with what mutual content both King and People have enjoyed each other till the very day this last Hell-hatch'd Plot broke out is notorious to all Europe as well as Great Britain and Ireland till then we heard of no Court nor Country Parties no Whiggs nor Tories c. but in Irelands Boggs c. no Petitioners Abhorrers or Addressers but what the King was pleased with no executing penal Laws on Dissenters but on the contrary Subjects entirely and universally endeared to a Prince in his own nature compounded of of Tenderness and Sympathy pleading with Parliaments against penal Statutes and proposing to their Consideration that some Provision might be made to enable him to dispence with such Protestants who through misguided Conscience could not conform to the Ceremonies Discipline c. of the Church vid. Speeches Octob. 26. 1662. and again Mar. 6. 1678. His Majesty did not only press the House but also commanded the Lord Chancellor to commend to their consideration not only what might tend to preserve the Protestant Religion in general but for an