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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

most Countries in the World for the production of Flax and Hemp the Natives of the Country seem to be naturally enclin'd to this Manufacture 'T is plain by the Act of Parliament made not long since in England to take off all Duties and Impositions on the Product of Flax and Hemp from Ireland that England is well enclined to humour the genius of Ireland When we consider what a hand Holland France and the Northern Crowns have made of this Manufacture we may well allow that Ireland which has naturally greater advantages to improve it may be greatly enrich'd by it If we did but furnish England with that Linnen which they have from our neighbouring Countries this wou'd raise us a vast Treasure but I can't see what prejudice it would do England It seems to me to be at least as much their Interest to lay out their money with us who shall employ it in their defence and are their selves as with them who will make it an Instrument of their ruin 'T is the Computation of a very great man that the people of England spend 5 l. a year in Linnen one with another this Computation I suppose is much too large if the 30th part of this were laid out in Ireland 't would be three times as much as the current cash of this Kingdom has ever yet been It cannot easily be conceiv'd how much 't is England's Interest to have this Manufacture improv'd to the heighth 'T is probable that this will be the effect of Encourageing Forreign Protestants to flock hither this may draw in not only the French but many others likewise Since 't is so much our Interest to have Forreign Protetestants settle here How Forreigners may be encourag'd it concerns us to consider how we may incourage them to come in The Parliament which was held in my Lord Rumney's Government in the year 1692 made an Act which Naturaliz'd all Forreign Protestants but that was to be in Force only for Seven years Since that Law will be out of Date within two years I think Sir 't will become the Wisdom of the Nation to make a new Act which shall be in force Twenty years after the expiration of the old one and 't will be for the Publick good I think that by this Law Forreigners be not only Naturaliz'd but made Free of our Corporations likewise This will be for the advantage of the Common-wealth and will not injure particular Trades men as men upon first sight are apt to imagin To vouchsafe Strangers the Freedom of your Country is the first Incouragement the first Act of Kindness and Hospitality that you can shew them But this in good truth is no more than to give Rich men leave to bring in their Wealth and the Poor leave to beg in your Country I cou'd wish that all whom it concerns wou'd seriously consider whether it be not worth the while to lay another bait to draw them in Whether that after you have consider'd the real value of People you will not reckon it money well laid out if you should raise a fund not exceeding to be given to poor Protestants who bring in their Families to settle here I would have this money distributed among the poor French especially because they have been great Sufferers on the account of Religion The greatest Incouragement should be for men of Callings and those shou'd have most who have Wives and most Children This cannot be call'd a Burthen to the Nation because 't will be spent in the Kingdom and will increase its Wealth for the time to come This will not draw in the poor alone but the Rich likewise for they will be fond of living among a people who make such Provision for their poor And because I have shewn that 't is the Interest of England to Incourage Forreign Protestants to settle here 't is to be hop'd that if it can be done some measures will be thought of to prevail upon the King and People of England to raise some Fund there to help poor Forreigners to come over hither When this is done I think Sir that our great Council wou'd do that which would make their Memory dear to postority if they would Address the Government and pray that they would signifie to His Majesty that 't is the request of His great Council here that for promoting the Prosperity and Secureing the Peace of this Nation for the time to come he would in the Grants he makes of Forfeited Lands take some care to have Protestants planted in them If in every Estate Granted by the King the person to whom the Grant is made were oblig'd to plant a considerable number of Protestants in proportion to the Land which is given him and if they were oblig'd to set out a good part of those Estates to Protestant Tenants in Leases for Lives at a small Rent first and to be rais'd afterwards this I think would have a very good Effect and would go a great way towards making the Country Rich and Secure There is another thing which I could wish the Wisdom of our Nation would seriously consider Whether it would not be very much for the Interest of Ireland that the King would grant at least a part of the Forfeited Lands not yet disposed of to Forreign Protestants particularly and that for very good reasons to the French I believe when they consider the thing impartially they will own it I find that in the year 1583 Queen Elizabeth in the Instructions which She gave Sir John Perrot sent Lord Deputy into Ireland when She talks of Disposing of Forfeited Lands here tells him that She 's for giving no more to one than he 's able to furnish people for (a) Manuscript Lambeth L. C. pag. 35. If the King gives Grants to English Gentlemen of England or Ireland without this care taken they must take up with the Irish Tenents that are upon the Land and things must run on in their old course If they furnish people out of England this will unpeople England and impoverish it which 't is our Interest to have full of People and Wealth that we may live the more secure under its protection The great Body of the French Protestants are at this day in a very uneasie and unsettled condition and no one knows how many of them would make this Country a place of Retreat from their severe Persecutions if they heard that the King of Great Britain had granted them Lands to settle upon And when I speak this I cannot but take notice that I think it a great happiness that the Forfeitures not yet dispos'd of are in Conaught If great numbers of the French were planted there that Country which is thinest of Protestants would be render'd as Secure as any part of the Kingdom Before the Reign of King James the first till the Escheated Counties were planted with Protestant Inhabitants and the Londoners Built Derry and Colrane the North of Ireland gave the greatest disturbance

of him may encline multitudes of them to come into Ireland and that by means of his Credit with the English Methods may be contriv'd for their Settlement here If any thing of this kind be done there will be many evil men of differing perswasions byass'd by their Privat Interests who will raise loud Clamours and Objections and make it their Business to Obstruct such a Work The design that I had in commiting my rude Thoughts to Writeing was to set people on thinking of what may be for the Publick Interest of this Kingdom and to anticipate all Objections which may be made against Forreigners being Planted here A short Undertaking of this kind may have an use in it which every one does not think of When a Colony of men are Invited or Receiv'd into a Country 't is for the Interest of the Publick that as soon as may be they grow one both in their Interest and affections with the people with whom they are Incorporated This depends very much upon the Inclinations which men have towards them in the begining for if at their first comming in the Inhabitants are Prejudiced against them from hence Animosities will Naturally arise and such ill Blood may by degrees be bred in them as may creat perpetual Feuds opposit to the Interest of the State 'T is convenient therefore that they make their entrance with the good Will and Approbation of the People of the Land This little Discourse may be in some sort useful to that end In it I will shew that 't is the Interest both of Ireland and England to encourage Forreign Protestants to settle here and then I will propose some Incouragement to be given them That 't is the Interest of Ireland to Encourage Forreign Protestants to Live and Settle here 'T is the Interest of Ireland to Encourage Foreign Protestants the Parliament of this Kingdom thought when in the Year 1692. in my Lord Rumney's time they made the Act for Naturalization They knew very well that without many People a Country can be neither Rich nor Secure and that by making their Land a Place of Refuge and Sanctuary for Strangers they took the most effectul course to increase their Strength and add to their Prospority It happens sometimes that Laws which the Wisdom of a Nation sees are for the good of the Common-wealth and are Enacted after the most mature deliberation yet are too freely Censur'd when they thwart the imaginary Interest of Privat men This may very well be suppos'd to be the Fate of a Law which Enfranchises Strangers If a Tradesman who is one of the first Rate Orators among the men of his Tribe fancies that his Condition is rendred worse than 't was before and thereupon Damn Forrigeners and those who made Laws to bring them in others will be ready to follow the Cry without examining whether there was Reason for it or no that a Naturealization in Ireland and the Encouraging such Protestants as the French are particulary for our greatest hopes are from them cannot come under this censure I shall Endeavour to shew Every one who knows the Condition of Ireland at this time and has view'd the Scenes of it's former Troubles must own that that will be of the greatest advantage to it Which will better the present Condition of the Country and which will Settle and Secure it from such troubles and Rebellons as it has formerly been perpetually harass'd with these will be the effects of Encouraging Protestants to Settle here This will make the Condition of the Country better than ' t is The way of the World is when they compare Countrys one with another to take their Estimate from their Wealth and Improvements of all sorts and to set the greatest value on those which are Naturally the best and have the most Artificial Wealth and Furniture in them Otherwise we must say that all Countries are alike and that Holland which makes so great a Figure in Europe is not to be valued above New Holland in Asia which is Discrib'd to be one of the most miserable places in the World We may thus compare a Country with it self and viewing it in differing periods of time reckon it in a better or worse Condition according as we see it Flourish or Decay in it's Improvements or Wealth I 've seen in Sir George Carew's Manuscripts in the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury's Library at Lambeth (a) Ms. marked M. page 49. Ex Arch. Cast Dub. An Extract out of the Archives of the Castle of Dublin which says That formerly for 250 Years together the Customs of the Realm of Ireland did never exceed in any One Year above the Summ of 1000 l. And I find by another Manuscript (b) Lib. XX. p. 62 63. in the same Library That in the Year 1611 in the Reign of King James the First Miles Cogan who took a Survey of the Kingdom Reported that the whole Exportation and Importation of the Country amounted only to 211000 l. No one I suppose will say that the Kingdom was then in as good a condition as it is at this time when the Customs are about 130000 l. And he that considers how many fair Ports do now lie idle how thin of Inhabitants and Un-improved the Land is in most places will hardly say that Ireland cannot be render'd more Flourishing than ' t is It is sure it may but this must be by a greater multitude of People Where there is so much Ground and so few Inhabitants it cannot be imagin'd that the People are able by their utmost Labour and Industry to raise all the rich Commodities and Fruits which 't is naturally apt to produce much less can we imagine how the Countrey shou'd be Beautified and Enrich'd with Improvements How the Foundations of new Towns or Cities should be laid or any considerable Additions made to the Old ones How the Ports should be made use of or Ships sent to Sea when the Commodities of the Countrey lie in the Bowells of the Earth for want of Hands to force them out Or how men shou'd trouble themselves to go to Sea and endanger their Lives in Fishing for Food there when the Earth supplies them with plenty of Provisions and they may live secure in idleness and almost in the forgetfulness of Labour on the dry Land These are the Practices this the Condition of more Populous Countries Where there are abundance of People the Country tho' the Barrenness of the Soil shou'd give the greatest opposition must necessarily become Wealthy Crouds of People upon the Breach of the Roman Empire Raised the great City of Venice on those little Rocks and scraps of Islands which yielded before but an uncomfortable habitation to poor Fishermen The United Provinces which are now one of the great Bulwarks of the Protestant Religion and the Liberties of Europe were formerly we know of no great Consideration till great shoal's of people flock'd in thither and were forc'd in their own Defence

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

upon every account and I think if we consider'd our true Interest we should make it our Business to give them all Incouraging Invitations to come in and Treat them with the greatest Kindness and Civility when they are here It must be owned that very often men who remove from one Land to another are persons who by reason either of their Imprudence or Extravagance or Injustice or Laziness made their Lives uneasie at home and therefore were necessitated to change their Soil No Country can be great Gainers by such men as these This is not the Case of the French Protestants The Reason which made them quit their Country is a very powerful one to Recommend them to the people of Ireland They quitted their Country upon the account of Religion This should be a Motive to make us Value and Entertain them I do not here speak of that Charity and Compassion which their Sufferings justly Challenge from all who pretend a Zeal for the Reformed Religion tho' upon that Account it may be the Interest as well as the Duty of People to Treat them Hospitably because they may Entertain Angels unawares and bring a Blessing upon the Land My Reason is an Argument to worldly Men and is strong in the plain point of Secular Prudence and Interest Abstracted from all Religious Considerations Men who forsake their Country upon the Account of Religion are men of Principles and Conscience The very same Principle therefore or Temper of Mind which makes them scrupulous in the Case of Religion we may rationally conceive will encline them to be Sober and Just and Industrious in the works of their Calling Such men as these are likely to make a Nation happy The French Protestants have many men of Letters among them and they are generally remarkable for their good Breeding and Civility 'T is not to be doubted then but that they Living in Towns and Villages among the ruder Irish will in time help greatly to improve them both in Manners and Religion Teach them a more Human way of Living and thus drive them from that Native Barbarity which has been a great Cause of their former Rebellions The English have done much this way but more had been done before now had it been their good Fortune formerly to have more people of good Manners and Civility to assist them 'T was the Misfortune of the English that they were but few in number in respect of the Irish they came into the Land by single Families or but few at a time therefore instead of Reforming them they fell into the Manners and Religion of the people of the Land and after a while did not fall short of their new Country-men even in their Hatred of the English A better Harvest may be expected when many Families come into a Land together Therefore the pleasure that good men ought to take in having the poor Irish as well as the Soil Cultivated should make them Contribute all their Assistance as well as their good Wishes to bring in a People who may help to Civilize such parts of the Country as the English for want of sufficient numbers have not yet been able to do The French are excellent Handicraftment in all Trades such men are extreamly wanted in Ireland and will Contribute to the Enriching as well as Strengthening of this Kingdom I know the Opinion of the Multitude is otherwise The coming in of Out-landish Trades men is reckon'd a Grievance and the Out-cry against you is that you bring in Forreigners to take the Bread out of English mens Mouths Ill natur'd Beasts will sometimes fall upon Creatures of their own kind if they eat near them tho' there be much more Food than they can devour I 'm sorry that Man who is call'd a Sociable Creature should be troubled with a Temper which is so Destructive of Society Do Forreigners eat the Bread out of their Mouths when they have more Bread than they have Mouths to devour it But whom do these people call Forreigners He is not to be reckoned a Forreigner to day who yesterday came into our Country upon Invitation took Oaths required by our Laws and made himself such a Denizon as will strengthen our State and Contribute to the lasting Peace of our Kingdom If particular Persons did Suffer by the coming in of Strangers yet the great Good which the Common-wealth Reaps by it ought to Silence their Complaints But let us see whether these men's Complaints are just or no. An Act for Naturalization Encourages Forreigners to come in I suppose then that Fifty Families take Shipping at Rochel in France Land in Waterford and Settle there if the men of those Families are of differing Callings then possibly they may not hurt any one Artizan of that ancient City because they will consume the Labour of one anothers hands For Example Suppose one or two be Shoe-makers and the rest wear as many Shoes as they can make then 't is plain that the Shoe-makers there are not Injur'd and so it may be shewn in other particular Callings The coming in of many people of differing Callings and fixing in your Towns will Improve those Callings by the Addition of new and perhaps some better Trades men But that they cannot be supposed to prejudice the old Tradesmen I think is plain from this Consideration that if those Forreigners should keep themselves entire in a Body and Seat themselves where there were not any other Trades-men before no one will deny that these are able to live one upon another Would not the Case then be the same if they fell into Towns before Inhabited and furnished with Trades-men They must allow it otherwise they must say that the many Trades men of greater Cities do not subsist one by another as well as those of smaller Hamlets The men of the several Callings in Dublin I suppose Live at least as well by their Callings as they did 50 Years ago tho' the City was not above half as big as 't is now and yet this Enlargement of the City was made by the Addition of more people of those Callings But suppose as it may by chance happen that more men of one Calling should come into a City or Town than are sufficient to Supply that City with the Labour of their Craft is not this an Inconvenience and Prejudice to that City No sure 't is no Predjudice to the City of Waterford in General for Example to have more Haberdashers of Hats or Hatters as we call them here fall in there than are Necessary to Supply the Town for if by that means better Hats are made and they be sold cheaper then 't is plain that the rest of the Town are Gainers by it But you 'l say what if this should happen to be the Case of all the other Callings This cannot be because that when the men of all Callings do Increase they Live one upon another just as they did before when they were fewer in number But let us

know a very good Author who tells us that the French King had it in his Thoughts to Land an Army in Ireland And that he made the Peace of Nimiguen more readily upon that very Account What Accidents may happen after this Genera●ion is passed away God only knows This I know that I can think of things that may possibly happen which may give the Irish an opportunity at least with Forreign Assistance which they will always Industriously sollicit of troubling us again Wise and Good people who have a concern for their Posterity would provide against all Accidents and whatsoever their present condition be would not reckon themselves Secure when the Irish are three to one especially when they consider that as the English Power grew greater in Ireland the Efforts of the Irish in their Insurrections were always more considerable and dangerous to the English There is a good Reason for it such as every body has not thought of but is very material and worthy our Consideration that is this That the Irish have Increas'd in Power and Number by means of the English and will do so far the time to come When Henry the Second Invaded the Kingdom the Computation was that there were then but 300000 Souls in Ireland 'T is ve●y probable that if they had been left to themselves and their old Custom of Cutting Throats and Mu●thering one another their number would not have been much greater at this day All the English who came in since that time except those of latter years have been getting Children for them and Increasing their st●ck so great a part have they had in making them numerous as they are that it cou'd be shown that above half the Names of Ireland which are now of the Language Customs Religion and Interest of the Irish were old English who came over to subdue them Such are all the old names of the pale Such are in the County of Waterford the Powers Welches Pendergrasses Sherlocks Geraldines Nugents Condons Browns Dobbins Heys Such in the County of Cork besides some of these are the Barrys Roches Coureyes M●agh Fitz-Edmonds Carons Whites Russels c. And thus I could run thro' all the other Counties in Ireland were it not tedious Many old English names there are which have been chang'd into the meer Irish Mac's and O's The Mac Quilins in the County of Autrim who in the Reign of King James the first were destroyed by the Mac Donnels were anciently Welshmen and the name was William● The O Rely's in the County of Cavan some say were Ridley's The Mac Swynes in Ulster were formerly Vero's And the Mac Mahons Fitz U●sula's In Conaught Mac Morrice was formerly Pendergrass Mac Avile Stanton Mac Jordan D'Exter Mac Quistolo Nangle Mac Phadin Mac Pieke Mac Tomin all Barrets O Doud Dowdal Mac Delphin Dolphin Mac Granel Nangle Mao Thomas Joyes Mac Orish B●imingham O Naughton Snow Mac Kogh Gough Mac Nemara Mor●imer Mac William Eughter Mac Phillippine Burgh's And a vast number of other Names which I cou'd reckon There is in one of the Manuscripts at Lam●e●h (a) Lib. CC. Fol. 57 58. a Letter which Sir Henry Sidney wrote to the Lords of the Council in England the 27th of April 1576. Wherein he tells them that when he was in Conaught there came to him Mac Phaton Mac ●●ylye Mac Jordan Mac Gostelo and Mac Maurice and brought him Matters of Record and Credit to shew that they had been not only English which every one says he Confesses but also Lords and Barons in Parliament and that they had then Lands sufficient for Barons if they might weld their own quietly That they were so Barbarous that they had not three Hacney's between them to carry them and their Train home These and some other old English Gentlemen he says came and Lamented their Devastation and with one consent cry'd for Justice and English Government in so miserable and yet magnanimous a manner as it would make any English heart to feel Compassion with them This short Account gives a good Idea of all those old English who liv'd among the Irish They did not as 't is said Messala Corvinus a Learned man did in a fit of Sickness forget their Names but they put them off together with their Language and former manner of Living So Universal was this Degeneracy that even the old English of the pale tho' by reason of the nearness of the State they retain'd more of Civility yet became Irish in their Affection and Interest And in the late War 't is certain that as they were the greatest men both in the Army and the management of the State so were they as forward and deep as any of the old Irish in the Design that was form'd to shake of the English Yoke And when I speak of the late War I cannot but observe that Sir Valentine Brown who lost his Estate for being Engag'd with the Irish in this War against the Interest of England Descended from that Sir Valentine Brown who in a Discourse about Peopleing Munster to be seen in one of the Manuscripts at Lambeth (b) Lib. L. Fol. 4● in the year 1584. when Sir John Perrot was Lord Deputy Propos'd to Queen Elizabeth that the Geraldins and the Principals of the Free holders should be Prosecuted by War to the utter Extirpation of them and theirs We cannot so much wonder at this when we consider how many there are of the Children of Oliver's Souldiers in this Kingdom who cannot speak one word of English And which is stranger the same may be said of some of the Children of King William's Souldiers who came but t'other day into the Country This misfortune is oweing to the Marrying Irish women for want of English who came not over in so great numbers as were requisite 'T is sure that no English-man in Ireland knows what his Children may be as things are now They cannot well live in the Country without growing Irish for none take such care as Sir Jerom Alexander did who left his Estate to his Daughter provided she Married no Irish-man or any Related to that Interest Since things are thus the Irish unless a great deal of care be taken will out number us in a greater proportion than now they do They are not Imploy'd in our Wars as the British are they Marry much younger than the British do and get a great many Children before they Marry and are not as severely punished for it as they might be And besides as I said the Children of the English by Conversing in the Country with them learn their Language admire their Customs Marry with them very frequently and of course Embrace their Religion What then can better secure us and our Posterity than to Encourage great numbers of Forreign Protestants who will Contribute to Reform the Manners and Religion of the Irish and thus do God and the Country the greatest Service to come over and take up their Habitations among us I know 't will