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

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

to the English Since those Plantations have been made there it has been the securest retreat from the Insurrections of the Irish If a considerable Colony of Protestants were planted in Conaught 't would be impossible for the Irish to disturb the peace of the English in this Country for the time to come I have heard a Person of Quality who is your Relation speak of a projest which I think would if it were put in Execution render that part of the Country secure If the King after that he has oblig'd those whom their Merits Recommend to His Favour would be pleas'd to Grant Lands in this Province to the French and would take care to appoint Commissioners to see it planted by them and English mixed together He would take an effectual course to Secure and Enrich this Kingdom which he retriev'd from Misery and Slavery by the hazard of His Life When the Parliament considers this they perhaps may think it proper to pray the Government that they would Represent this to the King besides these publick Grants and Emulaments 't is to be hop'd that the Protestant Nobility and Gentry of this Kingdom will when they consider the great want and value of good people in this Country give private Incouragements to Forreign Protestants to come into the Kingdom and settle upon their Estates In Order to Promote this I could wish that in the Act of Naturalization it were Enacted that at the Publick charge four Folio Manuscripts well bound were purchased the First of these called the Book of Linster to be placed in Dublin the Second called the Book of Mu●ster to be plac'd in Cork the Third called the Book of Conaught to be placed in Gallway the Fourth call'd the Book of Vlster which need not be large because Forreigners will have little or no Encouragement in this Province which is indifferent full of People already to be plac'd at Belfast or some other place those Books I wou'd have put into the hands of the Town Clarks of the respective places or such other Persons as shall be thought fit In these Books I wou'd have the Nobility and Gentry of the Respective Provinces enter the Incouragements they will give to Forreign Protestants to Settle in their Estate viz. How many Tenements they will set out with what Lands Annex'd to them whether the Lease shall be for Lives or a considerable term of years and I cou'd wish that they wou'd consider that the true way to make Ireland Flourish is to let Leases for Lives as in England and to Encourage Tillage how long they shall be Rent free and what the Rent shall be after such time what Bonâ side the Land is worth an Acre as the Land thereabouts is now Set How many Tenements they have particularly for Linnen Weavers for this will be a good way to Incourage the Linnen Manufacture and if the Parliament wou'd in all or for a Specimen in some Counties where the Linnen Manufacture is most Improv'd order large Bleaching Yards to be made in such places of those Counties or the Neighbouring County as Justices of the Peace of the County with the Advice of Persons whose imployment it has been to make Linnen these Bleaching Yards to be put into the hands of the best Tradesmen to be procur'd at home or a broad and they to Whiten Cloath at a rate set by the Parliament this I conceive might go a great way in Improveing our Linnen Manufacture What Incouragement is thus given I wou'd have entered in the Reigistry by the Gentleman 's own hand or if he send his Incouragement in a Letter to the Register I would have two Witnesses hands to the Letter and it should be kept on Record The Reason is because I wou'd have whatever Incouragement is thus given as Binding in Law as if it were a Deed and the poor Forrigner who accepts the Proposal shou'd have Liberty to sue in Formâ Pauperis and all the Kings Council shou'd be oblig'd to see him righted as if it were the Kings Suit Such provisions and security as this from the Publick Faith will Encourage Forreigners to venture into the Kingdom When such publick Registries are Settled Forreigners will have their Agent in the Kingdom to take an Account of the Incouragement that is given and if the Nobillty and Gentry wou'd be generous in their Proposals and wou'd regard rather the good of their posterity and the Security and Flourishing Estate of the Kingdom for the time to come than their own present gain no one can tell what a multitude of useful people they may bring into the Kingdom by this means That these Encouragements maybe made as publick as may be I wou'd have Transcripts of the Incouragements entred in the Book of Conaught sent Monthly to the Register of Cork and Dublin and those entred in Cork Conaught and Vlster sent likewise to Dublin And that Foreigners may have the more Encouragement to Settle here I would have them exempted at least for Seven years from the Offices of Church-Wardens Constables Jurors and from publick Taxes besides what Goods they bring in at their first coming shou'd be Duty Free but then they must give Security to pay for them if they don't settle in the Kingdom I am perswaded Sir that these Proposals on the first Reflection will seem very Wild and Extravagant and 't will be thought ill Husbandry thus to Bribe and hire men to do themselves a kindness Before men censure too rashly I desire they wou'd consider the great I had almost said the unknown value of people and the ill Report that frequent Rebellions have brought upon the Country which is a Lyon in the way that frightens Forreigners from coming hither What is thus given can do us no harm for the Money will in effect be raised only to Improve the Kingdom and that Land which is given to draw Forreigners in to Plant and Improve it will not I 'm sure be carryed out of the Country Some may very justly ask why I dont propose that English people rather be thus Encourag'd to come and settle here so I wou'd for they are the people that wou'd be useful to us if I were not very sure that this wou'd be taken ill in England I 'm for gaining as many useful Foreigners as possible and if we cou'd draw in great numbers of the French Protestants this wou'd be an Act of great Charity to them a great blow to the French King and the greatest kindness that we can do our selves FINIS