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A11227	The gouernment of Ireland vnder the honorable, iust, and wise gouernour Sir Iohn Perrot Knight, one of the Priuy Councell to Queene Elizabeth, beginning 1584. and ending 1588 Being the first booke of the continuation of the historie of that kingdome, formerly set forth to the yeare 1584, and now continued to this present 1626. Whereof the rest succeeding this already collected, but not fully perfected, shall shortly follow.	E. C. S, fl. 1626.	1626 (1626)	STC 21490; ESTC S116308	77,201	172

receite of this Letter though many of them as is said had beene wrought to write against the Deputie yet now acknowledging the same the Gentry did wrote a particular Letter which they sent vnto the Queene desiring the continuance of the present Deputy amongst them giuing him all the specious attributes could be yeelded an extraordinary Patron of that poore Country some of them as is already mentioned recanting their errour of accusing him of heauy and tirannous courses now called him the Father of that poore Kingdome setting forth his fatherlike care for the vniuersall tranquillity and the administration of particular Iustice These Letters though they needed not for as yet there was no intention of his calling thence yet they gaue a sharpe blowe to his Aduersaries whose informations must needes be suspected to proceede onely out of malice since the parties that most felt the good and euill of Gouernement gaue this testimony of him which they did in respect of the feare they had of his remoue being so bruted as well in approbation of his actions as to preuent the mischiefes which might happen by his going thence the smart whereof they were like to feele The Copie of this Letter is yet extant The Cauanagh shew the cause of the Rebellion About this time Donnogh Mac Murtogh Cauanagh and Murtogh Oge Mac Morough Cauanagh lately reuolted from their obedience made humble submission to the Deputy shewing the cause of their reuolt as the killing of their Father by Sir Dudieigh Bagnall and Heron whom they slewe His not permitting them to liue on the Lands giuen by Sir Peter Carew vnto their Father pursuing and forcing them to flye vnto the Woods in which pursuit he was shine They craue pardon and offer Seruice shewing who they were that procured Mr. Bagnall and Heron to kill their Father and to banish them 〈…〉 Mac 〈…〉 Art Cormagh Mac Anispeck Conologh Mac Gilpatrick with other their Followers and Companions While the Deputies care concurring with the peoples good liking did preuent many mischiefes like to ensue The practise of such as he had displeased by crossing their courses and vndue proceedings did not cease to worke his trouble and disquiet Amongst whom the Earle of Ormond was now become one that laboured The Earle of Ormond enformes against the Deputy by secret information to incense the Queene against him which procured from her and in her name sharpe reprehensions which did much disquiet him and prouoked his cholerick and passionate nature to offend and exceede himselfe for being vexed with indignities and conceiued iniuries hee could not forbeare to speake and sometimes to write as tarely as he found himselfe dealt withall The Deputy writeth again to the Queene for his remoue And now thinking himselfe wounded in his reputation he wrote to the Queene her selfe shewing againe how hee was disabled to doe her Seruice and dishonoured by her beliefe of his vniust Aduersaries their practises and suggestions Hee prayeth lycence to repaire vnto her Presence for aunswering of his Accuser and that hee might be remooued from that vnfortunate Gouernement He likewise wrote vnto the Earle of Leycester who much fauoured him protesting in plaine manner that rather then hee would liue there to bee so vexed in minde crossed in his best intended courses and brought into the Queenes displeasure hee wonld take on him George the Chimney sweepers place at Court those being his words and therefore vrgeth his helpe for his remoouall or leaue to come vnto the Queene but that Earle then engaged in the Action of the Lowe-Countries wherein all his power was sette a worke could not yeeld him that helpe his loue would otherwise haue afforded Contention betweene the Earle of Tyrone and diuers Vlster Lords preying one vpon another Diuers dislikes and some disturbance of the publique began betwixt Tirlogh Leynaugh Oneale and the Earle of Tyrone for whereas formerly there had beene a deuision of the Lands in Vlster challenged to belong to Oneale deuided betwixt them both and of later time Tirlogh Leynaugh had beene drawne by composition to take a thousand Markes Rent by the yeare of the Earle to be payed at foure Feasts for certaine Landes during some yeares Now Tirlogh Leynaugh complaineth that the Earle did not onely refuse the payment of this Rent but had committed outrages on himselfe and his people hauing taken diuers preyes out of his Country terrified his Tenants and had enticed diuers of them from him and his Lands whereof hee writeth particularly by sundry Letters vnto the Deputy shewing his vnwillingnesse to breake the Queenes peace desireth order may be taken for the returne of his Tenants ' and their goods with satisfaction for his men slaine and such Rent as the Earle was endebted to him These complaints being by the Deputy sent to Tyrone he maketh answer that first for Tirloghs Tenants that since Tirlogh was not able to restraine his people from annoying his Tenants hee was not to refuse any that would come from Tirlogh to liue vnder him denieth any killing or preying vpon Tirlogh his men or Country by him or his men for the arreare of Rent due or claymed to bee due hee partly denyeth and partly euades the payment In the meane time while these complaints were exhibited and answeres expected more outrages begunne betweene them and their followers and new violences were offered before the olde could be redressed for Tirlogh being growne olde and forsaken by many of his followers either for want of protection from Tirlogh or feare of the Earles encreasing greatnesse Tyrone giues another blowe to Tirlogh by taking a prey of 2000 Cowes with many Mares and Garons from Sir Arte Oneale Tirloghs sonne whereof the Deputy being aduertised sent to Tyrone what was enformed and to require him both to forbeare further acts of hostility and to restore what had been so taken from Tirloghs sonne or his Tennants to which the Earle maketh answere by accusing Sir Arte Oneale to haue taken a prey from his people at his last being at Dublin and insteed of restitution which he demaunded sent the Earle defiance when he required peace to be obserued Sir Arthur Oneale affirmed on the other side that the Earles brother Cormagh tooke a prey first from some of his men who in recouering of their losse tooke the like from his for which Tyrone spoyled him and his followers of a farre greater value as hee complained The Deputy looking vpon the danger of these brawles contentions and spoyles sendeth two Messengers called Bynion and Bremicham with Letters and streight commaundements vnto Tirlogh and his sonne and to the Earle of Tyrone charging them vpon their loyalties vnto their Soueraigne to forbeare all attempts of violence and reuenge one towards another and to the Earle he signified that if it were true that he had receiued some iniuries at the hands of Sir Arthur Oneale yet it could not be lawfull that he should be a reuenger of his owne wrongs and if he

opinions what seruice were fit to bee first attempted and where Some in Vlster against the Scots Some in Connaught against the Burks Some in Mounster against Desmond and some in Leynster against Baltinglass and each haue their reason It were not good to neglect any of them but presently at least to front euery of them The choyse therefore where to begin would be left at large at the Deputies discretion to doe therin as he seeth cause Neuerthelesse aboue all the rest that in Leynster which aptly may bee called an intestin mischiefe would be in mine opinion first dealt withall as well for the indignity of the matter as also for the suppression of the Birnes Tooles and Cauenaghes which as now to Baltinglass haue and euer will be ready Rebellion to the Omoores Oconers and all others For vntill they be eyther extirped or throughly brought vnder by fortifications vpon their fastnesses Dublin Kildare Westmeth the Kings Queenes Counties cannot be cleare either of theirs the Omoores and Oconors incursions spoyles or of doubt of the Magoghigans Omoloyes other stirring Irish borderers But they being suppressed the Omoores Oconors lose all their chiefe strength and refuge and the residue with either the Sword or the Law will be easily enough kept vnder So as then the Pale may without feare or danger attend your Maiesties other Seruice with their best ayde That being happily as it willw i th Gods fauour be soone at chieued then is your Deputy to proceede against the rest and still as hee goeth to make great paces throughout all their Woods and fatnesses and small fortifications vpon euery their streight and strength after the example of your Maiesties most Noble Progenitors in subduing of Wales And whilst this is in doing your Maiestie had neede to haue not onely part of your Nauy to lye on the Coast to answere forraign attempts if there be cause and to keep the Rebels from starting ouer Sea But also small Vessels to lye vpon the Scots to impeach their Inuasions The Rebellion being repressed and your Maiesty hauing shewed mercy to those that you shall see cause to bestowe it well vpon then must the fruits of peaceable Gouernement be made to appeare To that end it shall be requisite to call a Parliament and by Authority thereof not onely to reuiue all former olde Statutes that shall be consonant to a reformed Gouernment but also to Enact new for the establishing of the Articles ensuing and such other as vpon aduice shall be thought meete 1. First for as much as the only way for true obedience to the Prince groweth by true knowledge of God it shal be requisite that two Vniuersities where the same may bee truly taught be erected with as conuenient speede as may be The fittest places for them will be at Lymbrick for the south part and Arnagh for the North The meanes to doe it may bee partly by some of the Lands that shall excheat to your Maiesty by this Rebellion and partly by imposition of workes labours carriages and money as Fines vpon those that shall bee thought fit to be pardoned 2 Item to the end it may appeare that the reformation tendeth to a lawfull Gouernement it shall bee meete that a Collection bee made of the Lawes already in force and a publique denuntiation made by Proclamation for the putting of them in present Execution especially the Lawes of King Kogish 3 Item the Earle of Ormond is to be compounded withall for his liberties of Tibredary so as your Maiesties Lawes onely ruling there my Lord neuerthelesse to haue the Excheats as by the ordinance of Wales the Lords Marchers haue there As for the Earle of Desmond his liberties of County Pallantine in Kerry there needeth no composition with him he being in Rebellion 4 Item that all Ireland bee reduced into Manours so as hauing Courts Barons Leetes and Lawdayes kept orderly vpon them the people may haue Iustice for meane actions neere home 5 Item that all Cesse cuttings and Irish exactions as Bonnaght Coyne and Liuory Fowey Soren Black rents and such like bee cleane abollished And that in lieu thereof a certaine Annuall rent bee rated vpon euery Plow Land to the vse of the Lord by composition tripartity indented to be made betwixt your Maiestie the Lord and his Free-holder by the Lord Deputy Lord Presidents or other Commissioners by them authorized reseruing besides for your Maiesty according to the Statutes made for that purpose 13 shillings foure pence vpon euery Plow land with prouiso that if the Lord doe breake the composition or take againe any of the said exactions then hee to forfeit the inheritance of those Lands And that by that tripartity Indenture both the Lord and the Freeholder bee bound to let his demeanes or any other Land that he shall demise to the Tennant otherwise called Churle at a reasonable rent certaine for terme of 21 yeares at least Thus the Freeholder and the Tennant being at a certainty and rid of the vncertaine spoyle and spending of the Lord and feeling the ease and commodity thereof will withstand the vnlawfull attempts of the Lord and be ready with his body and goods against him if neede bee at the deuotion of the State that shall be meanes thus to enrich and better his estate 6 Item no Lord or Gentlemen for any respect or colour of Seruice be admitted to put vpon his Lordship or Signory any Galloglagh Kerne or Shot or to grant them any Kenelagh Follow Bonaghbeg or Bonaghburr vpon paine offellony Neuerthelesse vpon any great necessity the Lord Deputy or Lords Presidents shall put in any Galloglagh Kerne or Shot and those to be called and reputed your Maiesties Galloglagh Kerne or Shot 7 Item that all Brehons Carraghes Bardes and Rymers that infect the people Friars Monkes Iesuites Pardoners Nunns and such like that openly seeke the maintenance of Papacy a Traytrous kinde of people the Bellowes to blow the coales of all mischiefe and Rebellion and fit spies of Antichrist whose Kingdome they greedily expect to bee restored be executed by Marshall Law and their fauourers and maintainers by due course of Law to be tryed and executed as in cases of Treason 8 Item if your Maiesty in respect of pollicie or otherwise doe not thinke it good vtterly to destroy the Irish Scots that doe continually inuade your good Subiects and ayde the Rebellious against your Highnesse That it were well your Maiesty did graunt to the Earle of Arguile an yearely Pention for a time to the end he should restraine them from comming euer into England 9 Item that the English Horsemen Footmen the Galloglaghes Kerne and Irish Shot bee placed in the seuerall Prouinces of the Realme as the seruice and the necessity of the place shall require And that of the Lands in your Maiesties disposition by Excheat or otherwise as soone as conuensently may bee some portions bee allotted to them to dwell vpon and manure at a certaine reasonable rate And

whom the Queene had not in her Dominions a more able and sufficient Gentleman and that did more neerely lay his actions to a good conscience so as he did nothing but by the warrant thereof and nothing did argue his duty to God and his Princemore then his The hard cause held against Sir Richara Bingham vniust fall notwithstanding his prime desert in that ●nhappy Kingdome by the deprauing and malicious courses of those Instruments that in time prosecuted the like against him as they did now against this Deputy of whom wee now treat till the light of his innocencie cleared him though too late from their aspersion brought him to a new further aduancement in that Kingdome though his great heart disdayning the iniustice was done him would not hold out long enough to prosecute the seruice which was in his power to performe but ere I come to relate this tragicall misdeede I must mention his vertuous actions by which hee got the hate of his worthlesse Aduersaries and must recommend the Earle of Clanrikard who being a most noble Gentleman and loyall Subiect was one of the principall in this Seruice After treaties succeeded Inquisitions to finde what quantity there was in each Barony The couenants between the Queene and the Lords of Connaught and who were found owners thereof Indentures were drawne betweene the Deputy in the behalfe of the Queene on the one part and the chiefe possessioners in the seuerall Precincts on the other expressing so many quarters and quantities of Land with the Rents thereon reserued and such other couenants as were therein contained In the County of Clare and Thomond the Earle of Clanrikard the Baron of Inse●●uin the Bishop of Killalowe the Elect Bisho● of Kilfanorough with diuers Knights and chiefe Gentlemen subscribed to an Indenture of couenants for the perpetuall paying out of the nine Baronies of that County amounting 177 quarters Certaine Freedomes were granted to some speciall persons some quarters of Land to be exempted from this imposition In consideration whereof the Lords and Owners of those Lands did likewise couenaot with the Deputy that the names stiles and Titles of Captainship chiefly and all other Irish Authorities and Iurisdictions heretofore vsed by the Lords Chiefetaines and Gentlemen together with all elections and customary diuisions of Lands which had occasioned great strife and diuision amongst them should be thenceforth vtterly renounced extinct and abollished The like composition was made vpon the same conditions with the Lords spirituall and temporall The Chiefetaines Gentlemen and Freeholders in the County of Maio containing nine Baronies and 1448 quarters of Land euery quarter esteemed to be 120 Acres so that out of this 1448 quarters found in this County there being graunted so much to bee free as there remained 1200 quarters chargeable which amounted to sixe hundred pound sterling in that County There was also by the same composition and couenants to be maintained by the County for the Seruice of the Prince forty good able Horsemen furnished and two hundred Footemen well Armed at their owne costs and charges whensoeuer they should be called or commanded thereto by the Deputy or chiefe Gouernour of the Realme or by the chiefe Officer of the said Prouince and to finde fifteene good Horsemen and fifty Footemen well furnished in such sort as the Peeres and English Bishops ought to doe the same The like composition was made for the County of Sligo all other Counties Countries Baronies and Territories of this Prouince By the eighth of September 1585 the Commissioners had trauailed through the Okelleys Country all Thomond Clanrickard Eighter Connaught and the rest of the County of Galway which Mac William Eighter and the rest of his name which were of many branches besides the petty Lords and other of the second ranke in their Sir Nicholas White his letter to the Lord Deputy Countries So that as Sir Nicholas White certified to the Lord Deputy they conceiued hope to come home loaden with Pledges and leaue that Country vnloaden of many Macks and Oos translated by their owne assent vnto which their hands Seales were had to a better course and more certainty of liuing then hitherto they could afford themselues In the aduertisement of these affaires Sir Nicholas White did propound vnto the Deputy an ingenious Enigma or Ridle That all sorts were eased with their bearing and yet her Maiesties reuenue with the Liuings of the Lords encreased From the County of Mayo the Commissioners were to repasse to the County of Sligo and so homewards to the County of Roscoman The Commissioners doubtfull to meddle with Orurk With Orurkes Country called Letrim they were doubtfull how to meddle considering the condition of himselfe and his Country both vnciuill and vnruly In those places where they had dealt they began to erect Mannours to hold of her Maiestie besides the Compositions and Royalties reserued vnto the Crowne Vpon the returne of this Commission and the Indentures thereupon drawne as formerly mentioned It appeareth there were found in that Prouince 8169 quarters of Land whereof Freedomes were graunted to 2339 so then remained chargeable 6836 whereon there were reserued in yearely Rent to her Maiesty and the Crowne 3418 pound fiue shillings eight pence sterling with the Seruice of so many Horse and Foote as is already mentioned and hereafter set downe Horsemen for rising out within the Prouince of Connaught vpon their owne victuals 224 Horsemen for rising out within the same Prouince for forty dayes vpon their owne victuals 88 Footemen for rising out within the Prouince vpon their owne victuals 1054 Footemen for rising out of the Prouince for forty dayes vpon their owne victuals 332 The Tawnist was cut off in that Prouince Mac William Enghters Country being the lower Bourkes was deuided into fiue parts The Lords and their Tenants were agreed together for a certaine Rent in lieu of all exactions That Prouince was deuided into sixe Counties or Shieres where there were but three before for so I finde it in a note vnder the Deputies Sir Iohn Perrots owne hand yet by another painefull Author I see it mentioned that Sir Henry Sidney made the whole sixe Counties Clare Galway Sligo Mayo Roscomon and Letrim then but one as he had formerly done the County of Longford in Lemster being before called the Annaly or Oferralls Country but I suppose he is mistaken being deuided and The Counties of Connaught deuided by Sir Iohn Perrot not by Sir Henry Sidney peraduenture named by Sir Henry Sidney but perfected by Sir Iohn Perrot Iustices of Assize were ordained and Shriefes and Iustices of the Peace with other inferiour Officers were established in most parts of this Prouince This Seruice so auaileable to the State by cutting off the Inferiours depending onely vpon the Superiour was affected beyond the expectation of many who could not conceiue that Chiefetaines would easily condiscend to quit their cuttings Cosherias and other Irish exactions of so long