little more honour but for the most part with one and the same authority And without doubt those first Justicers of Ireland as the Justicer of England who in that age was also for brevity called Justice were ordained for keeping of the Peace and Ministring of Justice to all and every person as were the Proprietors and Proconsuls in old time among the Romans which were sent into a Province with highest command Before we pass further Let us take a view of the Catalogue here before us comprehending this following Table A Table shewing the Names and Titles of all the Lord Lieutenants Deputies and Lord Justices of Ireland with the time they began their Government since the 16th Year of the Reign of Henry the Seventh unto this present Year 1672. Order Their Names Titles they had before Titles in Ireland Month. Day Year 1 Henry Duke of York L. Lieuten   1501 2 Gerrald Earl of Kildare Deputy   1501 3 Thomas Howard Earl of Surrey Lieuten   1520 4 Piers Butler Earl of Ossory Deputy    5 Gerrald Earl of Kildare Deputy    6  Baron of Delvin Deputy    7 Piers Butler Earl of Ossory Deputy   1529 8 Will. Skevington Knight Deputy   1530 9 Gerrald Earl of Kildare Deputy   1532 10 Will. Skevington Knight Deputy October 4 1534 11 Leonard Lord Gray Deputy January 1 1534 12 William Brereton Knight Deputy   1540 13 Anthon. S. Leager Knight Deputy July 25 1541 14 William Brabazon Knight Justice April 1 1546 15 Anthon. S. Leager Knight Deputy August 4 1546 16 Edw. Bellingham Knight Deputy May  1548 17 Francis Bryen Knight Justice Decemb. 27 1549 18 William Brabazon Knight Justice Februar  1549 19 Anthon. S. Leager Knight Deputy August 4 1550 20 James Crofts Knight Deputy April 29 1551 21 Thomas Cusack Gerrald Ailmer Knights Justices Decemb.  1552 22 Anth. S. Leager Knight Deputy Septemb. 1 1554 23 Thomas Lord Fitz-Water Deputy May 26 1555 24 Hugh Cruwen Henry Sidney Arch. Bish Dub. L. Chan. Knight and Treasurer Justices   1557 25 Henry Sidney Knight Justice February 6 1557 26 Thomas Earl of Sussex Deputy April 27 1558 27 H. Sidney absent Sussex in Scotia Knight Justice Septemb. 24 1558 28 Thomas Earl of Sussex Deputy    29 Henry Sidney Knight Justice Decemb. 13 1558 30 Thomas Earl of Sussex Deputy August 27 1559 31 W. Fitz-Williams Knight Justice February 15 1559 32 Thomas Earl of Sussex Lieutenant June 24 1560 33 W. Fitz-Williams Knight Justice February 2 1560 34 Thomas Earl of Sussex Lieutenant June 1 1561 35 W. Fitz Williams Knight Justice January 22 1561 36 Thomas Earl of Sussex Lieutenant July 24 1562 37 Nicholas Arnold Knight Justice May 25 1564 38 Henry Sidney Knight Deputy June 20 1565 39 Doe Weston W. Fitz-Williams Lord Chancellor Knight Justices Octob. 14 1567 40 Henry Sidney Knight Deputy Octob. 20 1568 41 W. Fitz-Williams Knight Justice March 26 1570 42 W. Fitz-Williams Knight Deputy June 13 1570 43 Henry Sidney Knight Deputy Septemb. 18 1575 44 William Drurie Knight Justice Septemb. 14 1578 45 William Petham Knight Justice October 11 1579 46 Arthur Lord Gray Deputy August 12 1580 47 Adam Loftus Henry Wallop Arch. Bish Dub. L. Chan. Knight and Treasurer Justices   1582 48 John Perrott Knight Deputy June 21 1584 49 W. Fitz-Williams Knight Deputy June 30 1588 50 William Russel Knight Deputy August 11 1594 51 Thomas Lord Burrogh Deputy May 22 1597 52 Thomas Norris Knight Justice October 30 1597 53 Adam Loftus Arch-Bish Dub. L. Chan. Justice Novemb. 27 1597 53 Robert Gardiner Knight Justice Novem. 27 1597 54 Rob. D'Evercux Earl of Essex Lieutenant April 15 1598  Adam Loftus Arch-Bish Dub. L. Chan. Justices   1599 55 George Carie Knight and Treasurer   56 Charles Blunt Lord Mount-joy Lieutenant   1599 57 George Carie Knight and Treasurer Deputy April 29 1603 58 Arthur Chichester Knight Deputy February 3 1604  Thomas Jones Arch Bish Dub. L. Chan. Justices March 14 1613 59 Rich. Wingfeild Knight and Marshal     60 Arthur Chichester Lord Belfast Deputy July  1614 61 Thomas Jones John Denham Arch-Bish Dub. L. Chan. Knight Justices February 11 1615 62 Oliver St. John Knight Deputy August 30 1616 63 Adam Loftus K. Visc Ely L. Chan. Justices May 4 1622  Rich. Wingfeild Visc Poyerscourt 64 Henry Carie Visc Faulkland Deputy Septemb. 8 1622 65 Adam Lâ—ftus Visc Ely L. Chan. Justice October 25 16â—â— 65 Richard Boyle Earl of Cork L. Treas Justice October 25 1629 66 Tho. Wentworth Visc Wentworth Deputy   1633 67 Adam Loftus Char. Wandesford Visc Ely L. Chan. Esq Mr. of the Rolls Justices June 2 1636 68 Tho. Wentworth Visc Wentworth Liutenant   1636 69 Robert Dillon Char. Wandesford Lord Kilkenny West Esq Mr. of the Rolls Justices   1639 70 Tho. Wentworth Earl of Strafford Lieutenant   1640 71 Char. Wandesford Master of the Rolls Deputy April 1 1640 72 William Parsons John Burlace K. Mr. of the Wards K. Mr. of the Ordnance Justices Decemb.  1641 73 John Burlace Henry Fichburne K. Mr. of the Ordnance K. Gover. of Drogheda Justices Decemb.  1642 74 James Butler Earl Marq. of Ormond Lieutenant   1643  Maur. Eustace Lord Chancellor  Decemb 31  75 Roger Earl of Orrery Justices January 17 1660  Charles Earl of Montrath  Decemb. 31  76 James D. Mar. E. of Ormond Lieutenant July 28 1662 77 Thomas Earl of Ossory Deputy May 31 1663 78 James D. Mar. E. of Ormond Lieutenant Septemb.  1665 79 Thomas Earl of Ossory Deputy April 25 1668 80 John Lord Roberts Lieutenant Septemb. 18 1669 81 John Lord Berkley Lieutenant April 21 1670 82 Michael Boyle Arthur Forbs Arch. Bish Dub. L. Chan. Knight Justices   1671 83 John Lord Berkley Lieutenant Septemb.  1671 84 Henry Capell Earl of Essex Lieutenant May 21 1672 Notwithstanding what before is said The great Power and Train of the Vice-Roys or Deputies of Ireland no Vice-Roy in all Europe hath greater Power or comes neerer the Majesty of a King in his Train and State yet it was thought that in the times of trouble this should have been one principal in the appointing of the Lord Deputies Authority that it should be more ample and absolute than it is and that he should have uncontrouled Power to do any thing that he with the advisement of the Councel should think meet to be done for that it was impossible for the Councel here to direct a Governour there who should be forced oftentimes to follow the necessity of present occasions and to take the suddain advantage of time which being once lost could not be recovered whilst The want of more absolute power in the Deputies of of Ireland was formerly prejudicial to the
c. born Subjects to the Crown of England paying ever to the King his Duties reserved Title to Meth. Hugh de Lacy Conquerour of Meth had Issue Walter de Lacy who held the same of King John paying a Fine of four thousand Marks Sterling and hence began all the several Claims there with Alegiance sworn and done by their Ancestors Title to Mounster At the very first arrival of Henry the Second the Princes of Mounster came universally and did homage voluntarily and acknowledged to him and his Heirs Duties and pays for ever John de Courcy Conquerour and Earl of Vlster dyed without Issue Title to Ulster Connaght King John Lord of Ireland gave the Earldome to Hugh de Lacy who who had Issue Walter and Hugh who died without Issue and one Daughter married to Reymond Burke Conquerour and Lord of Connaght Connaght descended to divers Heirs owing service to the Prince but Vlster returned by devolution to the special Inheritance and the Revenues of the Crown of England in this manner The said de Burgo had Issue Richard who had Issue John who had Issue William who was slain without Issue and a Daughter Elizabeth entitled to thirty thousand Marks yearly by the Earldome of Vlster whom Edward the Third gave in marriage to Lionel his second Son Duke of Clarence who had Issue a Daughter Philippe married to Edward Mortimer who had Issue Edmund Anne Elianor Edmund and Elianor died without Issue Anne was married to Richard Earl of Cambridge Son to Edmund of Langley Duke of York fift Son to Edward the Third which said Richard had Issue Richard Plantaginet Father to Edward the Fourth Father to Elizabeth Wife to Henry the Seventh and Mother to Henry the Eighth Father to Mary Edward the Sixth and Elizabeth Several Claims to the Land of Ireland Several claims to the Land of Ireland 1. Mac Gil-murrow King of Ireland with all his Petty Princes Lords and Captains summoned to King Arthurs Court held in Carlion Anno 519. did accordingly their homage and attended all the while his great Feast and Assembly lasted 2. The Monarch of all Ireland and all other both Reges and Reguli for them and for theirs for ever betook themselves to Henry the Second An. Dom. 1172. namely those of the South whiles he lay at Waterford Dermot K. of Corke which is the Nation of the Mac Cartyes at Cashel Donald K. of Limrick which is the Nation of the Obrenes Donald K. of Ossory Mac Shaghlon King of Ophaly at Divelin did the like Okernel King of Vriel Ororick King of Meth Roderick King of all Ireland and of Connaght This did they with consents and shouts of their People and King Henry returned without any Battle given Only Vlster remained which John de Courcy soon after conquered and Oneale Captain of all the Irish there came to Dublin to Richard the Second An. 1399. and freely bound himself by Oath and great Sums of Money to be true to the Crown of England 3. The same time O Brien of Thomond Oconar of Connaght Arthur Mac Murrow of Leinster and all the Irish Lords which had been somewhat disordered renewed their Obedience 4. When Ireland first received the Christian Faith they gave themselves into the Jurisdiction both Spiritual and Temporal of the See of Rome The Temporal Lordship Pope Adrian conferred upon Henry the Second and he gave the same to John his younger Son afterwards King of England and so it returned home to the Crown 5. Alexander the Third confirmed the Gift of Adrian as in both their Charters is expressed at large 6. Vivian the Legate on the Popes behalf did Accurse and Excommunicate all those that fell from the Obeysance of the Kings of England 7. The Clergy twice Assembled once at Cashell secondly at Armagh plainly determined the Conquest to be Lawful and threatnad all people under pain of Gods and holy Churches indignation to accept of the English Kings for their Lords from time to time 8. It would ask a Volume to recite the Name of such Irish Princes who since the Conquest have continually upon Occasions Revolts or Petitions sworn Truth and Faith to the Kings of England and from time to time received Honors Wages Fees Pardons and made Petitions And thus I think no reasonable man will doubt of a Right so old so continued so ratified and so many ways confessed The Kings Revenue in Ireland was spent and wholy exhausted in the publick service and therefore The Kings Revenue in Ireland wholy spent on that Kingdome in all the ancient Pipe-Rolls in the times of King Henry the Third Edward the First Edward the Second and Edward the Third between the Receipts and Allowances there is this entrie In Thesauro nihil For the Officers of the State and the Army spent all so as there was no surplusage of Treasure And here I may well take occasion to shew the vanity of that which is reported in the Story of Walsingham touching the Revenue of the Crown in Ireland which he saith did amount to thirty thousand Pounds a year in the time of King Edward the Third The vain story of 30000 l. yearly Revenue in E 3ds time refuted If this Writer had known that the Kings Courts had been established in Ireland more than a hundred years before King Edward the Third was born or had seen either the Parliament Rolls in England or the Records of the Receits and Issues in Ireland he had not left this vain report to Posterity for both the Benches and Exchequer were erected in the twelfth year of King John And it is Recorded in the Parliament Rolls of 21. of Edward the Third remaining in the Tower that the Commons of England made Petition that it might be enquired why the King received no benefit of his Land in Ireland considering he possessed more there than any of his Ancestors had before him Now if the King at that time when there were no standing Forces maintained there had received thirty thousand pounds yearly at his Exchequer in Ireland he must needs have made profit by that Land considering that the whole charge of the Kingdome in the 47th year of Edward the Third when the King did pay an Army there did amount to no more than eleven thousand and two hundred pounds per Annum as appeareth by the Contract of William Winsore Besides it is manifest by the Pipe-Rolls of that time whereof many are yet preserved in Breminghams Tower and are of better credit than any Monks story that during the Reign of King Edward the Third the Revenue of the Crown of Ireland both certain and casual did not rise unto ten thousand pound per Annum though the medium be taken of the best seven years that are be found in that Kings time The like Fable hath Hollingshead touching the Revenue of the Earldome of Vlster which saith he in the time of King Richard the Second was thirty thousand Marks by the year Whereas in
the policy of the King of Meth the only Irish Prince then in favour with the Tyrant These Northern Nations were the first that brought the Irish acquainted with Traffick and Commerce and with building of Castles and Fortresses only upon the Sea-coasts having hitherto known no other defence but Woods Boggs or Stoakes And last of all by the English in K. Henry 2ds reign An. 1172. After this the Roytelets or petty Princes enjoying their former Dominions till the year 1172. in which Dermot Mac Morogh King of Lynster having forced the Wife of Maurice O Rorke King of Meth was driven by him out of his Kingdome who applying himself to Henry the Second of England for succor received Aid under the leading of Richard de Clare Sir-named Strongbow Earle of Pembroke to be restored to his Kingdom by whose good success and the rest of the Adventurers upon the Arrival of Henry the Second in Ireland his very Presence without drawing his Sword prevailed so far as that all the petty Kings or great Lords within Lynster Connaght and Munster submitted themselves unto him promising to pay him Tribute and acknowledging him their chief and Soveraign Lord But as the Conquest was but slight and superficial so the Irish Submissions were but weak and fickle assurances to hold in Obedience so considerable a Kingdom for no sooner were the Kings of Englands backs turned but the Irish returned to their former Rebellions and the Kings of England had here no more power or profit than the great ones of the Country were pleased to give them for they governed their People by the Brehon Law they made their own Magistrates and Officers pardoned and punished all Malefactors within their several Countries made War and Peace one with the other without controulment and this they did not only during the Reign of King Henry the Second but also in the times succeeding even until the Reign of Queen Elizabeth which Conquest became thus imperfect by reason of two great Defects first in the faint prosecution of the War and next in the loosness of the Civil Government The Conquest of Ireland by the English imperfect till of late by reason of two defects viz. first faint Prosecution of the War the Causes of it As touching the carriage of Martial Affairs from the seventeenth year of King Henry the Second at what time the first overture was made for the Conquest of Ireland until the nine and thirtieth year of Queen Elizabeth when that Royal Army was sent over to suppress the the Rebellion of Tyrone which in the end made an universal and absolute Conquest of all the Irishry It is very evident that the English either raised here or sent hither from time to time out of England were alwaies too weak to Subdue and Master so many Warlike Nations or Septs of the Irish as did possess this Island and besides their weakness they were ill paid and worse Governed And if at any time there arrived out of England an Army of competent strength and power it did rather terrifie than break or subdue this People being ever broken and dissolved by some one accident and impediment or other before the perfection of the Conquest of it as namely Henry the Second by the Rebellion of his Sons King John Henry the Third and Edward the Second by the Barrons Wars Edward the First by his Wars in Wales and Scotland Edward the Third and Henry the Fift by the Wars of France Richard the Second Henry the Fourth Henry the Sixth and Edward the Fourth by Domestick contention for the Crown of England it self Richard the Third not worth mentioning as having never got the quiet possession of England but was cast out by Henry the Seventh within two years and an half after his Usurpation And Henry the Seventh himself though he made the happy Union of the two Houses of York and Lancaster yet for more than half the space of his Reign there were walking Spirits of the House of York which he could not conjure down without the expence of some Bloud and Treasure Henry the Eighth was diverted by his two Expeditions into France at the first and latter part of his Reign and in the middle thereof wholly taken up with the troubles created to him by the great alteration of Ecclesiastical Affairs And lastly the Infancy of King Edward and the Coverture of Queen Mary which were both not-abilities in Law did likewise in fact disable them to accomplish the Conquest of Ireland so that all the Kings of England coming thus far short as to the perfecting of the true Conquest of Ireland let us examine what other impediments were given thereunto in point of Martial Affairs by the Adventurers themselves that first undertook the Conquest of this Kingdom upon their own account That the first English Adventurers had good success in Ireland during the first forty years It doth appear that for the space of about forty years after the first landing of the English in Ireland till the seventeenth year of King John during all which time there was no Army transmitted out of England to finish the Conquest of Ireland that the Adventurers and Colonies already planted there proceeded with so much good success as they gained very large portions of ground in every Province As namely the Earl of Strongbow by his Marriage with the Daughter of Mac Morrogh in Lynster the Laâ—ies in Meth the Giraldines and other Adventurers in Munster the Andeleyes Gernons Clintons Russels and other Voluntaries of Sir John de Courcies retinue in Vlster and the Bourkes planted by William Fitz-Adelme in Connaght The English Colonies being thus dispersed through all the Provinces of Ireland were necessitated But being necessitated for a long time to maintain a bordering War against the Irish at the charge of the English Planters from the twelfth year of King John till the six and thirtieth year of King Edward the Third being about an hundred and fifty years to maintain a continual bordering War between them and the Irish without receiving during all that time any supply either of Men or Money out of England to manage the same So that all the chief Governours of the Realm and the English Lords who had gotten such great Possessions and Royalties as that they presumed to make War and Peace at their pleasure without the least advice or direction from the State being forced to levy all their Forces within the Land who being ill Paid and worse Governed it so came to pass the publick Revenues of Ireland being then inconsiderable to sustain such a charge that as well the Ordinary Forces which stood continually as the extraordinary which were levied by the chief Governour upon Journeys and general Hostings were for the most part laid upon the poor Subjects descended of English race which burden was in some measure tollerable during the Reign of King Henry the Third and Edward the First but afterwards became insupportable in the time of King
were no such sufficient English Ministers sent over as might be presented to any Bishop for any Living but the most part of such English as came over thither of themselves were either unlearned or men of some bad note for which they had forsaken England So as the Bishop to whom they should have been presented might justly reject them as incapable and insufficient Secondly the Bishop himself being perhaps an Irish man who being made Judge by that Law of the sufficiency of the Ministers might at his own Will dislike of the English man as unworthy in his Opinion and admit of any Irish whom he should think more for his turn And if he should at the Instance of any English man of countenance there whom he would not displease accept of any such English Minister as should be tendered unto him yet he would under-hand carry such a hard hand over him or by his Officers wring him so sore that he would soon make him weary of his poor Living Lastly the Benefices themselves were so mean and of so small profit in those Irish Countreys through the ill husbandry of the Irish people which did inhabit them that they would not yeild any competent maintenance for any honest Minister to live upon scarcely to buy him a Gown And had all this been redressed yet what good should any English Minister have done amongst them by teaching or preaching unto them which either could not understand him or would not hear him Or what comfort of life could he have where his Parishoners were so insatiable so intractable so ill affected to him as they usually are to all the English Or finally how durst almost any honest Ministers that were peaceable civil men commit their safety to the hands of such Neighbours as the boldest Captains durst scarce dwell by The Church of Ireland much Reformed of late But these Obstructions by the special Providence of God appearing in the late Revolutions of Ireland seems upon the matter to be wholly taken away for first there are now in Ireland together with other Divines that commonly repair thither out of England and Scotland a sufficient number of able Ministers bred up in Trinity Colledge at Dublin to supply the above mentioned first Defect Secondly all the Bishops of Ireland are now worthy learned Protestants who with all the endeavours they can do incourage Protestant Ministers to settle themselves in such convenient places as they may do God and that Countrey good service and themselves have thereby a comfortable subsistance Besides the English Magistracy and Gentry being now so generally dispersed through all parts of Ireland do give great countenance to the Protestant Ministry to proceed cheerfully and industriously in their Vocations Lastly the Benefices themselves are now by the industry and good husbandry of the British Planters together with the uniting of two or three Parishes into one to supply the imperfect Plantation thereof become so considerable and will much more hereafter when fully Planted as to be able to yeild a competent maintenance for honest learned Ministers to live upon and which is a farther encouragement to them have already very considerable Congregations of Protestant-Plantres through most parts of the Kingdom to attend upon Divine Service every Sabbath-day The Revenues of the Church oâ— Ireland have much encreased of late in this manner The Revenues of the Church of Ireland much increased of late and the manner how First it was observed that the Clergy of this Countrey were formerly little beholding to their Lay-Patrons some of their Bishops being so poor that they had no other Revenues than the Pasture of two Milch Beasts And so far had the Monasteries and Religious Houses invadeâ— by Appropriations the Churcheâ— Rites that of late times in the wholâ— Province of Connaght the whole stipend of the Incumbent was not above forty shillings in some placeâ— not above sixteen So that the pocâ— Irish must needs be better fed thaâ— taught For ad tenuitatem Benefici orum necessario sequitur ignorantia Sacerdotum Poor Benefices will be fitted with ignorant Priests said Panormitan rightly But this was remedied in part by his Sacred Majesty King Charles the Second Monarch of Great Britain who liberally aâ— the Suit of the late Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury restored unto this Chuch all the Impropriations and portions of Tithes which had been vested in the Crown An Action of most singular Piety and Princely Bounty Secondly King James out of the forfeited Lands of the six Counties in Vlster allowed fair proportions of Land as Gleabable to those Parishes within the said forfeited Counties which has caused them for so much to be counted better Livings for Ministers than in any other part of that Kingdom Thirdly That by the care the Earl of Strafford had while he was Lord Deputy of Ireland to increase the Revenues of that Church he recovered by Law Suits great quantities of Land in many parts of Ireland which the Church enjoys to this very day Fourthly and lastly That the whole Kingdom of Ireland may be justly thought to be so far improved during the last forty years peace by the industry of the British Planters and by the Irish also in imitation of the same as that all the Lands thereof and consequently the Tythes in proportion came to be worth in yearly value four or five times more than it ever amounted unto in any former Age And therefore we need not much marvel how that this last Rebellion Anno 1641. became more bloudy and universal than any of the former the Popish Irish Clergy and Lawers well understanding that the Sovereign Command of Ireland was now worth the contending for Bishopricks of Ireland Reckoned in Ireland at and since the Reformation four Arch-bishops nineteen Bishops and one University viz. Dublin Manners The Irish have long since had the Character of being Religious Frank Amorous Ireful Sufferable of pains infinite very glorious many Sorcerers excellent Horse-men delighted with Wars great Alms-givers passing in Hospitality The lewder sort both Clerks and Lay-men sensual and loose to Leachery above measure The same being virtuously bred up or Reformed are such mirrours of Holiness and Austerity that other Nations retain but a shew or shadow of Devotion in comparison of them As for Abstinence and Fasting which these days make so dangerous this is to them a familiar kind of Chastisement In which virtue and divers other how far the best excel so far in Gluttony and other hateful Crimes the Vitious they are worse than too bad They follow the dead Corps to the grave with hollowings and barbarous out-cryes pittiful in appearance whereof grew as I suppose the Proverb To weep Irish These people of late times The good agreement bewixt the Irish and the English in Ireland during the last forty years peace were so much civilized by their Cohabitation with the English as that the antient Animosities and Hatred which the Irish had been ever observed to
gallant and truly meritorious The Irish unanimously agreed to root the English out of Ireland It is not to be denyed but that the first and most bloudy executions were made in the Prevince of Vlster and there they continued longest to execute their rage and cruelty yet must it be acknowledged that all the other three Provinces did concur with them as it were with one common consent to destroy and pluck up by the roots all the British planted throughout the Kingdom And for this purpose they went on not only murdering stripping and driving out all of them Men Women and Children but they laid wast their Habitations burnt their evidences defaced in many places all the Monuments of Civility and Devotion the Courts and places of the English Government Nay as some of themselves exprest it they resolved not to leave them either Name or Posterity in Ireland Having thus far briefly rendered an account touching matter of fact That the Irish can pretend no grievances as motives to the last Rebellion An. 164â— transacted in this most bloudy Rebellion I shall in the next place take an occasion to enquire whether this desperate resolution of the Irish proceeded from the sense of some grievous oppressions imposed upon by their English Governours or rather meerly from an impetuous desire they had to draw the whole Government of the Kingdom of Ireland into their own hands Upon due consideration whereof I cannot find they had the least cause to complain of oppression for his late Majesties Indulgence was so great towards his Subjects of Ireland as that in the year 1640. upon their complaints and a general Remonstrance sent over unto him from both Houses of Parliament then sitting at Dublin by a Committee of four Temporal Lords of the Upper House and twelve Members of the House of Commons with instructions to represent the heavy pressures they had for some time suffered under the Government of the Earl of Strafford He took these Grievances into his Royal Consideration descended so far to their satisfaction as that he heard them himself and made present Provisions for their redress And upon the decease of Mr. Wandsford Master of the Rolls in Ireland and then Lord Deputy there under the said Earl of Strafford who still continued Lord Lieutenant of that Kingdom though then accused of High Treason and imprisoned in the Tower of London by the Parliament of England His Majesty sent a Commission of Government to the Lord Dillon of Kilkenny West and Sir William Parsons Knight and Baronet Master of the Wards in Ireland yet soon after finding the choice of the Lord Dillon to be much disgusted by the Committee he did at their Motion cause the said Commission to be Cancell'd and with their consent and approbation placed the Government upon Sir William Parsons and Sir John Borlace Knight Master of the Ordinance both esteemed persons of great Integrity and the Master of Wards by reason of his very long continued imployment in the State his particular knowledge of the Kingdom much valued and well beloved amongst the People They took the Sword upon the ninth of February 1640. And in the first place they aplyed themselves with all gentle lenitives to mollifie the sharp humours raised by the rigid passages in the former Government They declared themselves against all such proceedings lately used as they found any ways varying from the Common Law They gave all due encouragement to the Parliament then sitting to endeavour the reasonable ease and contentment of the people freely ascenting to all such Acts as really tended to a Legal Reformation They betook themselves wholly to the advice of the Councel and caused all matters as well of the Crown as Popular Interest to be handled in his Majesties Courts of Justice no way admitting the late exorbitancies so bitterly decryed in Parliament of Paper-Petitions or Bills in Civil Causes to be brought before them at the Councel-board or before any other by their Authority They by his Majesties gracious directions gave way to the Parliament to abate the Subsidies there given in the Earl of Straffords time and then in Collection from forty thousand pounds each Subsidy to twelve thousand pounds a piece so low did they think fit to reduce them And they were farther content because they saw his Majesty most absolutely resolved to give the Irish Agents full satisfaction to draw up two Acts to be passed in the Parliament most impetuously desired by the Natives The one was the Act of Limitations which unquestionably settled all Estates of Land in the Kingdom quietly enjoyed without claim or interruption for the space of sixty years immediately preceding The other was for the relinquishment of the right and title which his Majesty had to the four Counties in Connaght legally found for him by several Inquisitions taken in them and ready to be disposed upon a due Survey to British undertakers as also to some Territories of good extant in Mounster and the County of Clare upon the same title Thus was the present Government most sweetly tempered and carryed on with great lenity and moderation the Lords Justices and Councel wholly departing from the rigour of former courses did gently unbend themselves into a happy and just compliance with the seasonable desires of the people And his Majesty that he might farther testify his own settled resolution for the continuation thereof with the same tender hand over them having first given full satisfaction in all things to the said Committee of Parliament still attending their dispatch did about the latter end of May 1641. declare Kobert Earl of Leicester Lord Lieutenant General of the Kingdom of Ireland He was Heir to Sir Philip Sidney his Unckle as well as to Sir Henry Sidney his Grandfather who with great Honour and much Integrity long continued Chief Governour of Ireland during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth and being a person of excellent Abilities by Nature great Acquisitions from his own private Industry and publick Imployment abroad of exceeding great Temper and Moderation was never engaged in any publick pressures of the Common-wealth and therefore most likely to prove a just and gentle Governour most pleasing and acceptable to the people The Romish Catholicks privately enjoyed the exercise of their Religion through all Ireland Moreover the Romish Catholicks privately enjoyed the free exercise of their Religion throughout the whole Kingdom according to the Doctrine of the Church of Rome They had by the over great indulgence of the late Governours their Titular Arch-bishops Bishops Vicars general Provincial Consistories Deans Abbots Priors Nuns who all lived freely though somewhat covertly among them and without controul exercised a voluntary jurisdiction over them they had their Priests Jesuits and Fryars who were of late years exceedingly multiplyed and in great numbers returned out of Spain Italy and other forreign parts where the Children of the Natives of Ireland that way devoted were sent usually to receive their Education And these without
Affairs of that Kingdome expecting direction from hence the delays whereof were oftentimes through other greater affairs most irksome the oportunities there in the mean time past away and greater danger did often grow which by such timely prevention might easily have been stopped And this is worthily observed by Machiavel in his discourses upon Livie where he commendeth the manner of the Romans Government in giving absolute Power to all their Councellors and Governors which if they abused they afterwards should dearly answer And the contrary thereof he reprehendeth in the States of Venice of Florence and many other Principalities of Italy who use to limit their chief Officers so strictly as that thereby they have oftentimes lost such happy occasions as they could never come unto again The like whereof who so hath been conversant in the Government of Ireland especially during Queen Elizabeths Reign hath too often seen to their great hindrance and hurt That besides the want of Power there were eminent defects observed in the managemet of the publick Affairs of Ireland Besides this want of Power which did hinder the good Reformation of Ireland there were eminent defects noted in the mangement of the publick Affairs of that Kingdom by some of the chief Governors thereof who seeing the end of their Government to draw nigh and some mischiefs and practices growing up which afterwards might work trouble to the next succeeding Governor would not attempt the redress or cutting off thereof either for fear they should leave the Realm unquiet at the end of their Government or that the next that came should receive the same too quiet and so happily win more praise thereof than they before And therefore they would not seek at all to repress that evil but would either by granting protection for a time or holding some emparlance with the Rebel or by treaty of Comissioners or by other like devices only smother and keep down the flame of the mischief so it might not break out in their time of Government what came afterwards they cared not or rather wish'd the worst To this may be added The savoring of the Irish and depressing of the English an ill practice by some of the Lord Deputies of Ireland that when the Irish have been broken by the Sword of one Governour and thereby consequently made fit and capable for subjection another succeeding as it were into his harvest and finding an open way made for what course he pleased bent not to that point which the former intended but rather quite contrary and as it were in scorn of the former and in vain vaunt of his own Councels would tread down and disgrace all the English and set up and countenance the Irish all that he he could thereby to make them more tractable and buxome to his Government wherein he thought much amiss for surely his Government could not be sound and wholsome for that Realm it being so contrary to the former For it was even as two Physicians should take one sick body in hand at two sundry times of which the former would minister al things meet to purge and keep under the body the other to pamper and strengthen it suddenly again whereof what is to be looked for but a most dangerous relapse Therefore by all means it ought to be fore-seen and assured that after once entering into this course of Reformation there be afterwards no remorse nor drawing back for the sight of any such rueful objects as must thereupon follow nor for compassion of their Calamities seeing that by no other means it is possible to cure them and that these are not of will but of very urgent necessâ—ty The Lord Lieutenant The Lord Deputies of Ireland assâ—sted by a Privy Councel or Lord Deputy of Ireland hath for his assistance a Privy Councel attending on him though resident for the most part at Dublin and in emergencies or cases of more difficult nature proceedeth many times in an arbitrary way without formalities of Law Sir Henry Sidney Lord Deputy of Ireland in Queen Elizabeths time The Lords Presidents of Connaght and Mounster instituted in Queen Elizabeths time to enure and acquaint the People of Mounster and Connaght with the English Government again which had not been in use among them for the space of two hundred years before he instituted two Presidency Courts in those two Provinces placing Sir Edward Fitton in Connaght and John Perrot in Mounster The Lord President of Mounster hath one Assistant twelve learned Lawyers and a Secretary CHAP. IV. Of the Title changed from Lord to King of Ireland in the time of Henry the Eighth Of the Titles of the Crown to every part of Ireland and to the whole diverse ways And several claims to the Land of Ireland Of the Revenue and Strength Title altered from Lord to King SIR Anthony Saint-Leger Lord Deputy of Ireland in a Parliament which he held the 33. of Henry 8. caused an Act to pass which gave unto King Henry the Eighth his Heirs and Successors the Name Stile and Title of King of Ireland Whereas before that time the Kings of England were stiled but Lords of Ireland Although indeed they were absolute Monarchs thereof and had in right all Royal and Imperial Jurisdiction and Power there as they had in the Realm of England And yet because in the vulgar conceit the name of King is higher than the name of Lord assuredly the assuming of this Title hath not a little raised the Sovereignity of the Kings of England in the minds of this people And because it hath been doubted by some whether we might Lawfully fight against the Irish I shall for farther satisfaction here insert the Right and Title the Crown of England hath to the Kingdom of Ireland as to every part of it and to the whole divers ways I will begin with the Pedigree of William Earl Marshal Title to Leinster for thereupon depend many Records in Ireland and the King of Englands Right to Leinster Walter Fitz Richard who came from Normandy with William the Conqueror died Lord Strongbow of Strigule alias Chepstow without Issue to whom succeeded his Sisters Son who was created the first Earl of Pembroke and had Issue Richard the inheritor of Leinster by a Covenant and Marriage of Eva the Sole Daughter of Mac Murrough King of Leinster This Richard conveyed to Henry the Second all his Title and held of him the Lordship of Leinster in four Counties Wexford Catherlagh Ossory and Kildare Richard left Issue a Daughter Issabel married to William Earl Marshal of England now Earl of Pembroke Lord Strongbow and Lord of Leinster William had Issue five Sons who died without Issue when every of them except the youngest had successively possessed their Fathers Lands and five Daughters Maud Jone Issabel Sibil and Eve among whom the Patrimony was parted Anno 31. H. 3. Of these Daughters bestowed in Marriage are descended many Noble Houses as the Mortimers Bruises Clares
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06 County of Sleigo 295 10 03 County of Clare 386 14 06 Total 2515 11 07 ob VLSTER  l. s. d. COunty of Antrim and Town of Carrickfergus 402 13 06 County of Downe 387 16 02 County of Dunnagall 461 19 06 Coun. City of Londonderry 3â—4 01 10 ob County of Ardâ—agh 258 15 03 County of Monighon 267 05 03 County of Cavan 272 09 09 County of Fermanagh 237 07 06 County of Tyrone 367 18 10 ob Total 3030 07 08 Total of the four Provinces 13693 06 11 Before I come to the Character of the Chief Towns it will not be amiss to insert here the Fees and Salaries belonging to several Courts and Offices Creation money with Military and Temporary Payments c. according to the Establishment made in 1669. The Court of Exchequer  l. s. d. VIce Treasurer 050 00 00 Chancelor 200 00 00 Chief Baron 400 00 00 Second Baron 300 00 00 Third Baron 200 00 00 Prime Serjeant 020 10 00 Attorney General 075 00 00 Soliciter General 075 00 00 Chief Remembrancer 030 00 00 Auditor General 234 06 03 Surveyor General 060 00 00 Escheator of Leinster 006 13 04 Escheator of Munster 001 05 00 Escheator of Connaght 001 05 00 Escheator of Vlster 001 05 00 Second Remembrancer 007 15 06 Clerke of the Pipe 015 00 00 Chief Chamberlaine 010 00 00 Second Chamberlaine 005 00 00 Comptroller of the Pipe 007 00 00 Usher of the Exchequer 012 10 00 Transcriptor Foreign Opposer 015 00 00 Summonister 007 10 00 Marshall of the four Courts 004 00 00 Clerke of the Pells 030 00 00 Clerke of the first Fruits 027 10 00 Cryer of the Exchequer 001 13 04 Total 1798 03 05 Kings Bench.  l. s. d. CHief Justice 500 00 00 Second Justice 300 00 00 Third Justice 300 00 00 Clerke of the Crown 007 10 00 Total 1107 10 00 Court of Chancery  l. s. d. CHancellor of Ireland 1200 00 00 Master of the Rolls 0144 03 03 Two Masters of Chancery 0040 00 00 Clerke of the Crown 0025 00 00 Clerke of the Hanaper 3035 10 00 Total 1444 13 03 Common Pleas.  l. s. d. CHief Justice 400 00 00 Second Justice 300 00 00 Third Justice 300 00 00 Prothonotory 007 10 00 Total 1007 10 00 Starr Chamber  l. s. d. CLerk of the Starr Chamb. 010 00 00 Marshal of the same 010 00 00 Total 020 00 00 Officers attending the State  l. s. d. SEcretary of State 200 00 00 For his Intelligence 100 00 00 Clerk of the Councel 047 10 00 Vlster King at Arms 026 13 04 Athlone Pursivant 013 13 09 Serjeant at Arms 025 00 00 Wakefield Pursivant 013 13 9 Roe Pursivant 010 00 00 Keeper of the Councel Chamb. 018 05 00 Total 454 15 10  l. s. d. Judges of the Circuits 1000 00 00 A Share to be paid only to those that go the rest saved to the King    Incidents  l. s. d. JUdges Master of the Rolls Kings Councels Robes 173 06 08 Liberates for the Officers of the Exchequer 082 02 04 For the Receipt House 025 00 00 Keeper of the same 005 00 00 Singers of Christ-Church Term 002 00 00 Paper Parchm to the Court 150 00 00 Pursivants of the Exchequer 071 05 00 Total 508 14 00 Military Payments  l. s. d. THe Lord Lieutenant for all his Entertainments in time of Peace 6593 16 08 In Case of War as General 3192 04 02 Lieutenants Gen. of the Army 0365 00 00 Major General 0365 00 00 Commissary Gen. of the Army 0365 00 00 These only to be paid in time of War and the Grants to cease with present possessors  l. s. d. LOrd Lieutenant as before 6593 16 08 Knight Mrshal of Ireland 0489 06 07 Muster Master 0365 00 00 Comptrollor of the Cheques 365 00 00 Four Commissaries 400 00 00 A Corporal of the Field at 5 s. per diem 091 05 00 Advocate Gen. 6 s. 8 d. per. diem 121 13 04 Physician Gen. at 10 s. per diem 182 10 00 Chyrurgeon of the Army 121 13 04 Total 8730 04 11 Provincial Officers  l. s. d. PResident of Munster 908 19 09 ob President of Connaght 908 19 09 ob The Provost Marshal of the four Provinces at 77 l. 3 s. 7 d. ob q. each per an to cease with the present possessors 308 14 07 Total 2126 14 02 Constables  l. s. d. COnstable of Dublin Castle 20 00 00 The Porter 13 13 09 Constable Porter of Limrick 20 05 03 Constable of Roscommon Castle 60 00 00 Constable Porter of Athlone 18 07 09 Constable of Carrickfergus 45 12 00 Total 177 18 09 Officers of the Ordnance and Traine of Artillery  l. s. d. MAster of the Ordnance 491 04 07 Lieutenant of the Ordnance at 7 s. p. diem 127 25 00 Comptroller of the Ordnance at 6 s. per diem 109 10 00 The Ingeneer Overseer c. of the Fortifications at 5 s. per diem 091 05 00 Several other Officers of the Ordnance in Leinster 774 02 00 Officers of the Ordnance in Munster 270 14 00 Officers of the Ordnance in Connaght 176 08 04 Officers of the Ordnance in Vlster 136 17 06 Total 2177 06 05 Provincial Officers  l. s. d. CHief Justice of Munster 100 00 00 Second Justice of Munster 066 13 04 Attorney of Munster 013 06 08 Câ—erk of the Councel 007 10 00 Serjeant at Armes 020 00 00 Total 207 10 00 Connnaght  l. s. d. CHief Justice 100 00 00 Second Justice 066 13 04 Attorney 020 00 00 Clerk of the Councel 007 10 00 Serjeant at Arms 020 00 00 Total 214 03 04 Officers of the Customes c. Dublin  l. s. d. CUstomer 007 10 00 Comptroller 007 10 00 Searcher 005 00 00 The Officers of all the other Ports in Ireland 218 06 08 Total 238 06 08  l. s. d. FOur Commissioners of Appeals 400 00 00 Accomptants General of the Customes Excise not to be paid in time of Farme 200 00 00 Creation Money  l. s. d. DUke of Ormond 40 00 00 Marquess of Antrim 40 00 00 Earl of Castlehaven 20 00 00 Earl of Desmond 15 00 00 Earl of Westmeath 15 00 00 Earl of Arglass 15 00 00 Earl of Carbury 15 00 00 Earl of Cavan 15 00 00 Earl of Dunagall 15 00 00 Earl of Clanbrazile 20 00 00 Earl of Inchiquin 20 00 00 Earl of Orrery 20 00 00 Earl of Montrath 20 00 00 Earl of Tirconnel 20 00 00 Earl of Clancarty 2â— 00 00 Earl of Mountallexander 2â— 00 00 Earl of Carlingford 20 00 00 Lord Viscount Grandison 1â— 00 00 Lord Viscount Willmot 1â— 00 00 Lord Viscount Valentia 1â— 00 00 Lord Viscount Dillon 1â— 00 00 Lord Viscount Nettervile 10 00 00 Lord Viscount Killultagh 1â— 00 00 Lord Viscount Maguennis 10 00 00 Lord Viscount Sarsfield 10 00 00 Lord Viscount Ranelagh 1â— 00
00 Lord Viscount Wenman of Trian 10 00 00 Lord Viscount Shannon 13 6 8 Lord Viscount Clare 1â— 00 00 Lord Baron of Cahir 11 â—5 08 Total 484 11 08 Whereas Creation money is granted to one and the same person for two Honours that Sum which is granted with the highest Title is only to be paid Perpetuities  l. s. d. COlledge of Dublin 388 15 00 Dean of Christ-Church Dub. 045 00 08 Arch-Bishop of Dub. for Proxies 018 05 06 Bishop of Meath out of the Manner of Trim 003 15 00 Citizens of Dublin 500 00 00 Chanter of Christ-Church for Rent for a Plot of Ground 027 00 00 Total 983 02 02 Temporary Payments  l. s. d. LOrd Treasurer 30 00 00 Ke … 〈…〉 Castle Roâ—mâ— 18 05 00 Keeper of the Reâ—oâ—ds in Breminghams Tower 10 00 00 Total 36 05 00 Pensions and Annuities  l. s. d. COuntess of Tirconnell 300 00 00 Patrick Archer 205 l. per annum till he be paid 5883 l. 19 s. 6 d. 410 l. 5 s. 6 d. being granted to him by Letters Patent dated March 13. 1662. and his Majesties Letters May 2. 1662. 205 00 00 Lord Coursey and his Son John Coursey 150 00 00 Sarah King Widdow p. an 040 00 00 Mary Warrin p. annum 060 00 00 Sir James Dillon Knight p. an 500 00 00 Luke Gernon Esq p. an 100 00 00 John Dogherty Esq p. an 027 07 07 Joseph Maguire per annum 040 00 00 Anne Connock per annum 050 00 00 William Aubry per annum 052 00 00 Total 1524 07 07  l. s. d. FIve Commissioners of Accompts and the Clerks allowances 150 00 00 Payments for Extraordinaries by concordatums 6000 00 00 The total Sum of all the Payments aforesaid amounts to 16601 11 11 Total of the Militery Payments 155341 13 07 Total of both Lists 171943 05 08 Temporary Payments  l. s. d. KNight Marsh of Ireland 198 01 09 Scout Master General of Ireland 221 13 04 Secretary of War 456 05 00 Governor of Carrickfergus 199 04 07 The Mayor of the City of Dublin 146 00 00 Governor of the County of Clare 182 10 00 Constable of Hilsborough Fort 060 16 08 Total 1464 11 04 Part III. TO THE READER That it much imports the future security of the British Planters in Ireland to be for the most part if not wholy possessed by way of habitation of the chief Cities and strong Towns of Ireland as witness the Example of the City of Dublin HOw much it concerns the future well-fare and security of the Protestant British Planters to be for the most part if not wholy possessed by way of Habitation of the chief Cities and strong Towns of Ireland doth very evidently appear by these two Examples which may serve as sufficient Instances for all the rest viz. That of the City of Dublin And the other those of Limrick and Gallaway As for Dublin though it owed its whole being upon the matter and especially the sole cause of its late flourishing state and condition to the constant residency of the Lords Lieutenants and Lords Deputies of Ireland and the four Courts of Judicature there yet so ungrateful were the Popish Irish party therein and so little sensible of their own good as that when the Lords Commissioners upon the first discovery of the Conspiracy in October 1641. having happily provided for the security of the Castle of Dublin Their Lords took next into their care how to secure the City in some sort against any sudden attempts which proved a work not easie to be effected not only in regard of the crasiness of the Walls the large Suburbs and weakness of the place but much more in respect of the corrupt ill affection of the Popish Irish Inhabitants within the City who for the most part were so strangely deluded with the ill infusions of their Priests as they did certainly as was found afterwards by woful experience do all that in them lay to promote the Rebellious designs then set on foot as they believed only for the re-settlment of their Religion and recovery of their Liberties They were the Instruments to convey away privatly most of the chief Conspirators who would have surprised the Castle on the 23d of October They secretly entertained many of the Rebels that came out of the Country they likewise sent them relief that were abroad by secret ways conveying as well Ammunition as intelligence of all passages from thence And such wrong aversions had they against all Contributions for the maintenance of his Majesties Army as in the very beginning of the Rebellion when the Lords sent for the Mayor and Aldermen and laying before them the high necessities of the State together with the apparan danger of the City and Kingdom desired to borrow a considerable sum of money for the present which they undertook to repay out of the next Treasure that should arive out of England The Popish party amongst them was so prevalent as that after a most serious consultation very solemn debate among themselves they most impudently returned this answer that they were not able to furnish above forty pounds and part of that was to be brought in in Cattle And when in the heighth of the distractions there were no fortifications about the Suburbs nor any manner of defence for the City but an old ruinous Wall part whereof fell down about that very time so careless were the Citizens and so slowly went they about the making up that breach as that under pretence of want of money they let it lie open till the Lords sent unto them forty pounds towards the reparation As for those of Limrick and Gallaway And those of Lymrick Gallaway they had no less obligations laid upon them by the State of England under whose prosperous and benigne Government they flourished during the last forty years peace in such an extraordinary manner witness those many stately Buildings erected and vast Estates acquired by their Citizens during the said time as neither they nor any of their Ancestors did ever hope to enjoy or expect to ever see the like who by reason of the foule dealings of their neighbour country men were till of late times at such perpetual enmity with them as that they never trusted them as the old saying is No farther than they could see them and for this cause continually intermarried amongst themselves and so became as it were of one Kindred and Relation through each Town all being comprehended under a very few Sir names But surfeiting with too much prosperity and trusting too much to their own strength they declared themselves at last as rank Rebels as any of the rest of their Country-men for though by reason of the miscarriage of the maine plot of surprizing Dublin Castle it made them at first to stand at a gaze were put to take up second Counsels yet which seems miraculous notwithstanding they saw the power of the Northern Rebels begin to decline and
held here for the Province of Connaght And being also the greatest Through-fare from Lynster to Connaght and so from thence to Dublin will in all probability cause it in time to become a flourishing place though now but beginning to revive from its late dessolation to its pristine lustre In the Province of Ulster Both situated on the Sea side Carlingford and Dundalke and within the County of Louth likely to be thriving places by reason of their convenient situation for Traffick and the brave planted Countries with English thereabouts Knockefergus Knockefergus the chief of Antrim more proper Rockefergus and in that sence called Carigfergus by the Irish from one of the Kings of the Irish-Scots who there suffered Shipwrack Seated upon a large and capacious Bay which giveth it both a safe and Commodious Port as well by natural situation as the works of Art very strongly fortified by reason of the Neighbourhood of the Scots in Cantire from which little distant London-Derry London-Derry a Colony of Londoners the best built Town of any in the North of Ireland Situate in a Peninsula of forty Acres on the one side environed a great part of it with a River and on the other side impassable by reason of the Soyle alwaies deep and moorish This City being thus strongly situated by Nature and made stronger by Art will with the rest of the chief Towns of this Province soon become very considerable in point of Wealth and Power by reason of the speedy planting of this Northern part of the Kingdome by the great confluence of the Neighbouring Scots with many others who yeerly repair hither out of England and Wales upon the same score which benefit and advantage was timely experimented by the Officers of the Army who have been conceived to be more fortunate especially at first by receiving their Lots in this Province though computed the meanest and so accordingly rated in their Quit-Rents than they who got their respective proportions of Land for their Arrears in the other two Provinces of Lynster and Munster which fell in the main upon the first settlement much short of mens expectations as to this particular In the Province of Lynster Weishford or Wexford Wexford situate on the mouth of the River Slane The first of all the Towns in Ireland which received a Colony of English This Town holds a very good correspondency by way of Traffick with the City of Bristol and hath before it within a Sandy Bar lying between it and the Sea a fair Pool wherein most commonly are taken yearly great store of Herrings which are Transported beyond Sea to the great benefit of this place The River is Navigable by small Boats up to Ynish-corfey about six miles above this Town where there is a good quantity of Iron made which is carryed down this River to be dispersed into several parts of Ireland c. Kilkenny Kilkenny on the River Newre the chief Seat of the Bishop of Ossery and the fairest Town of all the Islands So called quasi Cella Cannici the Cell or Monastery of Canninus a man of great renown in those days for Piety in these parts of the Country This City besides that is situated in a very brave and well inhabited Country is also honored with two Noble Seats of the Duke of Ormond in and neer it that is to say the Castle of Kilkenny in it and Donmore House neer it Ross Ross once populous well Traded and of large circumference but of late very ruinous nothing almost remaining but the Walls which were built by Isabel the daughter of Richard Strongbow Earl of Pembroke the fortunate Conqueror of this Island for King Henry the Second now beginning to be pretty well inhabited and well deserving to be farther improved by the advance of Manufactury and Commerce as being situated upon a brave Navigable River where Ships of four or five hundred Tun may safely ride before the Key of it As yet destitute of any considerable Trade by reason of its too neer neighborhood to the City of Waterford But when the Country thereabouts comes to be better inhabited with English then it may be well hoped this Town will become a place of good consideration and consequence Caterlough commonly but corruptly Carlough Carlough having in it a strong Castle and being the chief of that County is now from a very mean beginning having been wholy destroyed by the late Wars grown to be a very fine Market Town increasing both in Wealth and good Buildings Situated neer a pleasant River Navigable by Boats from Ross hither placed in a fertile and well inhabited Countrey thirty miles from Dublin and in a very convenient Stage thither from the greatest part of Munster and a good part of the Province of Leinster which doth and will hereafter much conduce to its enlargement Tredagh Tredagh more properly Droghedagh situate on the River Boine on the edge of Vlster to which Province belongs so much of the Town as lieth on the North side of that River A very faire and populous City as well by Art as Nature very strongly fortified and furnished with a large and Commodious Haven It took the name Droghedah from the Bridge there built upon the River for the conveniency of passage as the word signifieth in that Language and therefore called Pontena by some Latine Writers Dublin Dublin supposed to be the Eblana of Ptolomie by the Irish called Balacleigh because being seated in a fenny and moorish Soil it was built on Piles as the word doth signifie in that Language Situate at or neer the mouth of the River Liffe which affordeth it a commodious Haven but that the entrances thereof are many times encumbred with heaps of Sand. The City very Rich and Populous as being the Metropolis of all the Island the Seat of the Lord Deputy an Arch-bishops See and an University besides the benefit redounding from the Courts of Justice In those respects well fortified against all emergencies and adorned with many goodly Buildings both private and publick The Principal of which are the Castle wherein the Lord Deputy resideth built by Henry Loundres once once Arch-Bishop here a Colledge founded by Queen Elizabeth to the honor and by the name of the Blessed Trinity The Cathedral Church dedicated to Saint Patrick the Apostle of the Irish Nation a fair Collegiate Church called Christ-Church besides thirteen others destinated to Parochial Meetings Being destroyed almost to nothing in the Danish War it was re-edified by Harald sirnamed Harfarger King of the Norwegians then Masters of most part of the Island and after the subjection of it to the Crown of England was peopled with a Colonie of Bristol men This may be farther observed that though Dublin is not seated in the best and most convenient place that is in the middle yet it is seated in the second best that is over against the middle of Ireland and directly opposite to the neerest passage into