more intolerable then this of Garments is that universal practice of wearing Silk-hoods and Scarfs which every mean mans Wife and Servants c. yea Carmens and Porters Wives put on which increaseth the number of the former double But compute these sorts of Silken Heads and Shoulders worn by these Gammers to sixty thousand persons and compute that expence but at twenty Shillings each person a year it consumes of the Wealth of this Kingdom sixty thousand Pounds per ann Besides it turnes â—elt-making one of the expensivest Manufactures of Wooll in the Countrey and consequently one of the profitablest For it did not only manufacture a great proportion of our Woolls but employed therein a great number of industrious people And suppose the same number of Servants and mean mens Wives and Daughters c. that now wear Silk-hoods and Scarfs wore Hats or Searge-hoods at five Shillings each the Wooll being nor valued above half the price the profit of the Countrey by the labour of the people that is now lost would amount unto seven thousand five hundred Pounds per. ann So that by this one consumption of foreign Silk-Manufacture with its prevention of consuming of our own damnifies this Kingdom sixty seven thousand five hundred Pounds per ann Obj. If this be so how comes it England and France that much exceed Ireland's expence in Garbs and yet both flourishing Kingdoms in Trade and Wealth Answ First it is not granted they exceed Ireland the quantity and quality of the people considered for these Countreys are not only much more populous but far more wealthy and although the Nobility and Gentry of France are expensive yet the Peasant or ordinary People are restrained both by Law and Custom to wear the most ordinary product of their own Countrey And as I observed before the State of France gains rather than loses by the Garbs of particular persons For they sell more to others than pays for the foreign matter they manufacture for themselves But let us compare our selves with England the State and Garb whereof being more generally known to us than that of France and we shall find we much exceed England in the profuseness of our expences this way if the quality and quantity of persons be considered First England must be considered as a Family after many years gathering by great pains and good husbandry in possession of a great well-setled Estate but Ireland as a young Beginner if it have yet begun in the way to get Wealth And if a Gentleman of a thousand Pounds per ann will keep the Port and spend at the rate of another of ten thousand Pounds per ann the mischief of the Parity will soon appear and England does not only possess ten times the Wealth of Ireland but drives ten times his Trade and twenty to one is great odds in expences Secondly if England must be Irelands pattern in Garbs and Expences then review Englands Garb and Expences when its state was more sutable to Ireland and you will find it very mean and homely to what Ireland is now and as it increased in Wealth so in the expensiveness of its Garb and Port and so soon as the people began to break bounds on that hand the wisdom of those times saw reason to restrain them by sumptuary Laws as in the 17th of Edward the Third the Parliament ordained Rules for the Apparel of all Ranks and Degrees of persons as followeth First The Apparel of the Servants of Lords c. was not to exceed the value of twenty six shillings and eight pence their Wives and Children suitable and to wear no Deils above the value of twelve pence Secondly Handicrafts and Yeomen their whole Garment not to exceed the value of 40 shillings no Silk nor Silver c. their Wives Daughters suitable in their Vesture and Apparel to wear no Veil of Silk but of Yarn made within the Realm no Furs but Lamb Coney Cat and Fox Thirdly All Gentlemen under the state of a Knight having not above a Hundred pounds Rent per annum their Apparel not to exceed three pounds six shillings and eight pence if Rents of two Hundred Marks per annum and above they might wear Cloth to the value of Five Marks with Cloth of Silk and Silver their Wives and Children any Furs but no Ermines c. Fourthly Citizens worth Five Hundred Pounds to the value of Knights of One Hundred Pounds per annum if worth 1000 l. they might wear in the manner of Knights and Gentlemen of Two Hundred Pounds Rent per annum none of their Servants to exceed the value allowed to the Servants of Lords before mentioned Fifthly All Knights and Ladies that possess Lands or Rents above the value of Four Hundred Marks per annum to a thousand may wear their pleasure except Ermines and Iewels only on their Heads Sixthly all Ecclesiastical persons according to the custom of their Dignity or proportionably to their yearly Revenue by the former Rules of Knights and Gentlemen Lastly all Labourers and other people not worth forty Shillings are to wear Cloth not above 12 pence per yard These Rules were strengthned with the penalty of forfeiting all things worn contrary to them and by the same Statute Clothiers are injoyned to make their Clothes sutable to the Rates These Laws with some addition and increase of Penalties were again confirmed by Parliament the â—â—ard year of Edward the Fourth being near one hundred years after with power given to the Justices of the Peace to see the Statutes observed annexed to this Preamble Prayeth the Commons Assembled in Parliament to our Soveâ—â—â—â— Lord the King to call to his gracious Remembrance that in the times of his Noble Progenitors divers Ordiâ—â—â—â—◠〈◊〉 Statutes were made in this Realm of England for the Apparel and 〈…〉 Commons of the said Realm no â—â—ll Men 〈◊〉 Women so that none of them ought to use or wear ony inordinate and exâ—ensive Apparel but according to their Degrees which Statutes are not observed to the great displeasure of God and impoverishing this Realm c. And again in the twenty second year of the said King in Parliament Regulated and Confirmed with severe Penalties annexed to this Preamble Because that our Sovereign Lord the King hath conceived by a Petition made unto him by the Commons that divers Statutes and Ordinances touching restraint of excessive Apparel c. by their not due executions his said Realm is fallen into great misery and poverty and like to fall into more unless there be better Remedy provided c. Again in the seventh year of Henry the 8th these Laws were corrected and inlarged with more severe Penalties and all the former Acts repealed annexed to this Preamble Forasmuch as the great and costly Array used within this Realm contrary to the good Statutes thereof made hath been the occasion of great impoverishing of the Kings Subjects and provok'd divers of them to Rob and do Extortion and other unlawful deeds to
Stephen and Miles Cogan Adventurers with Strongbow in the first Attack and possessors of Lands for their Service succeeded him next to them succeeded Hugh de Lacy and Robert le Power both interested persons in Ireland Le Power being then Governor of Waterford and Wexford was possest of a great Estate in those Countries * Cambden of Ireland and Hugh de Lacy marrying the Daughter of Rodorick King of Connaght had a considerable Interest in Ireland by her right the King still approving interested persons fittest to govern Ireland that designing to send over his own Son John he first made him King of Ireland to give him a peculiar Interest in that Kingdom †Hovenden p. 77. from his time being anno Dom. 1185. until Lionel Duke of Clarence 1361. near 200 years that Edward the Third's Son was sent over who by right of his Wife was Earl of Ulster and Lord of Connaght I find Ireland governed for the most part by Butlers of the House of Ormonde Fitz Morris Fitz John Fitz Gerralds c. of the Houses of Kildare and Desmond with Woggans Barrys Powers Bourkes Burminghams c. and in intervals by Dignitaries of the Church or other Ministers of State in Ireland I find very few but either had considerable Interest in Ireland or otherwise settled on them at their sending over or purchased by them in the time of their Service and settled there with their Families In all which time we read of very few Factions until that of Desmond who raised a Dissention betwixt the English of Blood and English of Birth which bred such ill Blood in his own Families Veins as boyled up to the ruine of it afterwards in the Queens days 1583. and from the time of the Duke of Clarence 1361. until 1385. the Earl of Oxford was created Duke of Ireland and Marquess of Dublin at his coming over of Twelve Lord Lieutenants and Deputies c. in that time not above two or three at the most but Butlers Gerralds c. Next Richard the Second sent over Mortymer Lord Lieutenant but first created him Earl of Ulster Lord of Trim Clare and Connaght 1398. from him until the year 1449. I find not above four or five viz. Sir John Stanly Scroop Sutton de Gray c. and they but short times but persons of Ireland viz. Talbots Gerralds and Butlers the later six times in this short space of about fifty years Then was Richard Duke of York being Earl of Ulster Lord of Connaght and Meath by Descent from Lionel Duke of Clarence Lord Lieutenant But for a more distinct Account of Irelands Chief Governours since the Conquest I shall refer the Reader to the ensuing Catalogue as I find it recorded by Borlacy Spencer Campian Hanmer Marlburroughs Hooker c. wherein I have only noted some few remarkable things that happened under some of their Governments designing only a brief Catalogue of both sorts to make good my Position that the Policy of England hath still found it best to govern Ireland by its own Members or persons peculiarly interested in its prosperity But this is observable when Noblemen c. were sent out of England to govern Ireland it was not of choice but rather of necessity as in these and the like cases First to ballance Factions amongst the English Lords of Ireland when their animosities grew so high that Interest of State required a more indifferent Hand at the Helm which proceeded from their great Power ruling their Tenants c. as Soveraign Princes over large Teritories by the Brehon Laws whereby multitudes both of English and Irish more depended upon their Favour than the Kings but that sort of Lordship is utterly extinguished root and branch the greatest Lords of Ireland are as subject to the Kings Laws as the meanest man and the whole Militia of the Kingdom under the Kings immediate Commission and Pay therefore that Reason ceaseth Second Reason was to ballance Factions in the Court of England especially in the Barons Wars and in the Contest betwixt the two Houses of York and Lancaster c. but the two Roses now are not only graffed but so well grown upon one stalk that danger is over Thirdly in times of considerable Rebellions when either of these two Reasons swayed 1. When the Work required persons of greater Experience in Martial Affairs than it it was supposed Ireland afforded but Ireland is now so well furnished with Noble persons of approved Courage and Conduct that it is able to supply England if the Kings Affairs should require it with Officers from the Truncheon to the Halbert to conduct a Royal Army 2. When the great Lords of Ireland were in Factions one against the other especially those of English Race as the Geraldines and Butlers c. which two Houses mantained an inveterate Feud for several Generations yet by turns were chiefly employ'd by Henr. 7th and 8th till the 20th year of the Raign of Henry the Eighth Thomas the Son of Gerrald Earl of Kildare then Prisoner in the Tower broke out into Rebellion from which time the King sent over English Governours during his Life as Skeffington the Lord Gray Brereton St. Leger c. which course his Son Edward the Sixth and both his Daughters Mary and Elizabeth imitated him in for the most part the like King James and Charles the First but the reason thereof must be attributed to the Change or rather Reformation of Religion most of the Noble Families of Ireland capable of chief Trust still adhering to the Roman Superstition and consequently uncapable of promoting a Protestant Interest which case is now otherwise most of the ancient Nobility of Ireland are Protestants as may appear in my Schedule of Irelands Nobility and as that reason of State is ceased so hath the practice since About two years after the Rebellion Jan. 1643. James then Marquess now Duke of Ormonde was sworn Lord Lieutenant since which time being 39 years Jan. last he hath born the Honour of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland except from the 18th of September 1669. the Lord Roberts entred until the â—4th of August 1677. the Earl of Essex surrender'd not full eight years so that the Duke hath born the Honour 31 years and actually exercised the Regency 19 years being interrupted about 12 years viz. from December 1650. he left Clanrickard Deputy until the 28th of July 1662. when His Grace was again sworn Lord Lieutenant and as he hath exercised the longest Regency so hath he had the most difficult Work of any chief Governor since the Conquest First Commander of an Army for some years under great wants the hardest task to a noble spirited General Secondly Fighting against a people he desired and endeavoured the Welfare of that would not believe him until they found it to their cost that their Ingratitude and Treachery to him and their Princes Interest that he asserted sell upon their own pates Thirdly Fighting for a Prince in no capacity to support him
Belly we pass to the proud Back of the World whereon he is blind that sees not a world of Fashions in all which the price of the Stuff strives with the vanity of the Form there is a Luxury in the very Clothes which it is hard to look besides Oh God! how is the world changed with us since our Britches of Fig-leaves and Coats of Skin the Earth yields Gold Silver rich Stones the Sea Pearls the Air Feathers the Field his Stalks the Sheep her Fleece the Worm her Web and all too little for one Back after Necessity Clothes were once for Distinction as of Sexes so of Degrees how curious was God in those Differences the violation whereof was no less than deadly Deut. 22.5 what shall we say to the Dames yea to the Hermaphrodites of our time whom it troubles that they may not be all man but if Sexes be unknown by Clothes what is become of Degrees every base Terrivagus wears Artaxerxes his Coat soft Raiments are for Courts but Peasants degenerate to Gallants and every Midianitish Camel must shine with Gold Judg. 8.26 but Oh the mad Disguises of the world especially in that weaker Sex which in too much variety is constant still to a prodigious deformity of Attire to the shame of other Nations to the dishonour of their Husbands to the shame of the Gospel to the forfeit of their Modesty to the misshaping of their Bodies to the prostitution of their Souls to the just Damnation of both Away with this absurd and apish Vanity of the world they that glister in Scarlet shall once embrace Dunghills Lam. 4.5 yea it were well if no worse let us that are Christians affect that true Bravery which may become the blessed Spouse of Christ The Kings Daughter is all glorious within Psal 45.13 thus fashion not your Backs to the Disguise of the world Thus that pious Bishop who yet lived not to see half the Vanity now in mode Saith Herbert By no means run in debt take thine own measure Who cannot live on twenty pound a year Cannot on forty he 's a man of pleasure A kind of thing that 's for it self too dear The curious unthrift makes his Clothes too wide And spare himself but would his Taylor chide Spend not on Hopes they that by pleading Clothes Do Fortunes seek when Worth and Service fail Would have their Tale believed for their Oaths And are like empty Vessels under sail Old Courtiers know this therefore set out so As all the day thou mayst bold out to go In Clothes cheap Handsomness doth bear the bell Wisdom's a trimmer thing than Shop e're gave Say not then this with that Lace will do well But this with my discretion will be brave Much curiosity is a perpetual wooing Nothing with labour folly long a doing CHAP. III. Of Chargeable Wealth consuming and Trade-obstructing Debaucheries THo this Head may be censured as a Digression from a Discourse of Trade c. especially by such whose fondness of these Wealth-wasting Lusts incites them to sacrifice all real Interest to their Sensuality Yet it will be obvious to all sober and considerate persons that the destructive Influence of these evils do not only hazard the eternal safety of immortal Souls but also are superlatively destructive to the Trade and Wealth of this Nation both by retarding the Increase and consuming its Stock which I shall endeavour to demonstrate in these four particulars 1. Prophane Swearing and Cursing 2. Gaming 3. Adultery and Fornication 4. And chiefly Drunkenness and Tipling which is the Mother of all the rest of this cursed Brood 1. Prophane Cursing and Swearing a wickedness through custom grown into that Credit it disdains Reproofs nay some persons seem to value themselves by their Wit to invent and Courage to utter the most horrid Oaths at which moral Heathens would tremble who retain so great a veneration to their Gods especially their chief Gods as Jupiter c. they will not mention their Names without great Reverence and will only swear by their Attributes as by the Great the Wise the Just c. whereas our Prophanenists so glories in this shame they will oft belch out their filthy Vomit in the face of Magistrates who when they reprove them and demand one Shilling for one Oath have contemptuously both to God and the Kings Laws thrown down their Guinny and immediately swore it out like those prophane desperate ones the Psalmist complains of Psal 12.4 Who have said with our Tongue will we prevail our Lips are our own who is Lord over us Now though this is the most unpleasant and unprofitable Vice in this world yet it is most frequent for 100 s. of Oaths are uttered at the committal of any one of the other Debaucheries and so universal that from the man stooping with age to the lisping Infant before it speak plain shall you hear Oaths and Curses to the reproach of their Parents that no better instruct them so that this is a long liv'd Weed that buds early in the Spring and continues green in the depth of Winter the Food of other Lusts may be devoured by Poverty Age and bodily Infirmities of the later we have had dreadful Examples of some who could plainly express horrid Oaths and not one other word to be understood and others so hardened through the custom of this sin that on their Death-beds when they could not utter a word of sense they have breathed out their last breath with dreadful Oaths and Curses which I have received from the testimony of credible persons then present Object But wherein doth Swearing c. obstruct Trade and waste Wealth c. Answ As it banisheth our Blessings and heaps Curses upon our Labours for because of Oaths the Land mourns and the Beasts of the field languish Jer. 23.10 And why because of Oaths Why because a fruitful Land God maketh barren for the iniquity that dwell therein Psal 107.34 that if Plagues Famines Murrains on Cattel Blastings of Corn c. obstruct Trade and waste Wealth prophane Swearing is not innocent But if these prophane desperate Swearers who dare challenge God to confound and damn them c. will heed little the Threatning of Gods Word let them consider the Voice of natural Conscience in Heathens who have been great abhorrers of this sin whereof you may read several Instances as also several lamentable Examples of Gods swift and dreadful Judgments on common Swearers in Clerks Mirrors fol. 658. Beadles Diary pag. 24. Beards Theater c. The World saith a Reverend Prelate cares not how it rends and tears the sacred Name of their Maker by Oaths and Curses and Blasphemies Oh hate ye the audacious Prophanness yea this prophane Devillism and tremble at the dreadful Majesty of the Name of the Lord our God Dr. Hall Bishop of Exon. Contemplations 383. Herbert Take not his Name who made thy Mouth in vain It gets thee nothing and hath no excuse Lust and Wine plead a Pleasure
not thereof nor make thy shame thy glory Frailty gets pardon by Submissiveness But he that boasts shuts that out of his story He makes flat war with God and doth defie With his poor Clod of earth the spatious Sky Besides this homour of Healthing is the cause of double if not treble the expence of Wine that would not otherwise be wasted but as it is the destruction of Health and Wealth so is it in all persons sinful 1. The enticer or provoker sins Habakkuck 2.15 Wo be to him that giveth his Neighbour Drink that puttest thy Bottle to him and makest him drunken also that thou mayest look on their nakedness a shamefull Spuing shall be on all thy Glories But some think because they are strong to drink without discomposing themselves therefore they are innocent though they drink more than makes two others drunken c. no saith the Prophet Isaiah 5.22 Wo unto them that are mighty to drink Wine and men of strength to mingle strong Drink there is a wo hangs over your heads as over your staggering spuing companions And if the Threatning of God will not restrain you though by the same Word you shall be judged at the last day where you shall receive the portion of the Drunkards which are excluded the Kingdom of Heaven 1 Cor. 6.10 Yet let the Light of natural Consciense manifested by civil Heathens in contempt of this besotting Vice be considered shall Christians not only practice but glory in Vice Heathens abhor and are ashamed of The Lacedemonians used to make their Slaves drunk in the sight of their Children to beget in them an abhorrency of the Vice as only becoming Slaves The Carthaginians esteemed the Name of a Drunkard hateful for which they were thrust out of all publick Offices with ignominy Alex. ab Alex. There being a drunken Cobler in Boneventum named Vatinius they in disdain called their great Glasses by his Name to caution persons of better quality from imitating so sordid a fellow Juvenal fol. 143. Saith Herbert If men of meaner sort Make Drunkenness but a sport Yet let no men of place Their State so much disgrace This is a Sense-stupifying and a Reason-depraving Vice yet its Votaries are most ready to reproach sober persons for Fanaticks when themselves turn our Taverns c. into so many Bedlams we have a Story in Burtons Melancholy of a crew of Fuddle-caps in a House in Agrigentums had drunk themselves so mad they conceited the House was a Ship tossing in the Sea and ready to sink whereupon they fell a throwing all the Housholdstuff out of the Windows to save themselves the Magistrates coming to quiet their disorder they worshipped them as Tritons or Sea-Gods Burt. Mel. p. 163. This Vice doth not only obstruct Trade and consume the Wealth of Nations to their great impoverishing but oft times is the cause of the utter ruine of great Kingdoms and mighty Monarchs c. For proof of which take these Instances When Benhadad the King of Assyria was drinking himself drunk with thirty two Kings his Allies then a few people came out of Samaria destroyed them first and then his mighty Army 1 Kings 20.16 So that Traytor Zimri watch'd his opportunity to destroy Baasha King of Israel when he was drinking himself drunk in the House of Arza his Steward 1 Kings 16.9 Young Belshazzar was surprized and slain with 1000 of his Lords and all his Concubines and his Kingdom seized by old Darius the Mead when they were all drunk at a Feast Dan. 5. Prophane Histories are full of the dreadful consequences of this brutish Vice Great Alexander after he had conquered the World was such a slave to this Lust it subjected him to all other Debaucheries wherein Solomons saying was verified Prov. 16.32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his Spirit than he that taketh a City Drunkenness metamorphosed him to such a Bedlam that he commanded to be killed his best beloved Clitus when drunk and when sober was so vex'd he was with difficulty restrained from killing himself when drunk set stately Persepolis on fire at the instigation of Lais his Harlot so Drunkenness and Whoredom joyned hands in that mad prank soon after with his beloved Epheston drunk themselves dead whilst young with 41 more of his Officers who drunk with him for a wager Justins History pag. 139. Millions of helps cannot support that Crown Which Sins assault Fate justly pulls it down That all the world shall know how greatest Kings Are thrall to change as well as weaker things No marvel thou great Monarch didst complain And weep there were no other Worlds to gain Thy griefs and thy complaints were not amiss H' has grief enough that finds no world but this Tir Owen the Rebel would drink his Body into such flame his Servants used to set him up to the chin in earth to cool him Camb. Eliz. Philip of Macedon Zeno Bonosus Phocius the Emperor Armintus King of Siracuse Cleonians King of Lacedemonia Sliolmus King of the Goths Touthio King of the Ilerions Marcus Antonius Vortiger King of the Britains c. came all to ill ends and their States ruined by their Drunkenness The Mahometans are such enemies to this besotting Vice they prohibit Wine A Souldier being brought drunk before the Grand Vizier he sentenc'd him to have boiling Lead poured into his mouth and ears Turks History fol. 1332. No wonder the temperate Turks should overrun so much of debauched Christendom for as this Vice is destructive to Cities and Countries in peace much more it is fatal to Armies in war As is before instanced Sardanapalus Baasha Belshazzer Alexander M. c. And that this hath been the experience of the Antients Histories abundantly testifie saith Juvenal Victory comes easily when the Foes are tipled lisping reeling men are easily overcome fol. 404. The warlike Athenians so detested Drunkenness they prohibited Wine to be tasted in their Camp Howels History of the World 395. Manlius was accused by the Senate for ushering Effeminacy and Luxury into Rome by the Lax Discipline in his Army the same Galuenus Howel 948. The old Assyrian Monarchy after 1400 years flourishing was lost by the Effeminacy and Debauchery of Sardanapalus on whose Tomb they writ this Epitaph Friend eat drink and play for all things else are not worth a â—ilip Howel fol. 14. Agron Prince of Ilyria drunk himself dead for joy of his Successes against the Atolians Howel p. 699. The Indignation Heathens have had against this Vice appears in the opprobrious Epethetes they have put upon the greatest Masters in the Art it was said of Bonosus the Emperor he was born not to live but to drink and when he was overcome by Probus and hang'd himself the people in scorn upbraided him saying Here hangs a Tankard not a Man Diotinus of Athens for his excessive Drinking was in scorn called Tundish young Cicero was term'd Tricongii for his drinking whole Cups It was
Health increaseth and that this is Irelands present case is manifest for if it be considered that before the last Rebellion the Irish Interest was potent 1. The Irish were far the greater number of Proprietors of Land possessing ten Acres for one whereas now of the Ten millions eight hundred sixty eight thousand nine hundred forty nine Acres returned by the last Survey of Ireland the Irish Papists are possest but of Two millions forty one thousand one hundred and eight Acres which is but a small matter above the fifth part of the whole and as the Proprietors of Lands so is it in their Plantations for where there was one English Planter before the last Rebellion 1641. it is judged there is three now and in several of the principal Counties next adjacent to England as Wicklow and VVexford where there was ten Irish Papists to one English Protestant the odds now lies on the other hand 2. Before 1641. their Interest in the Lands and Popularity of the Inhabitants necessitated the Government to admit them to all County-Offices as High Sheriffs Justices c. wherby they had opportunity to encourage the Irish and discountenance the English but now not one Irish Sheriff or Justice in the Kingdom 3. Before the Rebellion the chief Inhabitants of all principal Cities and strong Towns were Irish Papists who bore all Offices and managed the chief Trade of those places all which places are now planted or at least governed by English Protestants 4. Before the Rebellion those Freeholders and Proprietors of Lands there were in Ireland were not the Kings Tenants but derived their Titles from the Irish Noblemen and Gentlemen which contracted an immediate dependence upon them and kept an awing influence over them for though the Kings of England were owned as Lords of Ireland yet the Lords of Ireland ruled as Kings and were so stiled by the Kings of England as is observed by Sir John Davis out of several Records saith he They governed their people by their Brehon Law they made their Magistrates and Officers they pardoned and punished all Malefactors they made War and Peace one with another without controlment and this to the Reign of Queen Elizabeth pag. 13 14. So Hovendon p. 312. and were not entirely subjected to the English Laws until the 9th of King James but had that learned Observer lived until the 12th of Charles the Second he would have admitted Ireland was never entirely subjected to the Crown of England nor the Lands of Ireland never properly called the Kings Land until the Act of Settlement then past as Sir Audley Mervin then Speaker to the House of Commons in his Speech to the Duke of Ormonde called that Act Irelands Magna Charta it exceeding all former Grants of the Kings of England and former Submissions of the body of the People of Ireland in these particulars 1. As a free Act of Grace when His Majesty was under no politick Obligation but what meer Grace and Bounty mov'd him to which never any Grant before was for though they were still stiled Acts of Grace yet Reason of State interposed for them which will be easily granted if the State of England and Ireland be compared at the time of those former Royal Confessions when the Irish still treated with their Swords in their hands or at least hid where they knew how to find them if they were not answered in their expectation as in the History of Desmonds and Tyrones c. Rebellion is manifest 2. Former Grants did only dispose of some Countrys or Lordships to some few persons who depended upon the Crown and all others upon them but this of the whole Land that was not before disposed of whereby there is more Tenants to the Crown settled by this Act above forty for one than by any former Grants 3. Not only the Lands of Ireland but all the Cities and strong walled Towns are secured in hands true to the Crown of England by this Act that never were before 4. By this Act there is a Revenue secured to the King sufficient to maintain a compleat Army to preserve the Peace which never was before Therefore I argue the state of the Interest not only of the Crown but of the Kingdom of Ireland is altered as to the Freehold Interest above double nay treble to what it ever was before the English being in possession by that Act of four millions five hundred sixty thousand thirty seven Acres and the Irish but in two millions three hundred twenty three thousand eight hundred and nine so that if the majority of Proprietors may give the denominations to a Country which usually it doth Ireland is become West England Besides this the governing party universally professeth and only incourageth the English publick Worship it is governed by English Laws enacted by English Parliaments and administred by English Judges guarded by an English Army and governed by English Ministers of State to that degree it never was before and all this administred by the absolute Commission from the King of England and must it yet be kept under and esteemed of as an Irish Interest and Country when the very Nature and civil Constitution of Ireland is altered and proportionably ought the Wealth and Prosperity of it to be promoted by England for these Reasons 1. It is the Interest both of the Crown and People of England to enable the English Interest of Ireland not only to support its self in peace but to defend its self in war which nothing but promoting its Trade and Wealth will do especially the Wealth of its Cities and walled Towns for the increasing its Wealth in the Fields doth rather increase its danger by enouraging the needy Natives the rather to rise when they observe how easily they can possess themselves of so great a Booty but the Wealth of the Cities and strong Towns which is the trading Stock of the Nation is secure and ready to be imployed in the defence of their King and Countries Interest when in danger besides they are the only security and refuge to the distressed English when banished from their Country Habitations and these places of strength cannot subsist without Trade and Manufacture but by more chargeable Garisons than the Revenue of Ireland will bear And what Ireland cannot do in order to its safety England must supply to prevent its own danger for if ever an Enemy surprize and possess Ireland especially the French England must maintain a greater standing Force to secure themselves than would have preserved Ireland if imployed in its Defence it is not a groundless proverb He that would England win must with Ireland first begin and if the French who hath already the opposite Coast and Harbours from Dunkirk to Brest ever obtain Ireland they will then surround three parts of four of England and a great part of Scotland so near that in a few hours they may invade what part they please which would necessitate England to be at the charge of
of Ely Swordes Kilmurry Valentia Maryborough Castleton Chaworth Sligoe Waterford Strangford Tuam Cashell Carlow Cullen Shannon Mazareene Dromoor Dungarvan Dungannon Kells Fitz Harding Clare Charlemont Powerscourt Blesinton Granard Lanesborough Ross Viscounts Costalo Mayo Merrion Fairfax Fitz Williams Gormanston Fermoy Rathcoole Barefore Brunker Galmoy Kingsland Mountgarret Dowth Evagh Kilmallock Ikerine Glanmaleyra Claine Downe Tracy Barons Kinsale Kerry Hoath Mountjoy Foliot Maynard Dundalk Digbey Lifford Herbert Loghlin Coleraine Leitrim Donamore Blaney Killard Kingston Colooney Santry Lowth Glawnally Altham Castlesteward Barons Athenry Cahir Baltimore Strabane Slane Trimleston Dunsany Dunboyn Upper Ossory Castleconnell Brittas Besides the Protestants have the advantage of our reverend Protestant Judges and the Kings learned Counsels to advise and countenance the Protestant Interest in Ireland in that highest Court A Catalogue of the Nobility of Ireland Anno 1571. recorded by Campion fol. 5. Earls GErrald Fitz Girald of Kildare His eldest Son Lord Baron of Ophaly Sir Thomas Butler of Ormond and Ossery His eldest Son Viscount Thurles Fitz Girald of Desmond His eldest Son Baron of Inshycoin Sir Richard Bourk of Clanrickard His eldest Son Baron of Donkeline Conegher Obrene of Thomond His eldest Son Baron of Ibrecane Mac carty More of Clarcar His eldest Son Baron of Valentia Viscounts Barrie Roche Preston of Gormanstown Eustace alias Power of Baltinglass Sir Richard Butler of Montgaret Deces Barons Lord Bermingham of Athenry John Bermingham Mac Morice alias Fitz Girald of Kery Lord Courcey Lord Fleming of Slane Plunketof Killyne Newgent of Delvin St. Laurance of Hoath Plonket of Doonesawney Barnwell of Trimleston Butler of Donboyne Phitz Patrick of Upper Ossery Clonagh Mac Gilpatrick Plonket of Louth O Neal of Dungannon Power of Curraghmore Mac Suretan Lord Deseret Obrene of Inshycoiin Mac Costilaghe Lord Nangle Mac William Burck Lord of Eighter Connaght A Catalogue of the Irish Nobility Anno 1641. as I find it in the Heralds Office by which may be observed something of the Seniority of their Dignities comparing it with that of 1681. But it is useful to inform the great alteration of the Constitution of the House of Peers since that time to the advantage of the English Interest Earls GEorge Fitz Girald of Kildare James Butler of Ormond and Ossery Henry O Bryan of Thomond Ulick de Bourk of Clanrickard James Tuchet of Castlehaven Richard Boyle of Cork Randall Mac Dannell of Antrym Richard Nugent of West Meath James Dillon of Roscommon Robert Bridgeway of Londonderry George Fielding of Desmond William Brabason of Meath David Barry of Barrymore Richard Vaugham of Carberry Luke Plunket of Fingall William Pope of Down Thomas Cromwell of Ardglass Viscounts Nicholas Preston of Gormanstown David Roth of Fermoy Richard Butler of Montgarret William Villars of Grandison Charles Wilmot of Athlone Henry Poore of Valentia Charles Moore of Drogheda Thomas Dillon of Castillo Nicholas Netervile of Louth Hugh Montgomery of the Ards James Hamleton of Claneboy Adam Loftus of Ely Sapcot Beumount of Swordes Hugh Magennis of Evagh Thomas Cromwell of Lecale Edward Chichester of Caricksargus Robert Needham of Kilmurry Dominick Scarsfeild of Kilmallock Thomas Somerset of Cashell Edward Conway of Kilultagh Miles Bourk of Mayo Thomas Roper of Baltinglass Nicholas Sanderson of Castleton Lewis Boyle of Kilmakey Goerge Chaworth of Ardmagh Thomas Savile of Savile John Scudamore of Sligo Robert Chalmundly of Kells Richard Lumley of Waterford Thomas Smith of Strangford Richard Wenman of Tuam John Taafe of Cerine William Mounton of Castlemaine Roger Jones of Ranelagh Charles Mac Carry of Muskry Richard Mulleneux of Maryburg Thomas Fairfax of Emeley Thomas Bourk of Clanmorris Pierce Butler of Ikerine Thomas Fitz Williams of Merryoung Terence Dempsey of Glanmaleyra Lord Barons Richard Bermingham of Athenry Girald Courcey of Kinsale Patrick Fitz Morris of Kerry Lixmew William Flemming of Slaine Nicholas St. Laurance of Hoath Patrick Plunket of Dunsawny Robert Barnwell of Trimleston John Power of Coroghmore Edward Butler of Dunboyne Barnabas Mac Gilpatrick of Upper Ossery Oliver Plunket of Louth Murrough O Bryan of Inchequin Edmond Bourke of Castleconnell Thomas Butler of Cahir Mountjoy Blunt of Mountjoy Charles Lambert of Cavan Theobald Bourke of Brittas Andrew Steward of Castlesteward James Belfoure of Glanawley Thomas Foliot of Ballishanon William Maynard of Wicklow Edward Georges of Dunalke Robert Digbey of Geashell William Harvey of Rosse William Fitz Williams of Lifford William Caufield of Charlemount Theodore Dockray of Culmore Girald Aungier of Longsord Henry Blancy of Monaghan Laurence Esmond of Limerick Dermond O Malune of Glan Malune and Curety Edward Herbert of Castleisland Cecil Calvert of Baltimore William Brereton of Loghlin Hugh Hare of Coleraine William Sherrard of Leitrim Roger Boyle of Broghill Conner Mac Guire of Iniskilline Francis Ansley of Mount Norris And as it is the Interest of the Crown and Realm of England to promote the prosperity of the English Interest in Ireland so it is equally the Interest of the Irish Papists themselves to aid and promote the same their contrary apprehensions have been their ruin for from thence have proceeded all their bloody Massacres and Rebellions and though it hath cost England vast quantities of Blood and Treasure to subdue them yet they paid the Reckoning at last to the utter ruin of most of the great Lords and Septs and just it should be so if the Right and Title of England to what it possest and endeavoured to keep in Ireland be impartially considered If we omit what all our Histories record of the ancient Soveraignty the Kings of Britain claimed and enjoyed in Ireland as that in the time of Gurguntius Anno Dom. 359. they were his Subjects and after that in the time of King Arthur Anno 519. above 600 years before Henry the second conquered it 1172. the King summoned all the Kings and Lords of Ireland to attend Gilmarrow their Monarch and with him perform their Homage at Carlisle which they all did accordingly And only consider the justness of the Cause of Strongbow and his Comrades in their first Adventure it was not only with the consent but at the desire of their own King they contracted with Dermot Mac Morrough King of Leinster a banish'd oppressed Prince to aid him in the recovery of his just Rights a quarrel not only approved to be just but charitable by all Casuists Pagans Turks Jews and Christians to relieve and assist the weak and oppressed against the strong Oppressor and what was the just Right of Mac Morrough to recover was in his power to dispose and lawful for his Aiders to receive it being their due by contract before they would adventure that Strongbow should have delivered Mac Morroughs only Daughter and Heir in Marriage and his Kingdom after her Fathers decease and that Fitz Steephen and Fitz Girald c. should have the Town of Wexford and two Cantreds of Land adjoyning which places were accordingly gained by their Sword and given them in possession by the legal Proprietor and
had they been permitted quietly to enjoy this small part they so rightfully possest they had gone no further But instead thereof Roderick King of Connaght then sole Monarch of Ireland raiseth the whole Kingdom to drive out Mac Morrough and his Welshmen upon which he appeals to Strongbow and renewes former contracts who hasts over with about 1200 fresh Men by them wars with the Waterfordians who were in Arms against him took the City and married the Kings Daughter with an assurance of the Reversion of the Kingdom and soon after disperses his Enemies then surrendred all his Conquests to the King who came over with a new Force to secure his Interest which so terrified the Irish that all their Kings and great Lords proffered to to be tributary and swore Allegiance and had they so continued they had felt no farther damages But no sooner was the Kings back turned but they are again up in Arms to disposess the English of what they had so justly atchieved who still subdued them and gained ground of them and obtained Grants of their new Conquests until all the Irish Kings and great Lords were vanquished and their Lands c. possest by the English Victors the Heirs of Ulster and Connaght married to the Kings Subjects whose successive Heirs in process of time were married unto the Royal Family and so their Lands and Honours came Hereditary in the Crown who of right disposed of them at pleasure Now had it not been the Interest as well as the Duty of the Irish to have submitted to their first Concessions Then Dermot Mac Morrough had sustained no wrong his right Heir had enjoyed his Dominion and the rest of the Irish great Lords had enjoyed their particular Rights none pretended to disturb them until constrained in their own defence So if we take a further view of their many Insurrections and perfidious Rebellions since they held their Honours and Lands from the Crown of England it will appear they were tempted to it by the weakness of the English Interest as in times of troubles in England by the Barons Wars and Struggles betwixt the two Roses c. When the Kings of England drew over part of their Army for Ireland some taking one side and some the other which did not only weaken Englands Strength in Ireland but divided what were left into powerful Factions betwixt the great English Lords of Ireland which became the cause of the ruine of that great Family of Desmond with several others of good Rank who though degenerated from their English Civilities yet after they turned Rebels against their Prince they fell wholly off to the Interest Manners and Customs of his and their own former Irish Enemy whereby Ireland was to be new conquered and replanted for the degenerate English were more stubborn Rebels and with more difficulty subdued than the rebellious Natives for although their Minds and Manners were degenerated they had so much English Blood left in their Veins as gave them English Courage and Resolution whereby Tho. Fitz Giralds and Desmonds Rebellions became harder work to subdue than any before them they also receiving great Incouragements and Aids from the Pope and King of Spain upon the account of Religion they became obdurate the same Indulgences that were granted to the Souldiers fighting against the Turk in the holy War being sent them whereby their Consciences were not only released from their Obligations of Allegeance to their Prince but strongly engaged on the behalf of holy Church to extirpate that mad and venemous Doctrine and Hellish Opinion as the Protestant Faith was then termed in a Pamphlet then publish'd intituled A Declaration of the Divines of Salamanca and Vallidolid dispersed through Ireland by O Sullivan a Spanish Priest which with divers other practices of the Irish to shake off the English Government is rehearsed and press'd by that pious Prelate Primate Usher the Glory of the Irish Protestant Church in his elegant Speech to an Assembly of all the States of Ireland April 1627. in which he defends my Assertion that it is the Interest of the Irish to aid and support the Prosperity of the English Interest amongst them and had they had Grace to have believed him some thousands of Irish Families now utterly ruined might have been in a prosperous state And after he had minded them of their traiterous tendering the Regency of Ireland to the French King and upon his refusal to the Spaniard which was by him accepted for although Henry the fourth of France was not Apostate enough to invade his Protestant Neighbours yet Charles the fifth of Spain and his Son Philip were Papist enough to admit the Popes Donation which the Irish obtained for them Title good enough not only to claim Ireland and invade it with several Armies of Italians and Spaniards who landed at Kinsale and Kerry to their cost but also to attempt England by their supposed invincible Armado in 88. but the invincible just God did not only deliver us from their power the Sword destroying his Land Souldiers in Ireland and the Sea swallowing up his Naval Force assayling England but also from that time blasted the Counsels and Successes of that aspiring Monarch that their Fame and Potency hath ever since dwindled away Portugal and the Low Countries soon after revolted and the stately Don who then talk'd and acted as proudly as Monsieur doth now was so far from beeing able to invade his Neighbours he hath been put to his shifts to secure his Hereditary Countries and as old as I am I hope to live to see it the case of Monsieur who though now stiled the most Christian King hath declared himself the most inveterate Enemy to the most Christian Faith and Profession in the Christian World and let but the Defender of the Faith turn his Subjects loose with his Commission in their pockets they would soon covince him of it and let him know that the English Blood that inspired their Ancestors at the Battel of Agincourt c. is boyling hot in their Veins and that Charles the Second may be as dreadful to France as ever was Henry the fifth c. when he pleaseth if our God hath not given us up for our impious provocations to be a prey and a spoil as he did Israel to the Assyrians a bitter and hasty Nation But to return to my Argument that it is the Interest of the Irish Papists to further the Protestant English Interest in Ireland I shall return to my reverend Author saith he They put me in mind of the Philosophers Observations that such who have a vehement respect to a few inferiour things are easily misled to overlook many great things so saith he they have so deep a sense of their present burthen of contributing small matters towards the support of the Kings Army to secure us from foreign Invasions that they overlook all those miserable Desolations that will come upon them by a long and heavy War which the having of an
honourable soever was never made up with Happiness suitable to the anxiety of their Mind and Body Sir Henry Sidney who left as clear a Fame as any man that enjoyed the Place parted with it with the words of the Psalmist When Israel came out of Egypt and the House of Jacob from a people of a strange Language Judah was his Sanctuary and Israel his Dominion intimating how little satisfaction could be took in so slippery a Place amongst such a people whose Language he knew not and variety of Interests though the most that have miscarried there have fallen through other mens Interest rather than their own failing And I judge the three last Noble persons sent out of England to govern Ireland will set to their Seals that it is not a short and easie work to understand their Humour and Interest none of them could please all and others of them very few although they were persons of eminent Parts and great Integrity both to the Crown and English Interest yet the Interest of our Trade and Manufactures so withered under their Shadow that they languish to this day of fourteen hopeful Manufactures they sound thriving they left but the stumps of one standing which hath put such a Damp upon the hopes of Success none have attempted either to erect new or revive the old since 2. They oft come with a prepossession of the danger of Irelands encroaching upon the Trade and Wealth of England and from thence rather fear than design Irelands prosperity in Trade and what our chief Governor fears we have little ground to hope for 3. As the proverb is New Lords new Laws so new Governors new Councils it is to be observed the Successor very rarely elects the Favourites of his Predecessor to be his Confidents and then that natural Emulation the Heart of man is addicted to diverts them from building on Foundations laid by others whereby some publick undertakings after a hopeful progress have miscarried to the great discouragement of future Attempts as several notable Instances might be given if it were convenient 4. By reason of their immediate Relation to and probable sudden Return for England they are most concerned so to manage the Affairs of Ireland as may consist with the present advantage of their Credit in England Now though we honour a Lover of our Country as being Englishmen our selves and glory in its Honour and Wealth as younger Branches in the Honour and Wealth of the elder House of their Family yet we may expect a younger Brothers Portion and to be trusted with the Conduct of our own Estates in Subjection to our politick Father and not under the Tutelage of our elder Brother When Abraham sent his Sons he had by Keturah from Isaac Eastward and gave them Portions he left them to manage their own Affairs We do not read that ever the Sons of Isaac or Jacob were entrusted with the Affairs of the Children of Ishmael and Esau though they enjoyed the Birthright and Blessing and it is none of the least Discouragements to English Gentlemen that have great Estates in Ireland from coming to live upon them than that by quitting their Dwellings in England they quit their Priviledge as Englishmen both in respect to their Liberty of Traffick to several parts of the World which they before enjoyed and also their Interest in Magna Charta of being being tried for their Lives and Estates by a Jury of known honest men of their Neighbourhood whereas Noblemen or Gentlemen of Ireland may be impeached in England sent for over in custody and there arraigned before Judges put upon their Tryal by Jurors whose Faces they never saw before and unto whom they are altogether unknown further than the Evidence then given in Court describes them which is an Issue few would be pleased with when it comes to be their own case especially considering the moral impossibility for persons of ordinary Estates to bear the Charge and of small Interest to prevail with necessâ—â—y Witnesses c. to go from Ireland to England to give their Testimony in their behâ—â—â— and to imagine that either Judges or Jurors of England can be equally concern'd to suppresâ—â—â—◠〈◊〉 and Sedition tending to the disturbance of the Peace and Safety of the English 〈◊〉 in Ireland with English Judges and Juroâ—â— Ireland appears very improbable to such as admit 〈◊〉 safety is a stronger motive to all people than Neâ—â—hbors welfare and though England may be grieved to hear of Irelands Troubles yet the English in Ireland must certainly more sensibly feel the Misery that befalls themselves A Merchant on 〈◊〉 may be grieved to behold a Ship wherein he hath some Adventure sinking by a violent storm at Sea but the Merchants and Mariners aboard that see no way to escape from perishing with her must be under a different consternation which represents the true state of the different case 2. As there is much Reason of State against Irelands being governed by Foreigners to its peculiar Interest so have we many Presidents both ancient and modern of Soveraign Princes governing their Tributary Provinces by their own Countrymen the King of Spain discerning the Genoua's were discontented at his governing them by Spaniards c. and impatient for a King of Naples and Duke of Milan born in Italy to secure his Interest without that hazard he borrowed of them vast Sums of Mony they being great Usurers designing thereby to keep them in awe lest they should lose their Mony so the Kings of England could never satisfie the Welshmen until Edward of Carnarvan being their Countryman born was made Prince of Wales which hath since been the Title of the Kings eldest Son God himself promiseth it as a chief part of Israels Prosperity after their return from their Captivity that their Nobles should be of themselves and their Governours should proceed from the midst of them Jeremiah 30.21 which Promise was performed in Ezra's Nehemiah's and Zerkabal's Government so Moses appointed understanding and wise men who were known amongst their Tribes to be Rulers in their respective Tribes Deut. 1.13 Saith a great Statesman to King James To hold Ireland in better obedience let there be sent over such a Lord Deputy as is well acquainted with their Humours and Customs and well beloved of the people * Sir Hen. Wootens State of Christendom p. 2.18 saith the same Author The Spaniards lost the Low Countries by sending Spaniards or other Strangers to govern them having engaged to govern them by men born in their own Country * Sir Hen. Wootens State of Christendom p. 17. And how much this hath been the practice of the Kings of England to place persons peculiarly interested in the State of Ireland in chief Government our Histories give us ample examples Earl Strongbow the first Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1176. was Prince of Leinster by right of his Wife Reymond le Gross who married the Earls Sister succeeded him as Justice John Courcy Robert Fitz
from thence to Dublin to whom all the petty Kings and great Lords of Ireland submit and swear Fealty the King returns for England and leaves Hugh Lacy Lord Justice to interest him gave him Meath in Fee Irish English Henry the Second  Anno 1172. Hugh de Lacy Lord Justice Spell 331. Orourk Prince of Meath c. rebels Lacy in great danger rescued by Maurice Fitz Gerald vvho killed Orourk Hanm. 139.  1173. Earl Strongbow L. Warden of Ireland By right of his Wife Prince of Leinster found all in confusion but with the aid of Raymond le Grossreduceth them to subjection Hanm. p. 140. 1175. Strongbow dies Camp 64. Donald Prince of Leinster rebels all in confusion Camp 65  1177. Raymond Le Gross L. Protector Brother in Law to Strongbow subdues Donald and relieves the Citie of Dublin  1177. Fitz Andelm L.J. Courcey Fitz Stephen and Miles de Cogan his Counsellors Han. p. 157. The Ancestors of the Bourks now Earl of Clanricard Cambrensis chap. 17. Courcey subdued Vlster the Kingdom of Cork setled on Fitz Stephens and Cogan in Fee Fitz Stephens the Ancestor of the Barrysof Cork  1179. Hugh Lacy and Robert le Power L.J. Power the Ancestor of the Powers of Waterford  1181. Hugh de Lacy Governor Hollinshead O Connor King of Connaght rebels with 2000 men Lacy subdues him and marries his Daughter after s lain by a Scologh in Meath Hook p. 60. 1181. John Constable of Cheshire and Richard de Peck Justices Hovend p. 685.  1184. Philip de Brees Governor 1185. Earl John the Kings Son made King of Ireland and sent Governor Hovend 1187. This young Prince with his Counsellors ran all into confusion Young Arms make good Souldiers but young Heads ill Couns ellors Witness Rehoboam c.  1185. John de Courcey Earl of Ulster Gov. Chose by the King to be his Champion against a Frenchman who quitted the Stage and run being frighted by the grim looks and great limbs of Courcey Hanmer p. 181.  Richard the First  1189. Hugh de Lacy the younger L.J.  1190. Dublin burnt to ashes Hanm. 179.  1191 William Marshall and William Pettit Just Marshall by right of his Wife Strongbows Daughter Prince of Leinster who built the Castle of Kilkenny and gave the Town a Charter Hanm. 183.   1197. Hamo de Valis L.J. King John  1199. Myler Fitz Henry the Kings Son Governor Han. p. 183.  1210. K. John in person Composed all Differences settled Affairs and returned Camp 75.   1210. John Gray Bishop of Norwich L.J. He reformed the Irish Coin to the Standard of England 1213. Henry Laundres Arch-Bp of Dublin L.J. Built the Castle of Dublin  Henry the Third  1214. St. Patricks Church founded by Comin Arch-Bp of Dublin Camp p. 76. 6000 Scots under Bruce invade Ireland  1215. Geoffery Marisco Keeper of Ireland with Sir Edmond Butler L.J. Connaghtup in Arms Fitz Gerald built the Castle of Sligo  1219. Bishop Laundres and Maurice Fitz Gerald L.J. Han. p. 189.  1220. Meath in Arms the Castle of Trym builded the Irish generally rebel 11000 slain in Connaght by the Bourks and Berminghams Bruce routed near Dundalk Bermingham for his good Service created Earl of Louth Baron of Ardee and Athenrie  1227. Rich. de Burgo L.J.  1230. The Provost of Dublin made Mayor  1232. Maurice Fitz Gerald L.J.  1233. Richard Marshall Brother to William L.J. Slain in Battel near Kildare  1245 Sir Jo. Fitz Geoffery L.J.  1247. Theobald Butler Lord of Carick and Joh. Cogan L.J.   1255. Allen de la Zouch L.J. O Neils of Vlster and Mac Cartys of Munster rebel 1259. Stephen de Long Espee L.J.   1260. William Dean L.J.  1261. Rich. de Rupella L.J.  1266. A great Earthquake Hook p. 62. 1267. Sir David de Barry L.J. Who subdued the Mac Cartys   1268. Sir Robert de Ufford L.J. A great Dearth Mortality  1269. Ricardus de Exonia L.J. 1270. Sir James Audley Constable of Ulster L.J.  1272. Maur. Fitz Maurice L.J.  1273. Geoffery Lord Genevil L.J. Lord of Meath by right of his Wife  1276. Sir R. de Ufford the second time L.J.  1279. Bish of Waterf L. J  1280. Dublin burnt Strongbows Tomb spoiled by the fall of Christ-Church when on fire Camp p. 78. Meath rebels  1282. Stephen de Fulborn L.J.  1288. Arch-Bp of Dublin L.J.  1290. Will. Vesey L.J. Who to interest him in the prosperity of Ireland had given him the Manner Lords hip of Rahangan c. in the County of Kildare but engaging himself against John Fitz Gerald Baron of Ophaly lost himself and the Baron sent back first Earl of Kildare and Veseys Estate conferred on him  1307. Knights Templers for their Debauchery dissolved Knights of the Road constituted Camp p. 80. Connaght in Arms.  1308. Lord Bourk L.J. The Ancestor of the House of Castle Connel and Leitrim  1309. Lucan Bridge built  1312. Sir Edmond le Butler Deputy He unites the Earls of Vlster and the Geraldines who caused great troubles and subdu'd the Rebels of Connaght Camp 82.  1314. Lord de Verdon L.J. Had a great Estate in Meath in right of his Wife Hook 62.  1314. Sir Edmond le Butler Earl of Carrick L.J. Subdued the Irish at Castle-Dermot ..  1317. Roger Mortimer L.J. but the Lord Bermingham General Bruce invades Ireland Vlster joins with him overrun the Kingdom soon after subdued  1318. Will. Fitz John L.J.  1320. Earl of Kildare L.J. He built Loghlin Bridge the Pope granted the priviledge of an University to Dublin  1321. Lord of Athenry L.J. Slain with others by Mac Gohagon   1322. Ralph de Gorges L.J. 1323. Sir Jo. Darcy L.J. The Irish universally rebel vanquished by JamesEarl of Ormond Bermingham hanged Camp 88.  1327. Earl of Kildare L.J.  1328. Prior of Kilmainham L.J. In his time the Geraldines Butlers Bermingham at variance with the Powers and Bourks a Parliament s ummoned to accord them  1329. Sir John Darcy a second time L.J. Irish of Leinster in Rebellion Camp 87.  1330. Prior of Kilmainham L.J.  1331. Sir Anthony Lacy L.J. A great slaughter by the English of the O Conners c. in Leinster Marleborough 210.  1332. Sir John Darcy a third time L.J. Great slaughter on the Obrians Mac Cartys in Munster Marl. p. 211.  1333. Thom. de Burgh L.J.  1336. On St. Lawrence day ten thousand Irish slain in Connaght Marlb p. 212.   1337. Sir John Charleton L.J. The Irish generally rebel are quell'd by the Earl of Kildare and Desmond Camp 88. 1340. Prior of Kilmainham L.J.   1341. Sir John Maurice L.J. 1344. Sir Ralph Ussord Husband to the Countess of Ulster L.J. Desmonds first discontents Vssord died unlamented by his ill
Government Hook 71.  1346. Sir Roger Darcy L.J.  1346. Sir John Maurice L.J. In whose time Desmond made a dissention between the English of Blood and English of Birth  1348. Sir Walter Bermingham L.J. John Archer Dep. Camp 90.  1349. Sir Walter Bermingham L.J.  1349. Baron Carey L.J.   1349. Sir Tho. Rooksby L.J. Whose saying was he had rather drink out of Wooden Cups and pay Gold and Silver for his Liquor than drink out of Gold and make wooden payment a man of sincere and upright Conscience saith Camp 91. he would be deemed a precise Fop in these days 1351. Bishop of Lymerick L.J. The Vlsters rebel and subdued by the Savages Camp 30.  1355. Earl of Desmond L.J.  1356. Sir Tho. Rooksby a second time L.J.   1357. Sir Almerick de Sancta L.J. 1359. James Butler Earl of Ormond L.J. He married the Grandchild of Edw. the first for which his Son James was stiled by way of preheminence the Noble Earl  1360. Earl of Kildare L.J. Appointed 500 l. per ann Salery and required out of that to maintain 20 great Horse for War Hook 72.  1361. Duke of Clarence Lord Lieutenant The third Son of Edw. the third Earl of Vlster and Lord of Connaght he vanquished the Obrians c. and conquered the County of Clare from which he derived his Title of Clarence  1364. James Earl of Ormond L.D.   1365. Sir Thom. Dale Governor 1367. Earl of Desmond L.J.   1369. Sir William de Windsor L.L.  1370. A great Mortality in Ireland 1371. Earl of Kildare L.J.   1372. Sir Robert de Ashton L.J. 1374. Sir William de Windsor L.L.  1376. James Butler Earl of Ormond L.L.   1379. John de Bromwhich L.J. Richard the Second  1381. Dean of St. Patricks and Lord Chancellor L.J.  1383. Philip de Courtney L.L.  1385. Robert Vere Earl of Oxford Marquess of Dublin and Duke of Ireland L. ◠Of whom Cambden records he died in great anguish and penury leaving nothing to his Tomb but Titles nor to the World but matter of talk of his ill life  1385. Sir John Stanley L.D.  1387. Bish of Meath L.J.  1389. Sir John Stanley L.J.  1392. James Earl of Ormond L.J.  1394. Duke of Glocester L.J.  1394. King Richard the Second in person He landed at Waterford with four thousand men at Arms and thirty thousand Archers left Roger Mortimer Earl of Vlster Lord of Trym Clare Connaght L.L. slain by the Obrians   1398. Roger Grey L.J. 1398. Duke of Surrey the Kings Brother L.L.  1399. King Richard 2. the second time Who came to avenge Mortitimers Death In this Year broke out that bloodie War betwixt the Houses of Lancaster and York from which time not only England but Ireland were divided into two powerful Factions the Geraldines stood by the House of York and the Butlers by the House of Lancaster the King returns soon after loseth his Kingdom and Life   Henry the Fourth  1399. Sir John Stanley L.L.  1401. Stephen Scroope L.D. to Thomas of Lancaster the Kings Son 1403. James Earl of Ormond L.J. Chose by the Noblemen of Ireland  1405. Gerald Earl of Kildare L.J.  1406. Stephen Scroop L.D.  1407. James Son of the former Earl of Ormond L.J.  1408. Thomas of Lancaster the Kings Son L.L. left Thomas Butler Dep. The Sword given to the City of Dublin the Provost made Major  Henry the Fifth  1413. The said Butler continued L.J.  1413. Sir John Stanley L.L. The Ancestor of the Earls of Derby  1414. Crawley Arch-Bishop of Dublin L.J.  1414. Sir John Talbot L.L. In whose time Ireland supplied the King with 1600 men to assist him in his Wars with France  1419. Richard Talbot Arch-Bishop of Dublin L.J.  1420. James Butler Earl of Ormond L.L. His Grandsire James sirnam'd the Chast near Athy vanquished the Armie of the O Moorsand Mac Morroughs c. quelled the Obrians in Leinster the Bourks Mac Mahons c. in Thomond in three months time Camp 97.  Henry the Sixth  1423. Earl of Ulster L.L. And died of the Plague  1425. John Lord Talbot L.J.  1426. James Butler Earl of Ormond L.J. And died at Ormond-Place in London  1427. Sir John de Grey L.L.  1428. Edward Dantsey Bishop of Meath Dep.  1428. Sir John Sutton L.L. Sir Tho. Strange his Dep.  1432 Sir Christopher Plunket L.D.  1435 Sir Thomas Stanley L.L.  1436 Talbot Arch-Bp of Dublin L.D.   1438 Lyon Lord Wells L.L. 1440 James Earl of Ormond L.L.   1441 Sir William Stanley L.D.  1441 Stephen Scroop L.D.  1442 Will. Wells Dep. to Lyon Lord Wells 1443 Earl of Ormond L.L.   1446 Earl of Shrewsbury L.L. 1447 Talbot Arch-Bp of Dublin L.J.  1449 Duke of York L.L. In Meath the Rebels burnt several Towns and Villages destroyed Men Women and Children without mercy Camp 99.  1450 Earl of Ormond and Wiltshire Lord Treasurer of England L. Dep. to the Duke of York  1454 Arch-Bishop of Ardmagh L.D.  1454 Earl of Kildare L.D.  1454 Sir Edward Fitz Eustace Lord Deputy to the Duke of York  1456 Earl of Kildare Lord Deputy  1459 Richard Duke of York Earl of Ulster and Lord of Connaght Lord Lieutenant Who contracted with the King for Two thousand Pounds per annum with the Irish Revenue to support the Government ten Years The Nobility of Ireland increasing in Factions betwixt the Houses of York and Lancas ter many destroyed whereby the Irish grew troublesome forcibly possessing the Estates of the Engli sh in Ulster Munster and Connaght  Edward the Fourth  1460 Earl of Kildare Lord Justice  1461 Sir Rowland Fitz Eustace Lord of Portleister and Viscount Baltinglass Lord Deputy to George Duke of Clarence  1463 Thomas Earl of Desmond Deputy to the Duke of Clarence Beheaded for exacting Coin and Livery   1467 John Lord Tiptoft Earl of Worcester L.D. 1471 Thomas Earl of Kildare L.D.  1475 Bishop of Meath Dep.   1478 Lord Grey L.D. 1478 Sir Robert Preston L.D.  1479 E. of Kildare L.D.  1483 Edw. 5. Rich. 3.  1485 The said Earl of Kildare L.D. to John de la Pole Earl of Lincoln L.L. The Imposture Lambert Simnell made a Disturbance in Ireland  Henry the Seventh   1491 Duke of Bedford L.L. 1492 Fitz Simons Arch-Bishop of Dublin L.D.  1493 Preston the first Lord Viscount Gormanstown L.D.   1494 Sir Edward Poynings L.D. Sent over to quell the Imposture Perkin Warbeck who in a Parliament at Drogheda the 10. of Henry the Seventh past that Act called Poynings Act quell'd the O Caryls Mac Nemarras and Obrians in the County of Gallaway received the Honor of the Order of the Garter
c. for his Reward Hook 79. 1495 Henry Dean Chancellor of Ireland L.J.  1496 Girald E. of Kildare L.L. The Obrians Mac Nemarras â—o Carylls c. with the greatest Power of Irish seen together s ince the Conquest up in Arms routed and slain not one Englishman lost Camp 105  1501 Henry Duke of York after King Hen. 8. L L. Earl of Kildare D.  1503 Fitz Simons Arch-Bishop of Dublin L.D.  Henry the Eighth  1509 Earl of Kildare continued This was he of whom the King spake If all Ireland cannot rule this Earl then this Earl shall rule all Ireland Campion 107.  1513 Girald the Son of Girald late Earl of Kildare L.J. In his time the 23. of Hen. 8. it was enacted that none should be elected L.J. but an Englishman born in England except by Patent from the King  1515 Lord Visc Gormanstown L.J.  1515 Earl of Kildare continued Lord Dep. In order to unite the Families married his Sister with Pierce Butler Earl of Ossery Campion 107.  1519 Sir Thomas Fitz Maurice of the House of Kildare L.J.   1520 Earl of Surrey L.L. Vlster in Rebellion Campion 108. 1521 Earl of Ormond L.D.  1524 Girald Earl of Kildare L.D. About this time the Geraldines arrived to their greatest height of Power and the Butlers to the greatest height of Spirit against them but the Earl of Ormond more politick and of a cooler temper gained ground and ran Kildare out of breath Campion 106.  1526 Thomas Fitz Girald of Leislipe and Richard Nugent Baron of Delvin L.J.  1528 Pierce Butler E. of Ossery L.D.   1530 Sir William Skiffington L.D. Vanquished the Tools and the Bourns Camp 107. 1532 Girald Earl of Kildare L.D.  1534 Thomas Son to the Earl of Kildare L.D. Who upon a false Report of his Father then Prisoner in the Tower was beheaded tauntingly threw up the Insignia Regalia killed the Arch-Bishop of Dublin defied the King and his Authority proclaimed open War destroyed and burnt all before him none resisting till the Butlers raised their Country to oppose him upon which he wrote a Letter to his intimate Acquaintance and Cousin James Butler whose Answer thereto is so loyal pertinent and smart I es teemed it worth a place amongst my Annotations as a good Pattern for young Noblemen to write by when under the like temptation Taking Pen in hand to write to you my resolute Answer I muse in the very first line by what Name to call you my Lord or my Cousin seeing your notorious Treason hath destained your Honour and your desperate Lewdness shamed your Kindred you are so liberal in parting Stakes with me that a man would ween you had no right to the Game so importunate in craving my Company as if you would perswade me to hang with you for good fellowship and think you that James is so mad to gape for Gudgeons or so ungracious to sell his Truth for a piece of Ireland Were it so as it cannot be that the Chickens you reckon were both hatched and feathered yet be thou sure I had rather in this Quarrel dye thine Enemy than live thy Partner Camp 119.  1534 Sir William Skiffington L.D.  1535 Leonard Lord Grey Lord Viscount Graney in Ireland L.D. Thomas Earl of Kildare c. tainted   1540 Sir Anthony St. Leger D. In his time the King and his Successors enacted in Parliament to be stiled Kings of Ireland and the Supremacy granted to the Crown 1540 Sir Will. Brereton Baron of Loghlin in Ireland L.J.  1543 Sir William Brabazon L.J. The Cavenaghs rebel  1544 Sir Anthony St. Leger the second time L.D. James Earl of Ormond at the Kings desire saileth into Scotland to aid the Earl of Lenox returns to London himself and fifty of his Servants poisoned at a Supper of which eighteen died he by Will ordained his Heart should be interred in Ireland on whom was made this Epitaph vid. Hook 105. The living Heart where lay ingraven The care of Country deer To Country lifeless is restor'd And lies ingraven here Now heartless lives his Country then Alass what Joy is left Who se hope whose hap whose heart he was Till Death his Life bereft What Honour then is due to him For him what worthy Rite But that each heart with heartiest love His worthiest Heart requite My Author gives him this character A man no less politick in Peace than valiant in War that as he would not begin any Martial Broil rashly or unadvisedly so he would not seem to put it up lightly or easily  1546 Sir William Brabazon a second time L.J.  Edward the Sixth  1547 Sir Anthony St. Leger L.D. He subdued the Byrns Tooles C Conners c.  1548 Sir Edward Bellingham L.D. Dublin Bailiffs made Sheriffs Camp 123.  1549 Sir Francis Bryan Marshal of Ireland L. Just Elected by the Kings leave  1449 Sir William Brabazon the third time L.J. The Cavenaghs then in Rebellion  1550 Sir Anthony St. Leger a fourth time L.D. He subdued the Cavenaghs  1551 Sir James Crofts L.D. Vlster King at Arms first instituted and the Liturgy printed and enjoined to be read in English  1552 Sir Thomas Cusack and Sir Garret Aylmer L.J.  Queen Mary  1553 Sir Anthony St. Leger the fifth time Lord Deputy   1556 Lord Radcliff Viscount Fitz Walters L.D. 1557 Hugh Corwin Arch-Bishop of Dublin and Sir Hen. Sidney L.J.  1557 Sir Henry Sidney Treasurer of Ireland L.J. Shane O Neal rebels  Queen Elizabeth  1558 Radcliff Earl of Sussex L.L. Sir Henry Sidney his Dep. Subdued the O Conners O Moors O Dempseys c  1559 Sir William Fitz Williams L.J.  1559 Earl of Sussex returned L.L. Shane O Neal submitted Campion 125.  1561 Earl of Sussex L.L.   1565 Sir Nicholas Arnold L.J. 1565 Sir Henry Sidney L.D. Shane O Neal attainted and the Name extinguished in Parliament the Presidency of Munster and Connaght were instituted  1567 Dr. Weston Lord Chancellor and Sir Will. Fitz Williams Lord Treasurer of Ireland L.J.  1586 Sir Henry Sidney L.D.  1571 Sir William Fitz Williams L.D.  1575 Sir Henry Sidney L.D.   1578 Sir Will. Drury L.J. Desmond rebels  1579 Sir Will. Pelham L.J. Rescued Carickfoyle from the Spaniard  1580 Lord Grey L.D. Who drove the 700 Spaniards and Italians out of Kerry and destroyed them with the Irish that joined with them 1582. Adam Loftus Arch-Bishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland with Sir Henry Wallop Treasurer of Ireland L.J. Desmond surprised and his Head sent to England  1584 Sir John Perrot L.D. 1588 Sir William Fitz Williams L.D.  Both blamed for suffering the Irish to be first trained up in Arms This year the University of Dublin founded and endowed with many Priviledges by the Queen  1594 Sir William Russel L.D. Sir John Norris sent as
an experienced Souldier to resist Tyrone who were then 1000 Horse and 9500 Foot strong 1597 Sir Thomas Norris President of Munster Lord General of the Army against Tyrone  1597 Adam Loftus Lord Chancellor of Ireland and Sir Robert Gardiner L.J.   1597 The Lord Burroughs L.D.  1598 Robert Earl of Essex L.L. Brought over a fresh Army of 16000 Foot and 1300 Horse Success not answerable being maligned at Court the fate of too many of his Predecessors returned for England and was beheded in the Tower 1601. 1599. Sir Adam Loftus and Sir George Carey Justices  1599 Lord Mountjoy L.L. Subdued the Spaniards c. then possest of Kinsale soon after Tyrone and so ended that War which had cost the Crown of England 1198717 l. Cambden Appendix to Eliz. King James  1603 Sir George Carey L.D. Sent the first Justices of Assize into Vlster  1604 Sir Arthur Chichester L.D. Sent the first Justices of Assize into Munster and Connaght  1615 Thomas Jones Arch-Bp of Dublin c. and Sir Richard Wingfield L.J.  1614 Sir Arthur Chichester then Lord of Belfast the Ancestor of the now Earl of Donnegall L.D. In Parliament repealed several Statutes declaring the Irish Rebels not Subjects but Enemies Vide Act. 11. Jacobi fol. 427. the Harp first Marshal'd with the Arms of Great Britain  1615 Thomas Jones Lord Chancellor of Ireland and Sir John Denham Chief Justice of the Kings Bench L.J.   1616 Lord Grandeson L.D. 1622 Lord Viscount Ely and Lord Visc Powers Court L. J   1625 Lord Visc Falkland L.D. Charles the First  1629 Lord of Cork and Lord of Ely L.J.  1633 Lord Viscount Wentworth L.D.  1636 Lord of Ely and Sir Christoph Wandesford L.J.  1636 Thomas Lord Viscount Wentworth L.D.  1639 Lord Dillon and Sir Christoph Wandesford L.J.  1639 Earl of Strafford L.L.  1640 Chistoph Wandesford L.D.  1640 Lord Dillon and Sir William Parsons L. Just  1640 Sir William Parsons and Sir John Borlace L.J. Under whose Government on the 23d of Octob. 1641. the Bloody Irish most bloody Rebellion broke out  1643 Sir John Borlace and Sir Henry Tichburne L.J. Persons eminently qualified for the time they governed being both old Souldiers and true hearted Englishmen Tichburne gallantly secured and defended Drogheda against the Rebels and thereby preserved Dublin and the multitude of poor stript English in their slight thither  1643 Janu. 21. James then Marquess now Duke of Ormond L.L.  1650 Ulick Bourke Marquess of Clanriccard L.D.  1660 Sir Maurice Eustace Lord Chancellor Roger Boyle Earl of Orrery and Charles Coote Earle of Montroth L.J.  1662. July 28. James Duke of Ormond L.L.  1663 May 21. Thomas Earl of Ossory D.  Septemb. 1665 James Duke of Ormond L.L.  1668 Apr. 25. Thomas Earl of Ossory D.   1669 Sept. 10. John Lord Roberts L.L. 1660 April 21. John Lord Berkley L.L. 1671 Michael Boyle Arch-Bishop of Dublin Lord Chancellor and Sir Arthur Forbes L.J.   Septemb. 1671 John Lord Berkley L.L.  1672 May 21. Arthur Earl of Essex L.L. 1677 Aug. 24. James Duke of Ormond the present L.L.  CHAP. IV. The Heads of the Establishment for Ireland commencing March 25. 1676. CIVIL LIST Exchequer Yearly allowance  LOrd Treasurer 336 00 00  Vice-Treasurer 50 00 00  Chancellor of the Exchequer 200 00 00  Lord Chief Baron for his Fee and Robes 500 00 00  Second Baron 400 00 00  Third Baron 400 00 00  Prime Serjeant at Law for his Fee and Robes 33 16 08  Second Serjeant 30 00 00  Attorney General 88 06 08  Sollicitor General 88 06 08  Auditor General 184 00 08  and to him more in full of all Fees due to him upon passing Sheriffs Accounts 31 00 00   Carried forward 2341 10 08 Brought over 2341 10 08 Surveyor General 60 00 00  Escheator of Leinster 06 13 04  Escheator of Munster 01 05 00  Escheator of Connaght 01 05 00  Escheator of Ulster 01 05 00  Chief Remembrancer 30 00 00  and to him in full satisfaction of all Fees due to him upon passing Sheriffs Accounts 21 19 02  Second Remembrancer 07 15 06  and to him in full of all Fees upon passing Sheriffs Accounts 45 06 09  Clerk of the Pipe 45 00 00  and to him in full of all Fees due to him upon passing Sheriffs Accounts 111 12 00  Chief Chamberlain 10 00 00  Second Chamberlain 05 00 00  Comptroller of the Pipe 07 00 00  and to him more in full of all Fees due to him upon passing Sheriffs Accounts 46 10 00  Usher of the Exchequer 12 10 00  and to him for Fees upon passing Sheriffs Accounts 11 12 06  Transcripter and Foreign Opposer 15 00 00  and to him for passing Accounts 38 15 00   carried forward 2819 19 11 Brought over 2819 19 11 Summonister 07 10 00  and to him more for the like Fees 36 08 06  Marshal of the Four Courts 04 00 00  Clerk of the Pells 30 00 00  Clerk of the First Fruits and Twentieth parts 27 10 00  and for Fees in passing Sheriffs Accounts 11 04 09  Cryer of the Exchequer 01 13 04  and for the like Fees 07 15 00  Pursivants of the Exchequer for carrying Writs 71 05 00  and for the like Fees 07 15 00  Auditor of the Foreign Accounts and Imprests 121 13 04  Three Commissioners of Appeals 300 00 00    3446 14 10 Court of Kings Bench.   LOrd Chief Justice 600 00 00  Second Justice 400 00 00  Third Justice 400 00 00  Clerk of the Crown 007 10 00    1407 10 00 Chancery   LOrd Chancellor 1000 00 00  Master of the Rolls 157 09 11  Four Masters of the Chancery twenty pound each 80 00 00  Clerks of the Crown and Chancery 25 00 00  Clerks of the Hannaper 35 10 00    1297 19 11 Court of Common Pleas.   LOrd Chief Justice 500 00 00  Second Justice 400 00 00  Third Justice 400 00 00  Prothonotary 07 10 00    1307 10 00 State and Patent Officers c.   OFficers attending the State 71589 01 10  Incidents 2187 00 00  Custom Officers 238 06 08  Creation Mony 544 11 08  Perpetuities 489 15 06  Temporary Payments 9367 17 01½  Concordatams 4500 00 00  To uses to be appointed by Sign Manual 27000 00 00    115916 12 09½ MILITARY LIST General Officers   LOrd Lieutenant 6593 06 08  Marshal of Ireland 634 12 00  Muster-Master General and Clerk of the Cheques 336 00 00  Six Commissaries of the
Musters 400 00 00  Comptroller of the Musters and Cheques 436 00 00  Advocate General of the Army 112 00 00  Chirurgion General 112 00 00    8623 18 08 Officers of the Ordnance and Train of Artillery   MAster of the Ordnance 453 09 00  Lieut. of the Ordnance 117 12 00  Comptroller of the Ordnance 100 00 00  Clerk of the Ammunition and Stores 67 04 00  Engineer and Overseer of his Majesties Fortifications 300 00 00  Inferiour Officers of the Train of Artillery 728 00 00    1766 05 00 Horse   KIngs Guard 5502 00 00  Twenty four Troops 45 360 00 00  Lord Lieutenants own Troop 5 private Horsemen and 3 Trumpets more than other Troops 252 00 00  An Additional Pay to private Horsemen of four Troops doing Duty at Dublin 756 00 00  Foot   Company of Foot Guards 1128 00 00  Royal Regiment 17035 04 00  Field and Staff-Officers of the said Regiment 1341 04 00  74 Companies 64646 08 00  Earl Dunbartons Regiment 19616 16 00  Sir Nich. Armourer Governor of the New Fort near Kinsale 365 00 00  Total of the Military List  166392 15 08 List of Pensions  11200 00 00 of which paid to persons in England  5780 00 00 Total of His Majesties Charge  230969 02 06½ A Table for Reducing Plantation Acres into English in the several Provinces of Ireland according to the Explanatory Act Viz. For every English Statute Acre in the Province of Leinster 3 d. Munster 2 d. ob Connaght 1 d. q. Vlster 2 d. Irish English Acres Leinster Munster Ulster Connaght Ir. a. En. a. R. P. Pts. l. s. d. q. l. s. d. q. l. s. d. q. l. s. d. q. 1 1 2 19 21  0 4 3  0 3 3  0 3 1  0 2 2 2 3 0 38 42  0 9 3  0 7 1  0 6 2  0 4 3 3 4 3 17 63  1 2 2  0 11 0  0 1 3  0 7 1 4 0 1 36 84  1 7 2  1 2 2  1 4 0  0 9 3 5 8 0 15 105  0 2 1  1 6 1  1 4 1  1 0 0 6 9 2 35 5  2 5 1  1 9 3  1 7 2  1 2 2 7 11 1 14 26  2 10 0  2 1 2  1 10 3  1 5 0 8 12 3 33 44  3 2 3  2 5 1  2 2 0  1 7 2 9 14 2 12 68  3 7 3  2 8 3  2 6 1  1 9 3 10 16 0 31 89  4 0 2  4 0 2  2 8 2  2 0 1 20 32 1 23 57  8 1 1  6 1 3  5 4 3  4 0 2 30 48 2 15 25  12 1 3  9 1 1  8 1 1  6 1 0 40 64 3 6 114  16 2 2  12 1 3  10 9 2  8 1 1 50 80 3 38 82 1 0 3 0  15 2 1  13 6 0  10 1 2 60 97 0 30 50 1 4 3 2  18 2 3  16 2 2  12 1 3 70 113 1 22 18 1 8 4 1 1 1 3 1  18 10 2  14 2 0 80 129 2 13 107 1 12 4 3 1 4 3 2 1 1 7 1  16 2 1 90 145 3 5 75 1 16 5 1 1 7 4 0 1 4 3 2  18 2 3 100 161 3 37 43 2 0 6 0 1 10 4 2 1 7 0 0 1 0 3 0 500 809 3 26 94 10 2 5 3 7 11 1 1 6 14 11 3 5 1 2 3 1000 1619 3 13 67 20 4 11 2 15 3 6 2 13 9 11 3 10 2 5 3 5000 80991 0 27 39 101 4 9 2 75 18 7 0 67 9 10 2 50 12 4 2 10000 16198 1 15 5 202 9 7 0 151 17 2 1 134 19 9 0 101 4 9 0 CHAP. V. The Establishment of the Subsidies of Ireland Nobility Subsidy DVke of Ormond 100 00 00 Earl of Cork 110 00 00 Marquess of Antrim 60 00 00 Earl of Kildare 56 13 00 Earl of Thomond 40 00 00 Earl of Strafford 35 00 00 Earl of Clanriccard 35 00 00 Earl of Castlehaven 02 10 00 Earl of Roscommon 15 00 00 Earl of Londonderry 10 00 00 Earl of Desmond 10 00 00 Earl of Meath 15 00 00 Earl of Barrymore 30 00 00 Earl of Carbury 15 00 00 Earl of Arglass 20 00 00 Earl of Donnegall 50 00 00 Earl of Cavan 02 10 00 Earl of Clanbrazil 30 00 00 Earl of Inchiquin 10 00 00 Earl of Clancarty 40 00 00 Earl of Orrery 20 00 00 Earl of Montrath 15 00 00 Earl of Drogheda 40 00 00 Earl of Waterford 23 00 00 Earl of Mountalexander 05 00 00 Earl of Castlemain 20 00 00 Earl of Arran 15 00 00 Earl of Carlingford 15 00 00 Earl of Longford 15 00 00 Earl of Tyrone 15 00 00 Earl of Ranelegh 15 00 00 Viscounts GRandison 10 00 00 Wilmot 10 00 00 Valentia 30 00 00 Dillon 20 00 00 Loftus of Ely 12 10 00 Swords 12 10 00 Kilmurrey 12 10 00 Conway 30 00 00 Mayo 10 00 00 Savil 20 00 00 Lanesborough 10 00 00 Castlestone 20 00 00 Chaworth 20 00 00 Scudamore of Sligoe 12 10 00 Lumley 12 10 00 Strangford 12 10 00 Wenman of Fryan 10 00 00 Molleux 17 10 00 Fairfax 12 10 00 Fitz Williams 07 00 00 Rathcoole 12 10 00 Bareford 12 10 00 Bulkley 15 00 00 Ogle 12 10 00 Bronkart 12 10 00 Cullen 20 00 00 Gallmoy 03 00 00 Kingsland 20 00 00 Shannon 12 10 00 Dromore 12 10 00 Cloin 10 00 00 Mazareen 10 00 00 Cholmondlegh 12 10 00 Fanshaw of Donnamore 05 00 00 Duncannon 12 10 00 Fitz Harding 20 00 00 Clare 20 00 00 Charlemont 10 00 00 Powers Court 10 00 00 Granard 10 00 00 Lords Barons BErmingham 01 00 00 Coursey 02 00 00 Kerry 10 00 00 Hoath 05 00 00 Cahir 05 00 00 Montjoy 12 10 00 Folliot 15 00 00 Maynard 15 00 00 Gorges 05 00 00 Digby 10 00 00 Fitz Williams of Lifford 10 00 00 Herbert 20 00 00 Baltimore 10 00 00 Brereton of Laghlin 05 00 00 Colrain 10 00 00 Sherard of Leitrim 10 00 00 Strabane 05 00 00 Hawley of Dunmote 05 00 00 Allington of Killard 20 00 00 Collooney 10 00 00 Santry 10 00 00 Glanawly 10 00 00 Altham 10 00 00 Ladies Subsidies CLanrickard 20 00 00 Thomond 10 00 00 Antrim 11 13 00 Roscommon 05 00 00 Clonbrazill 10 00 00 Cloncarty 15 00 00 Mountalexander 06 00 00 Glamoy 03 00 00 Firconnell 04 13 00 Massareene 05 00 00 Strabane 02 00 00 total 92 06 00 Subsidies of the several Bishopricks of the Diocess of Ardmagh Arch-Bishoprick of Ardmagh 180 17
in the common Bottom out of his Love to the common Eaglish Interest of Ireland and was also nominated when the Act was perfected to come over as Lord Lieutenant to see it executed they then began to take heart and inclined to see the issue of his Government before they would further unsettle themselves consideâ—ing that if his Humour were moderte towards them he had an Interest and Spirit big enough to strengthen his own Resolutions and not 〈◊〉 be diverted from the practice of his own Reason for fear or savour of any of the Parties which was not the case under the present Justices which soon after his arrival they found made good beyond their expectations having equal access with others into his presence and that with good acceptance and also finding they could have equal Justice at the Court of Claims and other the Kings Courts with other the Kings Subjects they gave over their thoughts of removing and disposed themselves to industry in the Country or Cities as their Estates and Educations capacitated them Now it is not to be expressed what sudden alterations this made in the Humour and Deportment of the persons of several Interests one towards another this equal Countenance and Justice of the chief Governour begat an equal Familiarity betwixt the people of different parties and so deep a resentment had the principal persons of that party before most dejected they agreed as many of the Field Officers as were in Dublin to make a solemne return of Thanks to the Duke and withal a Tender of their Service to his Son the Earl of Ossory then Lieutenant General of the Army that they were ready with their Lives and Estates when his Majesties Affairs required to engage themselves against the Kings Enemies under his Conduct which was courteously accepted by the Earl who with many affectionate Expressions in his sweet obliging way assured them when the Kings Affairs required he should highly esteem their Company and Assistance From which time that party esteemed it their duty to study how to approve themselves not only loyal Subjects to their King but grateful Servants to his Vice-Roy Thus all Interest being determined by the Act of Settlement and thereby all Humours composed each party and every person bent their minds and industry to defend their Titles to what the said Act gave them a pretence unto in the Court of Claims where such a brisk Trade was driven in purchasing and prosecuting Titles to Land no other Trade or Manufactures were thought on the bulk of the Cash of the Kingdom being swallowed up in that gulph Yet in that time the Duke considering Land in Ireland would little differ from Land in America without Inhabitants to plant and improve it was very inquisitive after the Intrigue of Trade and Manufacture if he met with any persons that he apprehended were acquainted with those Affairs and in May 1664. gave a Commission to a Council of Trade with full and large Instructions for them to govern their Proceedings by which are printed in my Preface and most persons of Quality having by that time gained possession of great scopes of Land in several of their Lots they found old ruined Towns and discerning no other way to get them planted greweager of Manufactures to whom the Lord Lieutenant gave all possible incouragement that within a few years after we 〈◊〉 erected by private persons on their own accounts many considerable Manufactures â—he Leinster Alderman Daniel Hutchenson at â—â—by Earl of Arran at Tullagh Lord Chancellor Eustace at Baltinglass Esquire Parsons at the Byrr the publick Manufacture of Chappelizod on the Kings account besides several other lesser Attempts In Munster the Earl of Orrery at Charlevil several Dutch Merchants in Limerick and Clare Baron Hartstongue at the Bruff Besides very considerable addition of Cloth Bays Stuffs and Stockins at Cork and Bandon c. In Connaght the Lord Kingston at Abby Boyle Sir James Cuff at Some time after the Duke on his particular account attempted a Manufacture at Callen and also gave great incouragement to some Undertakers to erect the most considerable Manufacture Ireland ever saw for Cloth and Stuffs at Clonmell which for some years imployed many hundreds of people and made as good Cloth and Stuffs as England could produce In Ulster the Lord Dungannon at Dundalk but the Scotch and Irish in that Province addicting themselves to spinning of Linnen Yarn attained to vast quantities of that Commodity which they transported to their great profit the conveniency of which drew thither multitudes of Linnen Weavers that my opinion is there is not a greater quantity of Linnen product in the like circuâ— in Europe and although the generality of theiâ— Cloth fourteen years since was sleisie and thin yet of late it is much improved to a good fineness and strength and will in all probability increase daily both in quantity and quality but all the other Manufactures mentioned after the Dukes removal from the Government dwindled away to nothing except two or three that like sick folk are ready to expire the Causes of which and Remedies I shall shew at large in my Discourse of Manufacture supposing this account of the state of Affairs all the time of the Dukes first Government is a sufficient Answer to the Objection and corroborates my Assertion that it is the Interest of Ireland to be governed by persons peculiarly interested in its prosperity An Answer to the Objection pag. 93. IT is objected in pag. 93. of the 2d Part if the bloody Massacre in 1641 c. proceeded not from any depravity from Principles of Humanity nor from any spirit of revenge or personal hatred against the Protestants but only from their bloody Tenents in matters of Religion as you affirm it were necessary to instance what Points of their Religion they are that render them so dangerous they professing themselves Christians c. Answer As I there hint it is not the Religion of the Church of Rome viz. what relates to Faith and Worship but the Policies of the Court of Rome that renders them so incompatible with civil Order and humane Society multitudes of Christians live safely amongst Turks and Pagans in Asia Africa and America without danger of Massacres or Assassinations on the account of Religion though they have no Law of true Religion to influence them yet the Law of Humanity is not wholly obliterated they know what it is to do as they would be done by as Gage and other Historians of the Spanish West Indians inform us those miserable Pagans will ask what place the Spaniard goes to after death vehemently declaring they will not worship that God whose Servants are so cruel lest they should be as barbarously used by them in the other world And as their inhumane bloody cruelty is condemned by the Law of Nature so much more by all moral and divine Laws Therefore what I shall insist on shall be such Tenents as are not only against all Christian but Moral
Adultery 18. That according to a probable Opinion if a Tax imposed on Merchandize is not just it is lawful to use false Weights to gain the more and if he be charged for so doing he may deny it by Oath making use of equivocal expressions when he is brought upon Interrogatories before a Judge Escober ad M.J. p. 93. A Tenent useful to Merchants but pernicious to the Farmers of Customs 19. That he who hath a will to commit all the venial sins that are doth not sin mortally Granados Diana Muchat ad M.J. p. 98. as they do that question the Popes Infallibity 20. That a man doth not commit any sin or is guilty of any irreverence towards God when he presumes to address himself to him in his devotions having an intent mortally to offend him Ad M.J. p. 98. 21. That a religous man having made use of a Woman may kill her if she offer to discover what passed between them Ad M.J. p. 19. You may easily guess what Religion this religious man is of You may read their pious slights as they call them Letter 10. p. 137. to 155. in the business of Confession Pennance and Absolution They affirm Absolution ought not to be denied or delayed though the Sinner continue in habitual sins against the Laws of God Nature and the Church though you discover not the least hope of amendment M.J. p. 145. vid. the Bishop of Machlin's Collection and Rejection of 43 horrid Errors ad M.J. p. 90. But what is yet mentioned are but little piccadilloes only inconvenient to neighbourly Society and civil Converse betwixt private persons and to blast their Reputation or deceive them of their Good and Lives is but a petty Retale trade Therefore I shall hint a few of their Whole-sale Merchants that trade for Empires Kingdoms and States which are the great Arms of the Tree of Supremacy c. the other but small Boughs and some of them twigs comparatively And that you may believe their deposing and dethroning Kings is from good Authority read the Reasons given by Saunders the Jesuit published by Ursinus p. 190. If the Pope be infallible which no Roman Catholick dare question there is great reason he should be supream and make Laws for the regulating the Consciences of fallible erring Princes and States the first we read of that assumed this supream Power as an Article of the Catholick Faith was Hildebrand which Dr. Paget observes pag. 248. and records his infallible princely Canons I shall only mention these few That it is lawful for the Bishop of Rome to make new Laws for the necessity of the times which all Princes and States are obliged to observe though they cross their own Laws and hazard the ruine of their Interest or Lives That the Pope only may use Imperial Robes lest temporal Princes should mistake their carnal Emperor for their spiritual Lord and Master That all Princes shall kiss the Popes Feet his Hands being seldom clean from Blood or Lips from Blasphemy That it is lawful for him to depose Emperors c. because they are so much his slaves as to let him That no general Synod might be called without his Holiness Command lest they should proceed contrary to his Instructions which his Council of Trent durst not do That he ought to be judged by no man lest they should judge him as others his predecessors to be Atheists Conjurers Blasphemers perjured persons Traytors Tyrants Whoremongers Sodomites infectious monsters of men That he is not to be accounted Catholik that agrees not with the Church of Rome Vid. Ursinus pag. 204. to 240. that never yet agreed with her self in any thing but what tended to the propagating Error and suppressing the Truth That Subjects do not sin when they refuse without reason alledged to submit to a Law whereof there hath been a legal Proclamation made by their Prince Ad M.J. p. 92. That Clergymen are not subject to secular Princes nor obliged to any obedience to their Laws even though those Laws are not any way contrary to the State Ecclesiastical pag. 92. Saith Bellarmine if the Pope should command us to sin we are bound to obey him Others say if the Pope should lead thousands to Hell we must not reprove him vid. Pooles Nullity of the Romish Faith p. 243. And admit their Popes to be such as Baronius Platina Genbrandus and others of their own Authors describe them to be monsters of men rather Defilers than Rulers of the Roman Seat prodigious slaves to all Vices and the wickedst of men none more filthy that is admit the Popes be as bad as Vice can make them yet saith Bellarmine Kings are rather Slaves than Lords Church-men being as far above them as the Soul is above the Body that Bishops who are at the Popes nod may depose them Nay saith Masconius Prins Romish Positions of Rebellion 1650. the Pope is above Law against Law and without Law and therefore can do all things he is Rex Regnum and Dominus Dominantium in short he hath the same Tribunal with God himself vid. Regula juris Romani quoted by Ursinus p. 193. Well might one of their great Clergymen say when he found a Bible he knew not who was the Author of it but sure he was some pestilent Heretick for he every where condemns the Doctrines of our Church Pooles Nullity of the R. F. p. 218. Their Sublimity and Immensity is so great said Cassenius Ursinus p. 186. no mortal man can comprehend it no man can express it no man can think it vide Bishop Taylors Dissu Part 1. He can increase the number of the holy Scriptures dethrone Kings and dispose of all temporal Dominions at his pleasure punish them with temporal punishments and this Power is more necessary over Princes than over Subjects if he could not depose Kings and compell their Subjects to execute his Power his Power were not only inefficax but insufficiens Review of the Council of Trent ' An excommunicate King may with impunity be deposed or killed by any one ' Suarez Des Fid. lib. 3. cap. 23. ' Nay F. Parsons affirms p. 149. that if any Christian Prince whatsoever decline the Roman Religion c. he presently loseth all Power and Dignity before any Sentence of the Pope is pronounced and his Subjects are absolved from all Oaths of Allegiance and ought to reject such a one from the Government of Christians by the strictest bond of Conscience and the utmost hazard of their Souls for he hath ipso sacto lost his Kingdom ' Id. p. 109. 149 160. ' The Pope is not only advanced by these Papal Janisaries above all the Emperors and Princes but above all that is called God ' vid. Prynnes Roman Positions of Rebellion 1650. Dr. Du Moulins Vind. Answ to Apolog. 1666. But to compleat all the rest lest any Promise or Faith engaged to Hereticks when Policy of State requires it should after
against the King and most barbarous inhumane Cruelties exercised upon his most loyal Subjects in Ireland did they transact in the Kings Name to which they counterfeited his Great Seal vide Borlacy fol. 29. and declared all they did was for the Kings Service See their Remonstrance at Trim March 17. 1642. with their other Addresses but especially the grand Bond of their Catholick Confederacy their Oath of Association they declare thus in the Preamble As also for the defence and safeguard of his Majesties Person regal Power just Prerogatives Honour State and Rights in the body of the Oath thus I A.B. do prosess swear and protest before God his Saints and Angels that I will during my life bear true Faith and Allegiance to my Soveraign Lord Charles c. that I will to my power during my life defend uphold and maintain all his just Prerogatives Estates and Rights c. Now to say this in that very act in which the Bond of their treasonable Rebellion consisted which after the greatest deliberation they agreed to publish in contempt of the Kings Laws and Soveraign Power puts dull Hereticks to a stand what to make of Popish Loyalty unless they can loyally rise in Rebellion against their King and barbarously murder two or three hundred thousand of his loyal Subjects for his Honour and Service Sir John Temple p. 6. The Lords of the Pale desired Commissions and Arms to resist the Rebels and then imployed them to assist them for his Service Sir John Temple p. 60. They maintained a long and bloody War against His Majesties Vice-Roy and Army commissioned by him for His Majesties Service After near two years viz. June 1643. they by the utmost extremity of War against the Kings Vice-Roy had reduced his Majesties Army into great extremities of wants c. yet in their Instrument impowering their Commissioners to treat about the Cessation they stile themselves His Majesties most faithful Subjects necessitated to take up Arms for the Defence of His Majesties just Prerogatives and Rights vide Dr. Borlace pag. 126. And this near two years after His Majesty had declared them and their Adherents and Abettors lewd and wicked persons that had rob'd and massacred multitudes of his loyal Protestant Subjects Rebels and Traitors against his Royal Person Enemies to his Crown c commanding his Justices and Army to prosecute the said Rebels and Traitors with Fire and Sword as persons unworthy of Mercy or Favour vid. Dr. Borlaco's Hist fol. 53 54. It is evident His Majesty esteemed that Treason and Rebellion they called Loyalty and good Service yet so confident they were all they had done consisted with their Loyalty they menaced the Lords Justices and Council July 1643. if any Messenger brought any Papers to them containing other Language than to His Majesties loyal and obedient Subjects they should not return safe Dr. Borlace p. 128. And to pass by all the Breaches of their Articles of Cessation which you may read a Brief of in Dr. Borlace's Hist fol. 147 148. Take but a brief view of their Behaviour after the Peace was proclaimed 1646 and 1648. 1. They treacherously contrived to cut off the Lord Leutenant and his Army who in confidence of the Articles of Peace they had got into their Quarters as far as Cashel Borlace p. 161 Their Excommunicating all that adhered to the Peace and joyning with the Nuntio's Army to besiege and distress the Lord Lieutenant with the Kings Army in Dublin Borl p. 162 165. Their treacheorous Consult at Waterford to cut off the Lord Lieutenant and his Party who visited them in kindness to contrive their Security and was instrumental to the great hazard of his Person to preserve a Body of Foot that had otherwise been cut off in their Retreat from passage were these things for His Majesties Service Borlace's Hist fol. 231 232. Nay from that time all their Affronts Indignities and Contempts put upon the Kings Authority in the Persons of the Marquesses of Ormond and Clanriccard were still for the Kings Service you may read in Borlace's History of the Years 1650 1651. When not only the Lord Lieutenant was dayly affronted to that height as is not to be parallell'd for Rudeness and Ingratitude and after all his patience bearing with and winking at so many repeated affronts which his high Spirit would have disdained the least part of if the Kings Interest had not weighed down all they excommunicated and rejected his Person and Authority with all imaginary reproach and slander vide Borlace 259. to 273. but it was still for the Kings Service And little better Treatment did that most loyal and upright Catholick Peer the Marquess of Clanriccard meet with from his Countrymen vide id 291. to 295. But after all for that unpardonable sin of Loyalty c. was excommunicated as a Contemner of the Authority of the Church because he would not betray his Trust from his Prince vide idem fol. 287. But all these intolerable Affronts and Contempts put on the Kings Authority from the Peace 1648. was only by the Clergy and Nuntio's Party for not only the Marquess of Clanriccard but many other Catholick Noblemen and Gentlemen with a considerable party of the Popish Army adhered stedfastly to the Kings Authority to the last the other only pretended to it Which fully evidenceth all Papists as is before asserted are not Jesuited Papists And it would be better both for themselves and us if they would more visibly distinguish themselves that we might know our Fiends from our Enemies My Opinion is those Subjects indulged by their Prince in the Liberty of their Consciences ought not only to explode all pernicious Principles to the Peace of his State in themselves but detect them where they discover them in others of their Sect or Persuasion or otherwise they justly suffer those Miseries that shall ensue by their neglect for though Unity in Religion is an excellent bond for Christian neighbourly Society where it can be obtained without violence to Reason and Conscience Yet I judge an Unity in Loyalty that is mutually to adhere to the Civil Constitutions of the Government they live under is much more steddy and safe Civil Interest being much more inclusive and less disputable than Religious for since St. Paul withstood St. Peter to the Face Galat. 2.11 and that sharp Contention betwixt Saint Paul and Barnabas on which they separated Acts 15.39 I do not find either in sacred or other History but there hath been Contentions and Divisions in the Church but still their Civil Interest was the same against Pagan Persecutors until that wicked Error of the Arrians became potent and persecuted the Orthodox since which time that Antichristian Spirit of Persecution hath rendered Christians less sociable than Pagans That were I to choose my Habitation in the world I should think my self more safe and comfortable in the Neighbourhood of moral Turks or Heathens that retain the Principles of Humanity than amongst such Christians
Papists do I offer these things to their consideration c. 1. Because whilst they tolerate or indulge them they will never be safe as is asserted in Part. 2. pag. 73. all those miserable Desolations that have befallen them since F. Allen and Parsons were sent over to Desmond and Tyrone with consecrated Banners to encourage them to rebel were the product of these Principles which operated to the ruine and utter desolating many Noble and Worshipful Catholick Families besides multitudes of common people vid. Spencer Campion Sir John Davis Stainhurst c. 2. If they would but consider the many traiterous Attempts that have been made against the Regency and Lives of their English Soveraigns since Henry the Eighth cast off the Popes Supremacy they may easily guess what deep impressions of jealousie and dread that Nation from the Throne to the Plough retains of them as for instance Henry the Eighth was excommunicated and deposed the Kingdom interdicted and tendered to whomsoever could conquer it The Pope in his Bull sent to James King of Scotland declared him deprived of his Kingdom as an Heretick a Schismatick an Adulterer a Murtherer a sacrilegious person and lastly a Rebel and Convict of Le se Magistratis for that he had risen against him the Pope who was his Lord. vide Speed l. 9 c. 21. Innocent Edw. 6. was filled with troubles from them and strongly suspected to be poysoned by their Contrivance Their cruel Persecution by burning c. of five eminent pious Prelates and one and twenty other eminent Divines and many good people in their short Reign by Queen Mary The many Attempts made against the Life and State of that pious Queen Elizabeth against her State in England by that invincible Armado in 88. against her State of Ireland by invading it with an Army of Spaniards and Italians 1580. contriving to bring her Title in question and raise up the Title of Mary Queen of Scots to the Crown of England Campion Parsons and Haywood the three first Jesuits that came for England saith Sir Henry Baker I wish they had been the last made it their business to hire Assassinates to destroy the Queen Summervil to kill her 1582. the like Parry 1584. L. Luce Hist 429 c. Moody hired by the French Ambassador of the Guisin Faction to poyson her ann Dom. 1592. Holt the Jesuit hired Patrick Coleman an Irish Fryar to kill the Queen who of all Fryars love the work after Dr. Lopez Her Majesties Physician hired with 50000 Crowns to poyson her 1593. again ann Dom. 1594. Williams and York c. conspired to fire her Navy ann Dom. 1595. Edward Squire an Officer in her Stable hired by Walpoole the Jesuit to poyson the Pummel of the Queens Saddle after all this their Colledge at Salamanca sent over Winter the Jesuit with Instructions to raise an Army to make war against the Queen who by the aid of fifty disguised Jesuits in England listed 25000 Popish Souliers Winter assuring them the Jesuits of Spain had a Million of Crowns already collected for the Service and many of the Catholick Princes engaged to aid and assist but her God who had wonderfully preserved her all her long Reign took her to himself and so ended hers but not Englands troubles Luc. Hist pag. 405. to 509. King James was designed to be destroyed the day of his Coronation Luc. Hist p. 509 510. And his Title to the Crown rejected as being no Catholick and on that account Waterford Limerick Kilkenny and Wexford c openly opposed his Proclaiming until forced by the Lord Deputy Mountjoy after the several Attempts to rebel as is hinted Part. 1. p. 2 3. But all these hellish Plots by Gods Mercy being frustrated Garnet Catesby Fawx c. contrived to do their work throughly by the Powder Plot November 5. 1605. A Project not presidented in History for horrid Cruelty and hellish Treachery to kill King Queen Prince Lords and Commons at a Clap and then to have charged it upon the Puritans under which Character they would have destroyed the Body of the most stanch Protestants in the the Kingdom and then who should oppose what they would have done Yet Invincible Father Garnet was not discouraged but was at other Devices but was taken 1608. and executed and so ceased plotting Luc. Histor p. 513. yet the King having further Evidence of their plotting his Destruction publish'd his Declaration June 1610. to banish the Jesuits and Priests Luc. Hist 513. Yet did they so swarm in England that Jo. Gee a converted Priest by the fall of the Mass-house at Black Fryars where he narrowly escap'd his Life in his Book called the Foot out of the Snare printed in the year 1624. doth give an Account of a Congregation of Jesuits de Propagando Fide and how some of them boasted they contrived the poysoning of King James vide Prynnes Royal Favorite pag. 54. and Romes Masterpice p. 34. yet in the Reign of Charles the first they were still active anno Dom. 1627. they kept their Colledge at Clerkenwell and behaved themselves so insolently the House of Commons petitioned the King to put the Laws in Execution against them Romes Masterpiece pag. 34. and Prynnes Introd p. 88 89. they were the Fomentors of the Wars betwixt England and Scotland 1639. Prynnes Compl. Hist fol 449 450. and were preparing an Army to invade the South of England whilst the King with his English strength was engaged against the Scots in the North but the Hollanders fought and dispersed their Navy on the English Coast before they landed vide Prynnes Preface to his Vindication of Fundamentals Part 1. but all Projects sailing in England they remembred the proverb He that would England win Must with Ireland first begin They managed their Consults for the Irish Massacre vid. Sir John Temples Preface to the History of the Irish Rebellion And at the same time plotted the poysoning of the King discovered to Sir William Boswel the Kings Agent at the Hague vide Romes Masterpiece And this General Rebellion and bloody Massacre in Ireland did not only lay that Kingdom desolate but also influenced England into that unnatural War that cost it so much precious Blood and Treasure for until the news of that unsuspected amazing destruction of so many innocent Souls in Ireland there was not the least appearance of a breach betwixt the King and his Parliament all things in Scotland were so well pacified by the Kings presence there that when His Majesty upon advice of the Irish Rebellion suddenly hasted for London it became a common speech amongst the Scots Never did a more contented King part with a more contented People and so far were the Parliament at Westminster or the People from the least Jealousie of the King that he was received into London with all imaginable expressions of Joy and Gladness But such an impression did the news of that horrid Massacre make it begat a spirit of Indignation against the Papists and
such a dread of the like Miseries that might be perpetrated in England by them moved the Parliament to desire of the King the Ordering the Militia on pretence for the better security of the Nation against Papists and speedier Suppression of the Irish Rebellion upon which Head arose that woful Breach on which that unnatural War with all its dismal consequences succeeded from that time began the rude Tumults of London Apprentices c. and all other misbehaviour as you may read in Scobels Collections of that years Transactions And on that occasion succeeded that Petition and large Remonstrance from the Parliament presented to the King December 14. 1641. which laid the foundation of all our succeeding Miseries so that all Englands Scotlands and Irelands Troubles since Henry the eighth shak'd off the Papal Yoke have arose either from the Papists Struggles to recover their tyrannical Dominion over these Kingdoms or the Divisions they have made amongst Protestants by their wily sleights And what their Plots have been against the Life of Charles the second and the Peace of England of late we are wearied with reading the Discoveries and Evidences in Print I shall only insert their Oath of Secresie which will serve for an Epitome of the whole Plot at least the Design of it and indeed it is the truest Explanation of all their former Oaths of Confederacy extant In this the Monks Hood is thrown by of defending and maintaining His Majesties just Rights c. They here clearly renounce and disown any Allegiance and do swear to help his Holiness's Agents c. to extirpate and root out and destroy the said pretended King of England c. The Oath of Secrecy given by William Rushton to me Robert Bolron February 2. 1676. In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen I Robert Bolron being in the presence of Almighty God the blessed Mary ever Virgin the blessed Michael the Arch-Angel the blessed St. John Baptist the holy Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul and all the Saints in Heaven and to you my Ghostly Father do declare and in my heart believe the Pope Christs Vicar General to be the true and only Head of Christs Churh here on Earth and that by vertue of the Keys of Binding and Loosing given his Holiness by our Saviour Christ he hath Power to depose all Heretical Kings and Princes and cause them to be killed Therefore to the utmost of my power I will defend this Doctrine and his Holinesses Rights against all Usurpers whatever especially against the now pretended King of England in regard that he hath broke his Vows with his Holinesses Agents beyond Seas and not performed his Promises in bringing into England the holy Roman Catholick Religion I do renounce and disown any Allegiance as due to the said pretended King of England or Obedience to any of his inferour Officers and Magistrates but do believe the Protestant Doctrine to be Heretical and Damnable and that all are damn'd which do not forsake the same and to the best of my power will help his Holinesses Agents here in England to extirpate and root out the said Protestant Doctrine and to destroy the said pretended King of England and all such of his Subjects as will not adhere to the holy See of Rome and the Religion there professed I further do promise and declare that I will keep secret and private and not divulge directly or indirectly by Word Writing or Circumstance whatever shall be proposed given in charge or discovered to me by you my Ghostly Father or any other engaged in the promoting of this pious and holy Design and that I will be active and not desist from the carrying of it on and that no hopes of Rewards Threats or Punishments shall make me discover the rest concerned in so pious a Work and if discovered shall never confess any Accessaries with my self concerned in this Design All which I do swear by the blessed Trinity and by the blessed Sacrament which I now purpose to receive to perform and on my part to keep inviolable and do call all the Angels and Saints in Heaven to witness my real intention to keep this Oath In testimony whereof I do receive this most holy and blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist By this Oath it is evident Popelings are no Changelings Hildebrands Principles commencing an Dom. 606. are here repeated in their full strength above a thousand years after and why these treasonable Plots and Principles were not since the time of this Oath effectually perpetrated is so notoriously manifest in the multitudes of Prints published on that occasion it evidenceth it was not for want of good will on their parts And although God hath gratiously and wonderfully preserved the precious Life of the King and in him the Lives of us all that value our Religion Yet have these Incendiaries not lost their labour but have accomplished that which is next to cutting all our Throats viz. the fomenting a Misunderstanding and Jealousie betwixt the most indulgent and compassionate Prince and his faithful and loyal Subjects A doleful consideration it is to all serious loyal Hearts to observe a Prince so lately received with all expressible passions of Joy not only by those that expected Gain and Advancement but by others that knew they should suffer Loss as to their private Fortunes yet were so weary of their past and then present Confusion and so well satisfied in the Kings Gratious Declarations and Intentions they could and did say as Mephibosheth to David For as much as our Lord the King is come again in peace let Zibah take all let Royalists but not Papists take our Crown and Bishops Lands our Regiments and Troops c. our Hearts shall joyn with our Hands to lift the King into his Throne which we defie all other Hands to do without us so England c. may be once more settled And with what mutual content both King and People have enjoyed each other till the very day this last Hell-hatch'd Plot broke out is notorious to all Europe as well as Great Britain and Ireland till then we heard of no Court nor Country Parties no Whiggs nor Tories c. but in Irelands Boggs c. no Petitioners Abhorrers or Addressers but what the King was pleased with no executing penal Laws on Dissenters but on the contrary Subjects entirely and universally endeared to a Prince in his own nature compounded of of Tenderness and Sympathy pleading with Parliaments against penal Statutes and proposing to their Consideration that some Provision might be made to enable him to dispence with such Protestants who through misguided Conscience could not conform to the Ceremonies Discipline c. of the Church vid. Speeches Octob. 26. 1662. and again Mar. 6. 1678. His Majesty did not only press the House but also commanded the Lord Chancellor to commend to their consideration not only what might tend to preserve the Protestant Religion in general but for an
trusted with the Safety of the Victors Interest in their own Country unless they submitted and became Tributaries under Compact before conquered Not only these ancient but our modern Monarchs practice the same as the Grand Seignior and the German Empire consisting of many distinct Principalities and States yet all governed by their own Princes and Senators except what are in slavery and they by those Colonies sent to plant and keep them under the like are the Principalities and States of Italy under the Papal Regency which I hint to vindicate my Assertion from Novelty it having been the universal Policy in all Ages and Countries as all that are acquainted with History must grant But the case of the English in Ireland is far before these other cases they are not only English by priviledge as Paul was a Roman but English by Blood and many of them English by Birth they are so far from being a conquered or a tributary people that they are the Conquerors by vertue of whose Blood and the Blood of their Ancestors the Scepter of England is there swayed and the chief Security the Crown of England hath for its Regency is the Strength and Potency of the English in Ireland 1000 men raised for the Defence of Ireland of its own Inhabitants is worth two for the suppressing a Rebellion of new raised men out of England for besides their subjection to the Diseases of the Country at first which usually destroy a great part of them before they have been six months in the Field they have no motive to encourage them nor Interest to fight for but Honor and Profit whereas the other who have their Title from the Crown for every Acre they possess in Ireland are more engaged to secure the Interest of the Crown than the King himself is theirs few of the forfeiting Irish look so far as the King who reassumes and disposeth of their Estates but eye with indignation the present possessors as was manifest in the last horrid Massacre whilst they barbarously murthered the possessors of their Estates they both by Addresses and publick Remonstrances asserted their Loyalty to the King and though the Kings Interest at present suffer yet the Recovery of it is secure so long as England and Scotland can raise Souldiers to pour in upon them But the Subjects whose throats are cut and their Houses and Improvements destroyed Wives and Daughters ravished and Children murthered can have no reparation in this world and such as do escape with their lives are utterly ruined in their Fortunes oft constrained to sell a good part of their wasted Lands in the Irish Quarters for a third part of its value to procure Mony to preserve them and theirs from starving Now the Survivors to these Families are doubtless above all other people engaged to preserve and recover the Interest of the Crown in time of War and consequently most merit to enjoy the profitable Imployments of the Country in times of Peace being every way more engaged and better qualified for the Kings Service there than pro tempore persons who have no obligation upon them but their present Honour or Profit that if the Kingdom be lost under their Conduct if they can but preserve their Lives and Honours they lose nothing that pincheth afterward whereas the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Ireland some of which having Princely Estates may be reduc'd to extremity of want of which we had many woful presidents the last Rebellion and all the Politicks I have read esteem desperate hazard and danger will make a Coward valiant therefore advise to make a slying Enemy a golden Bridge much more engage the Hearts and Hands of persons of Honour and Courage when they they do not only fight for the King and their Country but for their VVives and Children their Houses and Lands as Nehem. 4.14 they cannot forget how many of their Wives and Daughters were ravished and innocent Children murthered in the sight of their dearest Relations and Friends and from thence will rather dye than fall into the Hands of such bloody miscreants whose tender mercies are cruelties which is not the case of new English Spencer pag. 8. treating of Military Officers puts a great weight upon imploying Officers acquainted with the Country saith he The Reducing of Ireland will ask no long time nor great charge so as the effecting thereof be committed to men of trust and sound experience in the Country but if left to such raw Captains as are usually sent out of England c. it will fall to the ground c. for before they have gather'd Experience they shall buy it with great loss to Her Majesty either by hazarding their Companies by ignorance of the places and manner of Irish Service or by losing much time to take out their lesson c. besides saith he there is a great wrong done to the old Souldiers when the Advancement due unto them is cut off by shuffling in these new cutting Captains into the places for which they have long served and well deserved To say the truth saith he me thinks it is meet before men be made Captains they should be first Souldiers pag. 84. for men throughly acquainted both with the state of the Country and manners of the people should be still continued pag. 85. Saith Livy The Romans could perform nothing memorable in their Conquest of Sicilia whilst they frequently changed the Commanders of their Army because new Commanders spent so much time in their new preparations chusing their Ground and insinuating themselves into the old Souldiery they had no time left for the management of their Affairs before they were removed but to prevent their Consuls from being removed from the head of their Armies being annually chosen they chose a Dictator Liv. Supplement 79. And that this hath been the Opinion of all our Kings of England since the Conquest of Ireland will more evidently appear by the ensuing Catalogue formed in two Columes to distinguish betwixt English and Irish Chief Governors only note that such of them as are in the English Colume 1. If they be sent again we esteem them of Ireland and place them in the Irish Colume supposing they were therefore sent because of their experience in and knowledge they have gained of the Country by their former Service c. 2. I do also esteem all of the Royal Line interested persons and therefore place them in the Irish Colume A Catalogue of the Chief Governors of Ireland from the first Conquest to the Year 1680. by which may be observed that persons related to and acquainted with and interested in Irelands Welfare have been most imployed in its Government by the Kings of England FFrom 1167. unto 1170. was spent by Strongbow and his Assistance in vindicating the Quarrel of Mac Murrogh King of Leinster c. 1171. The King jealous of Strongbows potency comes towards Ireland Srongbow meets him at Glocester surrenders all his Conquests to his Dispose returns with him to VVaterford