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A55719 The Present state of Ireland together with some remarques upon the antient state thereof : likewise a description of the chief towns : with a map of the kingdome. 1673 (1673) Wing P3267; ESTC R26213 101,146 318

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gallant and truly meritorious The Irish unanimously agreed to root the English out of Ireland It is not to be denyed but that the first and most bloudy executions were made in the Prevince of Vlster and there they continued longest to execute their rage and cruelty yet must it be acknowledged that all the other three Provinces did concur with them as it were with one common consent to destroy and pluck up by the roots all the British planted throughout the Kingdom And for this purpose they went on not only murdering stripping and driving out all of them Men Women and Children but they laid wast their Habitations burnt their evidences defaced in many places all the Monuments of Civility and Devotion the Courts and places of the English Government Nay as some of themselves exprest it they resolved not to leave them either Name or Posterity in Ireland Having thus far briefly rendered an account touching matter of fact That the Irish can pretend no grievances as motives to the last Rebellion An. 164● transacted in this most bloudy Rebellion I shall in the next place take an occasion to enquire whether this desperate resolution of the Irish proceeded from the sense of some grievous oppressions imposed upon by their English Governours or rather meerly from an impetuous desire they had to draw the whole Government of the Kingdom of Ireland into their own hands Upon due consideration whereof I cannot find they had the least cause to complain of oppression for his late Majesties Indulgence was so great towards his Subjects of Ireland as that in the year 1640. upon their complaints and a general Remonstrance sent over unto him from both Houses of Parliament then sitting at Dublin by a Committee of four Temporal Lords of the Upper House and twelve Members of the House of Commons with instructions to represent the heavy pressures they had for some time suffered under the Government of the Earl of Strafford He took these Grievances into his Royal Consideration descended so far to their satisfaction as that he heard them himself and made present Provisions for their redress And upon the decease of Mr. Wandsford Master of the Rolls in Ireland and then Lord Deputy there under the said Earl of Strafford who still continued Lord Lieutenant of that Kingdom though then accused of High Treason and imprisoned in the Tower of London by the Parliament of England His Majesty sent a Commission of Government to the Lord Dillon of Kilkenny West and Sir William Parsons Knight and Baronet Master of the Wards in Ireland yet soon after finding the choice of the Lord Dillon to be much disgusted by the Committee he did at their Motion cause the said Commission to be Cancell'd and with their consent and approbation placed the Government upon Sir William Parsons and Sir John Borlace Knight Master of the Ordinance both esteemed persons of great Integrity and the Master of Wards by reason of his very long continued imployment in the State his particular knowledge of the Kingdom much valued and well beloved amongst the People They took the Sword upon the ninth of February 1640. And in the first place they aplyed themselves with all gentle lenitives to mollifie the sharp humours raised by the rigid passages in the former Government They declared themselves against all such proceedings lately used as they found any ways varying from the Common Law They gave all due encouragement to the Parliament then sitting to endeavour the reasonable ease and contentment of the people freely ascenting to all such Acts as really tended to a Legal Reformation They betook themselves wholly to the advice of the Councel and caused all matters as well of the Crown as Popular Interest to be handled in his Majesties Courts of Justice no way admitting the late exorbitancies so bitterly decryed in Parliament of Paper-Petitions or Bills in Civil Causes to be brought before them at the Councel-board or before any other by their Authority They by his Majesties gracious directions gave way to the Parliament to abate the Subsidies there given in the Earl of Straffords time and then in Collection from forty thousand pounds each Subsidy to twelve thousand pounds a piece so low did they think fit to reduce them And they were farther content because they saw his Majesty most absolutely resolved to give the Irish Agents full satisfaction to draw up two Acts to be passed in the Parliament most impetuously desired by the Natives The one was the Act of Limitations which unquestionably settled all Estates of Land in the Kingdom quietly enjoyed without claim or interruption for the space of sixty years immediately preceding The other was for the relinquishment of the right and title which his Majesty had to the four Counties in Connaght legally found for him by several Inquisitions taken in them and ready to be disposed upon a due Survey to British undertakers as also to some Territories of good extant in Mounster and the County of Clare upon the same title Thus was the present Government most sweetly tempered and carryed on with great lenity and moderation the Lords Justices and Councel wholly departing from the rigour of former courses did gently unbend themselves into a happy and just compliance with the seasonable desires of the people And his Majesty that he might farther testify his own settled resolution for the continuation thereof with the same tender hand over them having first given full satisfaction in all things to the said Committee of Parliament still attending their dispatch did about the latter end of May 1641. declare Kobert Earl of Leicester Lord Lieutenant General of the Kingdom of Ireland He was Heir to Sir Philip Sidney his Unckle as well as to Sir Henry Sidney his Grandfather who with great Honour and much Integrity long continued Chief Governour of Ireland during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth and being a person of excellent Abilities by Nature great Acquisitions from his own private Industry and publick Imployment abroad of exceeding great Temper and Moderation was never engaged in any publick pressures of the Common-wealth and therefore most likely to prove a just and gentle Governour most pleasing and acceptable to the people The Romish Catholicks privately enjoyed the exercise of their Religion through all Ireland Moreover the Romish Catholicks privately enjoyed the free exercise of their Religion throughout the whole Kingdom according to the Doctrine of the Church of Rome They had by the over great indulgence of the late Governours their Titular Arch-bishops Bishops Vicars general Provincial Consistories Deans Abbots Priors Nuns who all lived freely though somewhat covertly among them and without controul exercised a voluntary jurisdiction over them they had their Priests Jesuits and Fryars who were of late years exceedingly multiplyed and in great numbers returned out of Spain Italy and other forreign parts where the Children of the Natives of Ireland that way devoted were sent usually to receive their Education And these without
little more honour but for the most part with one and the same authority And without doubt those first Justicers of Ireland as the Justicer of England who in that age was also for brevity called Justice were ordained for keeping of the Peace and Ministring of Justice to all and every person as were the Proprietors and Proconsuls in old time among the Romans which were sent into a Province with highest command Before we pass further Let us take a view of the Catalogue here before us comprehending this following Table A Table shewing the Names and Titles of all the Lord Lieutenants Deputies and Lord Justices of Ireland with the time they began their Government since the 16th Year of the Reign of Henry the Seventh unto this present Year 1672. Order Their Names Titles they had before Titles in Ireland Month. Day Year 1 Henry Duke of York L. Lieuten     1501 2 Gerrald Earl of Kildare Deputy     1501 3 Thomas Howard Earl of Surrey Lieuten     1520 4 Piers Butler Earl of Ossory Deputy       5 Gerrald Earl of Kildare Deputy       6   Baron of Delvin Deputy       7 Piers Butler Earl of Ossory Deputy     1529 8 Will. Skevington Knight Deputy     1530 9 Gerrald Earl of Kildare Deputy     1532 10 Will. Skevington Knight Deputy October 4 1534 11 Leonard Lord Gray Deputy January 1 1534 12 William Brereton Knight Deputy     1540 13 Anthon. S. Leager Knight Deputy July 25 1541 14 William Brabazon Knight Justice April 1 1546 15 Anthon. S. Leager Knight Deputy August 4 1546 16 Edw. Bellingham Knight Deputy May   1548 17 Francis Bryen Knight Justice Decemb. 27 1549 18 William Brabazon Knight Justice Februar   1549 19 Anthon. S. Leager Knight Deputy August 4 1550 20 James Crofts Knight Deputy April 29 1551 21 Thomas Cusack Gerrald Ailmer Knights Justices Decemb.   1552 22 Anth. S. Leager Knight Deputy Septemb. 1 1554 23 Thomas Lord Fitz-Water Deputy May 26 1555 24 Hugh Cruwen Henry Sidney Arch. Bish Dub. L. Chan. Knight and Treasurer Justices     1557 25 Henry Sidney Knight Justice February 6 1557 26 Thomas Earl of Sussex Deputy April 27 1558 27 H. Sidney absent Sussex in Scotia Knight Justice Septemb. 24 1558 28 Thomas Earl of Sussex Deputy       29 Henry Sidney Knight Justice Decemb. 13 1558 30 Thomas Earl of Sussex Deputy August 27 1559 31 W. Fitz-Williams Knight Justice February 15 1559 32 Thomas Earl of Sussex Lieutenant June 24 1560 33 W. Fitz-Williams Knight Justice February 2 1560 34 Thomas Earl of Sussex Lieutenant June 1 1561 35 W. Fitz Williams Knight Justice January 22 1561 36 Thomas Earl of Sussex Lieutenant July 24 1562 37 Nicholas Arnold Knight Justice May 25 1564 38 Henry Sidney Knight Deputy June 20 1565 39 Doe Weston W. Fitz-Williams Lord Chancellor Knight Justices Octob. 14 1567 40 Henry Sidney Knight Deputy Octob. 20 1568 41 W. Fitz-Williams Knight Justice March 26 1570 42 W. Fitz-Williams Knight Deputy June 13 1570 43 Henry Sidney Knight Deputy Septemb. 18 1575 44 William Drurie Knight Justice Septemb. 14 1578 45 William Petham Knight Justice October 11 1579 46 Arthur Lord Gray Deputy August 12 1580 47 Adam Loftus Henry Wallop Arch. Bish Dub. L. Chan. Knight and Treasurer Justices     1582 48 John Perrott Knight Deputy June 21 1584 49 W. Fitz-Williams Knight Deputy June 30 1588 50 William Russel Knight Deputy August 11 1594 51 Thomas Lord Burrogh Deputy May 22 1597 52 Thomas Norris Knight Justice October 30 1597 53 Adam Loftus Arch-Bish Dub. L. Chan. Justice Novemb. 27 1597 53 Robert Gardiner Knight Justice Novem. 27 1597 54 Rob. D'Evercux Earl of Essex Lieutenant April 15 1598   Adam Loftus Arch-Bish Dub. L. Chan. Justices     1599 55 George Carie Knight and Treasurer     56 Charles Blunt Lord Mount-joy Lieutenant     1599 57 George Carie Knight and Treasurer Deputy April 29 1603 58 Arthur Chichester Knight Deputy February 3 1604   Thomas Jones Arch Bish Dub. L. Chan. Justices March 14 1613 59 Rich. Wingfeild Knight and Marshal         60 Arthur Chichester Lord Belfast Deputy July   1614 61 Thomas Jones John Denham Arch-Bish Dub. L. Chan. Knight Justices February 11 1615 62 Oliver St. John Knight Deputy August 30 1616 63 Adam Loftus K. Visc Ely L. Chan. Justices May 4 1622   Rich. Wingfeild Visc Poyerscourt 64 Henry Carie Visc Faulkland Deputy Septemb. 8 1622 65 Adam L●ftus Visc Ely L. Chan. Justice October 25 16●● 65 Richard Boyle Earl of Cork L. Treas Justice October 25 1629 66 Tho. Wentworth Visc Wentworth Deputy     1633 67 Adam Loftus Char. Wandesford Visc Ely L. Chan. Esq Mr. of the Rolls Justices June 2 1636 68 Tho. Wentworth Visc Wentworth Liutenant     1636 69 Robert Dillon Char. Wandesford Lord Kilkenny West Esq Mr. of the Rolls Justices     1639 70 Tho. Wentworth Earl of Strafford Lieutenant     1640 71 Char. Wandesford Master of the Rolls Deputy April 1 1640 72 William Parsons John Burlace K. Mr. of the Wards K. Mr. of the Ordnance Justices Decemb.   1641 73 John Burlace Henry Fichburne K. Mr. of the Ordnance K. Gover. of Drogheda Justices Decemb.   1642 74 James Butler Earl Marq. of Ormond Lieutenant     1643   Maur. Eustace Lord Chancellor   Decemb 31   75 Roger Earl of Orrery Justices January 17 1660   Charles Earl of Montrath   Decemb. 31   76 James D. Mar. E. of Ormond Lieutenant July 28 1662 77 Thomas Earl of Ossory Deputy May 31 1663 78 James D. Mar. E. of Ormond Lieutenant Septemb.   1665 79 Thomas Earl of Ossory Deputy April 25 1668 80 John Lord Roberts Lieutenant Septemb. 18 1669 81 John Lord Berkley Lieutenant April 21 1670 82 Michael Boyle Arthur Forbs Arch. Bish Dub. L. Chan. Knight Justices     1671 83 John Lord Berkley Lieutenant Septemb.   1671 84 Henry Capell Earl of Essex Lieutenant May 21 1672 Notwithstanding what before is said The great Power and Train of the Vice-Roys or Deputies of Ireland no Vice-Roy in all Europe hath greater Power or comes neerer the Majesty of a King in his Train and State yet it was thought that in the times of trouble this should have been one principal in the appointing of the Lord Deputies Authority that it should be more ample and absolute than it is and that he should have uncontrouled Power to do any thing that he with the advisement of the Councel should think meet to be done for that it was impossible for the Councel here to direct a Governour there who should be forced oftentimes to follow the necessity of present occasions and to take the suddain advantage of time which being once lost could not be recovered whilst The want of more absolute power in the Deputies of of Ireland was formerly prejudicial to the