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A52629	A geographicall description of the kingdom of Ireland according to the 5 provinces and 32 counties : together with the stations, creeks and harbours belonging thereto : fit for gentlemen, souldiers, and sea-men to acquaint themselves withall : as also declaring the right and titles of the kings of England unto that kingdom : likewise setting down a brief relation of the former rebellions and of their suppression : especially that in Q. Elizabeths time by Tyrone : whence many matters worth observing may be collected usefull for this present service / by a well-willer to the peace of both kingdoms.	G. N., well-willer to the peace of both kingdoms.	1642 (1642)	Wing N18; ESTC R4037	65,078	123

peny sterling In Corke by Patent to Knights and Esquires and to their heires were granted 88037 Acres with Rents five hundred and twelve pounds seven shillings and six peace half p●ny sterling In Waterford and Tipperary 22910 Acres with Rents three hundred and three pounds three pence sterling But these Undertakers having got so large a proportion of Lands and so little care to plant them with English Colonies and build and fortifie them with Castles as by Patent they were tied but for private ends without any regard to the publick good or her Majesties bounty sold them either to Papists or to Irish ill affected unto the English which was a great prejudice to the State of that Kingdom and the seeds of the ensuing Rebellion raised by Tyrone Concerning which I will briefly shew unto the Reader such collections as I have gathered from divers Authors COncerning the name and title of O Neale it is in so much esteeme that even those honourable titles of Earles Marquesses Dukes and Princes are despised in regard of that and in such reverent regard among the Irish that it is thought hee deserves the greatest curse in the world to fall upon him that shall dare to lay violent hands upon him nor have any loyall subjects a more dreadfull awe to violate the person of their sacred Prince then these people have to touch their great O Neale So that two thousand pound being offered by Proclamation to any that should betray him in his vast Campe prevailed nothing at all although hee were proclaymed Traitour and held guilty of that crime by Act of Parliament to take that name upon him Neere T●llogh Oge there was a stone Chaire placed in the open field wherein he sate down that was created then we whose office it was took an old shooe and cast it over his head proclayming him O Neale Henry O Neale and C●nm●re matching into the Family of the Earles of Kildare by this their good fortune grew so insolent and proud that by their cruell tyranny they grew intolerable C●n Batto because lame succeeded his father in the dignity of O Neale and cursed his posterity if any of them should learne English sow corne or build houses to entertain the English This mans greatnesse grew in suspition with Henry the eighth having been a party in the former Rebellion of the Earle of Kildare which hee perceiving went into England renounced the title of O Neale and surrendred his Lands unto the King Which not long after was regranted unto him by Henry the eighth to hold in fee together with the title of the Earl of Tyrone to him and to Matthew his reputed sonne and to the heires of their bodies lawfully begotten At which time also Matthew was created Baron of Dungannon This Matthew till hee was fifteene yeeres of age was reputed the sonne of a blacksmith of Dundalke whose Wife Con had formerly kept and she at her death gave him unto the said Con as being his sonne which hee did accept and appointed him to be Lord of Dungannon but hee was murthered in his fathers life time by Shant that is John O Neale the lawfull heire of Con but Matthew the base sonne left Brian who was murthered by O Donell at the instance of Shan And Hugh and Cormack who by the means and help of the English were preserved yet both proved Rebels Shan being barbarous and bloudy did ●ave and rage in a cruell manner over the Lords and people of Vlster Began to dispute that his father had no power to surrender to Henry the Eighth being but a termer that Matthe● was base borne that himselfe was O Neale and had Sovereigne power and authority over the Lords of Vlster Who taking armes overthrew O Really and took Callogh O Donnell Lord of Tir Conell cast him and his children into prison took his wife from him and bore himselfe as absolute King of Vlster But hee was soone quelled by the forces of the Earle of Sussex the then Lord Deputy and by perswasion of the Earle of Kildare went into England and made great submission to Queen Elizabeth and promising allegiance was received courteously And so returning conformed himselfe awhile in civill manner and did some good service against the Scots killed their Leader and drove them out of Vlster howbeit hee suddenly fell to his old byas and played the Tyrant over the Lords of Vlster who craved aid of the Lord Deputy to suppresse him but he grew the more outragious and with fire and sword drave Mac Guir Lord of Fermanagh out of his Country set fire on the Metropolitan Church of Armagh and laid siege to Dundalke but had the repulse by the Garrison and assistance of the Major But Sir Henry Sidney Lord Deputy taking the field with some forces sent Edw. Raldalph a brave Souldier to the North side of Ireland where at Derry at Coghfoyle in a pitchfield though hee lost his life yet gave the rebell such an overthrow that he was never able to appeare any more abroad so that hee was minded to have submitted with a halter about his neck to the Deputy but by the perswasion of his Secretary hee tried the friendship of the Scots who received him kindly but not long after slue him So that presently after Shan by a Parliament at Dublin was attainted of high Treason and all that hee had fell to the Queen Then Turlogh Linnogh took the title off O Neal for feare of the children of Shan and Matthew the bastard but being aged was quiet and lived peaceably Now Hugh son of the base son Matthew lived somtime in Ireland but much in the Court of England commonly called Baron of Dungannon who had served with a troop of horse under the Queen against the Lord of Desmond and behaved himselfe so valiantly that hee had given him a yeerly pension off a hundred marks He was a man of mean stature but of a strange body able to endure labours watching hunger and cold being industrious and active valiant affable and apt to manage great affaires and of a hgh dissembling subtile and profound wit He put up a Petition to the Parliament in Ireland that he might enjoy the inheritance of his Grandfather Con and his father granted to be Earles of Tirone which by the help of Sir John Perrot Lord Deputy was procured of the Queen And so hee handled the matter as well knowing the humour of the Court of England that through the Queenes mediation he got Turlogh Linnogh to surrender his government upon some conditions After whose death he usurped the title of O Neale which was capitall yet coloured it over with a pretence that it was only to hinder others In the yeer 1588 when that great Armado of Spaine was scattered by the English and many of the ships cast away on the Irish coast it is thought that this Hugh lodging and entertaining many of them was by them seduced and perswaded to Rebellion And going into England he was there

Crowne 20l The Clerke of the Counsell 20l The Serjeant at Armes 20l The Provost Marshall 264l 12s 6. d. The increase of pay to the present Cōmissioners 282. l. 10s Sum. total 949l 12s 6d Certaine Bands of Irish Kerne 1579l 8s 9d For Warders in severall Provinces 3577l 2d For Commissaries of Musters 577l 18s 4d For Pensioners of all sorts 3249l 9. d. Lastly Almes men 88l 19. s. 4. d. The totall of the above-named charge not contained in the establishment 21328l 8s 7d To which adde the establishment 277782l 15s The totall of the yeerly charge was 299111l 3s 7d To which if you adde the great charge of all Forts of Munitions with the like extraordinary expences and consider that the 1300 horse and the 1600 foot by new supplyes were to be made up 20000. What a masse of expence is here in one yeere able to drain this Kingdome seeing nothing comes from Ireland but complaints It will require the wisdome and providence of those that undertake it and the patience of the people that beare it All this in a readinesse the Earle of Essex departs from London in March 1●99 in the beginning of the yeere not providently foreseeing what a step hee then made to his ruine The Nobility and gallant Gentry accompanied him on his way And the Earle of Kildare made such haste in an ill Vessell that himselfe and many a brave man with him were all drowned in the passage The Earle being arrived in Ireland took the place of government and laboured to acquaint himself with the estate of that Kingdome what parts were quiet what in rebellion Who had certaine intelligence that the Rebels in the County of Dublin were in number of the chiefe Families 48 foot 20 horse In Kildare 220 foot three horse In the County of Carlogh being wholly wasted only six or seven Castles held for the Queen In the County of VVexford all wasted but the Castles held for the queen and some English Families but all the rest in rebellion In these two Counties 750 foot 50 horse In the County of Leaz most of the chiefe in rebellion 570 foot 30 horse Only a few Castles held for the queen In the County of Ophaly some Castles held for the queen others by the Rebels 468 foot 12 horse In the County of Kilkenny many great Families of the Irish the Butlers in Rebellion 130 foot 20 horse The Rebels held the Castle of Bellirage and Colekill The rest the Earle of Ormond held for the queene In the County of Meth the son and heire of Sir William Nugent in rebellion and the Rebels of Vlster had much wasted the heart of the Pale In the County of West Meth lying most waste and possessed by the Rebels 140 foot twenty horse Besides Captain Tirril a bold man of English Race who had of Vlster men and other Rebels 200 foot In the County of Lowth all wasted by the Rebels only an English Irish Baron the Townes and Castles stood for the queene In the County of Langford 120 foot The whole in this Province of Lemster and Meth joyned with it 3048 foot 182 horse In the Province of Vlster Consisting most of Irish except somewhat which the Scots held were all forced to give way to Tyrone Dundalke the Frontier Towne between the Pale and Ulster and Knocfergus a Frontier Towne towards Scotland were kept by the English and some few other Castles all the rest possessed by the Rebels In the upper and lower Clandebays the Rebels 160 foot 70 horse The Duffery had 20 foot Two more Rebels had 100 foot 20 horse The Captain of Kilwarben had 60 foot 10 horse Mac 60 foot 10 horse Beyond the Min Water 40 foot Sir Francis Mac Surlebay 400 foot 100 horse The Island of Magie belonging to the Earle of Essex was wasted Mac Guir in Fermannagh had 600 foot 100 horse Other Rebels thereabout had 500 foot ●●0 horse The O Reylies in the Brenny or County of Cavan had 800 foot 100 horse O Cane in his Countrey 500 foot 2●0 horse Seven other chief Rebels had 1180 foot 281 horse Tyrone the Arch traytour Tyrone his country 700. foot 200 horse And divers other Rebels with him So the whole forces of the Rebels in Vlster 1702 horse 7220 foot In the County of Tipperary the Baron of Caher a Butler with his Brother and followers 30 foot 12 horse And divers other great Families had in severall companies some not having above three or foure horse 1660 F. 79 Horse In the County of Corke James fitz Thomas the new created Earle of Desmond 250 foot 30 horse And divers other Families 820 foot 8 horse In the County of Luirick Fisz Lacy with others had 300 foot 15 horse In the County of Kerry the Lord Fitz-Morice and others 500 foot 30 horse In the County of Desmond Osuillinan Beare and others had 500 foot 6 horse In the County of Waterford 200 foot 10 horse The whole number of the Rebels in Munster 5030 foot 242 Horse The Rebels of Connagh were 3070 foot 220 horse In all the foure Provinces Meth being reckoned for a County in Lemster the strength of the Rebels were 18246 foot 2346 horse Concerning which in April the Earle of Essex sent intelligence into England by a Letter And in a second Letter of the resolutions of Tyrone first that he intended to hearten his Confederates and then to make head in Vlster with his own forces and O Donnel in Connagh that the Rebels had taken oath at a publick Crosse to be constant and none ●ought pardon but in such insolent manner that it was rather a contempt That the very subjects grew cold in the service that although on private revenge they could appeare with an 100. Horse and 300 Foot yet now pleaded their inability to ayd the Queen with sixe of each the Earle gathered some English forces together and against his owne advice in England and the Q. command deceived by some false counsell hee set not on the head but on a few weake Rebels in Munster a matter of no consequence being beaten as they were June 15. the Lord Lievtenant received Letters from a Captain out of the North of Vlster that Tyrone had received Amunition out of Spaine but no treasure as was reported that he did sollicite the Redshanks into his pay and had provision of armes and other assistance daily from the Scots And also advised the Earle of their strength and of their intention to protract the warre and weary the English in prevention whereof he wished his Lordship to procure foure thousand Redshanks which in their Boats might break in upon Tyrone which thing the Lord Bourgh had formerly undertaken to procure but was prevented by death Iu. 25. the Lord Lievtenant wrote unto the Queen of the state and condition of the Rebels shewing the cause of their rebellion with the meanes to reduce and keepe them in subjection and that as well by Sea as Land provision must bee made to reduce them