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CALENDAR 


OF 


STATE     PAPEES. 


IRELAND, 

JAMES  I. 

1608  —  1610. 


a  2 


CALENDAR 


STATE     PAPERS, 


KELAIING   TO 


IRELAND, 

OF  THE  REIGN  OF 

JAMES   I. 
1608-1610. 

PKESEEVED   IN 

HER  MAJESTY'S  PUBLIC  RECORD  OFFICE,  AND  ELSEWHERE. 


EDITED    BY 

The  Eet.  C.  W.  EUSSELL,  D.D., 

AND 

JOHN  p.  PEENDERGAST,  Esq.,  Baeristee-at-Law, 

tJNDEB    THE   DIRECTION   OE   THE   MASTER    OP   THE   ROLLS,    AND   WITH   THE    SANCTION    OF 
HEK  majesty's    SECRETARY    OP   STATE   FOR    THE    HOME    DEPARTMENT. 


LONDON: 
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ALSO    BY 

PAEKER  &  CO.,  OXFOED  ;  and  MACMILLAN  &  CO.,  CAMBRIDGE ; 
A.  &  C.  BLACK,  EDINBUEGH ;  and  A.  THOM,  DUBLIN. 

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CONTENTS  OP  THIS  VOLUME. 


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Calenbae,  1608  to  1610   -     -     -     .     -     -         I 
General  Index   ---..-.  535 


PREFACE. 


The  great  majority  of  the  State  Papers  calendared  in 
tliis  volume  relate  to  the  province  of  Ulster.  The 
transactions  which  followed  the  flight  of  the  Earls  of 
Tyrone  and  Tyrconnell ; — the  new  relations  of  the  native 
population  of  the  northern  counties  to  the  Crown  of  Eng- 
land involved  in  that  momentous  event ;  the  consequent 
resolve  of  the  Government  to  take  advantage  of  the  occa- 
sion for  the  purpose  of  effecting  a  new  settlement  of 
the  province ;  the  legal  procedures  instituted  with  this 
view ;  and  the  preparatory  inquiries,  investigations  of 
tenure  and  title,  measurements,  surveys,  and  other  pre- 
liminaries of  the  settlement ; — may  all  be  studied  at  large 
in  the  original  records  of  those  memorable  years,  which 
are  more  than  ordinarily  complete,  and  exhibit  fewer 
notable  deficiencies  than  those  of  the  previous  years  of 
the  reign  of  James  I. 

In  the  general  sketch  of  the  condition  of  Ireland  at 
James  I.'s  accession,  prefixed  to  the  second  volume  of 
this  Calendar,  the  northern  province  was  bvit  lightly 
touched  upon,  the  notices  there  attempted  being  almost 
entirely  confined  to  Leinster,  Munster,  and  Connaught. 
We  thoiight  it  best  to  reserve  for  the  present  place  the 
details  of  the  condition  of  Ulster  and  its  native  popula- 
tion; our  object  being  to  bring  together  in  the  several 


VUi  PEEFACE. 

volumes  of  this  Calendar  such,  information  regarding  the 
condition  of  the  period  as  might  hest  serve  to  iUnstrate 
the  principal  suhject-matter  of  the  correspondence  com- 
prised in  each  volume. 

STATE  OF  ULSTER  AT  THE  CLOSE  OF  THE  SIXTEENTH 

CENTURY. 

A  very  interesting  survey  of  Ulster,  such  as  it  was  in 
the  latter  years  of  the  sixteenth  century,  is  contained  in. 
the  Carew  Papers,^  a  summary  of  which  may  serve  to 
explain  the  general  state  of  the  province,  and  the  distri- 
hution  of  the  principal  septs  and  families  therein,  just 
hefore  the  last  of  Tyrone's  wars. 

This  instructive  paper  is  entitled  "  The  Description 
"  and  present  State  of  Ulster  in  1586."  The  province 
is  described  as  containing  nine  counties,  that  is  to  say, 
"  three  of  ancient  making,  and  six  made,  or  rather  to 
"  be  made,  new  :  old  —  Louth,  Down,  Antrim  ;  new  — 
"  Manachan  [Monaghan],  Farnmanagh  [Fermanagh], 
"  Tirone,  Dungale  [Donegal],  Cobane,  Armagh." 

Each  of  these  is  described  in  detail. 

Louth  is  said  to  be  "  exposed  to  the  often  incursions 
"  of  many  lewd  and  disordered  people  :"  the  names  of 
its  corporations,  inhabitors,  and  principal  surnames  are  de- 
tailed ;  but  as  Louth  can  scarcely  be  said  to  have  been 
affected  by  the  Ulster  Plantation,  we  shall  not  dwell  upon 
this  portion  of  the  Paper.  It  will  be  enough  to  give  so 
much  as  refers  to  the  weU-known  "  escheated  counties," 
and  the  already  partially  "  settled  "  counties  of  Down  and 
Antrim.  In  all  these,  it  will  be  observed  that,  although 
the  topographical  denominations  employed  by  the  writer 
of  the  Paper  are  generally  recognizable  in  the  names  of 

1  II.,  p.  435. 


PREFACE.  IX 

modern  baronies  or  other  local  divisions,  they  do  not 
always  correspond  with  the  actual  baronial  denominations 
of  the  present  counties  of  Ulster. 

"Manachan  contains  these  countries; — Iriell  [Oriel],  Dartrey, 
Lowghtie  [Loughtee],  and  Trow  [Trough].  The  chief  captain  there 
is  Sir  Rory  M'Malion,  who  has  been  some  time  contributory  to 
Tirlough  O'Neil,  and  now  is  left  to  the  government  of  the  Earl 
of  Tyrone.  He  is  able  to  make  100  horsemen  and  400  footmen. 
Buildings  in  his  country  are  none,  save  certain  old  defaced 
monasteries. 

"The  county  of  Farnmanagh  contains  all  Farnmanagh,  Tyr- 
mingrah  [Termon-Magrath],  and  Tirmin  O'Mingan  [Termon-o- 
Mongan].  Its  captain  is  Sir  Conohour  M'Gwyre,  under  the  rule 
of  Tirlough  O'Neyle,  but  is  desirous  to  depend  on  the  Queen.  He 
is  able  to  make  80  horsemen,  200  shot,  and  300  kerne. 

"  In  the  county  of  Tyrone  the  chief  captain  is  Tirlough  O'Neyle 
Of  late  the  half  thereof  and  more,  by  a  composition,  is  let  to  the 
Earl  of  Tyrone.  Tirlough  desires  from  Her  Majesty  to  his  son,  the 
portion  of  Tyrone  wherein  he  dwelleth.  The  O'Neales  are  all 
horsemen,  and  the  Clandonelles  all  gaUoglas.  The  O'Donnells  are 
much  affected  to  Shan  O'Neyle's  sons.  The  whole  force  of  this 
country  is  300  horsemen  and  1,600  footmen.  Tirlough  most 
commonly  dwelleth  in  the  castle  of  Straban.  The  new  castle 
upon  the  Earl's  part  is  Dungannon,  and  a  defaced  castle  built  by 
Shan  O'Neyle  upon  the  Blackwater,  called  Benburbe. 

"  The  county  of  Dunegall  contaias  all  Tyrconell  and  O'Dohertie's 
Country.  O'Donell  is  captain  and  governor  of  Tyrconell,  the  chief 
strength  of  whom  standeth  most  upon  the  O'GallocheUs  [O'Gal- 
lagher's],  and  M'Swynes  [M'Sweenys].  He  is  able  to  make  200 
horsemen  and  1,300  footmen.  Between  him  and  O'Neill  hath  been 
continual  wars  for  the  castle  of  Liffer  and  the  lands  thereabouts. 
O'Doghertie's  country  is  a  promontory  almost  environed  with  the 
sea,  namely,  with  Lough  Swyly  [Lough  Swilly]  on  the  south,  and 
Lough  Foyle  on  the  north.  O'Doghertie  is  forced  to  contribute 
both  to  O'Neyle  and  O'Doimelle.  His  country,  lying  upon  the  sea, 
and  open  to  the  isles  of  Ha  and  Jura  in  Scotland,  is  almost  yearly 
invaded  by  the  Scots,  who  take  the  spoil  of  it  at  their  pleasures, 
whereby  O'Doghertie  is  forced  always  to  be  at  their  devotions. 
He  is  able  to  make  60  horsemen  and  300  footmen.     The  build- 


X  PREFACE, 

ings  in  his  countries  are  the  Derry  and   Greencastle,  which  are 
"wardable."  ^ 

The  county  designated  in  this  Paper  as  Ooleran  [Oole- 
raiae]  corresponds  for  the  most  part  with  that  which,  since 
the  Plantation,  is  known  as  Londonderry. 

"The  county  of  Coleran  contains  all  O'Cahan's  Country.  Its 
captain  is  Eory  O'Cahan,  always  left  to  the  government  of  Tir- 
lough  only.  His  nation  is  able  to  make  140  horsemen  and  400 
footmen ;  yet  because  he  bordereth  so  near  the  Scots,  he  is  much 
affected  to  them.  His  castles  are  Anagh  and  Lybenadye  [Lima- 
vady].  Near  the  salmon  fishing  are  the  castle  of  Colran  and  Castle 
Rooe  [Castleroe],  where  Tirlogh  O'Neale  keeps  a  constable  and  a 
ward  to  preserve  his  part  of  the  fishing. 

"  The  county  of  Ardmache  [Armagh]  contains  Oriragh  [Orior] 
which  is  O'Hanlon's  Country,  Clanbrasell,  Clancan  [M'Cann's 
Country],  Clanawlle[(^anawley],  Mucknee[Mucknoel,Tiriagh  [Togh- 
rany],  Fues  [Fews],  and  G'Neylau,  of  late  made  all  contributories  to 
the  Earl  of  Tyrone.  O'Hanlon's  Country  is  able  to  make  40  horse- 
men and  200  footmen.  Clanbrasell  has  no  horsemen,  but  80  kea.rne. 
Clancan  has  no  horsemen,  but  100  kearne,  who  live  upon  stealth 
and  robberies.  Clanawlle  appertains  to  the  Archbishop  of  Armagh 
and  his  freeholders,  containing  the  bridge  and  fort  of  Blackwater  ; 
and  Tirlough  Brasolach  holds  his  portion  of  land  from  the  Earl  of 
Tyrone.  The  said  Tirlough  with  his  sons  is  able  to  make  30  horse- 
men and  80  footmen.  Mucknoe  and  Tiriagh  are  now  possessed  by 
the  Earl  of  Tyrone,  who  has  placed  there  certain  of  his  own  waged 
followers.  Fewes  is  peopled  with  certain  of  the  Neyles,  accustomed 
to  live  much  upon  spoil  of  the  Pale.  They  are  able  to  make 
30  horsemen  and  100  footmen.  O'Neylan  is  claimed  by  the  Earl 
of  Tyrone.  He  hath  placed  there  some  of  the  Quins  and  Hagans 
who  fostered  him,  and  sometimes  he  dwelleth  himself  amongst 
them  there  in  a  little  island,  Loch  Coe.  The  fort  at  Blackwater 
should  be  repaired  and  better  fortified.  At  Ardmach,  a  small 
village,  the  church  and  friaries  are  broken  and  defaced."  ^ 

The  local  nomenclature  of  Down  and  the  distribution  of 
its  families  are  of  less  importance  for  the  history  of  the 
Plantation  under  King  James  ;  but  in  themselves  they  are 

1  II.,  pp.  435-6.  2  lb.,  p.  436. 


PREFACE.  XI 

very  interesting.  Outside  of  the  central  Pale,  no  part 
of  the  kingdom  received  so  large  an  infusion  of  the  early- 
Anglo-Norman  colonization  as  Down,  and  none  retained 
it  so  long  and  with  so  marked  characteristics. 

"  The  county  of  Downe  contains  the  lordship  of  the  Newry  and 
the  lordship  of  Mowrne,  Evagh  [Iveagh],  otherwise  called  Maginis's 
country,  Kilulto  [Kilultagh],  Kilwarlin,  Kinalewrty  [Kinalarty], 
Clanbrasell  M'Goolechan,  Lechahull  [Lecale],  Difiringe  [Dufferin], 
Little  Ardes,  Great  Axdes,  and  South  Clandeboy.  Newry  and 
Mowrne  are  the  inheritance  of  Sir  Nicholas  Bagnall,  who,  at  his 
coming  thither,  found  them  altogether  waste,  and  Shane  O'Neyle 
dwelling  within  a  mile  to  the  Newry  at  a  place  called  Fedom 
[Fathom],  suffering  no  subject  to  travel  from  Dundalk  northward  ; 
but  since  the  fortifications  and  buildings  made  there  by  the  said 
Sir  Nicholas  Bagnall,  all  the  passages  are  made  free,  and  much 
of  the  countries  next  adjacent  are  reduced  to  reasonable  civility."  -^ 

The  condition  of  Iveagh  was  peculiar. 

"  Evagh  is  governed  by  Sir  Hugh  M'Enys  [Maginis],  the  civilest 
of  all  the  Irishry  in  those  parts.  He  was  brought  by  Sir  Nicholas 
BagTiall  from  the  bonaghe  of  the  O'Neyles  to  contribute  to  the  Queen. 
In  this  place  only  amongst  the  Irish  of  Ulster  is  the  rude  custom  of 
tanistship  put  away.  Maginis  is  able  to  make  GO  horsemen  and 
80  footmen.  Every  festival  day  he  wears  English  garments.  The 
captain  of  Kilultoe  is  Corrnack  M'Neyl,  who  likewise  was  brought 
by  Sir  N.  B.  from  the  bondage  of  the  O'Neyles.  This  country,  afore 
the  Barons'  wars  in  England,  was  possessed  and  inhabited  by 
Englishmen,  and  there  doth  yet  remain  there  an  old  defaced  castle 
which  still  beareth  the  name  of  one  Sir  Miles  Tracy.  The  captain 
of  Kilwarlin  is  a  M'Genys,  called  Ever  M'Rory,  who  sometime  did 
contribute  and  yield  to  Clandeboy,  but  now  depends  only  upon  the 
Queen.  In  Kinalewrty,  or  M'Cartan's  Country,  some  interest  was 
given  to  Sir  Nicholas  Malbey,  but  was  never  quietly  enjoyed  by 
him.  Its  captain  is  Acolie  M'Cartan.  Clanbrasell  M'Goolechan  is 
inhabited  by  the  Kelleys,  a  very  savage  and  barbarous  people,  well 
affected  to  the  Scots,  whom  they  often  draw  into  their  country 
for  the  spoiling  of  the  subjects.  They  contribute,  but  at  their  own 
pleasures,  to  the  captain  of  South  Clandeboy."  ^ 

1  II.,  p.  436.  2  ib.^  p,  437_ 


xn  PREFACE. 

Lecale,  as  has  already  been  seen,  formed  a  sort  of  out- 
lying Pale.  The  coast  was  studded  with  castles,  most  of 
which  still  exist,  in  a  condition  of  greater  or  less  decay. 

"  Lecahul  [Lecale]  is  the  inheritance  of  the  Earl  of  Kildare,  given 
to  his  father  and  his  mother  by  Queen  Mary.  In  it  is  the  bishop's 
see  called  Downe,  fast  built,  and  inhabited  by  one  Sir  John  Cowrsy, 
[De  Courcy]  who  brought  thither  with  him  sundry  English  gentle- 
men, and  planted  them  in  this  country,  where  some  of  them  still 
remain,  though  somewhat  degenerate  and  in  poor  estate,  yet  they 
hold  stUl  their  freeholds.  Their  names  are  Savadges,  Russells, 
Fitzimons,  Awdleys,  Jordans,  and  Bensons.  Diffrin,  sometime  the 
inheritance  of  the  Mandevills,  now  appertains  to  one  White,  who  is 
not  of  power  sufficient  to  defend  and  manure  the  same  ;  therefore  it 
is  usurped  and  inhabited  for  the  most  part  by  a  bastard  sort  of 
Scots,  who  yield  to  the  said  Whites  some  small  rent  at  their  pleasure. 
Little  Ardes  is  the  inheritance  of  the  Lord  Savage,  who  has  farmed 
the  same  to  Captain  Peerce.  Here  are  certain  ancient  freeholders 
of  the  Savages  and  Smithes,  who  are  often  harrowed  and  spoiled 
by  them  of  Clandeboy.  Great  Ardes  was  undertaken  by  Mr.  Smith, 
and  is  now  possessed  by  Sir  Con  M'Neyle  Oge,  who  hath  planted 
there  Neyle  M'Brian  Ferto  ;  but  the  ancient  dwellers  there  are  the 
O'Gihnars,  a  rich  and  strong  sept,  always  followers  of  the  Neyles  of 
Clandeboy.  Of  South  Clandeboy  the  captain  is  Sir  Con  M'Neile 
Oge,  who,  in  the  time  that  the  Earl  of  Essex  attempted  this 
country,  was  prisoner  in  the  castle  of  Dublin,  together  with  his 
nephew  Hugh  M'Phelim,  captain  of  North  Clandeboy,  by  means 
whereof  Sir  Brian  M'Phelim,  younger  brother  to  the  said  Hugh, 
then  possessed  both  the  countries."  ^ 

The  population  of  Antrim,  although  containing  but 
little  of  the  English  element,  was  yet  of  a  somewhat 
mixed  character.  The  coast  had  long  been  a  favourite 
point  of  descent  for  the  Scots,  and  a  powerful  Scottish 
colony  had  long  been  established  in  steady  although 
not  unmolested  possession.  In  the  earlier  times,  there- 
fore, the  relations  of  Antrim  with  England  had  involved 
questions  of  a  specially  complicated  character ;  and  even 

1  II.,  p.  437. 


PREFACE.  xiil 

after  the  union  of  tlie  kingdoms  of  Scotland  and  England, 
the  interests  of  the  different  sections  of  the  population 
of  Antrim  remained  for  a  long  time  distinct. 

"  Antrim  contains  North  Clandeboy,  Island  Magy  [Island  Magee], 
Brian  Caragh's  Country,  Glines  [Glens],  and  the  Rowte.  North 
Clandeboy  is  given  by  letters  patent  to  Sir  Brian  M'Phelim's 
sons,  the  Queen's  pensioners  ;  notwithstanding,  by  a  new  division 
lately  made  by  the  now  Lord  Deputy,  the  one  moiety  thereof  is 
allotted  to  the  rule  of  Hugh  M'Phelim's  sons,  whereby  great 
dissension  doth  depend  between  them,  and  great  slaughters  are 
often  committed  on  both  parties.  The  principal  followers  in 
this  country  are  the  M'Gyes  [M'Gees],  M'O'Neilles,  0'Machalons,i 
Durnans,  and  Tortures  [Tuirtres].  Island  M'Gye  is  almost  all 
waste,  and  contains  the  M'Gyes,  who  contribute  to  the  Lord  of 
Clandeboy,  but  of  right  belong  to  the  Queen's  castle  of  Knock- 
fergus.  Brian  Caragh's  Country  was  a  portion  of  North  Clandeboy, 
won  from  it  by  a  bastard  kind  of  Scots  of  the  sept  of  the  Clandonels, 
who  entered  the  same  and  yet  hold  it.  Brian  Caragh  contributes 
to  O'Neyle,  and  to  them  of  Clandeboy.  By  reason  of  the  fastness 
and  strength  of  his  country  it  is  very  hard  to  harm  him,  which 
maketh  him  so  obstinate  and  careless,  that  he  never  yet  would 
appear  before  my  Lord  Deputy,  but  yields  relief  to  the  Scots. 
The  Glins,  so  called  because  it  is  full  of  rocky  and  woody  dales, 
is  backed  with  a  very  steep  and  boggy  mountain,  and  on  the 
other  part  with  the  sea,  on  which  side  there  are  very  small 
creeks  between  rocks  and  thickets,  where  the  Scottish  galleys  com- 
monly land.  It  lies  opposite  to  Cantier  [Cantire]  in  Scotland. 
It  contains  seven  baronies.  These  were  sometimes  the  inherit- 
ance of  the  Baron  Bissett,  from  whom  it  descended  to  a  daughter 
who  was  married  to  one  of  the  Clandonells  in  Scotland,  by  whom 
the  Scots  now  make  their  claim  to  the  whole,  and  quietly  pos- 
sessed the  same  many  years,  till  now  of  late,  being  spoiled  of 
their  goods,  they  were  totally  banished  into  Scotland.  But  this 
country  is  again  given,  by  instructions  from  Her  Majesty,  to  be 
held  from  Her  Highness,  to  Angus  M'Connell,  Lord  of  Cantier  in 
Scotland,   and  to  his  uncle  Sorleboy.     The  force  of  this  country 


^  U^  2t)4olc4^lUt]t)  "  O'Mulholland,"  now  MulhoUand  without  the  prefix 
O'.  See  O'Donovan's  Annals  of  Four  Masters,  A.D.  1012,  vol.  I.,  p.  768. 
The  O'Mulhollands'  Country  lay  on  the  extreme  north-east  coast  of  Antrim. 


XIV  PREFACE. 

is  uncertain,  for  they  are  supplied,  as  need  requireth,  from  Scot- 
land with  what  numbers  they  list  to  call,  by  making  of  fires  upon 
certain  steep  rocks  hanging  over  the  sea.  The  ancient  followers 
of  the  country  are  the  Missetts,  the  M'-Y-Gills  [M'Gills],  the 
M'Awnles  [Macauleys],  the  M'Carmacks  [M'Cormacks],  and  the 
Clanalsters  [Clan-Alisters].  The  Rowte  was  sometime  inhabited 
with  English,  for  there  remaineth  [in]  it  certain  defaced  castles  and 
monasteries  of  their  buildings.  The  now  captain  that  maketh 
claim  i,hereto  is  called  M'Gwillyn  [M'Quillin],  but  the  Scots  hath 
well  near  expulsed  him  from  the  whole,  and  driven  him  to  a 
small  corner  near  the  Bann,  which  he  defendeth  rather  by  main- 
tenance of  Tirlough  O'Neile  than  his  own  forces ;  and  the  said 
Scots  did  inhabit  the  rest,  which  is  the  best  part,  till  likewise 
they  were  banished  by  Her  Majesty's  forces  as  aforesaid,  but  now 
have  come  back,  and  possess  all  in  usurped  manner  as  before.  The 
chief  ancient  followers  of  this  country  are  the  O'Haries  [O'Haras] 
and  the  O'Quins."  ^ 

The  "  Description  of  Ulster "  concludes  by  suggesting 
as  the  reason  why  this  province  has  been  more  charge- 
able than  any  other ;  "  the  want  of  good  towns  and  forti- 
"  fied  places,  the  sufferance  of  the  O'Neyles  to  usurp  the 
"  government  of  the  several  captains  and  freeholders, 
"  the  confiniag  so  near  to  the  Isles  of  Scotland,  and  the 
"  want  of  religion,  justice,  and  civil  instructions." 

INTENDED  COURT  OF  PRESIDENCY  FOR  ULSTER. 

Prom  this  brief  but  comprehensive  survey  it  will  be 
seen  that  throughout  the  northern  province  the  authority 
of  the  Crown,  just  before  the  last  of  Elizabeth's  wars  in 
Ireland,  was  little  more  than  a  name.  It  was  not  merely 
that  the  entire  mass  of  the  population  was  Irish,  follow- 
ing Irish  customs  and  obeying  only  Irish  law.  Ulster 
further  differed  from  the  other  provinces  in  not  having, 
as  the  others  had,  in  cities  or  walled  towns,  any  local 

1  II.,  pp.  437-8. 


PREFACE.  XV 

centres  of  English  power  or  English  life  and  usage.     The 
few  positions  north  of  Dundalk  permanently  occupied  on 
behalf  of  the  Crown,  were  purely  military  stations ; — posi- 
tions of  observation  or  of  defence,  possessing  no  adminis- 
trative  function   and   exercising  little   influence   on  the 
surrounding  population.     The  greater  number  were  simply 
fortresses    designed  to    command  a   pass,   to   serve   as   a 
cover  on  occasion  of  military  movements,    or  to  secure 
the   means   of    communication    or    the    transmission   of 
supplies.     But  for  tbe  purposes  of  administration  of  law 
or  of   execution  of  jiTstice  they   were    entirely   without 
organization   and   utterly   deficient   in  authority.      Long 
after   the    attempt    to    extend   the   Royal    authority,   in 
the  form  of  a  Court  of  Presidency,  over  the  population, 
had  been   originated    and    partially   carried  into   execu- 
tion in   the    other   provinces,    it   was   felt   to   be  utterly 
hopeless  in   Ulster.      The   idea   is   put   forward  in  1553 
in    Sir    Thomas   Cusake's   book    on    the    State    of    Ire- 
land,^ but  is  set  aside  as  impracticable,  until  the  country 
shall  be  "  divided  into  shires  and  counties,  so  as  to  be  of 
"  perfection  to  be  governed  with  the  courts  of  Presidents, 
"  as  yet  it  is  not."^     In  Queen  Elizabeth's  Instructions 
to  Lord  Deputy  Sussex   (4  July  1562),   she  expresses  a 
wish  for  the  establishment  of  "  three  places  of  councils 
"  and  councillors  for  the  remote  parts,  as  for  example, 
"  one  at  Limerick  for  Munster,  one  at  Alone  (Athlone), 
"  for  Connaught,  and  one  at  Armagh  or  the  Newry  for 
"  Ulster  ;""    and    the    Queen's    desire    was    that   there 
should  be  established  at  each  of  these  places  "  a  president 
"  with   a  justice  and    certain  councillors  ;  and  that  for 
"  iaonour  and  authority,  there  should  be  joined  with  them 
"  in   commission  the   earls,   bishops,   and  the   principal 


Calendar  of  Carew  Papers,  I.,  p.  245.     2  ib.,  p.  246.     3  n,.^  p.  339. 

1, 


1  ^, 

3.  b 


XVI  PEEFACE. 

"  nobility  of  tliat  part  of  the  nation ;  and  that  the  presi- 
"  dent,  justice,  and  council  should  keep  ordinary  sessions 
"  at  certain  convenient  times  and  places,  wherein  the 
"  controversies  of  the  countries  within  their  jurisdiction 
"  might  be  heard  and  determined  according  to  order  of 
"  common  law,  or  in  form  of  chancery,  according  to 
"  equity."  ^  This  wish,  however,  she  declares  to  be 
only  in  the  nature  of  a  suggestion.  She  provides  that 
counsel  shall  be  taken  regarding  it  with  such  members 
of  the  council  and  of  the  nobility  of  the  several  provinces 
as  may  seem  meet.  And  it  is  plain  that,  after  considera- 
tion, the  project,  so  far  as  regarded  Ulster,  was  abandoned 
or  postponed. 

A  scheme  of  a  Presidency  for  Ulster  was  also  pro- 
jected in  the  year  1562^  by  Sussex;  but  it  was  plainly 
nothing  more  than  a  military  governorship  f  and  although 
Cecil  in  his  "  Memorial  for  Ireland  "  puts  Ulster  on  the 
same  footing  in  this  respect  with  the  other  provinces, 
the  project  so  far  remained  entirely  inoperative. 

There  is  a  more  remarkable  proposal  contained  in  a 
"  Discourse  for  the  Reformation  of  Ireland,"  printed  in 
the  Oarew  Papers  of  1583.*  "The  standing  seat  of  the 
"  Deputy  and  the  law,"  this  discourse  suggests,  "  should 
"  be  translated  from  Dublin  to  Athlone,  the  centre  of 
"  Ireland.  The  Deputy  to  have  two  Presidents,  one  in 
"  Munster,  at  Kylmalocke,  the  other  in  Ulster,  at  Lyeller 
"  (probably  for  Lyffer  or  Lifford).  Two  Marshals,  to  be  at 
"  the  direction  of  the  Deputy  and  Presidents.  The  Pre- 
"  sidents  to  serve  for  not  less  than  five  years,  the  marshals 
"  for  life."  And  a  similar  proposal  appears  in  "  Sir  John 
"  Perrot's  Project,"  printed  in  the  same  volume.^     Perrot 

1  Calendar  of  Carew  Papers,  L,  p.  330.  ^  ib.,  p.  332. 

5  The  President  is  expressly  described  as  "a  martial  President." — lb., 
p.  348.  1  lb.,  II.,  p.  368.  5  lb.,  p.  415. 


PREFACE.  xvii 

suggests  that  1800  English  soldiers  (400  horse  and  1,400 
footmen)  should  be  placed  in  all  parts  of  Ireland.  The 
Deputy  should  "lie  most  at  Aloan  "  (Athlone),  and  only- 
two  Presidents  should  be  maintained,  namely,  in  Ulster 
and  in  Munster. 

But,  notwithstanding  these  indications  of  the  ventila- 
tion of  the  design,  the  Ulster  presidency  was  destined 
to  remain  a  dead  letter.  The  condition  of  that  province 
made  the  exercise  of  supreme  authority  in  the  name  of 
the  English  Sovereign  therein  a  practical  impossibility, 
unless  perhaps  on  the  terms  which  were  suggested  by 
O'Neill,'  namely,  that  he  himself  should  be  the  President. 
This  notion,  indeed,  of  entrusting  the  command  in  the 
Crown's  name  in  the  Irish  districts  to  native  chiefs,  was 
not  entirely  new  when  it  was  proposed  by  O'NeiU.  Nearly 
twenty  years  before,  when  Sir  Thomas  Ousake,  during 
Lord  Sussex's  deputyship,  was  sent  over,  in  the  summer 
of  1562,  with  a  scheme  of  pacification  for  Ireland,  one 
of  the  articles  which  he  carried  back  with  him  proposed 
the  establishment  of  four  Presidents,  one  in  each  pro- 
vince. Out  of  these  four,  three,  the  Presidents  of  Ulster, 
Munster,  and  Oonnaught,  were  to  be  Irish  or  Anglo- 
Irish  chiefs,  either  elected  by  the  people,  or,  at  least, 
acceptable  to  them.  As  President  for  Ulster,  O'Neill  was 
proposed  by  name ;  for  Munster,  the  Earl  of  Desmond ; 
for  Oonnaught,  Olanricard  or  O'Brien.  Nor,  for  the 
moment,  in  the  panic  into  which  Elizabeth  had  just  been 
thrown  by  recent  reverses,  was  the  project  unfavourably 
entertained ;  but,  like  every  other  effort  to  draw  the  two 
races  in  Ireland  together,  it  was  soon  put  aside.  It  is 
true  that  a  certain  admixture  of  the  native  element  ap- 
pears in  a  scheme  of  a  Council  for  Munster,  proposed  by 

1  Calendar,  vol.  II.,  4  July  1579,  p.  171. 

b  2 


XVni  PREFACE. 

Sidney  in  1565,  in  wliicli  tlie  great  Anglo-Norman  nobles 
Ormoncl  and  Desmond,  and  the  Irisli  chiefs  Thomond  and 
Clancarty,  were  to  be  associated  with  tlie  Archbishop  of 
Cashel  and  the  Bishops  of  Cork  and  Waterford.  But  this 
scheme  of  1565  was  never  carried  beyond  paper.  The 
Mu]ister  Council,  when  it  came  to  be  a  reality,  was  a 
l^urely  English  institution;  and  indeed,  during  the  remain- 
ing years  of  the  16th  century,  through  the  Desmond  wars 
and  the  last  convulsive  effort  which  was  crushed  out  at 
Kinsale,  the  Council  of  Munster  was  nothing  more  than 
a  council  of  war.  Nor  can  it  be  doubted  that  the  pro- 
ject of  a  Presidency  for  Ulster,  if  it  had  been  carried  out 
at  that  time,  would  inevitably  have  fallen,  into  the  same 
track. 

The  last  allusion  to  a  Presidency  for  Ulster  in  Eliza- 
beth's reign  occurs  in  the  articles  of  submission  and 
pardon  propounded  to  Tyrone  in  January  1596  by  the 
Queen's  commissioners.  Sir  Henry  Wallopp  and  Su'  Robert 
Gardner.  The  eleventh  of  these  articles  stipulates  that 
"  when  Her  Majesty  shall  appoint  a  President  and 
"  Coiuicil  in  Ulster,  the  Earl's  tenants  and  followers 
"  shall  yield  contributions,  compositions,  rents,  and  ser- 
"  vices  for  their  maintenance."^  To  this  condition  Tyrone 
returned  an  absolute  refusal.  He  "  would  not  yield 
"  that  any  other  should  be  over  him  except  Her  Majesty 
"  or  her  Deputy  ;  "  and  from  the  peremptory  terms  of  his 
repudiation  of  the  condition,  as  well  as  from  all  the  cir- 
cumstances of  the  time,  it  may  readily  be  inferred  that 
the  establishment  of  the  Presidency  was  felt  by  Tyrone 
to  be  designed  exclusively  in  the  English  interest,  and 
to  be  but  a  part  of  that  general  plan  for  "  the  reformation 
"  of  Irish  usagos  and  institutions,"  and  for  their  assimila- 


1  Carew  Calendar,  11.,  p.  163. 


PREFACE.  xix 

tion  to  those  of  England,  wliicli  was  tlie  life -long  dream 
of  Lord  Burleigli,  and  wMcli  was  accepted  by  Cecil  almost 
as  the  very  essence  of  that  political  inheritance  from  his 
father  to  which  he  succeeded  as  the  Queen's  chief  adviser 
in  the  affairs  of  Ireland. 

At  all  events,  whatever  may  have  been  the  inten- 
tions of  Elizabeth  or  her  advisers  in  1596,  the  scheme 
of  the  Ulster  Presidency  fell  to  the  ground.  And  thus 
through  all  the  alternations  of  success  and  failure  of 
English  arms  in  Ulster  down  to  the  very  end  of  Eliza- 
beth's reign,  English  law  and  EngKsh  usage  remained 
unknown  in  that  province.  The  well-knoAvn  anecdote 
of  Maguire's  inquiring  the  "  eric "  of  a  sheriff  whom 
it  was  proposed  to  send  to  his  country,  exactly  represents 
the  condition  of  things  which  prevailed  throughout 
Ulster  down  to  the  death  of  the  Queen.  Sir  John  Davys  '■ 
states  that  the  first  sheriffs  ever  made  in  Tyrone  or  Tyr- 
connell  were  those  appointed  by  Sir  George  Carey  in 
the  first  year  of  his  deputyship  ;  and  in  one  of  his  earliest 
letters  to  Salisbmy,  written  a  few  months  after  his  arrival 
in  Ireland,  he  says  that  until  the  circuit  of  Chief  Baron 
Pelham  in  the  first  year  of  King  James  I.'s  reign,  the 
forms  of  English  justice  had  not  for  many  years  been 
seen  in  that  province." 

GOVERNMENT  OF  ULSTER  UNDER  JAMES  I. 

It  was  not  unnatural,  therefore,  that  on  the  accession 
of  James  I.,  the  project  of  the  Ulster  presidency  should 
at  once  be  revived.  But  the  renewed  project  was  more 
than  ever  conceived  in  accordance  with  English  ideas, 
and  aimed  still  more  openly  than  before  at  the  overthrow 

1  Discovery  of  the  true  Causo  why  Ireland  was  not  brought  to  Obedience, 
p.  197.  ^  Calendar,  vol.  I.,  p.  161. 


XX  PREFACE. 

of  the  Irisli  system  of  septs,  and  the  establishment  of  the 
royal  authority,  not  only  as  the  sole,  hut  as  the  direct  and 
immediate,  source  of  law  and  justice.  In  one  of  the  first 
communications  on  the  state  of  Ireland  which  Sir  John 
Davys  addressed  to  Cecil  after  entering  on  oflS.ce  as  soli- 
citor-general, he  describes  the  native  populations  of  Tyr- 
connell  and  Tyrone  as  most  warmly  disposed  to  accept 
the  King's  administration  of  justice.  He  says  that  the 
humbler  sort  "  reverenced  the  King's  judge,"  [Chief 
Baron  Pelham,]i"as  a  good  angel  sent  from  heaven;  "  ^ 
while  he  represents  the  over-mastering  position  of  the 
great  Irish  chiefs  as  the  one  fatal  obstacle  to  the  su- 
premacy or  the  free  action  of  EngHsh  law. 

As  an  evidence  of  the  feehng  which  prevailed,  he  states 
that,  in  matter  of  fact,  "  divers  of  the  better  sort  "  in 
the  province  of  Ulster  absolutely  "  refused  to  accept  the 
"  King's  commission  of  the  peace  luitil  they  should  receive 
"  Tyrone's  warrant  to  do  so."  ^ 

It  will  be  remembered  that  in  the  scheme  of  govern- 
ment proposed  by  Sir  Thomas  Cusake,  in  1562,  it  had 
been  sought  to  enhst  on  the  side  of  English  law  this  pre- 
dominating influence  of  the  native  chiefs,  by  entrusting 
them  with  the  authority  of  the  Crown  in  their  several 
countries.  But  the  form  of  administration  for  the  north- 
ern presidency,  which  commended  itself  to  King  James's 
early  advisers,  proceeded  on  the  very  opposite  principle. 

One  of  the  first  to  suggest  it  was  Bichard  Hudson,  in  his 
"  Discourse  on  Ireland."  Ear  from  proposing,  as  Cusake 
had  done,  one  of  the  great  native  chiefs  as  the  repre- 
sentative of  the  King^and  the  depositary  of  his  authority 
in  Ulster,  Hudson  insisted  that  the  President  of  that  pro- 
vince should  not  only  be  of  English  race,  but  moreover, 

1  Calendar,  vol.  1.,  p.  111.  ^  lb. 


PREFACE.  xxi 

should  be  a  nobleman  of  great  estate  and  quality,  in  order 
that  bis  personal  authority  might  countervail  the  over- 
powering influence  of  the  native  lords ;  and  that  thus  "  the 
"  Earls  of  Tyrone  and  Tyrconnell  and  other  great  chief- 
tains of  cotintries  might  be  the  sooner  reduced  to  the 
"  obedience  of  the  law,  which  has  not  heretofore  been 
"  thoroughly  executed  there,  and  might  embrace  civil 
"  government."  ^  Indeed,  the  principle  of  excluding  the 
Irish  element  was  extended  still  further  by  other  advisers 
of  the  Crown.  Mr.  Justice  Saxey  would  have  the  native 
Irish,  or  even  English  born  in  Ireland,  excluded  from 
every  branch  of  the  executive,  and  from  every  department 
of  the  administration  of  the  law,  declining  to  admit  any 
Irishman  to  the  office  of  judge  or  councillor  of  state  in 
Ireland.^ 

It  does  not  appear  from  the  papers  calendared  in  this 
series,  that  any  steps  were  actually  taken  in  the  early 
years  of  James  I.  towards  the  establishment  of  the  Ulster 
presidency.  It  is  true  that,  from  the  first,  even  the  best 
informed  looked  towards  that  as  the  form  of  government 
which  was  ultimately  to  be  established.  Chichester  was 
of  opinion  that,  "  unless  the  province  were  brought  to  the 
"  government  of  a  president  and  council  for  a  time,  there 
"  could  be  no  perfect  reformation  and  good  settlement ; 
"  for  the  poor  people  would  be  for  ever  oppressed  by  the 
"  great  lords,  and  no  man  dares  to  complain  when  help  is 
"  so  far  from  them."  ^  Sir  Henry  Dillon  in  like  manner 
assured  Salisbury  that  it  was  essential  "  to  the  full  settling 
"  of  the  province."  '''  Accordingly  rumours  of  the  actual 
appointment  of  a  president  for  Ulster  occur  from  time 
to  time  in  the  correspondence.     The  estabhshment  of  a 


1  Calendar,  vol.  1.,  p.  237.  ^  ib.,  p.  221. 

3  Ita.,  p.  482.  *  lb.,  vol.  II.,  p. 


xxu  PREFACE. 

northern  presidency  was  a  subject  of  perpetual  apprehen- 
sion to  Tyrone/  unless  on  the  condition  of  its  being  vested 
in  his  own  person.  Even  Chichester,  with  all  his  oppor- 
tunities of  information,  not  only  advised  the  measure  in 
the  most  decisive  terms,  but  regarded  its  accomplishment 
as  so  probable  and  so  imminent,  that  he  thought  it  neces- 
sary to  stipulate  for  the  exemption  of  his  own  government 
of  Carrickfergus  from  the  new  jmisdiction.  At  a  later 
period  he  even  looked  to  the  post  as  a  place  of  desirable 
retirement  for  himself,  when  he  should  be  released  from 
the  office  of  Lord  Deputy  f  and  it  would  seem  that  at  one 
time  the  appointment  was  commonly  believed  to  have  been 
actually  conferred  upon  him.  Captain  Edmtmd  Leigh, 
Chichester's  "  whispering  companion,"''  assured  Tyrone 
that  the  office  was  abeady  passed  to  Chichester  ;*  where- 
upon the  unhappy  Earl  declared  that,  "  rather  than  live 
"  under  the  like  yoke,  and  considering  the  misery  he  saw 
"  endm'ed  by  others  under  the  like  government,  he  would 
"  sooner  pass  all  to  himself  than  abide  it."  ^  And  al- 
though part  of  this  objection  was  personal  to  Chichester, 
whom  he  feared  and  hated,  the  office  itself  was  an  object 
of  the  deepest  suspicion  and  alarm  to  him.  On  a  former 
occasion,  when  there  was  question  of  a  like  suit  on  the 
part  of  Sir  Henry  Docwra,  Tyrone  had  declared  that, 
"  rather  than  be  governed  by  any  other  than  His  Majesty 
"  and  his  deputy-general  of  that  realm,  he  would  choose 
"  to  dwell  in  England  in  His  Highness's  presence."  " 

But  notwithstanding  these  appearances  and  the  rumours 
which  grew  out  of  them,  it  would  seem  that  Cecil  pre- 
ferred to  retain  in  his  own  hands  the  immediate  direction 


1  Calendar,  vol.  I.,  p.  548.  2  jb.^  u.^  p.  495. 

°  So  styled  by  Tyrone,  II.,  p.  328.  *  lb, 

5  Calendar,  II.,  p.  378.  e  j.^  p_  549, 


PREFACE.  xxui 

of  affairs  in  the  nortliern  province.  No  encouragement 
was  given  to  tlie  suit  of  any  of  tlie  pretenders  to  the 
office  of  president ;  and  at  tlie  very  time  when  tlie  measure 
appeared  most  probable,  and  when  the  popular  rumoiu's 
regarding  it  were  at  then"  height,  Chichester  was  directed 
to  "  assure  the  Earl  that  the  King  had  no  thoughts  of 
"  establishing  a  presidentship  in  Ulster."  ^ 

ULSTER  IN  1607. 

The  government  of  Ulster  as  maintained  up  to  the  very 
eve  of  the  plantation,  was  almost  as  purely  a  military 
government  as  it  had  been  during  the  wars  of  Tyrone. 
The  province,  as  we  gather  from  an  important  paper  of 
January  1607,  drawn  up  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester,  and 
entitled,  "  A  Declaration  of  the  present  State  of  the  Pro- 
"  vince  of  Ulster,  and  how  the  several  parts  thereof  are  now 
"  governed,"  25  January  1607,^  was  divided  into  ten  dis- 
tricts or  governments ; — viz.,  (1),  Loughfoyle ;  (2),  Armagh 
and  Upper  Tyrone;  (3),  Lower  Tyrone;  (4),  Coleraine 
and  Glanconkeyne  ;  (5),  Carrickfergus  ;  (6),  Locale  and 
M'Cartan's  Country;  (7),  Iveagh,  Newry,  and  Moiu'ne; 
(8),  Cavan ;  (9),  Monaghan ;  and  (10),  Ballyshannon. 
The  respective  limits  of  these  governments  are  pretty 
accurately  ascertained. 

The  district  of  Loughfoyle  comprised  the  greater  part 
of  Tyrconnell — that  which  lay  to  the  east  of  the  mountain 
of  Barnesmore — and  was  under  the  command  of  Sir  Henry 
Docwra,  Sir  E-ichard  Hansard,  and  Sir  George  Paulet. 

In  Upper  Tyrone  and  Armagh,  which  was  under  the 
command  of  Sir  Toby  Caulfield  and  Sir  Prancis  E-oe,  was 
comprehended  the  whole  of  the  present  county  of  Armagh 
and  the  south-eastern  portion  of  Tyrone. 

>   Calendar,  I.,  p.  519.  2  p^.  n.,  p.  401. 


XXIV  PEEFACE. 

Lower  Tyrone  comprised  the  north-west  of  the  modern 
county  of  Tyrone,  in  the  direction  of  Lifford.  It  was 
governed  by  Captain  Edmund  Leigh,  an  object  of  special 
dislike  and  suspicion  to  Tyrone. 

The  Coleraine  district  consisted  of  O'Oahan's  Country 
and  Glanconkeyne,  and  was  under  the  command  of  Sir 
Thomas  Phillips ;  and  one  of  the  chief  grievances  of  the 
Earl  of  Tyrone  was  founded  on  the  invasion  of  his  terri- 
torial rights  in  this  district  by  the  grant  to  O'Cahan  of  an 
independent  estate  therein. 

The  government  of  Carrickfergus  was  in  the  hands  of 
Sir  Arthur  Chichester,  with  Sir  Eoulke  Conway  as  his 
lieutenant.  It  comprised  the  whole  of  Antrim  and  the 
north-eastern  border  of  Down. 

The  remaining  portion  of  Down  was  divided  into  two 
districts. 

The  former  of  these,  comprising  Locale  and  M'Oartan's 
Country  on  the  south-west  side  of  Dundrum  estuary,  was 
commanded  by  Sir  Gregory  Cromwell. 

Sir  Edward  Trevor  had  the  command  of  the  latter, 
namely,  Iveagh  or  Magennis's  Country,  Newry,  and 
Mourne. 

Sir  Garrett  Moore  was  the  governor  of  Cavan. 

Sir  Edward  Blayney  commanded  in  Monaghan,  with 
the  title  of  Seneschal. 

Lastly,  Sir  Henry  EoUiot  was  governor  of  Ballyshannon, 
in  which  government  was  included  the  whole  of  the  pre- 
sent county  of  Fermanagh,  with  the  part  of  Tyrconnell 
or  modern  Donegal  which  lies  west  of  Barnesmore. 

But  the  function  of  all  these  officers  was  purely  execu- 
tive, and  chiefly  confined  to  military  alfairs,  nor,  in  the 
State  Papers  of  the  time,  do  they  appear  in  relation  to 
the  administration,  except  in  the  capacity  of  reporters  or 
advisers. 


PREFACE .  XXV 

The  truth  seems  to  be  that  Cecil  and  the  English 
Council  addressed  themselves  steadily  during  the  early 
years  of  James  I.  to  one  course  of  policy,  which  was 
believed  by  them  to  be  more  manageable  from  a  distance 
than  through  the  direct  operation  of  a  local  executive  and 
under  the  influence  of  local  solicitation  and  intrigue ; — 
the  systematic  enforcement  of  a  recognition  of  the  King's 
relation  as  sovereign  lord  of  the  land  of  Ireland,  the 
establishment  of  his  title  in  the  forfeited  lands  in  Ulster, 
the  breaking  up  of  the  predominance  of  the  great  native 
lords  of  that  province,  and  the  creation  in  its  several  septs 
of  a  class  of  minor  freeholders  holdiag  directly  under  the 
Crown,  exempt  from  the  impositions  of  the  greater  chiefs, 
and  released  from  the  obligations  by  which  they  were  tied 
to  the  chiefs  in  absolute  dependence,  political,  military, 
and  social. 

CONVERSION  OP  IRISH  TENURES. 

The  law  which  was  passed  in  the  twelfth  year  of  Queen 
Elizabeth,  enabling  the  Lord  Deputy  to  accept  surrenders 
and  make  re-grants  of  estates  to  the  Irish,  remained,  in  a 
great  degree,  inoperative  during  her  reign.  Comparatively 
few  of  the  Irish  lords  stirrendered,  and  of  those  who  sur- 
rendered, almost  all  obtained  re-grants  of  the  whole  to 
themselves  only,  and  all  in  demesne.  And,  as  in  passing 
these  grants,  no  care,  to  use  the  words  of  Sir  John  Davys,^ 
"  was  taken  of  the  inferior  septs  of  people  inhabiting 
"  and  possessing  those  countries  under  great  lords,  and  as 
"  these  continued  to  hold  thek  several  portions  in  course 
"  of  tanistry  and  gavelkind,  and  yielded  the  same  Irish 
"  duties  or  exactions  as  they  had  done  before,"  the  direct 
result  was,  thai  in  each  country  so  re-granted   but  one 


1  Discovery  of  the  true  Cause,  p.  203. 


XXVI  PREFACE. 

single  freeholder  was  created,  aU  tlie  rest  being  "  tenants- 
"  at-will,  or  rather  tenants  in  villenage."  ^ 

This  law  of  Elizabeth,  therefore,  did  little,  if  anything, 
towards  the  transformation  of  Irish  tenures  or  the  intro- 
duction of  those  "  civil "  usages  which  it  was  the  great 
object  of  English  statesmen  to  enforce  throughout  the 
Irish  countries.  The  effect  in  this  direction  was  least  of 
all  in  Ulster.  The  condition  of  Tyrone's  hereditary  lands 
does  not  appear  to  have  been  in  the  slightest  degree 
affected,  whether  by  the  new  forms  which  accompanied  his 
Earl's  patent  under  Elizabeth,  or  by  the  far  larger  and 
more  comprehensive  terms  of  his  submission  at  the 
accession  of  James  I. ;  and  how  little  active  change  had 
taken  place  even  six  years  later  may  be  inferred  from  the 
state  of  things  described  by  Sir  Toby  Oaullield,  who  was 
appointed  receiver  over  the  lands  of  the  fugitive  Earls, 
in  the  report  which  is  prefixed  to  the  account  of  the 
"  Collection  of  Tyrone's  Rents  from  his  Elight  in 
"  1607  till  November  1610,"  rendered  by  Sir  Toby  when 
the  lands  were  given  out  to  undertakers.  Oaulfield,  on 
entering  upon  ofiS.ce,  had  been  directed  ^  "  not  to  innovate 
"  any  manner  of  collecting  or  gathering  the  rents,"  but, 
on  the  contrary,  to  "  make  it  appear  that  the  King  would 
"  be  a  better  and  more  generous  landlord  than  Tyrone 
"  was  or  could  be."  The  following  description,  therefore, 
exactly  represents  the  Irish  rent-system  : — 

"  First.  There  was  no  certain  portion  of  lands  let  by  the  traitor 
Tyrone  to  any  of  his  tenants  that  paid  him  rent. 

"  Secondly.  Such  rents  as  he  reserved  were  paid  to  him  partly 
in  money  and  partly  in  provisions  of  victuals,  as  oats,  oatmeal, 
butter,  hogs,  and  mutton. 

"  Thirdly.  The  money  rents  that  were  so  reserved  were  charge- 
able on  all  the  cows  that  Avcre  milch  or  in-calf  which  grazed  on  his 

1  Discovery  of  IIjc  line  Cnusc,  p.  .j24.  -  Cidendiir,  vol.  III.,  p.  ,'34. 


PEEFACE.  xxvil 

lands,  after  the  rate  of  12d.  a  quarter  the  year,  whicli  cows  were  to 
be  numbered  but  twice  in  the  j^ear  by  Tyrone's  officers,  viz.,  at  May 
and  Hallowtide ;  and  so  the  rents  were  levied  and  taken  up  at  the 
said  rate  for  all  the  cows  that  were  so  numbered,  except  only  the 
heads  and  piincipal  men  of  the  creats,  who,  in  regard  of  tlieir 
enabling  to  live  better  than  the  common  multitude  under  them, 
whom  they  caused  v/illingly  to  pay  the  said  rents,  were  usually 
allowed  a  fourth  part  of  the  whole  rents,  which  rise  to  SOOl.  Irish 
by  the  year,  or  thereabouts,  which  tlioy  detained  on  their  own  hands 
by  direction  from  the  Lord  Deputy,  and  so  was  never  received  ;  and 
for  the  butter  and  other  victualling  provisions  they  were  only  paid 
by  such  as  they  termed  horsemen,  called  the  Quynnes,  Haugans 
[O'Hagans],  Conelands,  and  Devlins,  which  were  rather  at  the  dis- 
cretion of  the  givers,  who  strove  who  should  give  most  to  gain 
Tyrone's  favour,  than  for  any  due  claim  he  had  to  demand  the  same. 

"  Fourthly.  All  the  cows  for  which  those  rents  are  to  be  levied 
must  be  counted  at  one  day  in  the  whole  country,  which  required 
much  travel  and  labour  and  many  men  to  be  put  in  trust  with  that 
account,  so  as  that  country,  which  is  replenished  with  woods,  doth 
greatly  advantage  the  tenants  that  are  to  pay  their  rents  to  rid 
away  their  cows  from  that  reckoning ;  and  also  to  such  overseers  to 
be  corrupted  by  the  tenants  to  mitigate  their  rents  by  lessening  the 
true  number  of  their  cattle,  which  must  needs  be  conceived  they 
will  all  endeavour  to  the  uttermost,  being  men,  as  it  were,  without 
conscience  and  of  poor  estate,  apt  to  be  corrupted  for  small  bribes, 
which  they  may  the  more  easily  do  in  regard  that  the  bordering 
loi'ds  adjoining  are  ready  to  shelter  their  cows  that  should  pay 
those  rents,  whereby  they  may  procure  those  tenants  to  live  under 
them. 

"  Fifthly.  The  said  rent  is  uncertain,  because  by  the  custom  of 
the  country  the  tenants  may  remove  from  one  lord  to  another  every 
half  year,  as  usually  they  do,  which  custom  is  allowed  by  authority 
from  the  State." 

From  this  curious  paper  it  appears  that  the  land-system 
of  Tyrone  bore  a  close  resemblance  to  one  of  the  Indian 
forms  of  land-tenure,  such  as  prevailed  in  the  provinces 
of  the  Bengal  Presidency  before  the  Cornwallis  settlement ; 
the  chief  and  inferior  lords  in  the  Irish  sept  holding  the 
place  of  the  Zemindar,  and  the  "  collector  of  duties  and 


xxviii  PEEFACE. 

rents  "  representing  the  "  head  man  "  or  "  punch  "  in  the 
Indian  village-system.  The  same  uncertainty  of  tenure 
and  fluctuation  of  assessment  seem  to  characterize  both 
systems,  with  this  further  element  of  variability  in  Tyrone, 
that  while  the  rent  or  duty  was  dependent  on  the  estimate 
of  the  collector,  the  extent  of  the  tenant's  interest  was 
measured  by  the  assignment,  not  of  a  definite  number  of 
acres,  but  of  a  right  to  pasture  a  determiaate  number  of 
cows,  on  the  common  lands  of  the  sept. 

In  all  the  State  papers  of  the  period  the  system  is  repre- 
sented as  resulting,  for  the  tenants,  in  the  most  painful 
uncertainty  of  tenure  and  great  social  insecurity  and  dis- 
content. In  a  political  point  of  view  the  result  was  most 
formidable  to  the  English  interest,  as  it  rendered  the 
creaghts  entirely  dependent  on  the  head  of  the  sept  and 
the  inferior  chiefs,  and  placed  the  whole  power  of  the 
community  unreservedly  in  theh'  chiefs'  hands  for  all 
services,  whether  of  war  or  of  peace. 

Such  being  the  condition  of  the  Irish  tenures  in  Ulster 
in  the  first  years  of  James  I.,  it  will  easily  be  understood 
that  attention  was  directed  at  once  to  the  failure  of  the 
Statute  of  Elizabeth ;  and  that  two  new  commissions  were 
issued ;  the  first  for  accepting  surrenders  and  re-granting 
lands  to  the  Irish  and  "degenerate  English  j"  the  second, 
for  defective  titles.  In  both  these  measures  Sir  John 
Davys  takes  credit  for  a  desire  on  the  part  of  the  Crown 
to  settle  and  secure  the  under-tenants ;  but  the  political 
design  of  the  measure  is  no  less  plain  and  unmistakeable. 

In  all  inquisitions  upon  surrenders,  the  course,  Sk 
John  says,  was  not  to  accept  the  lord's  surrender  im- 
mediately, but  to  inqmre  in  each  case  into  three  points ; 
first,  to  ascertain  the  quantity  and  boundaries  of  the  land  ; 

1  Erck's  Patent  EoU  of  James  I.,  p.  182. 


PREFACE.  xxix 

secondly,  to  distinguish  the  quantity  hekl  by  the  lord 
"  in  demesne,"  and  that  occupied  hy  tenants  and  fol- 
lowers ;  thirdly,  to  find  what  yearly  customs,  duties,  and 
services  the  lord  received  yearly  out  of  the  lands  so  held. 
These  points  being  ascertained,  the  commissions  proceeded 
to  "draw  into  a  particular"  the  lord's  proper  possessions 
in  demesne,  and  to  convert  into  a  money  rent,  the  Irish 
duties,  such' as  coshering,  sessings,  rents  of  butter,  oat- 
meal, and  the  like,  at  a  reasonable  valuation.  It  was  only 
on  the  footing  of  this  adjustment  that  the  surrender  was 
accepted  and  re-grant  passed  ;  and  the  re-grant  to  the  lord 
did  not  comprehend  the  entire  of  the  original  lands  in 
absolute  possession,  but  only  those  held  by  the  lord  in 
demesne  absolutely;  the  rest  being  re-granted  to  the 
tenants,  respectively  charged  with  these  customs  and  duties 
converted  into  a  money  rent  "in  Heu  of  all  imcertain 
"  Irish  exactions."  ^  The  same  care  was  taken  of  the 
under-tenants  in  the  inquisitions  regarding  defective 
titles.^ 

The  most  instructive  among  the  papers  comprised  in 
this  Calendar  are  the  letters  of  the  Lord  Deputy  and 
Council,  those  of  Sh  Arthur  Chichester  himself,  and, 
above  all,  those  of  Sir  John  Davys,  giving  an  account  of 
the  progresses  or  circuits  in  which  the  general  inquisitions 
into  the  King's  titles  to  lands  in  Ulster  were  taken.  The 
two  well-known  letters  of  the  last-named  writer  to  Lord 
Salisbury,  printed  in  the  Dublin  edition  of  his  works,  may 
be  taken  as  specimens  of  the  entire ;  but  the  letters  upon 
the  same  subject,  which  are  made  public  for  the  first  time 
in  this  Calendar,  are  not  inferior  in  interest ;  and  those 
of  Chichester  and  of  the  Council,  although  falHng  short 
of  the  graphic  power  and  the   felicitousness  and  variety 

1  Discovery  of  the  true  Cause,  pp.  205-6.  2  i\,^^  p,  207. 


XXX  PREFACE. 

of  illustration  wliicli  distinguish  all  the  compositions  of 
Dayys,  are  no  less  minute  in  their  details  of  the  social 
usages  and  the  personal  characteristics  of  the  population 
of  the  districts  which  they  surveyed. 

Perhaps  it  was  not  till  after  the  flight  of  the  Earls  and 
O'Dogherty's  rebellion  that  this  policy  was  distinctly  for- 
mulated. The  greater  equality  of  estates  had  long  been 
aimed  at,  and  carried  out  to  some  extent  in  the  division 
of  Monaghan,'-  and  in  this  county  and  Fermanagh  the 
lands,  except  Termon  and  church  lands,  had  been  set  out 
amongst  the  inhabitants.  But  from  the  moment  of  the 
flight,  the  doctrine  of  the  necessity  of  "  cutting  off  the 
"  heads,"  was  broached  openly;  Chichester  now  formally 
laid  it  down  "  that  Ulster  would  never  be  reduced  to 
"  good  government  until  the  principal  heads  should  be  cut 
"  off  and  more  equality  of  estates  established  among 
"  them."  ^  And  indeed  the  principle  of  this  policy  may 
be  traced  throughout  all  the  correspondence  of  the  reign 
of  James  I.^  Sir  John  Davys,  in  one  of  his  early  letters 
to  Cecil  from  Ireland,  represents  the  relations,  which 
Tyrone  and  the  other  great  chiefs  sought  to  maintain 
with  the  tenants  of  their  territory,  as  a  standing  danger  to 
the  State  and  a  fatal  obstacle  to  the  civil  reformation  of 
the  country.  Comparing  the  pretensions  of  Tyrone  with 
those  of  the  great  feudal  barons  of  the  fifteenth  century 
in  England,  he  reminds  Cecil  that  it  was  by  means  of 
this  very  class  of  tenants-at-will  which  Tyrone  seeks  to 
perpetuate,  that — 

"  The  Earl  of  Warwick  was  enabled,  in  the  time  of  Kenry  VI. 
and  the  great  lords  in  the  times  of  the  barons'  wars,  to  raise  so 
great  a  multitude  of  men  ;  whereas  at  this  day,  if  any  of  the  great 
lords  of  England  should  have  a  mind  to  stand  upon  their  guard, 


1  Calendar,  II.,  pp.  164-187. 

2  II.,  p.  547  ;  see  also  Davys'  Political  Tracts,  p.  221. 


PREFACE.  xxxi 

well  may  they  have  some  of  their  household  servants  and  retaineis, 
or  some  few  light-brained  fractious  gentlemen,  to  follow  them  ;  but 
as  for  those  tenants  who  have  good  leases  for  years,  or  being  but 
copyholders,  seeing  that  by  the  law  at  this  day  they  can  bring  an 
action  of  trespass  if  they  dispossess  them  without  care  of  forfeiture, 
these  fellows  will  not  hazard  the  losing  of  their  sheep,  their  oxen, 
and  their  corn,  and  the  undoing  of  themselves,  their  wives  and 
children,  for  the  love  of  the  best  landlord  in  England." ' 

The  Ulster  cliiefs,  Davys  alleges,  sought  to  enforce  their 
pretensions  with  the  same  object ;  and  in  this  they  acted 
against  the  earnest  desire  and  protest  of  their  tenants, 
"  who  had  fled  into  the  I'ale  and  other  places,  to  avoid 
"  the  cutting  and  extortion "  of  their  lords ;  and  he 
adds  that  Tyrone's  tenants  would  rather  "  be  strangled 
"  than  returned  unto  him,  for  he  would  be  master  both 
"  of  their  bodies  and  theh'  goods,  and  would  exercise  a 
"  greater  tyranny  now  he  would  have  done  if  they  had 
"  never  departed." ''  Davys,  therefore,  earnestly  urges 
that,  in  the  next  Parliament,  an  Act  should  be  passed  that 
would  "  enjoin  every  great  lord  to  make  such  certain  and 
"  desirable  estates  to  his  tenants,  which  would  be  good  for 
'•'  themselves,  good  for  their  tenants,  and  good  for  the 
"  commonwealth."  ^ 

Nor  was  the  conflict  which  thus  sprang  up  with  the 
great  lords,  confined  to  the  humbler  tenants  of  the  sept. 
During  the  northern  progress  of  the  Lord  Deputy  and 
Council  in  1605,  many  "  gentlemen  of  the  O'Neils  and 
"  other  septs "  in  all  the  counties,  preferred  petitions, 
claiming  "  a  right  in  freehold  to  several  parcels  of  land 
"  possessed  by  them  and  their  ancestors ;  which  the  Earl 
"  withstood,  alleging  the  whole  country  to  be  his  own  and 
"  in  his  own  disposition."     And  whatever  were  the  merits 


1   Calendar,  I.,  p.  ]60.  ^  j),.  3  j)-,. 

3 


XXXU  PEEFACE. 

of  tliis  controversy,  it  was  the  plain  interest  of  the  Crown, 
as  well  in  policy  as  in  revenue,  to  support  the  claim 
of  the  minor  tenant  and  freeholder.  The  provision  in 
Tyrone's  act  of  submission,  by  which  he  renounced  all 
claim  and  title  to  any  lands  but  such  as  might  be  granted 
to  him  by  the  King's  letters  patent,  would  have  lost  half  its 
value  to  the  Crown,  if  he  were  to  be  restored  to  his  lands 
by  letters  patent  under  the  old  condition  of  more  than  feu- 
dal authority  over  the  inferior  landholders.  Accordingly, 
as  Tyrone's  submission  was  quickly  followed  by  that  of 
many  others,  both  within  and  without  his  territory,  who 
had  shared  in  his  rebellion,  the  submission  of  each  was  re- 
ceived or  promised  to  be  received  on  an  entirely  independent 
footing  ;  and  one  of  the  requisitions  in  the  first  petition  of 
the  Irish  Council  made  to  the  King  on  his  accession  was, 
that  he  would  "  give  warrant  to  pass  to  the  Irish  lords  of 
"  countries  such  estates  in  their  lands  as  had  been  pro- 
"  mised  to  them."  ^  The  lands  so  surrendered  were  only 
re-granted  to  be  held  in  direct  and  absolute  relation  with 
the  Crown ;  and  the  immediate  result,  in  law  at  least,  was 
to  create  in  each  of  the  several  Irish  septs  a  body  of 
inferior  lords  entirely  independent  of  the  great  magnate 
of  the  sept,  who  might  serve,  individually  or  in  the  aggre- 
gate, as  a  counterpoise  to  the  predominant  authority  with 
which  the  chief  had  been  previously  invested. 

The  efEects  of  this  policy  were  soon  felt.  It  was  not 
alone  that  the  greater  potentates,  such  as  O'Cahan  and 
Tirlagh  O'Neil,  claimed  and  exercised,  independently  of 
Tyrone,  seigniorial  rights  in  the  lands  which  they  now 
held  by  re-grant,  but  which  had  formerly  been  subject  to 
O'Neil's  suzerainty,  if  not  part  of  his  territorial  estate. 
One  of  the  grievances  which  were  alleged  after  the  flight. 


^  Calendar,  vol.  I.,  p.  Jl. 


PREFACE.  xxxui 

not  by  Tyrone  only,  but  by  Tyrconnell  and  M'Guire,  was 
"  that  the  under  lords  of  tbose  countries  who  were  wont 
"  to  depend  immediately  upon  them,  whereby  they  main- 
"  tained  their  greatness  and  strength,  had  been  drawn 
"  from  them,  so  that  they  were  allowed  no  means  to 
"  help  themselves  hut  by  their  own  possessions."  ^  And 
although  Tyrone  had  been  persuaded  or  compelled  to 
create  by  his  own  action  a  certain  number  of  freeholds  in 
three  of  the  baronies  of  O'Cahan's  Country,  and  had  even 
named  the  persons  who  were  to  hold  them/  yet  Chichester 
comjilains  in  one  of  his  letters  to  Salisbury  that  the  Earl 
was  "  labouring  by  all  possible  means/'  not  merely  with 
those  created  by  himself  but  with  the  direct  grantees  or 
re-grantees  of  the  Crown,  "  to  draw  them  to  forego  their 
"  patents  and  to  hold  again  directly  under  himself,  as 
"  they  had  been  accustomed."  ^ 

Such  had  been  the  steps,  silent  and  tentative  for  a 
while,  of  King  James's  policy  of  encroachment  upon  the 
social  and  territorial  system  of  the  native  lords  of  Ulster 
during  the  early  years  of  his  reign,  and  such  were  its 
prospects  of  ultimate  success,  when  an  event  occurred, 
which,  by  placing  almost  the  entire  province  unreservedly 
at  the  feet  of  the  Government,  opened  the  way  for  a 
"  settlement "  more  extensive  in  its  range,  more  sweeping 
in  its  character,  and  more  regardless  of  individual  interests 
and  of  hereditary  rights,  than  even  the  boldest  of  the 
King's  advisers  had  till  then  dared  to  contemplate.  On 
the  4th  (or  according  to  new  style,  the  14th)  of  Sep- 
tember 1607,  the  Earls  of  Tyrone  and  Tyrconnell,  with 
a  small  train  of  thek  families  and  followers,  set  sail  from 
Rathmullen,  on  Lough  Swilly,  in  Donegal,  never  again 
to  set  foot  upon  the  land  of  their  fathers. 


1  Calendar,  II.,  p.  628.  ^  ib.,  p.  318.  ^  lb.,  p.  300. 

c  2 


xxxiv  PREFACE. 

FLIGHT  OF  THE  EAELS  OF  TYRONE  AND  TYR- 

CONNELL. 

The  causes,  as  well  as  tlie  motives  of  this  memorable 
and  momentous  "  Elight  of  the  Earls  "  are  involved  in 
mi\ch  obscurity,  notwithstanding  the  many  papers  relating 
to  it  calendared  in  this  volume,  but  the  extracts  from  the 
despatches  of  British  ambassadors  and  agents  in  Planders, 
Spain,  and  Italy,  contained  in  the  Appendix,  will  be  found 
to  contain  several  interesting  particulars  of  the  subsequent 
history  of  the  Earls  and  their  followers  during  the  year 
after  their  flight  from  Ireland,  never  heretofore  published. 

The  first  to  convey  to  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Council 
the  startling  intelligence  of  the  embarkation  of  Tyrone 
and  Tyrconnell,  was  Tyrone's  own  brother.  Sir  Cormac 
MacBaron.  Su'  Cormac  made  a  merit  to  the  Council 
of  having  refused  to  accompany  the  Earls,  and  of  having 
given  notice  to  them  that  he  would  inform  the  Govern- 
ment of  their  flight :  but  Chichester  did  not  scruple  to 
give  the  traitor  credit  for  a  double  treachery,  pointing 
out  that  the  fugitives  had  certainly  "  taken  Sir  Oormac's 
"  eldest  son  with  them,  which  gave  great  cause  to  sus- 
"  pect  that  he  himself  was  not  unacquainted  with  their 
"  purpose,"^  And  it  further  appeared,  on  Sir  Cormac's 
arrest  and  examination,  that  whereas  "  on  the  night  before 
"  the  flight  he  came  after  the  Earl  as  far  as  Dunalonge, 
"  wdthin  five  miles  of  Derry  and  the  Liffer,  and  there 
"  learned  the  Earls'  resolution,  he  did  not  give  notice  to 
"  either  garrison,  but  concealed  it  until  he  was  assured 
"  the  Earls  were  embarked  and  gone  ;  himself  remaining 
"  all  the  next  day  at  the  castle  of  Newton,  as  it  should 
"  seem,  expecting  the  certaiu  news,  and  thereof  to  be  the 


Calendar,  II.,  p.  267. 


PREFACE.  XXXV 

"  first  messenger  to  him  (Cliichester),  as  indeed  lie  was."^ 
Sir  Jolin  Davys  assigns  as  MacBaron's  motive  that  he 
hoped  to  get  a  custodiam  of  his  brother  the  Earl  of 
Tyrone's  late  country ;  "  and  therefore,"  adds  Sir  John, 
"  for  this  and  other  causes  of  suspicion,  the  Constable  of 
"  the  Castle  of  Dublin  has  now  the  ctistodiam  of  him."  ^ 

Not  a  moment  was  lost  in  taking  advantage  of  the 
flight.  A  proclamation  was  issued  to  assure  the  people 
of  Tyrone  and  Tyrconnell  that,  notwithstanding  the  de- 
parture of  the  Earls  and  their  train,  the  inhabitants 
would  not  be  disturbed  in  the  peaceable  possession  of 
their  lands  so  long  as  they  demeaned  themselves  as 
dutiful  subjects ;  and  that  "  commissioners,  as  well  EngHsh 
"  as  Irish,  had  been  appointed  in  the  several  counties, 
"  to  protect  them,  as  being  now  under  His  Majesty's  im- 
"  mediate  protection,  and  to  administer  justice  instead 
"  of  the  Earls,  to  whom  he  had  formerly  committed 
"  the  government  thereof."  ^ 

The  commissioners  were  eighteen  in  number,  of  whom 
five  were  Irish : — Sir  Neale  O'Donnell,  Sir  Cahir  O'Dog- 
herty,  Su?  Tirlagh  McHenry  O'Neill,  Sir  Henry  Oge 
O'Neill,  and  Sir  Donell  O'Cahane. 

Of  the  communications  addressed  to  England  regard- 
ing this  occurrence  by  far  the  most  interesting,  as  usual, 
is  that  of  Sir  John  Davys,  which  contains  some  cm'ious 
and  characteristic  particulars  of  the  immediate  ante- 
cedents of  the  flight. 

"  The  Saturday  before  the  Earl  of  Tyrone  was  with  my  Lord 
Deputy  at  Slane,  where  he  had  speech  with  his  Lordship  of  his 
journey  into  England ;  told  him  he  would  be  there  about  the 
beginning  of  Michaelmas  term,  according  to  His  Majesty's  direc- 
tions ;    took  his   leave  of  my  Lord   Deputy  in  a  more   sad   and 


1  Calendar,  IL,  p.  260.  "- lh.,]>.  211.  3  lb.,  p.  263. 


xxxvi  PREFACE. 

passionate  manner  than  he  used  at  other  times;  from  thence  he 
went  to  Mellifont,  Sir  Garret  Moore's  house,  where  he  wept  abun- 
dantly when  lie  took  his  leave,  giving  a  solemn  farewell  to  every 
child  and  every  servant  in  the  house  ;  which  made  them  all  marvel 
because  it  was  not  his  manner  to  use  such  compliments. 

"  From  thence,  on  Sunday,  he  went  to  Dundalk ;  on  Monday 
he  went  to  Dungannon,  where  he  resi'.ed  two  whole  days ;  on 
Wednesday  night,  they  say,  he  travelled  all  night  with  his  im- 
pediments, I  mean  his  women  and  children  ;  and  it  is  likewise 
reported  that  the  Countess,  his  wife,  being  exceedingly  weary, 
slipped  down  from  her  horse,  and,  weeping,  said  she  could  go  no 
farther;  whereupon  the  Earl  drew  his  sword,  and  swore  a  great 
oath  that  he  would  kill  her  in  the  place,  if  she  would  not  pass  on 
with  him  and  put  on  a  more  cheerful  countenance  withal. 

"  Yet,  the  next  day,  when  he  came  near  Lough  Foyle,  his 
passage  that  way  was  not  so  secret  but  the  governor  there  had 
notice  thereof,  and  invited  him  and  his  son  to  dinner ;  but  theii- 
haste  was  such  that  they  accepted  not  that  courtesy,  but  went 
on,  and  came  that  Thiu'sday  night  to  Rathmullan,  a  town  on  the 
west  side  of  Lough  Swilly,  where  the  Earl  of  T}'rconnell  and  his 
company  met  them. 

"  There  they  took  some  beeves  from  one  Francis  Whyte,  an 
Englishman,  and  killed  them  for  their  provision.  There  the  Earl 
of  Tyrcormell  sent  for  the  foster-father  of  his  brother  Caffar 
O'Donel's  son,  willing  him  to  bring  the  child  with  him.  He 
presently  repaired  with  the  child  towards  the  place  where  the 
Earls  lodged,  but  being  met  by  the  way  by  the  Baron  of  Dun- 
gannon and  Caffar  O'Donel  himself,  they  took  the  infant  violently 
from  him,  which  terrified  the  foster-father,  so  that  he  escaped  by 
the  swiftness  of  his  horse,  their  horses  being  tired  with  travelling. 

"  Of  this  child  they  have  a  blind  and  superstitious  prophecy, 
because  he  was  born  with  six  toes  upon  one  foot ;  for  they  affirm 
that  one  of  their  saints  of  Tyrconnel  hath  prophesied  that  when 
such  a  one,  being  of  the  sept  of  O'Donel,  shall  be  born,  he  shall 
drive  all  the  Englishmen  out  of  Ireland." 

Opiuion,  Davys  says,  was  mucli  divided  as  to  the  destina- 
tion of  the  fugitives,  some  supposing  them  to  have  fled  to 
Spain,  others  to  Scotland,  with  a  view  to  a  marriage  of 
Tyrone's  son,  the  young  Baron  of  Dungauaon,  with  the 


PREFACE.  xxxvn 

daughter  of  M'Kallym  [MacCallum],  tlie  Earl  of  Argyle. 
Among  tlie  reasons  alleged  in.  support  of  tlie  former 
opinion,  the  following  is  interesting,  as  evidently  em- 
bodying the  views  of  Sir  John  Davys  himself : — 

"  It  is  certain  that  Tyrone,  in  his  heart,  doth  repine  at  the  English 
Government  in  his  country,  where,  until  his  last  submission,  as  well 
before  his  rebellion  as  in  the  time  of  his  rebellion,  he  ever  lived 
like  a  free  prince,  or  rather  like  an  absolute  tj^rant  there.  But 
now  the  law  of  England  and  the  ministers  thereof  were  shackles 
and  handlocks  unto  him,  and  the  garrisons  planted  in  his  country 
were  as  pricks  in  his  side ;  besides,  to  evict  any  part  of  that  land 
from  him,  which  he  hath  heretofore  held  after  the  Irish  manner, 
making  aU  the  tenants  thereof  his  villeins  ; — though  the  truth  be 
that  for  one  moiety  of  his  country,  at  least,  he  was  either  a  disseisor 
of  the  Bishops  of  Armagh  and  Cloglier,  or  an  intruder  upon  the 
King's  possession ;  for  the  Irish  lords,  in  all  ages,  have  preyed 
more  upon  land  than  upon  cows,  and  were  prcedones  ferrarv.m, 
as  the  poet  speaketh  of  Alexander  the  Great ; — this  was  as  grievous 
unto  him  as  to  pinch  away  the  quick  flesh  from  his  hody. 

"  Those  things,  doubtless,  have  bred  discontentment  in  him  ;  and 
now  his  age  and  his  burthened  conscience,  which  no  absolution  can 
make  altogether  clear,  have  of  late  much  increased  his  melancholy, 
so  that  he  was  grown  very  pensive  and  passionate  ;  and  the  friars  and 
priests  perceiving  it,  have  wrought  nightly  upon  his  passion.  There- 
fore it  may  be  that  he  hath  hearkened  unto  some  project  of  treason, 
which  he  feareth  is  discovered,  and  that  fear  hath  transjjorted  him 
into  Spain.  For  it  hath  been  told  my  Lord  Deputy,  that  as  he  now 
passed  through  his  country,  he  said  to  some  of  his  followers,  that  '  if 
'  he  went  into  England,  lie  should  either  be  perpetual  prisoner  in  the 
'  Tower,  or  else  lose  his  head  and  his  members ;' — meaning,  as  I  take 
it,  he  should  have  the  judgment  of  a  traitor.  But  I  verily  think  the 
primary  and  highest  cause  of  his  departure  to  be  the  divine  justice, 
who  will  not  suffer  to  go  down  to  his  grave  in  peace,  one  who  hath 
been  the  cause  of  so  much  trouble  and  bloodshed  in  this  kingdom." 

We  may  add  the  concluding  reasons  assigned  by  Sii- 
John  for  believing  that  Spain  cannot  be  the  Earl's  desti- 
nation ;  less  for  any  interest  attaching  to  the  discixssion 
itself,  than  as  a  curious  specimen   of  the   contemporary 


xxxviii  PREFACE. 

Anglo-Irish  estimate  of  the  character  of  the  Earls  and 
of  the  probable  influence  of  their  flight  from  Ireland, 
whether  upon  the  fortunes  of  the  country  or  upon  the 
genera]  policy  of  the  period.  It  was  argued  that  Tyrone 
could  not  have  fled  to  Spain  : 

"  First,  because  he  has  reported  often  since  he  was  received  to 
grace,  that  during  his  late  rebellion,  the  King  of  Spain  made  plain 
demonstration  that  he  held  but  a  contemptible  opinion  of  him. 
'  For/  said  he,  '  when  we  expected  a  royal  aid  from  him,  and  great 
'  store  of  crowns  to  supply  our  wants,  the  priests  and  friars  that 
'  came  iinto  us  brought  hallowed  beads  and  poor  counterfeit  jewels, 
'  as  if  we  had  been  petty  Indian  kings  that  would  be  pleased  with 
'  threepenny  knives  and  chains  of  glass,  and  the  like  beggarly 
'  presents.' 

"  Again,  he  has  ever  been  noted  to  be  subtle,  fox-like,  and  craftily 
wise  in  his  kind  ;  and,  therefore  it  were  strange  that  he  should  quit 
an  earldom  and  so  large  and  beneficial  a  territory,  for  smoke  and 
castles  in  the  air,  and  that,  being  possessed  of  a  country  quietly,  he 
should  leave  the  possession  in  order  to  try  if  he  coidd  win  it  again 
by  force. 

"  Lastly,  he  has  carried  with  him  a  train  of  barbarous  men, 
women,  and  children,  to  the  number  of  50  or  60  persons.  If  he 
means  to  make  them  appear  like  persons  of  good  quality,  they  will 
presently  spend  all  his  Allhallowtide,  rent  which  he  hath  taken  up 
by  way  of  anticipation  ;  but  if  he  shall  carry  them  through  the 
country  in  the  fashion  and  habit  wherein  now  they  are,  doubtless 
they  will  be  taken  for  a  company  of  gipsies,  and  be  exceedingly 
scorned  and  despised  by  tliat  proud  nation.  As  for  himself,  oninuet 
prccsentia  famam,  when  the  formal  Spanish  courtier  shall  note  his 
heavy  aspect  and  blunt  behaviour ;  so  that  they  will  hardly  believe 
he  is  the  same  O'Neill  who  maintained  so  long  a  war  against  tlie 
crown  of  England.  Therefore,  if  he  be  gone  into  Spain  the  first 
news  of  him  will  be,  either  that  he  is  a  shorn  monk  or  dead  with 
extreme  grief  and  melancholy. 

"  As  for  the  Earl  of  Tyrconnell,  he  will  appear  to  be  so  vain  a 
person  that  they  will  scarce  give  him  means  to  live,  if  the  Earl  of 
Tyrone  do  not  countenance  and  maintain  him. 

"  As  for  them  that  are  here,  they  are  glad  to  see  the  day  wherein 
the  countenance  and  majesty  of  the  law  and  civil  government  hath 


PEEFACE.  XXXIX 

banished  Tyi'one  out  of  Ireland,  which  the  best  army  in  Europe 
and  the  expense  of  two  millions  of  sterling  pounds  did  not  bring 
to  pass.  And  they  hope  His  Majesty's  happy  government  will 
work  a  greater  miracle  in  this  kingdom  than  ever  St.  Patrick  did  ; 
for  St.  Patrick  only  banished  the  poisonous  worms,  but  suffered  the 
men  full  of  poison  to  inhabit  the  land  stUl ;  but  His  Majesty's 
blessed  genius  wdl  banish  all  those  generations  of  vipers  out  of  it, 
and  make  it,  ere  it  be  long,  a  right  fortunate  island." 

It  was  not  until  after  a  painful  voyage  of  twenty-one 
days  that  tlie  fugitive  party  landed  at  Quilleboeuf  on  the 
Seine,  on  the  26th  of  September  (or  according  to  new 
style  the  4th  October)  1607.  It  consisted  in  all  of  ninety- 
one  individuals ;  comprising,  of  the  immediate  family  of 
Tyrone,  the  Earl  himself,  his  countess  Catherine,  his  sons 
— Hugh  Baron  of  Dungannon,  John,  and  Brian ;  Art  Oge 
O'Neil,  son  of  his  brother  Sir  Cormac  ;  Eardorcha,  son  of 
his  brother  Con,  and  Hugh  Oge,  son  of  his  brother  Brian ; 
and  of  the  family  of  Tyrconnell,  the  Earl  himself,  his 
infant  son  Hugh  Baron  of  Donegal,  his  brother  Caffar,  his 
sister  Nuala,  wife  of  Neil  Garve  O'Neil,  and  his  two 
nephews,  Donell  Oge  and  Naghtan  O'Donnell.  On  the  fol- 
lowing day  Tyrone,  accompanied  by  Cuconnaght  Maguire 
and  a  train  of  gentlemen,  proceeded  to  Lisieux,  to  wait 
upon  the  Governor  of  Normandy.  A  demand  for  their 
extradition  was  at  once  made  by  the  English  Ambassador, 
but  refused;  and  they  were  sent  forward  with  honour  upon 
their  journey,  by  way  of  Amiens,  Arras,  and  Douay,  to 
Elanders,  where  they  were  joined  by  O'Neill's  son,  colonel 
of  the  regiment  of  Irish  exiles,  and  were  received  with  all 
distinction  and  hospitality  by  the  Archduke  Albert. 

The  movements  of  the  party  during  their  stay  in  the 
Low  Countries  may  be  traced  with  curious  minuteness  in 
the  correspondence  of  Su*  Thomas  Edmonds,  the  Ambas- 
sador at  Brussels.     Not  a  day  was  lost,  on  the  discoverv  of 


xl  PREFACE. 

tlie  fliglit,  wliether  upon  Lord  Salisbury's  part^  in  report- 
ing tlie  event  to  tlie  Ambassador,  or  upon  that  of  the 
Ambassador  ^  in  communicating  to  Salisbury  the  rumours 
which  had  reached  Brussels.  The  unhappy  fugitives,  from 
the  moment  of  their  landing  on  the  continent,  were  sur- 
rounded by  spies  ;  and,  as  invariably  happens,  not  a  few 
of  these  were  of  then  own  household.  Their  company 
speedily  began  to  dissolve  at  their  side.  Within  a  few 
days  of  their  arrival  in  Planders  "  young  St.  Leger " 
came  to  Sir  Thomas  Edmonds  to  make  his  peace  with  the 
King,  protesting  that  he  "  Avith  many  others  was  bHnd- 
"  foldly  carried  into  this  jotu'ney,  without  knowing  whi- 
"  ther  he  went."''  Henry  Ovington  [Ho^^enden]  in  like 
manner  declared  that  "  he  had  had  no  kind  of  knowledge 
"  of  the  resolution  of  the  Earls  till  the  night  before 
"  his  departure ;  being  surprised  by  that  short  warning, 
"  and  precipitated  into  the  journey,  of  which  he  now 
"  repented."* 

And  it  would  have  been  well  if  the  backsliding  had 
been  confined  to  tliese  and  similar  changes  of  pm^pose 
and  withdrawals  from  the  Earls'  party ;  but  there  speedily 
arose,  under  the  skilful  management  of  Salisbury's  agent, 
a  crowd  of  double-dyed  traitors,  competing  with  each 
other  in  the  race  of  treachery,  each  seeking  to  outstrip  his 
rival  in  baseness  and  to  exalt  his  own  services  by  discredit- 
ing those  of  his  fellow  traitor.  Eoremost  in  this  odious 
company  was  John  E,athe,  the  very  man  who  had  acted 
as  pilot  on  the  voyage  from  Ireland,  who  was  again 
admitted  by  Tyrone  to  attend  him  on  his  further  journey, 
and  who  nevertheless   appears  in  the   State   Paper  cor- 


1  Calendar,  II.,  p.  623.  2  ii,_^  p_  g24. 

3  Tb.,  p.  632.  4  lb. 


PEEPACE.  xli 

respondence  as  having  sold  himself  unreservedly  to  the 
service  of  Salisbiiry ! 

Another  of  Edmonds's  agents  was  one  Gaspar  Travers, 
"  who  had  come  in  Rathe's  company ;"  and  it  is  curious 
to  find  these  wretched  men  carrying  with  them,  through- 
out these  varieties  of  foreign  adventvu-e  and  amid  the 
complications  of  intrigue  in  which  they  were  embarked, 
all  the  petty  local  and  provincial  prejudices  of  their  old 
country.  Travers,  it  appears,  was  a  native  of  Munster ; 
and  he  is  denounced  to  Edmonds  by  E,athe  as  imfit  on 
this  account  to  be  trusted,  "  the  Munster  men  l^eing 
"  noted  to  be  always  as  false  as  the  devil."  -^  And  it 
must  be  said  that  Travers  fully  justified  this  character ; 
for  having  accepted  Edmonds's  commission  as  a  spy  upon 
Tyrone,  he  completed  his  falsehood  by  disclosing  this  fact 
to  Tyrone  himself,  and  engaging  to  betray  to  the  Earl  all 
the  secrets  of  his  adversary." 

The  precautions  adopted  for  carrying  out  this  system  of 
espionage,  and  for  the  transmission  of  the  secret  intelligence 
obtained  thereby,  were  curious  in  the  extreme.  Salisbury 
himself  arranges  ^  all  the  details  of  the  plan  with  one  of 
his  intelligencers  (bearing  the  name  of  Hemy  Richardson), 
who  had  been  despatched  to  Rome,  as  a  spy  upon  the 
proceedings  of  Tyrone.  It  would  seem  that  Richardson 
had  expressed  some  apprehension  as  to  the  prudence  of 
sending  his  letters  through  the  Erench  Ambassador  at 
Rome  (a  medium  indeed,  which  Salisbury  confesses  he 
himself  ''  does  not  hold  so  safe  ")  ;  and  in  consequence, 
Salisbury  tells  him  that  he  "  has  taken  order  with  one 
"  John  Browne,  an  honest  merchant  in  London,  that  if 
"  at  any  time  he  (Richardson)  direct  his  letters  to  Elor- 
"  ence  to  Mr.  Thomas  Yormg,  under  the  name  of  Henry 


Calendar,  II.,  p.  634.  2  i),.,  p.  635.  3  n,.^  p,  545^ 


xlii  PREFACE. 

"  Richardson,  to   Mr.  James  Brokesby,  they  will  be  re- 
"  ceived  and   conveyed   covertly   in   Young's  packet,   to 
"  England."     But  he  warns  him  always  to  take  the  name 
of  Hemy  Bichardson,  both  to  Young  and  Salisbury  him- 
self, and  to  "  maintain  the  style  of  his  letters,  as  from 
"  one  catholic  to  another,  according  to  their  former  agree- 
"  ment."  ^      How   closely  this   counsel  was  carried  into 
practice,    may  be    seen  most  amusingly  in  an   unsigned 
letter  entitled,   "  Advertisements  from  Rome ;"  the  main 
subject  of  which  is  an  account   of  the  ceremonial  of  a 
canonization  at  Bome,  written  with  all   the  enthusiasm 
of  a  devout   catholic ;  —  conveying    news   regarding  the 
several  religious  orders  ;  enclosing   a  packet  of  "  Agnus 
"  Deis ;"  apologizing  for  not  forwarding  a  greater  num- 
ber ;  and  sending  Pather  Parsons's  commendations.     And 
yet  this  letter,  with  all  its  parade  of  catholic  piety  and 
all  its  details  of  catholic  gossip,  is  but  a  skilfully  disguised 
report  of  Salisbury's  agent,  giving  incidentally  an  account 
of  the  doings  of  Tyrone  and  his  friends  at  Bome.     The 
original  paper  still  bears    Salisbury's   own   enaorsement, 
"  Advertisements  from  Bome,  written  ivith  some  clauses 
"  to  disguise  the  affection  of  the  intelligencer."  ^ 

Tyrone's  first  design  was  to  go  to  Spain  at  once,  and  he 
actually  set  out  from  Tlanders  for  that  country  in  the  end 
of  November ;  but  he  was  called  back  by  a  messenger 
from  the  Archduke,  and  remained  at  Louvain  till  the  28th 
of  Eebruary  1608,  Avheu  he  proceeded  through  Lorraine  and 
Switzerland,  and  by  the  St.  Gothard  pass  to  Milan,  which 
city  he  reached  in  the  end  of  the  following  month.  The 
exiled  Earl  had  hardly  entered  Italy  when  Sir  Henry 
Wotton,  the  English  ambassador  at  Venice,  sent  a  secret 
emissary  charged,  as  Wotton  tells  Salisbury,  "  to  accom- 

1  Caluudar,  IL,  ]<.  6lfi.  i  ]b.,  p.  G.56. 


PREFACE.  xliii 

"  pany  Tyrone  and  his  '  ging '  over  all  Italy  ;  "  writing  at 
the  same  time  to  King  James,  that  "  as  His  Majesty's  ser- 
"  Tants  in  Fraace  and  in  Brabant  had  hitherto  kept  him 
"  informed  of  the  proceedings  of  the  fugitives,  it  is  now 
"^  his  duty,  since  Tyrone  and  his  followers  have  entered 
"  on  Italian  ground,  to  give  His  Majesty  an  account  of 
"  them."i 

It  was  within  a  few  days  of  Wotton's  undertaking  this 
task  of  surveillance,  that  he  received  from  an  unnamed 
adventm'er,  a  proposal  for  the  assassination  of  Tyrone, 
which  he  communicated  without  delay  to  the  King  him- 
self, under  the  feigned  signature  of  Ottavio  Baldi,  in  the 
curious  letter  which  will  be  fomid  in  the  Appendix  of 
the  Calendar,  Vol.  II.,  p.  657. 

Wotton  describes  his  visitor  as  an  Italian  of  middle  age, 
sober  in  countenance,  well  clothed  and  well  fashioned,  and 
by  the  accents  and  phrase  of  his  speech,  undoubtedly  a 
Lombard,  or  one  long  bred  in  that  part  of  Italy.  Having 
presented  a  credential  ticket,  which  appeared  "  to  have 
"  been  penned  not  improvidently,"  the  stranger  stated 
that  he  was  sent  from  a  gentleman  banished  by  a  Prince 
with  whom  the  King  of  England  might  do  much  ;  which 
gentleman  had  understood  that  there  were  arrived  in  Milan 
certain  dangerous  rebels  against  the  King,  of  whom  one 
was  said  to  be  the  head  and  leader.  This  leader  the 
gentleman  undertook  to  find  a  means  to  send  a  casa  del 
diavolo  \_to  the  Devil's  house],  (that  was  his  phrase),  if  he 
could  be  assured  it  would  be  so  acceptable  a  piece  of  ser- 
vice to  the  King,  as  to  merit  His  Majesty's  favourable 
letters  for  his  repatriation.  This  was  the  substance  of 
what  he  had  to  say,  and  he  stipulated  that,  until  Wotton 
could   ascertain  the  King's  will   as   to  the  proposal,   he 


1  Calendar,  II.,  p.  651.     The  letter  is  partly  in  cipher. 


xliv  PREFACE. 

slioulcl  forbear  to  demand  the  quality,  abode,  or  name  of 
the  person  that  had  sent  him,  and  should  content  himself 
with  knowing  that  he  was  a  man  both  of  spirit  and  un- 
derstanding for  a  business  of  that  nature,  and  (though 
unknown)  long  devoted  to  His  Majesty's  service.  He 
added  also,  that,  when  the  thing  should  be  etfected,  he 
woiild  not  only  discover  himself  to  Wotton,  but  likewise 
peradventure  far  un  salto  [make  a  run]  into  England. 

Wotton  confesses  that  he  was  somewhat  troubled  with 
the  latter  part  of  this  speech,  not  seeing  sufficient  cause  for 
so  much  wariness — the  party  being  (as  was  confessed)  a 
banished  man,  a  class  who  are  commonly  not  over  dainty 
of  their  names  in  treaties  of  this  kind ;  and  he  resolved  to 
answer  the  proposal  with  some  reservation  and  ambiguity. 

He  began,  therefore,  by  professing  the  difficulty  of 
giving  an  answer  touching  the  acceptableness  of  the 
foresaid  piece  of  service ;  for  the  persons  who  seemed  to 
be  aimed  at  were  so  far  from  being  dangerous  (as  Ms 
visitor  had  termed  them),  that  they  were  indeed  most 
contemptible ;  having  run  away  solely  because  they  could 
do  no  harm  at  home ;  whereas  the  King  was  so  tenderly 
beloved  by  his  own  people  and  so  renowned  among  stran- 
gers for  the  justice  of  his  government,  that  "  his  honotir 
"  could  not  be  hurt  with  what  bruit  soever  such  a  handful 
"  of  traitorous  vagabonds  should  scatter  as  they  go." 

On  Wotton's  proceeding  to  say  that,  albeit  the  thing 
proposed  might  no  doubt  be  done  very  justly  (the  parties 
standing  in  actual  proclaimed  rebellion),  yet  it  was  some- 
what questionable  whether  it  might  be  done  honourably ; 
— they  not  having  been  openly  proscribed  to  destruction 
abroad,  and  this  coiu"se  not  being  so  familiar  and  frequent 
with  Englishmen  as  in  other  states ; — the  stranger  inter- 
rupted him  somewhat  eagerly,  saying  that  "  the  gentle- 
"  man  who  had  sent  him  knew  not  tante  distinctioni" 


PREFACE.  xlv 

{so  many  nice  distinctions).  Tlie  sum  and  substance  was 
this,  that,  if  he  could  but  be  assured  it  would  be  W(3ll 
taken  by  the  King,  the  thing  should  be  done,  and  then, 
as  concerns  the  conscience  of  him  that  would  do  it,  sua 
Ilaflascifar  a  ltd  [let  Ms  Majesty  leave  it  to  himself  \; — 
just  in  the  style  (as  Wotton  confesses)  of  a  fellow  that 
was  fit  for  such  a  jjurpose.  Wotton  replied  that  since  the 
point  which  alone  or  chiefly  he  required  to  know  was,  how 
acceptable  it  would  be,  he  would  take  the  liberty  to  tell 
him  his  own  conceit,  that  services  of  this  kind  rendered  to 
princes,  "  were  commonly  most  obligatory  when  they  were 
"  done  without  their  knowledge."  "  Intendo  vossignoria  " 
[Z  understand  you'],  said  he,  smiling.  Wotton  answered 
that  he  might  peradventure  understand  him  too  far ;  and 
therefore  with  his  leave  he  would  explain  himself,  that 
"  what  he  had  said  he  meant  not  directly  of  the  King  of 
"  England,  but  of  the  general  rules  and  afPeotion  of  other 
"  princes  in  the  like  oases." 

The  contrast  in  what  follows  of  the  interview  between, 
on  the  one  side,  the  unblushing  profligacy  of  the  hardy 
bravo,  and  the  polished  but  scarce  veiled  cynicism  of  the 
veteran  diplomatist  on  the  other,  is  so  eminently  dramatic, 
that  it  must  be  told  in  Wotton's  own  words  : — 

"  With  that,"  continues  Sir  Henry,  "  he  fell  into  direct  laughter, 
and  said  I  was  '  troppo  geloso '  [too  jecdous] .  I  answered  that  himself 
seemed  rather  so,  by  such  concealment  of  the  party  from  whom 
he  came.  '  Let  not  that  trouble  you  '  (said  he),  '  for  the  effect  shall 
show  that  he  is  un  galanf  huomo  e  gran  servidore  di  sua 
llaj*",  [a  gentleman  and  a  great  servant  of  His  Majesty] ;  neither 
doth  he  demand  any  favour  till  the  execution  of  what  he  hath 
promised.'  I  answered,  that  '  he  seemed  indeed  an  honest  man  by 
his  hating  of  those  that  were  naught ;  and  that  Your  Majesty  loved 
honest  men  in  all  countries,  and  was  desirous  likewise  of  their  love, 
and  that  by  nature  you  were  the  thankfuUest  jjrince  of  the  world.' 
'  But '  (said  I)  '  the  gentleman  may  perhaps  not  have  yet  understood 


xlvi  PREFACE. 

that  these  traitors  (according  to  the  fashion  of  such  men,)  go  very 
svifSciently  armed,  and  are  of  no  certain  abode  in  any  one  place.' 
'  Yes,'  (said  he),  '  they  will  abide  some  time  in  Eome,  and  thence  into 
Spain,  if  they  be  not  prevented.'  Which  I  think  he  took  out  of  the 
common  voice ;  for  of  particularities  I  found  him  so  ignorant  that 
he  could  not  name  the  man  whom  he  offered  to  kill,  otherwise  than 
the  head  and  leader  of  the  rest.  As  for  their  being  armed,  he  could 
scant  keep  himself  from  laughing  again  at  that  '  poor  circumstance,' 
as  he  called  it ;  and  thus  we  spent  some  other  voluntary  words,  to 
and  fro,  of  no  great  substance,  till  at  last  I  told  him  that,  though 
he  had  barred  me  from  aU  inquisitiveness  about  the  person  that  had 
sent  him,  yet  I  would  be  bold,  with  his  favour,  to  demand  his  own 
name.  This  he  also  denied  me  ;  saying  that  to  know  him  or  not  to 
know  him  i^niiwrtava  niente  al  negotio  [had  nothing  to  do  with 
the  business]  ;  he  was  for  his  part  but  a  messenger,  and  had  no  other 
business  here  than  only  to  speak  with  me,  which  having  clone,  he 
Avould  that  very  evening  depart ;  yet  he  had  order  to  leave  first  a 
note  in  my  hands  how  he  might  hear  from  me,  addressing  my 
letters  to  one  in  Mantua,  his  friend,  without  any  superscription. 

"  The  note  I  received,  and  so  he  departed.  Neither  do  I  yet 
know  any  more  of  him,  nor  can  I  conjecture  anything  of  the  person 
that  sent  him,  save  that,  by  all  likelihood,  he  is  some  one  banished 
out  of  this  State,  and  hovering  about  the  Court  of  Mantua,  who 
had  caught  this  news  at  the  first  voice,  and  found  it  to  be  a  fit 
means  for  his  own  restitution.  As  for  my  part,  I  have  left  him  in 
the  motions  of  his  own.  will ;  and  as  Your  Majesty  shall  be  further 
pleased  to  command  me,  I  will  proceed  in  it.  This  is  the  first  pro- 
position concerning  Your  Majesty  in  particular,  if  the  consideration 
of  such  distracted  runagates  can  any  way  concern  you."  ^ 

Whether  any,  and  what,  notice  was  taken  at  home  of 
his  most  extraordinary  communication,  these  papers  supply 
no  information.  But  its  cool  and  husiness-like  tone  and  the 
masterly  diplomacy  with  which,  while  seeming  to  depre- 
cate the  proposal,  and  to  under-rate  its  vakie  to  the  service 
of  his  sovereign,  the  negociator  contrived  to  draw  out  all 
its  details,  and,  by  anticipating  its  possible  difficulties,  to 

-  Calendar  II.,  pp.  658-9. 


PEE  FACE.  xlvii 

suggest  or  discover  a  means  of  overcoming  them,  are  liardly 
surpassed  hj  tlie  most  finished  efforts  of  the  genius  of 
Shakespeare. 

The  crime  of  assassination,  or  at  least  the  siispicion  of 
it,  was  not  confined  to  one  side  in  this  deadly  conflict. 
The  death  of  the  Earl  of  TyrconneU  in  the  end  of  the 
following  July  seems  to  have  been  attributed  by  public 
report  at  Rome  to  the  machinations  of  the  Irish  party 
and  the  Jesuits,  acting  in  complicity  with  the  Pope  and 
the  Spanish  Ambassador.  Sir  Henry  Wo tton,  in  reporting 
the  Earl's  death  to  Salisbury,  transmitted  to  him  a  notice 
which  he  had  received  from  Rome,  and  the  acceptance  of 
which,  without  discredit,  by  an  Ambassador,  affords  a 
curious  illustration  of  the  loose  ideas  of  political  morality 
which  prevailed  at  the  time.  This  singular  communica- 
tion states  that  Tyrconnell,  in  the  freedom  of  the  confi- 
dence which  he  placed  in  the  General  of  the  Jesuits, 
complained  one  day  of  the  ill  treatment  which  he  was 
receiving  from  the  Pope  and  the  Spaniards,  and  hinted 
that  "  he  could  easily  make  his  own  peace  and  that  of  his 
"  followers  with  the  King  of  Great  Britain  by  disclosing 
"  the  whole  proceedings  of  the  Earl  of  Tyrone  and  his 
"  fellow  conspirators  ;  but  that  there  was  one  tliiag  which 
"  restrained  him  from  so  doing,  namely,  the  Head  of  his 
"  religion."  This  perilous  menace,  the  report  says,  speedily 
reached  the  Pope  and  the  Spanish  Ambassador ;  and  the 
latter  soon  after  waited  upon  Tyrconnell,  accompanied  by 
an  Irish  friend  of  the  Earl,  and  by  remarking  that  the 
Earl  looked  very  ill,  persuaded  him  to  go  to  bed.  In  due 
course  the  Pope's  physician  was  sent  to  visit  and  prescribe 
for  him;  and  in  a  very  few  days  Tyrconnell  began  to 
decline,  and,  "  without  knowing  what  his  ailment  was, 
"  grew    worse  from  day  to  day,  till  he    died,  and   was 

"  buried  in  the  cemetery  of  the  convent  of  S.  Pietro  in 
3.  d 


xlviii  PREFACE. 

"  Montorio,  wliicli  is  under  the  immediate  protection  of 
"  the  King  of  Spain." 

The  inference  dhectly  suggested,  namely,  that  the  Earl 
was  thus  got  rid  of  by  poison  in  order  to  anticipate  the 
betrayal  of  the  cause  which  he  was  believed  to  be  medita- 
ting, and  that  this  step  was  taken  at  the  instance  or  with 
the  cognizance  of  personages  so  distinguished,  forms  a 
curious  set-off  for  Sir  Henry  Wotton's  proposal  to  the  King 
of  England.  And  yet  these  very  papers  themselves  supply 
the  most  complete  series  of  evidence  that  the  Earl's  death 
was  the  result  of  fever  caught  in  a  joui-ney  to  Ostia,  by 
which  several  of  the  train  who  had  accompanied  him  were 
affected,  and  with  which  his  own  page  and  the  son  of  the 
Earl  of  Tyrone  were  seized  at  the  same  time  with  himself. 

RISING  OF  O'DOGHERTY. 

Before  the  excitement  which  was  created  by  the  flight 
of  Tyrone  and  Tyrconnell,  and  which  was  stimulated  by  a 
succession  of  reports  of  their  imminent  return  with  an 
army  from  Spain  and  Elanders  and  with  subsidies  in 
money  and  arms  from  the  Pope,  had  subsided,  a  fresh  im- 
pulse was  given  to  the  hopes  of  the  discontented  natives 
by  the  temporary  success  of  Sir  Oahir  O'Dogherty's  up- 
rising and  seizure  of  Derry,  on  the  19th  of  April  1608. 
The  particulars  of  this  transaction  will  be  found  related 
with  great  minuteness  in  the  letters  and  reports  from  the 
oflB.cers  of  the  district,  and  in  the  letters  of  Chichester  to 
Salisbury  and  to  the  Lords  of  Council.^ 

An  intercepted  letter,  written  in  Irish  by  O'Dogherty  to 
O' Gallagher,  chief  of  the  "  foster  family"  of  the  O'Donnell, 
is  specially  interesting,  as  an  illustration  of  the  relations 
y\diich   subsisted  between  the  minor  tanists  of  the  same 

1  Calendar,  vol.  H.,  p.  543. 


PEEFACE.  xlix 

territory,  and  still  more  of  the  well  known  institution 
"fostering"  among  the  native  Irish.  The  letter  was 
written  in  the  very  crisis  of  O'Dogherty's  struggle,  after 
his  stronghold,  Beart  Castle,  had  been  invested  by  a  party 
left  for  the  purpose  by  Sir  Thomas  Ridgeway,  and  just 
as  O'Dogherty  "had  planted  himself  in  an  unknown 
"  and  unaccessible  fastness,  called  Q-lyn  Loughvagh  " 
[Lough veagh].  ^ 

"  The  commendation  of  O'Doghertie  imto  O'Galcliure  [O'Galaher]. 

"  I  would  have  you  understand  that,  if  you  have  any  hope  here 
or  hereafter  of  your  foster  son  [the  infant  Hugh  O'Donnell,  Baron  of 
Donegal,  Tyrconnell's  heir],  and  your  earthly  lord  [Tyrconnell],  or 
the  good  of  O'Doghertie,  then  cause  your  sept  and  yourself  to  aid 
O'Doghertie.  You  may  the  easier  perform  this,  because  '  the  churls ' 
[meaning  the  English]  have  no  courage  but  what  encouragement 
Neale  Arte  Oge's  sons  and  Tyrconnell  have  given  them.  Now  that 
we  have  given  them  over,  we  make  no  reckoning  of  them.  Let  no 
man  imagine  we  are  any  weaker  for  losing  Birte  Castle,  unless  he 
may  take  thought  of  the  inconstantness  of  such  as  he  trusted  of  his 
own  people,  whom  now  he  little  regards.  Be  it  known  to  you, 
O'Galchui'e,  O'Doghertie  desires  you  should  possess  anything  which 
the  Earl  makes  account  of,  rather  than  any  man  else  of  Tyrconnell, 
because  the  Earl  so  desu'es  it.  What  answer  you  make  to  these 
matters  and  concerning  Lough  Easke,  send  it,  in  writing  or  by 
word  of  mouth,  betwixt  this  and  the  next  morning. — From  Bally 
Aghtranyll.  Cahire  O'Doghertie." 

The  writer's  hatred  and  contempt  of  "  the  churls,"  his 
appeal  to  O'Gallagher's  loyalty  to  his  territorial  chief,  and 
his  allusion  to  the  still  more  tender  tie  which  ought  to  bind 
him  to  his  foster  child,  are  eminently  characteristic. 

But  the  appeal  was  in  vain.  Within  a  few  days  O'Gal- 
lagher  siwrendered  the  castle  of  Lough  Eske  to  Sir  Hemy 
Folliott. 

It  may  be  said,  however,  that  in  general  these  papers  do 
not  add  much  to  what  had  been  already  known  and  pub- 

1  Calendar,  vol.  II.,  p.  601. 

d  2 


]  PREFACE. 

lished  regarding  tliis  ill-starred  uprising.  The  war,  in 
CMcliester's  expressive  ptrase,  was  made  "  tliick  and 
"  short -."1  the  success  of  "  the  Tyrconnell  rebels  "  was  a 
brief  and  inglorious  one  ;  and  before  the  summer  had 
passed,  the  Privy  Council  of  England  were  "gratified 
"  by  the  welcome  news  of  the  death  (though  too  good 
"  a  death)  at  Kilmacrenan,  of  the  traitor  O'Dogherty,"  ^ 
slain  dming  the  battle  by  some  of  his  own  men,^  who 
obtained  from  Chichester  the  500^.  which  he  had  put 
upon  O'Dogherty's  head.* 

There  is  one  episode  of  this  miserable  struggle,  how- 
ever, of  which  nothing  seems  to  have  been  known  hitherto, 
and  which  is  related  in  a  most  characteristic  dispatch  of 
Sir  Henry  Polliott  to  Chichester; — the  capture  and  destruc- 
tion of  the  last  remnaat  of  the  followers  of  O'Dogherty, 
who  had  taken  refuge  in  Torry,  an  island  in  the   open 
Atlantic,  about  ten  miles  from  the  north  coast  of  Donegal. 
The  principal  of  these  was  Shane  M'Manus  Oge  O'Donnell, 
•\vho  was  the  most  prominent  of  the  sept  after  the  depar- 
ture of  the  Pugitives,  and  who  is  represented  by  Chichester 
as  "  ambitious  to  be  created  O'Donnell,  if  means  and  oc- 
"  casions  were  answerable  to  the    design."  ^    On  the  dis- 
persion of  the  main  body,  Shane  M'Manus  Oge,  with  about 
two  hundred  and  forty  followers  well  armed,  betook  him- 
self to  "  the  islands  of  Claudie,  hoping  there  to  lie  safe 
"  and  difficult   to  come   at,  and  to    increase   in   number 
"  and  reputation  after  their  departure."     Chichester  drew 
his  forces  around  so  as  to  invest  them  completely ;   and 
M'Manus,  finding  himself   hardly  beset,    retired   with   a 
party  of  some  sixty  armed  men,  into  the  island  of  Torraghe 
[Torry],  where   he   had  a  well  victualled  and  furnished 


1  Calendar,  vol.  II.,  p.  543.  2  n-,.^  p.  616.  s  lb.,  p.  607. 

*  lb.,  I-TT.,  p.  28.  s  lb.,  p.  9. 


PREFACE.  li 

castle.  This  island  stands  some  two  or  three  leagues  from 
the  main  shore,  and  contains  about  four  quarters  of  land. 
It  is  strongly  situated  by  nature,  and  has  such  a  current  of 
tides  about  it,  that  ships  very  seldom  can  cast  anchor  near 
it.  The  castle  stands  separate  from  the  great  island,  "  upon 
"  a  lesser  islet,  a  steep  rock,  containing  likewise  a  small 
"  circuit  of  land."  Having  first  broken  their  boats, 
Chichester  left  Sir  Henry  Eolliott,  Sir  Ptalpli  Binglny,  and 
Captain  Paul  Gore,  with  several  parties  of  soldiers,  about 
two  hundred  in  all,  "  to  watch  their  opportunities,  upon  the 
"  main  land,  and  to  prevent  the  rebels'  escape  by  currockes 
"  [corrachs]  or  boats  made  of  hides,  which  they  use." 
They  then  "  searched  and  harrowed  "  the  islands  of  Claudie, 
and  in  his  return  Chichester  "  took  in  Loghveagh,  where 
"  were  twenty  rebels  that  kept  it,  and  ruined  their  island 
"  and  fort."  He  states  that  the  principal  man  that  held 
the  fort — one  of  the  O' Gallaghers — killed  three  or  four 
of  his  best  associates  after  he  yielded  up  the  island  ;  for 
which  service  Chichester  took  him  into  protection.  And 
he  adds  with  characteristic  sang-froid,  that  he  "  held  this 
"  practice  with  these  rebels  in  all  places  where  he  came, 
"  and  found  it  more  successful  than  any  force ;  such  is 
"  their  levity  and  great  fear  when  they  are  prosecuted 
with  etfect."  ^ 

But  the  consummation  of  the  tragedy  was  reserved  for 
the  island  of  Torry,  to  which  the  main  body  had  with- 
drawn, and  which  Chichester  had  surrounded  with  parties 
of  surveillance.  The  story  is  told  by  FoUiott,  and  we  shall 
o-ive  the  chief  incidents  in  his  own  words.  The  reader 
of  Mr.  Proude's  History  of  England  will  remember  the 
terrible    picture    which    he    draws    of    tlie    massacre  in 


1  Calendar,  vol.  III.,  p.  27. 


lii  PREFACE. 

RatMin  Island,  under  Essex,  in  July  1575.^  The  tragedy 
of  Torry  differs  in  the  nujnher  of  victims,  which  was  com- 
paratively small;  but,  if  we  regard  the  hideous  condition 
attached  to  the  offer  of  pardon, — disgraceful  alike  to  the 
butchers  who  imposed  it  and  to  the  wretches  by  whom 
it  was  carried  into  effect, — which  condition,  as  may  be 
inferred  from  Chichester's  despatch  just  quoted,  was 
offered  under  his  direction,  the  transaction  is  hardly  sur- 
passed in  atrocity  by  the  more  wholesale  enormities  of  the 
older  story. 

rolliott,  having  explained  and  apologised  to  Chichester 
for  suffering  the  escape  of  the  principal  body  of  the 
fugitives  from  the  island,  proceeds  with  his  narrative.  A 
constable  and  warders  remained  in  the  castle  after  the 
flight  of  the  rest. 

"  The  next  day,  after  his  coming  and  viewing  the  castle  and 
grounds  about  it,  the  constable  called  to  Sir  MuUmory  M'Swyne, 
(then  with  Sir  Henry  Folliott's  force,)  and  entreated  him  to 
procure  him  leave  to  speak  with  him,  promising  to  perform  good 
service  ;  on  which  he  suffered  him  to  come  ;  and  at  liis  coming, 
he  asked  him  what  he  would  do  to  save  his  life  and  the  rest 
that  were  with  him ;  after  many  excuses  of  Shane  M'Manus 
Oge's  innocency,  and  his  being  forced  to  remain  there,  he  offered 
the  castle,  with  all  that  was  in  it,  for  safety  of  their  lives.  But 
of  this  he  (Sir  Henry)  made  small  account,  considering  it  as 
the  King's  already.  But  he  made  him  this  proffer ;  if  he  would 
undertake  the  bringing  to  him  Shane  M'Manus  Oge's  head,  and 
give  him  good  security  for  the  performance  of  it,  he  would  under- 
take they  should  have  their  pardons.  He  (the  constable)  protested 
he  could  by  no  means  perform  it,  but  promised  to  do  the  best  he 
could  in  that  or  anything  else  for  the  King's  service." 

Eolliott  then  ordered  him  to  go  back,  but  for  a  long  time 
he  refused  to  go, — 

"  still  entreating  for  mercy,  urging  his  unfortunate  stay  there, 
and  his  innocency,  with  his  forwardness  to  do  anything  which  lay 

in  his  power." 


1  Fronde's  History  of  England,  vol.  XI.,  p.  185. 


PEEFACE.  liii 

In    the   end   FoUiott  promised  the   constable  his   life, 

on    condition    of  his  delivering   up    the    castle    and   the 

warders : — 

"  He  spoke  of  the  difRculty  of  this  in  respect  of  the  numbers ; 
but  withal  promised  seven  of  their  heads,  with  the  castle  and  all 
that  was  in  it,  within  two  hours." 

And  here  occurs  one  of  the  most  shocking  incidents  of 

this  shocking  tragedy.     Before  Sir  Henry  dealt  with  the 

constable  for  the  heads  of  all  his  men,  Captain  Gore  had 

dealt  with  M'Swyne   (another  of  the  garrison),  and  had 

fixed  the   same   terms.     This   M'Swyne   came  with  the 

constable  to  the  camp. 

"  So  they  departed,"  continues  Sir  Henry,  "  each  of  them  being 
well  assured  and  resolved  to  cut  the  other's  throat;  by  ill  hap 
to  M'Swyne,  it  was  the  constable's  fortune  to  get  the  start  of 
the  others,  and  he  killed  two  of  them ;  instantly  the  rest  of 
them  fled  into  the  island,  hidino-  themselves  among  the  rocks 
and  cliffs ;  and  at  break  of  day  he  caused  tliem  to  loolv  for  them, 
giving  them  two  hours  for  the  bringing  in  of  their  heads  with- 
out the  assistance  of  any  of  the  soldiers,  otherwise  their  own  were 
like  to  make  up  the  number  jjromised  by  them.  After  a  little 
search  they  found  three  of  them  in  a  rock,  tlie  passage  to  which 
was  so  dangerous  that  he  had  well  hoped  it  would  have  cost  the 
most  of  their  lives  ;  but  the  constable  with  the  first  shot  he  made 
killed  the  principal ;  the  other  two  men  ran  away  towards  Sir 
Henry's  men.  One  of  them  promising  some  service,  but  of  little 
moment,  he  delivered  him  again  to  the  constable  to  be  hanged  ;  and  as 
he  was  being  led  to  execution,  the  desperate  villain,  with  a  skione 
[skeane]  he  had  secretly  about  him,  stabbed  the  constable  to  the 
heart,  who  never  spake  a  word,  and  was  afterwards  himself  with 
the  other  three,  cut  into  pieces  by  the  other ;  and  so  there  were  but 
five  that  escaped ;  three  of  them  churls,  and  the  other  two  young 
boys."  ^ 


1  Calendar,  vol.  ITI.,  pp.  35-6. 


liv  PEEFACE. 


RESULTS  OF  TYRONE  AND  TYRCONNELL'S  FLIGHT, 
AND  O'DOGHERTY'S  REBELLION. 

The  course  by  which  it  had  originally  been  proposed  to 
reform  the  Ulster  tenures,  and  to  introduce  "  civility  "  into 
that  province,  was  cut  short  by  these  unforeseen  events. 
Scarcely  had  the  news  of  the  flight  of  the  Earls  of  Tyrone 
and  Tyrconnell    reached  the  Government,  when  sugges- 
tions began  to  pour  in  from  all  quarters  as  to  the  use  to 
be  made  of  the  opportunity  thus  created.     "Within  a  few 
days  of  thek  departure  (Sept.  11)  Sir  Geoffrey  Eenton  puts 
Salisbury  in  mind,  "  what  a  door  is  opened  to  the  King, 
"  not  only  to  pull  down  for  ever  these  two  grand  houses  of 
"  O'Neile  and  O'Donnell,  but  also  to  bring  in  colonies  of 
"  the  English  to  plant  both  countries,  to  a  great  increase 
"  of  His  Majesty's  revenues,  and  to  settle  the  countries 
"  perpetually  in  the  Crown,  and  besides  to  recompense 
"  many  well-deserving  servitors  in  the  distribution,  with- 
"  out  charge  to  His  Majesty."^     Sir  John  Davys,  on  the 
12th,  in  a  passage  already  referred  to,  hails  the  event  as 
enabling  the  King  to  eclipse  the  legendary  miracle  of  St. 
Patrick,  by  banishing  not  the  "  poisonous  worms,"  but  the 
"man  full  of  poison,"  out  of  the  island.^     In  less  rhetori- 
cal phrase,  E-ichard  Hadsor,  on  the  23rd  September,  draws 
Salisbury's  attention  to  it  as  "  offering  good  occasion  for  a 
"  plantation."  '^     Sir  Thomas  Phillips  turns  it  to  account 
in  his  own  behalf,  September  22,  by  putting  in  an  early 
claim  for   "  a  good   scope  of  Tyrone's  land "   adjoining 
Coleraine,  and  promises,  "  if  it  be  granted,  that  he  would 
"  have  planted  upon  it  a  company  of  honest  English   to 
"  serve  His  Majesty  on  all  occasions."  *     Chichester  him- 


1  Calendar,  vol.  II.,  p.  268.  2  lb.  p.  273. 

3  lb.  p.  28],  1  lb  p.  280. 


PREFACE.  Iv 

self  regarded  the  news  of  Tyrone's  departure  as  "far 
"  better  for  the  King  and  commonwealth  than  if  he  were 
"  in  the  Tower  of  London ;  since  by  this  course  he  had 
"  carried  Avitli  him  his  children  and  kinsmen,  who  were 
"  in  remainder  in  the  estate  of  his  country,  and  it  would 
"  seem,  unacquainted  with  his  treasons  before  his  depar- 
"  ttu^e ;  whereas  by  this  course  all  will  be  His  Ma^jesty's, 
"  who,  as  Chichester  hopes,  will  make  the  best  use  of  it 
"  for  the  settlement  of  his  better  subjects."  ^  And  it  is 
clear  that  these  views  were  but  an  anticipation,  or  perhaps 
an  echo  of  a  foregone  policy  at  the  centre  of  government, 
for  as  early  as  the  27th  of  September  Salisbury  distinctly 
declares  to  Chichester  "  that  he  thinks  it  of  great  neces- 
"  sity  that  those  countries  be  made  the  King's  by  this 
"  accident."  ^  It  is  worthy  of  note  too,  that  at  this  time 
he  was  of  opinion  that  there  "  should  be  a  mixture  in  the 
"  plantation,  the  natives  being  made  His  Majesty's  tenants 
"  of  part,  but  the  rest  to  be  divided  among  those  who 
"  would  inhabit,  and  in  no  case  any  man  suffered  to  em- 
"  brace  more  than  it  is  visible  he  can  and  wiU  manure," 
and  that  care  should  be  taken  to  avoid  the  oversight  of 
the  plantation  of  Munster,  whose  12,000  acres  were  com- 
m.only  allotted  to  bankrupts  and  country  gentlemen  that 
never  knew  the  disposition  of  the  Irish.  As  a  further 
specimen  of  the  progressive  stages  of  opinion,  it  may  be 
added  that  Sir  Oliver  St.  John  at  this  period  advised  that 
"  no  part  [of  the  land  to  be  planted]  should  be  given 
"  away  to  Irish  or  English,  but  should  be  let  by  worthy 
"  and  careful  commissioners  to  the  natives  of  the  coimtry 
"  at  high  and  dear  rates."  ^ 

Independently,  therefore,  of  the  suspicion  of  complicity 
with  his  brother  and  with  Tyrconnell,  which  was  alleged 


1  Caleudar,  vol.  II.,,  p.  463.  ■'  lb.  p.  284.  '^  lb.  p.  304. 


Ivi  PREFACE. 

against  Sir  Cormac  O'Neil,  there  were  abtmdant  reasons  of 
policy  for  refusing  his  application  for  a  cnstodimn  of  the 
lands  of  Tyrone  after  his  flight.  On  the  contrary,  the 
first  step  taken  by  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Council  was  to 
appoint  Sir  Toby  Caulfield,  receiver  of  the  fugitives'  rent 
on  the  part  of  the  Crown;  and  mention  is  made  more 
than  once  in  the  correspondence  to  the  return  of  the 
accounts  of  rents  thus  received  in  the  King's  name;^ 
the  final  account  being  rendered  by  Sir  Toby  when  his 
receivership  determined,  1st  November  1610,  on  the  dis- 
tribution of  the  lands  to  the  undertakers." 

It  is  curious  to  trace  in  the  successive  stages  of  the 
correspondence  the  progress  of  the  scheme  of  settlement 
from  the  first  definite  suggestion  of  a  plan  to  the  final 
organization  of  the  measure,  such  as  it  was  carried  into 
actual  execution.  Before  the  end  of  the  month  in  which 
the  Earls  fled,  Chichester  appears  to  have  arranged,  in 
his  own  mind,  at  least  alternatively,  all  the  iiscs  to  which 
their  abandonment  of  their  territory  might  be  turned. 
On  the  l7th  of  September  1607,  he  proposes  two  plans 
to  the  Privy  Council.  He  professes  his  own  preference 
for  the  first :  — 

"  If  His  Majesty  will,  diiring  their  absence,  assiimc  the  countries 
into  his  possession,  divide  the  lands  amongst  the  inhabitants — to 
every  man  of  note  or  good  desert  so  much  as  he  can  conveniently 
stock  and  manure  by  himself  and  his  tenants  and  followers,  and 
so  much  more  as  b}'  conjecture  he  shall  be  able  so  to  stock  and 
manure  for  five  years  to  come ; — and  will  bestow  the  rest  upon 
servitors  and  men  of  worth  here,  and  withal  bring  in  colonies  of 
civil  people  of  England  and  Scotland  at  His  Majesty's  pleasure, 
with  condition  to  build  castles  or  stone  houses  upon  their  lands  ; 
and  if  he  will  bestow  lOfiOOl.  or  12,000/.  to  repair  the  forts  already 
built,  and  to  build  some  more  small  forts  from,  the  ground  in  fit 
places,  and  place  200  soldiers  within  them  by  8,  10,  or  12  in  each 

1   Calendar,  vol.  II.,    p.  451.  2  lb.,  pp.  532-46. 


PEEFACE.  Ivii 

of  them,  to  be  at  His  Majesty's  charge  for  the  five  years  aforesaid, 
and  then  to  be  left  in  the  hands  of  those  that  shall  be  first  en- 
trusted with  them,  to  be  maintained  and  defended  by  the  revenues 
of  the  lands  which  may  be  laid  to  them ;  then  he  assures  himself 
that,  besides  the  yearly  benefit  that  will  redound  to  His  Majesty's 
coffers,  which  will  be  nothing-  inferior  to  the  revenues  of  Munster 
or  Connaught,  the  country  will  ever  after  be  happUy  settled  ;  there 
wiU  be  no  need  to  spend  their  revenues  in  the  reducing  and  defence 
of  this  realm  from  time  to  time,  as  has  been  customary  for  many 
hundred  years  heretofore."  i 

If  this  suggestion  should  appear  unfeasible,  the  alter- 
native is  as  follows  : — 

"  But  if  His  Majesty  and  their  Lordships  shall  not  like  of  that 
course  (which  is  the  best  of  all  others  that  he  can  think  on),  then 
they  must  of  necessity  to  descend  to  this  other,  and  that  is  to  drive 
out  all  the  inhabitants  of  Tirone,  Tirconnell,  and  Fermanaghe  as 
near  as  they  may,  with  all  their  goods  and  cattle,  into  the  countries 
adjoining,  over  the  rivers  of  the  Bande  [Ban],  Blackwater,  and  Logh 
Erne,  there  to  inhabit  the  waste  lands,  more  than  is  sufficient  to 
contain  them,  leaving  only  such  people  behind  as  wiU  dwell  under 
the  protection  of  the  garrisons  and  forts  which  would  be  made 
strong  and  defensible.  He  holds  this  an  honest  and  laudable  act, 
void  of  iniquity  or  cruelty ;  and  even  though  it  were  touched  with 
some,  yet,  in  this  case,  it  is  prudence,  and  like  to  be  recompensed 
with  a  public  benefit  to  His  Majesty  and  the  whole  realm,  both  for 
the  present  and  future  time.  One  or  other  of  these  designs  should 
be  suddenly  apprehended,  and  directions  and  means  sent  to  put  it 
in  execution  without  delay  ;  for  His  Majesty  should  not  much 
stand  upon  forms  of  law  and  justice  with  men  that  are  assuredly 
gone  to  put  on  their  arms,  and  therein  to  dispute  with  him  con- 
cerning their  claims."  ^ 

Within  less  than  a  fortnight  (29tli  September)  an 
answer  is  returned,  which,  without  separately  considering 
the  terms  of  the  two  projects  thus  alternatively  proposed, 
appears  to  adopt  the  leading  principles  of  both  : — 

"  For  the  plantation  which  is  to  foUow  upon  attainder,  the  King 
in  general  approves  of  Chichester's  project,  being  resolved  to  make 


1  Calendar,  vol.  II.,  p.  276.  2  lb.  p.  277, 


Iviii  PREFACE. 

a  mixture  of  the  inhabitants,  as  well  Irish,  as  English  and  Scottish  ; 
to  respect  and  favour  the  Irish  that  are  of  good  note  and  desert, 
and  to  make  Chichester  specially  judge  thereof;  to  prefer  English 
that  are  and  have  been  servitors  before  any  new  men  from  hence  ; 
to  assign  places  of  inost  importance  to  men  of  best  trust ;  and 
generally  to  observe  these  two  cautions ; — first,  that  such  as  be 
planted  there  be  not  needy,  but  of  a  reasonable  sufficiency  to  main- 
tain their  portions  ;  secondly,  that  none  shall  have  a  vast,  but  only 
a  reasonable  proportion ;  much  less  that  any  one  of  either  nation 
shall  be  master  of  a  whole  country.  But  before  this  plantation 
can  be  digested  and  executed,  much  must  be  prepared  by  Chi- 
chester, as  His  Majesty  is  to  be  better  informed  of  the  lands  to  be 
divided ;  what  countries  are  most  meet  to  be  inhabited  ;  what 
Irish  fit  to  be  trusted ;  what  English  meet  for  that  plantation  in 
Ireland ;  what  offers  are  or  will  be  made  there ;  what  estates  are 
fit  to  be  granted ;  and  what  is  to  be  done  for  the  conviction  of  the 
fugitives,  because  there  is  no  possession  or  estate  to  be  given  before 
their  attainder."  ^ 

Accordingly,  following  the  suggestion  thns  thrown  out, 
the  first  step  towards  the  plantation  was  the  indictment 
of  "  the  Eugitive  Earls  and  divers  of  their  adherents  of 
"  certain  high  treasons,  whereof  they  found  themselves 
"  guilty  when  they  made  their  sudden  flight  out  of  the 
"  country."  ^ 

INDICTMENT  OF  THE  FUGITIVE  EAELS  AND  THEIR 
ADHERENTS. 

In  order  to  understand  all  the  bearings  of  this  obscure 
and  complicated  procedure,  it  becomes  necessary  to  con- 
sider the  immediate  causes  of  the  flight  of  the  Ulster 
Earls,  especially  of  that  of  the  Earl  of  Tyrone,  and  the 
consequences  of  that  step. 

In  the  summer  of  1607,  there  was  a  cause  depending 
before    Sir   Arthur    Chichester   and   the   Council   Board, 

1  Calendur,  vol.  II.,  p.  290.  3  ib.  p.  389. 


PREFACE.  lix 

between  the  Eaii  of  Tyrone  and  Sir  Donel  O'Caliau, 
concerning  tlie  rights  claimed  by  the  Earl  over  the 
territory  possessed  by  O'Cahan,  "  that  large  and  fruitful 
"  territory  lying  between  Loughfoyle  and  the  river 
"  Ban,"  as  Sir  John  Davys  describes  it/  which  the  Earl 
contended  was  part  of  Tyrone,  insisting  that  O'Cahan, 
consequently,  vpas  under  his  jurisdiction. 

After  an  angry  discussion  before  Sir  Arthur  and  the 
Council  Board  (where  the  Earl  in  his  passion  so  forgot 
himself  as  to  snatch  a  paper  out  of  O'Cahan's  hand  and 
tear  it  to  pieces  in  the  presence  of  the  Board), ^  both 
parties  asked  for  leave  to  repair  to  His  Majesty.^ 

Sir  Arthur  Chichester  and  the  Coimcil  apprized  the 
King  that  inconveniences  might  arise  among  the  loose 
people  of  the  Earl  and  O'Cahan,  by  the  absence  of  their 
heads,  but  the  King,  on  16th  of  July  1607,  replied  to 
Chichester  that  he  was  resolved  on  their  coming  over, 
conceiving  that  they  would  more  contentedly  abide  the 
sentence  of  their  sovereign  than  of  his  officers  or 
ministers,  however  just  soever  they  might  be,*  and  the 
cause  was  to  be  heard  in  November  following.  About 
the  13th  of  August,  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  went  down 
towards  Ulster,^  minding  to  spend  the  long  vacation 
there,  and  to  attend  to  the  ordinary  business  of  the 
province.''  While  he  was  staying  at  Slane  the  Earl  of 
Tyrone  often  came  to  him,  and  by  all  his  discourses 
seemed  to  intend  nothing  more  than  the  preparation 
for  his  journey  into  England  against  the  time  appointed, 
only  regretting  that  between  the  shortness  of  time  and 
his  present  poverty  he  was  not  able  to  furnish  himself 


1  Calendar,  vol.  II.,  p.  210.  ^  jb.  p.  152.  3  it.,  p.  200. 

4  lb.  p.  220.  5  Sir  Geoffrey  Fenton  to  Salisbury,  lb.  p.  250. 

^  Sir  Artliur  Chichester  to  Privy  Council,  7  September  1607,  lb.  p.  259. 


Ix  PREFACE. 

as  became  him  for  such  a  journey  and  such  a  presence.^ 
On  the  6th  of  September,  notwithstanding,  Sir  Arthur  was 
informed  that  the  two  Earls  of  Tyrone  and  Tyrconnell, 
with  then-  families  and  others,  numbering  35  persons,^ 
had  embarked  in.  a  ship  at  E-athmuIlen,  in  Lough 
Swilly,  for  what  destination  was  not  then  known,  nor 
the  causes  of  their  flight.^  Proofs  of  treason  were  sub- 
seqixently  discovered,  as  was  alleged ;  and  about  the 
15th  of  December  1607,  Sir  John  Davys  with  other 
Commissioners,  proceeded  to  Donegal  and  Tyrone,  and 
there  presented  bills  of  indictment  to  grand  juries  of 
those  counties,  charging  the  two  Earls  and  their  com- 
panions with  high  treason,  and  these  bills  were,  by  the 
grand  juries,  found  to  be  true  bills.*  They  were  rettu-ned 
into  the  King's  Bench,  in  order  that  process  might  issue 
so  that  the  parties  should  be  attainted  of  outlawry,  about 
the  begianing  of  June,  1609,^  when  their  lands  might 
be  completely  confiscated.  But  before  this  time  arrived 
events,  as  we  saw,  had  happened  which  placed  in  similar 
condition  the  only  two  portions  of  Tyrone  and  Donegal 
remaining  unconfiscated,  that  is  to  say,  O'Oahan's  country 
about  Ooleraine  and  Limavaddy,  and  the  territory  of  In- 
nishowen  belonging  to  Sir  Oahir  O'Dogherty.  Eor  on  the 
night  between  the  18th  and  19th  of  April  1608,  Sir  Oahir 
O'Dogherty  rose  in  insurrection  and  surprised  and  burned 
the  iafant  city  of  Derry  and  slew  the  governor.  Sir 
George  Pawlet.**  On  the  5th  of  July  1608,  O'Dogherty 
was  slain,'  and    death  in  rebellion  being  in  Ireland  an 


1  Calendar,  vol.  II.,  p.  259.  2  ggg  ^jjg  j^jg^.^  j|,_  p_  ^gg^ 

3  lb.  p.  259,  lb.  p.  266.,  lb.  p.  270. 

*  See  the  Indictment,  lb.  p.  555,  and  Sir  John  Davys  to  the  Earl  of 
Salisbury,  6  January  1608,  with  the  account  of  this  proceeding,  lb.  p.  389. 
^  lb.  0  lb.  p.  480,  lb.  p.  483. 

"^  Proclamation  dated  Dundalk,  7  July  1608,  lb.  p.  608. 


PREFACE.  Ixi 

attainder    in   law,    if  found  by  inquisition,  Sir   Thomas 
Ridgeway   took   down   a   Oommission    under   tlie    Great 
Seal    to    inquire   super    visum    corporis  of  O'Dogherty. 
And  thus   were   avoided   all  the  delays  in  entitling   the 
Kuig  to  O'Dogherty's  lands  and  goods  that  occurred   in 
the  Earls  of  Tyrone's  and  TyrconneU's  cases,  which  took 
up  almost  the  whole  time  tUI  O'Dogherty's  death.^    Sir 
Donel   O'Cahan    had   no    part   in   O'Dogherty's   treason, 
having  been  in  prison  in  the  Castle  of  Dublin  since  the 
month  of  February  preceding,   strange  as  it  may  sound, 
at  his  own  request.     He   and  the  Bishop  of  Derry  had 
had   differences    about   Church   or   termon   lands   in  his 
territory.     This   made   him   jealous  of  the   Government, 
and  being  sujnmoned  below   stood  upon  his    keeping,    a 
sign   in   Ireland  of    revolt   soon  after  to  follow    (wrote 
Chichester)    if  they  have   means   or    be  not  prevented.^ 
However,  O'Cahan  repaired  to  Dublin,  presented  himself 
to  Chichester  on   the  11th  of  Eebruary,'*   and   on   being 
charged  with    sundry  misdemeanors,    indignantly  denied 
them    and   begged   to    be   put  under  restraint,    until   he 
should   disprove    them,    or    better   excuse   himself;    and 
Sir    Arthur    committed    him   to    the    constable    of    the 
castle.*    The  charge  was  not  a  capital  one ;   and  after  he 
had   been  five  months  in  prison.  Sir  Arthur  Chichester 
asked  permission  to   discharge   him;^   but  this   was   not 
granted,   and   the    Lords   of   the   Council   dh^ected   that 
he  should  be  sent  over  to  England."     There  was  a  desire, 
however,  to   obtain   a   verdict   for   treason   against   him, 
and  he  was  kept   in  the  prison  of  the  Castle  of  Dubhn 
till  June  1609,  and  an  indictment  containing  six  poiats 
of  treason  ^  was  framed  against  him,  and  a  jury  summoned 

1  Calendar,  vol.  II.,  p.  612.  2  ib.  p.  406.  3  lb.  p.  406. 

4  lb.  p.  418.  5  ii3.  p.  559.  6  lb.  p.  566.  7  ib,  p.  590, 


Ixii  PREFACE. 

from  Donegal  for  his  trial  at  Dublin  in  that  month ; 
hut  Sir  Neal  O'Donnell  being  put  on  his  trial  in  the 
King's  Bench  for  notorious  treason,  on  the  24ith  of  June, 
and  the  jury  not  returning  a  verdict,  (it  was  said  that 
they  had  bound  themselves  by  voluntary  oath  never  to 
find  the  lord  of  their  country  guilty,)^  Sir  John  Davys 
resolved,  from  the  experience  they  had  had  of  this 
northern  jury,  to  put  ofP  O'Cahan's  trial  till  direction 
should  arrive  from  England.^  He  was  never  tried,  but 
was  sent  over  to  England  and  imprisoned  in  the  Tower 
of  London,  where  he  died  some  years  later. 

The  indictment  against  the  Earls  and  their  companions 
had  remained  unpublished  till  it  appeared  in  the  second 
volume  of  this  Calendar.  The  copy  of  it  now  in  the 
Public  E-ecords  was  only  entrusted  to  Salisbury  by  Sir 
John  Davys  in  the  strictest  confidence ;  for  he  has 
appended  to  it  a  request  that  Salisbury  will  "  suppress 
"  it,  because  records  of  this  nature  are  never  communi- 
«  cated."^ 

It  contains  three  charges  :  first,  that  they  rose  in  arms 
and  assembled  at  Rathmullen  on  the  3rd  of  September 
1607,  with  the  design  of  the  death  and  destruction  of 
the  King,  and  to  deprive  him  of  the  government.  Of 
this  charge  it  is  enough  to  say,  that  this  levying  of 
war  was  a  far-fetched  legal  construction,  for  the  Earls 
■were  only  at  Eathmullen  on  the  eventful  night  of  the 
3rd  of  September  1607  iu  hasty  flight  from  the  King  and 
kingdom. 

The  second  is  a  charge  that  they  intended  to  seize  the 
Castle  of  Dublin,  and  the  castles  of  Athlone,  Roscommon, 
Ballyshannon,    Lifi'ord,    and   Duncannon   (in    Wexford), 


I  Calendiir,  vol.  I  EL,  p.  222.  2  lb.  p.  225. 

^  Calendar,  vol.  II.,  p.  556. 


PREFACE.  Ixiii 

and  divers  other  castles,  and  to  deprive  tlie  King  of  the 
government  of  Ireland,  and  to  introduce  an  army  of 
foreigners. 

The  third  and  last,  that  they  had  left  Ireland  to  hring 
back  a  foreign  army.  But,  besides  this  general  indict- 
ment against  the  whole  company,  there  was,  as  against  the 
Earl  of  Tyrone  in  particular,  a  separate  indictment  pre- 
ferred in  the  county  of  Tyrone  for  an  additional  act  of 
treason  in  assuming  the  name  of  "  O'Neale." 

Sir  John  Davys,  upon  his  return  to  Dubhn,  gives  the 
following  account  of  the  proceeduigs  to  the  Earl  of 
Salisbury.     The  letter  is  dated  6th  January  1608. 

"  About  ten  days  before  Christmas  was  sent  with  other  commis- 
sioners down  into  Ulster  to  indict  the  fugitive  Earls  and  divers  of 
their  adherents  of  those  high  treasons  whereof  they  found  them- 
selves guilty  when  they  made  their  sudden  flight  out  of  this 
countiy  .  .  .  The  Commissioners  sat  in  two  counties  ;  first,  at 
Lifford,  in  the  county  of  Donegal,  where  [in  which  county]  the 
fugitives  were  all  assembled  and  committed  some  acts  of  rebellion 
before  they  took  shipping  :  ■'-  and  after  at  Strabane,  in  the  county 
of  Tyrone,  where  the  Earl  of  Tyrone  had  taken  upon  him  the  name 
of  '  O'Neale '  (which  is  treason  by  Act  of  Parliament  here)  and 
besides  committed  many  foul  murders  since  he  was  last  received  to 
grace. 

"  In  the  county  of  Donegal  they  preferred  against  them  all,  their 
bill  of  indictment,  containing  the  high  and  principal  points  of 
ti'eason  wherewith  they  were  to  be  charged  ;  namely,  for  conspiring 
and  practising  to  deprive  the  King  of  his  crown  of  Ireland,  and  to 
take  the  government  into  their  own  hands,  which  they  intended  to 
bring  to  pass  by  killing  the  Deputy  and  Council,  by  suppressing 
the  castle  of  Dublin  and  other  principal  forts,  by  bringing  in  a 
foreign  invasion  and  by  stirring  a  new  rebellion  within  the  realm  ; 
and  lastly,  for  committing  certain  acts  at  their  departure,  which 
beino-  done  by  men  whose  traitorous  hearts  were  poisoned  with 


1  This  was  the  taking  of  some  beeves  of  one  Francis  Whyte,  an  English- 
man, and  killing  them  for  their  provision.  Sir  John  Davys  to  Salisbury, 
12  September  1607,  p.  270. 


Ixiv  PREFACE. 

tliose  former  traitorous  intentions  amounted  to  an  actual  rebellion  ; 
and  then  departing  with  intent  to  return  with  a  foreign  power 
to  depose  the  King  from  the  royal  government  of  this  kingdom. 
The  jurors  empanelled  to  find  this  indictment  were  23  gentle- 
men of  the  best  C[uality  and  distinction  in  that  county.  Sir  Cahir 
O'Doherfcy,  who,  next  to  the  Earl  of  Tyrconnell,  has  the  largest 
territory  there,  being  the  foreman;  and  of  the  23  jurors,  13  were 
of  the  Irish  nation  and  but  10  of  the  English,  in  order  that  there 
might  be  no  exception  of  partiality  in  compounding  the  jury. 

"  The  bill  was  read  publicly  both  in  English  and  Irish,  though 
that  were  needless  and  not  usual  upon  taking  indictments  ;  but  they 
thought  fit  to  discover  a  great  deal  of  the  evidence  to  all  the  hearers, 
to  the  end  that  all  the  country  might  be  satisfied  that  the  State  pro- 
ceeded against  them  upon  a  most  just  ground,  and  that  the  people, 
knowing  their  treacherous  practices  might  rest  assured  that  their 
guilty  consciences  and  fear  of  losing  their  heads  was  the  only  cause 
of  their  running  away,  and  not  the  allurement  of  any  foreign  prince. 
They  laid  open  the  evidence  at  large,  and  enforced  it  with  the  best 
advantage  they  could ;  but  they  found  afterwards  that  but  little 
rhetoric  would  have  served  to  persuade  the  jury  to  find  the  bill 
against  the  Earls  and  Maguire,  but  because  all  the  rest  of  theii- 
followers  named  in  the  bill  were  charged  with  all  the  treasons  in 
as  high  a  degree  as  the  Earls  themselves,  they  conceived  a  doubt 
how  they  might  find  the  bill  true  against  those  followers,  because 
it  was  very  probable  that  most  part  of  them  knew  not  of  the  Earl's 
practices,  and  it  was  reported  that  some  of  them  showed  themselves 
unwilling  to  leave  the  kingdom."  ^ 

Having  removed  these  scruples,  the  grand  jurors  found 
the  hill  to  be  a  true  hill,  and  the  next  day  the  Com- 
missioners indicted  the  Earl  of  Tyrone  at  Strahane,  a 
town  lying  only  half  a  mile  from  Liiford,  across  the 
river  Finn  in  Tyrone, 

"  Here  they  exhibited  a  bill  against  Tyrone,"  continues 
Sir  John,  "  for  assuming  the  name  of  '  O'Neale,'  for  proof 
"  whereof  they  had  only  one  signet  or  warrant,  written 
"  in  Irish,  Avherein  by  the  name  of  O'Neale  he  commands 


1  Calendar,  vol.  II.,  p.  390. 


PREFACE.  Ixv 

O'Quin,  Lis  marshal,  to  pay  certain  monies  in  this 
"  form : 

"  'O'Neale  bids  O'Qnin  to  pay  60/.,  &c./  but  this 
"  warrant  was  signed  'Tyrone.'  " 

Notwithstanding,  the  jurors  upon  theii-  own  private 
knowledge  found  the  bill  of  indictment  true,  and  gave 
this  reason  :  "  Although,"  said  they,  "  in  presence  of  the 
"  EngKsh  we  should  call  him  by  the  name  of  Earl,  yet 
"  when  he  was  in  Tyrone  amongst  his  followers  he  would 
"  be  liighly  offended  if  we  called  him  not  O'Neale,  so 
"  that  we  durst  give  him  no  other  title."  ^ 

There  remains,  unfortunately,  no  report  of  Sir  John 
Davys's  speech  nor  note  of  the  evidence  he  produced. 

But  the  few  following  general  observations  arising  from 
a  survey  of  the  many  papers  in  this  volume  concerning 
the  charges  in  this  indictment  may  be  made.  The  charge 
of  conspiring  to  surprise  the  castle  of  Dublin  and  other 
forts  is  in  the  very  words  of  Lord  Delvin's  confession, 
made  at  Dublin  Oastle  on  the  6th  of  November  1607, 
after  the  flight  of  the  Earls.^  And  comparing  this  with 
a  careful  summary  made  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester,  just 
before  the  flight,  of  the  various  informations  given  to  him 
by  Lord  Howth,  between  the  29th  of  June  and  25th  of 
August  1607,^  it  is  plain  that  the  Earl  of  Tyrconnell, 
about  Christmas  1605,  in  his  anger  at  being  deprived  of 
some  of  his  lands,  opened  his  thoughts  to  Lord  Delvin  in 
the  garden  at  Maynooth  (for  Tyrconnell  had  married 
Bridget,  daughter  of  the  Earl  of  Kildare),  knowing  that 
he  also  was  discontented  at  having  failed  to  get  some 
lands  promised  him  by  the  King  in  Longford.     He  said  he 


1  Calendar,  vol.  II.  p.  301.  ^  jb,^  p_  350. 

3  Brief  collections  drawn  from  sundry  discourses  had  with  A.B.  betwixt 
the  29th  day  of  June  and  the  25th  day  of  August  1607,  lb.  p.  254. 

e  2 


Ixvi  PREFACE. 

was  resolved  to  attempt  sometliing  to  recover  his  lands, 
and  suggested  that  Delvin  should  join  him.  Delvin  said 
his  plot  was  too  dangerous,  hut  if  he  could  get  forces  from 
the  King  of  Spain  he  would  join.  The  Earl  of  Tyrconnell 
told  him  that  the  Earl  of  Tyrone,  Maguire,  and  others 
would  declare  themselves  and  join  with  him  (for  the  whole 
kingdom  was  discontented)  when  they  saw  the  Deputy  and 
Council  in  their  hands,  and  the  kingdom  without  other 
government  than  their  own.-^ 

Lord  Howth,  whose  truth  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  sus- 
pected from  the  outset,  who  on  his  own  statement  went  to 
England  seeking  employment  or  pension  from  the  King,^ 
and  whom  his  subsequent  conduct  in  falsely  charging  Sir 
Glarrett  Moore  as  an  accomplice  of  the  Earl  of  Tyrone,^ 
and  afterwards  the  Lord  Chancellor  of   other  ridiculous 
offences,''  rendered  unworthy  of  credit,  learning  these  few 
particulars  from  Delvin  in   the  freedom   of  confidential 
intercourse,  believed  that  there  was  a  plot  for  a  general 
insurrection  on  foot,  and  conceived  the  design  of  becoming 
discoverer,  and  in  order  to  gain  the  greater  credit,  repre- 
sented himself  as  a  party  to  it.     He  went  over  to  England, 
and  first  disclosed  the  plot  to  the  Privy  Council  there, 
and  then  came  over  to  Ireland  to  confer  with  Sir  Arthur 
Chichester.     "  I  like  not   his   look  and  gesture,"  wrote 
Sir  Arthur  to   the  Privy  Council,   "  when  he  talks  with 
"  me  of  this  business,  which,  together   with  his  words, 
"I    set    down   in    writing   immediately    upon    his     de- 
"  parture   from  me." '^     The  Privy  Council  wrote  to  Sir 
Arthur  that  they  concurred  in  his  distrust  of  Lord  Howth, 
and  believed  that  "  he  rather  prepared  the  propositions  he 
"  speaks  of  than  that  the  persons  he  names  did  originally 


1  Calendar,  vol.  II.,  p.  320  2  lb.  p.  254.  3  lb.  p.  515. 

^  Calendai',  vol.  III.,  p.  168.  c  Calendar,  vol.  II.,  p.  227. 


PEEFACE.  Ixvii 

"  propound  tliem  to  liim,"  and  that  they  had  observed 
there  the  same  uncertainty  in  his  words  and  gestures 
as  Sir  Arthur  had  observed.^  Lord  Howth  had  laid  a 
foundation  for  his  disclosures  by  leaving  an  anonymous. 
paper  at  the  door  of  the  Council  chamber  on  the  18th  of 
May  1607,  warning  the  Deputy  and  Council  of  a  plot  for 
a  general  insurrection.^  He  must  have  then  gone  to 
England  and  communicated  with  the  Council,  for  he  re- 
turned to  Ireland  to  communicate  with  Chichester  on  the 
29th  of  June,  and  continued  in  communication  with  him  till 
the  25th  of  August  1607,  when  Sir  Arthur  left  Dublin  for 
Slane  on  his  journey  into  Ulster.  There  his  first  business 
was  to  digest  Lord  Howth's  communications  into  the  paper 
entitled  "  Brief  Collections  drawn  from  sundry  discourses 
"  between  the  29th  of  June  and  25th  of  August  1607  ;  " 
and  on  the  6tli  of  September  while  thus  engaged  he  learned 
the  flight  of  the  Northern  Earls  two  days  before.^  He 
had  already  determined  to  arrest  the  Earl  of  Tyrconnell ; 
but  his  astonishment  at  Tyrone's  flight  was  great,  for 
neither  Lord  Howth  nor  Delvin  had  involved  him,*  and 
Sir  John  Davys  was  equally  astonished,  for  he  had  been 
ever  noted,  said  he,  "  to  be  craftily  wise  in  his  kind,  and 
"  therefore  it  were  strange  (continued  Sir  John)  that  lie 
"  should  quit  an  Earldom,  and  so  large  and  beneficial  a 
"  territory  for  smoke  and  castles  in  the  air,  and  that, 
"  being  possessed  of  a  country  quietly,  he  should  leave 
"  the  possession  and  try  if  he  could  win  it  again  l3y 
"  force."  ^ 

The  most  probable  cause  of  their  flight  seems  to  be 
that,  the  fact  of  Lord  Howth's  being  in  communication 
with  the  Privy  Council  in  England  and  with  Sir  Arthur 


1  Calendar,  vol.  II.,  p.  231.  '^  lb.  p.  151. 

3  lb.  p.  259.  *  lb.  =  lb.  p.  273. 


Ixviii  PREFACE. 

Cliicliester  at  Dublin  becoming  known  to  Tyrconnell,  he 
apprized  Tyrone  of  it,  and  assured  him  that,  though  he 
might  not  have  been  included  in  Howth  and  Delvin's  cata- 
logue, he  would  be  certainly  arrested  when  he  should  appear 
in  London  for  the  hearing  of  the  cause  between  him  and 
O'Cahan  before  the  Priyy  Council.  About  that  time  John 
Bath  was  sent  into  Spain  to  ask  the  King  of  Spain  for 
an  asylum,  as  they  feared  it  was  intended  to  arrest  them  ; 
but  the  King  of  Spain  was  unwilling  to  receive  them,  for 
he  would  give  no  offence  to  the  King  of  England,  being 
now  in  league  with  him.  But  soon  afterwards,  news 
coming  that  Tyrone  was  sent  for  into  England,  that  he 
would  never  be  suffered  to  return  to  Ireland,  and  that 
Tyrconnell  was  to  be  taken  and  committed  in  Ireland,  a 
messenger  was  sent  to  bid  them  be  in  readiness  to  attend 
the  coming  of  a  ship,  which  should  be  sent  for  soon 
after.^ 

The  events  that  followed  upon  the  flight  of  the  Earls 
showed  that  Lord  Howth's  tale  of  a  general  (or  of  any) 
insurrection  was  imtrue.  After  the  flight  of  the  Earls 
Lord  Howth  and  Lord  Delvin  were  arrested ;  Lord  Howth 
colourably,^  Lord  Delvin  in  order  to  obtain  his  confession.^ 
Delvin  confessed  that  he  listened  to  Tyrconnell's  sugges- 
tions, but  told  him  the  execution  was  impossible  without 
a  Spanish  force;  and  that  he  believed  that  Tyrconnell 
shortly  after  sent  a  friar  to  Spain  to  deal  with  the  King  of 
Spain  for  a  force  of  10,000  men.*  Delvin,  however,  had 
made  one  proviso :  "  If  you  can  get  forces  from  the 
"  King  of  Spain,"  said  he,  "  I  will  join  with  you  in 
"  attempting  the  castle  or  anything  else,  the  killing  of 
"  the   Lord   Deputy   excepted,   whose   blood   I   will   not 


1  Calendar,  vol.  II.,  p.  297.  s  ii,_  p  283. 

3Jb.  p.  326.  4  lb.  p.  320. 


PREFACE.  Ixix 

see  spilt,  for  he  has  ever  been  my  good  friend."  ^ 
When  Howth  framed  his  story,  he  represented  himself 
as  playing  the  part  Delvin  played,  taking  these  very 
exceptions ;  but  he  made  Lord  Mountgarret,  Sir  Thomas 
Bourke,  Sir  Theobald  Bonrke,  Sn  Randal  M'Donnell, 
and  sundry  others  never  named  by  Delvin,  to  be  parties 
to  the  plot." 

The  suspicions  of  Lord  Howth's  falseness  entertained  by 
Sir  Arthur  Chichester  and  the  Council  were  justified  by  the 
events.    Mountgarret  and  Sir  Eandal  M'Donnell  (Tyrone's 
sons-in-law)  and  others,  heariDg  that  they  were  charged, 
appeared    voluntarily   before  Chichester,  and  denied    the 
truth   of    the   charge,    and   were    not    further  troubled.-' 
Salisbury   assui-ed  Chichester  he  had  no   fears   of  Spain 
giving  any  forces  to  the  Irish.*     The  whole  story,  in  fact, 
of  a  plot  for  a  general  insurrection,  fell  to  the  ground,  and 
was  only  based  on  the  speeches  and  acts  of  Tyrconnell, 
a  person  so  empty  and  vain  that  he  "  would  scarce   bo 
"  countenanced  in  Spain  or  get  the  means  to  live,  if  the 
"  Earl  of  Tyrone  should  not  maintain  him."^     Sir  John 
Davys's  judgment  of  their  flight  was  the  true  one,  that 
they  fled  for  fear  f  and  Salisbury  repeatedly  assm-ed  Chi- 
chester afterwards  that   all   his  intelligence  from  abroad 
proved  there  was  no  design  on  the  part  of  the  King  of 
Spain  to  aid  them.''     Tyrone's  own  statement  is  consistent 
with  this.     He  concludes  the  collection  of  his  grievances 
(addressed  to  His   Majesty  after   his   flight)   with   com- 
plaints of  the  watch  kept  upon  him  in  Ulster,  and  the 
intention  displayed  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  in  examining 
M'Guire  in   order  to   obtain   evidence   against   him,   and 


1  Ciilendar,  vol.  II.,  p.  320.  ^  lb.  p.  254.  3  lb.  p.  326. 

■I'  lb.  p.  284.  5  lb.  p.  273.  e  lb.,  ibid. 

^  lb.   1).  283.      Lordo  of  the  Council  to  same,  lb.  p.  471. 


Ixx  PREFACE. 

IDlacing  Captain  Leigh,  that  "  whispering  companion,"  as 
Sheriif  of  Tyrone,    as  a    spy  upon  him,  and  seeing  that 
the   Lord   Deputy   sought    his    destruction,    he    esteemed 
it  a  strife  against  the  stream  for  him  to  live  secure   in 
Ireland.     He   added   that  the  insults   he  received  from 
inferior    ofiS.cers    were    suflB.cient    to    drive    any    human 
creature  not  only  to  forego   a   country,  were   it  ever  so 
dear  to  him,  hut  also  the  whole  world,  in  order  to  eschew 
such  a  government.     Among  these  he  included  His  Ma- 
jesty's Attorney-General,  Sir  John  Davys,  "  a  man  more  fit 
"  to  be  a  stage  player  than  a  counsel  to  His  Highness,"  ^ 
who  gave  him  very  irreverent  speech  before  the  Council 
table,  which   being  permitted  by  the  Council,   the   Earl 
said  he   would  appeal   to  His  Majesty,    when    Sir  John 
Davys  replied  that  he  was  right  glad  thereof,  and  that 
he  thereby  expected  to  achieve  honour.     Finding  his  con- 
dition, therefore,  insecure,  of  two  evils  he  chose  the  least, 
and  he  thought  better  rather  to  forego  his  country  and 
lands,   and  to  make  an  honourable  escape  with   his   life 
and   liberty    only,   than   by  staying  with   dishonour  and 
indignity  to  lose  both   life,  liberty,  living,  and  country, 
which  in  very  deed  he  much  feared.^ 

It  is  further  observable  that  Lord  Howth's  bearing 
was  that  of  a  man  who  had  served  the  State  in  this 
transaction  from  the  outset,  not  that  of  one  who  had 
temporarily  erred,  like  Lord  Delvin,  in  listening  to 
Tyrconnell's  proposals.  On  the  day  but  one  after 
Chichester  had  heard  of  the  flight  of  the  Earls,  he  pro- 
pounded for  a  troop  of  horse  for  himself  and  another 
for  Delvin.^     Sir  Arthur  Chichester  said  his  travels  and 


1  Articles  exhibited  by  the  Earl  of  Tyrone  to  the  King,  declaring  his  dis- 
content and  causes  of  his  departure  from  the  country.  Calendar,  vol.  II., 
p.  383.  2  Ji-j,  i],;j^ 

'■>  Sir  Arthur  Chicheslei-  to  Salisbury,  8  September  1607,  lb.  p.  265. 


PREFACE.  Ixxi 

expenses  in  the  business  lie  undertook  were  great,  and 
lie  was  driven  to  borrow  money  to  defray  bis  charges, 
amongst  the  rest  250^.  from  himself  (Chichester),  and 
when  be  asked  for  repayment  Lord  Howth  told  him,  be 
(Chichester)  must  charge  it  upon  the  King,  since  it  was 
expended  in  His  Majesty's  service.^  In  point  of  fact,  he 
was  soon  after  rewarded  by  the  command  of  a  troop  of 
horse.^ 

The  Earls  and  their  friends,  and  amongst  them  Maguire 
of  Fermanagh,  having  been  thus  found  guilty  of  high 
treason,  Sir  Cahir  O'Dogberty  slain  in  rebellion,  and 
Sb:  Donnel  O'Cane  being  in  prison,  their  goods  and  lands 
escheated  to  the  Crown.  But  to  entitle  the  Crown  to 
take  possession  of  the  lands,  it  was  necessary  to  have 
another  verdict,  ascertaining  what  lands  the  Earls,  O'Dog- 
berty, and  Maguire  held  of  the  Crown. 

The  Commission  for  this  inquiry  issued  and  was 
executed  in  the  year  following  their  flight,  that  is  to 
say,  in  the  summer  of  1608 ;  but  it  was  not  until  the 
autumn  of  1610  that  the  lands  which  had  been  pre- 
viously found  to  be  vested  in  the  King  were  distributed 
amongst  the  Ulster  planters. 

Three  years,  therefore,  passed,  from  the  date  of  their 
flight  (4th  September  1607),  till  the  Plantation,  which 
was  begun  in  November  1610.  But  before  we  proceed 
to  the  history  of  this  great  social  revolution,  it  may  be  fit 
to  state  what  previous  efforts  had  been  made  at  plantation 
in  Ulster. 

EAELY  PLANTATIONS  IN  ULSTER. 
There  had  already  been  three  vain  attempts  in  Queen 
Elizabeth's  reign  to  begin  the  colonization  of  Ulster.   On 

1  Calendar,  vol.  II.,  p.  521. 

2  King's  Warrant,  9  June  1608,  lb.  p.  553. 


Ixxii  PREFACE, 

5tli  October  1572,  a  grant  was  made  to  Oliatterton  and  liis 
heirs,  of  Orier,  the  Fews,  and  the  Gallowglas  country  in  the 
county  of  Armagh,  on  the  terms  that  he  should,  by  the 
28th  March  1579,  possess  and  plant  these  territories  with 
civil  and  loyal  subjects,  and  have  the  tenants  armed  either 
as  horsemen  or,  footmen,  after  the  English  manner,  accord- 
ing to  the  proportions  of  land  they  should  hold.  But 
Ohatterton  was  slain  by  the  Irish  of  Orier,  shortly  after  the 
date  of  the  letters  patent,  and  the  scheme  totally  failed.^ 

The  next  attempt  was  an  equal  failure.  On  the  16th 
November  1572  the  Qixeen  granted  the  Little  Ardes  in 
the  county  of  Down,  to  Sir  Thomas  Smith  and  his  son; 
upon  condition  that  they  should,  with  a  power  of  natural 
Englishmen,  subdue  the  rebels  in  the  Great  and  Little 
Ardes  and  Olanaboy,  and  plant  these  places  with  good, 
true,  and  faithful  subjects  of  the  Queen ;  but  it  was  found 
by  inquisition  (13th  October  1623)  that  Smith,  the  son, 
with  a  few  Englishmen,  entered  Ulster  on  the  12th  October 
1572,  but  that  neither  he  nor  his  father's  followers  sub- 
dued the  rebels.^ 

The  last  attempt  before  King  James's  plantation  was 
that  of  the  Earl  of  Esses.  On  the  9th  of  July  1573  the 
Queen  granted  the  territories  forming  the  county  of 
Antrim  to  Walter  Earl  of  Essex,  to  subdue  and  plant  with 
English  f  but  this  also  failed,  and  Essex  received  a  grant 
of  the  barony  of  Earney,  in  Monaghan,  for  his  pains. 


1  Abstract  of  His  Majesty's  title  to  the  lands  of  the  county  of  Armagh 
by  iSir  John  Davys,  Calendar,  vol.  III.  p.  553. 

2  Commission  and  Inquisition,  October  1623.  Morrin's  Calendar  of  the 
Patent  and  Close  Rolls  of  Chancery,  from  1  to  8  Charles  I.,  p.  226.  8vo. 
Dublin,  1863. 

3  The  oiFer  of  Walter,  Earl  of  Essex,  touching  the  inhabiting  of  the 
North  of  Ireland.  A  breviate  of  the  articles  in  the  draught  of  his  patent. 
"  Covenants  between  Her  Jla-jesty  and  the  Earl  of  Essex."  Calendar  of 
the  Carew  Pa[H:i. ,  lol5-lo74,  pp.  439-450. 


PREFACE.  Ixxiii 

These  several  attempts  in  Ulster  failed  from  their  very 
outset  through  the  strength  of  the  Irish,  hut  there  were 
■other  plantations  somewhat  more  successful  in  Leinster 
and  Munster. 

In  Leinster,  in  the  reign  of  Edward  VI.  the  O'Moores 
and  O'Connors  of  Leix  and  Slewmargy,  since  formed  into 
the  King's  and  Queen's  Counties,  having  broken  out  into  a 
fresh  rebellion  after  the  subduing  of  the  Earl  of  Kildare's 
insurrection  by  King  Henry  VIII.,  it  was  determined  in 
the  reign  of  Philip  and  Mary  to  plant  those  countries 
with  English  colonists,  which  was  eflPected  in  the  first 
years  of  Queen  Elizabeth's  reign. 

And  in  Munster,  after  the  subduing  of  the  Earl  of 
Desmond's  rebellion  in  1584,  his  forfeited  lands  and  those 
of  his  followers,  extending  over  great  part  of  Limerick, 
Kerry,  Cork,  "Waterford,  and  Tipperary,  were  inhabited  by 
colonists  from  Somersetshire  and  Devonshire,  Lancashire 
and  Cheshne. 

These  colonies,  as  well  in  Leinster  as  Munster,  had 
undergone  great  reverses  through  the  insurrections  of  the 
Irish,  owing,  as  was  believed,  to  defects  in  the  schemes  of 
plantation.  In  the  plantation  of  the  King's  and  Queen's 
Counties  the  colonists  and  the  ancient  inhabitants  dwelt 
intermixed.  They  were  not  under  condition  to  drive  out 
the  Irish,  but  only  not  to  keep  any  Irishman  born  without 
the  county.  One  of  the  grants  in  this  plantation  will 
give  a  view  of  the  whole.  The  following  to  George 
Harpoole,  though  made  in  James  I.'s  reign,  is  made 
pursuant  to  the  conditions  of  Philip  and  Mary. 

20th  July,  18  James  I.,  the  King  grants  to  George 
Harpoole  of  Monk's  Grange,  in  the  Queen's  County,  the 
Old  Stone  Bawn  of  Castlenoe,  and  other  lands  contiguous, 
to  hold  as  of  the  castle  of  Maryborough,  on  condition  of 
maintaining  ten  able  Scotch  galloglasses,  and  a  foot  soldier 


Ixxiv  PREFACE. 

of  English  blood  and  surname,  with  suitable  horses  and 
arms,  not  to  use  the  Breawne  [Brehon]  law  where  the 
King's  subjects  were  concerned.  He,  his  family,  and 
servants  to  use  the  English  language,  dress,  and  furniture, 
so  far  as  reasonably  might  be  done ;  to  appear  annually 
on  1st  September  with  all  his  tenants,  between  sixteen 
and  sixty,  able  to  bear  arms,  before  the  constable  of 
Maryborough  Castle,  or  the  sheriff  of  the  county ;  not 
to  keep  any  Irishman  able  to  carry  arms,  born  without 
the  county  ;  every  woman  to  forfeit  her  dower  or  jointure 
on  marrying  an  Irishman,  even  though  he  be  a  native  of 
the  county  ;  to  keep  his  principal  mansion  on  the  pre- 
mises ;  and  not  to  part  with  any  of  the  lands  for  a  term 
beyond  thirty-one  years  without  the  consent  of  the  Lord 
Deputy.^ 

These  counties  presented  a  nearly  continual  scene  of 
warfare  between  the  colonists  and  ancient  inhabitants,  the 
Moores  and  the  other  septs  having  risen  in  insurrection 
and  been  suppressed  no  less  than  eighteen  times  between 
Queen  Mary's  settlement  and  the  accession  of  James  I.^ 
In  1607  they  were  brought  so  low  that  Sir  Arthur 
Chichester  concluded  they  might  be  easily  compelled  to 
transplant.-'  If  not  transplanted,  he  thought  they  would 
be  utterly  extinguished.*  Sir  Arthur  accordingly  obtained 
a  grant  of  the  lands  of  Tarbert,  in  the  county  of  Kerry, 
to  be  made  to  Mr.  Patrick  Crosby  for  this  plantation  ;s 
and  the  seven  sej)ts  having  at  length  consented  to  depart 
and  dwell  in  Kerry  under  Crosby,  a  regular  agreement 
was  made  between  Crosby  and  them  on  the  17th  of  March 
1608,  detailing  the  conditions  of  their  life  under  him  at 


1  P.atent  Rolls  of  Chancery  of  James  I.,  p.  492.     Folio.     Dublin,  1848. 
-  Calendar,  vol.  JI.  p.  95.  '  Ibid. 

1  lb.  p.  245.  5  i|j.  p.  190. 


PREFACE.  Ixxv 

Tarbert.^  At  the  moment  of  departure  the  cliiefest,  out  of 
their  pride  and  affection  to  live  where  they  had  so  often 
kindled  the  fire  of  rebellion,  were  unwilling  to  go.  But 
Chichester,  in  view  of  the  coming  displantation  of  the 
swordnien  of  Ulster,  resolved  to  add  force  to  persuasion, 
and  so,  and  by  the  efforts  of  Mr.  Crosby,  aided  by  a 
Mr.  Piggot,  of  the  Queen's  Coimty,  the  business  was 
effected,  and  the  seven  septs  were  (17th  June  1609) 
deported,  some  to  Thomond,  more  to  Connaught,  and 
most  into  Kerry  with  Mr.  Crosby.^ 

ULSTER  PLANTATION  OF  JAMES  I. 

Such  had  been  the  history  of  Plantation  in  Ulster  up 
to  the  time  at  which  Tyrone  and  Tyrconnell's  Elight, 
O'Dogherty's  unsuccessful  uprising,  and  the  wholesale 
confiscations  which  followed  these  events,  suggested  to 
the  advisers  of  the  King  a  new  attempt,  and  on  a  much 
larger  scale. 

It  had  been  designed  to  remedy  in  the  Munster  Plan- 
tations the  errors  of  the  Plantation  of  the  King's  and 
Queen's  Counties.  By  the  articles  dated  1586,  the  for- 
feited lands,  instead  of  being  granted  to  planters  to  dwell 
dispersed,  as  in  the  King's  and  Queen's  County  Planta- 
tions, the  lands  were  grouped  into  seignories  of  12,000  and 
6,000  acres.  The  colonists  were  to  be  of  Enghsh  birth, 
and  the  heu's  female  inheritable  were  not  to  intermarry 
with  any  but  of  English  bhth,  or  with  descendants  of  the 
first  patentees  or  of  the  English  of  the  plantation,  much 


1  Agreements  between  Mr.  Crosbie  and  the  seven  septs  of  Leix  at  MoUin 
O'Lalour  upon  St.  Patrick's  Day,  being  the  I7th  of  March  1607,  Calendar, 
vol.  II.  p.  465.  The  names  of  the  transplanters  of  each  sept  are  given, 
amounting  in  all  to  289.     lb. 

2  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury,  17  June  1609,  Calendar,  vol.  III. 
p.  217. 


Ixxvi  PREFACE. 

as  in  the  King's  and  Queen's  Ooimties  plantation ;  but 
then  followed  this  proviso,  that  none  of  the  mere  Irish 
should  he  maintained  or  permitted  in  any  family  there. 
The  county  of  Limerick  (with  parts  of  Cork,  Tipperary, 
cand  Waterford)  were  set  out  to  Sir  Christopher  Hatton, 
Edward  Pitton,  Rowland  Stanley,  Knights,  and  the  under- 
takers of  Chester  and  Lancaster.  The  county  of  Cork 
and  j)art  of  Waterford  adjacent  to  Sir  Walter  Raleigh, 
John  Stowell,  and  John  Clifton,  Knights,  and  the  under- 
takers of  Devonshire  and  Somersetshire ;  and  the  county 
of  Limerick  to  Sir  W.  Courtney,  Edward  Hutton,  and 
Henry  Outred,  Esquires.  Each  grantee  was  to  build  his 
capital  mansion  on  the  premises,  and  twelve  other  houses 
for  the  freeholders  of  the  manor  and  other  tenants.  They 
were  to  form  from  among  their  tenants  five  squadrons 
of  cavalry,  to  be  under  their  own  command,  yet  in  the 
Queen's  pay  ;  and  a  President's  Court  was  to  administer 
cheap  and  speedy  justice  amongst  them.^  Yet  the 
whole  of  this  plantation  was  swept  away  in  Tyrone's 
rebellion  in  1696,  about  ten  years  after  its  being  founded, 
making  (as  Bacon  said)  the  work  of  years  to  be  the  spoil 
of  days; — troops  of  Irish,  led  on  by  bag-pipers,^  firing 
the  houses  and  hay  yards  of  the  English  planters,  who 
had  fled  from  the  storm,  the  loss  and  public  disgrace  being 
attributed  to  the  neglect  of  the  plantation  rules  by  the 
planters,  in  not  building  fit  mansions,  and  arming  and 
marshalling  their  tenants. 

Thus  as  the  capital  error  in  the  plantation  of  the  King's 
and  Queen's  Counties  had  been  the  intermixed  habitation 

1  Dated  27  June  in  the  28th  of  Elizabeth  (A.D.  1587).  Harris's  MSS., 
Royal  Dublin  Society,  vol.  V.,  p.  134. 

2  "  That  he  [Mr.  Patrick  Condon]  the  16th  December  last,  being  accom- 
panied with  100  followers  and  a  bagge-pipe,  came  upon  Hide's  grounds, 
and  there  did  wound  and  beat  divers  of  Hide's  English  tenants."  Lords 
of  Council  to  Lord  Deputy,  8  September  1593. 


PEE  FACE,  Ixxvii 

of  the  colonists  and  natives,  it  Avaa  intended  to  remedy 
the  oversight  in  the  plantation  of  Munster  by  forbidding 
the  planter  to  nse  any  Irish  as  tenants  or  servants,  or  to 
stiffer  them  to  dwell  on  their  lands  ;  but  this,  if  carried 
out,  would  deprive  the  planters  of  labourers,  and  render 
the  Irish  desperate,  and  was  of  course  neglected. 

We  have  now  to  see  how  these  dangers  were  provided 
against  in  the  Plantation  about  to  be  made  in  Ulster.  To 
prevent  the  intermixed  habitation  of  English  and  Irish, 
the  new  colonists  were  assigned  proportions  or  districts 
where  they  were  to  dwell  apart  from  the  Irish,  thus 
avoiding  the  error  of  the  King's  and  Queen's  Counties 
plantation ;  whilst  the  faults  of  the  Munster  plantation 
were  remedied  by  removing  the  Irish  of  the  lower  orders 
to  districts  assigned  to  servitors,  as  those  were  called  who 
had  served  in  the  Irish  wars  or  been  employed  in  the  civil 
service  there,  and  were  best  fitted  to  govern  them.  The 
planters  were  to  build  castles  of  two  stories,  18  feet  high, 
and  embattled. 

The  principal  men  of  the  Irish  were  to  be  pacified  by 
competent  grant  of  lands  for  their  livelihood  in  the  neigh- 
bourhood of  the  servitors ;  and  the  swordmen  were  to  be 
removed,  some  to  Sweden,  and  the  rest,  after  the  pre- 
cedent of  the  transplantation  of  the  seven  septs  of  Leix, 
to  dwell  in  Munster,  under  the  Earls  of  Ormonde, 
Thomond,  and  Olanricarde,  or  other  great  lords  .^ 

The  new  Plantation  of  James  I.  was  the  work  of  three 
several  commissions  in  1608,  in  1609,  and  in  1610.  In 
order  to  a  clear  understanding  of  the  State  Papers  of 
these  years  it  will  be  necessary  to  consider  these  com- 
missions separately. 


1  Calendar,  vol.  III.,  p.  416. 


Ixxviii  PREFACE. 

The  Eirst  Commission  in  A.D.  1608. 

And  first,  with  respect  to  the  Coramission  of  1608. 
On  the  6th  of  January  in  that  year,  Sir  John  Davys  in 
giving  Salisbury  a  full  account  of  the  indictment  of  the 
Earls,  informs  him  that,  the  indictments  being  found 
true  and  returned  into  the  King's  Bench,  the  proceedings 
for  outlawing  the  Earls  would  be  completed  about  the 
middle  of  June.-^ 

Shortly  afterwards  the  Commission  for  inquiry  into 
the  lands  escheated  must  have  been  issued  f  for  on 
the  5th  of  July  1608,''  Sir  Arthixr  Chichester  and  the 
other  Commissioners,  set  out  from  Dublin'  for  Ulster. 
Sir  Cahir  O'Dogherty  being  still  in  the  field.  Sir  Arthur 
Chichester  had  summoned  forces  to  attend  him,  and  at 
Lurgan  Green  on  the  seaside,  three  miles  south  of 
Dundalk,  he  was  engaged  in  reviewing  these  forces  as 
well  as  "  the  risings  out  "  of  the  five  shires  of  the  Pale, 
when  news  was  brought  him  at  4  o'clock  in  the  afternoon, 
from  Sir  E-ichard  Wingfield,  the  Marshal,  and  Sir  Charles 
Lambert,  from  the  seat  of  war  in  Donegal,  that  Sir  Cahir 
had  been  killed  on  the  previous  day.*  He  immediately 
directed  Sir  John  Davys,  who  was  with  him,  to  draw  a 
proclamation  announcing  the  death  of  the  traitor,  and 
warning  all  persons  against  harbouring  any  of  his 
adherents.^  Sir  Thomas  Eidgeway,  leaving  the  army, 
hastened  up  to  Dublin,  and  on  the  15tli  of  July,  was 
ready  to   take   horse,  bringing   with   him   a   commission 


1  Calendar,  vol.  TI.,  p.  392. 

^  Neither  this  commission  nor  its  return  is  to  bo  found  ;  it  was  not 
enrolled,  for  the  commission  of  1609  having  effected  the  objects  of  the 
King,  it  was  laid  aside. 

3  A  letter  to  Salisbury  is  dated  from  Dublin  Castle  4  July  1608, 
Calendar,  vol.  II.  p.  606.  His  next  to  the  Council  is  dated  Dundalk,  6  July 
1608,  lb. 

4  lb.  p.  606.  5  lb.  p.  608. 


PREFACE.  Ixxix 

under  tlie  Great  Seal  to  inquire  super  visum  corporis  of 
the  traitor,  and  to  find  that  he  was  slain  in  rebellion,  this 
being  an  attainder  in  law  in  Ireland ;  thus  overtaking 
the  slower  proceedings  by  outlawry,  which  had  con- 
sumed the  time  up  to  the  deputy's  setting  out  in  the 
other  cases.^  Their  business  was  of  a  twofold  or  rather 
threefold  nature,  for,  while  they  were  joined  in  commis- 
sion of  assize  and  jail  delivery  with  the  judges,  they  had 
their  own  special  business  to  inquire  concerning  the 
forfeitm-es,  and  part  of  the  army  was  with  them  while 
other  parts  of  it  were  pursuing  the  remnants  of 
O'Dogherty's  forces,  and  executing  traitors  by  martial 
law.  This  mixture  seems  strange  in  the  present  day,  but 
Sir  Thomas  Ridgeway  thought  that  this  mixed  coxuse 
of  warring,  and  doing  other  services  was  advantageous, 
"  these  things  being  best  done  in  this  country  when 
"  the  sword  is  drawn."  ^  In  each  of  the  several  counties 
they  held  the  assizes,  and  also  executed  their  commission 
of  inquny  or  escheat ;  holding  their  first  session  at 
Armagh,  where  (says  Sir  John  Davys)  "  they  had  a  good 
"  appearance  and  good  attendance,  and  the  grand  jiiry 
"  most  willingly  indicted  their  kinsmen  and  followers 
"  who  had  gone  out  into  rebellion  with  young  O'Hanlon 
"  and  Brian  M'Arte."  ^  They  went  next  to  Dungannon, 
where  Shane  Carragh  O'Cahan  was  tried  and  hanged ; 
next  to  Coleraine,  whence  Sir  John  dated  his  letter ;  and 
at  that  date  they  were  passing  on  to  Donegal;  and  Sir 
John  hoped  before  Michaelmas  to  present  a  perfect  smwey 
of  six  several  counties,  which  the  King  then  had  in  actual 
demesne.* 

These  being  the  proceedings  of  the  assizes,  their  other 
business  was  the  Commission  of  Escheat. 

1  Calendar,  vol.  11.,  p.  613.  ^  n,.^  jbid. 

3  lb.  p.  1 5.  *  lb.,  ibid. 

3.  f 


IXXX  PREFACE. 

"  Toucbiug  the  survey  of  these  counties,"  says  Sir  John  Davys, 
"  which  are  now  devolved  to  the  Crown,  Mr.  Treasurer  (Sir  Thomas 
Ridgeway),  and  liimself  before  the  surveyor  came,  took  an  inqui- 
sition at  Dungannon,  whereby  they  surveyed  all  the  county  of 
Tyrone,  and  found  all  the  temporal  land  in  the  county  escheated 
to  the  Crown  by  the  outlawry  of  the  late  Earls,  (excepting  only 
two  ballibetaghs  which  were  granted  to  Sir  Hemy  Oge  O'Neale 
hy  the  King),  and  the  rest  of  the  lands  being  in  the  possession 
of  certain  scholars  called  Herrenagh,  and  whereof  they  were  in 
ancient  times  trvie  owners  and  proprietors,  the  jury  found  to  be 
vested  in  the  Crown  by  the  statute  11th  of  Elizabeth,  whereby 
Shane  O'Neale  was  attainted,  and  never  since  divested  by  any 
grant  from  the  late  Queen  or  His  Majesty.  From  Dungannon 
they  passed  into  the  county  of  Coleraine,  through  the  glyns  and 
woods  of  Glanconkeyn,  where  the  wild  inhabitants  wondered  as 
much  to  see  the  King's  Deputy  as  the  ghosts  in  Yirgil  wondered 
to  see  iEneas  alive  in  Hell.'" 

To  sum  up  the  wonders  of  this  journey,  Sir  John 
Davys  says,  "  The  day  after  they  began  this  journey 
"  they  received  news  of  O'Doherty's  death,  which  hap- 
"  pened  not  only  on  the  fifth  day  of  the  month,  but  on 
"  a  Tuesday,  but  the  Tuesday  11  weeks,  that  is  77  days 
"  after  the  burning  of  the  Derry,  which  is  an  ominous 
"  number,  being  seven  elevens  and  eleven  sevens ; 
"  besides  it  happened  at  the  very  hour,  if  not  at  the 
"  same  instant,  that  the  Lord  Deputy  took  horse  to 
"  go  against  him."  ^  Within  two  days  came  news  of 
the  taking  of  Shane  Carragh,  within  two  days  after 
Oghie  O'Hanlon  was  overcome,  and  so  for  a  variety  of 
other  like  happy  events. 

Having  thus  accomplished  this  commission,  Sir  Arthur 
Chichester  returned  to  Dublin,  the  time  occupied  in  this 
first  commission  in  1608  being  from  the  5th  July  to  the 
2nd  September,  the  day  of  Sir  Arthur's  retm^n.^ 


1  Calendar,  vol.  III.,  p.  16.  2  Calendar,  vol.  II.,  p.  15. 

«  lb.,  vol.  III.,  p.  25. 


PREFACE.  Ixxxi 

By  the  14th  of  Octoher  1608  the  office,  as  the  formal 
record  of  the  execution  of  the  commission  was  called, 
was  ready,  and  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  had  digested  his 
views  for  the  plantation,  with  his  observations  on  each 
county  separately,  in  the  form  of  instructions  for  Sir 
James  Ley  and  Sir  John  Davys,  who  now  proceeded  to 
London  to  confer  with  the  Eang  and  Council  there/ 
In  each  county  he  declares  what  places  are  fittest  for 
fortified  posts ;  states  what  legal  claims  any  Irish  or 
English  have  to  any  portions,  and  what  natives  had  best 
be  pacified  by  grants. 

During  the  remainder  of  the  year  Sir  John  Davys 
continued  in  London  (for  he  did  not  return  to  his  dtities 
in  Ireland  till  the  5th  May  1609)  arranging  with  the  King 
and  the  Commissioners  of  Irish  Causes  the  project  for 
the  plantation. 

While  Davys  and  his  colleagues  were  thus  engaged  in 
settling  the  general  conditions  of  the  plantation,  a  nego- 
ciation  was  set  on  foot  in  England  for  a  special  under- 
taking on  a  most  gigantic  scale  by  the  Common  Council 
of  the  city  of  London,  the  particulars  of  which  it  will 
be  convenient  to  mention  here.  Unlike  the  general  busi- 
ness of  the  settlement,  the  negociation  for  the  London 
plantation  of  Derry  was  conducted  in  the  main,  not  by 
the  Commissioners  of  the  Plantation,  but  directly  by  the 
King  and  the  Privy  Council,  by  whom  all  the  dealings 
with  the  common  council  of  the  citizens  were  directed.  A 
committee  of  the  latter,  consisting  of  17  members,  entered 
on  the  28th  January  1609  into  an  agreement  with  the 
Privy  Council,  on  the  King's  behalf,  embodying  in  27 
articles  all  the  essential  conditions  of  the  plantation,^ 
and  in  the  following  August  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  was 
formally  apprized   of  the   conclusion   of  the  compact  by 

1  Calendar,  vol.  III.,   p.  54.  ^  n,.  p.  i3g_ 

f  2 


Ixxxii  PREFACE. 

tlie  Council,  who  informed  him  that  four  commissioners 
from  the  citizens,  John  Erode,  John  Monroes,  Robert 
Treswell,  and  John  Rowley,  had  been  authorised  by  them 
to  view  the  country  and  make  report  on  their  return.^ 
The  Privy  Council,  on  the  King's  part,  directed  Sir 
Thomas  Phillips  to  accompany  and  direct  those  commis- 
sioners, and  requested  Chichester  to  render  to  them  every 
assistance  in  his  power.  Accordingly  in  the  end  of  the 
same  month  they  presented  themselves  to  the  Commis- 
sioners of  the  Plantation  in  the  camp  of  Derry,  a  meeting 
to  which  Sir  John  Davys  alludes  in  the  amusing  account 
of  their  map-making  already  quoted.  "  The  Londoners," 
as  the  commissioners  of  the  Common  Council  are  styled, 
were  made  "  exceeding  welcome."  Sir  John  confesses 
that  they  all  iised  "  their  best  rhetoric  to  persuade  the 
"  '  Londoners '  to  go  on  with  their  plantation,  which  will 
"  assure  this  whole  island  to  the  Crown  of  England  for 
"  ever."  He  adds  that  "  they  like  and  praise  the  country 
"  very  much,  specially  the  Banne  and  the  river  of  Lough- 
"  foyle."  One  of  the  agents  had  fallen  sick,  and  would 
fain  return,  but  the  Lord  Deputy  and  all  the  rest  used  all 
means  to  comfort  him  to  retain  him,  "  lest  this  accident 
"  should  discourage  his  fellow  citizens."  ^ 

Another  wholesale  plantation  which  was  proposed  by 
Lord  Audelay  [Audley],  to  be  txndertaken  in  Tyrone,  may 
deserve  special  notice.  The  scale  of  the  undertaking  is 
so  prodigious  that  we  must  transcribe  the  heads  of  the 
proposal. 

"  Articles  propounded  and  offered  by  the  Lord  Audelay  to  the 
Commissioners  for  Irish  causes. 

"  The  Lord  Audelay  is  an  humble  suitor  to  His  Majesty  for 
100,000  acres,  which  he  promises  to  undertake  to  ^Dlant  in  manner 
following : — 


1  Calendar,  vol.  HI.,  p.  266.  2  ib_  p,  282. 


PREFACE.  Ixxsiii 

"  1.  The  100,000  acres  to  be  in  Tyrone  or  the  adjoining  parts 
of  Armagh,  excepting  lands  allotted  to  forts,  colleges,  free  schools, 
hospitals,  and  natives. 

"  2.  He  will  divide  the  100,000  acres  into  33  parts,  on  which  he 
will  build  33  castles  and  as  many  towns.  To  each  castle  he  will 
assign  600  acres  and  to  each  town  2,400,  which  shall  consist  of  at 
least  30  families,  comprising  foot  soldiers,  artificers,  and  cottagers, 
with  allotments  of  land  to  each. 

"  3.  He  will  pay  the  rent  expressed  in  the  articles  533?.  Os.  8d.  for 
100,000  acres,  the  first  half-year  to  be  paid  at  Michaelmas  come 
four  years. 

"  4.  He  will  perform  the  building  within  four  years. 

"  5.  He  prays  that  of  the  33  towns,  six  may  be  market  towns 
and  one  incorporate,  with  two  fairs  yearly  and  one  fair  yearly  in 
each  market  town. 

"  6.  He  is  content  to  have  only  the  advowsons  within  his  own 
territories. 

"  7.  He  desires,  within  five  manors,  felons'  goods,  outlaws,  and 
fugitives,  felons  of  themselves,  waifs  and  strays,  court  leet,  and 
court  baron. 

"  8.  He  desires  license  freely  to  erect  iron  mills,  to  make  iron 
and  glass,  and  sow  woad  within  his  own  land  for  forty-one  years. 

"  9.  Lord  Audelay  and  his  son  are  content  jointly  to  assure  land 
of  1,000Z.  value  on  recognizance  to  His  Majesty  for  the  performance 
of  the  conditions ;  the  bond  to  be  cancelled  at  the  end  of  five 
years  on  the  Lord  Deputy's  certificate  of  the  fulfilment  of  the  con- 
ditions. 

"  Lastly,  the  great  woods  of  Glanconkeyne,  Killetro,  and  Skxtart 
and  others,  are  reserved  to  His  Majesty. 

"  All  these,  together  with  all  the  printed  articles  not  repugnant 

to  these,   he   undertakes  to  perform,  and  he  desires   that  they  be 

transmitted  to  the  Lord  Deputy  for  his  consideration  and  approval 

or  disapproval. 

"  (Signed)        G.  Audelay."  ^ 

It    is    amusing    to    contrast  with    these    magnificent 

schemes  Chichester's  quiet  hut  sarcastic  criticism  of  the 

resoiu'ces   and   character  of    tlie   noble   undertaker.      In 

a  letter  to  Salisbury  of  the  13tli  October  1609,  he  refers 

to  intelligence    which  had    just  arrived   from   England, 

1  Caleudar,  vol.  III.,  pp.  258-9, 


Ixxxiv  PREFACE. 

that  the  Lord  Audley  had  received  a  grant  from  the 
King  of  100,000  acres  in  Tyrone.  Of  this  grant  he  ob- 
serves in  passing,  that  "  it  is  more  than  the  whole  cormty 
"  is  found  at  by  the  book  of  survey."  Of  Lord  Audley 
himseK,  he  confesses  that  "  he  is  an  ancient  nobleman, 
"  and  apt  to  undertake  much,  but  his  manner  of  life  in 
"  Munster,  and  the  small  cost  he  has  bestowed  to  make 
"  his  house  fit  for  him  or  any  room  within  the  same,  does 
"  not  promise  the  building  of  substantial  castles,  nor  a 
"  convenient  plantation  in  Ulster."  He  adds  in  idiomatic 
phrase  that  Lord  Audley  is  "near  to  himself,"  and  that  he 
"  loves  not  hospitality."  Such  a  one,  he  declares,  will 
be  unwelcome  to  the  people,  and  wiU  soon  make  himself 
contemptible ;  and  he  gives  it  as  his  opinion  that  if  the 
natives  be  not  better  provided  for  in  th^  conditions  of  the 
grant  than  he  has  yet  heard  of,  "  they  will  kindle  many 
"  a  fire  in  Lord  Audley's  buildings  before  they  be  half 
"  finished."  This  he  suggests  "  out  of  duty,  and  for  no 
"  other  by  respect  whatsoever ;  for  he  affects  nothing 
"  more  than  the  reformation  and  well  planting  of  that 
"  province  in  which  he  has  spent  the  best  of  his  time,  and 
"  where  the  greatest  part  of  his  living  is."  ^ 

Early  in  1609  the  general  project  was  completed.  On 
the  9th  of  March  Sk  Arthur  Chichester  received  the  im- 
printed books  concerning  the  plantation  of  the  escheated 
lands ;  ^  and  on  the  following  day  gave  a  most  critical 
review  of  the  whole,  and  his  remarks  seem  to  have 
caused  some  alterations  in  the  execution  of  it.'' 

1  Calendar,  vol.  III.,  pp.  297-8. 

2  A  project  for  the  division  and  plantation  of  the  escheated  lands  in  six 
several  counties  of  Ulster,  namely,  Tirone,  Colrain,  Donnegall,  Fermanagh, 
Ardmagh,  and  Cavan,  concluded  by  His  Majesty's  Commissioners,  the  Bishop 
of  Derry,  Sir  James  Ley,  Sir  Anthony  St.  Leger,  Sir  Henry  Docwra,  Sir 
Oliver  St.  John,  Sir  James  Fullerton,  Sir  John  Davys.  Cuicw  Calendar, 
vol.  v.,  p.  13. 

3  Calendar,  vol.  HI.,  p.  157.  / 


PREFACE.  Ixxxv 

By  this  original  scheme  the  lands  were  to  be  divided 
between  English  and  Scottish  planters,  seryitors,  and 
natives  in  precincts  or  proportions,  these  being  sub- 
divided into  lots  of  1,000,  1,500,  and  2,000  acres  each,  the 
planters  to  be  nominated  by  the  King,  and  then  to  cast 
lots  for  the  places  where  each  should  be  planted.  There 
were  minute  directions  as  to  the  divisions  in  each  county. 
Sir  Arthur  said  that  such  an  equality  of  lots  was  not 
what  he  intended.  Principal  men  of  worth  and  repu- 
tation, with  a  following  of  honest  men  of  all  sorts  to 
plant  under  them,  ought  to  have  greater  portions  than 
men  of  inferior  condition  who  had  not  capital  or  credit 
to  settle  half  a  ballibetagh.  Eminent  persons  he  con- 
sidered the  cement  to  hold  the  rest  together.  He 
objected  also  to  the  lottery.  It  was  copied,  he  said,  from 
the  wisest  law-giver  that  ever  was  ;  but  the  Hebrews  were 
mighty  in  numbers  and  rich  in  substance  and  compelled 
into  the  Land  of  Promise,  and  commanded  by  divine 
necessity  to  extinguish  the  nations  and  to  possess  their 
vineyards,  cities,  and  towns  all  ready  built;  and  there 
they  were  to  remain,  they  and  their  posterity.  But  here 
they  have  no  army,  but  a  few ;  they  are  separated  from 
support  by  the  sea,  and  every  man  is  free  to  stay  or  go. 

The  country,  he  continued,  had  no  sign  of  plantation 
and  was  full  of  people.  Tyrone,  with  Ooleraine,  had 
alone  5,000  able  men,  by  which  the  numbers  of  the  rest 
might  be  judged.  And  by  this  lottery  kindred  friends  and 
acquaintance  who  might  wish  to  plant  together  would  be 
separated.  Added  to  these  and  other  inconveniences  con- 
cerning the  English  and  Scottish,  the  small  provision 
made  for  the  natives  and  the  rumour  of  removing  the 
swordmen  or  idle  gentlemen,  who  are  the  men  of  the 
most  credit,  had  so  incensed  them  that,  as  a  means  to 
pacify  them,  he  sent  out  the  judges  thither  on  circuit 


Ixxxvi  PREFACE. 

into  Ulster  before  their  usual  time,  and  instructed  them 
to  declare  that  the  King  was  graciously  pleased  to  settle 
every  principal  man  in  a  competent  freehold.^ 

The  Second  Commission  in  1609. 

This  project  entailed  the  necessity  of  a  new  commission 
and  another  journey  of  the  Commissioners  to  Ulster.  It 
was  required  to  mark  out  the  bounds  of  ballibetaghs  and 
other  country  denominations ;  to  distinguish  accurately 
the  temporal  lands  and  church  lands,  which  were  omitted 
in  the  execution  of  the  former  commission ;  to  distin- 
guish the  limits  and  bounds  of  the  precincts  accord- 
ing to  the  new  scheme ;  and  to  mark  fit  places  for  the 
undertakers  to  build  upon,  near  to  highways  for  safety 
to  themselves  and  passengers,  sites  for  towns,  and  other 
things.  A  new  commission  was  accordingly  issued,  dated 
the  21st  July  1609,  with  nineteen  articles  for  instructions 
to  the  Commissioners  annexed.^  A  very  special  part  of 
the  commission  was  to  have  another  finding  by  the  inquest 
concerning  the  termon  lands  ;  for  although  there  had  been 
a  finding  by  the  former  inquest  that  the  termons  were 
not  church  lands  but  temporal,  as  only  yielding  services 
to  the  bishops,  and  so  were  forfeited  and  were  the  Kiag's, 
yet  the  Bishop  of  Derry  complained  that  this  finding  had 
been  given  by  reason  that  there  was  not  any  bishop  on  the 
commission.  And  although  the  King  had  resolved  to 
give  them  to  the  bishops;'  he  resolved  to  be  first  found 
unquestioned  owner,  in  order  to  be  in  a  position  to  im- 
pose conditions  of  plantation  on  the  bishops. 


1  Calendar,  vol.  III.,  p.  157.     lb.  p.  193. 

^  This  commission,  with  the  Articles  of  Instruction  with  the  return,  is 
printed  as  an  Appendix  to  the  Repertory  of  the  Inquisitions  of  Ulster, 
Record  Commission  publication,  folio,  1829. 

3  The  Kinj?  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester,  8  Jul}  1609,  Calendar,  vol.  III., 
p.  245. 


PREFACE.  Ixxxvii 

Sir  Jolin  Davys  accordingly  placed  him  and  the  primate 
and  the  Bishop  of  Kilmore  and  Ardagh,  being  the  only 
bishops  in  Ulster,  on  the  new  commission,  that  they  might 
not  make  their  absence  a  ground  of  impeachment  of 
the  finding,  as  the  Bishop  of  Derry  had  made  that  under 
the  previous  commission.^ 

Leaving  Dublin  on  the  31st  July,  they  returned  on 
30th  September  1609.  At  the  sessions  they  held  in  every 
county  they  had  a  grand  jury,  a  jury  of  survey  for  every 
barony  to  inquire  and  find  what  lands  were  temporal  and 
what  lands  ecclesiastical,  and  they  appointed  in  every 
barony  men  to  accompany  Sir  Josias  Bodley  and  the 
surveyor,  who  were  to  make  maps  of  every  county  and 
point  out,  nominate,  and  bound  for  them  every  parish, 
ballibo,  and  ballibetagh.^  Sir  Josias  and  the  surveyors 
were  sent  on  in  advance,  accompanied  by  a  giiard,  for, 
though  the  country  was  then  quiet  and  the  "  heads  of 
"  greatness  gone,  yet  our  geographers  (wrote  Sir  John 
"  Davys)  do  not  forget  what  entertainment  the  Irish 
"  of  Tyrconnell  gave  to  a  map-maker  about  the  end 
"  of  the  late  rebellion ;  for  one  Barkeley  being  appointed 
"  by  the  late  Earl  of  Devonshire  to  draw  a  true  and 
"  perfect  map  of  the  north  part  of  Ulster  (the  old 
"  maps  of  Tyrconnell  being  false  and  defective),  when 
"  he  came  into  Tyrconnell  the  inhabitants  took  off  his 
"  head,  because  they  would  not  have  their  country  dis- 
"  covered."  ^ 

One  can  imagine  the  ordinary  proceedings  of  these 
surveyors,  but  there  were  some  a  little  out  of  the 
ordinary   at   the   city   of   Derry  in    consequence   of   the 

1  Sir  John  Davys  to  Salisbury,  20  July  1609,  Calendar,  vol.  III.,  p.  256. 

2  Relation  of  the  Proceedings  of  the  Lord  Deputy  and  the  rest  in  Ire- 
land from  31  July  to  30  September  [1609],  when  the  camp  was  discharged. 
Calendar,  lb.,  p.  293.  ^  lb.  p.  280. 


Ixxxviii  PREFACE. 

tenacity  of  tlie  Bishop  of  Derry  (George  Montgomery) 
about  his  right  as  bishop. 

"  On  Friday,  being  the  1st  of  September,  they  began 
"  the  assizes  and  business  at  Derry,"  writes  the  author 
of  the  relation,  "where,  in  the  afternoon,  the  Lord  Pri- 
"  mate  (Garyey),  the  Lord  Bishop  of  Derry,  and  Sir 
"  Oliver  St.  John  came  to  them.  About  this  island  grew 
"  great  contention  betwixt  the  Bishop  and  Su'  Thomas 
"  Phillips.  They  themselves  (the  commissioners)  and 
"  the  jury  trod  the  island  and  swore  the  Lord  Bishop's 
"  witnesses  on  the  ground  (the  Lord  Primate  interpret- 
"  ing) ;  but  yet  he  (the  Bishop)  beiag  not  contented 
"  with  their  proceedings,  they  on  the  Monday  adjourned 
"  the  jury  to  the  Liffer,  where  they  were  to  meet  the 
"  Lord  Deputy  and  the  rest  of  the  Council,  his  Lordship 
"  having  rode  to  see  Enishowen."  -^ 

The  Commissioners  lay  in  camp  nine  weeks,  and  dming 
that  time  they  performed  two  principal  things  :  first,  they 
took  inquisitions  in  every  county,  and  distinguished  the 
Crown  lands  from  the  ecclesiastical,  and  supplied  divers 
omissions  in  the  former  surveys  touching  the  quantities, 
but  the  termon  and  erenagh  lands  were  again  found  for 
His  Majesty,  and  it  was  declared  that  the  bishops  had 
only  rent  and  pensions  out  of  them.  Secondly,  the 
counties  being  divided  into  baronies,  they  made  a  descrip- 
tion of  every  barony  iu  a  several  map,  as  well  by  view 
as  by  the  information  of  the  inhabitants ;  which  was  so 
accurately  done  (says  Sir  John  Davys)  that  the  name 
and  situation  of  every  ballibo,  tate  and  poll  is  expressed, 
besides  every  castle,  fort,  mountain,  lake,  river,  brook, 
wood,  bog,  and  all  other  notorious  landmarks  and  dis- 
tinctions,  so   that  the   most  obscure  part   of  the   King's 

1  Ciilendar,  vol.  III.,  p.  294. 


PUEFACE.  Isxxix 

dominion  is  now  as  -well  known  as  any  part  of  England, 
and  more  particularly  described. 

These  two  services  they  performed  in  their  journey, 
besides  the  sessions  of  justice  which  were  held  in  every 
county,  wherein  pretended  titles  were  examined,  posses- 
sions were  quieted,  and  many  causes  were  heard  and  ended, 
and  withal  1,000  loose  and  idle  swordmen  were  sent  away 
into  Sweden,  which  tended  very  much  to  the  preparation 
of  the  plantation.  After  their  return  to  Dublin  they 
finished  their  former  work  in  three  principal  points. 

1.  An  abstract  was  made  out  of  the  records  of  the 
King's  title  as  of  his  subjects'  titles  to  all  the  lands  within 
the  escheated  counties,^  which  were  reduced  into  a  book 
and  signed  by  the  chief  judges  and  the  attorney- general, 
showing  what  lands  the  King  might  dispose  of  to  under- 
takers by  a  good  title.^ 

2.  The  inquisitions  were  drawn  up  in  form  of  law, 
examined  by  the  l^ishops  [because  of  the  termon  lands], 
engrossed  and  returned,  and  lastly  exemplified  under  the 
Great  Seal  of  England.* 

3.  The  maps  were  finished,  and  therein  as  well  the  pro- 
portions for  undertakers  of  all  sorts,  as  the  Church  lands 
and  lands  already  granted  and  assigned  to  forts,  corporate 
towns,  free  schools,  &c.  distinguished  by  sundry  marks 
and  colours.* 

By  the  articles  annexed  to  the  Commission  of  1609,  the 
Commissioners  were  to  make  their  return  by  the  1st  of 

1  The  rough  draft  of  this  voluminous  paper  in  Sir  John  Davys's  own 
hand  is  amongst  his  papers  in  the  Carte  Collection  at  the  Bodleian  Library, 
and  given  at  p.  552  of  this  Calendar.  His  work  from  the  closeness  and  bad- 
ness of  the  writing  is  in  some  parts  undecipherable,  in  others  doubtful. 

2  This  is  not  enrolled  here. 

2  These  inquisitions  to  be  found  in  the  Appendix  to  the  Repertory  of 
the  Ulster  Inquisitions  of  the  Record  Commission.     Folio.     1829. 

4  A  Brief  of  the  proceedings  of  the  Commissioners  for  the  Plantation 
of  Ulster  since  July  last,  as  well  in  Ireland  as  in  England.  By  Sir  John 
Davys.     Calendar,  vol.  III.,  p.  409. 


XC  PREFACE. 

November  in  that  year.^  But  the  labour  of  making  up 
the  inquisitions  of  escheat  and  the  perfecting  of  the  maps 
occupied  the  whole  of  that  year.  On  these  maps  was 
marked  every  precinct  or  proportion,  and  the  Commis- 
sioners made  every  barony  to  be  a  great  precinct,  and 
marked  out  the  bounds  of  every  ballibo  or  ballibetagh 
and  gave  it  its  name  on  the  map,  being  the  first  time 
such  minuteness  was  attempted.  They  also  marked 
out  the  Church  lands,  and  distinguished  them  and  the 
several  proportions  by  colours.  By  means  of  the  return 
of  the  Commissioners  concerning  their  performance  of 
the  articles,^  and  the  paper  containing  an  account  of  the 
conventional  signs  used  in  the  maps,^  the  nature  of  the 
plantation  can  be  understood,  as  it  never  could  be  until 
this  key  of  the  maps  was  discovered.  These  maps,  after 
lying  hid  from  the  year  1610  till  the  year  1861  in  the 
State  Paper  Office,  were  in  the  latter  year  discovered  (it 
may  be  said),  and  have  been  by  the  Lords  of  the  Treasury 
since  ordered  to  be  reproduced  in  fac-simile  by  means  of 
photo-zincography,  and  to  be  sold  at  the  most  moderate 
cost.* 

On  the  completion  of  the  maps,  Sir  John  Davys  and 
Sir  Thomas  Ridgeway,  the  Treasurer,  were  sent  over  in 
the  month  of  February  1610  °  with  the  inquisitions,  maps. 


1  "  Articles  of  Instruction  to  such  as  shall  be  appointed  His  Majesty's 
Commissioners  for  the  Plantation  of  Ulster,  with  the  Commissioners 
Return."  Carew  Calendar,  1603-1624,  art.  19,  p.  48.  These  articles  are 
printed  with  the  commission  and  the  inquisitions  or  findings  of  the  juries 
in  "  Inquisitions  of  Ulster  "  before  referred  to. 

2  lb. 

3  Summary  of  the  contents  of  the  county  of  Armagh  and  explanation  of 
tlie  conventional  signs  used  on  the  map.     Calendar,  vol.  III.,  p.  402. 

■^  "  Maps  of  the  escheated  counties,  A.D.  1609,  copied  at  the  Ordnance 
Survey  OtRce,  Southampton,  Colonel  Sir  Henry  James,  R.E.,  Director, 
1871."  These  fac-similes  are  sold  at  Is.  each  phiin,  and  4*.  6c?.  coloured. 
The  map  of  Donegal  is  lost. 

5  Calendar,  vol.  III.,  p.  390. 


PREFACE.  xci 

and  advices  from  the  Lord  Deputy  touching  the  planta- 
tion/ They  remained  in  London  employed  in  making  out 
lists  of  servitors,  thought  lit  to  he  undertakers/  fixing 
the  proportions  and  places  to  he  assigned  to  the  principal 
natives  (which  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  desired  should  he 
done  there)/  receiving  petitions  from  various  native  Irish 
for  lands,  and  a  great  variety  of  other  details,  till  the  2nd 
of  June,  when  Sir  John  Davys  left  London,*  Sir  Thomas 
Ridgeway  being  detained  till  the  5th  of  July.^ 

Commission  of  1610. 

On  the  5th  of  June  1610  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  received 
the  King's  warrant  to  prepare  a  new  commission  for 
Ulster  ^  for  putting  the  new  planters  into  j)ossession  and 
removing  the  natives.  They  were  now  at  the  hazardous 
point  of  execution,  and  Sir  Arthur  seemed  impressed  with 
a  sense  of  the  importance  of  the  occasion  by  the  terms  in 
which  he  announces  his  approaching  departure  to  Lord 
Salisbmy  :  "  He  intended  (by  God's  permission)  to  be  at 
"  the  Cavan  on  Saint  James'  day,  the  25th  instant,  there 
"  to  begin  that  great  work  on  the  day  of  that  Blessed 
"  Saint  in  Heaven  and  great  monarch  upon  earth,  to 
"  which  he  prays  God  to  give  good  success,  for  they  shall 
"  find  many  stubborn  and  stiff-necked  people  to  oppose 
"  themselves  against  it,  and  to  hinder  the  free  passage 
"  thereof,  for  the  word  of  removing  and  transplanting  is 
"  to  the  natives  as  welcome  as  the  sentence  of  death."  ^ 

Por  the  present  we  must  confine  ourselves  to  the  pro- 
cedure of  the  Commissioners  at  Cavan,  which  may  be 
taken  as  sufB.ciently  exhibiting  the  spirit  in  which  the 

1  Calendar,  vol.  III.,  p.  410.  ^  jb.  p.  428. 

3  lb.  p.  429.  ■*  lb.  p.  466.  «  lb.  p.  480. 

6  lb.  p.  459.  ''  lb.  p.  480.  lb.  p.  497. 


xcii  PREFACE. 

Commission  was  executed  tlirouglioiit  the  esclieated 
counties. 

As  soon  as  the  proclamation  was  published,  declaring 
what  districts  had  been  assigned  for  undertakers,  what 
to  servitors,  and  what  to  natives,  and  the  natives  having 
heard  the  order  that  they  should  withdraw  from  the  lands 
assigned  to  the  English  and  Scottish  planters  (which  was 
done  in  the  Public  Sessions  House,  the  Lord  Deputy  and 
Commissioners  being  present),  up  rose  a  lawyer  of  the 
Pale  retained  by  them,  and  endeavoured  to  maiatain  that 
they  had  estates  of  inheritance  in  their  possession  which 
were  not  forfeited  by  the  attainder  of  their  chiefs.  He 
asked  two  things,  first,  that  they  might  be  permitted  to 
prove  this  ;  secondly,  that  they  might  have  the  benefit  of 
the  King's  proclamation,^  promising  protection  for  their 
persons,  lands,  and  goods,  made  about  five  years  before. 

To  this  Sir  John  Davys  was  directed  by  the  Lord 
Deputy  to  make  answer,  which  may  be  shortly  stated  to 
be  that  the  county  of  Cavan  was  O'Reilly's  Country,  held 
of  the  Kiag,  aiid  that,  the  two  chief  lords  being  slain  in 
rebellion,  their  lands  were  forfeited  and  vested  in  the 
King ;  that  the  inhabitants  had  no  estates  of  inheritance 
known  to  English  law;  that  by  their  own  Brehon  law 
(suppose  that  it  prevailed  and  had  not  been  abolished)  the 
King  was  now  their  chief;  that,  as  they  were  mere  viUeins 
under  their  lords,  they  were  removable  at  their  wills ;  that 
the  King,  therefore,  might  dispose  of  the  lands  as  he  had 
done ;  and  the  only  scruple  that  remained  was,  whether  the 
King  might  in  honour  or  conscience  remove  the  ancient 
tenants  and  bring  in  strangers  among  them.  Sir  John 
then  said  the  King  could  not  in  conscience  suffer  so 
fruitful  a  country  to  remain  as    it  had  done  for   many 

1  Dated  7  September  1607,  Calendar,  vol.  II.,  p.  263. 


PREFACE.  xciii 

hundred  years  past,  without  houses,  townships,  buikling, 
or  orchards ;  and  that  this  could  only  be  done  by  planting 
civilised  colonists  among  them,  and  leaving  them  (the 
natives)  fit  proportions  out  of  the  remainder,  which  would 
become  so  valuable  when  all  the  lands  should  be  fully 
stocked  and  inhabited,  that  500  acres  would  be  of  better 
value  than  5,000  were  then. 

"With  these  and  other  arguments  they  seemed  not  un- 
satisfied in  reason,  though  (he  admits)  in  passion  they 
remained  ill  contented,  being  grieved  to  leave  their  posses- 
sions to  strangers,  which  their  septs  had  so  long  enjoyed 
after  the  Irish  manner.-^ 

But  as  to  the  point  of  honour,  and  breach  of  the  King's 
promise  of  protection,  Su'  John  said  nothing. 

The  inhabitants,  having  no  estates,  were  not  admitted 
to  traverse  the  office.^  But  it  is  plain  from  the  papers  of 
the  period  that,  if  admitted,  their  plea  would  have  been ; — 
first,  that  whatever  might  be  the  powers  of  their  chiefs, 
no  such  trstnsplantation  had  been  ever  attempted  by 
them;'^  second,  that  the  several  families  and  septs  had 
well  known  territories,  where  the  principal  men  had 
fixed  seats  and  the  poorer  families  fed  their  herds  in 
common;*  third,  that  often  as  their  chiefs  had  been 
attainted  before,  no  such  measures  had  ever  been  em- 
ployed; fourth,  that  they  had  not  built  houses  because 
(as  the  chiefs  would  have  probably  said)  they  would  have 
been  taken  by  those  that  were  stronger  than  they  and 
used  as  garrisons  against  them,°  and  that  the  Irish  had, 
all  over  the  rest  of  Ireland,  copied  the  English  and  built 

1  Calendar,  vol.  III.,  pp.  497-601. 

2  Tracts  of  Sir  John  Davys,  p.  280.     8vo.     Dublin,  1787. 

3  Calendar,  vol.  I.,  p.  160.  ^  Calendar,  vol.  III.,  p.  533. 

5  Speed  says  that  Con  More  O'Neil  forbade  his  posterity  to  build  castles 
lest  it  might  fare  with  them  as  it  does  with  the  crow  who  is  beaten  out  by 
the  hawk.    Speed's  Chronicle.  Folio.  London. 


XCIV  PREFACE. 

castles  ;  ^  fifth,  they  would  have  relied  on  the  proclamation 
published  after  the  flight  of  the  Earls,  promising  that 
they  should  not  be  disturbed  in  the  peaceable  possession 
of  their  lands  because  of  their  departure  f  sixth,  they 
would  complain  that  it  was  done  in  a  time  of  peace, 
and  not  on  the  suppression  of  a  war  when  it  would 
have  seemed  less  unjust.''' 

The  truth,  however,  appears  to  be  that  the  flight  of 
the  Earls  was  so  opportune  for  settling  Ulster,  that 
the  occurrence  was  looked  on  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester 
as  "  providential."  *  Sir  Arthur  had  long  desired  to 
plant  English  and  Scottish  freeholders  throughout  Ulster 
to  be  justices  of  peace  and  jurymen;  for  without  this 
(he  said)  all  commands  were  transmitted  in  vain.  Few 
or  none  but  of  their  own  nation  (English  or  Scotch) 
would  aid  the  Government,  he  said,  in  prosecuting  priests 
and  Jesuits  for  performing  their  church  duties,  and  many 
of  the  principal  inhabitants  even  hated  the  Government 
for  no  other  cause.'^  But  now  the  King  would  be  able 
in  their  absence  to  assume  the  countries  into  his  pos- 
session, divide  the  lands  among  the  inhabitants,  to 
every  man  of  note  or  good  desert  so  much  as  he  could 
conveniently  stock  and  manure  by  himself  and  his 
tenants  and  followers,  and  so  much  more  as  by  conjec- 
ture he  could  stock  in  five  years,  and  bestow  the  rest 
upon  servitors  and  men  of  worth  here,  and  withal  bring 
in  colonies  of  civil  people  of  England  and  Scotland,  at 

1  On  the  map  exhibiting  Ulster  in  Queen  Elizabeth's  day,  bound  up 
with  those  of  the  escheated  counties,  part  of  the  county  of  Sligo  is  shown 
covered  with  castles  built  by  the  Irish. 

2  Calendar,  vol.  II.  p.  263. 

3  Sir  Toby  Caulfield  to  Chichester,  27  June  1610,  Calendar,  vol.  III. 
p.  474. 

*  Chichester  to  the  Privy  Council,  7  September  1607,  Calendar,  vol.  II. 
p.  263. 

^  Calendar,  vol.  I.  pp.  325,  326. 


PEEFACE.  XCV 

His  Majesty's  pleasure,  with  conditions  to  build  castles 
or  stone  houses  upon  their  lands.^  Such  was  the  view 
of  Sir  Arthur  just  ten  days  after  their  flight,  all  which 
might  now  he  done  that  Scotland  was  united  to  England, 
and  Spain  without  opportunity  to  help  the  Irish,  being  in 
alliance  with  England. 

It  will  be  convenient  to  pause  here,  in  order  to  bring 
under  notice  at  one  view  in  our  next  vokime  the  details 
of  the  execution  of  the  Commission  for  putting  the  new 
settlers  into  possession,  in  respect  severally  of  the  imder- 
takers,  the  servitors,  and  the  natives. 

We  shall  for  the  present  conclude  our  notice  of  Planta- 
tions in  Ireland  with  an  episode  in  that  curious  history 
of  which  very  little  appears  to  be  known,  and  to  which 
we  alluded  briefly  in  the  preface  of  the  last  Calendar. 

TRANSPLANTATION  OF  THE  GRIMES. 

A  more  curious  episode  in  the  history  of  Plantations 
in  Ireland  still  remains  to  be  related,  the  memory  of 
which  has  almost  entirely  disappeared.  The  Irish  por- 
tion of  the  story  of  the  Transplantation  of  the  Graemes 
is  told  with  full  detail  in  the  State  Papers  of  this  and 
the  last  volumes,  but  we  have  thought  it  deskable  to  com- 
plete the  narrative  by  a  summary  account  of  the  ante- 
cedent history  of  the  projected  colony  from  the  Middle 
Shires ;  and  with  this  view  we  have  carefully  examined  the 
contemporary  Domestic  Papers  of  James  I.,  very  many  of 
which  are  occupied  with  proceedings  in  reference  to  these 
Graemes  and  to  the  causes  of  their  transplantation  from 
their  ancient  home  upon  the  Scottish  Border. 


1  Chichester  to  the  Privy  Council,  17  September  1607,  Calendar,  toI.  II. 
p.  276. 


XCTi  PREFACE. 

Sir  Walter  Scott's  Ballads  and  Tales,  as  weU  as  his 
Border  Antiquities,  have  rendered  us  familiar  with  the  wild 
scenes  of  cattle-lifting  mutuaUy  practised  by  the  Scotch 
and  English  ia  the  border   counties  of  both  kingdoms, 
producing  a  state  of  continued  private  war,  and  vergiag 
occasionally  to  a  conflict  between  the  two  nations.     The 
names  of  Dacres,  Howard,  Cranston,  Musgrave,  Armstrong, 
will  awaken  memories  of  gallant  border-fights  celebrated 
in  the  verses  of  "  the  Ariosto  of  the  North."     All  this  stir- 
ring, irregular  life  came  ^to  an  end  when  this  march-land, 
instead  of  being  as  of  old  styled  "  the  Border"  (and  some 
of  it  ";the  Debateable  Land"),  became  in  the  language  of 
English  statesmen  after  James's  accession,  "  the  Middle 
"  Shires  of  Britanny,"  or  "  the  Middle  Shhes  between  Eng- 
"  land  and  Scotland."  '     Among  the  most  active  of  these 
borderers  in  Cumberland  were  the  Grahams  or  Grimes. 
They  celebrated  the  King's  "  first  entry  into  England  "  (as 
appears  by  the  King's  proclamation  of  4ith  of  December 
1603)   "  by  spoils  and  outrages,  the  smart  of  which  was 
"  felt  by  all  his  subjects  in  the  North."  ^    The  Earl  of 
Cumberland  having  reduced  them,   by  the  aid  of  large 
forces,  they   submitted   to   the   King's   mercy,  confessed 
themselves  to  be  no  meet  persons  to  live  in  those  coun- 
tries, and  humbly  besought  the  King  that  they  might  be 
removed  to  some  other  parts,  where  they  might  become 
new  men,  and  merit  the  mercy  extended  to  them.** 

Annexed  to  this  proclamation  are   the  names   of  99 
Grahams    and    thek   families,  dwelling  upon    Esk    and 


1  Letter  of  14  November  1605.  Endorsed :  "  The  Commissioners  of 
"  the  Middle  Shires  of  Britanny  to  the  Lords."  State  Papers,  Domestic, 
1603-1610. 

2  Calendar,  State  Papers,  Ireland,  James  I.,  p.  462. 

8  "  A  proclamation  for  transplantation  of  the  Greames."  Dated  at 
Witton,  4  December  1603.     State  Papers,  Domestic,  1603-1610. 


PEEFACE.  XCvii 

Leverij  with  notes  of  those  who  were  fit  to  be  trans- 
planted. 

The  vulgar  sort  were  dismissed,  for  ease  of  the  prisons, 
but  their  heads  and  principals  were  retained  as  pledges 
for  them. 

The  first  effort  made  to  relieye  the  country  of  their 
presence  was  by  transporting  them  to  serve  the  Xing  in  the 
Low  Countries ;  but  they  were  scarce  arrived  before  they 
were  back  again,  returning  from  Flushing  and  the  Brill, 
some  by  way  of  Newcastle,  where  they  were  arrested, 
tried,  and  condemned^  to  death  on  the  statute  for  depart- 
ing from  the  King's  service  without  Ucense;  others  by 
choosing  less  likely  ports  in  order  to  escape  observation ; 
till  at  last  of  the  72  delivered  at  Flushing,  14  at  the 
utmost  (as  one  of  the  prisoners  confessed)  remained  in 
HoUand.i 

Fifteen  of  Sir  Henry  Leigh's  horsemen,  under  the  leading 
of  John  Musgrave,  of  Plumpton,  were  sent  to  garrison  Esk, 
and  15  others,  under  Sir  William  Cranston,  were  stationed 
in  another  district  of  the  Grahams,  with  purpose  as  well  to 
hunt  those  that  broke  out  of  Carhsle  Castle,  as  to  catch 
fresh  supplies  of  recruits  for  the  service  in  the  Low 
Countries ;  but  (write  the  Commissioners)  "  so  far  are  we 
"  from  having  a  competent  number  of  them  to  transport, 
"  over  a  half  of  the  numbers  of  those  that  were  returned 
"  or  dead,  that  we  have  not  as  many  as  may  satisfy  your 
"  honour's  directions  for  execution."  ^  The  week  before 
they  had  gone  to  the  trouble  of  appointing  a  hunt  to 
disguise  a  search  for  the  Grahams,  in.  the  com-se  of 
which  they  searched  the  house  of  Sir  Eichard  Lowther, 


1  "  Commissioners  for  the  Middle  Shires  of  Britanny  to  the  Lords." 
14  November  1605.     State  Papers,  Domestic,  1603-1610. 

2  Same  to  Same.    Dated  ''Carliell,"  3  June  1606.    lb. 

g2 


xcviii  PREFACE. 

and  only  caught  ten  Grahams,  while  some  of  their  own 
party  were  lost  in  a  fog.^  The  Grahams  had  got  intel- 
ligence of  the  design  to  send  over  new  supplies,  and 
seemed  to  be  of  that  mind  (write  the  Commissioners) 
"  that  they  had  rather  die  at  home  with  shame  than 
"  serve  His  Majesty  abroad  with  credit."  ^ 

Some  few  of  them  were  hanged  for  theft ; — a  practice 
which  had  increased  by  the  going  over  of  soldiers  to  the 
Low  Countries,  who  in  the  meantime,  between  their  pur- 
pose to  go  and  their  going,  were  contiaually  stealing  and 
spoiling  to  furnish  themselves  for  the  journey.^ 

But  though  the  Commissioners  thus  punished  robbery, 
they  seem  always  to  have  reprieved  those  they  condemned 
to  death  for  returning  without  license;  and  the  worst 
of  them  had  almost  always  to  allege  the  merit  of  a 
share  in  betraying  or  apprehending,  as  the  case  might 
be,  of  "  Sandyes  E-imon,  of  E-andelinton,  and  Arthur 
"  Grame,  of  Lewenbrigge."  Among  these  were  "  Jocke 
"  (Graeme)  of  the  Peartree,"  and  Jocke  Ritchie,  of  whom 
we  shall  have  more  to  say. 

These  two,  having  escaped  from  the  service  in  the  Low 
Countries,  were  arrested  in  London,  being  informed  against 
by  the  Bishop  of  Carlisle,  and  were  to  be  sent  down  to 
Carlisle  for  trial.*  But  the  Commissioners  begged  them 
to  remember  "  that  Jocke  of  the  Peartree  is  one  of  the 
"  five  men  that  betrayed  Sandyes  Eimon,  and  so  within 
"  the  remission  (although  not  named),  than  whom  there 
''■  is  not  a  worse  man." 


1  Commissioners  of    the  Middle  Sliires  to    the  Lords,  21   May   1606. 
State  Papers,  Domestic,  1603-1610. 

2  Letter  of  3  June  1606,  iibi  supra. 

3  Letter  of  14  November  1605,  uhi  supra. 
^  Letter  of  29  April  1606,  lb.  p.  313. 

5  Letter  of  3  June  1606.     lb. 


PREFACE.  XCIX 

It  may  be  conceiyed  tbat  it  was  with  no  satisfaction 
that  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  received  the  news,  30th  A.pril 
1606,  from  the  Privy  Council,  that  His  Majesty,  for  the 
quiet  of  "  the  middle  shires  between  England  and  Scot- 
"  land,  was  about  to  transplant  some  families  (especially 
"  of  the  sm'name  of  Graeme)  into  Ireland,  and  wished  to 
"  know  how  many  he  could  find  room  for,  and  what  Lords 
"  or  persons  would  be  willing  to  receive  them."^  Eor 
his  ill  fortune.  Sir  Ralph  Sidley,  one  of  the  "  captains 
"  discharged  the  last  caste  in  July  1604,"  ^  entered  into 
regular  articles  with  the  Commissioners  of  the  Middle 
Shires  to  receive  them.  He  had  married  the  widow  of 
Henry  Malby,  son  and  heir  of  Sir  Nicholas  Malby,^  for 
so  many  years  Governor  of  Connaught  for  Queen  Eliza- 
beth ;  and  in  her  right  (probably  as  guardian  of  the  infant 
heir)  was  seised  of  the  manor  and  seigniory  of  Ros- 
common.* 

These  "  Articles  of  agreement  touching  the  transporta- 
"  tion  and  transplantation  of  the  Greames  and  other  in- 
"  habitants  of  Leven,  Esk,  and  Sark,  the  late  borders  of 
"  England,  into  Ireland,"  were  "  concluded  between  the 
"  Rev.  Eather  in  God  the  Lord  Bishoj)  of  Carlisle,  Sir 
"  Charles  Hales,  Knight,  Su'  WUfred  Lawson,  Knight, 
"  and  Joseph  Penniagton,  Esq.,  of  the  one  part,  and 
"  Sir  Ralph  Sidley  of  the  other  part,"  ^  and  bore  date 
12th  September  1606. 

Sir  Ralph  undertook  to  plant  them  on  his  seigniory  of 
Roscommon  on  farms  to  tillage,  on  leases  from  three  years 
to  three  years  (unless  His  Majesty  should  order  their  per- 


1  Calendar  of  James  I.,  Ireland,  1603-1606,  p.  462.  2  lb.  p.  204. 

3  lb.,  vol.  III.,  24  July  1609,  p.  258.     lb.,  28  February  1610,  p.  395. 

4  Grant  of  the  manor  to  Sir  Henry  Malby,  12  April  1579,  Morris's  Rolls 
of  Chancery,  p.  1 7. 

^  Calendar  of  State  Papers,  James  I.,  Ireland,  1603-1606,  p.  557. 


c  PREFACE. 

petual  continuance  J  as  the  Commissioners  hoped  he  might), 
at  a  rent  of  6d.  an  acre,  and  a  fine  of  SI.  for  every  quarter 
of  120  acres  of  land.  To  help  the  Grahams  to  pay  these 
fines,  and  to  stock  their  lands  and  buUd  dwellings  (for 
the  land  had  lain  waste  since  the  late  war)  the  gentlemen 
of  Cumberland  and  Westmorland  had  subscribed  300?., 
which  was  entrusted  to  Sir  Ralph  Sidley,  and  became  (of 
course)  the  subject  of  charges  by  the  Grahams  by  way 
of  set-off  against  their  defaults.  Among  the  many  pro- 
visions of  the  contract  was  one  whereby  Sir  Ralph,  as 
being  rector  impropriate  of  Roscommon,  agreed  to  pro- 
vide a  proper  minister  to  teach  them  their  duty  to  God 
and  the  King's  laws.  The  plan  of  planting  them  together 
under  Sir  Ralph  was,  that  being  kept  together,  they 
might  better  preserve  their  language  and  manners  without 
intermixture  with  the  Irishry,  though  they  would,  as 
Chichester  thought,  be  easier  entertained  or  placed,  some 
under  one  landlord  and  some  under  another.  "  For  they 
"  are,"  he  continued,  "  of  the  religion,  and  a  witty  and 
"  understanding  people,  aad  withal  very  civil,  compared 
"  with  most  of  this  nation."  ^  Such  was  his  opinion  on 
the  first  view  of  them,  but  it  altered  on  better  acquaint- 
ance. Sir  Ralph  Sidley  was  to  conduct  them  to  Ireland  ; 
but  he  might  as  well  have  had  the  driving  of  a  flock  of 
mountain  sheep  without  dogs,  as  of  these  without  guards. 
With  great  difS.culty  50  families  were  got  together,  and 
then  under  the  conduct  of  the  sheriff  and  with  the  aid  of 
the  country  and  all  the  horse  garrison  of  the  neighbour- 
hood, they  were  marched  to  the  port  of  Workington  for 
embarkation,  taking  with  them  many  horses  and  much 
household  stuff.  But  before  setting  out  many  had  fled. 
Of  the  chief  Graemes  not  one  escaped  the  Commissioners, 

^  Calendar,  vol.  II.,  p.  118. 


PREFACE.  Ci 

for  they  had  kept  them  safe  at  Carlisle ;  but  the  poorer, 
after  appearing  before  them,  and  yielding  themselves  to 
transportation,  at  the  instant  thereof  fled  and  hid  them- 
selves. The  Commissioners,  however,  had  not  left  between 
Leven  and  Sark  but  three  Graemes  of  any  ability,  two  of 
them  being  old  men  over  80,  and  some  cliildren.  Some  of 
the  wives  of  those  transported  were  great  with  child,  some 
children  at  nurse,  and  were  to  follow  next  spring.'^  An- 
nexed to  the  articles  will  be  found  a  list  of  124  names ; 
and  amongst  them  Walter  of  Netherby  (the  chief  of  them,^ 
called  also  "  the  gude  man  of  Netherby  ")  ^  Pergy  Grame, 
Sibil,  Mariot,  and  Plorence  and  E,ichard  Grame  ;  Jock 
Richie  and  Ellen  his  wife  ;  Jock  Watt,  his  brother ;  and 
WiUiam,  son  to  Jock  Richie  ;  Isabel,  Agnes,  GiUian,  and 
Blanche  George,  caUed  Richie's  Geordie ;  Agnes  bis  wife, 
and  Sibil  his  daughter ;  Grace,  Rose,  Morgan,  and  John ; 
John  of  Peartree  (the  redoubtable  "  Jock,"),  and  Jane ; 
John  alias  Pato,  Geordie's  John  ;  John  called  "  Gib's  Jock 
"  Johnnie,"  and  Janet  his  wife ;  George  Hetheriagton  of 
the  Bassie,  and  Janet  his  wife,  and  various  others.''  Be- 
fore six  months  were  over,  Chichester  was  overwhelmed 
with  their  complaints.  They  declared  it  was  the  utter 
undoiag  of  themselves,  their  wives,  and  their  children, 
coming  over  in  such  fashion ;  ^  they  had  settled  at  Ros- 
common, they  said,  because  of  want  of  wood  and  water ; 
labourers  were  scarce  and  dear,  and  their  language  was 
not  to  be  understood  by  them.^  They  prayed  to  be  al- 
lowed to  return  to  Cumberland,  and  they  would  yield 
His  Majesty  500^.  a  year  rent ;  or  that  they  might  be 
given  lands  of  300^.  a  year  value  in  Ireland,  and  liberty 

1  Commissioners  of  Middle  Shires  to  Salisbury,   13   September  1610, 
Calendar,  vol,  I.,  p.  577. 

2  Calendar,  vol.  II.,  p.  118.  3  lb.  p.  492. 
*  Calendar,  vol.  I.,  pp.  554-557. 

5  Their  petition,  lb.  vol.  XL,  p.  109  and  p.  50.  «  lb.  p.  107. 


CU  PREFACE. 

for  foTxr  of  their  own  selection  to  go  over  as  solicitors  for 
the  rcst.^  Not  above  six  or  seven  householders  of  them 
were  left  at  Roscommon,  the  rest  had  scattered;  some 
had  gone  to  Sir  Ralph  Sidley,  some  to  Sir  George  Grame, 
their  kinsman.  Two  of  them  were  caught  on  board  of  a 
Scottish  barque.  They  had  little  left,  were  without  ser- 
vants and  cattle,  and  were  unfurnished  of  all  things 
necessary  to  manure  a  land  that  had  been  so  long  waste, 
and  without  house  or  habitation.*^  He  had  placed  a  few 
of  their  youngest  in  some  companies  of  horse  and  foot, 
not  knowing  where  else  to  bestow  them  ;  but  found  them 
so  busy  and  turbulent,  that  one  of  them  was  able  to  dis- 
pose a  whole  garrison  to  become  so.^  Their  unfortunate 
landlord.  Sir  Ralph  Sidley,  in  replying  to  some  of  their 
charges  against  him  the  following  year,  declared  they  were 
an  idle  people,  not  only  unwilling  to  settle  down  to  in- 
dustry, but  addicted  to  spend  the  time  and  anything  they 
had  in  drink,  and  upon  horses  and  dogs  for  hunting  and 
pleasure. 

Having  lost  the  season,  provisions  grew  dear,  and  would 
not  be  given  by  the  country ;  the  industrious  thinking 
them  likely  to  prove  as  ill  as  the  late  (Irish)  rebels ;  and 
the  latter  deeming  them  to  be  fellows  likely  to  encounter 
them  at  their  own  weapons  (fighting  and  cattle  lifting). 
They  did  not  frame  themselves  to  follow  the  book  of 
articles  stUl  in  the  custody  of  the  chief  man  of  their  sept, 
called  "  the  Gudeman  of  Netherby ;"  *  and  concluded  by 
stating  that  their  purpose  in  complaining  was  to  remove 
from  Roscommon,  where  the  broad  Shannon  and  other 
bounds  restrained  them.*^ 

1  Calendar,  vol.  II.,  p.  109  and  p.  50. 

2  Chichester  to  Salisbury,  21  February  1607,  lb.  p.  118. 
^  Same  to  same,  4  August  1607,  lb.  p.  245. 

*  Sir  Ralph  Sidley's  Answer,  &c..  Calendar,  vol.  II.,  p.  492. 
5  lb.  p.  491. 


PREFACE.  ciii 

In  the  spring  of  the  year  1610,  Mr.  Patrick  Orosbie, 
(the  same  who  conducted  the ■  O'Moores  and  others,  "the 
"  seven  septs  of  Leix,"  to  Kerry),  being  then  at  Court, 
informed  Chichester  that  the  Lord  Treasurer  had  had  some 
speech  with  him  about  removing  the  Graemes  to  Ulster. 
They  were  then  dispersed;  and  Crosbie  ga^ve  it  as  his 
opinion  that  it  was  so  best,  for  when  they  should  be  placed 
on  any  land  together,  the  next  country  would  find  them 
ill  neighbours ;  for  they  were  a  factious  and  a  naughty 
people.^ 

THE  PHILADELPHIA  PAPERS.^ 

In  the  preface  to  the  first  volume  we  gave  an  ac- 
count of  this  important  collection,  which  was  restored 
to  this  country  by  the  Directors  of  the  Philadelphia 
Library  Company  in  the  year  1867 ;  and  we  there 
offered  some  suggestions  as  to  the  migration  of  these 
papers  to  America.  They  came  into  the  possession  of  that 
public  Library  in  the  year  1799,  and  the  only  account 
given  of  their  deposit  in  that  institution  appears  in  an 
article  in  the  "  Atlantic  Monthly  Magazine  "  for  the  month 
of  March  1868,  in  which  it  is  stated  that  they  were 
presented  to  the  Philadelphia  Library  in  the  year  1799 
by  the  grandson  of  a  former  Lord  High  Chancellor  of 
Ireland  on  the  eve  of  his  departure  from  America.  It 
is  there  suggested  that  they  had  been  committed  by  King 
James  the  Second,  on  his  flight  to  Prance,  to  the  custody 
of  his  Chancellor,  and  that  they  had  remained  in  the 
custody  of  that  Chancellor's  family  till  his  descendant 
presented   them   to   the  library,   not   deeming    that    the 


1  Calendar,  vol.  III.,  p.  421. 

2  See  Calendar  of  State  Papers,  Ireland,  1603-1606,  Preface,  p.  Ixxxvii. 


civ  PEEFACE. 

dynasty  whicli  replaced  the  Stewarts  on  the  throne  had 
any  right  to  the  possession  of  them. 

To  any  one  familiar  with  the  customs  of  these  countries 
concerning  the  keeping  of  records  and  State  papers  the 
suggestion  that  these  papers  had  been  committed  by  the 
King  to  the  hands  of  the  Chancellor  for  custody  would 
appear  untenable,  State  papers  being  committed  to  the 
keeper  of  the  State  Paper  OflS.ce,  and  other  records  to  the 
officers  of  the  E-oUs  for  safe  custody.  And  in  lieu  of  this 
supposition  of  the  writer  in  the  "  Atlantic  Monthly  Maga- 
zine," we  suggested  that  these  papers,  being  of  a  kind 
which,  in  the  days  of  James  the  First  and  for  many  years 
subsequently,  were  regarded  as  the  priyate  property  of  the 
Lord  Deputy  to  whom  they  were  addressed,  they  had 
probably  got  out  of  the  possession  of  the  representatives 
of  Sir  Arthur  Chichester,  having  been  perhaps  treated  as 
old  papers  and  deemed  worthless,  or  sold  as  waste. 

As  these  solutions  were  very  unsatisfactory,  and  as  the 
matter  was  one  of  considerable  interest  in  an  historical  and 
literary  point  of  view,  we  have  spared  no  pains  since  the 
publication  of  the  first  volume  of  the  Calendar  to  get  at 
the  true  history  of  the  case;  and  the  following  facts, 
obtained  by  correspondence  with  the  representatives  of 
the  donor  of  the  papers  to  the  library,  some  in.  America 
and  some  in  Ireland,  afford,  if  not  conclusive,  yet  strong 
presumptive  evidence  to  show  how  they  passed  from  the 
custody  of  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  or  his  representatives  and 
came  to  be  lodged  in  the  Philadelphia  Library. 

The  person  who  deposited  these  papers  in  the  Philadelphia 
Library  in  1799  was  Mr.  Hem-y  Hamilton-Cox.  He  was 
the  eldest  son  of  Joshua  Hamilton,  M.P.  for  Donegal,  who 
in  1722  married  Mary  Dawson,  eldest  daughter  of  Joshua 
Dawson,  of  Castle  Dawson,  in  the  county  of  Londonderry. 


PREFACE.  CV 

Esq.,^  for  many  years  "  clerk  of  the  papers,"  an  office  first 
created  in  Ireland  in  his  person  on  the  26th  of  January 
1703.^  On  the  26th  October  1708  Joshua  Dawson  and  his 
son  Arthur  were  appointed  joint  keepers  of  the  papers. 
Joshua  died  in  1725,  but  Arthur  survived,  and  only 
surrendered  the  office  on  27th  April  174i8.''  Thus  for  a 
period  of  fifty  years  Joshua  and  Arthur  Dawson,  jointly  or 
in  succession,  were  clerks  of  the  papers,  and  these  Phila- 
delphia papers  are  known  to  have  come  out  of  the  hands 
of  the  grandson  of  Mary  Hamilton,  otherwise  Dawson, 
sister  of  Arthur  Dawson,  for  forty  years  keeper  of  papers 
of  this  nature.  Now  what  more  likely,  if  it  could  only  be 
shown  that  these  papers  were  once  in  the  Paper  Office, 
than  that  they  should  have  been  lent,  considering  the 
carelessness  used  in  keeping  such  documents  in  former 
days,  by  Arthur  Dawson  to  his  cousin  Joshua  Hamilton,  the 
father  of  Mr.  Hemy  Hamilton-Cox,  and  that,  the  papers 
remaining  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  Joshua  Hamilton  at 
Arthur  Dawson's  death,  they  passed  to  Mr.  Henry  Hamil- 
ton-Oox  as  papers  of  his  father's,  and,  having  thus  become 
his  own,  were  by  him  given  to  the  Philadelphia  Library  ?  * 
Although  there  is  no  direct  evidence  to  prove  that  these 
four  volumes  of  Sir  Arthur  Chichester's  papers,  the  two 
first  of  them  consisting  of  warrants  under  the  King's  sign 
manual  and  privy  signet  for  the  passing  of  lands  and  offices. 


1  See  Hamilton,  Viscount  Boyne,  Sir  Bernard  Burke's  Peerage  and 
Baronetage. 

2  Lodge's  Lists  of  Patentee  Officers.  Lib.  Munerum  Publicorum  Hiber- 
niae,  vol.  I.,  part  II.,  p.  80.     Large  folio.     London,  1826. 

3  lb. 

^  Mr.  Heury  Hamilton-Cox  went  to  America  in  1798,  and  remained 
there  20  years.  He  then  returned  to  Ireland,  and  died  in  Dublin  in  1821. 
(Information  of  his  daughter  Miss  Katharine  Ann  Cox,  of  Alexandra 
Villas,  Queenstown,  Cork,  and  his  grandson  Richard  S.  Cox,  Esq.,  of  Peoria, 
Illinois,  U.S.A.) 


CVl  PREFACE. 

and  the  two  others  of  letters  and  despatches  from  the 
King's  Privy  Council  concerning  the  government  of  Ire- 
land, were  deposited  in  the  Paper  Office,  there  are  strong 
presumptions  to  prove  that  they  were  at  one  time  either 
deposited  there  or  in  some  other  public  office. 

During  the  period  of  Arthur  Dawson's  custody  of  the 
papers  there  was  an  indefatigable  officer  and  antiquary 
about  the  public  offices  named  Mr.  John  Lodge ; — a  name 
well  known  to  the  general  public  for  his  Peerage  of 
Ireland,  iii'st  published  in  1754,  and  to  legal  and  historical 
searchers  for  his  admirable  "  Records  of  the  Rolls,"  "  Acta 
"  Regia  Hibernica,"  and  other  lists  and  indexes  to  the 
records.^  Although  his  Peerage  only  appeared  in  1754, 
he  had  abeady  printed  and  circulated  in  1745  a  history  of 
the  Earls  of  Kildare  as  a  specimen  of  a  peerage  of  Ireland, 
and  must  consequently  have  been  employed  in  literary  and 
legal  researches  for  a  considerable  time  before.  After  his 
death  there  appeared  a  work  compiled  by  him,*  entitled 
"  Desiderata  Curiosa  Hibernica ;  or,  a  Select  Collection 
"  of  State  Papers  transcribed  from  the  originals  or 
"  authentic  copies,"  published  in  1772,  and  in  this  work 
are  to  be  found  some  important  papers  that  came  out  of 
these  volumes  of  Sir  Arthur  Chichester's.  They  consist 
of  seventeen  royal  letters  or  despatches  from  the  Privy 
Council,  the  first  six  of  them  being  King's  warrants,  to 
be  found  in  the  two  first  volumes,  the  remaining  eleven, 
however,  being  copied  from   the  despatches  and  letters  of 


1  These  are  still  in  manuscript ;  the  only  one  of  his  lists  yet  published 
is  his  List  of  Patentee  Officers  extracted  from  the  Rolls  of  Chancery,  and 
printed  in  the  Liber  Munerum  Publicornm  Hibernise,  vol.  I.,  part  IL 

2  The  work  is  anonymous,  but  has  always  been  considered  his,  and  could 
scarcely  have  been  the  production  of  any  other  person,  no  other  of  equal 
capacity  and  literary  industry  having  had  access  to  the  records  in  those 
days. 


PREFACE.  cvii 

the  Privy  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  contained  in  the  third 
and  fourth  volumes. 

The  warrants,  it  may  he  objected,  being  most  of  them 
enrolled,  might  have  been  seen  by  Mr.  Lodge  in  the  EoUs ; 
but  of  the  despatches  and  letters  no  public  or  private  copies 
were  ever  made,  and  those  in  the  "  Desiderata  Ouriosa 
"  Hibernica"  must,  therefore,  have  been  made  by  Lodge 
from  these  volumes  of  Chichester's. 

But  these  Philadelphia  papers  were  not  the  only  papers 
of  Sir  Arthur  Chichester's  that  Mr.  Lodge  had  access  to. 
There  is  contained  in  the  same  "  Desiderata  Curiosa  Hi- 
"  bernica"  a  paper  of  considerable  length  entitled  "  A 
"  Chronicle  of  Lord  Chichester's  Government  of  L'eland, 
"  containing  certain  Chroniculary  Discourses  for  the  years 
"  of  our  Lord  1612, 13,  14,  and  15,  collected  and  gathered 
"  by  William  Parmer,  Chirurgeon,"  and  "  Addressed  to 
"  the  Eight  Hon^^*^  Arthur  Lord  Chichester,  Baron  of 
"  Belfast,  Lord  Deputy  of  the  realm  of  Ireland."  One 
cannot  but  think  that  this  also  was  once  in  the  same 
office,  but  is  now  lost,  fortunately,  however,  not  without 
leaving  copy  to  supply  the  wants  of  the  original. 

Such  is  the  evidence  to  show  that  these  "  Philadelphia 
Papers"  were  once  in  "  the  Paper  Office,"  in  the  custody 
of  Joshua  and  Arthur  Dawson,  and  that  thence  they 
passed  into  the  possession  of  Joshua  Hamilton,  Arthur 
Dawson's  first  cousin,  from  Joshua  Hamilton  to  his  son 
Henry  Hamilton- Cox,  and  from  him  to  the  Philadelphia 
Library. 

It  remains  to  be  observed  that  Mr.  Henry  Hamilton- 
Cox  descended  not  only  from  Joshua  Dawson,  but  also 
from  Sir  Richard  Cox,  Lord  Chancellor  of  Ireland  (from 
1703  to  1707),  whose  name  he  took  in  1784  on  inheriting 
from  his  uncle.  Sir  Richard   Cox,  Bart.,  the  estates  of 


CVlll  PREFACE. 

Dunmanway,  in  the  county  of  Cork,  derived  from  Lord 
Chancellor  Cox.^ 

It  is  needless  to  go  further  in  'ovdev  to  show  that  the 
supposition  that  King  James  II.  and  his  Chancellor  had 
any  connexion  with  these  papers  is  groundless.  It  may 
be  mentioned,  however,  that  Su'  Richard  Cox  was  a  most 
zealoiis  opponent  of  James  and  supporter  of  Bang  William, 
whose  interest  he  promoted  by  his  celebrated  work, 
"  Hibernia  Anglicana,"  published  in  1689,  the  very  year 
of  the  Eevolution ;  and  that  he  was  consequently  rewarded 
by  being  made  a  judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas 
on  that  King's  accession,  his  patent  being  dated  2nd 
September  1690. 

'  Sir  Bernard  Burke's  Peerage  and  Baronetage,  title  "  Sir  Hawtrey 
Cox,  Bait." 


EER  AT  A. 


Page. 

ci,  last  line  but  7,  before  settled  insert  not. 

61,  line  9,ybj-  ut  Quyvally  read  M'Quyrally. 

69,  line  Z\,for  Suxbridge  read  Saxbridge. 

71,  line  11,  for  Ballymore  read  Baltimore. 
126,  line  \i,for  Sir  Hugh  O'Donnell  read  Sir  Neal  O'DonueU. 
141,  line  h,for  Sir  Ai'thur  Chichester  read  Lord  Delviu. 
185,  line  SO, /or  Bower  read  Bowen. 
207,  line  30,  for  Sir  John  Carey  read  Sir  George  Carey. 
307,  line  4,  for  unreliable  read  unsatiable. 
402,  line  22,  for  Loghrany  read  Toghrany. 
405,  line  12,  for  Coote  read  Coole. 
405,  line  li,  for  Eastlerahin  read  Castlerahin. 


IRELAND. 


vol.  Gl,p.  274. 


JAMES    T. 
1608. 

August. 
1608. 

Aug.  ] .  1.        Demands  to  be  made  to  Philemy  Reagh  [M'Davit]. 

Carte  Papers  j    What  be  knows  of  the  treason  plotted  between  Tyrone 

vol.   fil.  tl.   274.  T    m  n    o 

and  iyrconnell  ? 

2.  Who  were  of  his  conspiracy  ? 

3.  What  was  the  cause  of  their  flight  and  hasty  departure 
from  this  kingdom  ? 

4.  Why  did  his  brother,  Shane  Crone,  go  with  him  ? 

5.  Did  O'Doglierty  undertake  to  do  this  mischief  upon  the 
Deny  and  Culmore,  or  any  other  such  act  of  treason  before 
they  departed,  or  when  and  upon  what  ground  and  occasion 
was  it  resolved  on  ? 

C.  Did  not  O'Dogherty  intend  to  declare  himself  a  rebel 
when  he  went  to  Canevoyre  Wood  about  Christmas  last ;  and 
what  was  the  cause  he  returned  and  submitted  himself? 

7.  Was  Sir  Neale  O'Donnel  acquainted  with  his  purpose  at 
that  time,  or  was  he  drawn  in  since  ? 

8.  Why  did  O'Dogherty  disperse  his  goods  and  quit  Glen- 
veagh,  and  what  became  of  his  goods  ? 

9.  What  are  the  conspirators  that  are  joined  with  Tyrone 
and  Tyrconnell  ?  What  are  their  purposes  and  hopes  ?  Do 
the  people  expect  their  return  ?  TTpon  what  ground  ?  And 
iipon  whose  report  and  giving  out  ? 

10.  Was  Philemy  Reagh  in  Tyrone  and  Armagh  since  the 
death  of  O'Dogherty  ?  Whom  did  he  confer  with  there  ? 
Was  a  meeting  again  appointed  at  their  separation,  and  who 
should  be  their  head  ? 

11.  Did  Gillaspick  and  his  brother  Randal  (two  brothers  of 
the  Clandonnels,  the  one  married  to  the  daughter  of  Shane 
M'Donald  Groome,  the  other  to  the  daughter  of  M'Kenna,) 
accompany  him  after  his  coming  into  Tyrone ;  and  by  whom 
were  they  relieved  ? 

3.  A 


vol.  61,  p.  292. 


!  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

1608. 

1 2.  Why  did  he  depart  from  them  or  either  of  them  ? 

13.  Urge  him  to  declare  where  Art,  the  son  of  Bryan 
M'Art,  Oghy  Oge  O'Hanlon,  and  the  M'Kennas,  are  kept  and 
relieved,  and  by  whom  ? 

14.  Learn  how  far  Shane  M'Manus  Oge  is  in  this  treason, 
and  how  far  he  was  acquainted  with  that  of  Canavoyre  Wood  ? 
What  is  become  of  the  money,  plate,  ordnance,  and  other 
goods  and  spoil  gotten  at  the  Derry,  and  where  Shane  is  to  be 
had  or  gotten  ? 

15.  Whether  any  seeming  subject  be  acquainted  with  this 
treason,  and  how  far  they  have  favoured  it ;  and  what  are 
their  names  ? 

"  These  are  but  briefs  for  your  remembrance,  which  with  all 
other  the  like  he  recommends  to  your  care  to  question  and 
demand  of  him. —  1  August  1608.     Ai'thur  Chichester." 

Pp.  1^.  Copy.  Endd. :  "  Demands  made  to  Philemy 
Reagh,  with  his  answers  and  examination  enclosed."  Encloses, 

Aug.  3.  2.        Examination  of  Phelion  Reaghe  [M'JDavit],  Srd  August 

Carte  Papers,  1608. 

To  the  first,  he  saith  he  can  say  nothing  but  by  the  report 
and  relation  of  O'Dogherty,  which  was,  that  the  time  of 
Tyrone's  coming  with  aid  into  this  country  will  be  about 
Michaelmas  next. 

To  the  second,  he  saith  that  at  such  time  as  O'Dogherty 
acquainted  him  with  the  treasons  and  conspiracy  of  theEarls 
Tyrone  and  Tyrconnell,  he  demanded  of  O'Dogherty  who 
were  to  second  them  in  the  action ;  he  answered  him  that  the 
Lord  of  Delvin,  the  Lord  of  Howth,  and  Sir  Thomas  BourJce 
tvere  to  join  with  them,  and  were  acquainted  with  their  going. 

Being  demanded  why  his  brother  Shane  Oroane  went  with 
them  and  not  O'Dogherty,  he  saith  that  his  brother  went  out 
of  the  love  he  bare  to  the  Earl  of  Tyrconnel,  and  for  that  he 
had  been  before  in  the  country.  The  cause  of  O'Dogherty's 
not  going  was  his  being  at  Dublin  at  the  time  of  their 
depctrture. 

He  cdso  saith  that  a,  little  before  the  betraying  and  spoil  of 
the  Derry  (viz.,  two  or  three  nights)  O'Dogherty  and  Doole 
Oge  rode  to  Gastle-Fynn  to  Sir  Neile  O'Donnell,  where  they 
were  in  council  about  the  taking  the  rest,  whereunto  Sir  Neile 
did  aimnate,  and  put  him  forward,  and  saith  that  where 
O'Dogherty's  purpose  wees  only  to  have  taken  the  munition 
and  arms,  with  the  spoil  of  the  town,  and  so  to  have  left  it, 
the  said  Sir  Neile  earnestly  laboured  and  persuaded  him  that 
in  anywise  he  should  burn  the  town  and  massacre  the  people, 
and  that  he  would  undertake  to  take  Lyfford  and  the  Go- 
vernor of  Ballyshannon  under  pretence  of  a  meeting  with 
him.  This  O'Dogherty  acquainted  the  examinate  tvith,  at  his 
return. 

Being  donanded  what  were  their  expectations  and  hopes 
tupon  the  return  of  the  two  Earls  into  the  country,  he  saith 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  3 

1608. 

they  expected  that  the  Irish  in  general  should  join  ivith  them, 
and  that  they  should  presently  he  possessed  of  the  whole 
country. 

Being  demanded  tuhat  meeting  he  had  in  Tyrone  with  any 
of  that  country,  as  with  Brian  Crossagh  M'Cormoch,  Brian 
M'Art's  son,  Ferdonogh  M'Otven's  soois,  &c.,  he  saith  they 
had,  a  meeting  together  since  the  death  of  O^Dogherty,  ivithin 
three  or  four  miles  of  the  Omagh,  where  they  sware  ooie  to 
another ;  and  at  their  paHing  they  shot  powder  one  at  another, 
cts  if  they  had  been  in  sJcirmish,  to  colour  their  meeting,  but 
since  his  parting  with  them  at  that  time  he  never  durst  trust 
any  of  tJieon. 

He  further  saith  that  after  O'Dogherty's  depiarting  from 
Glanveagh,  and  coming  into  Tyrone,  there  came  unto  him  in 
the  Glynns  all  the  chief  of  that  country,  in  a  company,  and 
Hugh  M'Shane  M'Owen,  and  Phelemie  Oge  M'Cormoch 
M'Toole,  who  likeivise  promised  to  join  tuith  O'Dogherty. 

This  examination  luas  tal-en  before  us,  Qeor.  Berrien,  &c., 
B.  Wingfelde,  01.  Lamberte. 

Pp.  4.     Orig.     Endd. 

Aug.  3.  3.         The   Exainination    of  Phellim  Reaghe  M'Baved,  taken 

Carte  Papers,  before  the  Bishop  of  Derry,  Mr.  Marshal,    and  Sir 

'^'^    '  Oliver  Lamberte,  the  Zrd  of  August  IQQS. 

Being  demanded  whether  he  knoiv  anything  concerning 
Sir  Neale  O'DoneU's  being  accessccry  to  O'Doghertie's  treasons, 
says  that  a  little  before  the  betraying  and  spoil  of  the  Berry 
{viz.,  tiuo  or  three  nights)  O'Boghertie  and  Boivle  Oge  rode  to 
Castle-Fyns  to  Sir  Necde  O'Bonell,  ivhere  they  were  in  council 
about  the  taking  of  the  rest,  whereunto  Sir  Neale  did  animate 
and  put  him  fonuard,  and  saith  that  where  O'Boghertie's 
p)urpose  ivccs  only  to  have  taken  the  inunition  and  arms,  luith 
the  spoil  of  the  town,  and  so  to  have  left  it,  the  said  Sir  Neale 
earnestly  laboured  cond  persuaded  him  that  in  anytuise  he 
should  burn  the  toiun,  and  massacre  the  people,  and  that  he 
would  undertake  to  take  the  Lifford  and  the  Governor  of 
Bcdlyshanan,  under  pretence  of  a,  meeting  luith  him.  Sir 
Cahir  O'Boghertie  acquainted  the  examinccte  luith  this  at  his 
return. 

He  scdth  that  the  next  day  after  the  taJdng  of  the  Berry, 
Sir  Necde  O'Bonell  sent  thither  to  O'Boghertie,  Murtagh 
O'Bugan,  and  Edmond  O'Mularkie,  «  friar,  to  demand  of 
O'Boghertie  his  share  of  the  spoil,  which  he  expected  should  be 
the  hcdf  of  all  the  goods  in  the  toiun,  as  ivell  of  the  Governor 
and  Lord  Bishop,  as  of  the  merchants.  He  saith  that  O'Bog- 
hertie ansivered  thcU  he  should  have  the  hcdf  of  all  luhatsoever 
he  had  there  gotten,  saving  the  munition  and  arms,  which  he 
was  to  have  ivholly  to  himself,  upon  a  former  agreement 
bettveen  them. 

He  saith  likeivise  that,  instantly  after  Sir  Necde  O'Bonell's 
being  with  them  (the  English  forces)  at  Killadonell,  he  sent  a 

A  2 


4  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 

1G08. 

messenger  by  speech  to  O'Doghertie,  tuilling  him  to  be  of  good 
courage,  discovering  the  weakness  of  the  Marshal's  forces, 
assuring  him  that  he  would  join  with  him,  wherein,  as  the 
examinate  saith,  he  went  about  to  betray  them  and  the  King's 
forces. 

lie  saith,  that  at  such  time  as  O'Doghertie  was  in  Glenveagh, 
Sir  locale  O'Donnell  sent  unto  him  Shane  Oge  M'Bryen 
Ivallye,  and  Donogh  M'Gylglasse,  advising  him  that  it  was 
bootless  for  him  to  keep  his  creats  about  him,  for  that  the 
army  had  a  purpose  to  set  upon  him;  and  therefore  he 
tuished  him  to  put  them  atvay,  and  to  shift  for  himself. 

He  also  saith  that  Sir  Necde  sent  word  to  O'Doghertie  that 
he  ivas  to  have  100  men  in  pay,  and  that  he  was  getting 
money  and  arms  to  furnish  his  men,  luhich  so  soon  as  he  was 
p)rovided  of,  he  tvould  join  with  hivi.  This  onessenger  ivas 
sent  after  his  being  at  Killaclonell.  The  messengers  that  went 
most  commonly  betiveen  thevi  tuere  Donell  Fanadagh  and 
O'Mularkie. 

R.  Wingfelde. 

Pp.  ]J.     Orlg.     Endd. 


Aug.  2.  4.         Sir   Jamss   F0llerton  to   the   Lord    Treasurer    of 

S.P.,  Ireland,  ENGI,AX0. 

vol.  224,  165  b.  „        .  .„      ,         i<     -i        -,. 

bends  a  certmcate  ot  the  disposing  of  the  last  supplies. — 
London,  2  August  1008. 

F.  1.     Signed.     Seeded.     Add.     Endd.    Encloses, 

Aug.  2.  5.         The  certificate    of  700    nnen   brought  over  by    Captain 

S.P.,  Ireland,  Nortou  and  others,  mustered,  at  Dublin,  the  IMh  July 

TO.    24,    ,jn. I.  1608,  and  found  as  hereafter  appears;  as  also  hoiu 

they  were  disposed  of. 

Delivered  to  the  Lord  Justices'  man,  of  the  Warwickshire 
men,  to  be  delivered  by  him  to  the  Lord  Deputy — viusquetiers, 
5  ;  armed  men,  10  ;  calipers,  23  :  total,  38.  They  are  but 
p)Oor  in  apparel,  and  very  bad  in  shoes  and  stockings. 

Delivered  to  Captain  Cooke,  of  the  Surrey  and  Middlesex 
men,  for  supplying  Ids  "own  company  —  musquetiers,  5  ; 
armed  men,  10  ;  calivers,  20  ;  halbertier,  1  ;  drum,  1  :  total, 
37.  Whereof  divers  of  them  very  bad  in  apparel,  and  worse 
in  shoes  and  stockings. 

Delivered  to  the  Lord  of  Howth,  of  the  London  and  Essex 
men— musquetiers,  10  ;  armed  men,  27 ;  calivers,  49:  total, 
80.  Whereof  30  had  no  doublets,  and  many  no  better 
breeches  than  they  should  hctve,  and  onany  very  ill  stockings 
and  shoes. 

Delivered  to  Lieutenant  Smyth,  of  Kentish  men,  to  be  con- 
ducted by  him  to  Sir  Thomas  Rotheram — musquetiers,  5  ; 
armed  men,  12;  calivers,  29:  total,  40.  They  are  all  in- 
different in  apparel. 

Delivered  to  Ensign  St.  George,  to  be  conducted  to  the  Lord 
Deputy — musquetiers,   12;    armed   men;  38;     cuUvers,    80; 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1608. 


S.I'.,  Ireland, 
vol.  224,  165  B.  II. 


Aug.  3. 
S.F.,  Ireland, 
vol.  224,  166. 


halbertier,  1  :  total,  137.    Most  of  them  are  no  better  than  they 
should  be  in  apj?arel,  and  very  bad  in  shoes  and  stocJdngs. 

Delivered,  to  Captain  Neui's  lieutenant  for  increasing  his 
comijany  of  Worcestershire  one?! — tnusquetiers,  5  ;  armed 
onen,  25  ;  calivers,  30  :  total,  50  (sic).  They  tvere  indifferent 
in  apparel,  but  poor  in  shoes  and  stockings. 

Delivered  to  the  Earl  of  Thomond,  of  Leicestershire  and 
Nottinghamshire  men — musquetiers,  10;  armed  men,  30; 
calivers,  39  :  total,  89  (sic).     They  are  indifferent  in  apparel. 

Delivered  to  Sir  Henry  Poiver,  of  the  Gloucestershire  men, 
and  to  rew  ain  in  Dvhlin  inclose — viusquetiers,  10  ;  armed 
onen,  30  ;  calivers,  32  :  total,  92  {sic).  They  are  indifferent 
ioi  appao'el. 

Aonouovthig  in  cdl,  of  the  soldiers  deliveo-ed,  to  the  number 
of57o;  aoid  so  125  are  waoitioig  of  the  700  oneoi.  The  575 
soldiers  ao^e,  onost  of  theon,  tuaoitioig  in  shoes  and  stockings, 
onany  in  doublets  aoid  bo^eeches  veo-y  bad ;  but  the  ao^ms  are 
veovj  good.  The-  ao^ons  of  those  that  ao-e  wantioig  shall  be 
deliveord  into  the  Kioig's  store.  Theo'c  are  divers  sto^aggleo's 
abroad  tvho  belooig  to  the  700  men,  who  as  they  are  met  tvith 
shall  be  sent  uoito  those  captains  xvlio  have  O'ight  to  them,  and 
specicd  eye  shall  be  kept  upon  the  totvoisoneoi  aoid  county  that 
have  enticed  theon  aside ;  the  seaoxheo's  have  tvao^ning  to  let 
none  pass  but  upon  good  aoid  special  warrant. 

Raphe  Bio-chensha. 

Pp.  3.    Signed.     Endd. :  "  Certificate  of  the  700  men,"  <&c. 

6.  The  quality  and  to'ades  of  575  soldieo^s  disp)Osed  to  divers 

Captaiois,  IMh  July  1608. 

Shoenudcers,  45  ;  oio  trade,  156  ;  bakers,  10;  bo'asier,  1  ; 
smiths,  21 ;  cojoyenters,  1 1 ;  net  maker,  1  ;  basket  maker,  1 ; 
chandlers,  2 ;  bo'ciuers,  19  ;  felt  iveavers,  5  ;  plumber,  1 ; 
taylors,  32 ;  ymbo'otherers  {eonbroidereos),  2  ;  cooks,  10 ; 
joioiers,  3  ;  iveavers,  31  ;  butchers,  26  ;  costeo^monger,  1 ; 
barbers,  5  ;  copp)eo'smith,  1 ;  cutleo's,  3  ;  husbaoidmen,  62  ;  felt- 
makers,  5  ;  sawyeo-s,  9  ;  tojlers,  3  ;  govceo's,  5  ;  shotvornaoi,  1  ; 
tanners,  3  ;  clothiers,  5  ;  pinners,  2  ;  habeo'dasheo's,  5  ;  onusi- 
ciaois,  8  ;  glovers,  9  ;  pewteo'er,  1  ;  oniliners,  9  ;  fustian  do^iver, 
\  ;  ivatermen,  7  ;  /losiers,  3  ;  silk  weaver,  1  ;  locksmiths,  2  ; 
comfit  onaker,  1  ;  joiners,  2 ;  gao'deoieo^s,  4  ;  shepheo'ds,  2  ; 
fletcher,  1  ;  saddlers,  3  ;  five  onaker,  1 ;  masons,  7 ;  crick- 
maker,  1 ;  colliers,  7  ;  sailoo's,  3  ;  paper  maker,  1  ;  nail  makers, 
2 ;  tuo'oiers,  2 ;  dyeo's,  3 ;  tvire  driver,  1  ;  armorers,  2  ; 
glassers,  2  ;  cao^o'ieo^s,  4 ;  gun  maker,  1 ;  potter,  1 ;  white 
Wright,  1 ;  ivao^eoier,  1. — Ralpihe  Bio-chensha. 

P.  1.    Endd. 

7,  Sir  Aethuii  Chichester  to  the  Lords  of  the  Privy 

Council. 
After  the  dispatch  of  his  last  letters  of  the  6th  July  from 
DundaJk,  signifying  the  news  and  the  death  of  O'Dogherty, 


1608. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


he  dismissed  all  the  risings  out  of  the  Pale  as  he  then 
wrote  to  them  ;  having  been  informed  that  the  rebels  of 
Ulster  were  broken  and  dispersed  to  hide  themselves  amongst 
their  friends,  and  that  some  new  insurrection  was  intended 
near  home  by  some  seditious  malcontents  of  the  O'Tooles  and 
others  of  their  party,  upon  occasion  whereof,  if  it  should  break 
out,  many  of  the  rebels  near  adjoining  might  be  invited  to 
take  side  with  them  or  might  of  themselves  presume  to  make 
incursions  thither  in  his  absence. 

On  the  9th  of  July  he  encamped  near  Mount  Norris  in 
O'Hanlon's  country,  where  he  received  intelligence  that  Oghie 
Oge  O'Hanlon,  eldest  son  to  Sir  Oghie,  had  returned  out 
of  Tyrconnell  thither,  and  had  brought  with  him  his  wife 
(O'Dogherty's  sister),  and  a  base  brother  of  O'Dogherty's,  Arte 
O'Neile,  base  son  to  Brian  M'Arte,  Phelim  Reaghe,  and  divers 
others  of  that  rabble,  and  were  to  the  number  of  50  or  there- 
abouts lodged  in  the  woods  within  five  miles  of  him  (Chiches- 
ter) :  whereupon  he  sent  forth  some  soldiers  in  several  parties  to 
prosecute  them  sundry  nights  and  days  without  rest  or  ceasing. 
Some  of  them  they  killed,  and  some  others  they  took  prisoners 
and  brought  home  to  the  camp,  whom,  after  examination,  he 
caused  to  be  hung  by  martial  law.  The  soldiers  also  got  their 
arms,  clothes,  horses,  and  whatsoever  other  spoil  they  had  ; 
but  Oghie  Oge,  the  principal,  escaped,  and  the  rest  dispersed 
away  by  two  or  three  in  a  party,  who  are  all  so  cherished  by 
their  friends,  or  otherwise  make  such  shifts  to  hve,  that  very 
few  of  the  O'Hanlons,  and  none  of  the  0 'Neils  are  come  into 
his  hands,  though  he'employs  soldiers  on  purpose  to  prosecute 
some  of  them,  and  make  others  rich  in  promises,  if  they  bring 
in  their  heads. 

His  purpose  was  to  lie  close  at  his  back  until  this  prosecution 
should  be  ended,  and  all  his  main  forces  be  withdrawn  out  of 
Ulster  ;  but  finding  no  rest  in  O'Hanlon's  country,  and  being 
doubtful  to  put  any  trust  in  strangers,  all  Oghie's  companies 
(that  were  of  Tyrone  or  Tyrconnell,  and  thus  divided  from 
him,)  retired  again  over  the  Blackwater  and  sheltered  them- 
selves in  the  woods,  and  among  such  as  they  thought  most 
afi'ected  to  them,  and  the  good  success  of  their  cause,  which 
indeed  were  the  greatest  part  of  men  :  yet,  notwithstanding, 
God  has  so  blest  his  endeavours,  that  Shane  Carragh  O'Cahane 
(brother  to  Sir  Donnell),  the  murderer  of  Denys  O'Mullan, 
and  his  brother,  and  the  head  of  this  rebellion  in  the  country 
of  Colrane,  was  soon  after  apprehended  by  one  Hugh  M'Shane 
and  his  brethren  (who  are  of  a  wild  and  strong  sept  of  people 
dwelling  in  the  woods  and  glynnes  of  Tyrone) ;  not  so  much 
for  conscience  sake,  or  in  discharge  of  their  duties  to  the  King, 
as  to  expiate  their  own  offences,  which  they  knew  themselves 
to  be  guilty  of,  as  also  that  he  could  not  be  ignorant  in  what 
measure  they  had  off'ended.  Therefore,  in  consideration  thereof 
and  that  they  were  both  oppressed  and  allured  by  the  pro- 
clamation,  they  fell  upon  Shane  Carraghe,  killed  10  or  12  of 


1608. 


lEEL  AND— JAMES  1. 


his  men,  took  him  prisoner,  and  according  to  his  directions 
delivered  him  at  the  fort  of  Mountjoy. 

To  gratify  them  for  doing  so  well,  and  to  induce  others  to 
imitate  their  example,  gave  them  some  small  rewards  from 
the  King,  together  with  the  goods  of  the  parties  and  also  a 
promise  of  a  general  pardon  from  the  King,  with  a  protection 
for  the  present,  which  has  wrought  this  good  effect,  that  many 
of  the  rebels  have  been  since  slain  or  apprehended  daily,  and 
so  he  expects  it  will  continue.  Seldom  spares  to  execute 
justice  upon  all  such  as  relieve  traitors  and  outlaws  if  they 
are  able  to  resist  them ;  otherwise  finds  them  many  times  to 
be  excusable,  living  as  they  do  in  creaghtes  and  poor  cabins, 
and  therefore  unable  to  withstand  desperate  and  armed  men. 
Very  much  wishes  that  they  should  leave  their  creaghting 
and  shifting  planes,  and  build  houses,  to  dwell  in  some  place 
certain  and  permanent ;  to  which  purpose  has  given  orders 
in  each  county  as  they  pass,  and  is  in  some  hope  to  prevail 
with  them  for  erecting  towns  and  living  together,  as  they  do 
in  the  Pale  and  other  civil  counties. 

After  his  first  coming  into  the  county  of  Ardmagh,  he  soon 
observed  that  it  was  only  art  and  practice  that  must  avail 
them  for  the  King's  service  more  than  all  their  force  ;  which 
being  considered,  he  resolved  to  stay  some  six  or  seven  days  in 
each  county  as  he  passed  through,  and  to  intermix  some  other 
needful  services  of  the  King's  with  this  prosecution  of  the 
rebels ;  and  therefore  sent  back  to  Dublin  for  two  commissions 
under  the  great  seal — one  for  oyer  and  terminer  and  gaol 
delivery,  and  the  other  for  surveying  O'Doghertie's  and  the 
fugitives'  lands,  those  commissions  to  be  executed  in  every 
county  among  other  the  main  business  as  they  went.  The 
people  appeared  both  in  the  counties  of  Ardmagh,  Tyrone, 
and  Colrane  in  greater  numbers  than  was  expected.  In  these 
sessions  they  received  particular  information  of  every  man  of 
note  or  name  that  was  in  rebellion,  and  of  many  who  have 
relieved  the  rebels. 

During  his  stay  about  Dungannon,  many  of  the  rebels  were 
brought  in  daily,  who  were  executed  for  the  most  part  by 
martial  law  and  some  by  verdict  of  the  jury  ;  amongst  whom 
Shane  Carraghe  O'Cahane  was  the  principal,  who  was  tried 
by  the  country,  found  guilty,  and  executed  as  a  traitor  by 
justice  of  the  common  law  ; — which  was  a  kind  of  death  seldom 
or  never  seen  in  these  parts  of  Ulster  before  this  time,  and 
seems  to  terrify  them  more  than  that  of  hanging  by  martial 
law,  a  death  which  they  contemn  more,  he  thinks,  than  any 
other  nation  living  ;  they  are  generally  so  stupid  by  nature, 
or  so  tough  or  disposed  by  their  priests,  that  they  show  no 
remorse  of  conscience,  or  fear  of  death.  Has  so  dealt  with 
some  of  the  principal  men  in  Tyrone,  whom  he  held  doubtful 
and  suspected,  that  many  of  them  have  promised  to  do  some 
acceptable  service  against  his  return,  to  regain  favour  and 
opinion  ;   and  he  assures  himself  they  will  not  fail  to  eflfect 


1608. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


it,  if  it  be  not  for  the  hope  and  fear  they  have  of  the  fugitives' 
return. 

From  Dungannon  he  marched  hither  through  Glanconkayne, 
which  is  the  greatest  fastness  of  woods  and  bogs  that  is  in  all 
this  province  ;  found  that  it  had  been  as  well  tilled  and  inha- 
bited for  the  fitness  of  it  as  any  other  part  of  Tyrone,  but  that 
the  people  with  their  goods  were  all  removed  and  gone  into 
the  mountains,  and  the  rebels  fled  withal,  both  for  want  of 
relief  and  to  avoid  the  King's  forces.  These  diligent  searches 
made  all  the  Tyrconnell  men  hasten  back  again  out  of  Tyrone  ; 
but  the  Marshal  and  Sir  Oliver  Lambert,  with  the  rest  of  the 
captains  in  those  parts,  had  so  good  watch  and  spial  upon 
them,  that  he  is  this  day  advertised  that  many  of  them  are 
lately  discovered  and  slain,  and  some  other  principal  men 
taken ;  amongst  whom  is  O'Dogherty's  base  brother,  of  whom 
the  regard  was  that  the  rebels  had  created  him  O'Dogherty  ; 
another  that  slew  Sir  George  Pawlett  with  his  own  hands  ; 
and  Phelimy  Reagh,  the  very  firebrand  of  this  rebellion  and 
seducer  of  O'Dogherty,  if  any  he  had  besides  his  own  evil 
spirit ;  with  nearly  20  others  of  that  sort,  who  are  reserved  for 
public  trial  at  the  assizes  to  be  held  at  the  Liffer.  Phelimy 
Reagh  was  discovered  to  be  in  a  wood  in  Tyrconnell  within 
six  miles  of  the  Marshal's  camp.  Upon  the  first  news  of  it  the 
Marshal  posted  away  with  some  40  or  50  horse,  and  with 
them  environed  the  wood,  and  so  stood  until  some  companies 
of  foot  came  to  search  the  wood  ;  upon  the  first  search  they 
missed  him,  but  found  his  three  companions  or  followers, 
whereof  one  was  slain  and  the  other  two  taken.  While  they 
were  thus  in  despair  of  him,  another  company  of  soldiers  came 
up  and  would  needs  search  again,  and  they  found  him.  He 
made  such  resistance  with  his  sword,  that  it  seems  he'  would 
gladly  have  been  slain,  but  in  effect  he  was  badly  wounded 
with  a  pike  in  the  breast  and  beaten  down  before  he  could  bo 
taken.  The  Marshal  takes  great  care  for  his  curing  or  keep- 
ing him  alive  for  his  trial.  In  the  meantime  has  given  order 
to  have  him  examined  upon  sundry  points,  and  especially 
touching  Sir  Neale  O'Donnell.  This  Phelim  is  one  of  tlie 
meanest  amongst  the  prisoners  and  rebels  in  quality,  though 
for  his  malice  and  wickedness  he  has  got  himself  a  name  beyond 
all  his  fellows.  Knows  none  of  them  all  that  were  known 
to  have  drawn  blood  in  this  rebellion,  but  are  either  taken  or 
slain  ;  to  the  end,  no  doubt,  that  this  people  may  see  that  God 
abhors  their  crooked  and  impious  courses,  and  to  verify  his 
divine  and  faithful  promise  that  the  issues  of  all  such  should 
be  into  the  ways  of  death. 

Now  there  remains  to  be  got  or  cut  off"  the  base  son  of 
Brian  M'Arte,  the  ringleader  in  Tyrone,  a  fellow  very  hard  to 
be  got  because  of  his  name  ;  Oghie  Oge  O'Hanlon,  in  the 
county  of  Ardmagh,  Brian  ne  Savagh  M'Mahon,  with  some 
of  the  M'Kennas,  in  the  county  of  Monaghan  ;  a  young  legi- 
timate brother  of  Sir  Cahir  O'Doghertie's  ;  Shane  M'Eanus 


1608. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


Oge  O'Donnell,  who  holds  the  island  of  Torragh  [Torry]  from 
us,  and  is  ambitious  to  be  created  O'Donnell,  after  the  manner 
of  the  country,  if  means  and  occasions  were  answerable  to  their 
designs.  The  last  of  note  that  he  can  now  remember  is  Neile 
M'Swyne,  nephew  to  Sir  Neile  O'Donnell,  and  one  that  kept 
the  castle  of  Doa  until  it  was  taken  ;  of  all  whom  he  hopes  to 
receive  some  good  account  before  his  return. 

This  is  the  whole  relation  of  their  journey  thus  far,  both  for 
what  concerns  the  prosecution  of  the  rebels,  the  holding 
sessions,  which  would  not  have  been  done  without  an  army, 
and  the  surveying  all  the  escheated  lands  in  Ulster  already 
partly  effected  or  in  hand  to  be  effected,  a  matter  that  nearly 
concerns  the  King,  and  is  his  (Chichester's)  second  chief  care 
for  this  time. 

It  remains  that  he  certify  their  Lordships  of  the  arrival  of 
200  new  men  out  of  Scotland  some  five  weeks  past  at 
Carrickfergus,  and  700  from  England  landed  at  Dublin  soon 
after  his  departure,  and  how  they  are  disposed,  as  also  that  he 
answer  some  points  of  their  last  letter. 

First,  sends  certain  demands  the  men  now  make  for  their 
entertainment  agreeable  with  what  they  received  in  Scotland. 
The  other  700  men  out  of  England  came  far  short  of  their 
account  there  ;  for,  however  the  Earl  of  Thomond  and  the  other 
conductors  took  as  much  care  to  keep  them  together  as  pos- 
sible, yet  they  were  so  unruly  that  many  of  them  ran  away ; 
but  the  best  of  it  is,  that  all  this  sorts  to  a  good  end,  for  what 
between'  the  default  of  one  entire  company  out  of  Scotland 
and  these  others,  they  have  occasion  left  to  retain  so  many  of 
the  civil  Irish,  and  such  others  of  the  old  soldiers  in  the  King's 
pay  as  have  honestly  performed  this  last  service  and  desire  to 
be  continued  in  entertainment.  The  rest  of  them,  such  as  are 
not  unwilling  to  depart,  he  has  discharged,  and  will  discharge 
with  their  good  contentment ;  and  will  so  husband  the  matter 
that  he  hopes  the  King  will  be  little  charged  above  his  ordinary 
entertainment  of  1,000  over  the  present  Establishment.  How 
they  shall  be  disposed,  and  what  the  King's  extraordinary 
charge  will  amount  unto,  they  shall  know  when  he  comes 
back.  Concerning  the  matter  of  money  mentioned  in  their 
last  letter,  he  has  acquainted  the  Treasurer  therewith,  and 
leaves  that  part  to  him,  both  to  satisfy  and  solicit  them  for 
what  may  appertain. 

According  to  their  letters  in  that  behalf  has  given  notice  to 
all  the  port  towns  that  are  answerable,  of  their  pleasures  con- 
cerning the  determination  and  hearing  their  cause  about  the 
customs,  and  the  privileges  and  immunities  which  most  of 
them  claim  in  that  behalf 

Their  agents  are  required  to  be  there  by  the  beginning  of 
next  term.  Soon  after  his  return  back  to  Dublin  and  the 
survey  of  the  escheated  lands,  he  will  dispatch  the  Lord  Chief 
Justice  and  the  Attorney  to  their  Lordships,  fully  instructed  in 
what  they  expect ;  in  the  meantime  there  is  not,  and  shall  not 


10 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1608. 


Aug. 

S.P.,  L-eland, 
vol.  224,  1661. 


[Aug.  3?] 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  224,  166  II. 


be  any  foot  of  those  lands  disposed  of  or  promised  to  any  man 
from  him  before  the  King's  pleasure  is  signified,  as  they  require. 
Thanks  them  for  the  confidence  reposed  in  him  for  disposing 
of  these  lands,  according  to  the  King's  pleasure  and  their  good 
advice  therein,  as  their  great  importance  requires.  —  The 
Camp,  near  Colrane,  3  August  1608. 
Pp.  8.     Signed.    Encloses, 

8.     The  disposal  of  the  700  foot  sent  out  of  England,  who 
landed  at  Dublin  the  10th  July  1608. 
The  Earl  of  Thomond,  100.     The  Lord  of  Howth,  100. 
Sir  James  Perrott,  100. 
To  make  the  eight  companies  of  fifties  hundreds : 


Sir  Edward  Blaine 
Sir  Francis  Roe 
Sir  Thomas  Rotherame 
Ccvptain  Cooke 


50 
50 
50 
50 


Sir    Toby     -Calefeeld 

[Caulfeld] 
Sir  Richard  Hansard 
Sir  Thomas  Phillips 
Captain  Newce 


50 
50 
50 
50 

There  arrived  out  of  Scotland,  about  the  end  of  June,  200, 
tuho  were  not  to  receive  any  pay  froin  the  Treasurer  here  until 
the  20th  August,  by  reason  they  were  impressed  to  that  day 
beforehand,  by  the  Lords  in  Scotland : 

Captain  Steivarcle,  100.    Captain  Crafoord  [Crawford],  100. 

For  default  of  the  other  100  to  come  out  of  Scotland  to  make 
up  the  whole  1,000,  assigned  50  to  Sir  Raphe  Bingley  and 
50  to  Capt.  John  Vaughan;  the  men  were  raised  (for  the 
greatest  part)  by  themselves. 
P.  1.    Endd. 

9.        Redes  of  Pay  of  the  Scottish  Soldiers. 

The  rates  per  mensem  allotved  by  the  Lords  of  Scotlamd  to 
each  100  of  the  200  soldiers  ivith  their  officers  sent  fror)% 
thence,  cwid  accordingly  paid  for  two  months,  beginning  20th 
June  1608  and  to  end  20th  August  of  the  same  year,  viz. : 


£ 


d. 


To  the  captain.  Si.  6s.  8d. ;  lieutenant,  U.  3s.  4c?.  ; 

ensign,  66s.  Sd. ;  2  Serjeants,  4:1. ;  1  dritm  and 

a  surgeon  at  25s.  le  pece,  50s.  - 
1  clerk,  25s.  ;  a  provost,  25s.        -  -  . 

10  gentlemen,  viz. :  1  at  28s. ;  2  at  25s.  le  pece ; 

3  at  24s.  le  pece  ;  and  4  others  at  22s.  le  pece ; 

in  all  - 
20  pikemen  at  20s.  le  pece  ... 

3  corporals  viusquetiers  at  25s.  le  pece,  ^5s.,  and 

7  other  musquetiers  at  20s.  le  pece,  71.  ;   in  all 
3  pages  for  the  cajJtain,   lieidenamt,  and  ensign, 

atlZs.^d.  le  pece         -  .  -  _ 

55  snudl  shot  at  16s.  Sd.  le  pece  -  -  - 

In  all,  per  mensem,  \\5l.  Is.  4d  English,  making  in  harps 
153?.  8s.  5d,  which  exceeds  the  ordinary  entertoAnment  allowed 


22 

6 

8 

2 

10 

0 

11 

18 

0 

20 

0 

0 

10 

15 

0 

2 

0 

0 

45 

16 

8 

IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


11 


1608. 


Aug.  4. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  224,  167. 


Aug.  4. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  224,  168. 


to  100  footmen  tvith  their  officers,  according  to  the  King's 
establishment,  S5l.  lis.  9d.  harps ;  and  if  the  captains''  enter- 
tainment be  reduced  to  4s.  a  day  and  6  dead  pays,  then  it 
will  exceed  the  ordinary  allowance  S8l.  7s.  9d.,  harps. 

The  captains  received  in  Scotland,  over  and  above  the  two 
months^  oneans  aforesaid,  toivards  the  arming  of  the  companies, 
271.  15s.  6d.  English  le  pece;  in  cdl,  551.  lis.  English. 

The  26th  of  July  last  the  companies  were  mustered  com- 
plete, where  many  lads  and  youths  were  presented  for  soldiers. 
Divers  of  the  ablest  men  tvere  ill-apparelled,  and  a  great 
number  worse  armed. 

Wet.  Whyte,  Deputy  to  the  Muster-master. 

P.  1.     Endd. 

10.  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Lords  of  the  Privy 
Council. 

Yesterday  lie  received  their  letters  desiring  200  soldiers  to 
be  kept  in  readiness  for  the  expedition  against  the  Islanders. 
Has  promised  them,  upon  conditions  of  their  sending  shipping 
and  pilots,  to  transport  them  from  Carrickfergus  ;  but  requests 
them  (the  Lords  of  Council)  to  consider,  (and  he  has  offered 
the  same  consideration  to  the  Scotch  Lords,)  that  there  are 
sharp  rumours  of  preparations  abroad,  and  in  readiness  to 
carry  over  the  fugitives,  with  foreign  assistance,  he  knows  not 
how  suddenly.  Should  this  rumour  prove  true,  they  shall  be 
so  far  fi'om  being  able  to  assist  that  service  in  Scotland  that 
they  will  rather  need  assistance  from  thence  (which,  they 
say,  they  are  ready  for  upon  any  our  occasion). 

Is  well  assisted  by  the  Treasurer,  Master  of  the  Ordnance, 
and  Sir  Adam  Loftus,  Judge  Marshal,  in  the  matters  of  the 
two  commissions  mentioned  in  his  other  letter.  Suggests 
that,  as  they  have  encouraged  the  Treasurer,  Marshal,  and  Sir 
Oliver  Lambert  with  an  acknowledgment  of  their  good  services 
against  the  rebels  in  Tyrconnell,  so  they  ought  by  two  or 
three  words  to  take  notice  of  their  industry  in  civil  causes. — 
Colrane,  4  August  1608. 

Fp.  2.     Signed.    Sealed.    Add.     Endd. 

11.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Lord  Salisbury. 

In  his  letters  to  the  Lords,  has  declared  his  success  in  this 
service  to  this  time.  They  have  now  either  killed  or  have  cap- 
tured alive  the  principal  heads  of  this  rebellion  ;  namely,  Shane 
Carrowe  O'Cahaine  (brother  to  Sir  Donnell,  who  is  prisoner  in 
the  Castle  of  Dublin)  ;  this  man  is  executed  by  the  course  of 
common  law  ;  Sir  Carye  O'Doghertie's  brother,  with  divers  of 
that  name,  and  one  who  killed  Sir  George  Pawlett.  Phelim 
Keagh  M'Davide,  and  20  more,  are  in  the  hands  of  the 
Marshal,  and  shall  receive  justice  by  law.  Keceives  so  often 
advertisements  out  of  Munster  and  those  western  parts  of  the 
fugitives'  preparations  and  the  readiness  of  a  fleet  at  the 
Groyne  in  which  many  Irish  are  to  embark,  that  it  would 


12  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

160S. 

witlidi'aw  him  from  this  prosecutioB,  were  he  not  secure  in 
that  kind  by  tlie  watch  and  foreknowledge  they  (the  Lords  of 
Council)  have  of  them  and  their  actions.  Whatever  the  sequel, 
is  sure  the  eyes  of  all  this  kingdom  are  upon  them  ;  and  the 
hearts  of  the  ill-affected  wish  nothing  more  than  their  return  in 
order  that  they  may  have  means  to  do  mischief.  Prays  him  to 
consider  how  needful  it  is  to  have  some  store  of  money  lying  in 
Dublin  Castle  to  answer  the  alarm  of  those  traitors,  in  whicli 
there  can  be  no  loss  if  the  King's  stores  were  answerable,  for 
if  they  do  not  entertain  idle  men  they  will  be  on  the  other 
side  ;  of  which  in  this  expedition  they  have  found  the  reason, 
for  some  of  their  prisoners  have  said  that  upon  the  revolt  of 
O'Doghertie  they  first  offered  their  services  to  the  King's 
captains,  and  being  refused,  they  afterwards  put  themselves 
into  the  pay  of  the  rebels. 

Has  with  him  in  this  journey  the  Treasurer,  Judge  Marshal, 
and  Master  of  the  Ordnance,  who  are  very  worthy  gentlemen  ; 
and  without  their  assistance  he  could  not  give  such  life  and 
dispatch  to  the  service  as  he  does,  for  in  this  journey  they  do 
three  kinds  of  business,  viz.,  prosecution  of  the  rebels,  holding 
the  assizes,  and  surveying  the  lands  of  O'Dogherty  and  the 
fugitives.  The  latter  must  have  been  done,  and  would  have 
been  a  great  charge  to  the  King  if  special  commissioners  had 
been  sent  from  Dublin,  albeit  fhey  (the  Treasurer,  &c.)  have 
some  extraordinary  allowance  out  of  the  King's  coffers,  whicli 
they  deserve. 

Is  bound  to  recommend  to  him  the  Bishop  of  Derry,  whose 
pains  in  this  province  have  been  great,  with  no  profit  at  all  ; 
besides,  he  has  lost  very  much  by  the  sack  of  the  Derry,  for 
all  he  had  in  this  kingdom  was  taken  by  the  rebels  or  con- 
sumed by  fire.  He  has  now  gone  thither  to  repair  himself  of 
necessarie.s,  and  upon  private  occasions  in  which  he  will  need 
liis  Lordship's  favour. 

Upon  his  (Chichester's)  return  his  Lordship  shall  have  a 
just  account  of  the  charge  of  this  prosecution,  which  he  will 
keep  down  as  well  as  lie  may  ;  but  the  men  lying  so  long 
for  passage  at  the  seaside  in  England  will  increase  it,  for  until 
they  came  to  the  camp  they  could  not  discharge  the  Irish. — 
Camp,  near  Colrayne,  4  August  1(308. 

Sends  him  an  abstract  of  a  letter  from  Rome,  which  is  made 
common  in  this  kingdom,  and  an  examination  taken  by  Sir 
Lawrence  Esmond,  constable  of  the  fort  of  Duncannon,  near 
Waterford,  that  he  may  see  what  alarms  are  given  them  from 
those  parts. 

F'p.  3.     liol,     Enrld.     Encloses, 

July  17.         12.         The  Examination  of  Robert  Short,  of  the  town  of  Wa- 
S.r.,  Ireland,  riiovih  [  Weymouth],  and  Andrew  Whitte,  of  the  same, 

vol.  22.1, 1081.  sailors,  taken  before  me,  the  Vlth  July  1G08. 

First,  that  heing  at  the  Groyne  about  40  days  since, 
heard  it  generally  spoken  there  by  Spaniards  and  Irish  that 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  13 


1608. 


Tyrone  had  heen  with  the  Pope,  ivho  had  given  him  the 
kingdom  of  Ireland,  and  that  the  King  of  Spain  had  orders 
from  the  Pope  to  assist  him  in  obtaining  it.  Moveover  he 
heard  of  a  fleet  preparing  for  the  seas,  xvhereof  some  ships 
^vere  to  come  from  St.  Lucas,  some  from  Lishone,  others  from, 
Vigo,  within  the  Isles  of  Baion,  and  some  from  Passage  in 
Biskey  (Biscay) ;  and  happening  in  company  of  a  Scotchman, 
who  tvas  pilot  of  a  Flemish  ship  of  600  tons,  embarked  there 
to  sail  in  the  said  fleet,  the  Scotchman  said  to  him,  "  You 
may  boldly  report  in  England  that  the  fleet  which  is  pre- 
paring is  meant  for  Ireland."  Be  does  not  remember  the 
Scotchnfian's  name,  although  he  told  him  that  his  otvn  p>er- 
sonal  service  had  been  required  therein  by  sovie  Spaniards, 
but  he  refused.  Likeiuise  he  luas  told  by  some  Irish  in  the 
Groyne,  who  were  formerly  in  the  King  of  Spain^s  pay,  that 
there  were  ona^iy  Irish  soldiers  there,  ^vho  ivere  nearly  all 
discharged  by  the  King  of  Spain,  to  expect  and  attend  the 
expedition  into  Ireland.  He  further  says,  that  upon  the 
conning  of  the  new  Governor  of  the  Groyne,  ctbout  the  1st  of 
June  last,  he  sent  to  the  number  of  1,000  armed  men,  with 
their  captains  and  colours,  to  receive  him.  He  met  there  one 
Father  Archer,  oai  Irishman,  ivho  ivas  very  earnest  with  him 
to  change  his  religion,  tvhich  he  refused  to  do ;  wheretipon 
Archer  railed  at  him. 

Andrew  Whitte  says,  that  being  at  the  Groyne  about  the 
1st  of  June,  he  heard  a  genercd  report  that  the  Earl  of  Tyrone 
was  proclaimed  King  of  Ireland  by  the  Pope ;  after  which 
report  he  had  conference  with  one  Captain  Brian  0' Kelly, 
and  after  many  speeches  bettueen  them,  the  deponent  begged 
Kelly  to  dine  with  him  on  board  his  ship,  which  he  took 
kinclly.  Deponent  asked  him  where  those  fleets  lay  which 
luere  so  genercdly  spoken  of  to  go  for  Ireland.  Kelly  told 
him  they  luere  in  several  parts,  namely,  at  Vigo,  Lisbone,  and 
at  Passage  in  Biskey,  to  the  number  of  60  sail,  all  ctpip>ointed 
by  the  Pope's  direction  to  conduct  the  regiments  into  Ireland. 
Deponent  asked  hoiu  many  were  to  go  ;  Kelly  said  he  knew 
not  for  certain  hoiu  many  soldiers,  nor  luhen  they  would  set 
out,  but  cdl  the  Irish  in  Spain  ivcrc  coppointed  to  repair  to 
the  Groyne,  and  to  stay  the  coming  of  the  fleet,  except  John  of 
Desmond,  xuho  is  called  by  the  ncome  of  Gounte,  and  O'Sul- 
livant,  ivho  tvere  to  stay.  He  further  says,  that  one  Father 
jlrcJier  persuaded  him  to  leave  his  religion,  but  he  ivould 
not ;  wlierenpon  he  culled  him  a  devilish  heretic,  luith  nnany 
more  rep>roachfLd  words.  Not  long  after  this  he  saiu  mani/ 
Irish  priests  and  friars  there,  whereupon  he  asked  his  host, 
one  Count,  a  Dutchman,  what  that  assembly  of  Irish  meant ; 
his  host  told  him  that  they  all  attended  the  coming  of  the 
fleets  thither,  luhich  tvere  bound  for  Ireland.  Within  feiu 
days  after,  deponent  saiu  some  ttventy  colours  marching  out 
of  the  town  of  the  Groyne,  to  entertain  a  neiu  Governor. 
Kelly  told  him  it  was  certain  that  the  Pope's  army  was  to 


14 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1608, 


Aug.  4. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
Tol.224,  169. 


Aug.  5. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  224,  170. 


Aug.  5. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.224,  171. 


go  to  Ireland,  and  to  land  about  Broadhaven,  near  Sleego. 
Seven  days  after  this  he  went  from  the  Oroyne  to  Billhoe 
[Bilbao'],  where  he  met  one  Learry,  a  youth  born  in  Kinsale, 
and  then  servant  to  the  Pagador  of  BisJcey,  who  told  him 
that  he  came  with  his  master  from.  Passage,  and  that  the 
navy  that  lay  there  had  gone  to  the  Groyne  to  join  with  the 
rest,  and  then  go  to  Ireland.  He  could  not  learn  the  number 
of  soldiers  or  ships. — Laurence  Esmonds. 

Pp.  2.   Endd. :  "  17th  July  1608.    Bee.  the  last  July  1608." 

13.  Lord  Danvers  to  Salisbury. 

Reports  concerning  some  parcels  of  goods  belonging  to 
Bristol  merchants,  and  taken  from  the  pirate  Jennings,  to 
be  deposited  with  the  Mayor  of  Bristol  until  further  order 
from  Salisbury. — Cork,  4  August  1608. 

P.  1.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

14.  Lord  Deputy  and  Council  to  the  Lords  of  the  Privy 

Council. 

Since  their  coming  to  these  parts  they  have  received  news  of 
the  death  of  the  Bishop  of  Meath,  who,  during  his  short  stay 
with  them,  carried  himself  very  worthy,  and  according  to  his 
calling,  &c.,  and  that  the  King  would  be  pleased  to  promote 
a  man  of  experience  and  skill  of  government  to  the  place,  on 
account  of  the  greatness  and  eminence  of  the  bishopric,  &c. 
Amongst  the  clergy  residing  in  this  kingdom  (if  the  King 
makes  choice  of  any  one  here),  there  is  no  one  they  can 
recommend  more  than  the  now  Bishop  of  Derry,  Clogher,  and 
Raphoe. — Camp  at  Drumdarcy,  5  August  1608. 

Signed :  Arthur  Chichester,  Th.  Ridgeway,  01.  St.  John, 
Ad.  Loftus. 

Pp.  2.     Signed.    Sealed.     Add.    Endd. 

15.  Sir  John  Davys  to  Salisbury. 

The  departure  of  this  bearer  is  so  sudden  that  he  will 
omit  many  things  fit  to  be  advertised.  Touching  the  prosecu- 
tion of  the  rebels,  the  messengers  of  ill  news  came  not  so 
quick  to  Job  as  those  of  good  news  have  come  to  them,  for  to 
pass  over  the  accidents  which  happened  before  they  began 
their  journey,  he  will  only  note  the  good  occurrents  that  have 
succeeded  one  another  since  their  departure  from  Dublin. 

The  day  after  they  began  this  journey,  they  received  news  of 
O'Doghertie's  death,  which  happened  not  only  on  the  5th  day 
of  the  month,  but  on  a  Tuesday,^  but  the  Tuesday  11  weeks, 
that  is  77  days  after  the  burning  of  the  Derry,  which  is  an 
ominous  number,  being  seven  elevens,  and  eleven  sevens  ; 
besides,  it  happened  at  the  very  hour,  if  not  at  the  same 
instant,  that  the  Lord  Deputy  took  horse  to  go  against  him. 


'  Giraldus  Camhrensis  notes  that  Tuesday  was  ever  a  fortunate  day  for  the 
English  in  the  conquest  of  Ireland. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  15 


1608. 


Within  two  days  news  came  of  the  taking  of  Shane  Car- 
ragh  O'Cahane  (brother  to  Sir  Donell  O'Cahane,  now  prisoner 
in  Dublin  Castle),  by  Hugh  M'Shane  O'Neale  and  others,  the 
inhabitants  of  th&  Glynnes  of  Glanconkeyn.  Understanding 
the  Deputy  had  granted  free  pardon  to  every  one  who  should 
kill  a  rebel,  together  with  all  his  goods,  they  took  this 
opportunity  to  enrich  themselves. 

Within  two  days  after  that,  Oghy  Oge  O'Hanlon,  son  and 
heir  to  the  chief  O'Hanlon,  who  having  married  O'Doghertie's 
sister,  drew  100  men  with  him  into  this  rebellion,  having 
after  his  brother-in-law's  death,  retired  out  of  Tyrconnell,  and 
come  over  the  Blackwater  with  Phelim  Reagh  M'David,  the 
Deputy  sent  out  sundry  companies  of  light  men  to  pursue 
them,  one  of  which  companies  fell  upon  them  in  the  woods 
within  three  or  four  miles  from  the  camp,  took  all  their 
horses  and  victuals,  killed  some  of  them,  and  took  others 
prisoners ;  the  rest  escaping  by  flight,  scattered  every  one  by 
himself.  Among  the  rest,  Oghy  O'Hanlon's  wife  was  found 
alone,  by  an  Irish  soldier  who  knew  her  not ;  and  being  stripped 
of  her  apparel,  she  was  so  left  in  the  woods,  where  she  died 
next  day  of  cold  and  famine,  being  lately  delivered  of  a  child. 

The  next  day  Sir  Oliver  Lambert  came  to  their  camp  and 
brought  assurance  of  the  rendering  of  Castle  Do,  in  Tyrconnell, 
the  strongest  hold  in  all  this  province,  which  endured  100 
blows  of  the  demi-cannon  before  it  yielded.  Shortly  after 
this,  word  came  that  O'Doghertie's  bastard  brother  was  taken 
in  Tyrconn  ell,  with  divers  others,  whereof  some  were  executed 
by  martial  law,  and  others  referred  to  be  tried  by  common 
law,  when  they  came  with  their  commission  of  gaol  delivery 
into  that  county.  Briefly,  there  scarce  passed  one  day  wherein 
they  heard  not  of  the  killing  or  taking  of  some  of  the  rebels, 
either  by  the  King's  soldiers  or  by  the  rebels  themselves,  one 
betraying  another  to  get  his  own  pardon,  and  the  goods  of  the 
party  betrayed ;  so  the  Deputy's  policy  in  making  the  pro- 
clamation has  taken  eSect  beyond  expectation  among  this 
viperous  generation  of  rebels,  who  are  become  like  the  armed 
men  of  Cadmus,  who  sprung  up  from  the  teeth  of  a  serpent 
sown  in  the  earth,  but  presently  fought  and  utterly  destroyed 
one  another. 

And  now  last  of  all,  as  soon  as  they  came  to  the  Bann-side 
(where  they  camp  at  this  present)  they  heard  from  the  Marshal 
that  he  had  taken  Phelim  Reagh  M'David,  whom  he  reserves 
alive,  to  be  tried  by  course  of  common  law,  when  they  come 
into  Tyrconnell,  which  will  be  within  three  days. 

Touching  the  distribution  of  civil  justice,  they  held  their  first 
session  at  Armagh,  where  they  had  a  good  appearance  and 
good  attendance.  The  grand  jury  most  willingly  indicted  their 
kinsmen  and  followers,  who  had  gone  out  into  rebellion  with 
young  O'Hanlon  and  Brian  M'Arte's  son,  presenting  a  list  of 
the  names  of  all  the  natives  of  that  county  who  were  then 
in  action  of  rebellion,  to  the  end  it  might  appear  whose  sons, 


16  IRELAND— JAMES  T. 

1608. 

or  servants,  or  followers,  they  ■were,  that  the  father,  master,  or 
chief  lord  might  bring  them  to  justice  according  to  a  special 
Act  of  Parliament  in  this  realm. 

The  next  session  they  held  at  Dungannon  for  the  county  of 
Tyrone,  where  the  Hagans,  the  Quins,  the  Divelins,  and  Done- 
lyes,  and  the  rest  of  the  late  Earl's  followers,  gave  as  dUigent 
attendance  as  they  were  wont  when  their  fugitive  master  was 
present.  Here  Shane  Carragh  O'Cahane  was  indicted,  tried, 
and  found  guilty  by  his  own  friends  and  kinsmen,  and  having 
judgment  of  high  treason,  was  accordingly  executed  in  the 
camp,  and  his  head  set  upon  the  castle  of  Dungannon.  In  this 
place  a  monk,  who  was  a  principal  counsellor  to  O'Dogherty, 
and  was  taken  in  Birt  Castle,  voluntarily,  in  the  sight  of 
all  the  people,  cast  off  his  religious  habit  and  renounced  his 
obedience  to  the  Pope  ;  whereupon  the  Deputy  gave  him  his 
life  and  liberty. 

From  Dungannon  they  passed  into  the  county  of  Colrane, 
through  the  Glinnes  and  woods  of  Glanconkeyn,  where  the 
wild  inhabitants  wondered  as  much  to  see  the  King's  Deputy, 
as  the  ghosts  in  Virgil  wondered  to  see  iEneas  alive  in  hell ; 
but  his  passing  that  way  was  of  good  importance  for  the 
King's  service,  for  both  he  and  all  the  officers  of  his  army 
have  discovered  that  unknown  fastness,  and  the  people  of  the 
country  knowing  their  fastness  to  be  discovered,  will  not  trust 
so  much  therein  as  heretofore,  which  trust  made  them  commit 
so  many  thefts,  murders,  and  rebellions,  for  they  presumed 
more  upon  their  (the  Deputy  and  Council's)  ignorance  of  their 
country  than  upon  their  own  strength. 

In  the  county  of  Colrane  they  held  their  third  session,  where, 
after  they  had  indicted  such  as  are  now  in  rebellion,  they  found 
no  extraordinary  business,  but  that  O'Cahane's  priest  and 
ghostly  father,  being  taken  in  action  of  rebellion  with  Shane 
Carragh  O'Cahane,  was  indicted,  tried,  and  executed  for  treason, 
and  so  taught  the  people  better  doctrine  by  the  example  of 
his  death,  than  he  had  ever  done  in  all  his  life  before.  He 
excepted  to  their  jurisdiction,  affirming  that  the  secular  power 
could  not  condemn  a  priest  for  any  offence  whatsoever ;  but 
the  country  saw  that  point  of  judgment  falsified,  both  by  his 
judgment  and  execution. 

Touching  the  survey  of  these  countries,  which  are  now 
devolved  to  the  Crown,  Mr.  Treasurer  and  himself  (Davys) 
(before  the  surveyor  came)  took  an  inquisition  at  Dungannon ; 
whereby  they  surveyed  all  the  county  of  Tyrone,  and  found  all 
the  temporal  land  in  that  county  escheated  to  the  Crown  by 
the  outlawry  of  the  late  Earl  (excepting  only  two  ballibetaghes 
which  were  granted  to  Sir  Harry  Oge  O'Neale  by  the  King) ; 
and  the  rest  of  the  lands,  which  they  call  church  lands,  being 
in  the  possession  of  certain  scholars  called  Herenaghes,  and 
whereof  they  were  in  ancient  times  true  owners  and  propri- 
etors, the  jury  found  to  be  resumed  and  vested  in  the  Crown, 
and  by  the  statute  of  11  Eliz.,  whereby  Shane  O'Neale  was 


lEELAND — JAMES  I. 


17 


1608. 


Aug.  6. 

Cotton  MSS. 

Vesp.  C.  xi.,  87,  b. 

B.M. 


Aug.  7. 

S.r.,  Ireland, 
vol.224,  172. 


attainted,  and  never  since  divested  by  any  grant  from  the 
late  Queen  or  from  His  Majesty.  Before  they  came  to  Colrane, 
the  surveyor  came  to  them,  and  since  their  coming  hither,  he 
has  taken  the  survey  of  all  that  little  county  containing 
O'Cahane's  country  ;  all  which,  without  exception  of  any  parcel 
of  land,  temporal  or  spiritual  (as  they  call  it),  are  found  to  be 
in  the  actual  possession  of  the  Crown  by  the  said  act  of 
reisumption,  since  which  time  O'Cahane  and  all  the  inhabitants 
have  been  intruders. 

They  are  now  passing  into  Tyrconnell,  aU  which  countiy  is 
now  entirely  in  Hia  Majesty's  hands,  partly  by  the  outlawry 
of  the  late  Earl  and  partly  by  O'Dogherty's  rebellion.  As  for 
Sir  Neal  Garve,  he  has  never  had  any  grant  passed  to  him  of 
his  portion  of  the  country. 

They  hope  before  Michaelmas  to  present  a  perfect  survey 
of  six  several  counties,  which  the  King  has  now  in  demesne 
and  actual  possession  in  this  province  ;  which  is  a  greater 
extent  of  land  than  any  prince  in  Europe  has  to  dispose  of. 
The  disposing  whereof  by  plantation  of  colonies,  is  a  matter  of 
great  consideration,  wherein  it  is  not  easy  to  lay  down  a  good 
and  sure  project.  There  have  been  sundry  plantations  in  this 
kingdom,  whereof  the  first  plantation  of  the  English  Pale 
was  the  best  and  the  last  plantation  of  the  undertakers  in 
Munster  was  tlie  worst. 

The  plantations  in  Ulster  on  the  sea  coast  by  Sir  Jo.  Courcy, 
the  Lacyes,  and  the  Bourks ;  the  plantation  in  Connaught 
by  the  Bourks  and  Geraldines  ;  in  Thomond  by  Sir  Thomas 
de  Clare ;  in  Munster  by  the  Geraldines,  Butlers,  Barries, 
Roches,  and  other  English  families,  are  in  part  rooted  out  by 
the  Irish ;  and  such  as  remain  are  much  degenerated,  which 
will  happen  to  this  plantation  within  a  few  years,  if  the 
number  of  civil  persons  who  are  to  be  planted  do  not  exceed 
the  number  of  the  natives,  who  will  quickly  overgrow  them 
as  weeds  overgrow  the  good  corn. — The  Camp,  near  Colrane, 
5  August  1608. 

Pp.4>.    Hoi. 

16.  Sir  Charles  Cornwallis  to  Lords  of  Council.^ 
Reports  continued  discussions  as  to  the  King's  league  with 

the  United  Provinces,  which  has  given  great  umbrage  ;  various 
questions  and  arguments  have  passed  between  him  (Corn- 
wallis) and  the  Condestabile  about  the  matter.  Reports  a  long 
conversation  with  him  thereon.  It  is  still  constantly  denied  by 
Ministers  that  the  fugitive  Irish  receive  support  from  the  State 
now  or  shall  receive  it  hereafter. — Madrid,  6  August  1608. 
Pp.  2.     Copy. 

17.  The  Lord  Chancellor  of  Ireland  to  Salisbury. 
Assures  himself  his  Lordship  has  received  advertisement  of 

some  likelihood  of  stirs  to  be  raised  in  Leinster  during  the 

'  Printed  iu  Sawyer's  Memorials  of  State  Affairs,  vol.  ii.,  p.  42-1. 


18  IRELAND — ^JAMES  I. 

1608. 

absence  of  the  Lord  Deputy,  by  some  of  the  O'Tooles,  Keva- 
naughts  [Kavanaghs],  and  others.  Has  been  careful  to  discover 
their  purposes.  And  first,  for  the  O'Tooles.  Has  heard  that  the 
base  uncle  plotted  with  his  nephew  named  Tyrlagh  O'Toole 
to  surprise  the  Castle  of  Powerscourte,  within  eight  miles  of 
Dublin,  possessed  by  Mr.  Marshal,  to  kill  his  ward  there,  to 
gather  forces,  and  to  enter  into  action  of  rebellion.  After- 
wards the  uncle  became  the  first  discoverer  of  his  nephew's 
intention.  The  said  Tyrlagh  has  also  used  his  credit  to  gather 
lately  out  of  the  Queen's  County  some  companies  of  the 
O'Moores  (which  sept  wiU  prove  a  dangerous  one,  ready  to  be 
entertained  for  mischief  upon  all  occasions),  and  to  allow  some 
confederates  of  the  Kevanaghes,  and  of  other  loose  persons  of 
these  mountains  near  Dublin,  to  take  his  part,  who  have  all 
given  him  promise  of  assistance  ;  as  yet,  howevei",  he  sees  no 
fear  of  any  danger.  Tirlagh  lurks  secretly  amongst  his  friends  ; 
the  want  of  arms,  munition,  and  powder  is  some  stay  to  him 
and  the  rest ;  but  the  principal  thing  that  stayed  them  is  their 
expectation  of  foreign  forces,  the  return  of  Tyrone,  and  the 
certainty  of  a  severe  chastisement  on  the  return  of  the  Lord 
Deputy. — St.  Sepulchre's,  near  Dublin,  7  August  1608. 
Pp.  3.     Hoi.    Endd. 

Aug.  8.        18.        The  voluntary  Confession  of  Bryan  O'Qtjyne  O'Dog- 
Carte  Papers,  HERTT,  taken  before  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Council 

vol.  61,  p.  288.  ^^^  g^j^  ^f  August  1 608. 

Being  demanded  what  he  knew  touching  Sir  Neale 
O'Donnell's  being  accessory  to  O'Dogherty's  treasons,  he  saith 
that  Sir  Neale  sent  to  O'Dogherty  two  several  messengers  to 
Glanvagh  after  he  came  to  the  Marshal ;  the  first  by  Patrick 
O'Galchure,  to  shift  away  the  creats  and  to  send  them  to 
himself,  and  to  other  parts  of  Tyrconnell ;  the  other  by  Farrell 
M'Donell  M'Mulcaiar  (^sic).  He  saith  he  knows  not  the  names 
of  the  other  two  who  brought  the  like  messages  from  Sir 
Neale  to  O'Dogherfy,  but  saw  them  coming. 

Signed :  Arthur  Chichester,  Th.  Ridgeway,  R.  Wingfelde, 
01.  St.  John,  Ad.  Loftus. 

P.  ^.  Orig.  Endd. :  "  The  examination  of  Bryan  O'Quyne 
O'Doghertie,  &c.  the  8th  of  August  1608." 

Aug.  9.        19.        Treasurer  of  Ireland  to  Lord  Salisbury. 
vof  22r'i73'  Pursuant  to  his  (Salisbury's)  letters  of  the  7th  July,  sends 

the  disbursement  of  his  agent  in  London,  mentioned  in  the 
enclosed  docquet.  Assures  him  not  one  pound  or  shilling  of 
the  2,920?.  19s.  was  disbursed  or  paid  for  his  own  particular, 
or  to  any  that  he  owed  one  farthing,  other  than  was  taken  up 
in  Dublin  in  ready  money  for  the  advancement  of  the  King's 
service,  or  to  satisfy  the  just  claims  of  some  few  of  His 
Majesty's  servitors.  Begs  that  any  errors  of  his  office  may  be 
favourably  considered. — The  Camp,  9  August  1608. 
Pj?.  4.    Signed.    Sealed.    Add.    Endd.    Encloses, 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  19 


1608. 
s  p  f  ■  ^'        ^^'        -^  doequet  of  such  bills  as  I,  Henry  Reignoldes  received 
vol  224  mi  /''om  Sir  Thos.  Ridgeiuay,  Treasurer  at  Wars  in  Ireland, 

from  the  Uh  May  1608. 

To  Mr.  John  Strowde,  for  the  use  of  the  Lord      £      s.    d. 

Deputy  of  Ireland,  per  bill   dated  Uh  May 

1608-  -  -  -  -  -     300     0     0 

To  the  Earl  of  Thomond,  per  bill  22rd  April 

1608-  -  -  -  -  -     400     0     0 

To  Sir  J.  Ley,  Knight,  Lord  Chief  Justice  of 

Ireland,  per  bill  2Uh  April  1608 
To  Mr.  Nicholas  Howard,  per  bill  2ndApi'il  1608 
To  Alexander  Paynton,  per  bill  6th  April  1608 
To  Hugh  Benson,  per  bill  5th  April  1 608 
To  Mr.  George  Allengton,  per  bill  8th  April  1608 
To  the  same,  per  bill  8th  Aprit  1608 
To  Thomas  Dromegoole,  of  Dublin,  per  bill  22nd 

Ap)ril  1608    ----- 
To  Mr.  Jonas  Quarless,  per  bill  25th  April  1608 
To  the  same,  per  bill  30th  April  1608    - 
To  John  Hill,  per  bill  for  the  use  of  Mr.  Barry, 

2nd  May  1608  -  .  -  - 

To  Sir  Ric.  Piercy,  Knight,  per  bill  Uh  May  1608 
To  Mr.  Jo.  Kingesmill,  per  bill  13th  May  1608  - 
To  Hugh  Benson,  per  bill  12th  May  1608 
To  Sir  R,obert  Remington,  Knight,  per  bill  Wth 

May  1608      ----- 
To  the  Lord  Courcye,  per  bill  7th  May  1 608 
To  Sir  Edvjard  Herbert,  Knight,  per  bill  2Uh 

April  1608    ----- 

To  Cor  M'Dermond       -  -  -  - 

•    To  Sir  Robt.  Newcom.en,  Knight,  per  bill  Idth 

May  1608,  to  be  paid  in  Ireland 
To  Mr.  John  Bingley,  to  be  paid  in  Ireland 
To  Gapt.  Jo.  Poxuer,  to  be  paid  in  Ireland 
To  Sir  Edw.  Herbert,  Knt.jto  be  paid  in  Ireland 
To  Gapt.  Hen.  Moyle,  per  imprest  bill  20th  June 

1608  ------ 

To  Lady  Sidley,  out  of  Sir  Thos,  Burke's  enter- 
tainment      -  -  -  -  - 

To  Sir  Tho.  Butler,  ultimo  Aprilis  1608 


100 

0 

0 

100 

0 

0 

70 

0 

0 

200 

0 

0 

250 

0 

0 

250 

0 

0 

'100 

0 

0 

100 

0 

0 

100 

0 

0 

120 

0 

0 

42 

5 

0 

30 

0 

0 

220 

0 

0 

67 

19 

0 

120 

0 

0 

60 

0 

0 

7  10 

0 

60 

0 

0 

20 

0 

0 

40 

0 

0 

73 

0 

0 

20 

0 

0 

60 

0 

0 

10 

0 

0 

Summa  totalis        -  ^2,920  19     0 


Pp.  2.    Endd. :  "o(?2,920  19»-  paid  by  M''  Reignold  out  of 
the  treasure." 

Aug.  21.         A  doequet  of  such  bills  as  were  paid  in  London,  from  4tlx 

S.P.,  Ireland,  jyjay  1608,  &c.,  with  the  reasons  for  every  particular  payment. 

'       "'  (Duplicate  of  the  above,  adding  the  reasons  of  each  payment.) 

Signed :  Th.  Kidgeway. 
Pp.  3. 

B  2 


20 


IRELAND— JAMES  I, 


1608. 
Aug.  10. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  224,  174. 


Aug.  [12  ?]. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.224, 175. 


Aug.  12. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  224,  17C. 


Aug.  ]  2. 

Philad.  1'., 
vol.  3,  p.  319. 


22.        Elizabeth  Countess  of  Desmond  to  Salisbury. 

Bequests  the  payment  of  her  pension  (which  is  a  year  and 
a  half  behindhand),  to  Mr.  John  King,  her  attorney. — 10 
August  1608. 

P.  1.    Signed.     Sealed,    Add.    Endd. 

23.  Lord  Chancellor  and  Council  of  Ireland  to  the 

Lords  of  the  Privy  Council. 

Concerning  the  arrival  of  the  700  soldiers  out  of  England, 
of  which  number  more  than  100  were  wanting.  Commend 
the  great  care  of  the  Earl  of  Thomond,  who  conducted  them 
to  Ireland. — Dublin,  August  1608. 

Signed:  Tho.  Dublin,  Cane,  Rich.  Moryson,  Jeff.  Fenton, 
Ry.  Cooke. 

Pp.  2.     Signed.    Sealed.    Add.    Endd. 

24.  Sir  Jeffrey  Fenton  to  Salisbury. 

Hears  nothing  but  good  out  of  Ulster,  and  that  the  rebel- 
lion is  quite  extinguished.  Suggests  that  great  caution  should 
be  used  in  the  disposition  of  tlie  escheated  lands  in  Ulster, 
Leinster,  &c.  —  Dublin, 

Pp.  2.     Signed.     Sealed. 


12  August  1608. 

A  dd.     Endd. 


25.  Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Inform  him  that  the  King  will  be  no  more  troubled  with 
the  suit  depending  between  Sir  Robert  Digby  and  the  Earl  of 
Kildare,  but  that,  at  the  Earl's  request,  he  remits  it  to  the 
ordinary  course  of  proceeding  in  Ireland. — Holmeby,  12  August 
1608. 

Signed:  R.    Salisbury,    H.   Northampton,  T.   Suffolke,  E. 
Worcester. 


P. 


Add.     Endd. 


Aug.  13. 

Carte  Papers, 

vol.  61,  p.  299. 


26.  The  Examination  and  Confession  of  Brien  M'Coyne 
O'Doghertie,  at  Lifford,  13th  August  1C08. 

That  after  the  return  of  Sir  Richard  Hansard  from  Dublin, 
Sir  Neale  Garve  O'Donnell  sent  a  messenger  to  Sir  Cahir 
O'Dogherty,  advising  him  to  bring  up  a  piece  of  ordnance 
from  Derry  to  Droghedonan,  whereupon  the  said  Sir  Neale 
would  advise  Sir  Richard  Hansard  to  go  with  some  small 
forces  to  Droghedonan  to  receive  the  said  piece,  which  if  he 
had  done,  then  Sir  Cahir  and  Sir  Neale  would  join  together, 
and  lie  in  ambush  to  cut  him  off. 

That  after  Sir  Neale  Garve  came  into  Mr.  Marshal,  he  sent 
a  message  by  Shane  M'Brian  Valley,  and  Donogh  M'Gilleglan 
to  Sir  Cahir  O'Dogherty,  that,  as  soon  as  he  could  get  arms 
from  His  Majesty's  store,  he  would  beat  Mr,  Marshal  and  His 
Majesty's  army,  and  join  with  O'Dogherty. 

Signed :  J.  Davys. 

P.  i     Oo^ig. 


IRELAND — JAMES  I. 


21 


1608. 
Aug.  14. 

Philad.  P., 
vol.  3,  p.  321. 


Aug.  19. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  224,  179. 


[Aug.] 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol,  224,  177. 


27.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Requests  him  to  notify  to  Sir  Robert  Digby  the  remitting 
of  the  suit  between  him  and  the  Earl  of  Kildare  to  be  heard 
in  Ireland. — Holmeby,  14  August  1608. 

Signed:  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton,  T.  Suffolke,  E. 
Worcester. 


■ir.  4. 


Add.    Endd. 


28 


Sir  Randal  M'Donell  to  Lord  Salisbury- 
When  he  took  leave  of  his  Lordship  at  the  Court  at  Green- 
wich he  was  pleased  tliat  his  fourth  part  of  the  fishing  of  the 
Bann,  being  in  controversy  between  Mr.  Hamilton  and  him- 
self, should  remain,  as  it  was  the  former  year,  in  sequestration, 
and  that  neither  of  them  should  reap  any  benefit  by  the  rent 
of  the  same,  until  the  controversy  was  decided  by  law. 

Sir  Thomas  Phillips,  upon  whose  hands  the  same  is  seques- 
tered, pays  the  yearly  rent  of  the  fishing  privately  unto  whom 
Mr.  James  Hamilton  will  appoint  there,  and  thereby  thinks 
to  deprive  him  (Sir  Randal)  of  his  right  to  the  fishing,  to  his 
great  loss.  Beseeches  his  Lordship  to  let  him  have  his  own 
fishing,  or  to  remove  the  sequestration  upon  the  Lord  Bishop  of 
Derry's  hands.  Has  further  to  complain  that  neither  he  nor  any 
of  his  people  or  tenants  are  sufi^ered  to  take  so  much  as  a  tread 
against  [near]  his  own  land  upon  the  river,  to  the  grievance 
of  all  his  poor  tenants  who  dwell  upon  the  river  side,  having 
almost  all  his  country  adjacent  thereto.  For  which  he  be- 
seeches him  to  take  some  redress. — Dunluce,  19  August  1608. 
P.  ].     Signed.     Sealed.    Add.    Endd. 

29.        Sir  Jeffrey  Fenton  to  Salisbury. 

His  (Salisbury's)  servant,  PhUip  Cottingham,  arrived  here 
the  19th  of  this  month,  affirming  that  lie  was  sent  by  him 
with  letters  to  the  Deputy,  and  in  his  absence  to  him,  to  con- 
sider some  timber  and  planks  for  the  use  of  the  King's  navy. 
But  the  letters  being  miscarried  by  the  way,  he  was  driven  to 
believe  his  words  more  of  discretion  than  out  of  any  certain 
grounds.  Has  sent  him  to  Munster  with  a  letter  to  the 
President,  that  he  may  give  him  an  entrance  into  his  employ- 
ment in  such  woods  within  that  province,  as  he  thought 
would  best  suit  the  service  of  the  navy,  and  give  him  autho- 
rity to  get  workmen  and  labourers  for  hewing  and  squaring 
the  timber.  Will  advertise  the  Lord  Deputy  of  his  coming, 
and  ask  him  to  get  information  of  all  the  escheated  woods  in 
Ulster.  There  is  other  choice  of  great  woods  in  Leinster 
and  Connaught,  and  particularly  in  Leix  and  Ophaly,  which 
Cottingham  shall  view  at  his  return  from  Munster.  But  if 
the  King  aims  only  at  his  own  woods,  without  extending  his 
scope  to  other  pretended  proprietors,  the  proportion  will  not 
be  so  large.  Wishes  that  the  Lord  Deputy,  out  of  the  great 
number  of  cows  that  have  and  will  accrue  to  the  King  by 
this  rebellion,  would  see  that  some  large  proportion  were  set 


22 


IRELAND— JAMES  1. 


1608. 


Aug.  18. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  224,  178. 


Sept.  2. 

Philad.  P., 
Tol.  3,  p.  323. 


aside  for  defraying  the  King's  charge,  and  that  some  com- 
petent provision  of  corn  were  preserved  and  stapled  in  secret 
places  for  the  relief  of  the  garrisons  during  the  winter,  &c. — 
Dublin,  [after  19th]  August  1608. 
P'p.  2.     Signed.    Sealed.    Add.    Endd.    Encloses, 

30.  Phillip  Oottingham  to  Lord  Salisbury. 

Craving  pardon  for  his  unhapipy  mischance  in  losing  his 
letters.  Had  reported  his  errand  for  survey  of  timhers  for 
the  navy  to  Sir  Jeffrey  Fenton. — Dublin,  18  August  1608. 

Signed :  Phillip  Cottingam. 

P.  1.    Add.    Endd. 

31.  LOKDS  OF  THE   COUNCIL  to    SlU  ARTHUR  CHICHESTER. 
Are  gratified  by  his  full  account  of  his  successful  journey 

received  from  Coleraine,  dated  3rd  instant  {sic),  and  sent 
by  the  Bishop  of  Derry,  and  of  the  prompt  dispersion  of 
such  a  party  of  base  and  wicked  rebels.  With  regard  to 
the  entertainment  of  the  200  soldiers  sent  out  of  Scotland, 
though  it  be  an  advantage  to  His  Majesty  to  have  the  con- 
currence of  his  subjects  of  Scotland  in  this  action,  and  though 
it  was  rather  intended  by  His  Majesty  that  the  rebellious 
generation  of  Ireland  might  be  the  more  discouraged  and  kept 
in  awe  by  seeing  a  scourge  so  ready  at  hand,  as  well  from 
Scotland  as  from  England,  and  that  thus  the  happy  union 
might  be  demonstrated  to  the  world,  as  well  by  fellowship  in 
arms  as  in  civil  ordinances,  nevertheless  the  King  does  not 
intend  to  allow  of  any  distinction  in  entertainments ;  and,  if 
the  Scots  are  not  willing  to  accept  the  same  pay  as  the  forces 
of  Ireland,  then  he  (Chichester)  is  to  discharge  them  ;  but  it 
must  be  done  warily  and  discreetly,  lest  either  the  Irish 
should  be  led  to  think  that  these  Scotch  will  not  serve  against 
them,  or  the  Scotch  should  conceive  they  have  a  liberty  to 
refuse  the  service  at  their  pleasure.  They  should  therefore 
be  discharged  in  parcels,  not  all  together,  and  it  should  be 
made  to  wear  the  appearance  that  they  are  dismissed  rather 
because  there  is  no  further  want  of  them,  than  for  any  ques- 
tion of  entertainment.  But  if  they  will  stay  at  the  ordinary 
pay,  and  if  thereby  the  list  should  be  increased  unduly,  he 
should  discharge  rather  English  or  Irish  soldiers  than  the 
Scottish. 

Think  there  will  be  no  need  to  send  the  aid  of  200  men 
to  Scotland  for  the  suppression  of  the  Out  Islanders.  Hope 
that  the  9,000Z.  wiU  suffice  for  the  pay  of  the  army  for  some 
time,  as  they  hope  ere  long  to  be  able  to  reduce  it ;  because, 
if  his  greatest  doubt  be  the  return  of  the  fugitive  Earls,  one 
of  them,  namely  Tyrconnell,  has  freed  him  (Chichester)  for 
his  own  part  of  that  doubt,  by  taking  his  way  into  another 
world,  being  dead  at  Rome ;  the  other,  though  he  lives  there, 
and  with  (no  doubt)  all  means  to  uphold  his  reputation  and 
nourish   an  opinion  of  some  great  matter  to  be  effected  by 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  23 


1608. 

him,  they  think  his  hope  will  vanish,  as  it  is  grounded  more 
upon  the  levity  of  the  priests  that  seem  to  magnify  him,  than 
on  any  solid  hope  of  aid.  The  King  acknowledges  the  good 
deserts  of  the  Treasurer  (Sir  Thomas  Kidgeway)  and  the 
Marshal  (Sir  K.  Wingfield),  in  the  aid  they  have  both  given 
him  in  this  survey.  Also  of  the  Council  in  the  good  measures 
they  took  on  the  arrival  of  the  troops  at  Dublin ;  and  in 
particular  of  the  Earl  of  Thomond,  in  his  care  of  their  trans- 
portation. The  arms  to  be  had  in  Ireland,  as  well  as  those 
of  deserters,  should  be  brought  into  store. — Windsor,  2  Sep- 
tember 1608. 

Signed  ;  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  Jul.  Ceesar,  Thos. 
Parry. 

Pp.  2i     Add.    Endd. 

Sept.  7.        32.        Examinations   of  Henry   Killinghall  and  Robert 

S  p.,  Ireland,  HANMER. 

vol.  225    179a 

The  examination  of  Henry  Killinghall,  born  at  Sudbury, 
within  the  bishopric  of  Durham,  taken  at  Youghall,  the  7th 
of  September  1608. 

Deposeth  that  he  departed  his  father's  house  at  Middleton- 
George,  near  Sudbury,  almost  four  years  since,  and  in  London 
put  himself  into  the  service  of  Lord  Vawse  [Vaux],  and  after 
a  year's  service  with  his  Lordship  went  hj  way  of  Calais 
through  France  into  Spain  ;  stayed  at  Burgos  about  two 
months,  and  was  then  reconciled  to  the  Church  of  Rome,  by 
one  Father  Sylvester,  an  English  Jesuit  resident  in  the  college 
there ;  by  him  was  preferred  to  serve  in  the  hospital  of  Burgos, 
but  after  half  a  year's  stay  there  was  persuaded  by  the  phy- 
sicians of  the  hospital,  that  in  regard  he  was  troubled  with 
the  falling  sickness,  and  that  the  country  was  hot,  he  should 
return  into  his  country  for  his  health ;  which  he  accordingly 
did,  leaving  Valdeleyd  [Valladolid]  the  1st  of  August  last, 
according  to  their  computation,  accompanied  only  by  Robert 
Hanmer,  the  first  deponent ;  he  came  to  Youghall ;  he  da 
poseth  that  to  his  knowledge  Tyrone  never  came  into  Spain, 
but  the  common  news  is  that  the  Pope  will  aid  and  furnish 
him  into  his  country  with  10,000  men,  but  he  neither  heard 
of  impresting  of  any  men  or  ships  for  the  transportation  of 
these  men-of-war,  which  are  said  to  be  Italians ;  he  deposeth 
that  he  never  saw  this  Robert  Hanmer  till  they  met  at  Valle- 
deleyd,  and  then  came  together. — Henry  Killinghall. 

Ex.  per  R.  Boyle. 

The  examination  of  Robert  Hanmer,  born  at  Radford,  in 
Nottingham,  taken  the  6th  of  September  1608. 

Says,  that  he  lived  in  his  mother's  house  in  Radford,  and 
that  he  departed  from  her  some  four  years  since  and  went  to 
London,  and  thence  through  France  to  Madryll  [Madrid],  in 
Spain,  and  became  servant  to  one  Don  Pedro  de  Lyra,  a 
Spaniard,  general  of  the  King  of  Spain's  galleys,  with  whom  he 
lived  two  years,  having  5s.  a  week,  whose  service,  through  his 


2L 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


IGOS. 


extremity  of  sickness,  he  left,  and  was  brought  to,  an  hospital 
at  Madrill,  where  he  continued  three  months  for  his  reco- 
very, and  being  thence  discharged,  departed  to  St.  Sebastian, 
and  so  to  Rochell,  where  he  embarked  himself  in  a  French 
bottom,  freighted  by  Robert  Arthure,  of  Youghal,  where  he 
arrived  the  1st  of  September  ;  he  says  he  was  a  schismatique 
when  he  departed  England,  but  is  now  a  Catholic.  Says  that 
Tyrone  was  not  in  Spain  to  his  knowledge,  but  heard  that  the 
Pope  would  aid  him  with  men  to  return  into  Ireland  ;  saith 
that  he  was  a  Romish  Catholic  before  he  departed  England,  and 
never  went  to  church  to  hear  that  service  which  is  appointed 
by  the  laws  of  England,  and  that  he  was  brought  up  in  the 
Romish  religion,  his  father  and  mother  professing  the  same ; 
lastly,  he  affirmeth  that  Henry  Killinghall  and  he  met  first  at 
Valledeleyd. — Robert  Hanmer. 

Ex.  per  R.  Boyle. 

Pp.  2.  Endd :  "  The  first  examination  of  Robert  Hanmer 
and  Henry  Killinghall,  taken  before  Sir  Richard  Boyl,  Knight, 
the  Hh  of  September  1608." 


Sept.  8. 
S.V.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  180. 


33.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 

Recommends  Sir  Oliver  St.  John,  in  his  suit  for  renewal  of 
certain  leases. — Rathfarnam,  near  Dublin,  8  September  1608. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Eiidd. 


Sept.  10. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  181. 


Sept.  11. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
\ol.  225,  182. 


34.  The  Sovereign  and  Commons  of  Kinsale  to  Salisbury. 
Solicit  favour  in   the   matter   of  their  customs,    and  help 

towards  repair  of  their  walls. — Kinsale,  10  September  1608. 
Signed  :  H.  Gallwey,  sovereign. 
P.  1.     Add.    Endd. 

35.  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Privy  Council. 

The  Baron  of  Howth  in  May  last  preferred  certain  articles 
of  treason  unto  him  against  Sir  Garrett  Moore,  which  he 
(Chichester)  soon  after  sent  over  to  some  of  the  Council  there, 
at  the  same  time  binding  Sir  Garrett  upon  sufficient  security 
to  appear  and  answer  from  time  to  time,  and  in  the  meantime 
suspended  him  from  the  Council  table.  The  Baron  at  his  last 
being  in  England  having  acquainted  the  King  and  some  of 
the  Council  therewith,  he  (Chichester)  received  directions  that, 
when  he  came  over  hither  (which  he  did  during  his  absence 
in  the  North),  he  and  the  Council  should  hear  and  examine 
his  proofs,  and  report  what  they  found  before  any  further 
judicial  proceedings  in  the  matter.  Accordingly,  after  his 
return  hither,  he  has  perused  the  articles  and  acquainted 
the  Council  therewitli,  and  pressed  Lord  Howth  to  prove 
his  allegations.  He  accordingly  now  transmits  a  copy  of  the 
articles  attested  under  the  clerk  of  the  Council's  hand  ;  all 
which,  &c.— Dublin,  11  September  1608. 

P.  1.     Signed.     Add.    Endd.    Encloses, 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


25 


1608. 
Sept.  10. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
101.225,  1821. 


36.        Examination  of  Lord  Howth. 

The  Lord  of  Howthe  being  called^  before  us,  the  \Oth  Sep- 
tember 1608,  to  deliver  his  knoivledge  in  the  points  of  treason 
tuith  which  he  charged  Sir  Gerrott  Moore,  Knt,  by  a  note 
under  his  hand  delivered  to  me  the  Deputy,  the  ^rd  of  May 
last,  saith, — 

That  he  ivill  prove  that  Sir  Gerrott  Moore  was  acquainted 
tuith  Tyrone's  coihspiracy  against  the  King,  and  that  he  did 
advise  or  persuade  others  to  join  in  the  said  conspiracy.  He 
saith  further  that  Sir  Gerrott  Moore  understood  of  Gouconnagh 
Maguire's  going  atuay,  and  did  relieve  and  furnish  him  luith 
money  for  his  journey ;  this  latter  point  is  grounded  upon  the 
report  of  others. 

But  for  the  first  article  he  undertakes  to  make  it  good  by 
himself  and  others,  ivhom  he  hath  promised  and  sworn  not  to 
reveal,  until  they  be  produced  to  give  evidence  upon  the  in- 
dictment to  be  exhibited  against  Sir  Gerrott  Moore.  The 
reason  why  the  parties  desire  to  be  concealed  and  why  they 
took  his  oath  not  to  reveal  their  names  is,  because  they  knew 
Sir  Gerrott  Moore  to  be  guilty  of  the  conspiracy  and  did 
not  reveal  it  in  due  time  ;  for  luhich  they  seek  their  pardon, 
and  for  no  other  crime. 

Subscribed  by  the  Lo.  of  Howthe. 

Copia  vera,  ex.  per  W.  Usher. 

Then  present  of  the  Council  who  signed  the  same: — The 
Ld.  Deputy,  Ld.  Chancellor,  Mr.  Treasurer,  Ld.  Chief  Baron, 
Sir  Oliver  La.mbert,  Sir  Oliver  St.  John,  Sir  Henry  Poiver, 
Sir  Adam  Loftus. 

P.  ] .     Endd. 


Sept.  10. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 

vol.  225,  182  II. 


37.        Examination  of  Lord  Howth. 
Duplicate  of  No.  86. 
P.  1.     Endd. 


Sept.  11. 
S.l?.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  183. 


38.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 

Eeturned  from  the  North  on  the  2nd  inst.  May  be  well 
satisfied  with  the  success  of  his  journey  and  the  quick  sup- 
pressing and  dispatch  of  the  rebellion.  Received  his  Lord- 
ship's letters  of  the  24th  ult.  on  the  30fch,  with  mention  of 
the  death  of  Tyrconnell.  This  was  welcome  news.  Tyrone's 
will  be  more  welcome,  by  as  much  as  he  has  done  more  mis- 
chief, and  is  known  to  be  more  dangerous.  Referring  to  the 
dissolution  of  the  treaty  at  the  Hagh  [Hague] ,  observes  tliat 
if  war  be  again  renewed  there,  they  are  of  opinion  that  the 
King  of  Spain  will  turn  all  his  forces  towards  these  northern 
countries.  Has,  according  to  his  Lordship's  letters  of  the  3rd 
of  June,  called  the  Lord  Howth  before  himself  and  the  Council, 
to  make  good  his  accusation  of  treason  against  Sir  Garrett 
Moore.    It  were  not  amiss  that  the  Lord  Howth  were  required 


26 


IRELAND — ^JAMES  I. 


1608. 


Sept.  10. 

B.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  183  I. 


Sept.  12. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  184. 


by  His  Majesty's  special  letters  to  declare  the  parties  that  are 
to  make  good  the  accusation,  and  to  produce  them  to  be  ex- 
amined before  some  of  the  Council. 

Thanks  his  Lordship  for  his  allowance  of  Ql.  a  day  for  his 
journey.  Dwells  on  the  gi-eatness  of  his  expenses,  and  on  his 
loss  by  the  grant  to  Sir  Ric.  Cooke  in  the  time  of  Sir  Geo. 
Carie.  His  household  and  stable  expenses  amount  to  4,000Z. 
a  year. 

Has  given  order  for  speedy  dispatch  of  the  books  of  survey 
of  Ulster.  Desires  to  be  secured  some  entertaiument  when  he 
shall  cease  to  be  Deputy. — Dublin,  11  September  1608. 

Pp.  7.    Signed.    Add.    Endd.    Encloses, 

39.        Declaration  of  Baron  Eowthe. 
Duplicate  of  No.  36. 
Signed:  Houthe. 

Arth.  Chichester,  Th.  Dublin,  Cane,  Th.  Eidgeivay,  Hum. 
Wynche,  01.  St.  John,  01.  Lambert,  H.  Power,  Ad.  Loftus. 
P.  1.     Endd. 

40.        Sir  Aethue  Chichestee  to  Privy  Council. 

After  their  business  ended  in  the  county  of  Colrane,  from 
whence  he  dated  his  last  letters  to  them,  they  held  on  their 
course  to  the  Differ,  there  to  hold  sessions,  where  Phelim 
Reaghe,  with  all  the  rest  of  them,  as  well  relievers  and 
abettors,  as  actors  in  the  rebellion,  were  tried  and  executed  as 
traitors,  to  the  number  of  20  or  thereabouts. 

At  his  being  there,  having  heard  that  Shane  M'Manus  Oge 
O'Donnell,  now  a  man  of  greatest  note  in  the  county  of  Tyr- 
connell  (as  mentioned  in  his  last  letters),  had  posted  himself 
with  240  rebels,  well  armed,  about  the  islands  of  Claudia, 
hoping  there  to  lie  safe,  and  difficult  to  come  at,  and  to  increase 
in  number  and  reputation  after  their  departure,  he  gave  order 
to  draw  towards  them  three  several  ways.  He  himself  with 
one  party  went  as  far  as  Balinaas,  near  those  islands,  having 
first  caused  such  scouts  as  could  be  found  there,  to  be  brought 
about  from  Calebegge  thither  to  meet  them.  But  upon  the 
report  of  their  first  approach,  the  rebels  broke  up  and  scat- 
tered abroad  into  several  places,  where  they  followed  some 
of  them  and  cut  them  off,  though  the  ways  were  hard  and 
almost  inaccessible.  Shane  M'Manus,  finding  himself  so  hardly 
beset,  transported  himself  with  a  party  of  some  60  armed 
men  into  his  island  of  Torraghe  [Torry],  where  he  has  a 
castle  better  victualled  and  furnished  than  could  be  then  taken 
by  them  either  by  siege  or  assault.  This  island  stands  some 
two  or  three  leagues  from  the  main  shore,  and  containing 
some  four  quarters  of  land,  strongly  situated  by  nature,  and 
hath  such  a  current  of  tides  about  it,  that  very  seldom  a  ship 
may  cast  anchor  near  it.  The  castle  stands  separate  from  the 
great  island  upon  a  lesser,  which  is  a  steep  rock,  containing 
likewise  a  small  circuit  of  land,  wherein  they  had  (with  per- 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  27 


1608. 


haps  other  provisions)  30  cows  or  beeves  on  foot,  which  they 
had  driven  up  through  the  castle  gate,  and  could  not  be 
deprived  of  but  by  the  same  way.  Having  first  broken  all 
their  boats  except  one  (which  they  had  laid  up  safe  under  the 
protection  of  the  castle),  and  which  was  likewise  taken  from 
them  within  three  or  four  days  after,  he  left  Sir  Henry  Folliott, 
Sir  Ralph  Bingley,  and  Captain  Paul  Gore,  with  several  parties 
of  some  200  soldiers,  to  watch  their  opportunities,  upon  the 
firm  land,  and  to  prevent  the  rebels'  escape  I  by  currockes 
[corrachs],  which  are  boats  they  may  make  of  hides.  They 
then  searched  and  harrowed  the  islands  of  Claudie,  and  in  his 
return  took  in  Loghveaghe,  where  were  20  rebels  that  kept  it, 
and  ruined  their  island  and  fort.  The  principal  man  that  held 
it  was  one  of  the  O'Galchors  [O'Gallaghers]  (Tyrconnell's 
fosterers),  who  killed  three  or  four  of  his  best  associates  after 
he  yielded  up  the  island ;  for  which  he  took  him  into  pro- 
tection. This  practice  he  held  with  these  rebels  in  all  places 
where  he  came,  and  found  it  more  successful  than  any  force  ; 
such  is  their  levity  and  great  fear  when  they  are  prosecuted 
with  effect.  That  part  of  Tyrconnell,  which  contains  also  a 
great  circuit,  is  one  of  the  most  barren,  uncouth,  and  desolate 
countries  that  could  be  seen,  fit  only  to  confine  rebels  and  ill 
spirits  into.  Only  one  vein  it  has  that  is  good  and  habitable ; 
and  near  thereunto  stands  the  castle  of  Doa,  the  strongest 
piece,  absolutely,  both  by  nature  and  art,  that  is  in  that  part 
of  the  kingdom. 

After  his  I'eturn  to  the  Liff'er,  the  inhabitants  of  the  parts 
about  the  Liffer,  Derry,  and  especially  Innishowen,  that  were 
owners  of  creaghtes  and  labourers,  were  suffered  to  return  to 
their  former  dwellings  from  the  places  whither  they  had  fled ; 
but  especially  those  of  Innishowen,  upon  whom  he  has  im- 
posed a  fine  towards  the  repairing  of  the  forts  of  the  Derry, 
(which  already  are  as  strong  as  they  were  before)  and  building 
of  a  castle  in  the  lower  fort  there,  for  safeguard  of  the  King's 
arms,  munition,  and  stores.  They  should  also  be  charged 
with  the  labour  of  men  and  garrans  until  the  whole  town  be 
walled  about,  which  they  will  not  be  unwilling  to  condescend 
to,  rather  than  to  be  abandoned  out  of  their  native  country, 
as  by  this  late  accident  they  were.  There  are  now  left  in 
Tyrconnell  for  prosecution  of  the  service  and  defence  of  the 
principal  parts  thereof,  as  Derry,  Lifier,  and  Ballyshannon,  to 
the  number  of  500  foot  and  60  horse  over  and  above  the 
wards  estabhshed. 

Notwithstanding  all  his  threats  or  fair  promises  in  his 
journey  outwards  to  some  of  the  inhabitants  of  Tyrone  and 
Armagh,  they  have  not  apprehended  nor  slain  any  of  the 
principal  rebels  there,  but  are  still  thought  rather  to  cherish 
them  amongst  them.  Has  accordingly  made  proclamation  in 
the  counties  of  Tyrone,  Tyrconnell,  Armagh,  and  Monaghan 
(where  the  chief  rebels  are  relieved)  and  the  borders  of  the 
same,  proscribing  them  by  their  names,  and  laying  rewards 


28  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

'-1608. 

upon  their  heads ;  with  this  threat,  that  if  the  rebels  and  out- 
laws known  to  live  and  be  relieved  amongst  them  be  not 
slain  or  brought  to  justice  within  two  months  from  that  pro- 
clamation, a  round  fine  shall  be  imposed  upon  every  county 
so  ofiending,  to  be  levied  upon  the  goods  and  chattels  of  the 
inhabitants,  to  pay  forces  to  be  sent  among  them,  out  of 
Connaught  and  other  parts.  This  remedy,  as  it  is  one  of  the 
extremest  and  most  searching,  will  produce,  it  may  be  hoped, 
some  notable  good  effect  in  so  desperate  a  disease,  and  he 
hopes  they  will  not  think  it  improper. 

The  5001.  English  which  was  set  on  the  killing  of  the  traitor 
O'Dogherty,  and  200Z.  for  the  body  or  the  head  of  Pheliin 
Eeaghe,  have  been  paid  to  the  parties  who  have  done  that 
acceptable  service  out  of  the  preys  and  booties  taken  from  the 
rebels,  so  that  the  King's  charge  will  not  exceed  lOOL  There- 
wards  also  promised  for  the  killing  or  apprehending  of  the  chief 
rebels  mentioned  in  the  former  section  shall  not  be  charge- 
able to  His  Majesty,  but  levied  upon  the  country.  On  his 
return  home  by  Carrickfergus,  found  that  the  Out-islanders  of 
Scotland  had  submitted  themselves,  and  that  all  things  were 
settled ;  yet  he  left  200  men  there  in  readiness  to  answer  the 
occasions. 

Thus  have  they  the  true  description  and  report  of  this 
torrent  of  rebellion,  and  of  the  success  of  it.  Now  the  rebels 
are  all  broken,  dejected,  and  forlorn,  scarce  anywhere  three  of 
them  together,  saving  Shane  M'Manus  Oge  ;  of  whom  he  has 
not  yet  heard  anything  to  purpose  since  his  return,  nor  likely 
to  make  head  again  this  year ;  they  are  so  fearful  to  trust  one 
another,  from  their  late  experience. 

On  coming  hither,  found  that  some  had  entertained  a  greater 
conceit  of  doubt  and  fear  of  one  Turlaghe  O'Toole  and  some 
others  of  his  party  than  there  is  just  cause.  To  say  the  truth 
of  him,  he  is  a  fellow  (though  of  mean  condition)  that  has 
both  will  and  means  to  do  hurt,  if  there  were  fit  opportunity 
to  declare  himself  for  such  as  he  is.  But  on  the  other  hand, 
he  (Chichester)  has  laid  such  narrow  watch  over  him,  that  he 
shall  not  be  able  to  stir  of  himself,  nor  yet  long  escape  his 
(Chichester's)  hands,  as  they  may  hereafter  understand.  Be- 
fore his  going  into  the  North,  sent  the  "  Tramontane "  into 
Munster  against  the  newly-arrived  pirates  on  that  coast ;  but 
she  was  too  weak  to  encounter  them,  or  to  scare  them  from  the 
coasts  ;  nor  was  the  President  of  Munster  able,  owing  to  their 
number,  to  prevent  their  being  so  served  in  one  place  or  other, 
either  by  force  or  fair  means,  with  whatsoever  the  sea  coasts 
could  afford  them.  Notwithstanding  that,  in  his  journey 
northward,  he  sent  back  not  only  the  small  forces  he  took 
from  thence  to  attend  them,  but  also  a  reinforcement  of  150 
of  their  new  men  out  of  England.  As  it  is  not  unlike  but  the 
pirates  will  again  return  thither,  desires  to  understand  their 
Lordships'  pleasure  concerning  them,  since  they  increase  thus 
every  day  more  and  more  upon  them.     As  the  Lord  President 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


29 


IGOS. 


writes  that  they  are  ready  to  serve  against  fugitives  and  rebels, 
he  wishes  to  know  if  he  may  make  use]  of  them,  as  the  Lord 
President  has  done.  The  service  being  ended  in  the  Isles  of 
Scotland,  should  Sir  William  St.  John  touch  here,  he  will  send 
him  with  the  "  Moone  "  and  the  "  Advantage  "  to  the  coast  of 
Munster  against  these  common  enemies  of  society.  Is  now 
in  hand  about  the  dispatch  of  the  Lord  Chief  Justice  and 
the  King's  Attorney  to  them,  as  also  with  a  draft  of  an 
Establishment. 

Sir  Neile  O'Donnell,  his  son,  and  his  two  brothers,  Sir 
Donnell  O'Cahane  and  Caphare  Oge  O'Donnell,  are  here  kept 
safe  in  the  Castle  of  Dublin.  The  Lord  Chief  Justice  is  on 
his  dispatch,  and  at  his  coming  will  inform  them  of  their 
several  cases.  It  is  his  (Chichester's)  opinion  that  they  are 
uniit  (ill-affected,  and  now  enraged  as  they  are)  to  be  let 
loose,  and  dismissed  home  into  their  countries;  for,  besides 
that  they  are  extremely  ambitious  and  turbulent,  they  will 
never  want  barbarous  and  seditious  counsel  to  cause  them 
"  to  grow  over-weening  and  to  swell,  like  Esop's  toad  ;  whereas, 
if  they  were  cut  off,  by  high  justice,  and  their  blood  were  once 
spent,  nihil  unquarii  ausura  ed  plehs. 

Wishes  directions  what  course  to  take  in  the  cause  depend- 
ing between  Sir  Rob.  Digbie  and  the  Earl  of  Kildare  ;  because 
on  the  Earl's  part  he  will  be  violently  called  upon  for  judg- 
ment this  next  term,  and  the  rather,  perhaps,  if  Sir  Rob. 
Digbie  be  absent,  as  now  he  is  ;  and  without  directions,  they 
may  not  proceed  any  further  thereon. — Ra[th]farnam,  near 
Dublin,  12  September  1608. 

Pp.  7.     Signed.     Add.     Endd. :  "  Reed,  the  24th." 


Sept.  12. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  185. 


41.        Philip  Cottingham  to  Salisbury. 

Is  in  Munster  with  Sir  Ric.  Boyle  and  Mr.  H.  Pine,  in- 
specting the  woods.  Much  wood  is  consumed  in  pipe  staves. 
Is  going  westward  into  Desmond's  country. —  Moggely,  12 
September  1608. 

P.  1.     Signed.     Add.     Endd. 


Sept.  12. 

S.V;  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  18C. 


Sept.  12. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  187. 


Sept.  12. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  188. 


42.  Philip  Cottingham  to  Salisbury. 
Duplicate  of  foregoing. 

P.  1.     Signed.     Add.     Endd. 

43.  Cost  of  Survey  of  Woods. 

Statement  of  expenses  in  survey  of  woods  to  12  September. 
P.  1.     Add. :  "To  Salisbury." 

44.  Philip  Cottingham  to  the  Lord  Deputy. 

States  his  progress    and  the    quantity  of   timber  already 
procured. — Moggely,  12  September. 

P.  1.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 


30 


lEELAND— JAMES  I, 


1608. 

Sept.  12. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 

Tol.  225,  189. 


Sept.  12, 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  190. 


Sept.  13. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225, 191. 


Sept.  14. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 

vol.  225,  191  A. 


Sept.  12. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  184  a. 


45,  Philip  Cottingham  to  Fenton. 

Details  his  reasons  for  not  going  to  the  Lord  President  of 
Munster. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

46,  Mayor  and  Bailiffs  of  Cork  to  Salisbury. 
Represent  the  decay  of  their  city  by  the  wars,  and  solicit 

help.— Cork,  12  September  1608. 
P.  1.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

47,  Sir  Oliver  Lambert  to  Salisbury. 

Assigns  the  reasons  of  his  not  writing  oftener.  Expresses 
his  gratitude  and  devotion  to  his  Lordship. — Dublin,  13  Sep- 
tember 1608. 

Pf.  2.     Signed.     Add.    Endd. 

48,  Sir  Dominick  Sarsfeld  to  the  Deputy. 

Writes  in  the  absence  of  the  Lord  President.  Refers  to 
Tyrone's  hopes  that  the  Lord  Deputy  never  will  have  the  go- 
vernment of  the  North  as  President.  A  great  influx  of  L-ish 
priests  has  recently  taken  place. — Cork,  14  September  1608. 

P.  1.    Signed.     Add.     Endd.    Encloses, 

49,  The  exaonination  of  Teig  O'Fcdstaf  (sic)  lately  come  out 

of  Spain,  taken  before  me  at  Cork,  this  12th  of  Sep- 
temUr  1608.^ 

Says  that  first  he  went  out  of  his  country  into  France  to  beg 
for  his  living,  as  m,any  of  the  Irish  have  done ;  and  finding 
that  some  direction  came  to  the  officers  of  that  Jcingdom  to  see 
the  beggars  transported  to  their  country,  he  took  shipping 
from,  St.  Mallos  into  Spain.  That  he  lived  this  two  last  years 
in  the  Groyen  [Corunna]  and  thereabouts,  iipon  the  devotion 
of  the  people.  That  the  Irish  gentlemen  diuelling  in  that  city 
were  for  a  long  time  neglected  by  the  King  of  Spain,  as  ivell  in 
their  xvonted  graces  from  love  a,s  in  their  pensions,  but  now 
they  core  all  full  paid  their  arrears.  Says  that  Tyrone  was 
at  Bovie  {upon  his  coming  away),  and  had  a  man  of  his  in 
the  Spanish  Court,  who  had  great  access  and  hearing  of  the 
King  and  Council ;  knows  not  his  agent's  name,  but  says 
that  all  the  Irish  about  the  Oroyen  spoke  much  of  his  wisdom 
and  carriage,  and  hope  for  his  doing  much  good  in  their 
general  cause,  which  they  think  depends  on  the  success  of  his 
solicitation.  He  had  letters  of  credence  from  Rome,  and  had 
great  oMoiuance  with  the  Princes  of  Italy  in  his  travels. 
Says  there  is  a  great  fleet  noiu  to  be  furnished  out,  and  that 
the  Armados  (sic)  of  Oallitia  and  Portugal  were  sent  for,  to 
come  to  the  Oroyen.  All  the  Irish  are  hopeful  of  their  coming 
for  Ireland  very  shortly  ;  there  is  so  great  store  of  ruske  to  be 
baked,  and  such  means  made  for  the  levy  of  men  as  draws  an 

'Printed  in  Meehan'8  Tyrone  and  Tyroonnel),  p.  313-315, 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  31 


1608. 

extraordinary  great  charge  upon  the  King,  and  many  ears  to 
hearken  to  the  jnirpose  thereof ;  hut  the  people  hear  their 
hurthen  in  this  business  with  more  alacrity  than  they  were 
%mnt  in  the  former  preparations. 

Says  that  O'Swlywanne  lO'Sullivanl  hath  some  late  com- 
mxind  put  upon  him  which  makes  him  to  he  much  more 
retired  to  his  house  than  he  has  been  formerly,  and  more 
frequented  by  Spaniards  and  Irish  than  ever  he  was  since 
his  first  coming  to  that  country. 

Says  that  there  is  great  store  of  money  collected  in  all  the 
ports  and  principal  places  of  Spain  for  Tyrone,  and  that  the 
Duke  of  Florence  made  a  great  gathering  for  him  in  all  his 
country.  Says  that  foreigners  speak  much  more  of  the  pos- 
sibility of  recovering  Ireland  now,  than  at  any  the  former 
times ;  private  discontentments  tvhich  might  he  removed  with 
conditions  drawing  the  people  to  the  former  rebellion,  whereas 
now  the  great  actors  of  this  matter,  being  zuithout  hope  of  any 
conditions,  will  make  another  manner  of  luar  for  recovery 
of  their  estates,  under  pretence  of  the  cause  of  religion,  than 
was  ever  heard  of  before  in  this  kingdom. 

Says  that  in  the  public  services  of  the  Irish  priests,  they  use 
some  execrations  and  hannyngs  against  many  persons,  and 
by  special  name  against  the  Lord  Deputy  of  Ireland. 

That  he  is  the  most  hateful  man  to  the  Ulster  people  that 
ever  ivas ;  and  upon  a  ni^mour  that  His  Majesty  had  resolved 
to  send  some  nobleman  of  England  to  be  Lord  Deputy  of  this 
kingdom,  they  rejoiced  onuch  thereof;  but  the  sa.me  report  car- 
rying tuith  it  assurance  that  the  notv  Lord  Deputy  was  to  be 
established  President  of  the  North,  they  held  that  to  be  far 
worse  for  them  thccn  his  remaining  cos  he  doth. 

Says  that  the  o-ehellion  of  O'Dogherty  tvas  much  applauded 
by  all  the  Irish,  but  not  luell  approved  by  Tyrone,  ivho  disliked 
much  the  untimeliness  thereof;  being  well  assured  that  the 
Derry  might  be  tuell  surprised  when  Tyrone  should  pilease. 

That  he  did  not  hear  of  the  death  of  O'Dogherty  in  Spain, 
hut  heard  of  some  distress  he  was  in,  which  caused  the  Irish  to 
ivish  the  hastening  of  some  services  unto  him,  as  pitying  that 
his  good  beginnings  should  not  be  %v ell  followed. 

Says  that  the  taking  of  Sir  Neale  Gccrruffe  [Garvel  is  much 
lamented  in  Spain,  and  the  nnanner  thereof  bruited  to  he 
treacherous ;  biut,  however,  his  being  in  restraint,  and  O'Ca- 
han's  imprisonment,  put  the  busy  heads  in  Spain  to  many 
consultations,  cmd  weaken  much  the  purpose  of  Tyrone, 
whatever  ivill  come  thereof. — Dom.  Sarsfelde. 

Pp.  2.     Endd. :  "  1608.     Intelligence  out  of  Spain." 

Sept.  15.        50.        Sir  Thomas  Kidgeway  to  Salisbury. 
S.P.,  Ireland,  Enumerates  the  causes  of  the  outlay  of  treasure ;  which 

vol.  225, 191 B.  arises  from  the  recent  rebellions,  the  large  expenditure  under 


32 


lEELAND— JAMES  I. 


1608. 


S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.225, 191  B.  I. 


Sept.  15. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  192. 


£      n. 

d. 

5,105  3 

5" 

£ 

102  3 

0 

1,164  16 

4 

8,445 

329  4 

2 

> 
fac. 

>  1,799  1 

6 

Engl 

\  6,334 


5     1 


the  head  of  extraordinaries,  and  the  slow  payment  of  rents. — 
Treasury,  Dublin,  15  September  1608. 

Pp.  4.     Signed.    Sealed.    Add.    Endd.    Encloses, 

51.  Payments  made  and  due  to  he  made  above  the  King's 
Establishment  for  the  suppression  of  the  rebels  in  the 
North,  as  by  a  particular  book  ajypeareth. 

Footmen         -  -    5,105     3     5"!      £      s.    d. 

Horsemen 

Officers  of  the  armies  -     1,164  16     4     8,445  14     Sharps. 
Sea  service 

Extraordinaries  of  all" 
sorts  incident  to  this 
service,  as  by  the  par- 
ticular book  appeareth^ 
More  to  Patrick  Conley  and  his  tenant~) 
for  the  discovery  of  Phelim  Reaghe's  >Z(il.  English, 
lurking  place,  besides  1 70  beeves    -  J 
Andforthecharqeofvictuallinqand'S^^^^,   „     ,.  , 
other  paymerds      -  -  .\%Qm.  Enghsh. 

Sum  total,  8,964?.  5s.  Id.  English. 

Which,  with  the  rest  of  those  just  demands  delivered  there  in 
July  last,  tve  humbly  desire  may  be  f idly  and  forthwith  sent. 

Of  ivhich  charges,  the  foot  raised  in  Ireland  amounts  to 
3,033Z.  5s.  *7d.  harps,  and  those  men  sent  out  of  England 
and  Scotland  to  the  sum  of  2,0711.  I7s.  10c?.  harps,  which 
2,071?.  I7s.  \0d.  cast  up  to  i^ay  them  until  the  last  of 
September  next  (being  one  month  more  than  the  time  of  the 
prosecution  of  the  service  continued). 

Arthur  Chichester. 

P.  1 .    Endd.  Th.  Midgeway. 


52.        A  List  of  the  Captains  of  Horse  and  Foot 
stand  in  Ireland,  the  15th  of  September  1608. 


as 


Horse  by  the  Establishment. 
Sir  Arthur  Chichester,  Lo.  Deputy      -  .  . 

The  Earl  of  Clanricarde,  Lo.  President  of  Connaught  - 
The  Lo.  Davys  [Danvers],  Lo.  President  of  Munster  - 
Sir  Henry  Docwra      -  -  -  .  . 

Sir  Eichard  Wingfield,  Marshal  ... 

Sir  Oliver  Lambert     -  -  -       '      - 

Sir  Geri-ott  Moore       -  -  -  .  _ 

Sir  Henry  Folliott  ----- 
Sir  Edmond  Waynman,  Provost-marshal  of  Connaught 
Capt.  Arthur  Bassett,  Provost-marshal  of  Munster 

Without  Establishment. 
The  Earl  of  Thomonde  .  -  -  . 


they 


50 
50 
50 
50 
20 
25 
25 
10 
12 
12 


12 


In  all 


316 


lEELAND— .lAMES  I. 


33 


160S. 


Sept.  17. 

S.V.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  194. 


Without  cheque. 

Besides  which  the  Marshal  hath 

_ 

_                         . 

30 

Sir  Edward  Herbert    - 

■ 

- 

12 

In  all 

- 

42 

Foot. 

Sir  Arthur  Chi  Chester,  Lo.  Deputy 

150 

Whereof     100 

at 

Dublin,      50 

at 

Knockfergus. 

The  Earl  of  Clanricarde   - 

100 

In  Connaght. 

The  Earl  of  Thomonde     - 

100 

In  Mounster. 

The  Lo.  Davers    -             -             - 

100 

In  Mounster. 

The  Lo.  of  Howth 

100 

At  Tridagh. 

Sir  Thomas  Ridgeway,  Treasurer  - 

100 

At  Gallin  in  Leix. 

Sir  Richard  Wingfield,  Marshal    - 

100 

At  Athie. 

Sir  Oliver  St.  John,  Master  of  the 

Ordnance          _             _              . 

100 

At  the  Derrye. 

Sir  Henry  Power 

100 

At  Marieborowe. 

Sir  Richard  Morrison 

100 

At  Waterford. 

Sir  Frances  Rushe 

100 

At  Philipstowne. 

Sir  Foulke  Conway 

100 

At   Knockfergus 

and  Enisholagan. 

Sir  Henry  Folliott 

100 

At  Ballashanan. 

Sir  Edward  Blanye 

100 

At  Monahan. 

Sir  James  PeiTott 

100 

At  the  Newrye. 

Sir  Toby  Galefeelde 

100 

At  Charlemount. 

Sir  Francis  Roe    -              -              - 

100 

At  Mountjoye, 

Sir  Thomas  Rooper 

100 

In  Mounster. 

Sir  Richard  Hansarde 

100 

At  the  LifFer. 

Sir  Thomas  Ratherame  [Rotheram] 

100 

At  Galwaye. 

Sir  Thomas  Phillips 

100 

At  Colerayne. 

Sir  Raphe  Byngley 

50 

At  Doe. 

Captain  John  Vaughan     - 

50 

At  Dyrrie. 

Captain  Cooke     -             .             - 

100 

In  Connaght. 

Captain  Stewarde 

100 

At  Dundalke. 

Captain  Craforde 

100 

At  LyfFer. 

Captain  Neuce     -             -             - 

100 

In  Mounster. 

The  Lo.  Cromwell 

so 

In  Lecale. 

So  the  list  as  it  now  stands  is    -     : 

2,680 

If  this  company  be  made  up  50  with  officers,  it  were  better 
for  the  service,  and  then  the  list  would  be  2,700. 
Pf.  2.     Endd. 

53.         Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Privy  Council. 

His  letters   have   been  so  long    kept    on   his   hands   by 

tempestuous  and  contrary  winds,  that  in  the  meantime  he  has 

had  leisure  to  perfect  and  send   over  the  esthnate  of  the 

extraordinai-y  charge  of  this  journey  to  the  Lord  Treasurer, 

3.  "  c 


34  IRELAND— JAMES  1. 

I(j08. 

together  also  with  a  draught  of  a  new  Estabhshment  which 
he  has  sent  to  Sir  James  Fullerton  to  be  submitted  to  their 
further  consideration.  Explains,  in  vindication  of  Sir  James 
Fullerton,  that  he  has  the  appointing  or  correcting  of  the  in- 
ferior officers  of  the  musters  under  him.  If  they  will  peruse 
the  latter  end  of  this  last  Establishment,  they  will  find  the 
commissaries  there  appointed  by  the  King,  and  none  recom- 
mended from  him  (Chichester)  but  Baptist  Jones ;  one  that 
to  his  own  knowledge  and  in  the  opinion  of  all  that  know  him, 
has  the  reputation  of  sufficient  and  honest  equal  with  any 
other  of  the  commissaries.  Should  the  Deputy  think  fit  to 
appoint  all  those  inferior  officers,  as  ever  has  been  accustomed, 
sees  not  why  he  may  not  fitly  be  allowed  so  to  do,  if  persons 
otherwise  appointed  to  superintend  those  affairs  would  apply 
their  times  therein,  as  they  ought  to  do. 

Proposes  to  «bserve  their  Lordships'  injunctions  not  to  dis- 
pose or  give  hope  to  any  of  any  parcel  of  the  escheated  lands 
in  Ulster.  Only  in  the  case  of  Turlaghe  M'Arte  O'Neile, 
grandchild  to  Sir  Turlagh,  specially  recommended  to  him  by 
His  Majesty,  and  one  the  late  Queen  affected  to  do  good 
for  in  some  matter  of  land ;  he  has  placed  him  in  possession 
of  the  Newtown,  a  small  castle  of  the  late  Baron  of  Dun- 
ganon's,  with  between  two  and  three  balibetoghes  of  land 
thereto  adjoining,  with  promise  to  recommend  him  .for  further 
confirmation  thereof  in  due  time.  This  he  was  induced  to 
do  in  two  respects  ; — the  one  in  regard  of  the  casting  of  his 
company  at  this  time,  with  Avhich  both  himself  and  his  base 
brother  have  done  faithful  and  acceptable  service  in  this  late 
prosecution  as  could  be  expected ; — the  other,  because  the 
King  was  at  a  charge  in  maintaining  a  ward  in  that  place,  of 
which  he  is  now  eased,  and  the  place,  notwithstanding,  is 
as  well  served  and  kept  for  His  Majesty  as  it  was  before. 

Sends  herewith  enclosed  the  copies  of  certain  letters  of 
advertisement  from  Sir  Henry  Folliott  and  Sir  Richard  Han- 
sard, by  which  it  will  at  length  appear  what  is  befallen  to 
some  of  those  that  were  besieged  in  the  island  of  Torragh  and 
some  others  of  the  rebels,  and  by  which  their  Lordships  may 
perceive  their  present  case  through  fear  and  levity. — Ila[th]- 
farnam,  near  Dublin,  17  September  1608. 

P^p.  2.  Signed.  Add.  Endd.:  "  L.  Deputy  to  the  Lords, 
with  the  copy  of  a  letter  from  Sir  Henry  Follyett.  Also 
concei-ning  Sir  James  Fullerton.     Eec.  the  25th."     Encloses, 

Sept.  8.         54.        Sir  Henry  Folliott  to  [the  Lord  Deputy\. 
vof  22'r\^94 1  Hoped  to  have  advertised  him  of  the  taking  of  the  island  of 

Torrye,  and  the  heads  of  such  rebels  as  he  left  in  it ;  hut  since 
they  esca^wd,  the  rest  are  little  ivorth.  He  shall  truly  under- 
stand the  conclusion  of  this  i^oor  business  and  the  manner  of 
the  escape  of  those  knaves  out  of  his  hands,  which  principally 
ivas  occasioned  by  the  cooitinual  foul  weather  and  contrary 
ivinds,  which  for  the  most  part  since  his  {Chichester's)  depar- 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  35 


1608. 


lure  have  continually  prevailed.  The  first  opportunity  for 
attempting  it  fell  on  the  25th  of  the  last  month,  when  they  set 
sail  with  five  hoots,  carrying  i/n,  them  100  me% ;  hut  hefore  they 
could  come  to  the  landing  place,  the  wind  fell  contrary,  ctnd  by 
means  of  an  extreme  current,  tuhich  continually  runs  there 
between  those  islands,  three  of  the  boais  fell  to  lee  of  the  island 
a  league  at  the  least,  and,  no^ie  came  to  the  landing  place  but 
only  himself;  tvhere  after  an  hour^s  stay,  perceiving  no  like- 
lihood of  the  coming  of  the  rest  of  the  boats,  the  weather  grow- 
ing foul  and  the  night  drawing  on,  he  retired,  and  at  his 
coming  to  Enishowen  he  missed  two  of  his  boats  which  tuere 
driven  to  Sheephaven,  ctncl  presently  sent  for  the  m,en  to  draw 
to  Ballynasse  and  the  boats  to  repair  thither  ivith  all  possible 
speed,  tuhich  very  shortly  was  performed  by  rotuing.  Imme- 
diately after  the  wind  came  to  the  E.  and  E.S.E.,  tuhich  was  fit 
for  their  purpose ;  but  it  made  so  foul  a  bar  that  those  boats 
could  not  come  near  by  no  means,  so  that  if  there  were  any 
oonission  in  all  this  business  it  wcis  at  that  tione ;  at  last  the 
windgreiv  to  the  north,  and  the  weather  falling  fair,  he  caused 
them  to  draiv  the  boats  over  a  necJe  of  land  into  the  main, 
and  for  that  night,  fearing  their  escape,  the  wind  and  tuea- 
ther  fitting  them  so  tvell,  he  appointed  Ca'pt.  Ooare  tvith  two 
boats  and  40  onen  in  them  to  come  to  the  island  by  night, 
aoid  there  to  watch  at  sea,  fearing  their  escape,  luith  direction 
{if  he  should  perceive  any  of  the  laiiding  places  unguarded)  to 
steal  his  landing  and  secretly  to  possess  the  church.  This  was 
performed  by  him ;  and  he  instantly  sent  one  of  the  boats  to 
give  the  notices.  He  {Sir  Henry)  at  once  foresaw  their  escape, 
and  at  his  coining  found  his  presage  to  be  true;  for  at  the 
very  same  instant  that  Captain  Goare  left  Enishbofin  to 
prevent  their  flight,  they,  taking  the  same  opportunity,  put  to 
sea  tvith  their  boat,  and  by  reason  of  the  night  slipped  by 
them.  They  left  in  the  castle  a  constable  and  10  warders. 
The  next  day  after  his  coming  and  viewing  the  castle  and 
grounds  ctbout  it,  the  constable  called  to  Sir  Midlmory 
M'Swyne,  and  entreated  him  to  procure  him  leave  to  speak 
with  him,  promising  to  perform  good  service ;  on  tuhich  he 
suffered  hiin  to  come ;  ctnd  at  his  coming,  he  asked  him  what 
he  woiold  do  to  save  his  life  and  the  rest  that  were  tvith  hivi ; 
after  many  excuses  of  Shane  M'Manus  Oge's  innocency  and 
his  being  forced  to  remain  there,  he  offered  the  castle  tuith 
all  that  was  in  it  for  safety  of  their  lives.  But  of  this 
he  (Sir  Henry)  made  small  account,  considering  it  as  the 
King's  already.  But  he  made  him  this  proffer ;  if  he  woidd 
undertake  the  bringing  to  him  Shane  M'Manus  Oge's  head, 
and  give  him  good,  security  for  the  performance  of  it,  he 
would  undertake  they  should  have  their  pardons.  He  pro- 
tested he  could  by  no  onecons  perform  it,  but  promised  to  do 
the  best  he  could  in  that  or  anything  else  for  the  King's  ser- 
vice. Then  he  hcule  him  to  go  back  again,  but  by  no  means  for 
a  long  time  luould  he  go,  still  entreating  for  mercy,  urging 

c  2 


36  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1608. 

ids  unfortunate  stay  there,  and  his  innocency,  with  his 
foriuardness  to  do  anything  luhich  lay  in  his  poiuer.  He  {Sir 
Henry)  then  made  him  a  'pi'omise  of  his  life  in  the  delivery 
of  the  castle  and  his  tuarders.  He  likewise  spoke  of  the 
difficulty  of  it,  in  respect  of  the  numbers;  but  withal  promised 
seven  of  their  heads,  with  the  castle  and  all  that  was  in  it, 
within  two  hours.  There  %uas  one  of  the  M'Swynes  with  him, 
who  was  one  of  them  who  would  be  so  delivered,  for  he  (Sir 
Henry)  made  him,  to  nominate  them,  to  him,  with  whom,  he 
caused  Ca^jtain  Goare  to  deal  for  the  delivery  of  the  constable 
and  the  rest ;  and  this  did  he  {M'Svjyne)  in  like  manner 
promise  the  perfor'inance  of  in  the  same  time  and  manner. 
So  they  dejjarted  fro'^n  him,  each  of  them  being  well  assured 
and  resolved  to  cut  the  other's  throat ;  by  ill  hap  to  M'Swyne 
it  was  the  constables  fortune  to  get  the  start  of  the  others,  and 
he  killed  two  of  them ;  instantly  the  rest  of  them  fled  into 
the  island,  hiding  themselves  among  the  rocks  and  cliffs,  and 
at  break  of  day  he  caused  them  to  look  for  them,,  giving  them 
two  hours  for  the  bringing  in  of  their  hea,ds  without  the  assist- 
ance of  any  of  the  soldiers,  otherwise  their  own  were  like  to 
make  up  the  number  promised  by  them.  After  a  little  search 
they  found  three  of  them  in  a  rock,  the  passage  to  which  was 
so  dangerous  that  he  had  well  hoped  it  luould  have  cost  the 
most  of  their  lives ;  but  the  constable  with  the  first  shot  he 
made  killed  the  principal;  the  other  ttvo  men  ran  away 
totuards  them  (Sir  Henry's  men)  ;  one  of  them  promising 
some  service,  but  of  little  moment,  delivered  him  again  to  the 
constable  to  be  hanged,  and  as  he  ivas  being  led  to  execution, 
the  desp>erate  villain,  with  a  shione  [skeane]  he  had  secretly 
about  him,  stabbed  the  constable  to  the  heart,  who  never  spake 
tvord,  a,nd  ivas  afterward  himself,  tuith  the  other  three,  cut  in 
p)ieces  by  the  other;  and  so  there  were  but  five  that  escctped, 
three  of  them  churls,  and  the  other  two  young  boys.  In  the 
castle  there  was  little  or  nothing  left,  as  Shane  took  with  him 
two  trunks  ivith  all  the  best  stuff  in  the  island ;  he  left  a  son 
and  a,  daughter  of  his  there,  ivhich  were  not  spoken  of  by 
the  constable,  so  they  rest  at  his  (Chichester'' s)  pleasure,  the 
hoy  is  10  years  of  age,  the  girl  is  1 1. 

This  course  he  thought  fittest  for  that  service  and  place  to 
be  taken,  considering  the  uncertainty  of  the  weather,  which, 
if  stormy,  woidd  hcove  hindered  the  landing  the piece)rvio- 
tucdling  their  men  from  the  main;  likewise  to  prevent  the 
escape  of  so  many  rogues  together  upon  the  main,  he  took 
this  speedy  course  in  ending  this  business,  luhich  he  hopes 
will  not  be  distasteful  to  him.  He  kept  Lieutenant  Browne 
tvith  10  men  in  the  castle  as  the  fittest  course,  till  there  be  an 
end  of  that  knave  ;  for  breaking  of  it  luould  little  prejudice 
the  holding  of  the  place,  it  being  unaccessible,  xvith  very  small 
labour  in  making  a  rampiier  of  ecorth  where  now  the  castle 
stands.  A  t  his  coming  ashore  he  vender  stood  Shane  M'Manus 
ivas  in  the  isle  of  Aron  [Airan,  Bonegcd],  whither  instantly 


lEELAND— JAJMES  I.  37 


1608. 

he  drevj,  and  caone  to  the  waterside  at  the  falling  of  the  night ; 
there  ^vere  in  one  of  the  islands  people  dwelling,  ivho  brought 
him  a  boat  in  which  he  came  to  that  isle,  and  sent  ttuo 
corrodes  [corraghs]  for  the  search  of  his  boat,  but  they  came 
back  tvithout  any  neios  of  him';  but  by  chance,  as  part  of  the 
soldiers  %uere  repairing  to  the  'place  he  appointed  them,  they 
lighted  on  his  boat  with  six  pieces  hid  under  it  in  the  sands ; 
himself  fled  into  the  main,  having  with  him  (as  he  heard 
after)  only  four  men  and  himself,  and,  as  they  told  him,  his 
resolution  tuas  to  repair  to  the  Lord  President  of  Connaght, 
hoping  by  his  favour  to  get  his  pardon.  His  mother  came 
to  him  tuithout  tvord,  hoping  to  beg  part  of  his  cows  which 
tvere  taken  from  her  by  Shane  M'Turloe  O'Donell,  whom  he 
lately  protected;  so  he  is  deprived  of  his  mother  ctnd  two 
children  and  his  boat,  ^vhich  he  {Sir  Henry)  thinks  he  re- 
gards TThore  than  them  cdl.  The  M'Sivynes  left  him  instantly, 
and  he  makes  no  doubt  bid  that,  if  he  remain  in  these  parts, 
he  {Chichester)  will  suddenly  hear  of  the  loss  of  his  head. 

Fears  he  has  over-iuearied  him  with  this  tedious  discourse 
of  this  slight  business. — Ballyshanan,  8  September  1608. 

Signed. 

A   brance  [branch^   of  Sir  Richctrd   Hansard's   letter, 
written  the  30th  of  August. 

The  23rd  of  this  month  I  sent  out  a  party  of  30  men  into 
the  upper  part  of  Glanfinne,  %uho  fell  upon  16  o/  Botvaltagh 
M'Gylduffe's  men  in  a  house,  ^vhere  they  killed  five,  took 
prisoners,  and  brought  atuay  eight  pikes,  four  ecdivers,  two 
targets,  and  a  great  deal  of  luggage  of  them  ivho  escaped  out 
of  the  house ;  three  are  dead  of  the  hurts  they  then  received, 
and  fovur  others  [as  it  is  said)  are  incurably  hurt. 

Pp.  4.  Eiidd. :  "  8  Sepit.  1608.  Oo2)y  of  Sir  Henry  Foliotfs 
letter  touching  the  taking  of  the  island  of  Torry,  together  with 
a  brance  of  Sir  Rich.  Hansard's  letter.   Rec.  the  16th  of  Sept." 

S.P.,  Ireland,      55,         ABSTRACT  of  the  LoRD  Deputy's  letters    of  the  11th, 
vol.  225, 195.  12th,  and  17th  September. 

Pp.  4.    Endd. 

Sept.  17.        56.        Examination  of  James   Balloe   MacAllen  upon  his 
Carte  Papers,  oath,  ta.ken  by  Captain  John  Vauehan,  I7th  September 

^°l-  «2>  P-  309.  1608,  at  Derry. 

He  saith  that,  upon  the  Friday  before  Derry  was  burned, 
Sir  Cahir  O'Dogherty  sent  this  examinate  to  Sir  Neale 
O'Donell  to  Castle  Finne,  and  sent  by  him  letters  to  Sir  Neal 
and  Edmond  O'Molarky,  the  friar,  and  willed  him  to  deliver 
his  letters  to  no  man's  hands  but  the  friar's,  and  swore  him  to 
keep  counsel  of  whatsoever  should  be  committed  unto  his 
trust ;  after  which  oath  he  bade  him  speak  to  Sir  Neal6  for  the 
60  soldiers  that  Sir  Neale  promised  to  send  him  to  the  hill  of 
Knocklesilla,  which  is  betwixt  Fawne  [Faughan]  and  Ellagh. 


b 


38  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

1608. 

That  niffht  this  examinate  came  to  Castle  Finn,  and  before  he 
came  thither  the  friar  was  gone  to  Bonecranoe  [Buncrana]  to 
O'Dogherty,  so  that  he  stayed  at  Castle  Finn  till  the  friar's 
return,  which  was  Sunday  ;  and  in  the  meantime  he  told  Sir 
Neale  that  he  had  letters  to  the  friar,  but  that  no  man  must 
see  them  till  the  friar  came  home  ;  notwithstanding,  he  told 
Sir  Neale  his  message  for  the  60  soldiers.  Neale's  answer  was 
that  he  should  stay  there  till  he  could  get  the  soldiers  to- 
gether. Upon  Sunday  the  friar  returned  from  O'Dogherty  to 
Sir  Neale  and  read  his  letters,  and  was  very  earnest  with  Sir 
Neale  for  the  soldiers  to  be  hastened  away.  Whereupon  Sir 
Neale  instantly,  that  Sunday  night,  sent  Mortogh  O'Dogan 
for  Mac  Gilduffe  and  all  the  rest  of  the  woodkerne ;  and  the 
very  same  night,  in  the  very  beginning  of  the  night,  Mortogh 
O'Dogan  and  Dalto  Mac  Gilleduffe,  with  all  the  woodkerne, 
came  over  the  ford  of  Castle  Finn,  and  Mortogh  and  Dalto 
came  into  the  castle,  and  the  woodkerne  came  along  the  high- 
way. Sir  Neale,  Mortogh,  and  Dalto  went  into  the  cellar, 
and  there  talked  privately  a  pretty  space ;  and  then  they 
called  this  examinate  into  the  cellar  ;  then  Sir  Neale  said  to 
him,  "Here  are  the  men  ready  to  go  with  you,  and  this 
counsel  I  give  your  master :  let  him  divide  his  men  into  three 
parts — one  in  the  market-place,  one  in  the  upper  fort,  and  the 
third  in  the  lower  fort ;  but  in  any  case  let  him  not  fail  to  take 
the  storehouse,  and  let  the  party  in  the  market-place  beat  in 
any  man  that  stirs  out  of  his  house.  And  since  he  has  entered 
into  the  business,  let  him  spare  no  man."  Then  Mortogh 
O'Dogan  would  willingly  have  gone  down  into  our  companies, 
but  Sir  Neale  would  not  suffer  him ;  then  said  he  to  this 
examinate,  "Let  not  the  goods  of  Derry  be  shared  until 
Neale  be  in  place."  Then  Neale  bade  this  examinate  tell 
O'Dogherty  that,  as  soon  as  he  had  entered  and  possessed  the 
town,  and  armed  his  men  out  of  the  store,  he  should  instantly, 
before  the  alarm  was  given,  dispatch  away  some  soldiers 
to  spoil  the  LifEbrd,  and  that  he  himself  would  go  over  the 
mountains  of  Bai-nesmore  and  desire  to  speak  with  Sir  Henry 
Folliot,  which  he  was  assured  (as  he  said)  that  Sir  Henry 
would  not  refuse  him  ;  and  then  he  would  betray  him  and  take 
him  prisoner  if  he  could,  whereby  he  was  assured  to  ransom  his 
son ;  and  that  then  he  would  join  openly  with  O'Dogherty  and 
set  upon  Lifford,  if  O'Dogherty  should  miss  it.  Then  this  ex- 
aminate went  with  the  woodkerne  that  night  into  Ballonelope, 
which  is  a  wood  in  the  bottom  of  Swillabegg ;  and  there  he 
left  the  woodkerne  all  day  on  Monday,  and  himself  went  to 
Buncrana,  where  he  found  Captain  Hart  and  his  wife  going 
to  dinner,  and  called  Sir  Cahir  into  the  battlement  and  told 
him  all  the  business.  Whereupon  O'Dogherty  hasted  this 
examinate  away  upon  his  own  best  horse,  and  bade  him  that 
night  to  bring  the  woodkerne  to  Glesinenloe,  a  little  stream 
of  water  near  Digge's  fort,  by  Derry,  where  they  stayed  until 
O'Dogliertj'  had  taken  Culmore,  and  came  thither  with  all  the 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  39 


1608. 

force  lie  had,  where  he  divided  the  force  into  two  parts  to 
enter  both  the  forts,  for  he  wanted  both  men  and  arms  to 
put  a  party  into  the  market-place. 

Saith  he  heard  that,  as  soon  as  he  departed  [from]  Castle 
Finn,  Sir  Neale  took  his  journey  towards  Ballyshannon  ;  and 
the  cause  of  his  speedy  return  was  that  the  alarm  of  the 
Derry  ran  through  the  country  faster  than  he  could  go. 

Saith  that  the  friar  went  over  the  mouutains  upon  the 
Sunday  night,  as  soon  as  he  returned  from  Buncrana  ; — what 
to  do  he  knoweth  not,  but,  as  he  thinketh,  to  persuade  the 
people  there  against  Neale's  going  over.  Further  saith  that 
Dalto  MacGilleduffe  killed  Donogh  Boy  O'Shiel,  Sir  Neale's 
man,  because  he  mistrusted  that  he  had  taken  a  bribe  not  to 
bring  Sir  Neale's  son,  his  fosterer,  from  Dublin ;  and  that  he 
had  discovered  or  would  discover  all  Sir  Neale's  practices,  and 
especially  a  plot  that  Sir  Neale  had  upon  Sir  Richard  Hansard, 
to  draw  him  out  in  hope  to  get  a  booty  with  powder  and 
ordnance  that  lay  without  gnard  in  Loughswilly  ;  which  plot 
the  said  Donogh  was  thoroughly  acquainted  withal,  and  was 
sent  to  Sir  Richard  with  the  message,  and  which  plot  this 
examinate  afSrmeth  in  his  own  knowledge  to  be  true,  for  he 
saw  the  friar  come  to  Sir  Cahir  from  Sir  Neale  about  it. 
And  this  examinate  was  put  sentinel  by  Sir  Cahir  at  that 
place,  a  mile  from  his  camp,  towards  Lifford,  with  directions 
that  he  should  look  for  the  coming  of  Richard  Hanser  and 
the  soldiers  of  Lifford,  and  so  to  give  notice  to  O'Dogherty 
and  his  camp,  who  were  all  in  readiness  to  look  for  them  ;  and 
saith  that  the  woodkerne  were  with  Sk  Neale,  as  it  were  his 
men,  in  show  to  join  with  Sir  Richard,  who  should  have  been 
the  first  men  that  should  have  set  upon  him.  The  reason  of 
his  knowledge  of  the  killing  of  Donogh  Boy  O'Shiel  is  that 
Dalto  told  him  as  much,  but  said  that  he  would  colour  it  with 
a  report  that  Donogh  had  a  draught  upon  him,  and  threatened 
to  banish  him  the  country  of  Glanfinne. 

Saith  he  cannot  precisely  say  that  Sir  Neale  sent  to  O'Dog- 
herty into  the  Glinnes  to  bid  him  disperse  his  cows,  or  with 
any  advertisements  from  the  Marshal's  camp,  as  ho  was  not 
all  that  time  himself  there  ;  but  the  next  day  when  he  came 
thither,  and  found  the  cows  so  dispersed,  and  the  forces  de- 
parting, he  asked  the  reason,  and  was  told  generally  that  Sir 
Neale  had  sent  word  to  O'Dogherty  to  do  so,  and  that  he 
would  receive  all  men  and  their  goods  that  should  shelter 
themselves  under  him. 

Pp.  31      Copy. 

Sept.  18.       57,        Henry  Pyne  to  Salisbury. 

S.P.,  Ireland,  Refers  to  his  frequent  applications  to  introduce  Irish  timber 

vol.  225, 196.  ^^^  ^^  construction  of  the  Navy.     States  particulars  of  certain 

woods,  and  of  the  havens  for  shipping  it. — Mogely,  18  Sep- 
tember 1608. 

Pp.  2.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 


40 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1608. 
Sept.  19. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  197,8. 


S.P.,  Ireland, 
■vol.  225,  1981. 


58.  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 

Enters  into  various  particulars  regarding  a  new  Establish- 
ment, with  a  list  of  the  horse  and  foot,  a  hundred  of  the 
latter  being  assigned  to  the  town  of  Carrickfergus.  Referring 
to  certain  reductions  in  the  numbers  and  the  amount  of  pay, 
represents  that  these  alterations  are  a  source  of  grievance 
and  dissatisfaction  to  the  captains.  Suggests  that  all  such 
alterations  should  be  signed  by  the  King.  Six  or  seven  of  the 
companies  of  a  hundred  may  be  reduced  to  fifties,  reservation 
being  made  to  the  Lord  Lieutenant  in  cases  of  death  or 
misdemeanour. 

Makes  an  estimate  of  the  charge  of  the  late  prosecution, 
with  some  reasons  for  the  increase  thereof  Great  embarrass- 
ment is  felt  from  the  want  of  money  for  the  public  service. 
Besides  the  condition  of  the  wards  generally,  he  enters  into  that 
of  the  wards  in  Ulster,  and  those  proposed  by  the  Presidents 
of  Munster  and  Connaught  to  be  erected  in  these  provinces. 
The  fortifications  at  Galway,  Limerick,  Castlepark,  Hawl- 
bowline,  and  Duncannon  are  in  a  forward  state.  5,000L  will 
be  expended  in  the  work,  which  will  be  done  by  All  Hallow- 
tide. 

Recommends  Mr.  Francis  Annesley's  suit.  The  munitions 
and  powder  will  be  certified. — Ra[th]farnam,  near  Dublin, 
19  September  1 608. 

Pp.5.   Signed.    Add.    Endd. :  "Rec.  the  25th."  Encloses, 

59.  Captains  of  Horse  and  Foot  in  Ireland. 

List  of  the  Captains  of  Horse  and  Foot  as  they  stand  in 
Ireland  the  \5th  of  September  1608,  tvith  the  Lord  Deputy's 
request  for  increase,  &c. 

A  duplicate  in  part  of  No.  52,  15  September. 

P.  1.     Broad  sheet. 


Sept.  9, 11, 19. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  199. 


Sept.  20. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  200. 


60.  Abstract  of  the  Lord  Deputy's  letters,  11th  and  19th 
of  September,  and  of  one  of  the  9th,  wherein  he  desires  that 
one  Edmond  Maginnis,  a  prisoner  in  the  Gatehouse,  may  be 
sent  over. 

Pp.  5.     Endd. 

61.        Lord  Deputy  and  Council  to  the  Privy  Council. 

Recommend  to  their  favourable  consideration  Sir  John 
Dowdal's  suit  for  some  portion  of  land  or  a  pension. — Dublin 
Castle,  20  September  1 608. 

Signed:  Arth.  Chichester,  Tho.  Dublin,  Cane,  Thomond, 
Hum.  Winche,  A.  T.  Ley. 

P.  1.     Add.    Endd. 


Sept.  20. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  201. 


62.        Sir  Rich.  Boyle  to  Salisbury. 

Has  given  assistance  to  Cottingham  in  his  search  for  tim- 
ber.    Requests  advertisement  from  Salisbury,  as  Cottingham 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  41 


1608. 

came  without  commission  or  money.     Has  felt  grieved  at  his 
refusing  a  cast  of  hawks. — Youghal,  20  September  1608. 
Pp.  2.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

Sept.  2] .        63.        Lord  Howthe  to  Salisbury. 

Tof  22r'20^'  Would  have  long  since  written  to  his  Lordship  but  that  he 

has  been  extremely  sick  since  his  coming  out  of  England,  and 
is  yet  not  well  recovered  from   a  strange  disease.     It  pleased 
the  Lord  Deputy  to  command  him  to  come  to  the  Council 
table,    and   to  bring  with  him   those  who  could  accuse    Sir 
Gerald  Moore,  and  as  he  saitb,  it  was  by  direction  from  his 
Lordship  and  the  Council.     This  was  very  strange  to  him,  since 
at  his  own  being  in  England,  he  was  not  called  for  before  the 
Lords,  to  know  what  he  could  say  in  particular  ;  but  to  be  called 
for  here,  where  a  precedent  has  been  shown  by  him,  and  a 
favour  such  as  was  never  seen  in  this  kingdom  to  any  that  was 
accused  of  treason, — namely,  his  (Sir  Gerald's)  being  left  at 
liberty  to  go  where  it  pleases  him,  either  to  Lord  Deputy  or 
Council  when  he  list,  so  that  in  truth  those  who  accuse  him 
are  in  such  fear,  that  they  are  very  doubtful  what  they  shall 
do.     Their  reason  is,  that,  if  he  had  not  been  pardoned  or  had 
not  made  so  good  friends,  that  he  was  sure  that  the  treasons 
betwixt  him  and  Tyrone  were  forgiven,  the  State  here  would 
not  show  him  that  favour  which  they  do  ;  and  that  the  calling 
out  at  the  Council  table   was   but  that  he  should  know  his 
enemies,  for  which  they  had  a  precedent  in  the  Queen's  reign, 
when  he  was  accused  two  or  three  times  for  treason,  and  had 
pardons,  by  which  means  he  knew  his  enemies,  whom  he  has 
been  quit  withal  since.     And  as  for  the  Lord  Chancellor,  he  goes 
amongst  the  gentlemen  who  he  thinks  can  accuse  Sir  Gerald, 
and  entreats  them,  with  the  best  means  he  can,  not  to  say  any- 
thing against  him.     And  as  for  him  (Howth),  he  is  but  an  idle 
fellow,  to  whom  it  has  pleased  the  King  to  lend  an  ear ;  and 
he  is  as  like  to  hurt  them  as  Sir  Gerald,  for  he  is  maliciously 
bent,  and    has    done  things    which,  if  they  knew   as  much 
as  he  (the  Chancellor),  they  would  not  trust  him  (Howth). 
Further,  he  has  gone  to  a  lady  in  this  kingdom,  and  bid  her 
tell  her  son  that  it  was  for  his  wife's  sake  that  he  (Howth) 
used  him  so  kindly,  and  for  none  other  respect.     He  guessed 
rightly  of  those  men  who  could  accuse  Sir  Gerald,  and  would 
fain   have  made  them  believe  that  he  (Howth)  had  played 
the  villain  with  them.     His  Lordship  may  see  what  plots  they 
use  by  means  of  their  favour.     Had  he  been  committed  in 
the  beginning,  there  had  been  a  hundred  that  would  have 
come  to  have  proved  him  a  traitor  ;  but  as  it  is,   he  shall 
have  as  much  treason  proved  against  him  as  would  hang  him 
(Howth)  and  all  those  of  his  rank  in  the  kingdom  if  he  comes 
to  his  trial ;  but  in  truth  it  were  pity,  for  he  has  a  great 
many  chiildren,  and  they  all  will  beg  if  he  die.     If  he  were 
to  lay  down  in  particular  his  own  usage  since  his  coming 
hither,  he  should  be  very  troublesome  to  his  Lordship,  and 


42 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1608. 


Sept.  25. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  203. 


Sept.  27. 

Philad.  P., 
vol.  3,  p.  325. 


would  not  be  believed.  Prays  his  Lordship,  therefore,  to  be 
a  mean  to  the  King  that  he  may  have  somewhat  given  him 
here,  that  the  world  may  take  notice  of  His  Majesty's  favour 
towards  him ;  if  not,  he  prefers  to  have  leave  to  go  for 
England,  to  live  there  poorly,  rather  than  live  here  in  that 
danger  in  which  he  now  lives  ;  his  means  here  will,  not  hold 
it,  and  now  is  the  time  of  the  year  coming  that  he  would  set 
his  stock  and  house,  which  is  the  greatest  means  he  has  left 
him,  to  live  in  England ;  for  he  assures  his  Lordship  while 
those  enemies  of  his  live,  he  shall  have  little  rest,  unless  he 
live  with  the  favour  of  the  King  in  extraordinary  fashion,  so 
that  they  must  know  he  will  protect  him  against  all  his 
enemies. — Howth,  21  September  1608. 

"  My  good  Lord,  Sir  Gerald  Moore  has  sent  word  to  my 
Lady  of  Delvyn  that  I  was  the  only  man  which  did  undo  her 
son,  which  he  will  tell  her  in  particular  at  his  next  meeting 
of  her.  You  know  I  have  ever  been  far  from  doing  him  any 
hurt.  Thus  my  Lord  Chancellor  and  he  lay  all  the  imputa- 
tion they  can  upon  me.  Therefore  my  humble  suit  to  you  is 
that  Sir  Gerald  Moore  may  be  called  before  the  Lord  Deputy 
and  Council,  to  know  how  he  can  prove  that  I  have  wronged 
either  her  or  her  son,  whereby  you  may  be  advertised  how 
far  they  have  done  me  wrong." 

Pp.  3.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. :  "  Rec<J  the  25th." 

64.  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
Recommends  Sir  John  Dowdal.  —  Dublin,  25  September 

1608. 

P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

65.  Lords  op  Council  to  the  President  of  Munster. 
They  cannot   approve  of  his    dealing  with  the  notorious 

pirates  that  lately  visited  Baltimore,  for  the  State  should  not 
appear  to  give  countenance  to  such  wicked  persons,  either  by 
employing  them  against  others,  or  merchandizing  with  them 
for  redemption  of  their  own  oflFences.  As  to  the  excuses  of 
Captain  Williams  for  not  attacking  them,  finding  himself,  as 
he  says,  over-matched,  they  cannot  tell  what  to  say  until 
he  comes  over  himself.  But  if  it  be  true  (as  they  hear,  and 
it  is  not  denied  by  him),  that  he  afterwards,  upon  conference 
with  the  pirates,  received  from  them  1 9  or  20  chests  of  sugar 
and  foiir  chests  of  coral,  it  is  a  token  of  too  much  familiarity, 
and  a  sign  that  he  meant  not  to  do  them  hurt  from  whom 
he  received  so  much  good.  For  this  he  must  repair  hither  to 
make  answer. 

His  Lordship  is  also  to  take  care  for  the  forthcoming  of  the 
chests  of  sugar  and  coral  which  have  since  come,  as  they  hear, 
to  his  hands,  as  also  of  a  ship  and  furniture,  with  24  pieces 
of  ordnance,  taken  from  one  Robinson,  a  pirate,  and  of  a 
Spanish  caravel  brought  in  by  the  pirate  Jennings.  They 
are  well  pleased  that  Mr.  Crook  of  Baltimore  is  sent  over,  for 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


43 


1G08. 


Sept.  28. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  204. 


Sept.  29. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  22.5,  205. 


Sept.  30. 

Lansdowne  MSS. 

159,36,  152. 

B.M. 


Sept.  30. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,206. 


Sept.  30. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  207. 


S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  207  A. 


though  he  appears  guiltless,  according  to  the  certificates  of 
Juarcey  and  other  persons  of  credit,  yet  there  are  other  things 
laid  to  his  charge  here,  which  they  hope  he  may  be  able  equally 
to  clear  himself  of ;  but  were  he  never  so  guiltless,  they  that 
have  accused  him  would  never  believe  it,  if  he  had  not  come. 

This  done,  they  will  not  stay  him  here  from  his  good  work 
of  plantation  at  Baltimore,  which  he  (Lord  Danvers)  so  much 
commends. — 27  September  1608. 

Signed  by  the  Lord  Treasurer,  Lord  Privy  Seal,  Lord  Ad- 
miral, Lord  Chamberlain,  Earl  of  Worcester,  Lord  Knollys, 
Mr.  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer. 

Pp.  21.  Copy.  Not  add.  ^«cZd  ;  "  27  SeptM608.  Copie 
of  a  Ire  to  the  Lord  President  of  Munster  concerning  pirates." 

66.  Sir  Arthue  Chichester  to  the  Privy  Council. 

Has  dismissed  the  troops  which  lately  returned  with  Sir 
William  St.  John.  Commends  the  bearer.  Captain  Bingley. — 
Dublin,  28  September  1608. 

P.  1.     Signed.     Sealed.    Add.     Endd. 

67.  Sir  Geoffrey  Fenton  to  Salisbury. 

Refers  to  Cottingham's  report  on  the  woods  of  Sir  Richard 
Boyle,  and  to  the  procuring  of  a  bark  to  transport  the  samples 
of  all  kinds  of  timber  and  planks.  Recommends  other  woods 
in  Ireland. — Dublin,  29  September  1608. 

P.  1.     Signed.     Add.     Endd. 

68.  Account  of  Extraordinary  Charge. 

Detailing  the  account  of  charges  incurred  in  the  suppres- 
sion of  the  rebellion  in  the  North,  and  other  extraordinary 
payments  for  three  months,  from  1st  July  to  30th  September 
1608. 

Pp.  14.     Endd. 

69.  Sir  Oliver  St.  John  to  Salisbury. 

Is  not  able  to  send  a  certificate  of  military  stores.  Reports 
the  return  of  the  bearer.  Sir  Wm.  St.  John,  from  the  Out 
Isles  of  Scotland. —Dublin,  80  September  1608. 

Pp.  2.     Signed.     Add.    Endd. 

70.  Thomas  Strange,  Mayor  of  Waterford,  to  Salisbury. 
The  corporation  has  sent  two  agents  to  England  with  copies 

of  their  charters;  solicits  a  favourable  consideration  for  their 
suit. — Waterford,  30  September  1608. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

71.        Charge  of  the  Army,  July  1— September  30,  1 608. 

A  brief  note  showing  what  the  charge  of  His  Majesty's  army 
in  Ireland  doth  amount  unto  for  three  months,  beginnincf  the 
1st  of  July  1608  and  ended  30th  September  next  after.  As 
also   what  increases  of   charge  are  to  be   added    thereunto, 


44 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1608. 


S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  207  B. 


S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  208. 


Oct.  1. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  209. 


beginning  the  1st  of  May  1G08,  and  ended  SOth  September 
aforesaid,  by  reason  of  the  rebellion  in  the  North  ;  together 
with  some  extraordinaries  for  a  year  ended  the  said  last  of 
September,  for  which  no  allowance  hath  been  yet  made  in  the 
treasure  assigned  for  Ireland. 

Pp.4.     Endcl. :  "  1Q08.     Ireland.     Mr.  Raynoldes." 

72.  Ordinary  and  Extraordinary  Charge  of  the  Army. 
A  brief  declaration  of  His  Majesty's  charges  for  His  High- 

ness's  army,  and  extraordinary  charges  for  his  service  in 
Ireland  for  three  months  beginning  the  1st  of  July  1608  and 
ended  the  last  of  September  following,  together  with  such 
allowances  for  extraordinaries  as  are  desired  for  three  quarters 
of  a  year  ended  the  last  of  June  1608. 

Pp.  2.  Endd.  :  "  Ireland.  Ordinary  and  extraordinary 
charges." 

73.  Establishment  from  October  1,  1608. 

An  Establishment  expressing  the  numbers  of  all  the  ofEcers, 
general  and  provincial,  bands  of  horse  and  foot,  warders  in 
forts  and  castles,  pensioners,  officers  of  musters,  and  others 
appointed  to  serve  in  the  realm  of  Ireland  by  the  day,  month, 
and  year,  together  with  sundry  extraordinary  entertainments. 
The  same  to  begin  for  all  the  persons  and  numbers  contained 
in  this  Establishment  from  the  1st  of  October  1608. 

4  shins  of  parchment.     Engrossed. 

74.  Edmond  Wall   to   his  father,  Me.  Gerod   Wall,  at 

Goalnemohy   [Coolnemoky  ?]. 

"  Having  such  a  convenient  bearer,  dearly  beloved  father, 
being  both  by  the  opportunity  of  time  and  by  my  own  urgent 
necessities  thereunto  enticed,  I  could  not  but  certify  you  of 
mine  estate.  Know,  therefore,  that  I,  being  here  at  Tournay 
these  three  years,  am  now  constrained  by  my  bad  health  to 
depart  hence,  wherefore  I  came  to  Doway,  meaning  there  to 
end  my  course  ;  but  there  I  was  refused  of  Mr.  President  to 
be  admitted  into  the  college,  and  now  I  am  at  an  hoste 
house,  there  upon  Mr.  Eoche's  word,  who  would  do  all  that* 
he  could  unto  me  for  your  sake.  But  while  I  was  at 
Tournay,  by  buying  cloathes  and  such  other  necessities,  I 
owed  6^.  sterling,  the  which  at  my  departure  I  promised  to 
be  paid  at  a  certain  time  ;  and  now  after  leaving  Tournay  I 
am  without  cloathes  and  money  to  buy  them,  for  surely  I  have 
not  one  stitch  of  cloathe  but  this  which  I  wear  every  day." 

Entreats  payment  of  this  debt,  and  concludes  :  "  Thus  I  rest, 
desiring  you  to  commend  me  most  heartily  to  my  mother, 
brethren,  sisters,  and  all  my  friends.  —  Doway,  the  1st  of 
October  1608. 

Your  dutiful  and  obedient  son, 

"Edmond  Wall." 

P.  1.    Add.    Endd. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


45 


1608. 
Oct.  3. 

S.P.,'Ireland, 
vol.  225,210. 


Oct.  4. 
Carte  Papers, 
vol.  61,  p.  285. 


Oct,  5. 
S.V.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  2H.. 


Oct.  5. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  212. 


Oct.  6. 

Carte  Papers, 
vol.  61,  p.  286. 


75.        Edmund  Everard  to  liis  brother,  Christopher  Everaed. 
Regrets  that  his  last  letters  were  lost.     Desires  to  be  re- 
membered to  certain  friends. — Tournay,  3  October  1608. 
P.  1.    Signed.    Latin.    Add.    Endd. 

'JQ.        Examination  of  Teig  O'Carveel. 

Examination  of  Teig  O'Carveel,  taken  the  4th  of  October 
1608. 

Hugli  M'Carning  and  Donagh  O'Dolierty  were  in  company 
with  Sir  Neale  O'Donnell  at  the  Marshal's  camp  at  Lough- 
vagh,  and  were  sent  to  the  late  traitor  O'Doherty  the  night 
before  he  fled  from  Glenvagh  to  warn  him  that  the  Marshal 
would  give  on  the  next  day.  And  the  day  after  his  flight 
received  a  message  from  Sir  Neale  at  Lurgan,  in  the  county 
of  Tyi'one,  not  far  from  Dungannon,  that  he  would  presently 
go  into  rebellion  and  join  with  him.  Examinate  was  present 
in  the  house  with  O'Doherty  when  he  received  the  letter 
from  Sir  Neale. 

P.  1.     Copy.     Not  endd.  ^-^^ 

77.  -Richard  Everard  to  his  father,  Piers  Morgan. 

Has  arrived  safe  at  Tournay.  Is  in  great  distress. — Tournay, 
5  October  1608. 

P.  ].     Signed.     Add.     Endd. 

78.  Richard  Everard  to  his  uncle,  Christopher  Everard. 
Desires  money  and  other  help. — Tournay,  5  October  1608. 
P.  1.     Signed.     Add.    Endd. 

79.  The  Examination  of  Teige  O'Carveel,  taken  before  me, 

Sir  Henry  Folliott,  Knight,  the  6th  of  October  1608. 
Teig  O'Carveel  deposeth  that  one  Hugh  M'Carmigh,  the 
night  before  the  late  traitor  O'Doherty  fled  forth  of  Glanvagh, 
came  from  Sir  Neale  O'Donnell  with  this  message  to  the  said 
traitor,  viz.,  that  the  next  morning  the  Marshal  (then  lying 
in  camp  at  Lough  Vagh)  intended  to  give  on  upoa  the  said 
traitor  with  His  Majesty's  forces  in  three  several  places,  and 
therefore  advised  the  said  traitor  to  be  gone  with  his  creaght 
and  kerne  forth  of  the  said  Glanvagh  ;  upon  which  the  said 
traitor  gave  present  order  to  his  creaghts  to  disperse  them- 
selves and  to  go  to  Sir  Neale  O'Donnel,  giving  forth  that  Sir 
Neale  had  orders  to  protect  them  ;  and  the  said  traitor,  like- 
wise with  his  kerne,  then  and  the  next  day  left  the  said 
fastness. 

P.  \.     Copy.     Signed  by  Sir  II.  Folliott. 

[On  the  same  page  is  the  deposition  of  Brian  O'Harkan  (to 
exactly  the  same  facts  as  in  Teige  O'Carveel's  deposition), 
taken  by  Sir  Henry  Folliott  on  the  1st  of  June  1609.] 

P.  J.  Copy.  Signed  by  Sir  H.  Folliott.  Endd.  by  Sir 
Arthur   Chichester :    "  Examinations    taken    by   S""   Henrie 


46  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1608. 

FoUiott,  delivered  the  29th  of  June  1609.  1.  Teig  O'Carvell. 
2.  Brian  O'Harkan." 

Oct.  8.        80.        Lords  of  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Phiiad.  p..  Acknowledge  the  receipt  of  the  news  of  his  painful  and 

''  '  happy  prosecution  of  the  rebels  in  the  North,  his  account  of 

the  incident  charges,  and  of  a  project  for  a  new  Establishment, 
with  some  additional  charges.  Kepeat  His  Majesty's  just 
commendations  already  delivered,  and  will  only  say  further, 
that  they  wish  nothing  undone  that  has  been  done  by  him. 
They  cannot,  however,  adopt  the  projected  increase  of  the 
Establishment.  His  own  former  expressions  in  his  letters  before 
O'Dogherty's  rebellion  and  since  its  suppression,  are  arguments 
against  him. 

After  all  this  they  cannot  think  it  necessary  to  add  and 
continue  in  entertainment  1,000  over  and  above  the  1,680 
foot,  because  he  (Sir  Arthur)  is  not  satisfied  in  the  point  of 
the  return  of  the  fugitives.  They  consider  it  improbable. 
*  But  as  a  plantation  must  be  the  consequence  of  this  prosecu- 
tion (without  which  all  the  charge  would  prove  unprofitable), 
and  that  plantation  is  only  of  Ulster,  the  King  is  pleased, 
over  and  above  the  charge  of  the  last  Establishment  (before 
O'Dogherty's  rebellion),  to  add  400  foot  by  a  new  Establish- 
ment. Leave  it  to  himself  to  arrange  the  time  and  manner 
of  reducing  the  companies  to  50  each.  As  to  the  erecting  of 
new  wards,  and  augmenting  their  pay,  the  making  of  new 
offices  and  titles  (as  of  vice-constables,  by  reason  of  the  often 
absence  of  the  constables), — this  making  of  vice-constables 
(besides  the  increase  of  charge)  would  be  but  a  dispensation 
beforehand  for  the  constable's  liberty  and  absence,  whose  duty 
(in  good  order  and  discipline)  binds  them  to  attendance.  In 
case  of  necessary  absence  they  ought  themselves  to  find  fit 
substitutes.  They  are  against  the  addition  of  new  and  petty 
wards ;  but  they  assent  to  the  raising  the  pay  of  the  present 
wards  to  English  money.  To  come  to  an  end,  he  is  to  take 
this  for  his  comfort,  that  where  they  disagree  with  him,  they 
impute  all  he  desires  to  the  condition  of  the  place  he  fills,  and 
not  to  any  private  ends  of  his  own.  In  order  to  provide 
against  the  arrival  of  Tyrone  himself,  or  of  any  other  strange 
forces,  they  hope  to  send  such  a  sum  as  may  be  in  deposito 
there,  and  may  serve  such  a  turn. 

They  will  also  send  immediately  enough  treasure  to  serve 
the  Establishment  now  to  be  made,  according  to  the  increase 
of  400  foot.  Nor  will  they  forget  to  assign  and  send  a  portion 
for  the  fortifying  such  places  as  he  has  desired  to  be  raised  on 
these  new  occasions.  Though  they  know  the  honourable 
services  of  the  Earl  of  Thomond,  they  cannot  agree  to  his 
(Chichester's)  proposed  increase  of  horse  for  him.  His  100 
foot  was  in  lieu  of  his  12  horse,  and  those  horse  are  to  be 
immediately  discharged. 


IRELAISTD— JAMES  I. 


47 


1608. 


Agree  to  his  Establishment  for  Carrickfergus.  Approve  of 
his  plan  of  employing  the  people  iu  the  neighbourhood  of 
Derry  in  repairing  the  town.  With  respect  to  his  desire  that 
His  Majesty  would  take  upon  himself  appointing  of  ofBcers 
consequent  on  the  alteration  of  his  forces,  which  brings  such 
trouble  upon  him  in  order  to  content  them,  they  cannot 
accede  to  it.  His  Majesty  reserves  a  peculiar  power  to  ap- 
point to  the  higher  oflBces,  or  to  name  such  persons  as  are 
particularly  known  to  himself ;  but  for  him  and  them  there  to 
give  particular  orders  whom  he  should  retain  or  dismiss  in 
matter  of  a  captain's  room,  or  the  keeping  of  a  ward,  would 
be  to  do  that  in  darkness  which  he  has  the  means  to  do  upon 
knowledge.  And  His  Majesty  doubts  not  his  impartiality. 
Assure  him  he  need  not  fear  of  any  impression  being  made 
upon  His  Majesty  by  the  complaint  of  any  private  man. — 
Hampton  Court,  8  October  1608. 

Signed :  R.  Cant.,  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  H. 
Northampton,  J.  Herbert,  Jul.  Ctesar,  Jas.  Parry. 

Pp.  7.  Add.  Endd.:  "Of  the  8th  of  October  1608. 
From  the  Lordes  of  the  Councell  tutchinge  the  forces  in 
Irelande,  the  Establishment,  &c.  Rec.  the  28th  eodem  by  the 
poast  barque." 


Oct.  8. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  247. 


Oct.  8. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  218. 


Oct.  8. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  213. 


Oct.  8. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  214. 


81.  Sir  Francis  Stafford  to  Salisbury.  , 

Has  frequently  requested  the  Lord  Deputy  to  favour  him 
with  letters  to  his  Lordship  and  the  Council,  to  desire  His 
Majesty's  favour  in  recompense  of  35  years'  service  in  Ireland. 
Begs  his  Lordship's  support  of  his  present  suit  for  a  grant  in 
reversion  to  him  and  his  son  of  his  pension  of  5s.  per  day. — 
8  October  1608. 

Pp.  2.     Signed.     Sealed.     Add.     Endd. 

82.  Tyrone  to  his  son,  Henry  O'Neill,  at  Bruges. 
Directs  him  to  procure  for  the  bearer,  James  O'Gallacher, 

the  late  Earl  of  Tyrconnell's  servant,  a  safe  passage  through 
England,  if  possible,  or  else  the  place  of  a  soldier  in  his  regi- 
ment.— Rome,  8  October  1608. 

P.  1.     Signed.     Itcdian.     Add.    Endd.     {Intercepted.) 

83.  "William  Henesy  to  David  Henesy. 

Thanks  for  40s.  sent  to  him  and  for  his  fatherly  care ; 
desires  to  go  to  college  to  pursue  his  studies. — Tournay, 
8  October  1608. 

P.  1.     Signed...     Add.     Endd. 

84.  Edmund  Everard  to  his  brother-in-law,  Nich.  Haly. 
Has  written  often  into  Ireland  and  received  no  answers. 

Is  in  Tournay,  and  wants  nothing  but  clothes  ;  6^.  a  year 
would  supply  all  his  wants. — Tournay,  8  October  ]  608. 
P.  1.    Add.    Endd. 


48 


lEELAND — JAMES  I. 


1608 
Oct.  8. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  215. 


Oct.  8. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  216. 


Oct.  8. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,217. 


Oct.  8. 

Philad.  P., 
vol.  3,  p.  327. 


85.  Edmund  Evebaed  to  his  brother,  James  Eveeard. 
Complains  of  not  receiving  answers  to  any  of  his  letters. 

Is  in  great  poverty.     His  nephew  cannot  he  received  in  the 
college. — Tournay,  8  October  1608. 
Fp.  2.     Signed.    Add.      Endd. 

86.  Edmund  Everard  to  his  mothei-,  Mrs.  Alie  Conlt. 
Has  not  been  negligent  in  writing.     Desires  to  be  remem- 
bered to  all  his  relations. — Tournay,  8  October  1608. 

P.  1.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

87.  Edmund  Eveeard  to  his  father,  Mr.  Edmund  Everard. 
Has  written  often  ;  knows  he  cannot  relieve  his  necessity ; 

hopes  to  have  letters  from  him. — Tournay,  8  October  1608. 
P.  1.    Signed.      Add.    Endd. 

88.  Lords  of  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Complain  that   Lord  Howth's   accusation    of  Sir  Garret 

Moore  should  be  so  long  without  any  step  being  taken  in  it, 
which  arises  from  this,  that  Lord  Howth,  having  accused  him, 
goes  no  farther  in  the  accusation  than  to  charge  him  by 
general  words  to  have  been  acquainted  with  the  conspiracy  of 
Tyrone  against  the  King,  and  with  like  knowledge  of  Maguire's 
going  away,  and  furnishing  him  with  money  for  his  journey 
(as  appears  by  his  articles  of  accusation) ;  refusing  to  make 
any  proof  or  to  produce  any  evidence  unless  Sir  Garret 
Moore  be  fii'st  indicted,  and  the  parties  who  may  give  evidence 
be  pardoned  for  their  own  oifence. 

Without  prejudice  to  either  the  accusation  or  the  defence, 
they  cannot  but  remark  that  it  is  a  strange  part  for  Lord 
Howth  to  take  upon  him  to  prescribe  the  proceedings. 

If  they  (Sir  Arthur  and  the  Council)  find  him  to  persist  in 
his  course,  then  they  must  send  over  both  him  and  Sir  Garret 
Moore  before  the  Council ;  but  if  he  be  induced  to  produce 
his  evidence,  then  they  may  proceed  to  indict  Sir  Garret 
Moore  over  there,  remembering,  however,  before  they  proceed 
to  this  extremity  with  a  man  of  Sir  Garret  Moore's  place  and 
rank,  to  send  over  the  examinations  for  their  inspection. — 
Hampton  Court,  8  October  1608. 

Signed^:  R.  Cant.,  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury 
H.  Northampton,  J.  Herbert,  Jul.  Csesar,  Thos.  Parry. 

Pp.l^.  Add.  Endd.  by  Chichester :  "  The  8th  of  Octo- 
ber 1608.  From  the  Lords  of  the  Councell,  signefyeing  their 
direct  pleasures  in  the  cause  of  S'^'  Garrett  Moore's  accusation, 

&c." 


Oct.  9. 

Philad.  P., 
vol.  3,  p.  329. 


89.        Lords  of  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Direct  that  the  reversion  of  a  pension  of  2s.  Qd.  per  diem 
gianted  to  one  Edward    Smith  may  be  granted    to    Callye 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


49 


1608. 


Oct.  9. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
Tol.  225,219. 


Oct.  9. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
Tol.  225,  220. 


S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  203  A. 


Phillips,  searcher  of  the  port  of  Dublin,  —  Hampton  Court, 
9  October  1G08. 

Signed :  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  H.  North- 
ampton, Notingham,  E.  "Worcester,  J.  Herbert,  Jul.  Csesar, 
Thos.  Parry. 

P.  i     Add.    Endd. 

90.  EiCHARD  EvERAED  to  his  mother  Elizabeth,  living  at 

Clonmell,  in  Ireland. 

Requests  a,ssistance ;  and  assures  her  that,  in  his  present 
circumstances  she  cannot  send  him  too  much. — Tournay,  9 
October  1608. 

P.  1.     Signed.     Add.    Endd. 

91.  Lord  Danvers  to  Lord  [Salisbury]. 

Has  transmitted  to  the  mayor  of  Bristol,  by  this  passage, 
until  his  Lordship's  pleasure  be  further  known,  two  prisoners, 
young  plants  of  sedition,  whose  examinations  and  a  letter 
of  Sir  Richard  Bo3'le's  opinion  here  sealed,  will  sufficiently 
declare  their  condition.  But  should  have  been  unwillingly 
so  curious  of  such  vagabonds  were  he  not  made  much  the 
more  wise,  calling  to  mind  his  Lordship's  own  conceit  when 
Tilletsone  informed  that  six  young  fellows  should  be  sent 
from  this  very  same  seminary  to  attempt  His  Majesty's 
person,  your  Lordship's  words,  he'remembers,  were  these  : — 

"  I  should  despise  this  priest's  intelligence  as  an  imposture, 
if  it  were  not  unanswerable  impiety  to  be  less  than  jealous  of 
such  a  prince's  safety  as  our  King's." 

If  he  (Danvers)  now  err  in  over  curiosity,  his  Lordship  is 
his  example ;  some  dexterous  bishop  may  ease  his  Lordship  in 
the  examination. — Cork,  9  October  1608. 

Pp.  2.  Signed.  Endd:  "  9  Oct.  1608.  L.  President  of 
Mounster,  with  demands  for  furnishing  the  forts  in  Mounster. 
Two  prisoners  sent  to  the  mayor  of  Bristol.  Their  examina- 
tions are  sent."     Encloses, 

92.  The  second  examination  of  Henry  Killinghall,  taken 

before  Sir  Richard  Boyle,  Knight,  the  2Uh  day  of 
September  1608. 

Says  he  tvill  stand  unto  it  upon  his  uttermost  peril  that 
he  has  not  seen  Father  Creswell,  the  English  Jesuit,  these  two 
years,  but  confesses  he  took  leave  of  Father  Silvester  in  Valle- 
deloyd  [Valladolid]  at  his  departure  thence,  but  received 
neither  instruction,  letters,  messages,  money,  nor  anything 
else  from  him. 

He  denies  that  ever  he  saw  Tyrone  or  a,ny  of  his  adherents 
during  the  time  that  he  was  out  of  His  Majesty's  dominions. 
He  has  not  taken,  and  does  not  intend  to  take,  any  order  in 
religion  as  priesthood,  nor  has  Robert  Hanmer,  his  fellow 
traveller,  to  his  knotvledge.  Denies  the  bringing  over  of  any 
books,  letters,  messages,  or  any  other  thing  ^vith  him  into  this 


50  IRELAND— JAMES  1. 

1608. 

realm,,  no  not  so  much  as  a  prayer  book  to  use  at  sea ;  only 
he  used  his  heads  there  and  brought  them  over  ^vith  him. 

Says  that  when  they  came  upon  the  coast  of  Ireland,  he 
asked  Robert  Arthure  whether  there  were  any  danger  to 
arrive  at  Youghall,  and  he  told  him,  that  before  he  should 
come  ashore,  the  searcher  vjould  come  and  search  him. 

He  further  saith  that  they  never  touched  in  at  any  place 
after  they  embarked  themselves  O/t  Rochell  till  they  came  to  a 
little  island  hetiveen  Kinsale  and  Youghall,  where  they  put 
in  to  take  in  fresh  water  and  to  buy  such  provision  as  they 
wanted,  their  wine  being  spent. 

Henry  Killinghall. 

Ex.  p.  B.  Boyle. 

On  further  examination,  being  ashed,  says  that  his  father's 
name  is  likewise  Henry  Killinghall,  and  that  when  he 
departed  from  England  his  father  was  dwelling  at  Middleton 
George,  within  the  bishopric  of  Durham. 

That  he  knows  nothing  by  Bob.  Hanmer  of  any  disguising 
or  change,  but  that  he  is  the  very  same  man  that  he  is  called 
and  seemeth  to  be,  and  if  it  prove  otherwise  lie  will  desire  no 
favour. 

Henry  Killinghall, 

Ex.  p.  B.  Boyle. 

The  third  examination  of  Henry  Killinghall,  taken 
before  Sir  Bichard  Boyle,  Knt.,  the  25th  of  September 
1608. 
He  says  that  he  was  born  in  the  parish  of  Sudbury,  in  the 
bishopric  of  Durham,  and  preferred  by  one  John  Peercie,  a 
Jesuit,  to  the  service  of  the  Lord  Vawse  [  Vaux],  where  he  grew 
in  acquaintance  with  one  Father  Gerrard,  the  Jesuit,  at 
Harrydon,  the  Lord  Vawes's  house,  by  whom  he  was  enjoined 
to  repair  to  London  with  his  fellow  prisoner,  Bobert  Webb, 
whose  father's  man  brought  him  to  the  Lord  Vawes's  said 
house,  tvhere  the  said  Bobert  Webb  stayed  but  one  night  in 
Harridon  town,  and  the  next  day  they  both  were  sent  together 
by  the  said  Father  Gerrard  to  London  and  lodged  at  the  sign 
of  the  Holy  Lamb ;  wliere,  for  the  most  part  between  that  house 
and  another  little  house  near  PauVs  Chair,  they  continued 
some  14  days,  and  then  they  two,  with  some  dozen  other 
youths  and  two  young  gentlewomen,  were  by  night  conveyed 
by  boat  from  London  to  Gravesend,  and  so  to  Calais  and 
then  to  St.  Omer's,  where  they  were  all  (saving  two  young 
men  and  the  two  gentlewomen)  entered  into  the  English 
College  which  the  Jesuits  have  the  oversight  of,  where  he  con- 
tinued almost  four  years  as  a  King's  scholar.  From  which 
College  there  goes  yearly  a  mission  either  to  Borne,  Civill 
[SevilW],  or  Valledelyd  of  some  eight  students  or  thereabouts, 
and  when  this  examinate  and  the  said  Bobert  Webb  had 
continued  near  four  years  in  the  College  at  St.  Omers,  they 


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1608. 


were  both  together  at  one  mission  preferred  to  the  English 
College  at  Valledeleyd,  where  they  both  continued  other  three 
years  and  upward,  having  their  daily  resort  to  St.  Ambrose^s 
College  of  Jesuits  there,  and  their  maintenance  from  the  King. 
But  he  never  proceeded  further  in  taking  orders,  than  to  be  a 
colletter  \ acolyte'],  and  to  have  liberty  to  read  an  epistle  in  the 
quyer.  From  which  College  they  came  axvay  by  the  dismissal 
of  Father  Cresivell,  the  English  Jesuit,  Superior  of  the  College, 
having  the  pass  of  John  de  Parreses,  rector  of  that  College,  but 
had  no  money  given  them  but  Ql.  a  piece,  which  was  delivered 
the')n  by  Thomas  Sylvester,  an  English  Jesuit,  who  is  minister 
of  that  College ;  neither  had  they  any  other  errand  or  employ- 
ment into  His  Majesty's  dominions  but  for  the  recovery  of 
their  healths.  He  affirms  that  he  savj  not  Father  Creswell 
these  two  years,  but  he  and  his  fellow  received  letters  from 
him  for  their  repair  into  England.  Sccys  he  saiv  not  Father 
Archer  these  six  months,  for  he  continues  most  at  Sala- 
manca, he  being  Superior  of  the  College  there ;  he  affirms  that 
there  were  no  more  students  dismissed  from  Valledeleyd  for 
England  but  himself  and  hisfelloiu  student,  Robert  Webb, 
ivho  to  his  Jcnotuledge  has  entered  no  further  into  orders  of 
religion  than  he  has  done ;  he  protests  that  most  of  the 
English  in  that  College,  by  direction  of  their  Superior, 
change  their  names,  and  that  himself  during  his  abode  in 
the  College  named  himself  Henry  Plase,  and  that  he  knows 
no  cause  Robert  Webb  had  to  alter  his  name  into  Robert 
Hanmer,  but  only  to  keep  his  friends  from  trouble.  Knows 
not  for  certain  where  Robert  Webb  tvas  born,  but  Father 
Gerrard,  the  Jesuit,  is  his  uncle,  as  he  hath  heard  himself 
confess. 

Henry  Killinghall. 

Ex.  p.  R.  Boyle. 
Pp.  S.    Endd.    "  The  second  cond  third  examinations,  &c'.' 

The  second  examination  of  Robert  Hanmer  [really 
Peckha'iu'],  taken  before  me.  Sir  Richard  Boyle,  Knight, 
the  •24i/i  day  of  September  1608. 

He  most  resorted  for  confession  during  the  time  he  ivas  in 
Spain  to  one  Father  John  Clare,  an  English  Jesuit,  and  he 
never  was  confessed  by  Father  Cresivell,  but  has  been  some- 
times at  his  mctsses  at  Mad.ryll. 

Says  Father  Cresivell  was  not  at  Valledeleyd  at  his  coming 
away,  but  was  at  Madryll,  and  that  he  did  not  see  Father 
Creswell  within  14  days  next  before  he  departed  from  Spain. 

Is  bearer  of  no  message  from  Father  Creswell.  Says  his 
true  name  is  Webbe,  but  he  chconged  his  name  into  Hanmer 
for  the  more  safety,  as  he  says,  in  his  travel,  and  that  dimng 
the  time  he  was  in  Spain  he  tvas  called  Robert  Webb. 

Has  not  taken,  nor  intends  to  take,  any  order  of  priesthood 
according  to  the  Romish  church, 

J>  2 


52  IRELAND— JAMES  1. 

1608. 

Never  heard  that  his  fellow  traveller  had  any  other  name 
than  only  Henry  Killinghani,  and  denies  that  ever  the  said 
Henry  took  the  order  of  priesthood  to  his  knowledge. 

Confesses  that  he  asked  Robert  Arthure  whether  there  were 
any  trouble  of  searching,  and  Arthure  told  him  that  one 
tvould  come  on  board  to  search  them,  and  that  it  ivas  safe 
enough  to  travel  if  they  had  no  letters. 

Says  that  they  never  landed  in  any  place  after  they  em- 
barked at  Rochell  until  they  came  to  a  little  island  within 
four  miles  of  Youghall,  whither  they  went  to  fetch  fresh 
water,  and  to  raake  their  provision  of  beer  and  eggs,  and 
that  Robert  Arthure  luent  ashore  there  with  them. 

Changed  his  name  on  no  particular  advice,  but  only  for 
his  own  safety  in  travel,  nor  does  he  know  directly  where  he 
luas  born  nor  where  his  mother  dwells,  but  wheresoever  she 
dwells  she  is  called  by  the  name  of  Mrs.  Webbe,  if  alive,  nor 
does  he  knoiu  where  his  father  dwelt  when  he  lived,  for  he  ivas 
only  two  years  old  tvhen  he  died. 

Says  he  did  not  tell  Henry  Killinghall  of  the  changing  of 
his  name  until  in  their  trctvel  together  in  Spain,  and  that 
there  was  no  priest  by  when  he  changed  his  name. 

Being  demanded  what  English  Catholics  resorted  unto 
them  tvhile  they  were  in  durance,  he  saith  that  one  Mr.  Fitz- 
jamesiuas  with  them  twice  or  three  times,  and  that  Mr.  Protor 
[Prator]  came  every  time  with  him,  and  that  Fitzjames  told 
them  that  Prator  was  a  Catholic,  and  that  they  should  never 
go  out  of  prison  as  long  as  they  had  any  money. 

Robert  Webb. 
Ex.  p.  R.  Boyle. 

The  third  examination  of  Robert  Hanmer,  taken  before 
Sir  Richard  Boyle,  Knight,  at  Youghall,  the  27th  Sep- 
tember 1608. 

Being  winged  to  tell  his  true  name,  when  he  departed  Eng- 
land, where  he  hath  spent  his  time,  and  the  cause  of  his  return, 
he  confesses  that  his  name  is  neither  Hanm.er  nor  Webb,  but 
that  his  right  name  is  Robert  Peckham,  and  that  he  luas  born 
at  Denham  in  Buckinghamshire,  and  that  he  is  the  second 
son  of  Mr.  Edmond  Peckhaon,  deceased,  who  was  son  and  heir 
to  Sir  George  Peckham,  Knight ;  he  also  acknowledgeth  that 
his  m,other  is  named  Dorothy  Gerrard,  and  is  now  married  to 
Mr.  Raffe  Leyton,  and  as  he  thinks  dwells  now  at  Radford 
in  Nottinghamshire.  He  cdso  affirms  that  Father  Gerrard, 
the  English  Jesuit,  is  his  uncle,  and  that  he  and  his  fellow, 
Henry  Killinghall,  were  both,  together  with  some  10  other 
youths  and  two  young  gentlewomen,  sent  by  the  appointment 
of  Father  Gerrard  out  of  England  about  seven  years  since, 
and  that  they  were  boated  by  night  at  London  and  so  came 
by  water  to  Gravesend,  and  there  shipped  for  Calais,  where 
after  their  arrival,  he  and  Killinghall  travelled  together  to 
St.  O-mers,  where  they  were  both  entered  into  the  English 


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1608. 

College  which  the  Jesuits  had  the  oversight  of,  where  they 
both  continued  at  the  King  of  Spain's  charge  almost  four 
years  ;  and  then  they  were  removed  into  the  English  College 
at  Valledeleyd,  where  they  both  studied  together  above  three 
years  more,  until  by  the  permission  and  license  of  Father 
Creswell,  Superior  of  that  College,  they  were  (tuith  new  ap- 
parel and  money  in  their  purse)  scrub  into  England  for  no 
other  cause,  as  this  examinate  protests,  but  for  the  recovery 
of  their  health.  He  also  acknowledges  that  by  the  alloiuance 
and  direction  of  the  said  Father  Cresiuell,  that  some  month 
before  he  luas  dismissed  out  of  the  College  at  Valledeleyd, 
Arthur  Broughton  and  Richard  Cleryndon  were  transmitted 
out  of  the  same  College  by  Father  Cresivell  into  England,  who 
took  their  %vay  by  St.  Sebastian. 

And  that  within  14  days  or  thereabouts  other  two  of  that 
college  called  Francis  Tuchbome  and  Richard  Percevall  were 
by  the  said  Father  Creswell  appointed  to  go  into  England, 
and  they  ttuo  embarked  at  Rocliell  and  took  their  way  through  ■ 
the  Lovj  Countries,  so  to  travel  into  England,  they  having  no 
other  employment  or  business,  to  this  examinate's  knowledge, 
but  to  seek  the  recovery  of  their  health,  as  Henry  Killnghall 
and  this  examinate  did;  he  deposes  that  he  brought  no 
letters  or  writings  out  of  Spain  but  a  letter  from  one  Mr.  Best, 
directed  to  one  Captain  Henry  Sackford,  which  letter  Mr.  Car- 
penter, the  supemsor  searcher  of  Youghall,  brake  open  and 
read  and  then  delivered  (and  another  letter  that  was  enclosed 
in  the  sume,  which  he  never  opened  nor  looked  into)  to  this 
examinate  again. 

Robert  Peckham. 

Ex.  p.  R.  Boyle. 

F.  1 .  Endd. :  "  The  second  and  third  examinations  of 
Robert  Hanmer,  Robert  Webb,  and  Robert  PeckhaTn,  being 
the  three  several  names  of  the  examinate,  taken  before  Sir 
Richard  Boyle,  Knight,  1608." 

[See  Tilletsons  relation,  1607-8,  Feb.  23.] 

Oct.  10.        93.        Sir  Richard  Moryson  to  Dudley  Norton. 

^i^l''>?''2'^o^'  Requests  him  to  present  a  certain  petition  to  Lord  Salis- 

■  "  '  "     ■  bury  relative  to  an  annuity. — Enescorphy  [Enniscorthy],  10 

October  1608. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

Oct.  12.        94.        Lord  Deputy  and  Council  to  the  Privy  Council. 
^'?''„I^'''^^'!'  Recommends  the  suit  of  Patrick  Foxe,  clerk  of  the  Council, 

'       '  for  freedom  of  a  town  of  his,  named  Moyvore,  and  for  a  cer- 

tain portion  of  land. — Dublin,  12  October  1608. 

Signed :  Artli.  Chichester,  Tho.  Dublin,  Cauc,  Th.  Eidge- 
■way,  R.  Wingfelde,  James  Ley,  Humphrey  Winche,  01.  Lam- 
bert, 01.  St.  John. 
P.  1.     Add.    Endd. 


54 


IRELAND — JAMES  I. 


1608. 
Oct.  12. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
Tol.  225,  222. 


Oct.  13. 

Carte  Papers, 
vol.  30,  p.  46. 


Oct.  14. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  225. 


95.  Pate.  Barnewall  to  his  brother  Robert. 

Has  dealt  with  his  cousin,  Christopher  Cusack,  for  his  coming 
over;  has  obtained  a  place  for  him  to  study. —  Paris,  12  Oc- 
tober 1608. 

P.  1.     Signed.     Add.    Endd. 

96.  Petition  of  the  Earl  of  Ormonde  to  the  Lord  Deputy. 
Is  possessed,  as  of  his  inheritance,  of  his  manor  of  Kilkenny, 

within  which  manor  is  situate  the  High  Town  of  Kilkenny, 
and  whereof  the  burgesses  of  the  said  town  hold  their  lands. 
Has  several  liberties  and  jurisdictions,  as  incident  to  the  same 
manor ;  fears  that  the  corporation  of  the  said  town,  by  sur- 
rendering their  charter  and  taking  a  new  one,  as  they  are 
about  doing,  may  prejudice  his  rights,  unless  his  rights  and 
liberties  and  jurisdictions  shall  be  expressly  saved  and  re- 
served in  the  charter  to  be  passed  ;  and  prays  that  his  counsel 
may  have  view  thereof  before  it  finally  pass  the  great  seal. 

At  foot  is  the  following,  signed  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester : — 

"  The  13th  of  October  1608. 

"  I  require  you,  Mr.  Attorney,  to  make  speciale  reservation 
of  the  Earl  of  Ormonde's  privileges  in  the  charter  of  Kil- 
kenny, accordinge  the  directions  I  gave  you  yesterday,  and 
further  to  consider  of  such  motions  as  shal  be  delivered  you 
by  Mr.  Walter  Lawles. 

"  Arthure  Chichester." 

P.  1.  Orig.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  John  Davys:  "  About 
savings  in  the  charter  o-  Kilkeny  and  Manor  there." 

97.  Sir  Arthur  Chichester's  Instructions  to  Sir  James 

Ley  and  Sir  John  Davys. 

Certain  notes  of  remembrances  touching  the  plantation  and 
settlement  of  the  escheated  lands  in  Ulster,  September  1608. 

County  of  Cavan. 

The  Cavan  is  a  spacious  and  large  county,  very  populous, 
and  the  people  hardy  and  warlike.  The  chief  of  them  are  the 
O'Realyes  [O'Reillys],  of  which  surname  there  are  sundry  septs, 
most  of  them  cross  and  opposite  one  unto  another.  By  the 
division  and  separation  among  themselves,  the  whole  county, 
which  heretofore  made  their  dependaiicy  upon  the  chief  of  the 
sept  by  the  name  of  O'Realye,  may  with  the  more  facility 
and  assurance  be  divided  into  parcels  and  disposed  to  several 
freeholders,  who,  depending  immediately  upon  the  King,  will 
not  fear  or  obey  their  neighbours,  unless  some  one  or  two  be 
made  so  powerful  as  to  overtop  and  sway  down  the  rest,  and 
therefore  care  must  be  in  the  settlement  of  this  country,  that 
the  greatest  part  of  the  people  have  their  dependancy  imme- 
diately upon  the  King,  and  as  little  upon  the  Irish  lords  as 
may  be  without  apparent  hindrance  to  the  plantation  and 
settlement  of  that  county. 


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1608. 


The  natives  of  that  county  are  not  able  in  worth  nor  people 
to  inhabit  and  manure  the  half  thereof.  Therefore  it  is  meet 
the  King  should  reserve  some  portion,  either  a  whole  barony- 
entire,  or  a  quantity  in  each  barony  (which  seems  preferable) 
to  plant  civil  and  well-chosen  men  besides  the  natives  them- 
selves, by  whose  life,  care,  and  good  husbandry  it  is  to  be 
hoped  the  neighbours  will  be  allured  to  allow  and  imitate  that 
course  which  brings  profit  to  themselves,  their  prosperity,  and 
the  commonwealth. 

The  books  of  survey  and  other  collections  will  declare  the 
chief  pretenders  to  the  lands  in  each  barony,  and  in  smaller 
circuits,  who  may  be  provided  for  as  shall  be  directed  or  as 
they  (the  commissioners)  shall  think  fit,  if  it  be  left  to  their 
discretion. 

The  principal  place  to  be  cared  for  is  the  town  of  Cavan, 
which  wishes  to  be  made  a  corporation,  and  a  ballibeto  of  land 
(if  it  may  be)  to  be  laid  unto  it  out  of  the  barony  of  Cavan. 
The  castle  there  to  be  likewise  reserved,  and  the  like  allotment 
of  land  to  be  made  for  the  maintenance  thereof,  and  the  same 
to  be  passed  or  given  to  some  honest,  trusty,  and  powerful 
man,  who  shall  be  able,  with  some  small  help  from  the  King, 
to  rebuild  the  castle  and  to  stock  and  manure  the  land,  whose 
residence  there  will  greatly  avail  the  settlement  of  that  county. 

Belturbert  is  likewise  by  situation  a  fit  place  to  be 
strengthened  with  a  ward  or  other  residence  of  civil  people  and 
well-afiected  subjects,  by  reason  it  lies  upon  the  head  of  Lough 
Earne.  It  has  now  but  a  small  portion  of  land  belonging  to 
it,  and  therefore  he  desires  that  five  or  six  poles  more  next 
adjoining  be  reserved  and  annexed  thereunto,  and  that  the 
same  be  disposed  upon  some  honest  and  weU-afiected  man  as 
aforesaid,  who  for  a  time  must  be  enabled,  by  a  ward  or  other 
help  from  His  Majesty,  to  manure  and  plant  the  same. 

Cloughouter  is  a  place  to  be  reserved  and  regarded  for. 
From  thence  there  is  a  passage  by  water  to  Belturbert,  and 
from  Belturbert  to  Belecke  [Belleek],  near  Ballyshannon  ;  and 
therefore  a  like  portion  of  land  to  be  reserved  as  that  of 
Belturbert.  Wishes  that  the  rest  of  the  barony  of  Cavan 
may  be  disposed  in  demesne  and  chiefry  to  young  Mulmorie 
O'Relye,  the  grandchild  of  Sir  John  O'Relye. 

They  must  note  that  there  are  many  freeholders  (as  they 
pretend)  in  the  barony  of  Cavan,  namely,  the  Bradies,  the 
M'Cabies  [M'Cabes],  and  others,  who  will  expect  a  good  por- 
tion of  that  barony,  besides  that  which  is  intended  for  the 
town,  the  castle,  Cloughouter,  and  Belturbert ;  whereby  it  is 
to  be  conceived  that  the  head  of  the  house  will  be  left  in 
meaner  state  than  one  of  the  inferior  freeholders,  if  other  care 
be  not  taken  for  him  ;  and  therefore  a  consideration  must  be 
had  upon  the  division,  how  he  may  be  relieved  by  allotting 
some  portions  of  land  unto  him  out  of  the  other  baronies,  or  by 
reserving  to  him  some  chief  rents  from  the  inferior  freeholders 
of  the  said  baronies,  the  rather  because  his  father  was  slain  in 


56  IRELAND —JAMES  I. 

1608. 

the  late  Queen's  service,  and  because  he  is  descended  by  the 
mother  from  the  house  of  Ormonde. 

Within  this  county  there  is  a  castle  named  Ballinicarge,  in 
which  is  a  ward  of  His  Majesty's.  This  is  likewise  fit  to  be 
reserved  for  the  King's  service,  and  the  like  quantity  of  land 
to  be  annexed  to  it  as  shall  be  laid  to  Belturbert  or  Cloughouter, 
for  a  civil  man  to  jjlant  there  ;  and  so  the  ward  may  be  dis- 
solved as  the  country  begins  to  settle  in  civility.  Captain 
Gerrott  Fleminge,  Captain  Richard  Tyrrell,  and  Walter 
Tabbott,  with  other  purcliasers,  are  to  be  respected,  who  have 
bought  land  of  the  natives,  which  will  otherwise  fall  out  an 
ill  purchase  for  them,  if  the  King  be  entitled  to  the  whole  in 
demesne  by  the  office ;  and  they  are  to  be  respected  the  rather 
in  that  they  have  begun  a  civil  plantation  already,  which  has 
done  much  good  in  that  country,  and  have  deserved  other 
ways  well  by  their  good  service. 

They  must  make  mentiou  of  the  lands  which  the  Baron  of 
Delvyne  has  passed  within  this  country,  his  patent  being 
thought  in  some  points  defective,  and  must  therein  receive 
their  Lordships'  directions. 

If  upon  the  division  and  settlement  of  that  country  there 
shall  appear  cause  to  reserve  any 'other  places  of  import  for  the 
King's  service  it  may  be  done  at  that  time. 

Their  other  notes  with  these  will  direct  them  in  the  course 
we  intend  in  the  division  and  settlement  of  this  country. 

County  Fermanagh. 

Fermanagh  cannot  be  divided  as  the  Cavan,  by  reason  of 
Connor  Roe  Maguyre,  who  has  a  patent  of  the  whole  country 
passed  unto  him  in  the  late  Queen's  time,  but  upon  conference 
and  advice  had  with  him  by  the  Deputy  and  Council  for  the 
settlement  of  his  kinsman  Cow  Connought  [Couconaght] 
Maguyre,  and  of  that  country,  he  was  content  to  submit  him- 
self to  their  order  for  a  new  division,  upon  which  three  baronies 
of  the  seven  were  allotted  to  him,  the  said  Connor  Roe,  with  a 
promise  of  letters  patent  for  the  same,  which  in  his  (Chiches- 
ter's) opinion  were  meet  to  be  passed  to  him  with  a  clause  to 
make  a  competent  number  of  freeholders  of  the  natives  of  that 
county,  and  with  reservation  of  rent  to  His  Majesty. 

The  other  four  baronies  were  intended  to  Cow  Connought 
Maguyre,  and  are  now  in  the  hands  of  his  brother  Bryen,  but 
divers  gentlemen  inhabit  thereupon,  who  claim  a  freehold  in 
the  lands  they  possess.  It  is  to  be  considered  and  resolved 
by  the  Lords  whether  any  part  thereof  shall  be  bestowed  upon 
the  pretenders  to  the  freehold,  or  on  the  brethren  and  sept  of 
Cow  Connought,  and,  namely,  on  Tyrone's  grandchild,  son  to 
Hugh  Maguyre,  slain  in  Munster.  Bryen  is  a  proper  and 
active  young  man,  and  has  a  younger  brother.  These  will  be 
stirring  and  keep  out  if  they  be  not  cared  for  or  restrained, 
and  so  will  the  freeholders  with  them,  and  the  child  when  he 
comes  to  be  a  man.    Therefore,  either  they  must  be  provided 


IRELAND— JAMES  1.  57 


1608. 


for  and  settled,  or  the  new  plantation  must  be  made  strong 
and  powerful  to  keep  them  in  awe  and  subjection,  which  will 
require  great  charge  and  foresight ;  and  to  remove  them  with 
their  followers  and  tenants  to  other  countries  will  be  found 
somewhat  difi&cult. 

Henry  and  Con  O'Neale,  sons  to  Shane  O'Neale,  are  now 
seated  in  this  county  upon  lands  which  they  took  from  Cow 
Connought  Maguyre,  to  which  certain  freeholders  pretend 
title.  If  the  King  think  them  worth  the  cherishing,  they  must 
be  seated  in  something  in  this  county  or  Armagh,  or  else  re- 
moved clear  out  of  Ulster ;  and  if  His  Majesty  could  assume 
or  purchase  a  signory  in  Munster  it  were  good  sending  them 
thither  ;  they  are  civil  and  discreet  men,  especially  Harry,  and 
have  each  of  them  4s.  a  day  pension  from  His  Majesty. 

In  this  county  there  is  neither  town  nor  civil  habitation. 
Inishkellin  [Inniskillen]  is  the  fittest  place,  in  his  opinion,  for 
the  shire  town,  and  to  be  made  a  corporation,  which  will  re- 
quire charge  or  forcement  to  bring  men  of  wealth  and  substance 
to  dwell  there,  in  regard  it  is  now  altogether  waste  and  deso- 
late. But  that  His  Majesty  has  a  ward  in  the  castle,  some 
other  places  would  be  reserved  for  like  purposes,  which  may 
be  thought  of  upon  the  division. 

County  of  Donegal, 

This  has  been  so  bangled  by  the  Earl  of  Tyreonnell  by  sales, 
mortgages,  and  underhand  conveyances,  that  he  (Chichester) 
can  make  no  certain  demonstration  thereof.  Only  this  is 
certain :  Enishowen  is  come  unto  the  King  by  O'Dogherty's 
attainders.  Glanfyne  and  the  greatest  part  of  Monganagh  was 
promised  to  Sir  Neale  O'Donnell,  whereof  he  might  have  had 
letters  patent,  bnt  he  neglected  to  take  them  out,  expecting 
greater  quantities  and  pretending  title  to  the  whole  country, 
which  he  (Chichester)  thinks  will  hardly  satisfy  his  ambition  ; 
but  his  case  is  such  at  this  time  that  he  will  seem  satisfied 
with  a  small  portion,  so  he  be  assured  of  his  life  and  liberty. 
Can  say  nothing  of  him  until  the  pleasure  of  the  King  or  the 
Lords  of  the  Council  be  signified  touching  his  arraignment  or 
enlargement.  His  son  is  a  dangerous  j'-outh,  of  whom,  and  of 
Caffer  Oge  O'Donnell,  he  (Chichester)  has  declared  his  opinion 
to  them,  together  with  the  briefs  of  sundry  examinations  and 
voluntary  confessions  made  against  them. 

Divers  gentlemen  claim  freeholds  in  that  county,  as  namely, 
the  three  septs  of  the  M'Swynes,  Bane  [Banagh],  Fanaght,  and 
Doe  O'Boyle,  and  O'Galchare  [O'Gallagher] ;  but  these  men 
passed  over  their  rights  (if  any  they  had)  to  the  Earl  (as  it  is 
said),  which  he  got  from  them  cautiouslj'  and  by  unworthy 
duties ;  in  whose  behalf  His  Majesty  is  to  signify  his  gracious 
pleasure,  and  he  (Chichester)  is  sure  every  of  them  has  more 
land  than  they  and  their  septs  will  be  able  to  manure  and 
plant  in  any  civil  and  good  fashion  these  40  years,  albeit  peace 
did  continue  among  them ;  and  they  are  for  the  most  part  un- 


58  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1608. 

worthy  of  what  they  possess,  being  a  people  inclined  to  blood 
and  trouble,  but  to  displant  them  is  very  diflScult.  If  His 
Majesty  dispose  the  land  to  strangers,  they  must  be  very 
powerful  to  suppress  them.  Suggests  that  if  his  pleasure  be  to 
continue  them  in  what  they  claim,  the  lands  may  be  divided 
into  many  parts  and  disposed  to  several  men  of  the  septs,  and 
some  to  strangers  or  some  others  of  this  nation,  leaving  none 
greater  than  another,  unless  it  be  in  a  small  difference  to  the 
now  chiefs  of  the  name.  If  this  course  displease  the  said  chiefs 
it  will  content  many  others,  who  will  be  good  ties  upon  them 
if  by  justice  they  be  supported  accordingly. 

There  are  divers  places  within  this  county  fit  to  be  reserved 
for  the  King's  service  and  to  bestow  upon  civil  and  well-chosen 
men,  some  of  which  are  already  possessed  by  wards  and  garri- 
sons, as  namely,  the  Derry,  Lyffor,  Ballishanon,  Dunegall, 
Castle  Doe,  and  Culmore.  There  are  other  parts  besides 
Enishowen  which,  upon  the  division,  will  be  found  to  be  fitter 
seats  for  civil  and  good  subjects  than  for  those  that  make  claim 
to  them,  who,  having  them,  wiU  every  day  beget  alteration  and 
innovation. 

Ballishanon  has  already  1,000  acres  annexed  to  it,  Cullmore 
has  800,  and  Lyff'er  4>  quarters  of  land.  These  may  be 
continued  or  enlarged,  as  there  shall  appear  cause  upon  the 
plantation.  Wishes  that  the  Lyffer  and  Ballyshanon  may  be 
made  corporate  towns,  and  some  others,  if  it  shall  be  so  thought 
fit,  upon  the  settlement  of  that  county. 

The  Derry  has  not  a  foot  of  land  laid  to  it ;  all  on  Tyr- 
connell's  side  was  passed  to  private  men  or  is  the  Bishop's, 
together  with  the  very  site  (sic)  of  the  city  ;  and  by  reason  of 
the  contention  arising  thereon,  the  inhabitants  have  had  little 
comfort  to  continue  and  abide  there,  and  their  departure  from 
thence,  as  he  conceives,  was  not  the  least  cause  of  the  loss  of 
that  town.  They  have,  however,  new  made  the  rampiers  and 
parapets  of  the  two  forts,  and  are  in  hand  with  a  strong  and 
substantial  castle  for  keeping  the  King's  arms  and  munition, 
which  is  done  and  to  be  done  with  a  small  charge  to  His 
Majesty,  the  burthen  thereof  being  laid  upon  the  country  of 
Enishowen,  and  borne  out  of  such  preys  and  booties  as  were 
gotten  from  the  rebels,  but  the  rampiers  and  parapets  being 
of  earth  and  sod  (which  is  not  good  in  those  parts)  it  will 
soon  moulder  and  decay,  as  it  did  in  former  times.  Could 
wish,  therefore,  that  the  King  would  be  pleased  to  bestow  a 
wall  of  stone,  at  least  about  the  two  forts ;  and  albeit  the 
charge  will  be  somewhat  great,  yet  greater  benefit  will 
redowne  [redound]  to  the  Crown  in  the  settlement  and  refor- 
mation of  that  country ;  indeed  the  continual  patching  thereof 
will  in  a  few  years  consume  more  money  than  the  present 
work  will  require.  Considering  the  help  of  labourers  and 
charge  which  Enishowen  and  the  counties  adjoining  should 
give  to  it  and  the  ditching  of  the  town,  until  the  whole  work 
were  finished,  he  is  moved  to  propound  for  this  charge,  seeing 


IRELAND — JAMES  I.  59 


1608. 


that  the  city  was  lately  planted  there  with  so  great  expense 
and  consumption  of  men  and  money,  and  that  it  is  fit  to  be 
continued  and  countenanced  for  His  Majesty's  service. 

In  his  letters  of  the  2nd  of  June  urged  the  Lords  that  pai-t 
of  the  lands  of  Enishowen  might  be  disposed  to  that  town,  as 
appears  by  a  branch  of  that  letter,  which  he  delivers  here- 
with. Upon  sight  of  the  plate  and  further  consideration  of 
that  matter,  thinks  fit  that  the  land  which  Sir  George  Pawlett 
purchased  from  Sir  Henry  Docwra  may  be  gotten  by  purchase 
or  exchange  of  other  land,  and  laid  to  the  town  for  the  use  of 
that  corporation,  since  it  lies  adjoining  to  it  and  is  more  com- 
modious than  the  lands  of  O'Doghertie,  none  of  these  being 
within  two  miles  of  the  city ;  but  this  he  must  leave  to  the 
consideration  of  the  Lords,  as  it  will  appear  to  be  a  charge  to 
the  King ;  yet  he  is  of  opinion  that  the  widow  and  heir  of 
Sir  George  Palwett  will,  in  lieu  of  this,  take  lands  in  Enish- 
owen, or  a  reasonable  sum  of  money,  and  unless  some  such 
care  be  taken  for  that  town,  he  sees  not  how  it  can  continue 
or  bring  comfort  to  the  inhabitants.  But  howsoever  this  be 
dealt  in,  they  must  not  omit  to  assume  to  the  King's  use  the 
site  of  the  town,  together  with  the  island  or  parcel  of  land 
in  which  it  stands,  which  is  but  threescore  acres,  and  fit  only 
for  a  common  and  walks  for  the  inhabitants.  This  was  in 
question  betwixt  the  Bishop  and  Sir  George  Pawlett,  and  it  is 
like  it  will  be  continued  by  the  successors  of  the  one  and  the 
heirs  of  the  other  until  it  be  determined  by  law  or  other 
powerful  and  overruling  course.  His  meaning  is,  to  leave  to 
the  Bishop  and  the  heirs  of  Pawlett  sufficient  room  to  build 
a  house,  and  for  gardens,  orchards,  curladge  [curtilage],  and 
other  appurtenances,  to  each  of  their  houses,  if  they  will  build 
any  within  the  circuit. 

By  this  care  and  by  annexing  the  land  lying  on  that  side 
commodious  for  it,  the  people  that  are  there  already  will  be 
comforted  and  others  encouraged  to  come  thither ;  but  by  the 
way,  it  is  to  be  noted  that  the  continuance  of  the  government 
of  that  city  by  the  name  of  provost  to  Sir  Henry  Docwra 
during  his  life,  and  his  having  committed  that  charge  (by 
reason  of  his  absence)  to  a  vice-provost,  who  was  a  stranger  to 
the  people  and  country,  and  not  weU  experienced  in  the  wars 
nor  with  the  government  of  an  infant  city,  has  been  a  prin- 
cipal impediment  to  the  prosperity  of  the  place,  from  whence 
most  of  the  best  inhabitants  were  withdrawn,  finding  small 
profit  and  less  comfort  or  advancement  there  for  reformation  ; 
whereof  a  fit  opportunity  may  be  taken  at  this  time,  with 
the  consent  of  Sir  Henry  Docwra  and  the  heirs  of  Sir  George 
Pawlett,  and  with  little  difficulty,  if  the  now  Bishop  be 
removed,  and  his  successor  be  dealt  withal  before  he  be 
admitted  to  that  dignity. 

For  Enishowen,  it  is  all  in  the  King,  and  if  His  Majesty  be 
not  pleased  to  bestow  it  wholly  upon  one  worthy  and  well- 
deserving  subject,  it  may  be  divided   into   several  parcels, 


60  IRELAND—JAMES  I. 

1608. 

annexing  a  portion  to  each  castle  and  place  of  import  within 
the  country,  and  bestow  them  upon  civil  and  good  subjects 
who  are  already  acquainted  with  the  people  and  experienced 
in  the  country,  as,  namely,  Green  Castle,  which  stands  upon 
the  very  entrance  of  the  harbour  of  Lough  Foyle  from  the 
sea,  and  is,  in  his  opinion,  a  fitter  place  to  be  kept  to  impeach 
the  ingate  and  outgate  of  shipping  than  Cullmore,  Byrt, 
Boncrana,  Ellough,  and  some  other  castles  and  places  there, 
which  will  be  found  out  upon  the  settlement  and  division  to 
be  made.  Has  for  the  present  left  some  trusty  men  in  three 
of  the  chiefest  castles  of  import,  with  a  small  allowance  from 
His  Majesty. 

If  the  King  bestow  the  whole  country  upon  one  man,  he 
should  be  enjoined  to  purchase  the  land  belonging  to  the  heirs 
of  Sir  George  Pawlett  at  his  own  cost,  the  same  to  be  given 
by  His  Majesty  to  the  city  of  Derry,  as  formerly  is  mentioned, 
otherwise  a  sufficient  quantity  of  land  in  Enishowen,  with  one 
of  the  castles,  would  be  reserved  and  given  in  exchange. 

County  of  Coleraine. 

This  county  is  of  small  circuit,  containing  only  three 
baronies,  two  of  which  are  not  so  large  as  the  barony  of 
Dungannon.  It  has  been  of  long  time  attempted  for  parcel 
of  Tyrone.  The  chief  septs  that  inhabit  it  are  the  O'Cahanes, 
and  under  them  the  O'Mullanes,  Magilliganes,  and  M'Closkies. 
The  Earl  of  Tyrone  made  challenge  unto  this  country,  as 
passed  unto  him  by  letters  patent,  and  required  Sir  Donell 
O'Cahane,  the  now  chief  of  that  name,  to  give  him  2001.  a 
year,  in  consideration  of  his  challenge,  but  being  unable  to 
make  him  payment  of  so  much,  in  respect  of  the  waste  and 
riotous  expenses  otherwise,  he  yielded  one  of  the  baronies  up 
to  the  Earl  in  lieu  of  tbe  200?.,  which  the  Earl  possessed  at 
the  time  of  his  flight ;  and  albeit  it  is  thought  that  neither 
Tyrone  nor  O'Cahane  had  any  good  and  lawful  estate  in  that 
country  (the  right  being  in  the  King  by  the  Statute  1 1  Eliza- 
beth), yet  is  it  his  duty  to  declare  that  the  whole  country  (the 
castle  of  Annogh  with  a  good  quantity  of  lands  thereunto 
annexed,  and  the  Bishop's  and  church's  rights  excepted,)  was 
promised  to  the  said  Sir  Donnel  O'Cahane  upon  his  submission 
in  the  year  1601,  by  the  Lord  Mountjoy,  then  Lord  Deputy ; 
and  in  confirmation  hereof  a  custodiam  was  passed  to  him 
under  the  great  seal.  He  is  now  prisoner  in  the  Castle  of 
Dublin. 

They  are  to  acquaint  their  Lordships  with  his  crimes, 
and  the  accusations  made  against  him,  and  in  his  cause,  as  in 
Sir  Neale  O'Donnell's,  to  receive  directions. 

In  this  county  they  neither  hold  ward  nor  keep  men 
upon  the  King's  charges.  If  Sir  Donnell  O'Cahane  be  found 
unworthy  of  the  King's  favour  by  reason  of  his  treasonable 
practices  and  misdemeanours,  then    is  that  country   in  the 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  61 


1608. 


King's  hands  to  dispose  as  shall  seem  best  unto  His  Majesty. 
The  principal  places  to  be  cared  for  within  this  county  are  the 
castles  of  Annogh,  Lemavadie,  Colerayne,  and  Downgenyne 
[Dungiven],  albeit  most  of  them  are  ruinous  and  out  of  repair. 
If  Sir  Donnell  O'Cahane  be  enlarged,  or  if,  upon  his  trial,  he 
escape  the  danger  of  the  law,  two  parts  of  that  country  will 
not  content  him,  nor,  he  thinks,  the  whole  ;  but  whatsoever 
becomes  of  him,  good  consideration  must  be  had  of  his  brother, 
Manus  O'Cahane,  Manus  ut  Quyvally  O'Cahane,  and  some  few 
others,  whom  he  (Chichester)  has  found  honest  in  those  last 
troubles,  and  before. 

They  must  remember  to  declare  the  fishings  of  the  river  of 
Loughfoyle,  the  Ban,  and  other  places  which  are  in  this 
county,  and  what  claims  are  made  to  them,  that  the  Lords 
may  truly  understand  the  state  of  them,  and  therein  declare 
their  pleasures. 

County  of  Tyrone. 

The  great  sept  of  this  county  is  come  to  the  King  by  the 
attainder  of  the  Earl  of  Tja-one  and  his  sept,  as  by  the  office 
doth  appear.  In  this  county  they  hold  the  forts  of  Mountjoy, 
Omey,  and  the  ruinous  castle  of  Dungannon  by  the  King's 
garrisons  and  wards ;  upon  the  division  and  settlement  of  the 
county,  other  places  must  be  found  out  and  strengthened  for 
a  time,  as,  namely,  about  the  Clogher,  where  lies  the  country 
of  Sir  Cormocke  O'Neale,  another  in  the  Glynnes  of  Glan- 
comkeyne,  the  Slute  Artes  [Slught-Airta]  country,  and  two  or 
three  other  places,  which  will  require  further  consideration, 
and  are  to  be  kept  either  upon  the  King's  or  the  undertakers' 
charge  for  a  time. 

The  chief  septs  of  this  country  are  the  O'Neales,  and  under 
them  the  O'Donnoles,  O'Hagganes,  O'Quynes,  O'Delvynes 
[O'Devlins],  O'Corres,  the  Clandonells,  the  Melans,  and  other 
septs,  which  are  warlike  people  and  many  in  number,  and 
must  be  provided  for  or  overmastered,  without  which  they 
will  not  be  ruled  nor  removed. 

Has  delivered  the  possession  of  the  Newtown,  with  some 
three  ballibetoes  of  land,  to  Tyrlowe  and  Neale  M'Arte,  the 
children  of  Sir  Arte  O'Neale,  in  respect  of  the  good  service 
they  did  against  the  traitor  O'Doghertie  and  the  relief  they 
gave  to  the  Lyffer  upon  the  burning  of  the  Derry,  and  has 
promised  to  become  an  humble  suitor  to  the  King,  to  confirm 
it  unto  them  and  their  heirs.  Thinks  this  sufficient  for  them, 
but  they  do  not.  If  the  King  will  be  pleased  to  reserve  the 
town  of  Straban,  which  stands  within  the  lands  now  assigned 
to  them,  and  give  them  a  greater  scope  on  the  other  side,  he 
thinks  it  best  for  his  service,  for  divers  Scottishmen  wiU  plant 
there  and  make  it  a  pretty  town,  albeit  it  was  all  burnt  to 
the  ground  by  O'Doghertie,  which  was  the  cause  thev  were 
permitted  to  take  it  at  this  time. 

Downeganon  [Dungannon]  to  be  made  a  corporation. 


62  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1608. 

The  County  of  Armagh. 

The  state  of  this  county  is  much  like  that  of  Tyrone,  and 
possessed  by  the  same  septs,  especially  for  as  much  of  it  as 
appertained  to  the  Earl  of  Tyrone,  which  is  the  greatest  part 
of  the  country.  The  rest  belongs  to  the  Lord  Primate,  and 
either  is  passed  to  Sir  Tyrlogh  and  Henry  O'Neale  and  Sir 
Henry  Oge  O'Neale,  lately  slain  in  the  service  against  O'Dog- 
hertie,  or  is  Sir  Oghy  O'Hanlon's,  who  lately  surrendered  his 
interest  to  the  King,  upon  promise  to  have  it  repassed  to  him  ; 
which  should  have  been  performed  before  this  time,  if  he  had 
sought  it,  and  would  have  permitted  certain  freeholders  to 
take  letters  patent,  and  to  hold  immediately  of  the  King  as 
he  promised.  He  is  an  old,  lame  man,  of  weak  judgment, 
married  to  a  sister  of  Tyrone's,  who  is  as  malicious  and  ill- 
afiFected  to  the  King's  government  and  country's  reformation 
as  her  brother.  She  rules  the  old  man.  His  only  legitimate  son 
was  in  rebellion  with  O'Doghertie,  and  is  now  hid  and  relieved 
by  his  friends  in  that  country.  The  old  man  must  be  provided 
for  as  long  as  he  lives.  Hopes  that  after  his  death  there  may 
be  no  more  O'Hanlons, — he  means  as  lord  over  the  rest,  but 
that  that  country  may  be  disposed  to  the  best  affected  of  the 
sept  and  to  other  civil  men. 

The  chief  of  this  country  under  the  Earl  of  Tyrone  was 
his  base  brother,  known  by  the  name  of  Arte  M'Barron,  who 
is  yet  living,  and  claims  the  greatest  part  of  the  country  of 
O'Neale,  of  which  he  is  possessed.  He  has  three  sons  with 
the  Archduke,  of  whom  two  are  captains.  These  youths,  the 
sons  of  the  Earl,  and  the  children  of  Sir  Cormock  M'Barron, 
Sir  Tyrlowe  M'Henry,  and  Sir  Henry  Oge  O'Neale,  will  kindle 
a  new  fire  in  those  parts  at  one  time  or  other,  if  they  be  not 
well  looked  to  or  provided  for  in  some  reasonable  measure. 

They  are  to  declare  to  the  Lords  that  there  is  a  son  of  the 
Earl  of  Tjnrone,  of  some  seven  or  eight  years  old,  and  another 
of  Gaffer  O'DonneD,  brother  to  the  Earl  of  Tyrconnell.  Has 
committed  them  to  the  charge  of  two  of  the  captains  in 
Ulster.  Should  gladly  receive  directions  to  dispose  of  them, 
and,  in  his  opinion,  the  best  course  will  be  to  send  them  to 
some  remote  parts  of  England  or  Scotland  to  be  kept  from 
the  knowledge  of  friends  or  acquaintance. 

The  countries  known  by  the  name  of  M'Cann's  country  and 
Braslowe  [Bresilagh]  are  within  this  county,  which  are  pos- 
sessed principally  by  gentlemen,  who  claim  the  freehold  thereof 
They  would  gladly  be  tenants  or  freeholders  to  the  King,  and 
would  pay  a  good  rent  to  His  Majesty. 

Sir  Tyrlagh  M'Henry  has  been  very  earnest  with  him  to 
enlarge  his  possession  of  land  of  the  Fues,  the  same  being 
more  wood  and  bog  than  pasture  or  arable  ground.  Has  pro- 
mised to  be  a  suitor  to  His  Majesty  to  bestow  upon  him  a  part 
of  Toghrighie,  which  lies  adjoining  unto  the  Fues,  and  thinks 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  63 


1608. 


it  well  given  if  that  will  make  him  and  his  sons  honest,  which 
he  humbly  recommends  to  His  Majesty  and  the  Lords. 

In  the  settlement  of  this  country  and  that  of  Tyrone,  wishes 
that  some  care  may  be  taken  of  Sir  Henry  Oge  O'Neale's  chil- 
dren (his  inheritance  being  fallen  by  course  of  common  law  to 
his  grandchild),  of  Con  M'Tyrlowe  and  his  brethren,  who,  with- 
out such  care  are  like  to  break  out,  and  of  Owyne  More  O'Neale, 
more  for  his  honest  simplicity  than  for  any  hai-m  he  is  like  to 
do ;  the  rest  that  inhabit  the  lands  escheated  by  the  Earl's 
attainder  are  the  O'Hagans,  the  O'Quynes,  and  Clandonells, 
who  were  never  better  than  tenants  and  followers  unto  him. 

In  this  country  they  hold  on  the  King's  behalf  the  fort  of 
Charlemount  and  Mount  Norries,  and  have  some  men  at 
Armagh  for  the  defence  of  a  small  castle,  which  was  erected 
there  for  a  Gayle  {sic),  upon  the  settlement  of  the  country ; 
the  principal  places  to  be  cared  for  next  to  these  will  be  one 
or  two  in  O'Hanlon's  Country  and  another  in  O'Nealan. 

Armagh  to  be  made  a  corporate  town. 

This  much  for  each  county  in  particular. 

They  must  note  that  many  of  the  natives  in  each  county 
claim  freehold  in  the  lands  they  possess ;  and  albeit  their 
demands  are  not  justifiable  by  law,  yet  it  is  hard,  and  almost 
impossible  to  displant  them.  Wishes,  therefore,  that  a  con- 
sideration may  be  had  of  the  best  and  chief  of  them,  albeit 
they  were  aU  in  Tyrone's  last  rebellion,  and  have  now  hearts 
and  minds  alike ;  and  that  the  rest  of  the  land  may  be  passed 
to  well-chosen  undertakers  with  choice  of  some  servitors  and 
well-affected  subjects  here,  and  others  of  England  and  Scot- 
land, who  will,  either  in  propria  persona,  or  by  some  sufficient 
friend,  plant  and  settle  the  land  according  to  the  establish- 
ment that  shall  be  laid  down,  and  give  good  assurance  for 
performance  thereof,  and  for  payment  of  the  rent  that  shall 
be  reserved  for  His  Majesty  after  the  expiration  of  certain  years 
of  freedom  ;  which  is  to  be  given  by  reason  the  same  is  waste, 
and  will  be  chargeable  to  the  undertakers  upon  the  first 
plantation. 

In  this  plantation  care  must  be  taken  that  no  man  be 
admitted  to  have  lands  there  but  such  as  will  take  the  oath 
of  supremacy,  or  such  as  will  go  to  the  [State]  Church  or 
service,  some  of  the  natives  (if  any  such  be)  excepted  ;  and 
that  no  man  have  too  great  a  scope  of  land  lying  together, 
nor  be  made  too  powerful  over  his  neighbours,  for  out  of  it 
has  come  the  ruin  of  that  province  and  of  many  a  good  sub- 
ject. And  as  the  parties  who,  in  his  opinion,  are  most  fit  to 
undertake  this  plantation,  next  to  the  Privy  Councillors  and 
officers  to  the  State,  are  the  captains  and  officers  who  have 
served  in  those  parts,  and  are  yet  so  poor  as  not  to  be  able  to 
manure  and  settle  any  great  quantity  of  land,  he  wishes  that 
some  of  them  of  least  ability  in  purse  should  be  seated  in  the 
places  of  most  danger,  and  of  the  best  advantage  for  His 
Majesty's  service  and  defence  of  the  rest  of  the  undertakers. 


64  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1608. 

as  well  upon  tbe  sea-side  as  within  the  land  ;  and  that  they 
should  be  enabled,  by  some  entertainment  and  by  ward  of  men, 
to  help  themselves,  and  to  perform  the  service  aforesaid,  until 
the  country  shall  be  well  settled  and  quietly  planted ;  after 
which  they  may  be  left  to  their  portions  of  land,  as  the  rest 
of  the  undertakers,  and  then  their  wards  and  entertainments 
may  cease  without  further  charge  to  His  Majesty. 

These  servitors  and  wards  being  placed,  and  such  of  the 
natives  as  His  Majesty  shall  be  pleased  to  favour  being  once 
settled  and  provided  for  in  convenient  places  and  with  por- 
tions of  land,  he  wishes  that  equal  division  (as  near  as  it  may) 
should  be  made  of  the  rest ;  that  the  undertakers,  be  they 
40,  50,  or  100,  more  or  less,  at  His  Majesty's  pleasure,  should 
receive  their  portions  by  lot,  which  would  take  away  all 
manner  of  contention  and  strife  for  precedency  of  choice ; 
and  every  man  (being  bound  as  aforesaid)  will  endeavour  to 
make  the  best  of  what  has  fallen  to  him  by  his  lot. 

Now,  it  is  to  be  noted  that  there  must  be  difference  in  the 
rents,  as  weU  in  respect  of  the  countries  as  of  the  parties  that 
shall  undertake  the  settlement  thereof;  for  the  English  and 
the  Scottish  that  shall  inhabit  it  must  be  tied  to  build  castles 
and  strong  houses,  which  he  wishes  may  be  one  in  every  two 
or  three  ballibetoes  at  the  most ;  to  erect  towns  and  villages, 
and  to  enclose  and  manure  the  land  in  a  civil  fashion,  whereby 
they  cannot  pay  so  great  a  rent  as  the  Irish,  who  will  not 
and  are  not  able  for  this  age,  nor  he  fears  will  be  the  next ; 
wherefore  he  wishes  the  Commissioners  should  forbear  to  set 
down  the  values  until  His  Majesty's  pleasure  shall  be  therein 
signified. 

And  as  the  churches  in  those  later  and  the  other  coun- 
tries, Cavan,  Fermanagh,  Donegall,  and  indeed  of  all  Ulster, 
are  so  defaced,  and  the  glebe  and  bishop's  lands  so  obscured, 
that  all  is  confused  and  out  of  order,  as  if  it  were  in  a 
wilderness,  where  neither  Christianity  nor  religion  was  ever 
heard  of,  he  wishes  consideration  might  be  first  had  for 
reformation  and  settlement  of  the  church  and  clergy.  And 
whereas  there  is  demand  made  by  the  Primate  and  other 
bishops  of  too  great  scopes  of  land  in  demesne,  and  more 
than  ever  will  be  sufficiently  proved  to  belong  to  them,  and 
as  they  yet  are  possessed  of  too  small  a  portion  for  their 
state  and  calling ;  he  wishes  that  there  may  be  moderation 
in  that  kind,  and  that  the  King  may  be  pleased  to  make  a  new 
allotment  to  the  bishops  and  church,  as  if  His  Majesty  were 
to  begin  a  new  plantation  in  some  part  of  America,  from 
which  it  does  not  greatly  differ.  When  this  is  done,  he  thinks 
they  will  have  no  great  cause  to  take  care  for  the  inferior 
natives  ;  for  then  all  will  settle  themselves  and  their  depen- 
dency upon  the  bishops,  the  undertakers,  or  the  Irish  landlords 
that  shall  be  established  by  His  Majesty's  gracious  favour ;  for 
most  of  them  are  by  nature  inclined  rather  to  be  followers 
and  tenants  to  others  than  lords  or  freeholders  themselves. 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  63 


1608. 

Both  the  one  kind  and  the  other  are  to  be  drawn  from 
their  course  of  running  up  and  down  the  country  with  their 
cattle,  which  they  term  "  creatinge,"  and  are  to  settle  them- 
selves in  towns  and  villages  where  they  must  be  enforced  to 
build  houses  like  to  those  of  the  Pale,  and  not  cabins  after 
their  wonted  manner.  The  towns  and  villages  to  be  placed 
as  near  as  possible  upon  passages  and  places  of  best  advantage 
for  service  and  defence  of  the  country,  of  which  and  many 
things  else  there  must  be  further  consideration  upon  the 
division.  This  being  only  what  he  conceives  for  the  present, 
leaving  it  to  further  debate  and  consideration. 

"  This  is  a  copy  of  so  much  delivered  in  writing  under  my 
hand  to  Sir  James  Ley,  Chief  Justice  of  Ireland,  and  -  Sir 
John  Davys,  Attorney,  at  their  going  hence  the  14th  of  October 
1608.— Arthur  Chichester." 

[The  final  paragraph  and  signature  in  hand  of  Chichester.] 

Pp.  13.     Endd. 

S.P.,  Ireland,  98.  SiR    AkTHUR    CHICHESTER'S    NARRATIVE     of   his     PrO- 

vol.  22.5,  226.  CEEDINGS   with    SiR    DONNELL   O'CAHANE. 

A  collection  of  the  courses  held  with  Sir  Donnell  O'Cahaine 
since  he  submitted  himself  in  the  year  1602. 

"  First  he  dealt  with  me,  being  the  Governor  of  Knock- 
fergus,  by  sundry  letters  and  messages  to  accept  of  his  sub- 
mission ;  I  wrought  with  him  to  make  his  submission  to  Sir 
Henry  Docwra,  who  had  the  government  of  his  country, 
which  in  the  end  he  did,  to  the  great  advancement  of  the 
service  against  the  traitor  Tyrone,  and  so  there  passed  articles 
of  agreement  betwixt  them,  the  copy  of  which  I  send  here- 
with. 

"  He  had  soon  after  a  custodiam  of  the  country  passed  unto 
him  under  the  great  seal,  according  to  the  articles  of  agree- 
ment, which  he  enjoyed  without  interruption  until  Tyrone's 
submission  was  accepted  ;  and  whether  there  were  any  altera- 
tion therein  before  Tyrone  went  into  England  I  know  not  ; 
but  Tyrone  upon  his  return  told  him  that  the  King  had  given 
that  whole  country  to  him,  with  the  rest  of  the  lands  in 
Tyrone  and  Armagh,  and  said  he  must  agj-ee  with  him,  other- 
wise he  would  disturb  him  in  the  possession  thereof,  which 
O'Cahaine  (as  a  credulous  man)  soon  believed,  and  so  grew  to 
a  composition  with  him,  the  copy  of  which  I  send  likewise 
herewith. 

"  Some  jars  fell  out  betwixt  Tyrone  and  him  for  breach  of 
promise,  or  for  not  payment  (on  O'Cahaine's  part)  according  to 
Tyrone's  expectation  or  will ;  some  cows  were  taken,  and  men 
committed  by  Tyrone.  The  Bishop  of  Derry  took  part  with 
O'Cahaine  in  hope  to  get  from  him,  without  struggling  or 
opposition,  the  livings  to  which  he  made  demand  in  right  of 
his  bishopric  of  Derry  ;  he  brought  O'Cahaine  before  me  and 
the  Council ;  Tyrone  appeared,  and  after  some  opposition  on 

3,  ^ 


66  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1608. 

both  sides,  we  reconciled  the  difference  and  made  an  order 
therein,  which  notwithstanding,  they  departed  from  us  with- 
out making  show  of  any  good  affection  one  unto  another,  but 
(as  I  was  soon  after  informed)  they  were  reconciled,  and  made 
friends  at  Dungannon  by  some  priests  of  the  country. 

"  At  his  return  home  he  opposed  the  Bishop,  and  carried 
himself  more  disrespectfully  towards  the  King's  oificers  than 
he  was  accustomed,  whereof  I  had  often  and  sundry  advertise- 
ments. I  wrote  unto  him  and  sought  by  all  fair  means  to 
reclaim  him. 

"  Tyrone  fled  the  kingdom,  whom  he  would  have  accom- 
panied (as  I  was  informed)  if  he  could  have  gotten  passage  at 
Culmore,  where  he  sought  it.  I  directed  him  to  repair  to  the 
governors  and  officers  in  those  parts,  that  he  might  be  exa- 
mraed  upon  the  accusation,  and  lastly,  to  the  King's  Attorney- 
General,  when  he  and  others  were  sent  down  to  indict  the 
fugitives  and  find  the  office  ;  all  which  he  obstinately  refused. 
Whereupon  I  caused  the  King's  forces  in  those  parts  to  draw 
together,  and  directed  them  to  fall  upon  him,  if  he  came  not 
unto  me  as  I  required  him  ;  whereof  when  he  understood,  and 
when  he  learned  that  I  would  take  him  before  he  was  fully 
provided  to  play  his  part  (having,  notwithstanding,  before  this, 
thrust  his  brother,  Shane  Carrogh,  into  open  rebellion),  he 
submitted  himself,  and  gave  bands  to  Sir  Thomas  Phillips  for 
his  appearance  before  me,  which  he  performed  accordingly ; 
when  his  traitorous  intent  was  more  and  more  laid  open, 
which  caused  his  restraint  and  the  continuance  thereof. 

"  For  Sir  Neale  O'Donnell,  how  he  submitted  himself,  what 
promises  were  made  him,  the  entertainments  he  received,  and 
how  he  demeaned  himself  before  I  came  to  the  government, 
are  better  known  to  Sir  Henry  Docwra  than  to  me,  to  whose 
report  I  leave  it. 

"  After  I  came  to  the  government,  the  remembrance  of  his 
services  done  when  our  forces  had  most  need  of  him,  made 
me  willing  not  only  to  work  a  forgetfulness  of  the  follies 
which  indiscretion  and  the  pride  of  his  heart  caused  him  to 
commit  in  taking  upon  him  the  name  of  O'Donnell,  and  the 
command  of  that  whole  country,  but  to  procure  him  more 
favour  from  thence  than  of  mj'self  I  could  do  him ;  and  my 
endeavours  prevailed  so  far  in  his  behalf,  that  the  King's 
Majesty  was  pleased  to  direct  me  to  pass  unto  him  the  castle 
and  lands  of  Glanffyne,  &c.,  which  were  exempted  out  of  the 
Earl  of  Tyrone's  grant,  and  reserved  for  the  King  to  pass  to 
Sir  Neale  O'Donnell,  or  who  else  His  Majesty  pleased ;  and  so 
I  dealt  with  him  to  make  a  surrender  of  those  lands  and  of 
his  title  to  the  Lyffer  (if  any  he  had),  which  upon  my  promise 
of  repassing  of  Glanffynne,  &c.,  he  performed. 

"  He  took  not  out  his  patent  (albeit  I  often  advised  him 
thereunto)  until  Tyrconnell's  flight,  and  then  he  grew  so 
proud  that  less  [than]  the  whole  country  would  not  content 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  67 


1608. 

him ;  in  which  humour  he  contiaued,  making  unreasonable 
and  insolent  demands,  even  to  the  time  that  he  was  appre- 
hended and  committed.  The  crimes  with  which  both  of  them 
are  charged  shall  be  made  known  by  Mr.  Attorney-General, 
which  are  foul  and  disloyal. 

"  I  have  set  the  lands  which  were  left  to  Sir  DoneU  O'Cahaine 
by  Tyrone  for  330Z.  a  year,  for  which  he  had  not  since  his 
restraint  above  IBOl.  And  Sir  Neale  O'Donn ell's  for  100?., 
for  which  he  had  in  like  manner  but  351.  It  may  seem 
strange  that  those  men  who  were  accounted  so  great,  especially 
O'Cahaine,  should  have  no  better  revenues  ;  but  it  may  be 
answered  that  their  maintenance  is  not  from  the  money  they 
receive,  but  from  their  provisions  of  meat,  butter,  cuttings, 
and  cosherings,  none  of  which  the  people  will  afford  to  them, 
or  for  their  use,  whilst  they  are  in  prison  or  absent  from  their 
countries.  I  would  gladly  know  whether  I  should  pay  the 
money  for  their  maintenance,  and  in  discharge  of  their  debts, 
as  they  have  besought  me,  or  deliver  it  to  Mr.  Treasurer  for 
the  King,  in  which  I  humbly  pray  directions.  I  have  further 
compounded  with  Sir  Oghie  O'Hanlon  for  his  estate  in  Orier 
[Orior],  otherwise  called  O'Hanlon's  Country,  and  have  con- 
tented him  with  an  annuity  of  SQL  English  a  year  during  his 
life,  with  a  promise  to  pay  his  debts,  so  they  exceed  not  3001. 
of  like  money,  in  which  I  have  made  a  good  bargain  for  the 
King,  and  a  fair  way  for  the  plantation  of  that  country,  in 
respect  he  hath  an  estate  therein  during  his  life,  howbeit  his 
son  be  for  his  treasons  and  rebellions  attainted  and  now  gone 
into  Sweden. — Arthur  Chichester." 

Pp.  3.    Endd. 

Oct.  14.        99,        Deputy  and  Council  to  the  Privy  Council. 

fAf'':)9?f^Qa'  ^^^  James  Ley,  Lord  Chief  Justice,  and  Sir  John  Davys, 

Attorney  General  here,  being  now  dispatched  thither  according 
to  His  Majesty's  pleasure  signified,  are  fully  and  thoroughly 
instructed,  both  by  writing  and  otherwise,  touching  every 
particular  concerning  the  service  here  for  the  settlement  of 
the  north  and  what  else  cercerneth  {sic)  the  kingdom.  They 
were  besides  usually  present  at  Council  at  the  hammering  of 
all  those  of  greatest  hardness  and  difiiculty,  the  one  of  them 
being  of  the  society  trusted  with  those  weightiest  affairs, 
and  the  other  (both  for  the  convenience  of  his  ofiice  and  to 
strengthen  and  make  confident  a  memory  otherwise  single) 
often  called  thereunto  ;  so  that  scarce  anything  has  here  passed 
unknown  to  one  of  them  at  the  least,  over  and  above  their 
sundry  employments  in  commission,  which  cannot  but  have 
added  much  to  their  particular  knowledge.  They  (the  Deputy 
and  Council),  think  it  therefore  very  meet  to  leave  to  their  care 
only  the  relation  of  all  the  business  committed  to  their  several 
trusts  without  troubling  their  Lordships  with  iteration  by 

E  2 


vol.  225,  223. 


68  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1608.  ,     ,    ^ 

dead  letter  of  that  which  so  fitly  may  and  (no  doubt)  so 
sufSciently  will  be  delivered  viva  voce  to  their  better  con- 
tentment. Pray  that  their  return  may  be  as  speedy  as  the 
weightiness  of  the  service  will  fitly  permit. — Dublin  Castle, 
14  October  1608. 

Signed  :   Arth.  Chichester,  The.  Dublin,  Cane,  Th.  Ridge- 
way,  R.  Wingfelde,  Humfrey  "Winche,  01.  Lambert,  01.  St. 
John,  Jeff.  Fentoii,  Ry.  Cooke. 
Pp.  2.    Add.    Endd. 


TOl.  225,  224. 


Oct.  14.      100.        The  Lord  Deputy  to  the  Privy  Council. 
LT'ol'if'to'!'  Has  so  instructed  the  Lord  Chief  Justice  and  Mr,  Attorney, 

who  are  now  going  over,  that  he  need  not  trouble  them  with 
many  more  lines  at  this  time.  What  he  conceives  touching 
the  state  of  Ulster,  together  with  his  opinion  for  settlement 
of  every  part  thereof,  he  has  at  large  set  down  ;  leaving  the 
rest  to  their  relation  and  further  discourse. 

Only  this  they  should  observe,  that  this  great  territory  is 
with  great  felicity  escheated  to  His  Majesty,  who  is  now 
sole  proprietor  of  the  most  paj't  of  it,  as  the  native  lords 
thereof  were  formerly  accounted  and  known  to  be.  His  Ma- 
jesty may  retain  and  keep  the  same  by  a  firm  establishment 
in  his  Crown  for  ever,  for  his  honour  and  increase  of  his  re- 
venues, which  once  perfected  will  reduce  the  whole  kingdom 
to  more  civility  and  obedience.  As  the  disparity  or  inequality 
of  estates  in  Ulster  (which  drew  the  dependence  of  all  the  rest 
of  the  subjects  upon  the  great  ones),  has  been  that  which 
overswayed  and  overthrew  their  chieftains  and  troubled  the 
whole  land  from  time  to  time,  as  he  has  heretofore  signified 
unto  them,  he  wishes  that  the  escheated  lands  should  not 
be  granted  away  in  gross  or  by  whole  countries  to  one  man, 
but  rather  that  the  division  should  be  amongst  many  and  by 
reasonable  portions,  yet  such  as  may  encourage  the  particular 
undertakers  to  lay  their  fortunes  upon  the  plantation  and  im- 
provement thereof  Consideration  must  be  had  ofthe  natives, 
who  are  many,  that  either  the  principal  gentlemen,  or  else  the 
honester  sort  and  best  deserving,  may  be  so  satisfied  in  this 
division  as  may  quench  envy,  quce  serpit  ad  habentein ;  also 
where  they  shall  be  assigned  their  portions  and  places  of 
abode,  whether  in  the  woods  or  plains,  indifferently  and  as 
it  may  casually  fall  out,  or  else  in  the  open  fields  and  plains 
only,  a  matter  though  seeming  difficult,  yet  in  his  opinion 
worth  consideration  ;  for  in  the  plains  (besides  that  they  may 
be  there  always  overlooked),  they  shall  be  invited  or  con- 
strained to  labour  and  painstaking;  whereas  in  the  woods 
and  places  of  strength  they  will  be  more  given  to  creagbtinge 
or  idleness,  and  so  retain  their  ancient  pride  and  fierceness ; 
also  they  will  be  able  out  of  these  dens  continual!}'  to  steal 
from  and  to  annoy  the  civil  inhabitants  that  should  other- 
wise be  settled  in  the  plains. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  69 


1G08. 

Those  parts,  as  all  others  of  the  kingdom  besides,  are  now 
in  some  good  quietness,  and  such  order  is  daily  taken  for 
cutting  off  of  the  swordmen  that  1  urk  or  stand  out  anywhere, 
that  he  hopes  the  most  part  of  them  will  shortly  come  to  their 
deserved  ends,  and  all  others  will  be  taught  by  their  fearful 
example  to  desist  from  such  violent  and  disloyal  courses 
liereafter. 

Since  the  mountains  next  here  adjoining,  commonly  called 
the  country  of  the  Birnes  and  Tooles,  were  in  his  time  re- 
duced into  a  county,  the  poor  people  are  grown  to  a  good 
conformity,  and  the  King's  laws  are  current  where  they  were 
never  before.  He  knows,  however,  that  the  chieftains  of  those 
septs,  as  also  of  the  sept  of  the  Cavannaghts  (their  next 
neighbours  in  the  county  of  Wexford),  are  so  ill-affected  that 
they  wait  but  the  oppoi'tunity  to  execute  their  malice  so 
far  as  they  can,  for  the  reformation  they  see  there  like  to  in- 
crease. But  if  this  province  of  Ulster  could  be  once  settled, 
as  it  ought  to  be  (which  would  be  a  royal  work  and  of  great 
glory  to  His  Majesty's  times),  then  were  all  occasions  of 
great  revolts  gone  ;  the  land  would  be  peopled  and  improved  ; 
the  King's  revenues  in  time  increased  and  strained  up  ;  and 
those  of  His  Majesty's  other  dominions  more  converted  and 
spent  upon  themselves.  If  His  Majesty  and  their  Lordships 
shall  lay  any  trust  in  him  in  that  behalf,  he  will  do  his  duty 
to  the  uttermost.  And  although  nothing  can  be  done  in  this 
division  and  settlement  until  the  next  summer,  yet  he  de- 
sires to  understand  their  resolution  in  the  meantime  ;  because 
all  men  are  in  expectation  thereof. 

Has  no  news  of  moment  for  the  present,  but  that  he  heard 
yesterday  from  the  President  of  Munster  that  two  pirates, 
Suxbridge  and  I'lumlie,  are  lately  arrived  on  that  coast,  with 
two  poor  prizes  laden  with  salt  and  Ghinnie  (sic)  hides  ;  and 
that  he  (the  President)  intends  to  be  with  him  (Chichester) 
about  the  beginning  of  next  month,  to  consult  on  measures 
to  restrain  this  sort  of  men. 

Praises  the  Lord  Chief  Justice's  knowledge  of  the  affairs  of 
this  country,  and  though  the  chief  cause  of  Mr.  Attorney's 
calling  for,  may  be  the  cause  of  the  customs  (a  matter  wherein 
he  hath  taken  good  pains),  yet  is  he  so  perfect  in  the  state  of 
Ulster  at  this  present,  that  he  hopes  he  will  give  them  good 
satisfaction  as  one  that  was  for  the  most  part  an  eye-witness 
and  actor  in  all  things  that  were  there  done,  by  virtue  of  the 
two  late  commissions  during  his  (Chichester's)  journey  in 
the  North.  One  or  the  other  will  be  able  to  inform  them  in 
.  every  doubt  or  demand.  Prays  them  to  give  them  credence. 
—Dublin,  14  October  1608. 

Pp.  3.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

Oct.  15.      101.        SiE  Thos.  Ridgeway  to  Lord  Northampton. 
Cotton  MSS.,  Commends  to  his  favour  the  Chief  Justice   and  the  At- 

Tit.  B.  X.,  189.  torney-General ;    professing  his   own   profound   devotedness. 


70 


lEELAND—JAMES  I. 


1608. 


The  small  collidge  (sic)  is  progressing  favourably.  An  act  for 
commencement  has  been  held,  and  very  laudably  performed, 
in  all  sorts,  one  doctor  and  four  bachelors  in  divinity  having 
been  created,  and  one  doctor  in  civil  law,  with  nine  masters 
and  seven  bachelors  in  arts.  —  Treasury,  near  Dublin,  16 
October  1608. 


Pp. 


li 


Hoi.     Sealed.     Add. 


Oct.  15.      102. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  228. 


Lord  Deputy  and  Council  to  the  Peivy  Council. 

Advise  that  Sir  Charles  Calthrope  may  have  an  allowance 
of  lOOl.  extra,  by  concordatum,  in  consideration  of  his  long 
services. — Dublin,  15  October  1608. 

Signed  :  Arth.  Chichester,  Tho.  Dublin,  Cane,  Th.  Ridge- 
way,  R.  Wingfelde,  Hum.  Wynche,  01.  St.  John,  Ad.  Loftus, 
Ry.  Cooke. 

P.  1.    Sealed.     Add.     Endd. 


Oct.  15. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
•vol.  225,  229. 


103.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 

Solicits  Ms  Lordship's  favour  for  the  bearer,  Richard  Bolton, ' 
Recorder  of  Dublin,  one  of  the  agents  for  the  customs  and 
privileges  of  that  city. — Dublin,  15  October  1608. 
P.  1.     Signed.     Add.    Endd. 


Oct.  15. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  230. 


104.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 

Recommends   the    claim    of   Sir  John    Davys,  Attorney- 
General,  whose  former  and  present  journies  will  be  an  extra 
expense  to  him. — Dublin  Castle,  15  October  1608. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 


Oct.  15. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  231. 


105.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 

Recommends  to  his  favour  Sir  James  Ley,  Chief  Justice, 
bearer  of  these  letters.  Relates  the  circumstances  attending 
the  arrival  of  Cottingham  when  he  was  in  the  North ;  his 
being  sent  by  Sir  Geoffrey  Fenton  to  his  son-in-law.  Sir  Rich. 
Boyle,  into  Munster.  Has  written  to  him  to  come,  that  they 
may  confer  together,  and  will  give  further  instructions. — 
Dublin  Castle,  15  October  1608. 

Pp.  2.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 


Oct.  15. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  232, 


106.        James  Latin  to  John  Goodwing. 

Complains  of  not  receiving  letters.  Gives  directions  that 
certain  supplies  may  be  sent.  Is  in  good  health,  and  his 
garrison  has  been  lately  changed. — Paris,  16  October  1608. 

P.  1.     Signed.    Adil. 


Oct.  15. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  233. 


107.        James  Latin  to  his  Brother,  Stephen  Latin. 

Complains  of  long  silence,  and  alludes  to  money  matters 
and  family  relations. — Paris,  15  October  1608. 
P.  1.     Signed.     Add.     Endd. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  71 


1608. 

Oct.  15.     108.        James  Latin  to  his  Uncle,  Nicholas  Atsh. 
voT  22?'234  Laments  the  death  of  his  brother,  uncle  to  the  writer,  on 

'      '  which  he  offers  condolence. — Paris,  15  October  1608. 

F.  1.     Add. 


Oct.  15.      109.        James  Latin  to  his  Brother  William. 

vof  lir^las'  -^^^  received  no  letter  for  two  years  from  him.     Commends 

his  foster  sister  to  his  care  ;  entering  into  some  particulars  of 
family  relations. — Paris,  15  October  1608. 
P.  1.     Signed.     Add. 


vol.  225,  235. 


Oct.  15.      110.        James  Latin  to  Richard  Quin. 
voT  225''236'  Acknowledges  receipt  of  certain  things ;  requests   money 

'      ■  by  Plunket.     Desires  two  pair  of  stockings  and  a  good  pair 

of  silk  garters. — Paris,  15  October  1608. 
P.  1.    Signed.    Add. 


vol.  225,  237. 


Oct.  15.        Ill,        LoED  Danvers  to  the  Privy  Council. 
vnf 'asr^MV^'  Although    the  death  of  Williams  must  bury  the  punish- 

ment of  his  offence,  yet  his  Lordship's  vigilance  in  suppressing 
such  weeds  of  dishonour,  even  in  the  bud,  will,  he  doubts  not 
be  both  example  and  terror  to  them  all.  But  to  leave  no 
greater  nor  no  less  imputation  upon  the  dead  than  his  due, 
howsoever  the  proportion  of  the  gain  may  appear  now  upon 
examination  some  little  matter  more  than  their  Lordships 
were  informed  of,  yet  was  it  altogether  mean  in  value  and 
unworthily  gotten,  and  he  dares  affirm,  if  it  deserved  further 
discourse,  that  Byshopp  merits  more  thanks  for  suffering  the 
"  Tremontane ''  to  come  safely  out  of  the  haven  of  Ballymore 
than  Williams  showed  discretion  in  that  adventure,  which 
he  presumes  Mr.  Jobson,  Yice-Admiral,  that  was  an  eye- 
witness, will  aver.  And  as  regards  his  part  of  treating  with 
these  pirates,  although  he  has  seen  and  heard  examples,  as 
well  here  as  in  foreign  countries,  of  pardons  and  large  pro- 
tections upon  dangers  which  appeared  far  less  formidable  ; — 
seeing  that  there  was  daily  expectation  of  succours,  or  at  the 
least  supphes,  to  that  rebellion  in  the  North ;  that  O'Siillyvan 
Beere  and  Father  Archer  (ringleaders  in  their  several  voca- 
tions) posted  both  from  Salamanca  and  Madrid  to  the  sea- 
side with  divers  barks  sent  from  several  ports  to  land  priests 
and  Irish  agents  of  special  note  to  encourage  the  revolt  that 
was,  and  to  stir  new  sedition  in  all  parts ;  and  that  many 
other  arguments  urged  him  to  accept  the  offer  of  these  cater- 
pillars without  the  least  condition  of  favour ;  yet  he  must 
needs  confess  and  obey  with  reverence  their  more  honourable 
prescribed  course,  which,  God  willing,  shall  be  ever  a  rule  to 
laim.  The  more  particular  account  of  these  proceedings  he  has 
written  to  the  Lord  Admiral  in  order  to  spare  them  trouble. 
—Cork,  15  October  1608. 
P.  1.     Signed.     Add.    Endd. 


72  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1608. 

Oct.  15.      112.        Lord  Danvees  to  Lord  [Salisbury]. 
S.P.,  Ireland,  jjjg  answer  (enclosed  herein)  to  the  Lords'  letters  dated  the 

^° '      '      ■  29th  of  September,  and  this  packet  to  the  Lord  Admiral, 

import  the  particulars  of  all  the  trash  which  some  more 
shipping  seized,  that  belonged  to  pirates,  and  of  the  sending 
the  "  Tremontane "  into  the  West  to  prosecute  Jennings, 
Plumbye,  Saxbridge,  and  divers  others  that  are  hovering 
thereabouts.  Hopes,  within  dne  month,  to  settle  things  in 
such  order  that  he  may  make  use  of  his  Lordship's  favour 
and  come  over  to  retain  or  resign  this  government,  as  fit 
conditions  are  likely  to  be  obtained  or  refused  to  him.  Will 
only  seek  the  continuance  of  his  Lordship's  good  opinion, 
wherewith  he  finds  all  his  endeavours  guarded  and  preferred. 
Quid  retribuavi  ?  If  he  be  a  public  person,  his  Lordship 
must  have  his  faithful  service ;  if  a  private  man,  his  hearty 
prayers. — Cork,  15  October  1608. 

P.  1.  Sig7ied.  Endd.  :  "  15  Oct.  1608.  Lord  President 
of  Mounster  to  my  Lord." 

Oct.  15.       113.        Sir  Thomas  Eidgeway  to  Salisbury. 
^■^■'„l?'''„'!,l'  Commends  to  his  favour  Chief  Justice  Ley  and  Sir  John 

'      '  Davys.     Enters  into  particulars  as  to  the  payment  of  bills  in 

London,  and  requests  that  the  next  supply  of  treasure  may 
be  sent  forward  as  soon  as  possible. — Treasury,  near  Dublin, 
15  October  1608. 
Pp.  2.     Signed.    Add.    Endd.     Encloses, 

S.P.,  Ireland,     114.        Extraordinary  Charge  of  Irelcmd,  Oct.  1,  1Q07-Sept.  30, 

vol.  225,  2391.  1608 

A  certificate  containing  a  brief  abstract  of  all  the  extra- 
ordinary payments  already  ')nade  and  due  to  be  made  by  the 
King's  most  excellent  Majesty,  luithin  the  space  of  o?w  whole 
year,  begun  the  l&i  of  October  1607,  and  ended  the  last  of  Sep- 
tember 1608,  over  cmul  above  the  ordinary  charges  of  His 
Highness's  establishment  for  Ireland,  and  the  extraordinary 
charges  of  the  two  armies  lately  employed  for  the  suppression 
of  O'Doghertie  and  the  other  rebels  in  the  north  parts,  and 
not  long  since  certified  over  into  England. 

£     s.    d.       £    s.    d. 
Harps.  Harps. 

Sir    Parre    Lane,   Knight,  1  Oct. 

1607,  for  his  travel,   being  sent 

from  the  Commissioners  in  Mun- 

ster  to  the  State  cot  Dublin,  for 

His  Majesty's  service       -  -     13     6     8 

Capitcdn  Hugh  Clottvorthie,  2  Oct. 

1607,  for  keeping  serviceable  the 

bark    and     boats    upon    Lough 

Eaghe    and  Lough  Sydney,  by 

agreement  entered  in  the  Council 

book,  per  annum  -  -     40     0     0 


IRELAND — JAMES  I.  73 


1608. 


Ja'tnes  Betagh  and  John  Doe, 
TnaiTned  in  His  Majesty's  works         6  13     4 

Sir  James  Ley,  Knight,  Lord  Chief 
Justice,  for  his  Lordship's  travel- 
ling charges  in  circuit,  by  con- 
cor  datum  -  -  -66134 

8ir  Robert  Remyngton,  Knight, 
Vice-president  of  Munster,  for 
rewards  given  by  him  to  mes- 
sengers, spies,  &c.  employed  in 
His  Majesty's  service       -  -     90   1 2     0 

Sir  Anthony  St.  Leger,  6  Oct.  1607, 
for  his  travelling  charges  in  his 
circuit,  for  keeping  of  sessions    -     74  13     4 

Justice  Palmer,  for  his  travelling 

charges  to  keep  sessions,  &c.         -     50     0     0 

Sir  Humphrey  Winche,  Knight, 
Lord  Chief  Baron,  for  the  like 
travelling  charges  in  circuit  to 
keep  sessions       -  -  -     74  13     4 

Sir  Charles  Calthroppe,  Knight,  one 
of  His  Majesty's  justices  of  the 
ComTnon  Pleas,  in  augmentation 
of  his  fee,  grounded  upon  His 
Majesty's  letters,  per  annum       -  1 00     0     0 

Sir  Edmond  Weynman,  Knight,  for 
bringing  from  .  Connaught  to 
Dublin  several  prisoner's  at 
sundry  tivies    '  -  -  -     20     0     0 

George  Sexten,  secretary  to  the  Lord 
Deputy,  for  money  by  him  dis- 
bursed to  'messengers,  spies,  <fcc.   -  100     5  10 

The  same  Mr.  Sexten,  for  like  re- 

luards  to  m^essengers,  spies,  &c.    -     44  18     6 

Baron  Oglethorpe,  for  his  travelling 

charges  in  circuit  -  -     37     0     0 

Justice  Sibthorpe,  for  his  like  tra- 
velling charges  in  circuit  -     46     0     0 

Sir  Dominick  Sarsfield,  for  the  like     50     0     0 

Baron  Elliott,  for  his  like  travel- 
ling charges  in  circuit    -     '       -     55     0     0 

William  Higges,  carriage-master, 
for  his  entertainment,  at  3s.  4cL 
per  diem,  amounting  per  annum 
to  the  sum  of      -  -  -     61     0     0 

Josias  Lambert,  in  respect  of  his 
long  and  dutiful  service  in  the 
tears  of  Ireland  -  -    20    0    0 


£     s.    d.      £    s.    d. 
Harps.  Harps. 


74  lEELAND — JAMES  I. 

1608. 


Willia'm  Higges,  for  money  by  him 
disbursed  about  carriages  for  the 
Lord  Deputy  and  his  train  from 
Dublin  to  Slane,  and  from  thence 
to  RathfernaTn   -  -  -     48  11     0 

William  Wight,  bookbinder,  24  N'ov. 
1607,  to  buy  him  tools  to  execute 
his  trade,  having  done  good  ser- 
vice to  the  State  -  -  -       6  13     4 

Nicholas  Bevans,  keeper  of  the 
Council  chamber,  for  necessaries 
for  the  said  Council  cha/mber      -     12     8     4 

John  Franckton,  printer,  for  print- 
ing divers  proclamations  pub- 
lished     -  -  -  -     25     0     0 

Sir  Nicholas  Walshe,  Lord  Chief 
Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas,  for 
travelling  charges  i/n  his  Lord- 
ship's circuit  to  keep  sessions,  &c.     87     0     0 

Captain  Hercules  Langforde,  for  so 
much  laid  out  by  his  brother 
Captain  Roger  Langforde,  to  Ever 
M'Quillen,  for  the  cutting  off  of 
Rorie  Knegagh  {sic)  and  certain 
notorious  malefactors,  his  fol- 
lowers      -         -  -  -     20     0     0 

Mr.  George  Sexten,  for  like  money 
by  him  disbursed  for  cutting  off 
the  said  traitor  Rorie  Knegagh, 
and  his  adherents  -  -     43  13     4 

Serjeant  Kerdiffe,  for   his   riding 

charges  to  keep  sessions  -  -     37     0     0 

Thomas  Brett,  for  bringing  pri- 
soners from  Waterford  to  Dublin      6     0     0 

Brian  M'Arte  and  William  Oaf- 
feney,  in  rewards  for  killing  a 
traitor  named  Arte  M'Donnagh      10     0     0 

Frauncis  Worthingtooi,  in  recom- 
pense for  an  oxe  that  died,  being 
overburdened  in  drawing  muni- 
tion from  Masserine  to  Carrig- 
fergus    -  -  -  -       5     0    0 

Michael  Philpott,  deputy  marshal 
of  His  Majesty's  Court  of  Castle 
Chamber,  for  paper,  lights,  and 
candlesticks        -  -  -      6     0     0 


£     s.    d.        £    s.    d. 
Harps.  Harps. 


IRELAND — JAMES   I.  75 


1608. 


Sir  Neale  O'Donnell,  for  his  charges, 
having  been  stayed  at  Dublin  by 
direction  of  the  State,  for  some 
considerations  tending  to  the  fur- 
therance of  His  Majesty's  service, 
a  far  longer  time  than  his  own 
occasions  required  in  Winter, 
1607       -  -  -  -     40     0     0 

John  JDobb,  paymaster  of  His  Ma- 
jesty's forces  at  Carigfergus,  for 
his  entertainment  at  3s.  per  diem 
for  one  whole  year  ended  the  last 
of  Sept.  1608     [-  -  54  18     0 

Robert  Calvert,  for  writing  and  en- 
grossing divers  proclamations, 
commissions,  and  other  business 
for  His  Majesty's  service  -     15     0     0 

Thomas  Tounge,  deputy  receiver 
and  paymaster  in  Munster,  for 
his  entertainment  at  6s.  8d.  per 
diem,  for  a  whole  year  ended  the 
last  of  Sept.  1QQ8  -  -  122     0     0 

Serjeant  Kerdiffe,  for  his  travelling 

charges  in  his  circuit     -  -     47     0     0 

The  Lord  Danvers,  Lord  President 
of  Munster,  for  transportation, 
carriage,  and  portage,  for  him- 
self and  his  followers  into  the 
realm  of  Ireland  -  -  400     0     0 

Sir  Oliver  Lambert,  for  his  attend- 
ance in  England,  touching  the 
affairs  of  Ireland,  by  command- 
ment of  the  Lords  of  the  Council  133     6     8 

Sir  John  Davys,  Knight,  for  his 
travelling  charges,  being  sent 
down  a  commissioner  in  the 
North,  for  finding  the  indict- 
ments against  the  fugitive  Earls      20     0     0 

John  Francton,  printer,  for  his  en- 
abling to  buy  paper  and  other 
necessaries  for  -printing  the  Book 
of  Common  Prayers  in  the  Irish 
tongue   -  -  -  -     40     0     0 

Baron  Elliott,  for  his  charges  and 
pains  sustained  in  finding  sun- 
dry indictments  against  the  fu- 
gitive Earls        -  -  -     20     0     0 

Justice  Sibthorp,  for  his  employ- 
ment about  the  same  business    -     20     0     0 


£     s.    d.        £    s.     d. 
Harps.  Harps. 


76  lEELAlNTD— JAMES  I. 

1608. 

£     s.    d.        £    s.    d. 
Harps.  Harps. 

George    Sexten,  Esq.,  clerk   of  the 
„  Grown  in  Ulster,  for  his  attend- 
ance on  the  Gommissioners  for 
finding  the  indictments  against 
the  fugitive  Earls  -  -     18     0     0 

Sir  Richard  Morison,  Knight,  in 
recompense  of  what  charges  he 
sustained  in  Mtmster  for  reiuards 
to  messengers,  spies,  &c.  -  -  100     0     0 

Daniel  Mullinex,  king-at-arins,  for 
his  attendance  arid  publication 
of  His  Majesty's  style  at  sundry 
times     -  -  -  -     10  13     4 

John  Hoy,  pursuivant,  27  Feb. 
1607,  in  respect  of  his  extra- 
ordinary employinent  in  His  Ma- 
jesty's service      -  -  -       9     6     0 

Sundry  Goncordatums  granted  by  the  Lord  Deputy  and 
Council  to  the  severed  persons  within  mentioned,  viz., 
to— 

Thadie  Ferrall,  pursuivant,  to  buy 

a  horse  the  better  to  execute  his 

place      -  -  -  -       5     0     0 

r  7      rr  •      i    ^  •  f  Nil,  because 

John  Hoy,  ser-ieant-at-arms,  %n  re-  \  ■,  .  i, 

/  X  T-     z.  •     7       ■         %t  is  payable 

respect  of  his  charges  m  keeping  J      f      f 

m,y  Lord  of  Delvin's  son  and  his 

nurse     -  -  -  - 


out    of  my 
Lord     Del- 

vin's  rents. 


The  Earl  of  Thomond,  for  rewards 
to  messengers  and  spies,  &c.        -  112     0     0 

Wcdter  Talbot,  gentleman,  for  kill- 
ing certain  7'ebels  that  adhered 
to  the  Lord  of  Delvin  after  his 
escape    -  -  -  -    20     0     0 

Giles  Stanley,  pursuivant,  to  buy 

a  pursuivant's  coat         -  -     10     0     0 

Hugh  Culme,  for  money  by  him 
disbursed  for  apprehending  cer- 
tain rebels  -  -  -     14     6     8 

Sir  William  Synnott,  for  surrender- 
ing his  office  of  justice  of  tlie 
liberties  of  the  county  of  Wex- 
ford and  his  fee  of  201.  per  ann. 
to  His  Majesty,  by  composition 
with  the  State     -  -  -    80     0     0 


lEELAND — JAMES  I.  77 


1608. 


Sir  Foulke  Convjey,  for  money  by 
him  disbursed  in  dispatch  of 
messengers  from  Carigfergus  to 
Scotland,  Dublin,  and  other  parts 
of  Ireland  -  -  -     44  16     0 

William,  Higges,  carriage-master, 
for  money  disbursed  for  carriages 
for  the  Lord  Deputy's  journey  to 
Howth   -  -  -  -     19     8     0 

Justice  Palmier,  for  the  travelling 

charges  spent  in  his  jourtiey       -     22     0     0 

Sir  Nicholas  Walshe,  Chief  Justice 
of  the  Common  Pleas,  for  his 
like  travelling  charges  in  the 
time  of  his  circuit  -  -     25     G     8 

Sir  Humphry  Winch,  Knight,  Lord 
Chief  Baron,  for  his  like  travel- 
ling charges       -  -  -     46     6     8 

Captain  William  Cole,  in  consider- 
ation of  46L  du&to  him  for  mak- 
ing and  repairing  the  bark  aiid 
boats  of  Ballyshannon,  and  for 
increase  of  his  entertainment  to 
keep  them  in  repair  and  readi- 
ness, per  annum   -        -  -     26  1 3     4 

For  the  robes  of  the  Chief  Justices 
down  to  Serjeants,  13  in  number, 
171.  15s.  6^d.  each. 

Captain  Henry  Skipwith,  for  his 
travelling  charges  to  and  from 
England,  by  letters  from  the 
Lords  of  the  Council  there  -     76  11     9 

Baron  Elliott,  for  travelling  charges 
in  his  circuit     -  -  - 

Justice  Sibthorp,  for  the  like 

Baron  Oglethorpe,  for  the  like 

Serjeant  Kerdiff,  for  the  like 

Sir  John  Davys,  for  the  like 

John  Tompson  and  Humphrey 
Sympson,  for  being  p)rest  ivith 
letters  into  Scotland        -  -     10     0     0 

Sir  Henry  Folliott,  in  regard  he 
maintained  15  horsemen  on  his 
own  charge  for  a  time,  being  dis- 
charged by  direction  out  of  Eng- 
land     -  -  -  -     66     5     0 

David  Tirrey,  of  Cork,  for  the  rent 
of  a  house  to  him  belonging,  now 
used  for  keeping  His  Majesty's 
store       -  -  -  -     16  13     4 


£     s.    d.        £    s.    d. 
.  Harps.  Harps. 


35 

0 

0 

81 

0 

0 

30 

0 

0 

29 

0 

0 

29 

0 

0 

78  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1608. 


Henry  Crosse,  of  BarnestcMe,  in 
respect  of  great  losses  by  him  sus- 
tained hy  shipwreoJc  in  His  Ma- 
jesty's service      -  -  .  200     0     0 

Nicholas  Gessell,  for  secret  and 
weighty  service,  commanded  hy 
the  State,  and  on  his  faH  well 
performed  -  -  -26134 

The  Lady  Poulett,  for  money  hy  her 
late  hushandj  disbursed  to  mes- 
sengers, spies,  &c.  -  -     40     0     0 

Geffrey  Oshaldston,  for  ononey  hy 
him  disbursed  to  messengers,  &c.      69  18     0 

Richard  Osborne,  preacher,  for  spe- 
cial service  performed  by  him  in 
Munster  -  -  -     14  13     8 

William  Crofton,  as  well  for  keep- 
ing the  body  of  Bryan  M'Don- 
nagh,  as  for  maintaining  a  ward 
of  eight  men      -  -  -     20     6     8 

Thomas  Smythe,  Esq.,  commissary 
of  the  victuals  in  Connaght,  in 
satisfaction  of  the  arrearages  of 
his  fee  of  6s.Irish  per  diem  as  com- 
Tnissary  of  victuals  in  the  county 
of  Tyrconnell,  by  concordatum  -  191     8     0 

Thomas  Hibbotts  and  John  Pile- 
man,  for  keeping  His  Majesty's 
Castle  of  Dublin,  and  the  pri- 
soners in  the  sa/rm  -  -     80     0     0 

Sir  Oliver  St.  John,  for  a  wreclced 
ship  bought  by  him  and  used  in 
His  Majesty's  service      -  -     52  18     5 

Captain  John  Baynard,  for  his  ex- 
pense and  travel  i/>i  bringing  to 
Dublin  a  ship  from  Bristol,  by 
direction  of  the  Lords  of  the 
Council  in  England      -  -     20     0     0 

The  Lord  Danvers,  for  rewards  to 
messengers,  spies,  &c.      -  -  100     0     0 

The  Lord  Bishop  of  Berry,  for  his 
travel  in  discovery  of  Sir  Don- 
nell  O'Kahane's  plots     -  -  100     0     0 

Marmaduke  Whitechurch,  for  his 
travel  i/n  bringing  to  Dublin  a 
jury  of  inhabitants  of  the  county 
of  Armagh,  for  the  trial  of 
Bryan  M'Arte,  and  for  their  diet    43  10     0 


£    s.    d.        £    s.    d. 
Harps.  Harps. 


lEELAND — JAMES  I.  79 


1608. 


£     s.    d.        £    s.    d. 
Harps.  Harps. 


Patricke  Terrey,  Mayor  of  Cork, 
for  sending  a  boat  and  furniture 
to  the  fort  of  Halebolinge  for  His 
Majesty's  service  -  -       9     0     0 

Patricke  Stroung,  for  his  service 
done  by  commandment  of  the 
State      -  -  -  -     10     0     0 

Mr.  George  Sexten,  secretary  to  the 
Lord  Deputy,  for  money  by  him 
disbursed  aforehand  to  mes- 
sengers and  spies  -  -15615     0 

Thomas  Butler,  harbinger,  for  his 
entertaintnent  at  3s.  4cZ.  per  diem 
for  one  year  ended  the  last  of 
Sept.  1608  -  -  -     61     0     0 

Anthony  Dillon,  gent,  for  making 
over  to  the  King's  Majesty  his  in- 
terest for  20  yeai's  or  thereabouts 
of  Cattle  Parke,  where  there  is  a 
fortbuilded         -  -  -  133     6     8 

Sir  John  Jephson,  for  his  travel 
and  charges  in  carrying  over  the 
LordofHoioth  -  -  -  100     0     0 

Sir  James  Perott,  being  sent  with 

the  Lord  of  Delvin  i/nto  England    40     0     0 

John  Francton,  printer,  for  print- 
ing divers  proclamations  -     48     0     0 

Mr.  Daniell,  preacher,  being  sent 
into  the  country  to  visit  by  com- 
mandment of  the  State  -  -     1715     6^ 

Richard  West,  lieutenant  to  the 
Lord  Crmmwell,  for  the  entertain- 
ment  o/  10  horsemen  discharged 
by  the  Establishment,  which  he 
kept  in  pay  a  good  while  after, 
before  he  could  receive  notice  of 
their  discharge   -  -  -     30  10     0 

Edmond  Cullen,  surgeon,  for  his 
entertainment  at  2s.  per  diem, 
for  half  a  year  ended  the  last  of 
March  1608        -  -  -     18     6     0 

John  Miohell,  gent.,  for  good  and 
acceptable  service  done  by  hi/m 
unto  the  State    -  -  -      6  13     4 

Henry  Andrewes,  owner  of  a  bark, 
for  the  charges  of  himself  and 
mariners,  being  stayed  14  days 
for  the  transportation  of  my 
Lord  of  Howth  -  -  -      4  13    4 


80  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1608. 


Sir  John  Moore,  Knt,  for  the  repair 
and  making  defensible  the  castle 
of  Tougher,  by  concordatum        -     10     0     0 

Sir  George  Poulett,  Knight,  de- 
ceased, for  repair  of  the  rampiers 
and  fort  of  the  Berry     -  -     26  13     4 

Captain  Hugh  Culme,  for  repara- 
tions done  upon  Cloughoughter  -     1 0     0     0 

Sir  Francis  Rotue,  for  fortifications 

done  upon  the  fort  of  Mountjoy  -  133     5     8 

Lieutenant  Baker,  for  the  repairs 
and  fortifying  of  the  fort  of  Gul- 
more,  paid  in  hand        -  -     20     0     0 

John  JDallway,  for  reparations  to 
be  done  upon  the  palace  of  Carig- 
fergus    -  -  -  -     80     0     0 

Joice  Everard,  engineer,  for  his 
entertainment  at  6s.  8d.,  for  one 
ruhole  year  ended  the  last  day  of 
September  1608  -  -  -  122     0     0 

Lennan  de  Rose,  engineer,  for  his 
like  entertainment  for  the  same 
time       -  -  -  -  122     0     0 


£   s.     d.       £    s.    d. 
Harps.  Harps. 


5,443  16     1 

Warrctnt  of  Imprest  to  sundry  Officers,  vis.,  to-~- 

Sir  Oliver  St.  John,  Knight,  Master 
of  the  Ordnance,  by  several  ivar- 
rants  for  the  transportation  of 
munition  by  sea  and  carriages 
by  land,  within  the  time  of  one 
tuhole  year  ended  the  last  of  Sep- 
tember 1608  {over  and  besides 
200L  disbursed  for  like  carriages 
for  the  tiuo  armies  lately  em- 
ployed for  the  suppression  of  the 
rebels  in  the  North,  which  is  be- 
fore certified  amongst  into  Eng- 
land), the  sum  of  -  -  460     0     0 

Sir  Robert  Newcomen,  purveyor 
and  issuer  of  His  Majesty's  vic- 
tuals, for  so  much  imprested  to 
him  within  the  time  aforesaid    -  1,460    0    0 

Thomas  Smyth,  the  commissary  of 
victuals  in  Connaght,  by  sundry 
warrants  of  imprest       -  -  600     0     0 

Samuel  Mullinex,  Esq.,  clerk  of  the 
works,  by  several  warrants  -  184     0     0 

2,704     0     0 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  81 


1608. 

£      s.     d. 
Sum  total  of  the  said  extraordinaries'^  c  1 4,17  -t  p     i 
for  one  whole  year  ended  the  last  >   '    ir„.™„ 
day  of  September  1QQ?>       -  -J  1  • 

Faciens  English  .  -  .     6,110  17     1 

Unto  which  is  to  be  added  for  so  much  paAd  to  Captain 
Ellinge,  noiu  constable  of  Doe  Castle,  by  concordatum  toicards 
the  repair  of  the  breaches  lately  made  by  the  cannon  upon  the 
tvinning  thereof  by  the  King's  forces,  7QI-  13s.  4d.,  ha,rps ; 
maJcing  English,  50?. 

And  then  the  sums  conjoined,  the  total  ivill  be  6,160?.  17s.  Id. 

Memorandum.  —  There  are  sundry  other  concordatums 
granted  to  divers  servitors  and  others  employed  in  His  Ma- 
jesty's service  luithin  the  time  of  one  ivhole  year  ended  the 
the  last  of  September  1608,  and  not  yet  come  to  my  hands, 
amounting  in  all  to  the  su'Tyi  of } 

A  Iso  it  is  to  be  remembered  that  the  extraordinaries  for  the 
ttuo  armies  lately  employed  for  the  suppression  of  the  northern 
rebels,  %vhich  have  been  formerly  certified,  are  no  part  of  the 
charge  contained  in  this  certificate. 

And  do  humbly  pray  that  as  tvell  the  one  as  the  other  may 
with  all  convenient  speed  be  sent  over. 

Pp.  13.     Endd.  Th.  Ridgeway. 

Oct.  15.      115.        Sir  Aethur  Chichester  to  the  King. 

vT  227' 22*7'  ■^^^   dispatched   hence  the   Lord   Chief  Justice   and   the 

Attorney-Genera],  according  to  the  directions  of  the  Lords  of 
the  Council,  so  fully  instructed  in  the  general  and  likewise  in 
the  particular  affairs  of  this  kingdom,  that  His  Majesty  -will 
receive  by  them  knowledge  of  the  present  state  of  the  same, 
and  of  what  is  wished  and  advised  for  the  better  settlement 
and  reformation  thereof,  both  in  the  service  of  God  and  in 
obedience  to  His  Majesty. 

There  was  never  a  fairer  opportunity  offered  to  any  of 
His  Highness's  predecessors  to  plant  and  reform  that  rude 
and  irreligious  corner  of  the  North  than  by  flight  of  the 
traitorous  Earls  Tyrone  and  Tyrconnell,  with  their  co-partners 
and  adherents  ;  neither  was  thei-e  ever  prince  more  wise  and 
able  to  go  through  with  so  royal  and  memorable  a  work. 

Those  two  Earls  have  by  their  writings  accused  him 
(Chichester)  to  His  Majesty  as  the  principal  occasion  of  their 
departure,  and  have  taxed  him  with  many  particulars  of 
unjust  and  unworthy  usage  of  them.  Humbly  prays  His 
Majesty  to  give  small  credit  to  their  accusations,  who  never 
meant  well  to  his  service  nor  affected  his  gracious  and  just 
government,  but  who,  being  bridled  of  their  wills,  became 
mad,  and  have  so  declared  themselves.  Must  confess  he  had 
ever  good  watch  and  espial  upon  them,  which,  together  with 
the  knowledge  and  acquaintance  he  had  in  their  country,  was 

1  Blank  in  MS. 


82  IRELAND— JAMES  1. 

1608. 

the  ground  and  cause  of  their  fear,  and  consequently  of  their 
flight  and  accusation  ;  for  other  wrong  he  never  did  them,  but 
has  spent  many  hours  and  much  breath  to  make  them  (espe- 
cially Tyrone)  good  subjects,  and  men  fit  for  His  Majesty's 
trust  and  service.  But  as  he  spent  that  in  vain,  so  was  he 
rather  prodigal  than  backward  in  doing  them  good  offices, 
which  they  have  heretofore  sometimes  confessed,  albeit  they 
now  tax  him  with  ill-dealing.  His  Majesty  is  so  clear- 
sighted and  can  so  well  discern  the  actions  and  minds  of  such 
persons,  that  he  fears  not  their  inventions  ;  and  if  he  stand 
upright  in  His  Majesty's  favour  (as  he  will  never  deserve  the 
contrary),  he  cares  not  if  he  had  scared  them  hence,  for 
worse  members  there  could  not  be  in  a  Christian  common- 
wealth ;  but  he  could  purge  himself  of  their  accusation,  as 
well  in  the  opinion  of  the  world  as  he  is  clear  in  his  own 
conscience,  if  it  were  fit  for  him  to  dispute  with  traitors.  It 
may  be  that  some  other  of  this  nation  (not  much  better 
aflfected  than  themselves)  have  endeavoured  or  may  endeavour 
to  supplant  His  Majesty's  favour  towards  him,  for  malice  and 
envy  are  often  begotten  without  fathers,  and  have  no  end, 
but  his  safety  is  in  His  Majesty  and  an  upright  conscience. 

His  Majesty  chose  him  to  be  Deputy  in  this  kingdom  when 
greater  men  perchance  aimed  at  the  place,  and  could  doubtless 
have  served  His  Majesty  as  well,  or  better,  but  he  has  left 
nothing  undone  or  unattempted  which  he  thought  would 
bring  with  it  honour  and  safety  to  His  Majesty  and  his 
government.  Prays  God  for  its  long  continuance,  and  hopes 
for  His  Majesty's  support. 

This  people  seldom  quench  their  thirst  but  at  the  well 
head,  and  that  makes  many  of  them  direct  their  course 
thither  as  to  the  fountain  of  grace  and  justice ;  but  he 
(Chichester)  is  assured  that,  if  they  receive  not  what  they 
seek,  however  unreasonable,  from  the  Lords  of  the  Council 
there,  they  forbear  not  to  trouble  His  Majesty,  and  some- 
times to  tax  the  justice  of  the  land,  which  he  may  well  say, 
in  behalf  of  His  Majesty's  principal  officers  here,  and  without 
being  thought  a  praiser  of  himself,  was  never  distributed  with 
more  clean  hands  in  this  kingdom. 

From  time  to  time  imparts  the  affairs  of  the  kingdom  to 
the  Lords  of  His  Majesty's  Council,  from  whom  he  receives 
so  wise  and  honourable  directions  that  he  forbears  to  trouble 
His  Majesty  with  his  plain  style  and  long  discourses.  Would 
likewise  have  forborne  at  this  time,  were  it  not  to  crave  par- 
don for  his  past  silence,  and  to  present  his  humble  and  faithful 
service  to  His  Majesty  by  the  bearer  hereof.  Sir  James  Ley, 
Chief  Justice,  a  very  grave  and  worthy  gentleman,  who  has 
taken  great  pains  in  His  Majesty's  service  ever  since  his  first 
coming  into  this  land.  Has  transmitted  by  him  his  know- 
ledge and  opinion  in  the  matters  he  is  to  treat  of  there. 
Prays  His  Majesty  to  pardon  his  presumption  in  writing  as 
he  has  done  in  his  own  defence  against  accusation,  and  in 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


83 


1608. 


Oct.  15. 

Philad.  P., 
■vol.  3,  p.  328. 

Oct.  16. 
S.r.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  240. 


Oct.  16. 

Cotton  MSS., 

Vesp,  C.  xi.  148,  b. 

B.M. 


declaring  his  affection  and  zeal  for  His  Majesty's  service. — 
Dublin  Castle,  15  October  1608. 
Pp.  3.    Signed.    Endd. 

116.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  King. 
Duplicate  of  part  of  the  preceding. 
Pp.  3.     Copy.    Not  signed,  add.,  or  endd. 


Oct.  17. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,241. 


117.  Thomas  Deey  to  Edmund  Morgan. 

Directs  him  to  forward  certain  letters  to  his  father,  Barnaby 
Dery,  at  the  Newry. — Doway,  16  October  1608. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Add.     Endd. 

118.  Sir  Charles  Cornwallis  to  Lords  of  Council.^ 
The  King  has  stayed  longer  than  was  expected,  but  was  so 

occupied  with  consultations  on  the  Low  Country  businesses, 
that  an  audience  was  impossible.  Has  had  access  to  the 
Duke,  to  whom  he  vindicated  himself  from  aspersions  cast  on 
him,  as  he  thinks,  by  the  ambassador.  Having  complained  of 
the  delay  and  difficulty  in  redressing  the  grievances  of  British 
subjects,  and  allusion  having  been  made  to  the  aid  given  to 
the  Irish  rebels,  prayed  his  Excellency  not  to  suffer  either 
the  King  or  himself  to  be  abused  by  those  that  engreate 
(exaggerate)  the  means  of  those  Irish  rebels  ;  since  it  is  well 
known  that  those  of  this  time  are  but  as  a  frost  that  is 
dissolved  with  the  least  beam  of  the  sun  ;  that  former  Kings 
of  England  would  rather,  for  rooting  out  so  savage  a  people, 
have  used  the  means  taken  by  the  Kings  of  Spain  in  the 
Indies,  or  those  employed  with  the  Moors,  in  removing  them 
from  their  strong  retreats  and  scattering  them  in  other  parts 
of  his  kingdom  till  their  brutish  and  wild  condition  should 
be  aliened  from  them.  But  that  the  King,  his  master,  had 
now  taken  so  good  order  in  it,  and  especially  in  the  wild  and 
savage  parts,  that  he  doubted  not  they  were  already  made 
secure  from  these  ragged  rebels. 

The  Irish  fugitives,  from  what  he  hears,  have  of  late  received 
so  cold  comfort  here  and  elsewhere,  and  have  so  much  tasted 
God's  hand  in  chastisement  of  their  treason  and  wickedness, 
that  they  despair  of  the  success  they  hoped,  and  will  take  to 
their  beads,  and  think  no  more  of  return  into  Ireland. 

Sickness  has  entered  his  house  again,  and  two  of  his  people 
are  heavily  laden  with  small-pox. — Madrid,  16  October  1608. 

Pp.  7.     Gofy. 

119.  Sir  Josias  Bodley  to  Salisbury. 

Thought  it  his  duty  to  advertise  his  Lordship  of  the  pro- 
gress of  the  fortifications.  Would  have  been  able  to  report  by 
this  time  the  final  end  of  the  works,  if  his  endeavours  had  been 
seconded  with  necessary  helps  ;  but  the  slow  motion  of  that 

1  Printed  in  Sawyer's  Memorials  of  State  Affairs,  vol.  ii.,  p.  435, 

F   2 


84  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 

1608. 

main   wheel    of  treasure  which   moved  all  their  works  has 
caused  the  backwardness  which  now  exists. 

The  division  of  a  great  part  of  the  moneys  (at  the  first 
plentifully  allowed  to  them)  to  other  more  pressing  occasions 
of  the  kingdom,  has  made  them  labour  with  few  hands  and 
cast  them  much  behind.  Howbeit,  they  are  already  so  far 
advanced,  that,  except  moneys  altogether  fail  they  will  either 
see  the  conclusion  of  all  these  works  near  about  Allhallowtide, 
or  at  the  least  of  so  much  in  each  as  shall  serve  for  assured 
defence  and  necessary  use.  So  that  whatsoever  shall  be  left 
unfinished  may,  without  prejudice  to  the  importance  of  those 
places,  be  perfected  at  leisure.  Dares  boldly  to  insinuate  that 
when  these  forts  shall  be  made  complete  according  to  the 
designment,  there  shall  not  anything  be  found  (in  the  strictest 
censure)  of  superfluous  charge,  nor  anything  wanting  to  suffi- 
cient strength.  Besides  that  they  are  so  contrived  that  a 
small  number  of  defendants  from  convenient  flanks,  casemates, 
and  inner  works  may  make  their  party  good  against  a  hun- 
dred-fold so  many  assailants  ;  and  jet  the  same  places  of  such 
capacity,  that  in  any  general  distress  multitudes  may  there  be 
succoured  ;  and  if  his  computation  deceive  him  not,  some 
remainder  will  by  good  husbandry  be  saved  out  of  the  sums 
propounded  for  this  business,  whereof  hereafter  his  Lordship 
shall  have  an  honest  reckoning. 

Humbly  beeseeches  him,  therefore,  not  to  forsake  them  in 
this  last  exigent,  when  the  withholding  means  will  multiply 
the  charge  hereafter,  will  hinder  the  good  that  may  ensue  by 
their  speedy  dispatch,  and  will  verify  the  malicious  prophecies 
of  such  ill-affected  persons  as  took  upon  them  to  foretell,  that 
their  end  would  never  sort  with  tlieir  beginnings,  which  he 
thought  fit  to  write,  though  in  dutiful  terms,  in  expectation  of 
such  further  supply  as  he  is  promised  from  the  Lord  Deputy, 
whose  exceeding  care  has  hitherto  been  extended  to  the  utter- 
most in  their  behalf. — Cork,  17  October  1608. 

Pp.  2.     Signed.     Add.     Endd. 

Oct.  18.     120.        Thomas  Dery  to  Barnaby  Dery. 

^ '225'242'  Commends  David  Keys  who  has  supplied  him  with  clothes 

'      '  and   other   necessaries.      Desires    remembrances    to    various 

friends.— Flanders,  18  October  1608. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Add.     Endd. 

Oct.  18.       121.        David  Keys  to  Barnaby  Dery. 
^'i^oif^l^.'i'^'  Begs  his  favour  for  Piers,  his  brother. — Flanders,  18  October 

vol.  225,  243.  jg^gS 

P.  1.     Signed.     Add.     Endd. 
Oct.  18.      122.  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Privy  Council. 

Toi.  225^^244'  Writes  on  behalf  of  the  bearer,  Sir  Francis  Staff'ord's  son, 

that  he  may  be  joined  in  patent  with  his  father  for  his  pension 
of  5s.  per  diem. — Dublin  Castle,  18  October  1608. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  85 


1608. 
Oct.  18.       123.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
f  225^*245'  Recommends  the  bearer,  Mr.  Edmond  Sexten,  one  of  the 

agents  of  Limerick  in  the  matter  of  customs. — Dublin  Castle, 
18  October  1608. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

Oct.  18.      124.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  [Salisbury]. 

^1^22^5^246 '  '^^^  Chief  Justice  went  hence  by  the  last  passage,  to  whom 

'      '  he  delivered  a  letter  to  be  presented  to  the  King.     The  copy 

thereof  he  sends  here  enclosed,  wanting  time  to  do  it  by  him, 
the  tide  serving  his  turn  sooner  than  he  thought  it  would 
have  done.  Has  not  troubled  His  Majesty  with  business  nor 
suits,  his  writing  being  only  to  declare  his  humble  thankful- 
ness for  the  benefits  and  favours  which  he  has  received,  and 
to  lay  open  the  falsehood  of  the  accusation  which  the  fugitive 
Earls  have  made  against  him.  Hears  they  have  published 
this  slander  in  sundry  languages,  in  the  parts  where  they  have 
come  beyond  the  seas.  And  to  quicken  His  Majesty's  care 
and  dispatch  for  the  settlement  of  Ulster,  the  book  of  survey 
which  he  sent  by  the  Chief  Justice  and  Attorney  has  not  the 
values  of  the  land,  for  which  he  has  given  a  reason  in  the 
notes  he  delivers  to  them  :  and  it  was  omitted  the  rathei 
because  it  was  said  here  that  the  King,  through  importunity  of 
suitors,  made  promise  of  a  great  part  to  be  given  according  to 
the  surveys,  by  100^.  rents  to  one  and  200Z.  to  another.  This 
course,  if  it  should  be  so,  will  altogether  overthrow  the  ex- 
pected plantation  and  reformation  of  that  province  ;  which 
well  settled,  peace  is  like  to  be  continued  there,  and  so  in 
other  parts  of  the  kingdom,  from  whence  civility  and  plenty 
may  follow.  Whereby  the  King's  charge  of  sending  money 
from  thence  will  be  in  time  greatly  eased,  for  lie  sees  no 
reason  that  Ireland  may  be  brought  to  keep  itself,  if  the 
people  could  be  made  to  affect  peace,  and  to  take  pains  in 
husbanding  and  manuring  the  land,  and  had  care  to  make  the 
best  of  the  commodities  which  it  brings  forth  in  their  several 
kinds.  But  if  the  nobility  and  subjects  of  Scotland,  having 
part  of  the  escheated  lands  passed  to  them,  be  permitted 
to  bring  over  the  islanders  or  their  neighbours  of  those 
northern  parts,  thinks  more  trouble  and  less  profit  will  arise 
from  thence,  than  if  the  Irish  themselves  held  it  as  they 
now  do.  Delivers  his  opinion  herein  plainly,  not,  he  takes 
God  to  witness,  with  a  mind  to  cross  or  hinder  any  noble  or 
other  civil  gentlemen  that  have  a  desire  to  settle  and  plant 
there,  but  in  order  that  the  inconvenience  may  be  prevented 
and  the  best  course  thought  on  and  embraced.  Now  for  the 
values,  the  Chief  Justice  and  Attorney  has  them  in  a  private 
note  to  present  as  they  were  set  down  by  the  jury,  who  can 
further  acquaint  his  Lordship  with  the  opinion  of  the  rest  of 
the  commissioners  in  that  point. 

Having  said  this  much  in  that  subject,  he  thinks  it  his 
duty  to  submit  the  matter  of  customs,  for  which  the  agents  of 


86  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 

1608. 

the  corporations  are  gone  thither.  Perceives  by  sundry  ob- 
servations, and  is  assured,  that  if  the  King  should  take  from 
them  the  profits  and  privileges  which  His  Majesty's  pre- 
decessors have  permitted  them  to  enjoy,  without  giving  them 
contentment  by  renewing  their  charters  and  enlarging  their 
liberties  in  some  other  kind,  it  will  discontent  them,  and  ob- 
dure  their  hearts  towards  His  Majesty's  service,  as  much  as 
the  proceedings  with  them  in  point  of  rehgion  would  have 
done ;  and  surely  it  is  a  special  point  of  wisdom  to  keep  the 
cities  and  towns  of  this  kingdom  constant  and  faithful  to  His 
Majesty  and  his  service,  without  which  all  may  be  in  danger 
at  one  time  or  other. 

Next  to  this,  must  acquaint  his  Lordship  that  Thomas 
Bourke  has  been  with  him  complaining  against  his  brother, 
the  Earl  of  Clanricarde.  The  chiefest  point  that  he  insisted 
upon  was,  that  his  brother,  his  officers,  and  servants,  had 
given  out  that  he  practised  and  intended  to  murder  him  and 
his  little  son,  and  that  the  accusation  made  against  him  for 
being  of  the  conspiracy  with  the  traitors  Tyrone  and  Tjr- 
connell  was  but  a  practice  of  his  adversaries  to  bring  him 
into  disgrace  and  danger.  The  like  Sir  Tybott  Bourke  says 
of  his  part,  both  of  them  urging  him  (Chichester)  often  and 
with  great  earnestness,  to  call  them  to  their  trial,  and  not  to 
hold  them  in  the  case  they  are  suspected  and  upon  bonds. 
His  Lordship  knows  who  it  was  that  accused  them  for  being 
of  the  conspiracy  with  the  traitors,  and  that  he  at  the  same 
time  accused  the  ^I'iscounts  Mountgarret  and  Gormanston, 
with  others,  who  weire  never  hitherto  called  into  question  nor 
examined.  He  may  judge  by  the  handling  of  this  business, 
and  by  the  discoverer's  own  neglect  to  take  out  or  seek  for  a 
pardon  when  he  was  there,  that  treason  among  many  of  this 
nation  is  thought  but  a  slight  crime.  The  case  of  Sir  Thomas 
and  Tybott  Bourke  (who  have  been  prisoners  and  are  yet 
upon  bonds)  is  difierent  from  the  rest ;  but  neither  in  the  one 
nor  the  other  can  he  go  any  further  without  direction,  nor 
does  he  understand  how  his  Lordship  can  direct  him  to  pro^ 
ceed,  unless  the  party  would  make  good  the  accusation,  which 
he  will  not. 

But  seeing  he  has  been  made  acquainted  with  these  passages 
and  accusations,  and  has  proceeded  no  further  therein  than 
aforesaid,  whatsoever  the  end  be,  he  humbly  prays  his  Lord- 
ship to  provide  for  him,  that  his  secret  carriage  in  the  business 
in  which  he  followed  his  Lordship's  directions  may  not  hurt 
him.  Unless  this  care  be  taken,  he  will  stand  subject  to  the 
reports  of  an  ill  and  uncontrolled  tongue,  which  may  at  one 
time  or  other  cast  out  venom  against  him. 

The  Earl  of  Clanricarde  is  a  very  honourable  and  worthy 
gentleman,  who,  he  dares  avow,  never  did  or  intended  barm 
to  those  gentlemen ;  but  this  people  are  ever  jealous  and 
suspicious  of  such  as  are  in  authority,  and  being  at  any  time 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  87 


1608. 


accused  or  punished,  always  think   their  blow  come  from 
them. 

That  which  was  objected  by  David  M'TJlicke  Atemple 
against  Sir  Tybott  Bourke,  and  delivered  to  the  Earl  of 
Clanricarde,  in  England,  was,  he  thinks,  rather  feigned  and 
malicious  than  truly  grounded,  and  of  that  opinion  was  the 
Council  here,  before  whom  they  appeared  face  to  face.  Can- 
not perceive  that  Sir  Tybott  is  ill  affected  to  the  King's 
service,  neither  does  he  see  any  reason  why  he  should  not 
pray  and  fight  for  the  good  prosperity  of  His  Majesty's 
government.  But  the  Earl  of  Clanricarde  may  in  that  case 
see  more  than  he,  and  therefore  he  willed  his  Lordship  to  com- 
mit him  [Sir  Tybott]  within  the  province  if  he  found  cause,  for 
he  cannot  with  a  good  conscience  keep  a  man  of  his  sort  in 
prison  without  some  pregnant  cause  appearing  against  him. 
Thought  it  not  amiss  to  give  his  Lordship  a  taste  of  these 
things,  and  wiU  do  his  best  to  stop  and  reconcile  the  differences 
betwixt  them,  but  thinks  it  is  too  deep-rooted  and  gone  too  far. 
Has  requested  the  Chief  Justice  and  Attorney  to  receive 
directions  for  the  proceedings  with  Sir  Donnell  O'Cahane, 
Sir  Neal  O'Donnell,  with  his  son  and  two  brothers,  together 
with  Caffer  Oge  O'Donnell ;  albeit  they  for  the  most  part  be 
dangerous  alike,  yet  their  faults  are  not  all  of  one  nature,  as 
they  can  inform  his  Lordship.  They  are  plotting  and  prac- 
tising to  escape  out  of  the  castle,  and  great  care  is  necessary 
now  to  keep  them.  Wishes  that  such  of  them  as  shall  be 
freed  from  the  danger  of  the  law  (if  any  be)  may  be  sent 
thither,  or  rather  to  the  new  colony  in  Florida,  from  whence 
they  may  never  return. 

Sir  JeflFerie  Fenton  is  dangerously  sick,  and  is  thought  past 
recovery  ;  Sir  Richard  Cooke  has  been  so  weak  that  he  has 
seldom  attended  the  business  of  the  State  ever  siace  he  came 
over,  which  has  brought  a  great  burden  iipon  him  (Chichester), 
in  respect  they  were  the  principal  men  that  ought  by  their 
places  to  attend  to  give  dispatches  in  sundry  kinds.  Has 
heard  that  Sir  Eichard  Cooke  has  been  willing  to  put  over 
his  place  to  some  other,  if  he  might  have  his  fee  as  Chancellor 
of  the  Exchequer  increased  to  a  reasonable  stipend,  which  is 
now  very  small ;  to  which  he  was  induced,  finding  himself 
unable  to  attend  the  business  which  his  secretary's  place 
would  bring  upon  him  ;  if  it  were  his  opinion  when  he  had 
an  assistant,  it  is  like  he  wUl  be  of  the  same  mind  still.  His 
secretary's  fee  is  but  106?.  13s.  4>d.  Irish  a  year,  which  is  very 
small  for  a  worthy  man,  considering  the  meanness  of  his  per- 
quisites ;  but  the  fee  of  both  secretaries  united  may  incite  a 
fit  man  to  take  the  place  upon  him,  of  which  Sir  Richard 
Cooke  is  very  capable  if  his  health  increase  ;  otherwise,  if  it 
be  his  Lordship's  pleasure,  he  (Chichester)  will  deal  with  him 
to  resign  it  upon  reasonable  conditions,  for  they  must  have 
an  active  and  stirring,  as  well  an  understanding  man,  in  that 
place,  of  which  this  kingdom  affords  small  choice. 


88  IRELAND— JAMES  1. 

1608. 

Their  want  of  money  is  exceeding  great,  which  he  doubts 
not  is  well  known  to  bis  Lordship  ;  and  that  would  cause 
him  to  forbear  to  write  for  supply,  but  that  he  will  not  be 
able  to  contain  the  men  within  their  garrisons  if  they  be 
not  speedily  supplied  both  for  the  time  past  and  to  come  ;  and 
if  they  fall  upon  the  country,  he  knows  complaints  will  be 
exhibited  there  as  well  as  here,  besides  the  danger  which  may 
befal  the  places  committed  to  their  charge  in  their  absence. — 
Dublin  Castle,  18  October  1608. 

Sir  JefFerie  Fenton  is  past  all  hope  of  recovery,  for  his  man 
reports  at  this  instant  that  he  is  either  dead  or  dying. — 
]  9  October  in  the  morning. 

Pp.  5.     Signed.     Endd. :  "  Lord  Deputy  to  my  Lord." 

Oct.  25.      125.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
^T  225'^'248'  Recommends  to  his  favour  the  son  of  Sir  Francis  Stafford, 

' '      '      '  in  furtherance  of  the  suit  preferred  in  Stafford's  letter  to  his 

Lordship.— Dublin,  25  October  1608. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

Oct.  27.      126.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 

^^225^^249'  "^^^  bearer  hereof  is  Mr.  Myttene,  the  man  with  whom  he 

has  conferred  touching  the  use  and  profit  that  is  to  be  made 
of  the  timbers  of  this  kingdom,  in  which  his  experience  can 
give  his  Lordship  the  best  satisfaction.  He  and  others  have 
bought  the  woods  of  Shilelagh  of  Sir  Henry  Harrington,  the 
greatest  part  whereof  they  intended  to  convert  into  pipe 
staves,  but  he  is  now  to  repair  to  his  Lordship  before  he  pro- 
ceed further  therein.  It  is  thought  that  those  woods  and 
others  adjoining,  some  of  which  belong  to  the  King,  and 
the  rest  to  private  men,  will  yield  sufficient  store  to  furnish 
the  King  for  his  shipping  and  other  uses  for  20  years  to 
come,  and  yet  leave  them  wherewith  to  hold  up  their  trade, 
whereby  they  will  be  able  to  work  it  and  transport  it  at 
the  better  rates  for  His  Majesty;  but  he  is  of  opinion,  as 
is  also  he  (Chichester),  that  the  charge  of  transporting  it  to 
London  will  be  more  than  the  profit  that  can  be  made  of  it 
there,  but  if  His  Majesty  be  pleased  to  build  his  ships  either 
here  or  at  Mylfoorde  [Milford],  those  woods  will  very  fitly 
serve  the  turn,  and  at  easy  rates ;  and  surely  there  is  not  a 
place  more  convenient  for  such  a  purpose  in  England  or  Ire- 
land than  tlie  town  of  Rosse,  with  all  which  he  is  further  to 
acquaint  his  Lordship,  and  to  receive  his  directions.  Hears 
the  woods  in  Munster  are  greatly  wasted,  especially  upon  the 
rivers  which  are  portable  to  the  sea ;  and  so  had  these,  if  the 
small  rivers  had  been  cleansed,  as  now  they  are,  at  this  man's 
charge.  But  undoubtedly  much  timber  is  to  be  found  within 
the  land,  which  will  serve  the  required  purposes.  Is  well 
acquainted  with  all  parts  of  Ulster.  In  the  county  of  Dun- 
nagall  he  is  sure  there  is  none  at  all ;  neither  is  there  any  in 
the  county  of  Colerayne ;  both  which  counties  lie  upon  the 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  89 


1608, 


sea.  But  there  is  good  store  in  Glanconkeyne,  Kylletra,  and 
Braselowe  [Bresilagh],  which  countries  lie  upon  the  lough 
known  by  the  name  of  Lough  Eagh,^  which  is  navigable  from 
each  side  and  end  all  over.  The  nearest  place  to  the  sea  from 
thence  is  Knockfergus,  which  is  12  good  miles  overland,  but 
the  river  of  the  Bann  runs  from  the  lough,  by  the  Castle  of 
Tome  [Toome],  to  the  castle  and  abbey  of  Colerayne,  where  it 
ebbs  and  flows  from  the  sea ;  this  passage  by  water  is  about 
30  miles,  rather  more  than  less  ;  in  which  there  are  six  or  seven 
leaps  and  shoals.  Besides  this,  the  harbour  is  so  barred  with 
shoals  that  no  ships  of  burthen  can  come  in  at  any  time, 
which,  together  with  its  lying  so  far  to  the  north,  makes  him 
conceive  that  little  good  is  to  be  expected  by  that  passage. 
If  any  be,  it  must  be  made  by  carrying  thereof  over  land 
from  the  Loughside  to  Knockfergus,  which  is  a  goodly  har- 
bour, and  accessible,  and  a  safe  road  all  weathers,  but  far  off 
to  make  return  for  England.  About  Knockfergus  there  are  no 
woods  nearer  than  Belfast,  which  is  eight  miles  off,  but  lying 
upon  the  river,  which  is  portable.  Has  there  some  wooken 
[oaken]  trees,  but  so  crooked  and  shrubbed  that  no  man  fells 
them  for  timber,  but  either  for  pipe  staves  or  other  use  of  build- 
ing ;  but  it  may  be  they  will  serve  for  some  use  for  shipping, 
such  as  they  are,  and  all  that  is  near  it  shall  be  reserved 
until  his  Lordship  appoints  some  man  to  see  it ;  and  lie  wishes 
nothing  more  than  that  it  may  serve  for  the  purpose.  Kylul- 
tagh  lies  on  the  one  side  upon  Lough  Eagh,  and  on  the  other 
side  upon  the  river  of  the  Lagan,  which  is  the  river  that  runs 
by  Belfast  to  Knockfergus  in  that  country,  are  good  timber 
trees  ;  but  the  country  is  but  small,  and  therefore  the  quan- 
tity of  timber  cannot  be  great.  This  belongs  to  Sir  Foulke 
Conwaye,  and  a  small  charge  will  make  that  river  portable  of 
timbers  of  any  size.  There  are  other  woods  in  Fermanagh, 
to  be  carried  from  tlie  inland  countries  to  the  sea  by  the 
lough  and  river  of  the  Earne,  but  he  learns  they  are  of  no 
great  quantity.  The  other  parts  of  Ulster  afford  none  worth 
the  speaking  of ;  but  in  order  that  his  Lordship  may  be  par- 
ticularly informed  of  what  is  in  that  province  and  in  other 
parts  of  the  kingdom,  he  suggests  that  he  should  depute  this 
gentleman  (whom  he  thinks  a  meet  man  for  such  an  employ- 
ment), or  some  other  by  the  name  of  wood-ward  or  some 
other  title,  to  survey  all  the  woods  in  the  kingdom.  Will 
give  him  an  easy  and  a  safe  passage  in  the  dispatch  of  that 
business,  and  with  small  charge  to  the  King's  Majesty ;  and 
whatsoever  woods  he  shall  find  fit  will  be  at  this  time  either 
the  King's,  or  they  will  get  them  from  the  owners  for  a  small 
matter. 

This  is  the  best  course  he  can  devise  whereby  to  give  his 
Lordship  a  true  and  full  satisfaction  of  his  desires  in  this 
kind,  and  this  shall  be  eifected  before  May-day  next,  if  that 

1  loc-i)-e*c.\c,  Loch-n-Each,  Lough  Neagh. 


& 


90  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1608. 

be  his  pleasure ;  and  if  he  thinks  it  not  fit  to  authorise  him 
in  that  place  and  ofiice,  it  shall  be  done  here  upon  his  direc- 
tion, and  without  oflFence  to  any  man  that  has  the  use  of 
common  sense  ;  and  upon  return  of  what  he  finds,  his  Lord- 
ship may  resolve  fm-ther  of  this  business.  In  the  meantime 
he  is  to  present  specimens  of  several  kinds  of  timber  which 
he  has  ready  to  transport  thither.  Shilelagh  is  a  strong,  fast, 
and  remote  country,  the  common  receptacle  and  shelter  of  the 
thieves  and  ill-disposed  members  of  those  parts  of  Leinster. 

This  gentleman  and  his  partners  have  offered  to  build  a 
strong  castle  in  the  most  dangerous  part  thereof,  if  he  would 
give  them  a  ward  of  a  dozen  men.  This  he  would  do  out  of 
the  companies  ;  but  that  is  not  that  they  expect,  but  to  have 
them  a  standing  ward,  and  to  employ  their  own  men  therein, 
which  he  cannot  well  grant  to  them  without  direction  and 
allowance  from  the  King  or  his  Lordship  ;  and  therefore  he 
recommends  the  considei-ation  thereof  to  his  Lordship,  with 
this  addition  of  his  own  opinion,  that  the  service  will  be 
of  good  momenta  and  the  charge  well  bestowed,  until  that 
country  be  better  reformed  and  settled. — Dublin  Castle,  27 
October  1608. 

Pp.  4.     Signed.    Add.     Endd. 

Oct.  28.       127.        Peter  Babnewall  to  his  sisters, 
vof  22r'25o'  Advises  them,  and  suggests  many  considerations  in  sup- 

port of  the  counsel,  to  remain  in  Ireland.     He  himself  is  in 
good  health,  but  he  is  in  debt.     His  brother  Patrick  has  been 
obliged  to  break  off"  his  studies. — Paris,  28  October  1608. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd, 

Oct.  28.      128.        Peter  Baenewall  to  his  brother  Patrick. 
^T  22^^251'  Sends  directions  for  him  and  his  brother  Eobert  to  come 

'      '  over.     Enters  into  various  details.     Concludes  with  certain 

family  matters. — Paris,  28  October  1608. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Add.     Endd.     Sealed. 

[Oct.  28.]    129.        Peter  Baenewall  to  his  brother  Edward. 

^1^22 5"^ 2 51*^'  ^^  ^  great  want  of  money.     His  brother  Patrick  has  been 

'   '     ■  obliged  to  leave  his  studies.     Begs  he  may  be  sent  over  again. 

—Paris,  [  ]  1608. 

P.  1.    Signed,.    Add.    Endd. 

Oct.  28.      130.        Michael  Chamberlayne  to  William  Deise  (his  uncle). 

^T  22r'252'  ^^-  Redgrave  has  delivered  here  some  201.  for  his  (Cham- 

' '   '  '  berlayne's)  use,  for  which  he  says  he  has  already  passed  his 

acquittance  vsdth  Pathericke  (sic)  Hamling,  who  undertook  the 
payment  of  some  of  that  money  in  Ireland,  inasmuch  as  he 
(Deise)  was  not  at  that  time  able  to  make  up  the  whole  sum. 
This  surprises  him  (Chamberlaye)  much,  seeing  that  at  last 
Easter  he  was  to  have  received  thrice  as  much  from  Mr.  Ham- 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  91 


1608. 

ling.  Understands  however  that  Mr.  Hamling  has  not  kept 
his  promise,  and  takes  this  to  be  the  cause  of  his  not  sending 
any  money.  Prays  his  good  uncle,  if  Hamling  deal  so  with 
him  again,  to  make  no  agreement  with  him,  but  to  try  and  get 
his  own  from  him,  seeing  that  he  will  stand  to  no  agreement 
that  he  makes.  Begs  him  to  write  by  the  next  how  the 
matter  goes,  for  nothing  has  more  displeased  him  than  his 
uncle's  long  silence  all  this  while,  which  he  finds  not  broken 
up,  otherwise  than  by  other  men's  mouths,  neither  is  there 
anything  that  could  comfort  him  more  than  letters  from  his 
uncle.  Doubts  not  but  that  they  all  look  for  his  being  at 
home  next  summer.  Indeed,  at  his  coming  away  he  so  pur- 
posed ;  but  since  then,  considering  all  troubles  at  home  and 
also  his  own  age  (which  is  past  18  or  19),  and  not  being,  in 
very  deed,  addicted  to  the  trade  of  merchandise,  he  thought 
it  better,  and  not  without  good  advice  and  counsel,  to  remain, 
these  four  years  to  come,  at  his  studies.  After  which  time  he 
means  to  come  home  and  discharge  his  uncle  of  such  care  as 
he  has  hitherto  taken  for  him,  and  then  proceed  in  such  farther 
course  of  living  as  shall  seem  most  competent  for  his  estate, 
and  as,  he  hopes,  will  be  no  less  pleasing  to  them  all  than 
the  former  which  they  elected.  Desires  him,  therefore, 
always  to  send  him,  with  as  great  expedition  as  possible, 
his  means,  that  is  15l.  every  year,  not  forgetting  to  write  ten 
times  a  year  if  it  may  possibly  be,  though  he  should  write  but 
commendations.  Has  written  another  letter  contrary  to  this 
by  the  bearer,  and  now  cannot  stop  the  passage  of  it,  as  he 
has  packed  it  up  among  other  letters  ;  but  it  makes  no  matter. 
Is  in  good  health,  and  agrees  very  well  in  these  countries. 
Wishes  the  same  to  them  all  at  home. — Paris,  28  October  1608. 
P.  1.     Add.    Endd. 

Oct.  30.       131.        Philip  Cottingham  to  Salisbury. 

ToT"22?'253'  Describes  the  vexatious  conduct  of  Sir  Richard  Boyle  in 

'  "    ■  withholding  money  for  the  men's  wages.     Has  procured  money 

from  Mr.  Young,  receiver  of  rents  in  Munster.     Has  chartered 
a  ship  for  carrying  the  timber. — Moggely,  30  October  1608. 
Pp.  3.     Signed.    Add.    Endd.  :  "  29  Oct." 


vol.  225,  254. 


Oct.  31.       132.        Lord  Chancellor  to  Salisbury. 

ToL'225t'2°4'.  "^^^^  passage  has  brought  his  Lordship's  letters  of  the  3rd 

instant,  which  have  given  him  full  contentment.     Thanks  him 
for  this  and  all  his  other  favours. 

Touching  the  Lord  of  Howth's  dealings  with  his  Lordship 
begs  him  not  to  conceive  that  he  ever  believed  his  vauntino^ 
reports ;  but  he  thought  fit,  de  industria,  to  make  them  known 
to  his  Lordship,  to  the  end  that,  by  his  (Howth's)  abuse  of 
himself,  he  might  the  better  discern  his  readiness  to  do  wrong 
to  any  of  those  who  serve  in  this  kingdom  ;  and  in  reo-ard  of 
his  daily  croaking  by  his    letters  to   incense  His   Majesty 


92  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

1608. 

ao-ainst  him,  who  neither  has  meant  nor  ever  means  to  have 
any  dealings  with  him,  he  was  forced,  not  being  known  to  His 
Highness,  to  rely  upon  his  Lordship's  knowledge  of  him  as  a 
true  and  faithful  servant  to  His  Highness,  and  honest  in  his 
worldly  courses  and  dealings. 

In  the  other,  which  concerns  the  two  young  peers  of  this 
realm,  he  is  so  fully  satisfied,  that  his  Lordship  shall  not  be 
troubled  any  more  therewith. 

Understands  by  a  letter  received  from  Mr.  Dudley  Norton, 
that  his  Lordship  has  been  mindful  of  his  humble  suit  to  His 
Majesty  for  the  passing  of  Tristernaght  in  fee  farm.  Confesses 
that  he  is  altogether  unworthy  of  these  manifold  favours,  and 
that  he  cannot  make  him  any  requital  but  by  the  gratitude 
and  incessant  prayers  of  his  Lordship's  daily  beadsman  and 
his  poor  posterity. — St.  Sepulchre's,  Dublin,  last  of  October 
1608. 

P.S. — Recommends  the  bearer  of  this  letter.  Sir  Oliver  St. 
John,  as  an  honourable  gentleman  and  a  wise  counsellor,  very 
careful  of  his  charge,  and  a  faithful  servant  to  His  Highness. 

Pp.  2.    Signed.     Add.    Endd. 

Oct.  31.      133.        Lord  Danvers  to  Salisbury. 

S.P.,  Ireland,  jj^^^^  observed  more  particularly  the  merits  of  this  gentleman. 

^°  ■       '   '''''  Sir  Parr  Lane,  who  for  his  virtues  carries  over  the  supremest  re- 

commendations of  Ireland  to  the  Council  table,  by  reason  of  his 
Lordship's  esteem  of  him  ;  and  therefore  presumes  to  add  to  the 
Lord  Deputy's  recommendation,  that,  considering  his  temper, 
integrity,  his  extraordinary  zeal  for  religion  and  His  Majesty's 
service,  he  has  not  met  with  a  man  more  apt  to  govern  a 
citadel  or  fort  upon  town  or  harbour,  which  are  not  only  places 
of  repose  and  trust  fit  for  his  years  and  expei-ience,  but  which, 
if  in  the  least  measure  misgoverned,  are  apt  to  breed  ill-blood 
in  any  people  ;  and  even  in  that  satisfactory  kind  of  command 
he  has  seen  many  good  soldiers  to  seek.  To  so  much  duty 
binds  him,  and  so  he  humbly  leaves  his  (Lane's)  employment 
to  opportunity  and  his  Lordship's  favour. — Waterford,  last  of 
October  ]  608. 

P.  1.     Signed.     Endd. 

Oct.  31.      134.        Lords  of  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Phiiad.  p.,  A.S  they  have  directed  the  profits  of  a  part  of  the  fishinsr  of 

"  ■   'V-  •   ■  ^,1^3  river  Bann  to  be  sequestered,  pending  the   controversy 

between  James  Hamilton,  Esquire,  and  Sir  Randall  M'Donnel, 
Knight,  and  as  Mr.  Hamilton  has  prayed  that  Sir  Thomas 
Ridgeway  might  be  named  sequestrator,  and  Sir  Randall 
has  demanded  the  Bishop  of  Derry  to  be  appointed,  they 
(the  Lords)  suggest  that  they  be  made  joint  sequestrators ; 
hni,  if  the  parties  are  not  content  with  this  arrangement,  Sir 
Arthur  is  to  appoint  some  indifierent  person  for  sequestrator. 
—Whitehall,  31  October  ]  608. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  93 


1608. 

Signed :  T.  EUesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton, 
Notiiigham,  T.  Suffolke,  E.  "Worcester,  E.  Wotton,  J.  Herbert, 
Jul.  Cffisar,  Thos.  Parry. 

P.  i.  Add.  Endd.  :  "  Of  the  last  of  October  1608. 
From  the  Lis.  of  the  Councell,  tutchinge  the  sequestration  of 
the  fishinge  of  part  of  the  Ban.  Rec.  from  Sir  Randall  M'Don- 
nell  the  11th  of  May  1609." 

Oct.  31.       135.        John  M'Geery  to  John  Clenton. 

vol  225^  256*  ^^^  often  Written  but  received  no  answers.    Requests  him  to 

send  letters  and  money  by  Patrick  Mathew.    All  their  country- 
men abroad  in  good  health. — Paris,  last  of  October  1608. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 


vol.  225,  256. 


[Oct.]       136.        PmvY  Council  to  [Sir  John  Davys]. 
^^22^^256*  Directs  him  to  confer  with  Mr.  Serjeant  Foster  on  the  sub- 

ject of  the  charters  and  customs  of  Ireland. — [Oct.  1608  ?]. 
P.  1.     Endd. 

Nov.  1.       137.        Lord  Deputy  to  Mr.  Cottingham. 
^T •2r'257'  Directs   him   to  continue  his  survey  of  the  woods.      Sir 

'       '  Richard  Boyle  is  appointed  to  furnish  him  with  requisites. — 

Dublin,  1  November  1608.     Subscribed:   Arth.  Chichester. 
P.  1.     Endd. 

Nov.  1.       138.        Warrant  of  Philip  Cottingham  to  survey  Woods. 
^T'225''258'  Warrant   from    the   Lord  Deputy    to  Philip  Cottingham, 

'       '  authorising  him  to  view  all  the  woods  in  Munster  and  the 

woods    of    Shilelagh,  &c.,  in  the   way  between  Dublin  and 
Wexford.— Dublin,  1  November  1608. 
P.  1. 

Nov.  3.      139.        Lord  Deputy  to  Salisbury, 
^  r  22r'259'  Acknowledges  receipt  of  his  and  the  Council's  letters,  of  the 

' '       "  8th  of  October,  concerning  the  reducement  of  the  forces  here, 

and  for  a  new  Establishment,  by  the  post  bark  on  the  28th  of 
the  same.  Is  in  hand  with  it  (although  it  is  unpleasing  and 
full  of  hazard  for  him  to  undergo),  and  will  send  it  with  these, 
if  he  may  so  contrive  it. 

Sir  Oliver  St.  John,  on  being  acquainted  with  their  resolu- 
tions in  their  letters  concerning  him,  holds  it  his  best  course  to 
repair  thither,  and  asked  and  has  obtained  license  ;  which  he 
the  more  readily  gave,  as  he  (St.  John)  may  give  them  true 
knowledge  in  the  state  of  his  office  here  and  of  the  stores,  and 
how  far  to  answer  the  demands  of.  the  President  of  Munster 
for  an  increase  of  artillery  for  the  forts  of  that  province,  with 
which  he  will  likewise  acquaint  them. 

There  is  nothing  new  since  his  last,  but  the  outlaws  of 
Ulster  are  forced  to  play  strange  parts,  each  man  for  his  own 
safety.     He  will  hold  them  hard  to  it,  and  is  in  good  hope 


94i  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1608. 

that  few  swordmen  shall  escape  due  punishmenl  "who  "were  in 
this  late  rebellion  with  O'Dogherty,  but  such  as  save  their 
own  heads  by  delivering  him  those  of  others  equally  good. 
.  Sir  Oliver  St.  John  can  acquaint  him  with  the  parts  they  play 
one  upon  another,  which  are  strange  to  men  of  faith  and 
civility. — Dublin  Castle,  3  November  1608. 
Pp.  2.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

Nov.  6.       140.        Estimate  for  repair  of  Foets  and  Castles. 
^f'ht'f^^t'  Note  of  monies  desired  for  the  present  reparation  of  forts 

'         '  and  castles  in  the  King's  hands. 

Pp.  3.     Endd. :  "  To  be  delivered  to  the  Lords." 

Nov.  6.       141.        Confession  of  Donagh  Oge  O'Galaghee. 
^Tl-^^^iib  '^^^  confession  of  Donagh  Oge  O'Galagher,  one  of  the  com- 

"  dors!      '  P^'Hy  of  Shane  M'Manus  Oge  O'Donnell. 

Saith  that  Tirlagh  M'Owen  Boor  M'Hugh  Groome,  gossip 
to  Shane  M'Manus  aforesaid,  hath  all  the  linen  and  apparel  of 
the  Lady  O'Doherty  and  the  Bishop  of  Derry's  wife,  and  that 
he  always  relieved  the  said  Shane  with  meat  and  drink. 
Further,  that  Owen  O'Dooveny  had  a  vestment  given  him  by 
the  said  Shane  to  be  delivered  to  the  friar's  minister,  valued 
to  be  worth  20L  Further,  that  Shane  M'Manus  aforesaid, 
about  the  18th  of  last  month,  conferred  "with  Caffer  M'Hugh 
Dufe,  and  then  gave  him  a  silk  gown  and  three  yards  of 
velvet,  the  examinate  and  Multano  M'Dualtagh  being  present. 
Further  saith,  that  three  weeks  since  M'Phelim  Braslagh  came, 
accompanied  with  two  men,  to  Shane  M'Manus  aforesaid,  to 
the  vicar  O'Bi'ogan's  house,  and  there  requested  said  Shane 
not  to  mistrust  him,  and  that  he  would  become  his  gossip  and 
his  men  become  gossips  to  his  men ;  and  in  order  to  assure 
him  of  his  true  meaning  towards  him,  the  said  M'Phelim 
Braslagh  undertook  to  the  said  Shane  to  kill  M'Nogher  and 
him  that  betrayed  Phelimy  Reagh,  and  that  after  that  he 
would  join  with  the  said  Shane.  Further  saith,  that  the  said 
Shane  being  in  the  wood  of  Clemoire,  met  "with  one  Donagh 
O'Dooveny,  by  whom  he  sent  word  to  William  M'Chisocke  to 
send  him  some  victuals  and  money,  which  he  had  promised 
him  for  not  spoiling  him  or  his  followers ;  upon  which  message 
the  said  William  appointed  the  said  Shane  to  lie  in  a  certain 
place  in  the  said  wood  privately  with  a  few  men,  whither  he 
would  send  him  the  victuals  and  money,  but  before  the  time 
appointed  the  said  Shane  removed  from  the  said  place. 

P.  1.  Copy.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester :  "  The 
examination  of  Tege  O'Carveel,  taken  the  4th  of  October 
1608,  &c.  Ee.  from  S"--  Hen,  Folliott  the  14th  of  No. 
followinge." 

Nov.  8.      142.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Privy  Council. 
^  r  22r'26o'  "^^^  received  the  King's  orders  for  i-educing  his  army  here, 

' '      '  with  notice  that  His  Majesty  is  pleased  to  give  them  an  in- 


lEELAND — JAMES  I.  95 


1608. 


crease  of  the  pay  of  400  foot  over  and  above  the  charge  of  the 
last  Establishment  before  O'Dogherty's  rebellion,  and  that  he 
leaves  the  distribution  and  ordering  of  these  forces  to  him  and 
the  Council.  They  perceive  that  His  Majesty's  gracious  re- 
spect and  care  of  them  and  of  this  kingdom's  welfare  is  great, 
since  at  such  a  time  when  His  Majesty's  coffers  have  been 
in  other  ways  made  empty,  it  has  pleased  him,  by  thtis  adding 
to  their  former  numbers  in  pay  before  O'Dogherty's  revolt, 
to  leave  them  good  means  to  content  many  captains  and 
officers  who  have  done  faithful  service,  and  whose  care,  watch- 
fulness, and  attendance  upon  the  ill-aifected  in  every  corner 
of  the  kingdom  where  they  are  placed,  keep  them  in  subjec- 
tion to  the  law.  This  and  the  giving  the  State  at  all  times 
entrance  into  these  countries  are  the  cause  that  so  many 
petty  wards  are  placed,  which  may,  perhaps,  seem  strange ; 
but  without  these  wards  they  should  no  more  understand 
the  state  of  the  country  nor  the  people's  inclination  to  good 
or  ill,  than  the  condition  of  those  in  Africa  or  America.  By 
the  new  Establishment  herewith  sent,  will  appear  the  newly- 
erected  wards,  and  those  which  have  had  some  small  increase 
of  men.  Has  kept  himself  somewhat  within  their  allowance, 
and  yet  has  kept  up  the  foot  to  2,100,  being  20  more  than 
they  prescribed,  and  these  20  are  to  be  added  to  the  Lord 
Cromwell's  30,  to  make  them  a  company.  "Would  have 
inserted  the  four  armourers  and  the  100?.  which  is  yearly 
allowed  for  the  repair  of  the  bark  and  boats  at  Loughfoyle, 
Lougheaghe,  Loughearne,  and  Athlone,  but  it  would  have 
exceeded  the  allowance.  Would  have  desired  to  place  a  ward 
in  M'Swyne-ne-Banne's  country,  that  they  might  the  better 
look  into  it  whilst  himself  is  in  prison,  being  lately  committed 
for  his  conspiracy  with  O'Dogherty ;  the  like  he  would  have 
done  in  O'Boyle's  country,  the  pretending  lord  being  an  infant. 
If  these  be  not  now  included,  they  must  be  thought  on  when 
the  plantation  of  Ulster  is  taken  in  hand,  and  so  must  other 
places  not  yet  looked  into.  Has  set  down  a  ward  of  12  men 
for  a  place  called  Carnowe  in  Shelela  [Shilelagh],  in  the  county 
of  Wicklow,  which  is  a  fast  and  thievish  corner,  and  the  very 
den  of  the  woodkerne  and  rebels  of  these  borders  ;  to  this  he 
was  the  rather  induced,  as  the  gentleman  that  has  under- 
taken that  land  has  contracted  to  build  a  strong  castle  there 
upon  his  own  charge,  and  that  with  expedition  ;  which  wiU  be 
a  good  tie  upon  those  outlaws,  who  have  often  sounded  in 
their  ears  in  the  time  of  Pheagh  M'Hugh,  but,  God  be  thanked, 
that  country  is  now  greatly  reformed. 

Has  made  Sir  Oliver  St.  John,  now  on  his  dispatch,  ac- 
quainted with  the  state  of  all  things  here,  which  makes  his 
letters  the  shorter  at  this  time. — Dublin  Castle,  8  November 
1608. 

Pp.  3.    Signed.     Add.    Endd. 


96 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1608. 

Nov.  8. 

PMad.  P., 
Toi.  1,  p.  276, 


Nov.  10. 

Philad.  P., 

Tol.  1,  p.  278. 


Nov.  10. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  261. 


Nov.  10. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
■vol.  225,  262. 


Nov.  10. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 

vol.  225,  262  A. 


Nov.  11. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  263. 


S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  22.'),  263  I. 


143.  The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Grants  leave  of  absence  for  Sir  Oliver  St.  John,  Master  of 
the  Ordnance,  detained  in  England  on  the  King's  service.  — 
8  November,  in  the  sixth  year  of  our  reign. 

P.  I.     Signed.     Add.     Endd. 

144.  The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Warrant  to  grant  to  Sir  John  Jephson,  Knight,  in  con- 
sideration of  his  services  in  Ireland  under  Queen  Elizabeth, 
and  of  a  release  of  all  debts  due  from  the  Crown  to  him  or  to 
Elizabeth  his  wiie,  as  executor  of  Sir  Thomas  Norreys,  or  of 
the  Lady  Norreys  his  wife,  deceased,  the  Abbey  of  Ballibegs, 
in  the  county  of  Cork,  and  all  lands  and  tithes  thereto  be- 
longing, whereof  there  is  a  subsisting  lease  for  years  granted 
bj'  the  King  to  Sir  Daniel  Norton,  in  trust  for  the  late  Lady 
Norreys,  wife  of  the  said  Sir  Thomas  Norreys,  to  hold  in  fee- 
farm  at  the  rent  reserved  in  the  lease  for  term  of  years. — 
Westminster,  10  November,  in  the  6th  year  of  our  reign. 

Pp.  \^.    Signed.    Add.     Endd. 

145.  Sir  Richard  Boyle  to  the  Lord  Deputy. 

On  receipt  of  his  letters,  has  given  every  assistance  to  Cot- 
tingham,  and  has  directed  him  to  view  the  woods  of  Shilelagb. 
Does  not  know  what  to  do  with  the  bark  that  had  been  hired. 
— Youghall,  10  November  ]  608. 

Pp.  2.     Signed.     Add.     Endd. 

146.  Philip  Cottingham  to  the  Lord  Deputy. 

Has  been  well  served  since  his  Lordship's  letters.  Reports 
the  quantities  of  timber  he  has  already  procured,  and  the  cost 
of  shipment.  Is  going  to  view  the  woods  of  Shilelagh. — 
Youghall,  10  November  1608. 

P.  1.    Signed.     Add.     Endd. 

147.  Account  of  the  Composition  for  Connaught. 
Account  of  receipt  of  composition  for  the  province  of  Con- 
naught  for  the  year  ending  Michaelmas  1608.    With  certificate 
in  favour  of  John  Davies,  the  collector. 

Pp.  2.     Endd. 

148.  Lord  Deputy  to  [Salisbury]. 

Reports   the   arrival    of  the    treasure,    Mr.  Mittone,   and 
the  timber. — Dublin,  11  November  1608. 
Pp.  2.     Signed.    Endd.    Encloses, 

149.  A  list  of  the  Captains  of  Foot,  as  they  stand  in  Ireland, 

the  5th  of  November  1608. 

Sir  Arthur  Chichester,  Lord  stand  mw. 

Deputy    -        -        -        -     150     Whereof    100 

at  Dublin, 
50  atKnock- 
fergus.  — 


IRELAND— JAMES  I, 


97 


1608. 


As  ihe/j  are  to 

stand  now. 

The  Earl  of  TJwnwnde  - 

-  100 

In  Munster. 

— 

The  Earl  of  Glanricarcle 

-  100 

In  Connaught. 

— 

The  Lord  Danvers 

-  100 

In  Munster. 

— 

*The  Lord  of  Howth 

-  100 

At  Tredagh. 

50 

Sir  Tho.  Ridgeway,  Treasurer    100 

At   Ocdlen  in 

Leixe. 

— 

SirRic.  Wingfeelde,  Marshal  -  100 

At  Athie. 

— 

Sir  Oliver  St.  John,  Master 

of 

the  Ordnance     - 

-  100 

At  the  Berrie. 

— 

Sir  Henry  Potver 

-  100 

At  Marylow- 
o'Oiue. 

_ 

Sir  Rich.  Morrison 

-  100 

At  Waterford. 

— 

*Sir  Era.  Rushe 

-  100 

At  Philipstownc. 

50 

*Sir  Foulke  Conway 

-  100 

At  Knockfargus 
and  Inisolagh- 

nan. 

50 

*Sir  Henry  Folliott 

-  100 

At  Ballishaman. 

60 

Sir  Edward  Blany 

-  100 

At  Moncdian 

50 

Sir  James  Perrott 

-  100 

At  the  Neturie. 

50 

Sir  Toby  Calefeeld 

-  100 

At  Gharlemount. 

50 

Sir  Thos.  Rooper  - 

-  100 

In  Munster. 

50 

Sir  Francis  Roe    - 

-  100 

A  t  Mountjoy. 

50 

Sir  Richard  Hansard,   - 

-  100 

At  Lyffer. 

50 

Sir  Thomas  Rotherame  - 

-  100 

At  Gallawaye. 

50 

Sir  Raphe  Bingley 

-     50 

At  Ramidlen. 

— 

Sir  Thomas  Phillips 

-  100 

At  Colerayne. 

50 

Capt.  John  Vccughan 

-     50 

At  the  Dyrrie. 

50 

*Cap)t.  Cooke 

-  100 

In  Connaght. 

50 

Capt.Neiuce  - 

-  100 

In  Munster. 

50 

Capt.  Stetuarde 

-  100 

At  Dundalk. 

50 

Capt.  Crafoorde 

-  100 

At  the  Lyffer. 

50 

The  Lord  Cromwell 

-     30 

In  Leccde. 
Knockfergus  to 

50 

2,680 

he       - 

100 

Nov.  14. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  264. 


S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  264 1. 


Marginal  note :  "  Two   of  those  that  are  crost  to  be  100, 
which  your  Lordship)  likes  best." 

P.  1.    Endd. 

150.        Ealph  Biechensha  to  Salisbuey. 

Has  made  a  certificate  of  the  musters.    Refers  to  abuses  in 
the  cess. — Dublin,  14  November  1608. 

Pp.  2.     Signed.    Add.     Endd.    Encloses, 

151.         Certificate  of  Musters. 

Certificate  of  musters  taken  by  Birchensha,  Controller  of 
Cheques  and  Musters,  from,  14  Oct.  to  31  Oct. 
Pp.  6.     Signed.    Endd. 


98  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1608. 
S.P.,  Ireland,     \52,         Warrants  for  Reductions. 

^°  ■      '        •  Warrants  from  the  Lord  Deputy  for  reductions  to  be  made 

in  certain  companies  specified. — Dublin,  11  November  16'08. 
Pp.  S. 


Nov.  15.     153.        Eakl  of  Clanricaed  to  Salisbury. 
^  f  aar'ar-f'  ^^^  received  so  large  a  discourse  and  so  great  a  light  of 

'     ' '  their  presient    state  from  him,   as    has   given  great    content 

to  him,  and  to  many  other  honest  men  here,  who  have 
lived  still  in  continual  conceit  of  foreign  danger,  blown  into 
their  ears  by  such  as  would  have  it  so.  For  himself,  believes 
that,  without  Spain,  no  foreign  force  will  attempt  hither, 
and  that,  unless  their  master  break  first  with  Spain,  Spain 
will  not  in  haste  begin  with  him. 

There  is  nothing  to  report  from  hence.  What  he  can  gather 
or  conceive  of  any  importance  he  will  not  fail  to  apprize  his 
Lordship  of,  though,  as  soon  as  he  can,  he  will  be  the  messenger 
himself;  but  now,  because  it  is  winter,  an  unseasonable  time 
for  him  to  remove  his  wife  and  little  boy  whom  he  may  not 
leave  behind,  he  purposes  to  stay  till  the  beginning  of  the 
spring,  and  in  the  meantime  so  to  settle  things  as  near  as  he 
can,  that  he  shall  not  need,  without  great  occasions,  to  return 
in  haste  again  from  the  presence  of  his  dear  friends,  in  whom 
he  receives  greater  contentment  and  satisfaction  than  in  the 
greatest  fortune  he  can  enjoy  without  them. 

Is  sorry  to  hear  that  his  Lordship  has  been  troubled  by 
some  of  his  people  about  his  suit  for  some  small  parcels  of 
land,  but  begs  he  will  concern  himself  no  further  than  stands 
with  his  pleasure  ;  for  he  protests  that  his  love  and  opinion 
are  dearer  and  more  precious  with  him  than  all  the  suits  the 
King  can  give  him  in  Ireland. 

Requests  that  what  proportion  of  arms  and  munition  may 
be  thought  fit  on  his  particular  demand  to  be  sent  or  set  down 
for  Connaught  (now  that  Sir  Oliver  St.  John  is  gone  over  to 
arrange  the  distribution  of  the  whole  country)  maybe  .sent  by 
sea  to  Galway ;  for  the  charge  overland  is  great,  and  much 
spoil  is  committed,  and  it  is  likely  they  never  can  get  car- 
riage but  for  a  small  quantity. 

Will  not  at  this  time  trouble  him  with  any  more  circum- 
stances.— Athlone,  15  November  1608. 

Pp).  4.     Signed. 

Nov.  19.     154.        Lord  Danvers  to  Salisbury. 

S|'> ^"'^^°^'  Apprizes  him  beforehand  of  a  report  just  now  sent  him  by 

'      ■  Sir  Francis  Barkley  of  a  commotion  likely  to  arise  upon  the 

borders  of  Kerrye  and  the  country  of  Limerick  ;  but  he  con- 
siders it  an  unnecessary  alarm,  for  the  like  information  of  an 
intent  in  some  to  surprise  the  fort  of  Duncannon,  and  a 
suspected  revolt  upon  the  borders  of  Ormond,  having  made 
him  undertake  a  journey  lately  into  those  parts,  he  found 
that  the  fii-st  was  a  mere  apprehension,  and  that  the  second 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  99 


1608. 

■was  a  private  difference  raised  by  the  death  of  O'Mulrian, 
and  all  was  composed  without  difficulty  or  danger  more  than 
very  foul  weather.  The  expedition  used  against  O'Dogherty 
has  so  much  amazed  the  most  rebellious  spirits,  that  in  his 
opinion  the  kingdom  is  at  this  time  very  secure,  and  he  stays 
here  now,  only  as  being  engaged  in  debts  to  these  beggars, 
out  of  an  earnest  desire  to  finish  the  forts,  which  their 
Exchequer  is  not  yet  in  state  to  repay. 

Saxbridge  and  Plumly,  the  pirates,  continue  still  upon  this 
coast,  and  might  well  have  been  taken  or  sunk  if  the  "  Tra- 
montane "  had  followed  his  direction  and  joined  with  those 
merchant  ships  which  lay  then  at  Crookhaven  and  assured  him 
of  their  service.  Eston  is  now  joined  with  them  at  Baltimore, 
who  brought  in  lately  a  Dutchman  laden  with  deal  board,  so 
visible  a  merchandise  that  no  man  dares  seize  it,  and  there- 
fore these  good  Christians  pretend  remorse  of  conscience,  and, 
as  he  hears,  mean  to  restore  the  shijj  with  all  her  lading  to 
the  proprietor,  hitherto  their  prisoner. 

To  advertise  him  that  30  sail,  the  King's  Indian  fleet,  came 
safe  into  Calais  the  10th  of  October,  or  that  the  army  which 
returned  out  of  Barberye  was  there  dissolved  about  that  time, 
is  but  repetition  and  increase  to  the  tediousness  of  this  letter. — 
Cork,  19  November  1608. 

Pp.  3.     Signed.    Endd. 

Nov.  20.    [155,        Earl  of  Oemond  and  Ossoky  to  Salisbury. 

vof  ''25'^'268'  Begs  him  to  send  letters  to  the  Lord  Deputy  for  pardon  of 

alienation.     Submits  his  petition  to  the   Council   about  his 
prize  wines. — Carrick,  20  November  1608. 
P.  1.    Signed.     Sealed.    Add.    Endd. 


Nov.  20.      156.        Earl  of  Oemond  and  Ossory  to  the  Privy  Council. 
vof '22r'269'  Solicits  their  letters  to  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Council  in 

'      "  favour  of  his  suit  regarding  the  prize   wines. — Carrick,  20 

November  1608. 

P.  1.    Endd.    Encloses, 

Petition  of  the  Earl  of  Ormond  to  the  Privy  Couiicil. 
Relative  to  the  prize  wines  and  his  suits  against  to  town  of 
Wexford  and  Smyth  of  Gahvay  in  the  same. 

P.l. 

Nov.  20.     157.        Lord  Danvers  to  Salisbury. 
voT''225^^2^t  Being  satisfied  that  Sir  Francis  Barkley's  intelligence  of 

'      '  threatened  commotion  will  dissolve  into  a  private  quarrel, 

free  fi:om  danger  of  rebellion,  he  looked  for  no  occasion  to 
trouble  him  with  any  more  of  his  tedious  letters  out  of 
Ireland ;  but,  remembering  in  how  earnest  a  style  he  and 
the  rest  of  the  Council  recommended  to  him  the  care  of  a 

G  2 


100  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1608. 

Spanish  ship,  by  the  name  of  a  carvell,  and  knowing  the 
vessel  to  be  no  better  than  Drake's  monument  at  Deptford 
he  gave  the  more  credit  to  a  common  rumour  that  the  owner 
would  seek  out  this  ship  by  some  trusty  agent  for  concealed 
treasm-e  stowed  between  her  planks,  as  he  hears,  better  sealed 
within  than  beseems  the  outside  of  so  rotten  a  hull;  and 
this  opinion  was  further  increased  by  report  of  many  prac- 
tised mariners,  that  never  ship  came  out  of  that  part  of  the 
Indies  from  so  able  a  proprietor  with  so  poor  proportion 
of  gold  and  silver,  not  exceeding  the  sum  of  6,000?. ;  but 
how  little  soever  he  believed  that  such  sharks  as  had  her 
in  hand  would  have  left  the  gates  of  hell  unripped-open  in 
hope  of  gain,  yet,  now  that  she  is  cast  on  shore  in  the"  harbour 
of  Baltimore,  either  by  foul  weather  or  the  practice  of  those 
pirates  now  there,  he  thought  it  not  unfit  to  advertise  his  Lord- 
ship of  the  accident.  And  howsoever  those  rebels,  with  the 
inhabitants  thereabouts,  through  these  rich  hopes,  intend  to 
tear  the  bulk  in  pieces,  yet  she  shall  be  presei-ved  entire  until 
the  Spaniards  may  send  hither,  where  they  shall  find  the 
like  free  delivery  of  all  those  goods  that  ever  came  within 
his  power,  trusting  in  his  protection  against  the  imputations 
of  those  that  would  make  this  coast  like  Barbery,  common 
and  free  for  all  pirates. —  Cork,  20  November  1608. 
Pp.  3.     Signed.     Endd.     Encloses, 

[Aug.]       158.         A  copy  of  a  Letter  from  the  Lord  Bishop  of  Cork  to  the 
S.P.,  Ireland,  Lords  of  the  Gouncil  in  Enqland. 

vol.  225   269  A.  Jo 

The  hearer,  Mr.  Crooke  of  Baltimore,  being  required  to 
repair  hefore  their  Honours  to  answer  some  accusations 
against  him,  for  misdemeaning  of  himself  in  these  paints,  and 
desiring  his  {the  Bishop's)  ohservcdion  of  his  carriage  and 
courses,  he  is  hold  to  commend  him  as  more  serviceable  to 
His  Ma.jesty,  in  respect  of  his  ability  and  sufficiency  many 
ways,  than  any  man  in  these  parts,  and  one  that  hath  at  his 
own  charges,  within  two  years,  gathered  out  of  England  a 
whole  town  of  English  people,  larger  and  more  civilly  and 
religiously  ordered  than  any  town  in  this  province  that 
began  so  lately. 

This  has  made  him  to  be  violently  opposed  and  accused  by 
divers  persons  who  luould  weaken  him  in  his  good  work,  yet 
hitherto  he  has  turned  all  their  malicious  accusations  to  his 
greater  approbation  before  the  greatest  judges  of  this  land. 
Hopes  that  the  present  suggestions  have  no  ground  hut  the 
malice  of  his  adversaries,  the  rather  because  he  (the  Bishop) 
knows  he  has  been  continually  employed  against  the  pirates 
that  have  resorted  into  those  parts,  both  by  the  now  Lord 
President  of  this  province  and  his  predecessor,  and  has  been, 
for  his  service  in  that  behalf,  commended  by  their  Lordships 
and  hated  by  pirates.  Entreats  him  on  his  behalf,  therefore, 
to  hasten  his  return,  lest  his  absence  be  the  ruin  of  his  good 


IRELAND — JAMES  I.  101 


1608. 

^uorh  begun  in  those  parts,  which  is  the  thing  his  adversaries 
aim  at. — August  3  608. 

Signed  by  the  Lord  Bishop  of  Cork,  Sir  Parre  Lane,  Sir 
John  Dowdall,  Capt.  Henry  Seigworth. 

P.  1.     Copy. 

Sept.  5.      159.        Lord  Danvers  to  the  Privy  Council. 
^S-P-.^I'-eland^  To  a  similar  effect.— Cork,  5  September  1608. 

■"    '        ■  P.  I.     On  the  back  of  the  foregoing. 

Nov.  20.     160.        The  Privy  Council  to  Lord  Danvers. 
S  p.,  Ireland,  Eeport  the  return  of  Thomas  Crooke,  of  Baltimore,  who 

is  declared  free  from  all  imputations.  Desire  that  he  may  be 
aided.— Whitehall,  20  November  1608. 

Signed :  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  Lord  Chancellor,   Lord 
Treasurer,  Earl  of  Exeter,  Lord  Zouch,  Lord  Wotton,  Mr.  Fr. 
Herbert,  Mr.  Chancellor  of  the  Duchy. 
P.  1.     Copy.     Endd. 

S.P.,  Ireland,      IQl,  AGREEMENT  between  ThOMAS  WiLSON,  DUDLEY  NORTON, 

vol.  225,  269  B.  ^^^  ThOMAS  CrOOKE. 

Indenture  tripartite,  between  Thomas  Willson,  Dudley 
Norton,  Esq.,  and  Thomas  Crooke,  of  Baltimore,  for  the  pur- 
chase of  certain  lands  and  woods  lying  upon  or  about  the 
Bay  of  Bantry,  and  for  the  use  and  improvement  of  the  same 
to  the  mutual  interests  of  all  the  three  parties. 

Sealed  and  delivered  in  presence  of  Eich.  Ley.  Witness, 
Tho.  Stephans. 

Signed  by  Crooke,  and  part  signature  of  Norton. 

1  sheet,  p>archment.     Seals  gone.     Endd. 

Nov.  22.      162.         Warrant  to  examine  Dermod  O'Cahan  and  others. 
Carte  Papers,  g^j^.  Arthur  Chichester  to  His  Majesty's  Serjeant-at-Laws,  to 

^"  •     '  P'      '  the  Solicitor-General,  and  George  Sexten,  or  any  two  of  them. 

Warrant  to  take  the  examinations  of  Dermod  O'Cahan  and 
Neale  Kinge,  and  any  others,  concerning  such  matters  as  they 
can  give  evidence  for  the  King  against  Sir  Donell  O'Cahan, 
Knt.,  and  what  they  find  to  set  down  the  better  to  strengthen 
the  said  evidence. — Dublin  Castle,  22  November  1608. 
P.  J.     Orig.     Add.     Not  endd. 

Nov.  -y-.     163.        Richard  Fynglas  to  his  uncle,  Nicholas  Gordon.^ 
S.P.,  Ireland,  Hopes  he  wiU  not  forget  the  charge  his  father  left  him,  to 

™*      '         ■  have  a  care  of  his  children. — -i-|  November  1608. 

P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

Nov.  If.     164.        The  Same  to  his  cousin,  John  Gordon. 
S.P.,  Ireland,  Desires  him  to  send  word  if  he  is  married,  and  to  whom.— 

vol.  225,  263  B.  ||  November  1608. 

P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

'  The  letters  numbered  163-174  are  intercepted  private  letters  of  no  historical 
interest. 


102 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1608. 

Nov.  f|. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  263  C. 


Nov.  If. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  263  D. 


Nov.  J^. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  263  E. 


Nov.  if. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 

vol.  225,  263  F. 


Nov.  U- 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  263  G. 


Nov.  i^. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 

vol.  225,  263  ii. 


Nov.  if. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 

vol.  225,  263  I. 


Nov.  i|. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 

vol.  225,  263  J. 


Nov.  fl. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 

vol.  225,  263  k. 


165.  The  Same  to  his  sister,  Lady  Gogh. 

Is  sorry  he  cannot  send  her  any  token.  Will  send  one  by 
the  next.  Sends  commendations  to  her  family. — ^  Novem- 
ber 1608. 

P.  1.     Signed.     Add.    Endd. 

166.  The  Same  to  his  mother,  Mes.  Allison  Hore. 
Could  not  write  before  ;  refers  to  his  letter  to  his  father. — 

i|  November  1608. 
P.  1.     Signed.     Add.    Endd. 

167.  The  Same  to  his  father,  Mr.  Philip  Hore. 
Bespeaks   favour   for  his    simple   writing;    expresses 

gratitude,  and  details  the  state  of  his  expenditure. — 1-| 
vember  1608. 

P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

168.  The  Same  to  his  wife,  Mrs.  Mall  Hore. 
A  pui'ely  private  letter. — -J-f  November  1608. 
P.  1.     Signed.     Add.    Endd. 

169.  The  Same  to  Mr.  Patrick  Gogh. 
All  his  friends  are  well  ;  puts  him  in  mind  to  write.- 


his 

No- 


•i4  November  1608. 

P.l.     Signed.     Add.    Endd. 


170.  The  Same  to  Mr.  Patrick  Walsh. 

Has  not  been  able  to  send  any  token.  He  must  have  patience 
till  he  or  some  of  his  friends  go  towards  the  iron  mines. — 
-14  November  1608. 

P.  1.     Signed.     Add.     Endd. 

171.  The  Same  to  James  Cromwell. 

Reminds   him  of  his   promise   to   come  into  those  parts. 
Sends  commendations. — ^  November  1608. 
P.  1.     Signed.     Add.     Endd. 

172.  The  Same  to  his  aunt,  Mrs.  Garrett  Fynglas. 

Will  send  some  token  next  time.     Sends  commendations. 
—if  November  1608. 
P.  1.    Signed.     Add.    Endd. 

173.  The  Same  to  his  uncle,  Mr.  Che.  Finglas. 
Requests  him  to  take  care  of  certain  evidences. — If  Novem- 
ber 1608. 

P.  1.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 


Nov.  ^. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  263  L. 


174.        The  Same  to  his  brother,  Sir  James  Gogh. 

Desires  him  to  put  both  his  uncles  in  mind  of  the  children. 
Professes  his  gratitude. — ^f  November  1608. 
P.  1.     Signed.     Add.    Endd, 


lEELAND— JAMES  I. 


103 


1608. 
Nov.  26. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  270. 


Nov.  26. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,  270  A. 


Nov.  26. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  225,270b. 


Nov.  27. 
Lansdowne  MSS., 
159,  35.  f.  149, 
B.M. 


Nov.  28. 

Philad.  P., 

vol.  3,  p.  333. 


vol, 


Nov.  29. 

Philad.  P., 
1,  p.  280. 


175.  Jo.  Stkowde  and  Fban.  Annesley  to  Salisbury. 
Solicit  his  Lordship  to  procure  for  the  Lord  Deputy  a  grant 

in  fee-farm  of  the  country  of  Enishowen,  which  is  a  barony 
of  Tyrconnell. 

P.  1.  Add.  Endd. :  "  26  Nov.  1608.  Lord  Deputy's 
agents  to  my  Lord." 

176.  Lord  Deputy  and  Council  to  the  Privy  Council. 
Recommends  Robert  Nangle,  considering  the  infallible  testi- 
monies which  they  have  had  of  his  merits  and  good  deserts  in 
many  services  for  near  30  years  past,  and  his  losses  of  goods, 
blood,  and  limbs.  He  is  sore  maimed,  and  utterly  disabled  to 
present  his  suit  for  the  fee-farm  of  Ballysax  in  person,  tlie 
bearer  being  Edward  Nangle,  his  brother. 

Signed :  Arthur  Chichester,  Tho.  Dublin.,  Cane,  Thomond, 
01.  Lambert,  R.  Wingfelde,  Th.  Ridgeway,  Ni.  Walshe,  Rich. 
Moryson,  Am.  Loftus,  Humfrey  Winche,  Henry  Power. 

P.  1.     Add.     Endd.     Encloses, 

177.  Petition  of  Robert  Nangle  to  the  Privy  Council. 
Prays  them  to  intercede  with  the  King  for  the  fee-farm  oj 

the  castle  and  lands  of  Ballysax,  county  Kildare,  and,  some 
other  lands  for  the  petitioner. 
P.  1. 

178.  Sir  Wm.  Whorwood  to  Sir  Julius  C^sar. 
Understanding   that  "  our  dred  Soferant  "  (sic)   desires  to 

furnish  the  kingdom  of  Ireland  with  inhabitants,  is  willing  to 
undertake  to  furnish  one  or  two  thousand  acres  with  good  and 
sufficient  inhabitants. — Sandwell,  27  November. 
P.  |.     Hoi.     Seeded.     Add.     Endd. 

179.  Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
The  bearer.  Lord   Delvin,  has  received  good  countenance 

from  the  King  and  their  Lordships,  both  for  his  own  good 
parts  and  his  (Chichester's)  recommendation.  He  (Chichester) 
is  to  know  that  the  Lord  Delvin  is  now  in  as  good  opinion 
and  conceit  with  His  Majesty  as  if  no  matter  at  all  had  been 
laid  to  his  charge. 

Prays  him  to  further  his  Lordship  in  all  things,  and  to  pro- 
cure him  restitution  of  those  things  of  his  that  he  complains 
to  have  been  embezzled  during  his  late  troubles. — -Whitehall, 
28  November  1608. 

Signed:  R.  Salisbury,  T.  Suffolke,  H.  Northampton,  E. 
Worcester,  E.  Wotton. 

P.  i  Add.  Endd. :  "Oi  the  2d  Nov.  1608.  From  the 
Lordes  of  the  Councell  tutchinge  the  Baron  of  Delvin,  &c. 
Rec.  the  8th  of  January  1608." 

180.  The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Having  recited  his  former  letter  in  favour  of  the  Lady  Delvin 
and  the  Baron  her  son,  and  their  surrender  for  the  public  good 


104  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 

1608. 

of  lands  in  their  book,  formerly  the  lands  of  the  O'Farrells,  in 
the  county  of  Longford,  which  being  deducted  from  the  value 
of  601.  a  year,  promised  to  the  Lord  Delvin  and  his  said 
mother,  left  48Z.  per  annum  still  to  be  satisfied,  the  King 
directs  a  grant  of  lands  to  be  now  made  to  that  amount. — 
Dated  at  Westminster,  16th  day  of  July  1608. 

By  a  postscript,  he  further  increases  the  grant  of  lands  to 
the  value  of  801.  a  year. 

'  By  a  further  postscript,  lie  adds  that  the  letters  were  not 
executed  by  reason  of  a  grievous  fault  shortly  afterwards 
committed  by  the  Baron  of  Delvin,  which  fault,  however,  the 
King  had  since  forgiven  upon  the  humble  submission  and 
penitence  of  the  said  Baron ;  and  in  order  that  the  world 
may  see  that  the  remission  of  his  fault  was  clear,  and  from 
the  King's  heart,  he  now  directs  the  execution  of  his  former 
letters. — Westminster,  29  November,  in  the  6th  year  of  the 
King's  reign. 

P.  2.     Signed.     Add.     Endd.     Enrol. 

(Nov.  29.)      181.         Fees  of  Provincial  Attorneys  in  Ireland. 
Lansdowne  MSS.,  List  of  the  accustomed  fees  due  to  the  provincial  attorneys 

159,29  f.  138,  in  Ireland. 

P.  1      Not  add. 

Nov.  80.       182.        Sir  Thomas  Kidgeway  to  Salisbury. 

^:\''}'f'^2T\  '^^^  protraction  of  the  northern  plantation  (which  country 

'   '  '       '  was  so  long  since   left  by  the  natural  lords  of  it,  and  the 

survey  whereof  was  also  long  since  sent  over),  will  become  so 
prejudicial  to  His  Majesty's  rents  or  duties  there  (especially 
in  Tyrconnell)  that  he  cannot  but  mention  it  to  him.  Suggests 
also  the  danger  that  may  arise  by  distraction  of  the  minds  of 
a  rude  and  savage  people,  when  they  are  not  subject  to  the 
present  control  of  any  near  hand.  To  this  he  will  only  add, 
that  as  Sir  Neale  Garvey,  Sir  Donell  O'Kahan,  and  Caifor, 
with  others,  will  shortly  be  tried,  as  is  partly  appointed,  and 
as  there  is  a  jury  already  summoned  against  the  next  term, 
he  hopes  the  Lord  Chief  Justice  and  Attorney,  who  are  both 
there  (in  England),  will  be  returned  hither  by  that  time. 
If  not,  both  the  bench  and  bar  of  that  court  will  have  a  great 
(if  not  too  great)  defect,  which,  in  other  causes,  when  there 
would  not  be  so  many  regarding  eyes  and  ears  to  view  and  , 
hear  them  were  less  important.  Intimates  so  much  only  in  his 
devotion. — Treasury,  near  Dublin,  last  of  November  1608. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

Nov.  30.     183.        Commission  of  Martial  Government  to  the  Earl  of 

Acta  Eegia  OrMONDE. 

p.R.o.,  Dublin.  Ii  Consideration  of  the  Earl's  long  and  approved  trial  and 

faithful  service,  valour,  and  wisdom,  shown  in  the  time  of  the 
late  Queen,  and  also  in  his  own  reign,  the  King,  by  the  advice 
of  Sir   Arthur  Chichester,   his   Deputy-General   of   Ireland, 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  105 


1608. 

authorises  the  Earl  of  Ormonde,  by  the  instructions  of  the 
Deputy,  or  in  the  Deputy's  absence  of  himself,  to  parley  and 
treat  with  traitors  and  rebels,  and  to  that  end  to  give  them 
safe  conduct  in  writing  to  repair'  and  return  safe  to  and  from 
him,  for  any  time  limited  in  the  safe  conduct,  not  exceeding 
4:0  days. 

He  is,  from  time  to  time,  to  impart  to  the  Deputy  the  par- 
ticulars of  his  conference  with  the  traitors.  He  is,  by  instruc- 
tions of  the  Deputy,  or  in  the  Deputy's  absence  of  himself,  to 
assemble  all  the  King's  lieges,  spiritual  as  well  as  temporal, 
and  all  martial  forces,  for  the  suppression  and  extermination 
and  punishment  by  fire  and  sword  and  by  all  other  good  means 
of  the  said  rebels  and  traitors ;  and  in  the  absence  of  the 
Deputy  to  execute  the  King's  martial  laws  according  to  the 
general  use  or  by  any  particular  instructions  heretofore  usualh' 
annexed  to  such  commissions.  He  is  empowered  to  take  up 
man's  meat  and  horse  meat,  paying  ready  money  at  the  King's 
accustomed  rates,  and  as  many  post-horses,  carriages,  carts, 
drays,  cars,  garrons,  with  their  meat,  furniture,  and  drivers,  as 
may  be  necessary.  He  is  to  wage  and  entertain  special  currers 
(couriers)  and  messengers,  and  all  liege  subjects  are  to  be  aid- 
ing. Provided  that  these  letters  patent  shall  not  extend  to 
abridge  the  authority  of  the  Deputy.  Provided  also,  that  the 
said  Earl  of  Ormonde  shall  not  by  colour  hereof  demand  any 
fee  or  allowance  per  diem  hereafter,  as  he  formerly  had  as  lieu- 
tenant of  the  King's  forces,  unless  it  come  by  the  King's  special 
pleasure  and  direction,  other  than  the  expenses  of  special 
messengers  or  other  extraordinary  charges ;  and  lastly,  pro- 
vided that  the  authority  granted  by  these  letters  shall  be 
determinable  at  the  will  of  the  Deputy. — Witness  the  King's 
Deputy  at  Dublin,  the  last  day  of  November,  in  the  5th  year 
of  the  reign. 

Enrolled. 

Nov.  30.      184.       Patrick  Crosbie  to  Salisbury. 

voT'22r^272'  -^^^  ^'^^^  conference  with  a  gentleman,  the  likeliest  to  break 
'  ■  the  knot  of  the  rebels  in  Spain  that  he  knows  in  this  kingdom, 
and  has  found  him  very  willing  and  ready  to  that  employ- 
ment. Wishes  for  his  directions,  whether  to  proceed  here  or 
to  bring  the  parties  thither,  which  latter  he  takes  to  be  the 
better  course,  because  he  himself  may  deal  with  him,  for  it  is 
dangerous  to  commit  matters  of  weight  to  paper,  which  is  the 
cause  that  he  is  so  brief  Beseeches  him  to  keep  this  to  him- 
self, for  he  has  not  acquainted  any  creature  living  with  it. 

Dublin,  last  of  November. 

P.  1.     Signed.     Add'.     Endd. 

Nov.  30.       185.       Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
^'"s"'^'  3G3  Believe  that  the  great  recourse  of  pirates  to  the  coasts  of 

^^  ■   '  ^'      ■  Ireland  is  owing  to  the  want  of  such  a  statute  as  that  of  the 

28th  of  Henry  VIII.  in  England,  which  enables  their  being 


106  IKELAND— JAMES  I. 

1608. 

tried  by  commission,  and  takes  away  from  them  the  benefit 
of  clergy.  He  is  accordingly  from  time  to  time  to  send  over 
all  pirates  whose  conduct  deserves  death  to  Barnstaple,  Bristol, 
or  West  Chester,  there  to  be  kept  in  safe  custody  by  the 
chief  officers  till  they  receive  directions  from  the  Council  or 
the  Lord  Admiral.— Whitehall,  30  November  1608. 

Signed :  T.  EUesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton, 
T.  SufFolke,  E.  Worcester,  Downbar,  E.  Zoueh,  W.  KnoUys,  E. 
Wofcton,  L.  Stanhope,  J.  Herbert,  Jul.  Caesar,  Thos.  Parry. 

F.\.  Add.  ^%c^d;  "Ofthe  last  of  November  1608.  From 
the  Lordes  of  the  Councell  declaring  the  Kinges  pleasure 
tutchinge  the  sendinge  of  the  piratts  that  shall  be  apprehended 
to  Barnestaple,  BristoU,  or  Westchester,  &c.  Eec.  the  8th 
Januarie." 

[Nov.]       186.        Babnabe  Ryche  to  Salisbury. 

■rof  22^5*^272^  -^^  desirous  to  present  some  collections  of  his  own  expe- 

rience beneficial  for  His  Majesty's  service  in  Ireland  to 
His  Majesty  and  to  him  (Salisbury),  whose  godly  disposi- 
tion is  well  known  to  be  so  zealously  inclined  to  the  true 
worship  of  God,  that,  as  it  has  made  him  to  be  beloved 
of  all  the  godly  religious,  so  it  has  left  him  to  be  no  less 
maligned  by  the  whole  rout  and  rabblement  of  the  popish 
crew,  who  are  verily  persuaded  that  it  is  he  and  none  but  he 
that  does  so  impugn  their  Pope,  and  that  has  still  prevented 
them  in  all  their  pretended  practices.  Now  what  the  Irish 
project  to  themselves,  from  whence  they  draw  their  hopes, 
whereon  they  feed,  and  wherein  their  expectation  especially 
consists,  he  had  rather  deliver  by  word  of  mouth,  if  it  please 
his  Lordship  so  to  command,  than  to  set  it  down  in  writing. 
To  him  therefore,  but  to  the  prince  and  him  only,  he  has  in 
most  humbly  submissive  manner  bequeathed  those  experiments 
which  40  years'  observation  has  taught  him  to  know,  and 
which  for  divers  considerations  he  concealed  from  aU  others, 
two  persons  only  excepted ;  the  one  a  scrivener  whose  help 
necessity  enforced  him  to  use  for  the  writing  of  them  in  a 
more  legible  manner  than  he  himself  was  able  to  do,  and  a 
friend  here  in  London,  such  a  one  as  he  knew  not  only  to  be 
well  affected  to  His  Majesty's  service,  but  also  to  be  a  gentle- 
man of  good  understanding  and  of  long  experience  in  the 
affairs  of  Ireland  ;  to  him  he  lent  that  copy  which  he  himself 
had  written  (and  but  during  the  space  of  a  reading  over),  who 
confirmed  and  ratified  every  part  of  what  he  had  set  down, 
and  made  semblance  to  be  glad  that  it  should  be  brought  to 
your  honourable  view,  as  beneficial  to  the  State.  And  though 
in  his  essay  he  has  not  taxed  or  complained  of  any  one  (but 
especially  of  the  English  in  office  or  authority  about  the 
State),  but  has  rather  commended  the  Government  as  now 
managed,  and  has  acknowledged  the  worth  of  the  Lord 
Deputy  himself  and  of  divers  other  councillors,  yet  there  are 
some  of  their  Irish  inquisitors  here   about  the  town,  who. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  107 

1608. 

having  got  intelligence  of  something  that  he  should  present 
in  writing  to  the  Prince  and  to  him,  have  spread  abroad  that 
he  has  delivered  matter  of  scandal  to  the  whole  realm  of 
Ireland,  and  that  he  has  not  only  detected  and  depraved  the 
Lord  Deputy  himself  by  name,  but  that  he  has  likewise  com- 
plained of  all  the  rest  of  His  Majesty's  Council  in  that  realm, 
and  that  in  a  most  grievous  and  bitter  manner.  These  news, 
if  they  be  not  transported  into  Ireland  already,  they  will  not 
be  long  in  carrying  thither,  where  every  guilty  conscience 
will  envy  him ;  what  other  disgrace  and  mischief  they  will 
practise  against  him  he  leaves  to  his  Lordship's  consideration.^ 
— [London]. 

Pp.  2.    Signed.    Add.    Endd.    Sealed. 

Dec.  4.       187.        Sir  Francis  Shaen  to  Salisbury. 

■^01^225*^272  B  Complains  of  Mr.  Patrick  Foxe  acting  against  him  in  his 

arrears  in  Longford.     Offers  certain  explanations  as  to  the 
rent-beeves  of  Granard.     Intends  to  sue  for  a  commission  to 
inquire  into  the  state  of  the  rents  of  Granard. — 4  December 
1608. 
P.  1.    Signed.     Add.    Endd.     Sealed. 

Dec.  5.        188.        King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

7X^iX^2k.  .    ^°  g^^^*  *°  *^^  Archbishop  of  Dublin,  Chancellor  of  Ireland, 

in  fee  farm,  the  site,  ambit,  and  precinct  of  the  late  priory  of 
our  Blessed  Lady  St.  Mary  the  Virgin  of  Tristernagh,  in  the 
county  of  Westmeath,  granted  by  the  late  Queen  to  Captain 
William  Pierce  by  several  leases  for  terms  of  years  yet  unex- 
pired, which  are  now  held  by  Henry  Pierce,  son  of  the  said 
Captain  William  Pearce,  to  hold  the  said  late  priory  to  the 
said  Archbishop,  his  heirs  and  assigns,  in  fee  farm.' — West- 
minster, 5  December,  the  6th  year  of  the  King's  reign. 
P..  1.     Signed.    Addj.     Endd.     Enrol. 

Dec.  6.       189,        Lord  Chancellor  of  Ireland  to  Salisbury. 
^  f  22?'273'  Complains  of  Lord  Howth,  a  nobleman  who,  though  to  his 

'      '  knowledge  he  never  oiFended  him,  yet  has  heaped  upon  him 

such  a  number  of  imputations,  and  has  taken  such  a  liberty 
of  inveighing  against  him,  that  he  is  become  the  subject  of  his 
idle  talk  in  every  place,  and  (as  it  were)  a  man  exposed  to 
his  disgraceful  usage.  This  dealing  he  has  hitherto  endured 
with  patience,  because  he  (Lord  Howth)  has  brought  Sir  Garret 
Moore  into  some  trouble,  and  lest  he  should  appear  to  oppose 
Lord  Howth.  For  this  reason,  as  often  as  he  has  heard  of  any 
of  his  reports  to  his  discredit,  he  has  not  only  entreated  the 
Lord  Deputy  to  call  Lord  Howth  and  him  (the  Chancellor) 

'  This  is  probably  the  following  work :  "  Riches  (Baruabe)  New  Description 
of  Ireland,  wherein  is  described  the  disposition  of  the  Irish.    4to,  1610." 

j,*^  The  last  chapter  is,  "  That  the  Irish  are  more  dangerous  than  necessary 
for  His  Majestie's  service  in  Ireland." 
And  in  two  years  afterwards  appeared,  "  Barnaby  Rich's  True  and  Kinde  Excuse 
written  in  defence  of  that  Book,  intituled,  A  New  Description  of  Ireland."    4to 
1612. 


108  lEELAND— JAMES  I, 

1608. 

before  him,  that  he  might  give  his  Lordship  satisfaction  in  his 
presence,  but  has  also  sent  unto  him  several  gentlemen  of  good 
sort,  with  protestation  of  his  unwillingness  to  give  him  any 
cause  of  offence,  and  of  his  readiness  to  clear  himself  of  any 
his  conceits  against  him.  But  it  has  not  served  to  abate  the 
edge  of  his  tongue,  and  therefore  he  has  no  other  remedy  but 
to  bemoan  himself  to  his  Lordship,  and  to  beseech  him  to  read 
over  the  particular  note  enclosed  of  his  several  imputations, 
and  of  his  answers  to  the  same,  and  then  to  take  them  in 
his  custody,  to  be  showed  in  any  presence  he  shall  think 
fit,  the  remembrance  of  his  daily  and  public  employment  in 
His  Majesty's  service,  restraining  him  from  the  seeking  of 
any  other  remedy.  Prays  that  he  may  not  on  this  wise  be 
Avronged,  nor  thus  exposed  to  the  idle  devices  of  this  giddy- 
headed  lord,  whom  malice  and  not  matter  or  ground  of  any 
of  these  imputations  hath  stirred  up  to  exercise  his  patience, 
and  (if  it  lay  in  his  power)  to  work  his  downfall. — St.  Sepul- 
cher's,  Dublin,  6  December. 

Pp.  2.     Signed.    Add.     Endd.    Encloses, 

Nov.  9.       190.       Lord  Howtli's  charges  against  the  Archbishop  of  Dublin. 
S.P.,  Ireland,  A  note  of  somc  uniuorthy  imputations  and  untrue  reports 

vol.  225, 273 1.  raised   by  the   Lord   of  Hoiuth   against   the   Archbishop  of 

Dublin,  Chancellor,  &c.,  together  ivith  his  answers  to  the 
same. 

1.  First,  Lord  Howth,  on  the  5th  November  past,  confessed 
before  the  Lord  Deputy  and  himself  {the  Chancellor)  that  he  had 
informed^  His  Majesty  and  him  {Salisbury)  at  his  last  being 
in  England  that  he  {the  Chancellor)  had  used  these  words  of 
him  openly  at  his  table,  soon  after  his  {Lord  Howth's)  last 
departure  into  England, — That  he  wa,s  gone  into  England 
p)urp)0sely  to  break  his  {the  Chancellor'' s)  neck. 

To  this  he  ansivers,  that  this  report  was  but  an  imagination 
of  an  idle  head,  and  that  it  plainly  shall  appear  so ;  for  he 
affirms  it  upon  his  credit  that  he  has  seen  a  letter  of  the  Lord 
of  Howtlhs  of  a  late  date,  to  the  Lady  of  Delvin,  wherein  he 
desires  her  Ladyship  to  send  for  her  servant  Ashpoole,  and  to 
procure  him  to  become  his  author  of  that  report,  in  which 
letter  he  pror^iises  the  Lady  upon  his  honour  that  he  luill 
not  discover  Ashpoole  to  be  the  author.  Herein  he  calls  the 
Lord  Deputy  to  %uitness,  to  ivhom  he  showed  the  said  Lord's 
letter  on  the  2<6th  of  November  past,  and  his  Lordship  read  it 
and  ivell  knew  it  to  be  the  Lord  of  Hoiuth's  hand. 

2.  His  second  accusation  is,  that  he  {the  Chancellor)  has 
accused  him  that  he  resorted  to  a  gentleman's  house  in  Meath 
for  the  love  of  his  wife  to  have  his  unlawful  desire  of  her. 
And  says  that  he  has  dishonoured  him  and  ovMde  the  world 
to  conceive  that  he  is  a  villain  and  unworthy  of  any  society, 
on  this  r)%anner  to  abuse  his  kinsmaJi,  and  besides  he  affirmed 
before  the  Lord  Deputy  and  hiraself  on  the  6th  of  November 
past  that  he  had  luritten  to  His  Majesty  that  he  {the  Chan- 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  109 


1608. 


cellor)  had  done  him  this  tvrong,  and   so   had   made   him 
hateful  to  all  the  Pale. 

To  this  he  ansivers,  that  the  Lord  Deputy  having  at  his  {the 
ChoAicellor's)  entreaty  called,  Lord  Howth  and  himself  before 
him  that  he  (the  Chancellor)  might  in  his  Lordship's  presence 
give  him  satisfaction  of  his  innocency  therein,  lord  Howth, 
in  the  Deputy's  presence,  charged  him  with  being  an  author 
of  that  accusation,  wldch  he  deoiied,  and,  prayed  him  on  his 
honour  to  let  him  know  his  accuser.  He  named  the  Lady 
Bellew,  late  wife  to  Sir  Robert  Dillon,  a  councillor  of  this 
state,  and  affirmed  that  she  would  justify  that  accusation. 
Whereupon,  he  {the  Chancellor)  sent  a  letter  to  that  Lady  on 
the  9  th  of  November  past,  and  received  her  ansner  on  the  10th. 
The  copies  of  these  tivo  letters  noiu  sent  will  soon  discover  hoiu 
much  he  hath  wronged  him  in  this  imputation  {not  fitting 
luith  the  gravity  of  his  place),  whereby  he  has  endeavoured  to 
withdravj  from,  hitn  the  good  opinion  of  all  the  gentlemen  of 
the  Pale. 

3.  His  third  imputation  is,  that  he  has  dissuaded  some 
gentlemen  from  joining  with  him  in  his  accusation  against 
Sir  Garrett  Moore. 

To  this  he  ansiverecl  before  the  Lord  Deputy  and  still 
maintains,  that  this  is  but  the  Lord  of  HowtKs  idle  surmise 
against  him,  who  has  ever  carried  a  different  respect  between 
his  duty  to  his  prince  and  his  affection  to  his  friend,  and 
therefore  he  {the  Chancellor)  leaves  Sir  Garrett  Moore  to  stand 
or  fall  according  to  his  own  deserts. 

His  fourth  impiUation  icas  before  the  Lord  Deputy  and 
Council,  on  the  '24<th  of  November  past,  on  tuhich  day,  deeming 
that  a  sufficient  number  of  jurors  out  of  the  county  of  Meath 
had  not  appeared  in  the  Chief  Bench  to  try  two  kerne  upon 
those  borders,  presented  by  his  Lordship,  he  burst  forth  into 
these  wordjS  before  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Council,  "  That  such 
tuas  the  Lord  Chancellor's  greatness  that  the  freeholders  of 
Meath  durst  not  appear ;  they  stood  in  such  fear  and  awe  of 
him  and  of  Sir  Garrett."  He  ansivered  him,  that  he  did  him 
wrong,  for  he  had  nothing  to  do  in  the  matter.  "  No  ? "  said 
the  Lord  of  Howth ;  "  you  sent  your  son  yesterday  into  the 
court  openly  to  give  countenance  to  the  prisoners  against  the 
King,  and  he  did  there  publicly  speak  to  the  judge  in  favour 
of  the  prisoners."  He  answered  his  Lordship,  that  if  his  son 
had  done  any  such  thing,  it  was  done  expressly  against  his 
direction,  and  he  v.'ould  severely  punish  him  for  it. 

To  this  the  answer  is,  that  immediately  after  Lord  Hotuth 
had  charged  hitn  in  this  manner  the  Lord  Deputy  tvent  into 
the  Council  Chamber,  where  instantly  he  {the  Chancellor) 
wrote  a  letter  to  the  learned  judges  of  His  Majesty's  Chief 
Bench,  desiring  them  to  certify  unto  him  the  manner  of  his 
son's  carriage  in  that  court  on  the  day  before.  The  true  cop>y 
of  the  letter  sent  unto  them,  and  of  their  certificate  again 
returned  to  him  before  he  rose  from  the  table,  will  very  suffi- 
ciently clear  his  son  and  himself  from  this  untrue  accusation. 


110  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1608. 

And  for  his  own  part  he  has  nothing  to  do  with  any  bordering 
kerne,  and  whilst  he  lived  in  Meath  he  never  affected  any  of 
them,  hut  ahuays  from  time  to  time  used  his  best  endeavours 
to  procure  their  chastisement  when  they  offended. 

Divers  other  particular  wrongs  hath  the  Lord  of  Howth 
since  his  last  coming  out  of  England  done  unto  hi/m  in  the 
unbridled  liberty  of  his  tongue,  which  he  forbears  to  write  lest 
he  should  be  too  troublesoDie. 
Fp.  5.    Signed.    Endd. 

Nov.  9.        191.         The  Archbishop  of  Dublin  to  Lady  Dillon  (Bellew). 
S.P.,  Ireland,  Madam, — I  com,mend  me  unto  you,  and  do  let  you  to  wit 

^° '      '       "'  that  the  Lord  of  Howthe  hath  charged  me  before  the  Lord 

Deindy  that  I  have  raised  om  accusation  of  him,  and  of  Kate 
Fitton,  tending  to  both  their  discredits ;  and  he  hath  affirmed 
that  your  Ladyship  is  his  author  that  I  have  so  done,  and 
that  you  did  affirm  to  Kate  Fitton  that  I  did  wish  you  to 
look  unto  her,  for  my  Lord  of  Howth  did  resort  to  Riverstone 
for  love  of  her,  or  to  have  his  desire  of  her.  Of  these  speeches 
your  Ladyship  is  avouched  to  be  the  author,  to  luhich  L  have 
made  this  answer  ;  first,  that  I  do  not  remember  to  have  used 
any  such  speeches  to  you,  and,  secondly,  that  if  I  used  any 
words  to  you  of  any  such  matter  or  to  any  like  effect,  I  did 
not  use  them  in  ivay  of  accusation,  as  Qod  doth  know  it -is  a 
thing  far  from  my  meaning,  having  ever  esteemed  dearly  of 
her.  I  do  pv^rposely  send  this  bearer,  your  son-in-laiv,  unto 
you,  beseeching  you  to  do  me  but  this  justice  to  let  me  under- 
stand whether  you  heard  any  such  speeches  frotn  myself;  what 
the  speeches  were,  and  in  what  inaomer  I  used  them,  and  how 
far  you  hath  charged  me  in  this  behcdf;  tJie  doing  whereof 
will  give  me  great  satisfaction,  and  L  taJce  this  to  he  a  cha- 
ritable deed  for  you  to  perform  unto  your  old  and  dear 
friend,  who  is  not  a  little  grieved  to  have  an  imputation  laid 
upon  him  to  this  effect  by  the  Lord  of  Howth,  (my  meaning 
and  dealing  towards  that  house  of  Riverstone)  having  been 
ever  free  from  seeking  their  discredit  in  word  and  deed.  So 
earnestly  entreating  your  Ladyship's  answer  of  this  my  letter, 
I  commit  you  to  God's  tuition. — Your  Ladyship's  honest 
friend. — St.  Sepulcher's,  9  November  1608. 

Signed :  Tho.  Dublin,  Cane. 
P.  1.  Copia  vera. 

Nov.  10.      192.        Lady  Bellewe  to  the  Archbishop  of  Dublin. 

My  good  Lord, — Lhave  received  from  you  a  letter  the  read- 
ing ivhereof  hath  hred  both  grief  and  amazement  in  me.  It 
imports  that  the  Lord  of  Howth  hath  charged  your  Lordship 
that  you  have  raised  an  accusation  of  him  and  of  Kate  Fitton 
tending  to  both  their  discredits,  and  that  he  hath  affirmed  that 
I  am  his  author  that  you  have  so  done,  and  that  I  did  affirm 
to  Kate  Fitton  that  you  did  wish  me  to  look  unto  her,  for  my 
Lord  of  Howth  did  resort  to  Riverstone  for  love  of  her,  or  to 
have  his  desire  of  her.  To  these  you  desire  my  answer,  and 
to  these  I  make  this  answer.    First,  I  call  Almighty  Qod  and 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  Ill 


1608. 

His  angels  to  ^vitness  that  in  my  life  1  never  heard  these 
words,  the  like  words,  or  any  luords  tending  to  any  such 
matter  or  to  any  such  like  effect  either  from  your  oivn  mouth, 
hy  message,  or  by  any  other  direct  or  indirect  means  from 
you ;  secondly,  Isiuear  hy  Christ  Jesu  and  as  I  hope  to  receive 
salvation  to  my  soul,  through  His  merits,  I  never  charged  you 
dArectly  nor  indirectly  with  any  such  onatters  or  words  to  any 
like  effect.  I  never,  to  my  o^ememhrance,  had  any  speech  with 
my  Lord  of  Howth,  nor  saiu  him  since  my  Lord  Moiontjoy's 
lying  at  Bundalke.  L  never  affirmed  to  Kate  Fitton  thcd  you 
did  tvish  me  to  look  unto  her  for  that  my  Lord  of  Howth  did 
resort  to  Riverstone  for  love  of  her,  &c.,  or  any  words  to  that 
effect ;  and  lastly,  I  say  that  for  my  Lord  of  Hoivth,  L  hope, 
tvhen  he  shall  call  his  better  remembrance  together,  he  for  his 
part  tuill  clear  me,  and  ivhosoever  else  hath  charged  one  there- 
with or  onade  me  author  thereof,  doth  most  mcdiciously,  falsely, 
and  uncharitably  tvrong  me,  and  of  some  wicked  pretence 
doth  endeavour  to  bring  me  into  your  mislike,  tvho  hath  been 
ony  pcotron  since  the  decUh  of  my  dearest  husband.  I  must 
acknowledge  your  wonted  readiness  to  show  your  faithful  love 
and  favour  to  the  house  of  Riverstone  and  to  mine  own  pctr- 
ticular,  and  therefore  the  least  testimony  of  thankfulness  that 
L  can  show  to  you  is  at  any  time  or  before  any  presence  to 
clear  myself  arid  free  you  from  this  imputation,  which  thus 
far  L  do  now  under  the  signatitre  of  my  name  as  L  iised  to 
write  it,  cond  at  all  other  times  tuill  do  the  like  in  ony  person 
and  upon  my  corporeal  oath,  which  before  this  bearer  I  have 
taken.  L  beseech  God  to  bless  your  Lordship  from  the  potver 
and  oiudiee  of  any  that  would  hurt  you. — Bellewston,  10 
November  1608.  K.  S. 

Copia  vera.    Signed :  Tho.  Dublin,  Cane. 
P.  1,  on  back  of  preceding  letter.     Endd. 

S.P.  Ireland,     1 93         The  Archbishop  of  Dublin  to  the  Judges  of  His  Majesty's 

vol.  225,  273  11,.  5g,,,;,_  ^      -^ 

/  comonend  me  unto  you,  where  I  am  advertised  that  my 
son  Roger  Jooies  did  yesterduy  ioi  His  Mctjesty's  Bench  use 
some  speeches  unto  you  in  favour  of  the  prisooier  at  bcor  to  the 
hindraoice  of  His  Majesty's  service.  I  do  earnestly  beseech 
you  under  your  hands  to  certify  the  truth  hereof  icnto  me  in 
what  manner,  speeches,  or  behaviour  my  said  son  did  mis- 
behave himself,  ivherein  L  desire  your  present  satisfactiooi 
under  your  hands,  an  imputcdion  being  lend  upon  myself 
for  this  matter.  Herein  J  desire  your  present  aoisiver. — Frovi 
the  Council  Chamber  this  instant  Thursday.  J  beseech  you  to 
write  yoior  answer  londer  this  my  letter. — Your  loving  friend. 

Signed :  Tho.  Dublin,  Cane. 
Copia  vera. 

The  answer  of  the  Judges  of  His  Majesty's  Bench. 
May  it  please  your  Lordship,  we  have  examined  ourselves 
and  conferred  with  Mr.  Solicitor  who  attended  that  arraign- 


112  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1608. 

ment,  and  cannot  find  nor  observe  that  Sir  Roger  Jones  in 
the  time  of  his  tarrying  in  the  court  yesterday  used  any  word 
or  action  in  favour  of  the  prisoners,  and  if  we  had  noted  any 
or  had  been  probably  informed  thereof  we  would  reprove  and 
fine  that  fault  therewith  as  luere  befitting,  which  we  humbly 
certify  and  take  our  leaves,  remaining  at  your  Lordship's 
command. 

Dom.  Sarsefyld, 
Christopher  Sybthorpe. 

Copia  vera.    Signed :  Tho.  Dublin,  Ganc. 

Dec.  7.      194.        Lord  Deputy  and  Council  to  the  Privy  Council. 

vol.  '22T  274  "'■*  ^PP^s-i's  by  the  commission  for  taking  accounts  here,  which 

has  now  been  sent,  that  neither  the  account  of  the  Treasurer, 
long  since  in  the  auditor's  hands,  nor  the  accounts  of  Sir  George 
Bourchier  and  divers  other,  at  this  present  tendered,  can  be 
taken  by  such  of  them  as  are  now  within  the  realm,  their 
number  being  but  four,  to  wit,  the  Chancellor,  Chief  Baron, 
one  secretary,  and  Auditor  Ware  ;  all  the  rest  (as  their  Lord- 
ships know)  being  absent  or  deceased,  namely,  the  Chief  Jus- 
tice, the  Master  of  the  Rolls,  Sir  Geffrey  Fenton,  Sir  James 
FuUerton,  and  Auditor  Peyton,  and  the  commission  requiring 
five.  Conceiving  it  to  be  greatly  prejudicial  to  His  Majesty's 
service  if  these  accounts  should  be  delayed,  they  suggest  the 
authorising  of  some  others  of  the  Council  here,  or  the  sur- 
veyor (whose  predecessor  formerly  was  in  that  commission)  to 
be  added  to  the  rest,  or  else  by  renewing  the  commission  to 
any  four,  whereas  it  is  now  to  five.  In  the  meantime  such 
of  them  as  are  commissioners  will  get  ready  the  Treasurer's 
account,  having  better  leisure  and  convenience  this  vacation 
belween  Michaelmas  and  Hilary  terms  to  dispatch  businesses 
of  this  nature,  than  in  other  vacations  when  such  as  are 
judges  must  go  in  circuit.  They  further  desire  to  know  their 
pleasures,  "whether  Sir  Neale  O'Donnell,  Sir  Donnell  O'Cane, 
and  the  other  prisoners  now  remaining  in  this  Castle  of  Dublin 
shall  this  next  Hilary  terui  be  proceeded  against  by  law, 
according  to  the  evidence  which  they  think  will  reach  to  their 
conviction,  as  they  signified  by  the  Lord  Chief  Justice  and 
Sir  John  Davys  at  their  going  from  hence,  to  prevent  the 
hazards  depending  on  their  imprisonment  by  practices  to 
escape.  In  that  event  they  desire  likewise  that  Sir  John 
Davys,  now  there,  may  be  returned  hither  by  that  time  to 
enforce  the  evidence  for  the  King,  as  best  acquainted  with  that 
business  and  best  able  to  effect  it,  being  matter  of  good 
moment  for  His  Majesty,  and  not  fit  to  be  neglected,  which 
they  may  not  forget  to  recommend  unto  them. — Dublin  Castle, 
7  December  1608. 

Signed  :  Arthur  Chichester,  Tho.  Dublin,  Cane,  Thomond 
Th.  Ridgeway,  Humfrey  Winche,  Ad.  Loftus,  Ry.  Cooke. 

Pp.  2.    Add.     Endd. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  113 


1608. 

Dec.  7.        195.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  [Salisbury]. 
^^''22^^^'}.  Kepeats  the  request  of  the  Council  for  a  new  commission 

for  taking  accounts,  or  the  returning  back  to  Ireland  the 
commissioners  then  in  London. 

Sir  Humphry  Winch,  Chief  Baron  of  the  Exchequer  here, 
has  been  informed  from  thence  that  Sir  James  Ley,  the  Chief 
Justice,  is  to  be  preferred  to  some  place  there,  and  to  return 
no  more  hither.  Perceives  by  him  that  he  better  affects  the 
place  of  Chief  Justice  than  this  of  the  Exchequer.  He  is  a 
learned  and  upright  gentleman.  Is  of  opinion  that  a  more 
fit  man  can  hardly  be  sent  from  thence  ;  if  there  be  any  such 
exchange,  a  man  well  experienced  in  the  course  of  the 
Exchequer  there  should  succeed  him,  for  his  carriage  in  that 
court  must  bring  [greater]  profit  to  His  Majesty  than  any  in 
this  kingdom. 

The  Lord  of  Howth  has  now  made  known  to  him  that  he 
will  not  proceed  against  Sir  Garrett  Moore  here,  but  will 
prosecute  his  accusation  there  before  the  King  and  their 
Lordships.  He  will  go  hence  (as  he  says)  soon  after  Chris- 
tyde,  of  which  he  prayed  him  (Chichester)  to  take  notice  and 
to  make  the  same  known  to  him.  Has  required  Sir  Garrett 
Moore  to  prepare  himself  for  the  journey.  The  Lord  of  Howth 
has  by  his  own  tongue  declared  that  he  is  the  discoverer  of 
the  treason,  and  that  the  King  has  given  him  a  reward  for  the 
same,  of  which  and  divers  other  passages  in  that  business,  both 
there  and  here,  it  is  said  he  spares  not  to  speak.  Sure  he 
is  it  is  generally  spoken  of,  and  he  knows  it  could  not  pro- 
ceed from  any  here,  but  from  (Howth)  himself  Has  often- 
times brought  the  Lord  Chancellor  and  him  together  in  order 
to  reconcle  them,  or  at  best  to  discern  the  cause  of  their  dif- 
ference, as  he  (Salisbury)  dii-ected.  The  Lord  Chancellor  has 
cleared  himself  in  the  points  of  his  accusation.  The  intem- 
perate Lord  will  receive  no  satisfaction  ;  but,  as  his  dislike  was 
grounded  upon  suspicion,  so  it  is  vainly  continued  by  him, 
saying  he  has  acquainted  and  will  again  acquaint  His  Majesty 
•with  the  Chancellor's  carriage  ;  which  he  delivers  in  so  threat- 
ening a  manner  (arrogating  to  himself  great  interest  in  His 
Majesty's  favour),  that  it  troubles  the  Chancellor  not  a  little, 
and  the  more  so  that  he  makes  but  a  merriment  of  that  which 
so  greatly  grieves  him.  If  the  King  should  hear  and  believe 
this  man's  accusation,  he  would  condemn  all  men  that  did  not 
run  one  course  with  him,  which  is  very  vain  and  foolish. 

Has  reduced  all  the  companies  according  to  the  list ;  but 
some  of  the  discharged  men  are  yet  in  the  kingdom,  some  for 
want  of  passage,  others  by  reason  they  lay  in  garrison,  from 
whence  they  cannot  be  withdrawn  until  the  rivers  fall,  which 
have  of  long  time  been  impassable  in  the  North,  whereby  the 
charge  will  be  somewhat  increased.  Complains  of  being  again 
in  great  want  of  money.  All  parts  of  the  kingdom  are  in  quiet, 
and  the  heads  or  bodies  of  the  late  rebels  in  the  North  are 
3,  H 


114  TEELAND — JAMES  I. 

1608. 

often  brought  to  him  from  sundry  countries  ;  there  are  not 
past  three  or  four  living  of  that  wicked  consort  who  are  of 
any  note  or  to  be  regarded,  and  these,  he  hopes,  will  not  long 
escape  him.  The  sooner  the  King  disposes  of  those  escheated 
lands  the  bettei",  for  the  tenants,  being  without  heads,  with- 
draw tlieraselves  from  those  lands  and  scatter  their  goods  into 
other  countries.  When  the  country  is  once  waste,  he  fears  the 
undertakers'  purses  will  not  reach  to  stock  and  manure  it. 
This  tliey  may  gather  from  the  plantation  in  Munster,  which 
is  a  better  country  and  nearer  the  sun,  and  yet  the  King's 
rent  is  hardly  made  by  the  undertakers.    . 

Ventures  thus  to  write  to  him  by  every  passage,  which  he 
does  out  of  his  love  and  duty. — Dublin,  7  December  1608. 

Pp.  3.     Signed. 

Dec.  7.       196.         Thomas   Yonge,  Vice-Treasurer   of  Munster,  to  Salis- 

S.P.,  Ireland,  BURY. 

E.eturns  his  thanks  for  his  Lordship's  past  favours  Has 
served  his  office  faithfully,  and  requests  a  letter  to  the  Trea- 
surer. Has  assisted  Cottingham  in  his  survey  of  the  woods. 
Proposes  that  the  chief  woods  and  timber  trees  should  be 
seized  into  the  King's  hands. — Dublin,  7  December  1G08. 

P.  1.     Signed,    Broad  sheet     Add.    Endd. 


vol.  22,-,,  27G. 


vol.  02,  p.  329. 


Dec.  8.       197.        "William  Paesons  to  Sir  John  Davys. 

v*^rffo^'^'''.'9  ^PO'^  *^^^  accident  of  the  death  of  Sir  Geffrey  Fenton,  his 

dear  uncle,  and  the  defect  of  a  commissioner  thereby  for  the 
accounts  of  the  Receiver  of  the  Revenues,  Master  of  the  Ord- 
nance, and  other  accountants,  it  has  pleased  the  Lord  Deputy 
to  consider  of  liis  just  challenge  to  be  a  commissioner  of 
those  accounts,  as  he  is  officer  of  the  surveys ;  for  by  that 
office  Sir  Geffrey  Fenton  first  came  in,  and  before  him  was 
Alford,  the  surveyor,  a  commissioner  likewise.  The  Lord  De- 
puty has  now  written  by  himself  for  him  in  that  behalf  to 
some  of  the  best  here,  and  to  the  same  end  have  the  Council 
here  recommended  him  to  the  Lords  there.  He  must  there- 
fore, now,  before  he  thought  it,  be  a  humble  suitor  to  his 
Lordship  to  urge  on  the  business  by  his  good  word,  if  he  find 
occasion,  whereby  he  doubts  not  but  the  matter  will  succeed 
much  the  better.  Thought  not  to  have  been  a  suitor  herein 
till  next  summer,  when  he  intended  to  have  come  into  England 
]'ecommended  ;  but  this  occasion  thus  preventing  him,  thinks 
he  cannot  find  better  opportunity ;  wherein  if  his  Lordship  will 
be  pleased  to  assist  liim  with  his  word,  he  shall  be  for  ever 
bound  fas  for  many  other  his  favours)  to  do  him  all  the  honest 
services  he  can  here.  And  thu.s  being  over-bold  with  hira,  yet 
presuming  out  of  the  knowledge  of  his  own  heart  towards  him, 
he  takes  leave. — Dublin,  8  December  1608. 

"  I  beseech  you,  sir,  if  any  commissions  come  over  for  survey 
or  disposing  His  Majesty's  lands  here,  let  me  be  remembered 


IRELAND — JAMES  I.  115 


vol.  225,  277. 


1G08. 

for  one  commissioner,  as  all  my  predecessors  in  office  have 
been ;  and  for  my  ability  and  travail  in  those  services  I  refer 
me  to  yourself" 

P.  1.  Orig.  Add.  Not  endd.  :  "To  mj  yerywov^<^iveind 
Sr  John  Davies,  Knight,  His  Ma^es  Atturney  Gen'all  of  Ireland 
at  London." 

Dec.  13.      198.        Captain  Richard  Tyrrell's   Articles    against    Sir 

S-P-,  Ireland,  GaRRETT  MoORE. 

"  T,  Captain  Eichard  Terrell,  of  Kilteefany,  in  the  county  of 
Cavan,  Esq.,  do  take  it  upon  my  conscience,  and  will  at  all 
times  be  ready  to  aver  and  swear  these  articles  following 
against  Sir  Gerald  Moore,  Knt.  : — 

1.  First  that  the  Earl  of  Tyrone  challenged  the  Captain  that 
he  was  to  betray  him  in  the  end  of  the  last  rebellion  (a  little 
before  the  said  Captain's  submission)  to  the  Lord  Lieutenant, 
and  the  Captain  denying  it,  then  the  Earl  took  it  upon  his 
oath  and  honour  that  his  intimate  dear  friend  Sir  Gerald 
Moore  sent  to  him  private  and  special  intelligence  that  he 
should  beware  of  Capt.  Terryll,  who  seemed  to  be  his  friend, 
but  was  to  betray  him,  for  he  was  to  receive  his  pardon 
from  the  Lord  Lieutenant.  The  Earl  was  a  subject  when  he 
affirmed  this  to  the  Captain, 

2.  The  Lord  Bishop  of  Kilmore  sent  his  letter  by  Philip 
M'Tyrrelaght  Brady  to  Sir  Gerald  Moore,  requiring  him  to 
apprehend  Mulmory  M'Edmond  Reough  O'Eely  for  commit- 
ting a  horrible  murder,  and  being  then  ready  to  run  into 
rebellion  ;  and  the  said  Captain  and  Philip  did  then  affirm 
so  much  to  Sir  Gerald,  wlio  sent  for  Mulmory 's  father  and 
threatened  to  commit  him  to  prison  unless  he  would  bring  in 
his  son  ;  whereupon  the  father  sent  a  dun  horse  to  Sir  Gerald 
for  befriending  himself  and  his  son,  which  he  received,  and 
accordingly  performed  ;  for  although  the  son  at  the  same  time 
came  privately  unto  him,  he  never  questioned  with  him  for 
those  offences. 

3.  The  said  Captain,  inquiring  of  Connor  M'Killerhuskby, 
who  was  foot-boy  to  Magwyre,  that  went  beyond  sea,  and  was 
with  him  at  the  time  of  his  going,  where  the  said  Magwyre  had 
money  to  defray  his  charge  in  that  journey,  the  said  Connor 
told  him  that  Sir  Gerald  Moore's  lady  gave  Magwyre  at  the 
time  of  his  going  oOl.,  and  wished  that  his  brother  Brien 
should  give  all  the  hawks  in  Farmanaghe  to  Sir  Gerrald. 

4.  That  Shane  M'Brien  O'Eely,  being  in  this  last  rebellion 
■  with  Brien  ne  Shafeghe,  that  was   a  proclaimed  traitor,  and 

assisted  O'Dogherty,  Sir  Gerald  Moore  from  time  to  time 
relieved  and  helped  the  said  Shane.  And  for  the  better 
demonstration  of  the  truth,  and  that  he  will  justify  the  ])re- 
mises,  he  has  hereunto  put  his  hand  the  ISth  of  December 
1608. 

P.  1.     Endd. :  "  Tlie  copy  of  Capt.  Terrell's  articles." 

H  2 


116  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 


1608. 
Dec.  16.      199.        Report  of  the  Commissionees  for  the  Customs  of  Iee- 

S.F.,  Ireland,  LAND, 

vol  225    278 

'      '  Subscribed :  Lawr.  Tanfield,  John  Doddridge,  Henry  Hu- 

barte,  James  Ley,  Anth.  Sentleger,  Jo.  Davys. 

Pp.  3.  Add.  in  heading :  "  To  the  Lord  of  His  Majs. 
Privy  Council."     Endd. 

S.P.,  Ireland,    200.        LOTTERY    Suggested  for  Proportions  in  the  Ulster 
vol.  225, 279.  Plantation 

A  course  for  division  of  that  which  is  surveyed,  in  which 
these  things  may  be  avoided. 

First.  There  must  be  several  sorts  of  proportions. 

Next.  Some  course  would  be  taken  that  English  and 
Scottish  may  be  placed  both  near  and  woven  one  within 
another. 

Thirdly.  That  the  English  and  Scottish  be  next  to  rivers. 

The  Irish  on  plains. 

The  Capt.  and  servitors  on  the  borders  and  near  the  Irish. 

The  manner  to  be  by  lottery,  viz. : 
All  the  lands  proportioned,  to  be  put  in  several  scrolls. 
Those  scrolls  to  be  wrapped  in  wax  in  balls  of  three  bigness. 
In  the  big,  the  best  proportion,  and  so  in  order. 
All  these  to  be  put  into  one  box. 

In  Tyrone  there  are — 

Great  proportions  -  9  2,000  acres. 

Middle            -  -  12  1,500      „ 

Less   -            -  -  38  1,000      „ 

59  proportions. 
Of  ecclesiatical  lands  to  thp 

BB  [Bishops]        -  -  13,200    „ 

Proportions  -  -  -     37 

Of  these  37  proportions,  al- 
lotted to  incumbents. 

To  the  incumbents    -  -       5,040    „ 

The  BB  [Bishops]  say  this  last  portion  is  taken  from 
them,  and  therefore  moved  that  a  portion  may  be  deposited 
till  that  be  cleared. 

Pp.  2.  Endd. :  "  Memorial  for  Ireland  concerning  the  plan- 
tation.    Bishops'  Alienation."     {Seemingly  in  hand  of  Cecil) 

Dec.  20.      201.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Philad.  P.,  Having  had  proof  of  the  service  of  Sir  James  Ley,  late 

Chief  Justice  of  the  King's  Bench  in  Ireland,  and  now  of  late 
having  had  speech  with  him  concerning  the  affairs  of  that 
State,  the  King  has  taken  such  a  liking  to  him  and  such  an 
opinion  of  his  ability  to  do  him  service,  that  he  has  made 
choice  of  him  to  serve  in  a  place  of  great  charge  in  this  his 
kingdom  of  England,  which  is  the  place  of  Attorney  of  the 
Court  of  Wards.     He  has   accordingly  discharged  him  of  his 


IHELAND— JAMES  I.  117 


1(J08. 

place  of  Chief  Justice  of  tlie  King's  Bench  of  Ireland,  and  has 
appointed  thereto  Sir  Humphrey  Winch,  now  Chief  Baron  of 
the  Court  of  Exchequer  there,  who  is  to  have  the  King's 
letters  patent  for  the  appointment. —  Westminster,  20  De- 
cember, in  the  6th  year  of  the  King's  reign. 
P.  1.     Signed.     Add.     Endd.     Enrol. 

Dec.  20.     202.        Project  for  the  Plantation  of  Tyrone. 

^oT  '2^^280'  Report  to  the  Privy  Council  by  the  committee  appointed 

'"    '       '  for  considering  the  project  for  distribution  and  plantation  of 

the  escheated  lands  in  the  county  of  Tyrone,  stating  the  divi- 
sion of  the  lands,  the  rents  and  tenures,  the  description  of  per- 
sons for  undertakers,  and  the  articles  to  be  entered  into. — 
20  December  1608. 

Signed :  James  Ley,  Anth.  Sentleger,  Heniy  Docwra,  01. 
St.  John,  Ja.  Fullerton,  Jo.  Davys. 

Pp.  9.     Endd. :  "  Project  for  the  plantation  of  Tirone." 


Dec.  22.     203.        Coxjntess  of  Tyrconnell's  Pension. 
Warrant^Book,  Warrant  to  pay  2001.  yearly  pension  during  pleasure  to 

Bridget,  Countess  of  Tyrconnel,  widow  of  the  late  attainted 
Earl  of  Tyrconnel. 


2,  p.  57. 


[Dec]       204.        Objections  of  Sir  John  Davys  against  Assignments  in 

S.P.,  Ireland,  ULSTER  by  LOTTERY. 

'      ■  "A  view  of  Irish  plantation "  objecting  to  the  proposed 

assignment  of  land  by  lot.  Proposes  to  extend  the  plantation 
to  the  whole  of  Ulster.  Suggestions  on  the  best  mode  of 
locating  undertakers,  servitors,  and  natives,  and  on  the  general 
policy  to  be  pursued. 

[There  is  no  date  to  this  paper,  htd  it  hears  evidence  of  being 
the  productiooi  of  Davys,  and  that  it  luas  subsequent  to  the 
first  proposition  in  Tyrone,  20  December,  and  prior  to  those 
made  for  Ulster  generally  in  January  following. 1 
Pp.  3.     Endd. 

[Dec]       205.        Florence  M'Carthy  to  Salisbury. 
^''^'aa^^m'  Submits  to   his  Lordship  the  substance  of  the  following 

'      ■  petition,  enlarged  and  enforced  by  sundry  representations. 

P.  1.     Add.     Endd.    Seeded. 

S.P.,  Ireland,     206.  PETITION   of  FLORENCE   M'CaRTHT. 

'      '  To  the  right  honourable  the  Earl  of  Salisbury,  Lord  High 

Treasurer  of  England, 

The  humble  petition  of  Florence  MacCartie,  prisoner  in  the 

Tower. 

Humbly  shewing  his  being  restrained  here  close  at  the 
first  when  he  was  sent  over,  and  after  his  removing  from  the 
Fleet  about  three  years,  which  brought  him  so  diseased  that 
his  life  was  hardly  preserved  in  the  Marshalsea,  where  he  was 


118  IRELAND — JAMES  1. 

1608. 

afterwards  kept  three  years  and  seven  months,  until  he  was, 
above  three  years  past,  removed  hither  again,  and  kept  close 
ever  since,  to  the  undoing  of  him  and  three  young  sons  that 
he  maintains,  his  eldest  son  being  dead  here,  and  himself 
grown  so  diseased  that  he  has  never  enjoyed  his  health  any 
long  time  ever  since. 

Forasmuch  as  the  suppliant  was  pardoned  by  the  late 
Queen,  and  as  the  Lord  Viscount  Koch,  O'Sulivan  More,  and 
the  White  Knight  are  bound  for  him,  he  therefore  humbly 
beseecheth  that  it  will  please  his  Lordship,  of  his  honourable 
and  accustomed  favour  towards  him,  so  far  to  commiserate 
his  life,  now  in  his  extreme  misery  and  dangerous  diseases,  as 
to  further  his  removing  to  some  other  prison  in  hope  that 
his  life  may  be  preserved,  and  he  shall  ever  pray. 

P.  L 

Dec.  26.      207.        Loeds  of  Council  to  Sir  Arthtje  Chichestee. 

'^'^^^'^- 1^.>  Mrs.   Chishall,  the  wife  of  one  William  Cliishall,  has  been 

'    '   '       '  there  soliciting  to  have    the  suit    pending  between  her  hus- 

band and  Sir  Kichard  Boyle  and  one  William  Ball,  referred 
to  the  arbitration  of  Sir  Thomas  Parry,  Chancellor  of  the 
Duchy ;  but  the  proofs  and  evidence  on  both  sides  being  in 
Ireland,  he  (Sir  Thomas  Parry)  could  not  proceed,  but  has 
drawn  them  to  agree  to  refer  all  controversies  to  the  President 
of  Munster.— Whitehall,  26  December  1608. 

Signed:  K.  Cant.,  T.  EUesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury, 
T.  SufFolke,  E.  Zouche,  A.  Knollys,  E.  Wotton,  E.  Worcester, 
Thos.  Parry. 

P.  1.  Add.  Endd. :  "  26  of  Dec'  1608,  fr5  the  Lis.  of  the 
Councell  in  the  cause  betwixt  S^-'  Richard  Boyle,  M"^  Chishall, 
and  others." 

Dec.  26.      208.        Loeds  of  Council  to  Sie  Arthur  Chichestee. 

^'^3'^'^  fs?  Have  received  the  proposed  new  Establishment  brouglit  by 

'   '    '      '  Sir  Oliver  St.  John  ;  and  though  the  amount  is  very  great, 

yet,  considering  how  necessary  it  is  to  support  the  plantation 
now  in  hand,  and  to  extirpate  a  company  of  traitors,  His 
Majesty  approves  the  establishment  as  now  sent,  while  he 
(Chichester)  must  confess  there  was  cause  to  reduce  it  to  the 
present  state.  The  Lord  Chief  Justice  and  the  Attorney- 
General  have  declared  unto  them  at  the  Couacil  Board,  what 
arrears  are  paid  in  both  Exchequers  under  the  Commission  of 
Arrears,  what  sums  have  been  installed  and  remitted,  what 
further  charges  cleared  by  virtue  of  that  commission,  and 
what  fines  and  rents  have  been  raised  upon  grants  under  the 
Commission  of  Defective  Titles  and  Surrenders. 

Also  the  state  of  the  King's  Commission  of  Bonnaght  of 
Galloglasse,  upon  certain  of  the  Irish  in  the  counties  of  Wex- 
ford and  Carlow  ;  as  to  which  latter  it  is  His  Majesty's  pleasure 
that  it  shall  be  remitted,  and  that  the  like  composition  shall 


IRELAND— JAMES  I,  119 


1608. 


be  from  henceforth  discharged,  to  be  reduced  to  a  moderate 
increase  of  the  ordinary  cesses  in  those  two  counties.  New 
rules  for  the  Exchequer  have  been  drawn  by  the  Chief  Baron, 
and  allowed  by  the  Treasurer  and  Chancellor  of  that  court. 
The  Chancellor  has  been  requested  to  certify  to  the  Chancery  of 
England  the  terms  of  such  letters  patent  as  have  been  granted 
here  of  lands  and  offices  in  Ireland  for  the  better  answering 
of  such  fines,  rents,  covenants,  and  provisoes  ;  which  letters 
patents  he  (Sir  Arthur)  is  requested  to  cause  to  be  enrolled  in 
the  Chancer}^  The  Attorney  has  been  also  requested  to  pro- 
cure certificates  into  the  King's  Bench  there  of  such  attain- 
ders as  have  been  had  in  England  of  any  that  have  lands  in 
Ireland,  to  the  end  His  Majesty  may  be  the  better  entitled 
and  answered  the  rents  and  profits  of  the  lands  of  tlie  person 
attainted.  Pirates  are  to  be  sent  over  for  trial  into  England, 
for  want  of  a  statute  such  as  that  of  Hemy  VIII.  in  Ireland, 
as  directed  in  their  late  letter. 

For  the  future  no  captaincies,  seneschalships,  justiceships  of 
liberties,  or  receiverships  of  liberties  are  to  be  granted,  on 
account  of  the  inconveniencies  arising  therefrom.  The  arms 
of  soldiers  should,  vipon  their  discharge,  be  viewed  and 
valued,  and  delivered  according  to  that  value  to  the  Master 
of  the  Ordnance. 

They  will  send  special  directions  concerning  the  trial  of 
Sir  Neil  Garvey  and  Sir  Donel  O'Cahan  and  the  other 
northern  prisoners,  by  the  Attorney-General,  who  shall  be 
returned  thither  as  speedily  as  may  be. 

And  lastly,  whereas  there  is  at  this  present  some  extra- 
ordinary scarcity  and  dearth  of  corn  here  in  England,  and 
they  are  informed  that  the  plenty  of  that  kingdom  may  well 
afford  some  good  proportion  to  be  spared  from  thence,  he 
(Sir  Arthur)  is  to  give  license  for  the  transportation  of  so 
much  to  England  as  can  be  spared  from  that  countr}^  It 
will  jdeld  great  relief  to  the  maritime  parts  of  England, 
especially  near  Bristol,  where  the  want  is  greatest. — White- 
hall, 26  December  1608. 

Sifined :  R  Cant,  T.  EUesmere,  Cane,  E.  Salisburjr,  H. 
Northampton,  Notingham,  T.  SuflTolke,  E.  Worcester,  E. 
Zouclie,  W.  Knollys,  E.  Wotton,  Jul.  Ctesar,  T.  Parry. 

Pp.  3^.  Add.  Endd.  (by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester)  :  "  Of  the 
2Gth  of  Dec.  1 608.  From  the  Lordes  of  the  Councel,  in  which 
sundrie  points  are  tutched  concerninge  His  Ma^ii^'s  service. 
Eec<i  the  8  of  Januarie." 

"  Entred  with  M"^  Secretarie  Cooke,  concerninge  the 
establishment." 

"  Ordinarie  composition  in  lieu  of  bonnaghts.  The  buis- 
ness  of  arreares,  defective  titles  of  the  Exchequer.  Enrolment 
of  grants  made  in  England  in  the  Chancerie  hecrc." 

"  Pirates  not  triable  heere  to  be  transported." 

"  Captaincies,  sheriffships,  treasuresyps,  nor  receivershyps 
of  liberties  to  be  any  more  given." 


120  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1608. 

"  The   armes   of    discharged   souldiers   to   be   valued  and 
tourned  into  the  Kinge's  stores." 

"  The  triall  of  S^-  Neal  O'Donnell  and  S^  Donell  O'Oahaine 
to  be  deferred  untUl  the  retourne  of  the  Attornie." 
"  Corne  to  be  sent  into  Engl^."  &c. 

Dec.  29.     209.        SiE  Charles  Cornwallis  to  Lords  of  Council.^ 
Cotton  MSS.,  jjg^g  |3gg^  more  graciously  used  of  late  than  formerly  by 

'  '  ''  '  '  their  Majesties  and  by  the  Duke.  They  seem  satisfied  with 
the  integrity  of  His  Majesty,  as  shown  in  the  affairs  of  the 
Low  Countries.  Great  secrecy  observed  in  the  Low  Countries' 
treaty.  Is  daily  soliciting  in  vain  explanations  of  the  sudden 
banishment  of  Nevill  Davies.  Can  receive  no  answer  to  his 
copaplaint  of  their  harbouring  and  enlarging  their  lands  to 
Mack  Ogg  [M'Oghie],^  so  notoriously  known  to  be  a  solicitor 
for  Tyrone,  and  a  writer  against  the  King's  estate.  Is  pro- 
mised it  after  the  vacations,  as  also  in  the  case  of  Sir  Edmund 
Baynham. 

It  is  secretly  whispered  among  the  Irish  here  that  one 
Neel  Garrard  [Garve]  being  delivered  out  of  the  Castle  of 
Dublin,  is  again  become  a  head  of  the  northern  rebels.  Hopes 
they  only  speak  as  they  wish,  not  as  they  understand.  Is 
informed  that,  if  the  former  .rebellious  rout  ^  had  been  suc- 
cessful, some  underhand  help  in  money  and  munition  would 
have  been  sent  them  ;  and  that  Tyrone  is  endeavouring  to 
get  the  King  (of  Spain)  to  mediate  for  the  restoration  to  him 
of  his  country,  with  the  King's  pardon  and  favour.  Thinks 
the  King  will  not  interfere  in  a  matter  which  he  knows  to  be 
of  so  evil  a  savour  in  England. — Madrid,  29  December  1608. 

Pp.  3.     Copy. 

Dec.  29.      210.        Earl  of  Ormond  and  Ossory  to  Salisbury. 

tol''22?^284'.  7^^^   President    of  Munster,  who   is  now  upon  his  repair 

thither,  can  at  large  acquaint  him  with  the  state  of  all 
matters  in  this  province  ;  so  that  he  shall  not  need  to  trouble 
him,  but  must  not  omit  to  let  him  understand  that  this  noble- 
man has  so  worthily  carried  himself  in  his  charge  as  he 
has  got  the  good  opinion  and  love  of  the  noblemen  and 
others  within  his  government,  that  they  are  very  sorry  for 
his  departure.  Wishes  that  His  Majesty  may  return  him 
hither  again  in  his  gracious  favour,  his  sufficiency  in  martial 
causes  and  otherwise  is  so  well  known  to  him  (Salisbury). 
Perceives  that  (under  His  Majesty)  he  makes  his  special 
account  of  Salisbury's  favour.  For  his  own  part,  remains 
the  same  in  love  to  his  father  and  himself  since  his  first 
acquaintance   with  him,  and   wishes  there  was   some   aood 


J  Printed  in  Sawyer's  Memorials  of  State  Affairs,  vol.  ii.,  467. 
"  The  original  of  the  n 
O'Dogherty's  rising. 


'■  The  original  of  the  name  now  known  as  Kehoe  or  Keogh, 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  121 

1608. 

occasion  offered  wherein  he  might  manifest  it. — Carrick, 
29  December  1608. 

P.  1.    Signed.     Seeded.    Add.    Endd. 

Dec.  30.       211.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Philad.  P.,  ijiq  make  a  lease  for  40  years  to  Ambrose  Aphugh,  gentle- 

^°  '  '  ^'       ■  man,  of  the  dissolved  House  of  Loath,  he  surrendering  a  lease 

thereof  made  28th  October,  in  7th  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  made 
by  the  said  late  Queen  to  one  John  Wakly  for  40  j'ears,  to 
commence  on  the  determination  of  a  former  lease  made  to 
said  John  Wakly,  which  lease  is  now  in  the  possession  of 
said  Ambrose  Aphugh  ;  this  favour  to  said  Ambrose  being  in 
consideration  as  well  for  his  service,  as  of  his  father's,  Eice 
Aphugh,  who  was  Provost  Marshal  of  Ireland  to  the  said 
Queen.— Westminster,  30  December,  in  the  6th  year  of  the 
King's  reign. 

Pp.  1\.    Signed.     Add.    Endd.     Enrol. 

Dec.  30.      212.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Philad.  p.,  Directing  a  remission  of  the  arrears  of  rent  due  by  Arthur 

'^°  -^'V-'    ■  Denny,  Esq.,  out  of  the  lands  he  holds,  or  which  his  father 

held,  pursuant  to  the  terms  of  the  certificate  of  certain  of  the 
judges  to  whom  Sir  Arthur  referred  his  petition.  He  is  also 
to  be  allowed  to  surrender  such  of  the  lands  which  he  holds 
as  are  not  seignory  lands,  and  to  have  a  new  grant  of  the 
same  at  the  ancient  rents  and  tenure,  preserving  also  the  com- 
position, or  an  equivalent  increase  of  rent.  —  Westminster, 
30  December  1608. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd.    Enrol. 

Dee.  SO.       213.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Philad.  p.,  gij,   Richard  Masterson  alleging  that   he  and   his   father 

^° '^'^'      '  had  been  for  many  years  past  in    possession,  under  a  lease 

from  the  late  Queen  for  50  years,  still  unexpired,  at  80?.  a 
year  and  10  pecks  of  corn,  of  the  lands  of  Ferins,  Clogh- 
amon,  BallycommoD,  the  two  abbeys  of  Ferins  and  Down, 
and  the  lands  to  them  belonging  in  the  coimty  of  Wexford  ; 
and  that  in  the  defence  of  the  King's  title,  he  and  his  father 
have  been  in  suits  of  law  for  80  years  past,  and  as  yet  the 
suit  for  Ferrinhamon  and  other  land  held  of  the  Crown  is 
stiU  pending  in  the  Exchequer  ;  and  that  of  late  he  has  spent 
large  sums  in  building  up  of  the  Castle  of  Ferns,  being  one  of 
the  King's  ancient  castles  of  defence  in  those  parts  against 
the  Irish,  whereby  the  King  was  eased  of  the  ancient  charge 
of  a  constable's  fee  and  ten  warders ;  nevertheless.  Lord 
Audley,  by  means  of  a  letter  from  the  King,  has  obtained  a 
grant  in  fee-farm  of  the  Castle  of  Ferrins  and  the  demesne 
lands,  being  the  strength  and  countenance  of  all  the  rest,  at 
the  rent  of  lOL,  although  Sir  Kichard  Masterson  and  his 
father,  with  hazard  of  their  lives  and  loss  of  their  kinsmen 


122  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 

1C08. 

and  servants,  have  so  long  time  defended  the  same,  ,so  that  he 
fears  the  rest  of  the  lands  may  in  like  manner  be  passed 
upon  general  warrants,  if  he  be  not  relieved.  Finding  by  due 
certificate  tliese  allegations  to  be  true,  and  that  he  and  his 
father  have  merited  Avell  of  the  Crown  to  the  effusion  of  their 
blood,  as  well  in  that  county  of  Wexford  as  in  other  parts 
of  that  kingdom,  and  that  Sir  Richard  Masterson  is  better 
able  to  defend  those  parts  than  any  other,  he  (Sir  Arthur 
Chichester)  is  to  cause  the  King's  grant  to  be  made  to  Sir 
Richard  Masterson,  in  fee-farm,  of  the  lands  of  Cloghamon 
alias  FaiTinhamon,  Ballynemore  alias  Bari'onscourt,  the  two 
abbeys  of  Ferrin  and  Down,  and  of  all  other  lands  he  holds 
in  the  county  of  Wexford  from  the  King,  for  an  estate  for 
years,  at  tlie  ancient  rent,  excepting  the  lands  granted  to  Lord 
Audley.  And  Lord  Audley  having  by  the  King's  gift  the 
reversion  of  the  Castle  of  Ferrins  and  the  demesne  lands, 
which,  with  the  customs  and  duties  of  the  lands  of  the  Kin- 
sellaghs,  yielded  the  King  an  entire  rent  of  101.  Irish  yearly, 
Sir  Richard  Masterson  undertakes  to  pay  the  same  rent,  over 
and  above  his  former  rent,  on  the  determination  of  his  said 
lease  for  years. — Westminster,  30  December  1608. 

Pp.  2.  Signed.  Add.  Endd. :  "  Of  the  30th  December 
1608.  From  the  Kinge's  Ma^e,  in  the  behalfe  of  Sir  Ri.  Mas- 
terson to  have  the  fee-farme  of  Cloghamon,  &c."     Enrol. 

S.P.,  Ireland,     214.  The  EARL   OF   TYRONE'S    TITLES. 

'      '  Excellentissimus  dominus  D.  Hugo  magnus  Onellus  Princeps 

Ultonise,  Comes  Tyronite,  Baro  Dungannin,  &c. 

P.  1.  Endd.:"\mS.  The  Ear]  of  Tyrone's  titles  which 
he  giveth  himself. 

S.P.,  Ireland,     215.  DEMAND  of  SiR  ThOMAS  RiDGEWAY  for  PORTAGE. 

vnl    2  2  'S    2  R  fi 

Being  a  certain  allowance  upon  every  1,000L  of  treasure 
carried  into  Ireland. — [1608.] 
P.  1.     Endd. 

S.P.,  Ireland,    216.        MEMORIAL  for  the  despatch  of  Irish  Affairs. 

The  charters,  franchises  of  Limerick,  remission  of  fines  for 
recusancy. 
P.  1. 

S.P.,  Ireland,      217.  OeATION  in  HONOUR  of  TYRONE. 

A  most  lewd  oration  made,  as  seemeth,  before  the  fugitive 
Earls  beyond  the  seas. 
Pp.  2.     Latin} 

Jan.  25.      218.        Translation  of  the  foregoing  Or4.tion. 
^^^•'22™'™9'  If  any  victory  has  been  gotten  within  the  extent  of  man's 

'      '  memory  whicli  has  shewed  the  admirable  power  of  God  and 

'  Delivered  at  Douay,  on  occasion  of  Tyrone's  visit. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  123 


1608. 


declared  of  what  consequence  the  valour  of  stout  soldiers 
and  the  singular  wisdom  of  leaders  is,  doubtless  that  which 
of  late  years  was  obtained  against  the  most  cruel  and  mortal 

enemies  of  the  Romish  greatness For  what 

excellent  kind  of  more  than  human  glory  can  be  found  out 
■«d:icli  all  people  that  embrace  pure  religion,  and  more  par- 
ticularly the  whole  kingdom  of  Ireland,  may  give  as  com- 
petent and  dne  to  other  renowned  captains  of  Ireland,  who 
used  their  main  care  and  industry  in  that  battle  of  Portmore 
in  favour  of  the  Romish  religion,  and  principally  (Sir  Hugh 
O'lSTeale)  to  the  valiantness  and  feats  of  arms.  You  have  not 
been  ignorant  of  the  singular  affection  and  goodwill  which 
the  said  country  in  general  hath  borne  ^unto  you,  and  now 
you  might  most  evidently  perceive  it,  when,  as  at  your  de- 
parting thence  for  Spain,  such  excessive  lamenting  and  floods 
of  tears  arose  '  in  every  corner  of  the  whole  kingdom ;  as 
though  your  funerals  had  been  deplored  by  your  dearest  and 
most  special  friends.  All  the  nobles  of  the  land  desired  to 
relinquish  wives  and  children  and  try  aU  the  darts  of  fortune  ; 
yea,  even  to  end  their  lives  in  any  part  of  the  world  for  your 
sake  ;  had  they  not  been  barred  of  their  wills  therein,  all  of 
them  i-eputing  you  not  only  for  one  of  the  chief  captains  of 
the  kingdom,  but  for  the  soundest  and  arch  column  of  their 
lives  and  religion.  But,  alas !  since  your  departure  the 
enemies  of  sincere  religion  triumph  by  reason  of  a  late  victory, 
and,  as  bloodthirsty  men,  do  boast  in  shedding  those  wretches' 
blood.  Can  you  (most  famous  Earl)  endure  this  so  great 
indignity,  being  yourself  expelled  out  of  the  limits  of  your 
abiding  place  by  the  English  tyranny,  whose  cruelty  Christ 
hath  compelled  you  to  suffer,  not  for  that  he  was  offended 
with  your  crimes,  but  was  estranged  from  us  for  our  sins,  and, 
by  the  dominion  of  the  English,  would  give  us  notice  of  his 
will  andj  punish  us  after  our  merits,  while  you  defended  us 
not.     But  now  I  will  return  to  your  memorable  act  exploited 

in  the  battle  of  Portmore We  all  remember 

what  terror  possessed  Ireland  when  the  Earl  of  O'Neale  first 
enterprised  the  war,  what  was  their  poverty,  and  how  un- 
serviceable weapons  were ;  how  their  courage  was  daunted, 
and  how  few  young  men  were  found  apt  to  perform  things 
stoutly  and  hardily,  and  on  the  contrary,  how  opulent  the 

enemy  was This  only  virtue  and  courage 

(O'Neale)  made  them  so  confident  as  to  wage  war  of  your 
own  accord  with  the  Queen,  seeking  to  suppress  the  Romish 
religion,  by  which  this  deed  an  infinite  number  of  thieves 
mustered  and  assembled  by  the  Queen's  Majesty,  after  that 
they  were  loaden  witli  the  spoils  of  all  the  rest  of  the  Irish, 
turned  their  arms  to  tlie  extinguishing  of  this  most  holy  Earl 
of  Tyrone  and  invaded  his  country  with  their  vain  forces, 
having  pitched  their  camp  at  Portmore.  Not  content  there- 
with, they  ai'rogantly  presumed  to  bear  away  in  their  hands 
the  whole  country But  thou,  as  a  worthy 


124  IRELAND— JAMES  T. 

1608. 

Earl,  relying  only  on  God's  assistance,  with  thy  small  com- 
pany of  Peter's  ship,  manfully  and  stoutly  put  to  flight  thy 
enemy's  forces,  and  without  any  great  slaughter  of  thy  soldiers 
slewest  upward  of  60,000  of  thy  enemy,  and  tookest  prisoners 
above  8,000  of  the  principal  captains  of  the  garrisons,  and 
gainedst  300,000  ancients  and  trumpets,  and  didst  set  free 
2,000  of  the  chiefest  Irish  captains,  insomuch  that  of  so  huge 
a  multitude  of  enemies  scarce  a  few,  and  they  of  the  meanest 

soldiers,  saved  themselves  by  flight What 

mortal  man  who  was  not  present  at  that  combat  would  not 
wish  to  lose  five  of  the  years  that  he  hath  to  live  in  this 
terrestrial  life  upon  condition  that  he  might  see  those  things 

that  were  performed  that  day  ? This  thy 

worthy  fact  (O'Neale),  did  curb  the  enemy's  courage.  .  .  , 
.  .  .  Through  it  the  neighbour  woods  did  ring  with  their 
bowlings,  some  of  them  lying  a  dying,  and  other  some  sorely 
wounded ;  through  it  our  soldiers  learned  to  vanquish,  and 

the  English  to  be  vanquished 

But  to  return  to  you  (Hugh  O'Neale),  neither  doth  Ireland 
doubt,  neither  will  any  people  or  nation  doubt,  or  specially 
the  Church  of  Rome,  that  they  owe  much  more  of  this  per- 
petual honour  unto  you  than  they  can  perform.  You  thought 
it  your  duty  to  fight  for  the  love  of  Christ,  even  then,  when 
the  whole  nobility  of  Ireland  was  obedient  to  the  English 
tyranny,  when  there  [was]  question  of  consulting  of  the  most 
important  business,  you  gave  such  instructiojis  as  shewed 
yotu'  high  wisdom,  accompanied  with  great  magnanimity  of 
courage.  When  certain  difiiculties  happened  which  brought 
the  state  of  your  proceedings  into  eminent  hazard,  having 
assuaged  and  calmed  their  boiling  minds  by  your  grave  and 
wise  speech,  fitted  to  the  time,  you  took  away  the  cause  of 
the  evil  that  began  to  spring  out.  Through  your  persuasion 
your  soldiers  went  eagerly  to  the  battle,  and,  imitating  your 
example  and  footsteps  in  the  midst  of  the  same,  did  nothing 
esteem  the  force  of  their  enemies'  weapons,  for  they  bare  to 
Christ.  I  myself  have  oft  heard  of  a  stout  warrior  whose 
singular  valour  hath  been  tried  often  in  other  combats,  and 
chiefly  in  this  how  great  a  part  you  had  in  that  expedition  as 
well  in  giving  counsel  as  employing  your  endeavours.  Tibbot 
Bourck,  the  governor  of  this  our  province,  reported  very 
honourably  and  worthily  of  you  to  all  men.  This  man,  I  say, 
being  such  as  that  neither  mine  nor  all  other  men's  praise  can 
equal  his  worth,  said  that  your  care  in  plotting  this  conspiracy 
of  war,  your  industry  in  giving  counsel,  your  wisdom  and 
the  highness  of  your  courage,  your  fortitude  and  alacrity  in 
sufi'ering  all  toil,  far  surpassed  all  others  ;  yea,  that  you  were 
one  that  induced  him  and  all  others  to  make  war,  and  were 
chief  author  of  the  conquest ;  all  which  thy  acts,  though  they 
were  unusual  and  famous,  yet  distressed  Ireland  doth  now 
look  for  at  your  hands  far  stranger  and  excellent ;  for  it 
suificeth  not  to  have  once  subdued  the  enemy  and  chased  him 


IRELAND— JAMES  T.  125 


1608. 

out  of  the  borders  of  that  kingdom,  but  you  must  wrest  this 
afflicted  country  (which  at  length,  by  reason  of  the  sins  thereof 
is  come  into  the  power  of  cruel  tyrants)  out  of  their  jaws  and 
impious  dominion.  For  this  cause  doth  Ireland  lift  up  to  you 
humbly  suing  hands,  lioping  that  you  will  speedily  succour 
her,  and  beseecheth  you,  by  Him  who  hath  suffered  death  for 
all  of  us,  that  you  will  not  leave  her  any  longer  under  the 
unworthy  oppression  and  bondage  of  faithless  enemies.  In 
former  times  the  Irish  were  affranchised  from  a  hard  and 
tedious  slavery  by  a  British  captain.  In  these  our  days  the 
Irish  may  be  freed  by  you,  an  Irish  captain,  from  a  stricter 
and  longer  thraldom. 
Pp.  5. 

fd  ■'45'^29o    ^^^-        I'ETiTioN  of  JoHN  AsTON  (Brother  to  Sir  Arthur  Aston) 
■ "    '      '  to  Salisbury. 

For  license  for  12  years  to  export  from  Ireland  2,000  lasts 
of  salt  hides  and  3,000  tuns  of  rendered  tallow,  at  a  rental  of 
800?.  per  annum. 

P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

^f{'^^f^^\'   220.        Petition  of  Captain  John  Baynard  to  Salisbury. 

For  consideration  of  his  services  in  Ireland.     His  plan  for 
planting  garrisons  in  the  North. 
P.  1. 


136  IRELAJ^D — JAMES  I. 


1609. 

.1609. 

Jan.  8.       221.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
I'hiiad.  P.,  fpo  pj^gg  ^0  Sir  George  Greame,  Knight,  in  regard  of  his 

^° '   '^  service,  a  lease  in  reversion  of  the   abbey  of  St.  John  the 

Baptist  in  the  Nasse  (Naas)  in  the  county  of  Kildare,  whereof 
lie  is  now  in  possession,  for  the  term  of  31  years,  to  com- 
mence after  the  expiration  of  the  lease  in  being,  at  a  rent  of 
SOZ.  4s.  Sd. — Westminster,  3  January,  in  the  sixth  year  of  our 
reign. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Endd. 


Jan.  5.       222.        SiR  Arthur  Chichester  to  Dudley  Norton. 
S.P.,  Ireland,  Recommends   the  business  of  the  woods  and  the  bearer, 

^  ■  —  '   ■  p_  Cottingham,  directing  that  56  tons  be  sent  up  the  Thames 

as  a  specimen.  Has  not  received  answer  to  any  of  his  letter's 
sent  thither,  nor  directions  touching  Sir  Hugh  O'Donnell, 
Sir  Donnell  O'Cahane,  and  other  prisoners,  which  makes  him 
think  that  some  greater  occurrents  have  drowned  the  remem- 
brance of  them,  or  that  the  letters  have  miscarried.  The  last 
that  he  received  of  business  or  matter  of  moment  were  written 
the  Sth  of  October,  which  he  received  the,  28th  of  the  same. 
They  are  in  extreme  want  of  money.  —  Dublin  Castle,  5 
January  1608-9. 

Pp.  4.     Signed.     Sealed.    Add.     Encloses, 

S.P., Ireland,    223.         Account  of  the  Surveyor  of  Woods. 

'   ~  '     '  Note   of   Cottingham's  charges  laid  out  since  his' coming 

hither  in  survey  of  u'oods.     Two  copies. 
P'p.  2.     Endd. 

Jan.  11.      224.        Sir  John  Dowdall  to  Salisbury. 

S.P.,  Irel.-iDd,  Submits  he  has  received  no  reward  for  his  services.    Is  now 

■  "    '      '  70  years  of  age.    Sues  therefore  for  a  pension  or  a  grant  of 

lands. — Philtown,  near  Youghall,  11  January  1608-9. 

P.  1.     Signed.     Sealed.      Add.     Endd. 

Jan.  11.      225.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

I'hiiad.  P.,  Being   informed   by   him,    his   Deputy,  by   letters   to    his 

'  '^' "    '  Council  in  England,  that  Captain  Gregory  Norton  has  been 

a  very  ancient  servitor  in  the  wars,  and  an  officer  and  captain 
in  that  kingdom  these  30  years,  and  is  now  very  aged  and 
crazed  with  wounds,  and  has  no  further  means  for  the  main- 
tenance of  himself,  his  wife,  and  many  children,  but  only  a 
pension  of  4s,  Irish  by  the  day  during  his  life,  granted  unto 
him  by  himself  (the  King),  and  that,  if  the  said  Gregory  should 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  127 


1609.  -  A- 

die,  both  his  wife  and  children  would  be  left  in  a  very  poor 
condition ;  the  King  gives  warrant  for  a  like  pension  of  4s. 
by  the  day  for  life  to  Humphry  Norton  his  son,  a  servitor 
also  of  good  desert,  to  commence  after  his  father's  death,  the 
better  to  help  to  relieve  his  mother,  brethren,  and'  sisters. 

Also  gives  warrant,  on  like  recommendation  of  his  said 
Deputy,  to  the  Council  to  grant  to  Captain  John  Pikeman  by 
letters  patent  for  life,  the  place  of  corporal  of  the  field  which 
he  now  enjoys,  lately  held  by  Captain  Cosby,  deceased. — 
Westminster,  11  January,  in  the  sixth  year  of  our  reign. 

P.  1.  Signed.  Add.  Endd. :  "  Of  the  lltli  of  Januarie 
1608.  From  the  Kinge's  Ma^'e  in  the  behalfe  of  Capt.  Gregorie 
Norton  and  Capt.  John  Pikeman  for  passinge  of  pension  and 
offices  unto  each  of  them,  &c." 

Jan.  12.      226.        Eael  of  Ormond  and  Ossoey  to  Salisbury. 
S.r.  Ireland,  Eecommends  his  bearer,  Cornet  Taafie,  who    has   lost  his 

vol   '^"'G  . 

'  "'  blood  in  the  service. — Carrick,  12  January  1608-9. 

P.  1.     Signed.     Seeded.     Add.     Endd. 

Jan.         227-.-       Resolutions  on  the  Limerick  Petition. 

^■^'i  ^oo'r^"^''  Resolutions  of  the  Lords  on  consideration  of  the  petition  of 

■  "  '   '  the  agents  for  Limerick. 

"  ~  Signed :  Dudley  Norton. 

P.  1.     Endd. 

Jan.  17.      228.        Abstract  of  Despatches  of  the  Lord  Deputy  since 
s.r.,  iTCianii,  the  20th  of  December  1608. 

To  the  Lord  Deputy,  26  December  1608. 

The  draught  of  the  new  Establisliment  brought  by  Sir 
Oliver  St.  John.  The  same  approved  by  His  Majesty,  saving 
in  some  petty  things,  besides  the  Establishment  which'  the 
Lords  think  may  be  spared  upon  a  second  review. 

The  arrearages  of  Bonoaght  to  be  remitted,  the  like  com- 
position from  henceforth  to  be  discharged,  and  to  be  reduced 
by  tlie  Lord  Deputy  to  a  moderate  increase  of  the  King's 
ordinary  composition  for  cesses.       '  •    _■'    . 

Letters  patent  of  lands  and  offices  in  that  kingdom  granted 
here  by  His  Majesty  to  be  enrolled  iii  the.Cliancery  there. 

Certificate  to  be  made  into  the  King's  Bench  there  by  the 
Attorney  of  such  attainders  as  have  been  here  of  any  that 
have  lands  in  that  realm. 

No  captaincies,  seneschalships,  justiceships,  or  receiverships 
of  liberties  to  be  gTanted. 

Arms  of  soldiers  discharged  to  be  viewed  and  valued  and 
delivered  in  charge  to  the  Master  of  ,the  Ordnance,  and  who 
shall  stand  answerable  for  them  upon  his  account. 

No  special  direction  given  concerning  Sir  Neale  Garvey 
and  Sir  Donnell  O'Cahane,  .and  the  rest  of  the  northern 
prisonei-s  until  the  Attorney,  be  dispatched. 


128  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

Some  proportion  of  grain  to  be  sent  from  thence  if  it  may- 
be spared  without  leaving  that  kingdom  unfurnished. 

17  Jan.  1608.  The  agents  for  the  several  towns  despatched. 
They  must  depend  upon  His  Majesty's  grace  for  most  of  those 
things  which  they  have  held. 

His  Majesty  will  not  suffer  the  temporary  grants  of  his 
predecessors  to  bind  him,  their  right  having  been  but  a 
successive  toleration,  and  the  reasons  of  those  times  not  being- 
available  now. 

Hopes  of  better  fruit  from  that  kingdom  hei'eafter,  by  trade 
and  commerce  ;  but  those  things  that  belong  to  His  Majesty 
not  to  be  sequestered  or  called  into  further  question  till  his 
pleasure  be  further  known. 

No  conclusion  with  them,  but  a  promise  of  grace  and  favour. 
Some  course  to  be  considered  of  for  the  calling  in  of  the  lease 
to  Chetham  and  Long. 

The  lines  imposed  by  Sir  Henry  Broncker  remitted  to  Kin- 
sale  in  respect  of  their  poverty.  The  others  referred  to  the 
Lord  Deputy  to  be  compounded  for,  and  moderated  in  such 
sort  as  he  and  the  Council  shall  think  fit. 

The  proportion  allotted  for  servitors  in  the  county  of 
Tyrone  allowed  by  His  Majesty,  and  a  copy  thereof  sent  to 
the  Deputy  to  make  an  estimate  by  that  of  the  whole  num- 
ber that  may  be  provided  for  in  the  other  projects,  whereof  a 
copy  also  to  be  sent  to  the  Deputy  so  soon  as  they  are  per- 
fected ;  but  in  the  meantime  a  list  to  be  sent  by  him  of  the 
whole  number  of  servitors  that  he  thinks  fit  to  be  preferred, 
considering  that  many  have  been  already  recommended  by 
him,  and  many  of  good  means  are  likely  to  be  suitors  for 
some  of  those  lands  here. 

Fp.  2.    Endd. 

Jan.  17.     229.        LoEDS  OF  Council  to  Sik  A.  Chichestee. 
^^^-  £.■'  The  agents  of  the  several  towns  and  cities  have  arrived 

^°  ■   '  ^'      '  with  his  letters  of  recommendation  for  the  suits  of  the  re- 

spective corporations.  Their  deserts  are  in  many  respects 
such  as  to  deserve  that  their  suit  should  be  favourably  placed 
before  His  Majesty.  But  they  (the  Lords)  are  sure  that  if  he 
(Chichester)  had  seen  the  particulars  of  the  complaints  and  de- 
mands which  some  of  them  have. made,  he  would  have  stayed 
them  from  coming,  or  at  least  would  not  have  recommended 
their  suit.  In  presenting  their  petitions,  have  separated  those 
particulars  which  they  deem  um-easonable,  and  have  recom- 
mended the  others  to  the  King,  who  has  been  pleased  to  grant 
them  a  speedy  dispatch  according  to  their  various  nature.  He 
has  made  them  sensible,  first  that  the  matter  is  not  of  right, 
but  dependent  on  his  own  royal  grace  ;  secondly,  that  tem- 
porary measures  of  his  predecessors  are  not  to  be  drawn  into 
precedents  of  right,  nor  what  was  but  permissive  toleration  to 
be  converted  into  perpetual  privilege ;  especially  as  the  abso- 
lute power  which  the  King  now  holds  in  that  kingdom  gives 


IRELAND— JAMES  T.  129 


1609. 

room  to  hope  for  better  fruit  therefrom  to  his  revenue  than 
has  been  hitherto  yielded.  The  answer  therefore  has  been 
on  the  whole  suspensive.  Meanwhile  they  think  it  desirable 
that  the  lease  of  the  revenue  to  Chetham  and  Long  should  be 
revoked,  as  it  is  inconvenient  to  have  it  out  of  the  King's 
hands. 

Several  of  the  towns  have  petitioned  for  remission  of  the 
fines  for  recusancy  imposed  by  Sir  Henry  Bruncker,  late  Pre- 
sident of  Munster.  Have  remitted  them  in  the  case  of  Kin- 
sale,  on  account  of  the  poverty  of  the  town,  and  its  suffering 
in  the  time  of  the  siege.  But  for  the  rest,  they  have  referred 
them  to  him  (Chichester)  to  compound  with  them  ;  in  which 
composition  he  is  to  take  into  account  the  circumstances  of 
each,  and  to  follow  such  course  as  the  deserts,  whether  of  in- 
dividuals or  of  communities,  or  other  considerations  of  the 
public  good,  may  suggest  as  most  advantageous. 

The  last  portion  of  treasure  sent  will  suffice  to  keep  the 
army  from  want. — Whitehall,  17  January  1608-9. 

Signed :  R:  Cant.,  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  H. 
Northampton,  T.  Suffolke,  E.  Worcester,  E.  Zouche,  W.  Knollys, 
E.  Wotton,  L.  Stanhope,  Thos.  Parry. 

Pj).  2.     Orig.     Add.     Endd. 

Jan.  17.      230.        Lords  of  Council  to  S:k  A.  Chichester. 

rhiiad.  r.,^  The  King  has  lately  attended  in  person  two  meetings  of 

'^'     ^'  tlio  Council  for  the  further  consideration  of  the  plantation, 

the  fugitives'  lands,  and  other  escheated  lands  in  Ulster,  the 
work  being  of  great  importance,  and  fraught  with  expected 
benefit  to  the  kingdom.  The  project  for  the  settlement  of 
Tyrone,  of  which  a  copy  was  lately  sent  to  him  (Chichester), 
by  the  Attorney  for  Ireland,  and  the  proportion  allotted  for 
servitors,  was  so  highly  approved  of  that  it  is  resolved  to  fol- 
low the  same  in  the  other  escheated  lands.  He  is  directed  to 
make  an  estimate  of  the  number  of  servitors  to  be  provided 
for  ;  and  so  soon  as  the  commissioners  shall  have  completed 
their  labours,  the  names  of  the  servitors  shall  be  sent  forward. 
Meanwhile  direct  him  to  send  a  list  of  the  whole  number  of 
servitors  whom  for  their  own  deserts  he  thinks  most  worthy 
to  be  provided  for ;  not  doubting  but  that,  recollecting  that, 
since  the  place  is  large  and  fertile,  it  is  likely  to  attract  many 
suitors  ;  that  he  has  already  recommended  a  large  number ; 
and  that  many  of  the  suitors,  both  English  and  others,  will 
be  persons  well  fitted  by  means,  sufficiency,  and  other  qua- 
lities, to  carry  out  the  work  of  the  plantation  ; — he  will  be 
sparing  in  his  future  recommendations,  and  that  no  one  will 
be  privileged  or  exempted  from  the  general  rules. — Whitehall, 
17  January  1008-9. 

Signed:  R.  Cant.,  T.   Ellesmere,  R.  Salisbury,  H.  North- 
ampton, Notingham,  T.   Sufiblke,  E.  Worcester,  E.   Zouche, 
W.  Knollys,  E.  Wotton,  L.  Stanhope,  Thos.  Parry. 
F.  1.     Orig.     Add.     Endd. 

3.  I 


130  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


vol.  226,  5. 


1609. 
Jan.  19.      231.        Lord  Danvers  to  [the  Lords  of  the  Privy  Council  or 

S.P.,  Ireland,  the  LORD  SALISBrRY]. 

Has  so  long  been  detained  here  through  ill  weather  and  the 
want  of  a  good  ship  which  might  secure  him  from  subjecting 
himself  to  the  mercy  of  these  pirates,  that  he  cannot  further 
forbear  to  advertise  their  Lordships  of  their  proceedings  upon 
this  coast.  Four  sail,  under  the  command  of  Plomley,  Tomp- 
son,  Saxsbridge,  and  Bonyton,  forced  by  tempests,  have  con- 
tinued hereabouts  these  many  months,  neither  sparing  large 
rewards  to  refurnish  themselves,  nor  forbearing  force  to  those 
that  resist  them,  shifting  so  from  port  to  port  that  he  has 
not  been  able  to  guard  or  defend  every  corner  from  their 
commands,  they  being  strong  enough  to  land  300  men.  Yet 
so  strict  course  has  been  taken,  that,  if  he  be  not  much  abused 
by  false  intelligence,  they  are  in  starving  extremity  ;  and  the 
west  of  this  province,  which  receives  provision  of  corn  from 
these  more  plenteous  parts,  to  prevent  the  pirates'  relief, 
has  not  been  suffered  to  carry  a  grain  from  hence  this  two 
months,  although  (thanks  to  God)  there  is  plenty  here.  To 
the  increase  of  his  lewd  company,  Jennings  is  come  into  the 
river  of  Limerick,  after  a  great  fight  and  the  loss  of  three 
score  men,  with  a  rich  freight  aboard  himself,  besides,  as  his 
prize,  a  ship  of  Amsterdam,  esteemed  of  good  value.  Has 
daily  discontented  all  the  towns  with  overlookers,  and  im- 
peached even  their  ordinary  trade ;  but  the  advantages  which 
these  remote  harbours  yield  them  are  already  well  known  to 
their  Lordships.  Is  likewise  very  doubtful  whether  the 
pirates  are  to  be  subdued  or  expuJsed  from  hence  by  this 
large  expense  upon  His  Majesty's  ships,  which  are  driven  to 
revietual  or  repair  every  three  months  in  England,  where 
contrary  winds  and  the  mariners'  affection  to  their  own  home 
likely  retains  them  long ;  and  albeit  he  must  ever  reverence' 
their  direction  to  reject  all  offers  of  service  from  such  runa- 
gates, yet  under  favour,  it  were  very  honourable  that  the  same 
means  might  be  used  to  suppress  those  men  who  are  general 
traitors  to  all  Christendom,  which  are  practised  as  lawful  and 
expedient  in  every  particular  kingdom  ;  a  position  he  the  rather 
ran,  having  received  offers  of  submission  from  some,  and  dis- 
cerning a  disposition  in  others,  even  to  enterprise  upon  their 
fellows.  But  he  must  submit  the  overtures  to  their  Lord- 
ships' wisdom. — Cork,  19  January  1608-9, 

Pp.  2.    Signed. 


vol.  226,  6. 


Jan.  19.      232.        Lord  Danvers  to  Salisbury. 

^vni'  oarl'^fi'''  Should  hold  it  more  meet  to  have  yielded  this  kind  of  ac- 

counts in  particular  letters,  than  publicly  to  the  Council  table, 
but  that  the  last  dispatch  he  received  from  his  Lordship 
dated  at  Whythall,  the  29th  of  September,  seems  to  i-equire 
this  course ;  yet,  if  he  mistake  his  Lordship's  meaning,  this 
other  letter,  unaddressed  to  any,  may  be  reserved  to  himself  or 
such  as  he  shall  think  fittest,     And  to  explain  it,  Jennings  is 


IEELA.ND— JAMES  I.  131 


1609. 

the  man  who  offers  to  submit  himself,  and  Suxbridge  tenders 
his  service  to  take  him.  The  first  requires  the  fruition  of 
most  of  that  wealth  which  he  holds  now  as  his  own.  The 
second  expects  reward  for  so  dangerous  an  adventure  out  of 
the  other's  spoil.  Both  claim  pardon,  of  course,  for  these  con- 
siderations. The  proprietors  must  content  themselves  with 
the  restitution  of  their  ships,  and  the  gross  of  such  goods  as 
they  have  aboard  or  in  the  hands  of  retailers  for  money,  and 
all  portable  merchandise  will  be  embezzled,  and  to  prosecute 
the  persons  after  a  composition  would  be  dishonourable.  In 
the  mean  time,  notwithstanding,  he  has  given  direction  to 
attempt  the  taking  of  Jennings,  who,  although  very  vigilant 
upon  his  guard  in  respect  of  the  place,  is  yet  alone  or  chiefly 
subject  to  assault.  Suspects  his  prize  is  cast  away,  for  she 
is  missing,  and  there  are  many  wrecks  upon  the  coast.  Duty 
binds  him  to  certify  these  overtures,  but  as  he  will  be  very 
free  from  treating  or  yielding  these  caterpillars  the  least  hope, 
now  that  there  is  no  necessity,  without  further  warrant,  so  is 
their  acceptance  or  refusal  to  him  most  indifferent ;  and  if  his 
Lordship  thinks  it  requisite  to  make  use  hereof.  Sir  Richard 
Morisun  shall  be  sufficiently  instructed  how  to  proceed  after 
his  departure,  which  is  vilely  protracted  through  this  miser- 
fible  weather,  which  suffers  no  good  ship  to  come  that  might 
free  his  passage  from  the  mercy  of  these  pirates. 

In  Munster  there  is  nothing  more  to  his  knowledge  that 
needs  relation,  since  he  returns  so  shortly. — Cork,  19  January 
1608-9. 

Fp.  2.     Signed.     Encld. :  "  Reed,  the  8th  of  Feb." 

Jan.  19.      233.        LoBDS  OF  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

?o?3^p  339  Among  the  other  agents  from  the  corporation  has  appeared 

the  agent  of  Kinsale  ;  and  the  King,  in  consideration  of  the 
poverty  and  decay  of  that  town,  has  design  to  be  favourable 
to  them  in  the  matter  of  custom  and  poundage  already  in 
lease  to  Chetham  and  Long,  as  soon  as  the  customs  shall  be 
resumed.  Secondty,  he  remits  for  20  years  (in  consideration 
of  what  Kinsale  suffered  when  the  Spaniards  were  there),  the 
composition  of  201.  per  annum  issuing  out  of  the  Cantreds  of 
Kennaleigh  and  Courcy's  Country,  the  same  to  be  employed 
to  the  public  benefit  of  the  town.  Thirdly,  he  consents  that 
their  charter  shall  be  renewed,  with  power  to  charge  the  inha- 
bitants of  this  town  and  liberties  for  contribution  towards  the 
repair  of  their  walls.  And  to  their  prayer  that  their  shipping 
may  be  not  interrupted  by  the  fort,  and  that  the  fines  imposed 
on  some  of  the  inhabitants  by  the  late  President  Brouncker 
merely  for  recusancy  may  not  be  exacted,  he  directs  that 
ships  shall  not  be  searched  on  entering  the  port,  except  for 
traitors,  and  he  remits  the  fines  in  hopes  of  future  conformity. 
—Whitehall,  19  January  1608. 

Signed:  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton,   T.  Sufl^olke,  E. 


vol.  3,  p.  339. 


132  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

Worcester,  Exeter,  E.  Wottou,  L.  Stauhope,  Jul.  Caesar,  Thos. 
Parry. 

P.  ].     Add.    Endd.     Enrol. 


vol,  3,  p.  337. 


Jan.  19.      234.        Lords  of  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Phiiad.  p.,  r^Y^Q  gy^ji^  q£  ^YiQ  corporation  of  Dublin  having  been  urged 

by  their  agent,  Michael  Hamlin,  and  some  of  their  requests 
properly  refused,  some  adjourned ;  for  the  present  the  Lords 
have  only  recommended  that  their  charter  be  renewed,  witli 
reservation  of  the  customs  to  the  King.  And  as  they  have 
prayed  to  be  disburthened  of  maintaining  the  guard  in  time 
of  peace,  they  (the  Lords)  request  his  (Chichester's)  state- 
ment upon  what  grounds  the  same  is  charged  upon  them. — 
Whitehall,  19  January  1608. 

Signed  :  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton,  T.  Suffolke,  E. 
Worcester,  Exeter,  E.  Wotton,  L.  Stanhope,  Jul.  Cfesar,  Thos. 
Parry. 

P.  \.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Ay^tliur  Chichester:  "  Of  the 
]  9  of  Januarie  1 608.  From  the  Lis.  of  the  Councell  in  the 
behalfe  of  the  cyttie  of  Dublyn  for  to  renewe  their  charter, 
and  tutchinge  the  lodging  of  the  guard,  &c." 


Yol.  3,  p.  341. 


Jan.  19.      235.        Lords  of  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Phiiad.  p  jj^    consideration    of   the  antiquity    of   the    corporation  of 

ml.  3.  n.  341.  t.       -t  in  i     i  i         /A'        *      n         \ 

Wexford,  and  the  good  hopes  he  (Sir  Arthur)  entertains  of 
them,  the  King  designs  to  be  favourable  to  them,  when  the 
lease  of  the  customs  and  poundage  shall  be  resumed.  Se- 
condly, their  charters  shall  be  renewed,  with  power  to  take 
bonds  of  the  staple,  and  power  to  make  byelaws.  Thirdly, 
all  ships  arriving  in  that  country  shall  discharge  at  Wexford, 
with  exception  of  Ross  only,  where  ships  coming  to  that 
country  may  also  discharge.  Fourthly,  their  chief  officer 
shall  be  a  justice  of  the  peace,  coroner,  escheator,  clerk  of  the 
market,  but  the  offices  of  customs-controUer  and  searcher 
are  to  be  reserved  to  the  King's  bestowing.  And  lastly, 
they  shall  have  two  weekly  markets  and  two  yearly  fairs. 
—Whitehall,  19  January  1608. 

Postscript. — If,  upon  view  of  the  charters  of  Waterford 
before  him  (the  Lord  Deputy)  and  Council,  it  shall  appear  that 
the  town  of  Wexford  is  within  the  limits  of  Waterford,  and 
that  the  discharging  of  ships  at  Wexford  and  taking  bonds  of 
the  staple  pro])osed  to  be  granted  unto  Wexford  should  be 
prejudicial  to  Waterford,  then  those  clauses  are  to  be  omitted, 
but  that  Wexford  may  have  power  to  take  statutes  merchant 
howsoever. 

S'ujned:  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton,  T.  Suffolke,  E. 
Worcester,  E.  Wotton,  L.  Stanhope,  Jul.  Cassar,  Thos.  Parry. 

P.  h  Add.  Endd.:  «  Of  the  19th  of  January  1608. 
From  the  Lis.  of  the  Councell,  signifieing  the  Kinge's  plea- 
sure in  the  behalfe  of  the  towne  of  Wexford,  the  letter  to  be 
eiitored  in  the  Councell  book,  and  to  be  enrolled.     Rec.  the 


vol.  3,  p.  343. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  133 

1609. 

13*11   Februarie  folio winge.     This  is  enrolled  in   y^  Councell 
book.     Pa.  Fox/'     Enrol. 

Jan.  19.      236.        LoKDs  OF  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

vo^s^t  343  "^^^^    agents  of  the   town   of  Galway,   having  been  recom- 

mended by  him  (Chiclioster)  and  Lord  Clanricard,  have  had  no 
less  favourable  dispatch  in  their  suit  than  the  rest,  for  all  their 
reasonable  demands  touching  their  customs  and  other  affairs. 
First,  they  are  discharged  of  poundage  and  other  customs, 
except  corbett  of  hides,  which  they  hold  by  law  from  the 
Crown.  Secondly,  their  town  is  to  be,  like  Drogheda,  made  a 
county  ;  and  as  to  the  practice  on  the  part  of  the  soldiers  of 
St.  Augustine's  fort  of  searching  shipping  and  boats,  and 
of  breaking  gardens  and  orchards  and  forestalling  markets, 
they  have  directed  that,  without  touching  on  the  right  of  the 
governor  of  the  fort  to  search  for  traitors  or  munition  or  arms, 
the  provincial  governor  shall  cause  all  abuses  to  be  repressed. 
Direct  also  that  the  [townsmen  shall  be  exempted  from  all 
unlawful  charges  and  taxation. — Whitehall,  19  January  1608. 
Signed  :  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton,  T.  Suffolke,  Exetei-, 
E.  Worcestei',  E.  Wotton,  L.  Stanhope,  Jul.  Ceesar,  Thos. 
Parry. 
P.  1.     Orig.    Sealed.     Add.    Endd, 

Jan.  20.      237.        Lords  of  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
PMad.  y ,  ipi^g  agent  of  the  town  of  Youelrall  has  come  recommended 

vol.  3   p.  o49.  "^  "-^ 

'  both  by  him  (Chichester)  and  by  the  President  of  Munster,  testi- 

fying that,  in  matters  of  religion,  the  deserts  of  the  townsmen 
at  the  commencement  of  His  Majesty's  reign  were  not  inferior 
to  those  of  any  other  in  the  province.  Considering  these 
deserts,  the  King  desires  to  entertain  their  suit  as  favourably 
as  equity  will  permit.  He  assents  to  their  suit  to  have  the 
corbett  and  poundage  of  the  town  re-granted  to  them,  and  to 
be  permitted  to  collect  the  customs  and  apply  them  to  the 
repair  of  the  fortifications  and  walls.  And  as  it  is  proposed 
to  divide  the  county  of  Cork  into  two  shires,  Youghall  is  to  be 
the  chief  town  of  the  new  shire,  its  mayor  and  recorder  being 
justices  of  the  peace  for  the  town  and  new  county,  with  right 
of  all  treasons,  except  treason  to  the  privileges.  Letters  to  be 
passed,  with  all  reasonable  dispatch,  under  the  great  seal. — 
Whitehall,  20  January  1608-9. 

Signed :  R.  Salisbury,  T.  Suffolke,  H.  Northampton,  E. 
Worcester,  Exeter,  E.  Wotton,  L.  Stanhope,  Jul.  Gajsar, 
Thos.  Parry. 

P.  1.     Seeded.     'Add.     Endd.     Enrol. 

Jan.  20.      238.        Lords  of  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

yj™'  345  '^''°  petitioner,    Brian   Kelly,  alleges  that  his  father  died 

'    '   '       '  seised  of  certain  lands,  whicli  descended  to  him  on  his  father's 

death,  but  that,  he  being  at  that  time  young,  and  having  since 

then  been  absent  in  the  service  of  the  States  of  the  Low 


134  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

Countries,  the  said  lands  have  been  unlawfully  detained  from 
him.  The  King,  entertaining  his  petition,  desires  that  he 
(Cliichester)  shall  examine  whether  the  matter  be  as  alleged, 
and  that,  if  it  prove  so,  he  shall  take  order  therein  according 
to  His  Majesty  directions. — Whitehall,  20  January  1608-9. 

Signed:  R.   Salisbury,    H.  Northampton,    T.  Suffolke,  E. 
Worcester,  Exeter,  E.  Wotton,  L.  Stanhope,  Jul.  Csesar,  Thos. 
Parry. 
P.  1.     Orig.     Sealed.    Add.    Endd.    Encloses, 

Philad.  P.,      239.        Brian  Kelly's  Petition  to  the  King. 
'  '    "     '  Petitioner's  father  was  in  his  lifetime  seised  of  five  quarters 

of  land  lying  in  Kelly's  country,  in  Roscom7)ion  and  Galway, 
viz.,  Clunynglyn,  Clonroowe,  Glundara,  Glunha,  Alicknocan, 
Gonyinifalies,  •Kelitoom,  Tulic,  and  Barure.  Said  father 
died  about  nine  years  past,  and  petitioner  being  then  very 
young,  and  having  been  since  absent  in  the  service  of  the 
Lo%v  Countries,  the  aforesaid  lands  are  detained  from  him  by 
unlaivful  means. 

Petitioner  has  always  been  loyal  to  His  Majesty,  and  has 
served  in  the  Low  Countries  under  Sir  Calisthenes  Brooke, 
from  %vhom  he  holds  a  certificate  of  service. 

Prays  that  His  Mctjesty  may  direct  the  Lord  Deputy  of 
Ireland  to  accept  his  surrender  of  the  said  lands,  arid  to 
re-grant  them  to  petitioner. 

Underneath  it  is  ordered : — 

"At  the  Court  at  Thetford,  this  5th  of  December  1608, 
His  Majesty's  pleasure  is  that  the  Deputy  shall  be  informed 
of  the  particulars  of  this  petition,  and  that  he  shall  give 
order  that  the  surrender  be  accepted,  and  letters  patent  be 
granted  to  the  petitioner  of  the  said  lands,  and  that  this 
be  done  as  his  Lordship  shall  think  meet  for  the  relief  of 
the  'poor  petitioner." 

P.  1.     Orig. 

Jan.  21.     240.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Privy  Council.  * 

Toi 'm*'?"^'  According  to  their  directions,  has  sent  over  the  bearer.  Sir 

Garrett  Moore,  to  answer  aU  matters  wherewith  he  is  charge- 
able.    Has  taken  his  bond,  with  good  sureties  in  8,000?.,  for 
his  appearance  with  all  due  expedition. — Dublin,  21  January 
1608-9. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Sealed.    Add.    Endd. 

Jan.  21.     241.        Sir  John  Davys  to  Salisbury. 

^"^]''J26'^8'^'  The  other  day  his  Lordship,  having  occasion  to  speak  of 

the  surrenders  of  the  Irish  Lords,  was  pleased  to  ask  him 
what  estates  they  had  in  their  possessions.  Answered  that  it 
required  a  larger  discourse  than  was  fit  to  trouble  him  withal 
at  that  time,  but  that  he  would  find  a  time  to  express  it  in 
writing. 

Accordingly  has  made,  out  of  some  notes  and  collections, 
a  brief  report  of  the  laws  of  Ireland,  wherein  (among  other 


IRELAND— nJAMES  I.  135 


1609. 

things)  he  has  declared  in  what  course  the  Irish  possessions 
and  inheritances  passed,  before  they  took  estates  according 
to  the  course  of  the  common  law. 

This  brief  discourse  he  has  added  to  the  book  of  Giraldus 
Cambreneis,  who  has  written  of  all  particularities  concerning 
Ireland,  except  the  laws  only. 

To  accompany  Giraldus,  has  made  choice  of  two  other  books 
which,  for  the  subject  thereof,  are  fit  for  the  library  of  a  Lord 
Treasurer ;  the  one,  De  Mercatura,  treating  how  merchants 
may  iiegociate  by  the  law  of  nations  and  by  the  rules  of  the 
civil  law ;  the  other,  De  Nummis,  containing  almost  all  the 
discourses  that  have  been  published  in  print  touching  that 
subject. 

Beseeches  his  Lordship  to  accept  the  same,  as  from  a  poor 
student.— Middle  Temple,  21  January  1608-9. 

P.  1.     Signed.     Add.    Endd. 

Jan.  23.      242.        SiE  Dominick  Saksfield  to  Salisbury. 

^'''l ' m'^H*^'  Apologises  for  his  boldness  in  writing  to  his  Lordship,  al- 

though a  stranger  ;  his  zeal  for  the  public  service  must  plead 
his  excuse.  Has  employed  some  intervals  from  his  profession 
in  drawing  up  certain  notes,  which  he  transmits  for  his  Lord- 
ship's review,  being  the  same  which  he  knows  he  has  oft-times 
formerly  overviewed.  Has  confined  them  to  the  province 
of  Munster,  where  he  had  a  particular  charge,  for  the  better 
discharge  of  his  duty  therein. 

The  paper  ^  contains  the  names  of  the  disloyal  abroad  and 
the  discontented  subjects  at  home,  whether  priests  or  laymen, 
their  ranks  and  means  there,  and  their  pretences  here. 

The  book  consists  of  three  parts  ;  the  first,  a  perfect  abstract 
of  all  the  escheated  lands  in  Munster,  afterwards  planted  with 
undertakers,  the  names  of  the  lands  and  of  those  by  whose 
attainder  they  were  forfeited,  the  offices  taken,  with  the  cir- 
cumstances of  the  year,  place,  and  commissioners  before  vs^hom, 
with  other  observable  notes,  divided  into  the  several  columns 
of  the  book.  The  second  part  comprehends  the  several  lands, 
with  their  several  tenures  and  values,  mentioned  in  every 
undertaker's  letters  patent,  with  some  additions  of  their  quan- 
tities, scopes,  and  allowances,  &c.  And  the  last  (not  the  least) 
part  is  a  true  collection  of  all  the  orders  passed,  with  or  against 
the  said  undertakers,  by  the  commissioners  sent  by  Her  late 
Majesty  to  decide  and  settle  the  pretences  and  titles  objected 
against  the  said  patentees ;  which  orders,  being  conceived 
summarily  without  circuit,  upon  the  suit,  and  for  the  ease  of 
the  subjects,  were  meant  by  Her  Majesty  and  their  Lordships, 
and  so  received  by  all  men,  to  be  as  peremptory  and  bindin<T 
to  all  parties  as  final  judgments  in  writs  of  right.  But  what- 
ever encouragement  the  same  subjects  formerlj-  barred,  lately 
had,  or  assumed  to  themselves,  to  revive  their  former  quarrels, 

^.Neither  this  paper  nor  the  "  Book  of  the  Escheated  Lauds  in  Munster"  is  now 
in  the  Public  Kecord  Office  collection. 


136  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

he  ■will  leave  to  hi-s  Lordship's  further  observation,  doubtful 
how  he  will  accept  of  these,  being  trivial,  yet  hopeful  of  his 
pardon,  Avhicli  has  frequently  been  extended  to  good  meanings. 
—Cork,  23  January  1608  [9]. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

Jan.  26.      243.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
^'^'{'y.^'To'  Reports  that  the  Lord  Howth  repairs  to  England  to  pro- 

'     ■  secute  his  accusations  against  Sir  G.  Moore. — Dublin  Castle, 

26  January  1608-9. 

P.  1.     Signed.     Sealed.     Add.    Endd. 

Jan.  28.     244.        Plantation  of  Londonderry. 

S^ ^6^30 ^^^  1 3  Articles  agreed  on  between  the  Privy  Council  on  the  King's 

'    '     '  behalf  on  tlie  one  part,  and  the  committees  appointed  by  the 

Act  of  the  Common  Council  on  behalf  of  the  Mayor  and 
Commonalty  of  the  city  of  London  on  the  other  part,  con- 
cerning a  plantation  in  part  of  the  province  of  Ulster,  signed 
by  the  Lord  Chancellor,  Lord  Treasurer,  Lord  Privy  Seal, 
Lord  Chamberlain,  Earl  of  Worcester,  Earl  of  Dounbar,  Lord 
Zouch,  Lord  Knollis,  Lord  Stanhop,  Sir  John  Herbert,  and 
Sir  Julius  Ceesar,  and  on  behalf  of  the  city  by  Sir  Henry 
Mountague,  Sir  Thomas  Low,  Sir  John  Jolles,  William  Cokayn, 
William  Towerson,  Nicholas  Leate,  William  Dale,  Richard 
Wreight,  Martin  Freeman,  John  Broad,  George  Smithes, 
William  Dios,  William  Greenmell,  John  Barton,  William 
Harisoun,  William  Turnor,  and  James  Hotghton. 

In  27  articles,  providing  in  detail  for  the  sum  to  be  ex- 
pended upon  the  intended  plantation ;  for  the  buildings  to 
be  erected  at  the  Deny  and  Coleraine,  with  the  lands  to  be 
allotted  at  each  ;  special  provision  being  made  for  the  endow- 
ment of  the  Bishop  and  the  Dean. 

Tlie  woods  and  the  ground  and  soil  of  Glancanken  [Glen- 
conkeyne]  and  Killetragh,  extending  from  the  county  of 
Coleraine  to  Ballinderrie,  are  to  be  wholly  to  the  city  in  per- 
petuity, for  the  furtherance  of  the  plantation  and  all  necessary 
uses  within  Ireland,  but  not  to  be  made  merchandise. 

The  city  is  to  have  the  patronage  of  all  the  churches  in 
Derry  and  Colraine  and  in  all  lands  undertaken  by  them. 

Also  the  customs  of  all  goods  imported  or  exported, 
poundage,  tonnage,  the  great  and  small  customs,  for  the  term 
of  fourscore  nineteen  years,  in  Derry  and  Coleraine,  paying 
yearly  6s.  Sc?.  to  the  King  as  an  acknowledgment,  and  within 
the  port  of  Portrushe ;  the  salmon  and  eel  fishing  of  the 
river  of  the  Ban  and  Loughfoyle,  and  all  otlier  kinds  of 
fishing  in  the  Loughfoyle ;  the  office  of  Admiralty  in  the  coast 
of  Tyrconnell  and  Colraine,  and  all  the  royalties  and  profits 
thereunto  belonging  ;  flax,  hemp,  and  unwoven  yarn  are  not  to 
be  exported  from  the  Derry  and  Coleraine  without  license  from 
the  city  officers  ;  and  no  hides  to  be  transported  raw  without 
like  License  ;  the  city  is  to  have  the  castle  of  Culmore  and  its 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  137 


vol.  226,  11. 


1609. 

lands  in  fee  farm,  maintaining  a  sufficient  ward  of  ofEcers 
therein ;  the  liberties  of  the  Deny  and  Colraine  are  to  extend 
three  miles  every  way ;  with  such  further  liberties  to  the 
Derry  and  Coleraine  as,  upon  view  of  the  charters  of  London, 
the  Cinque  Ports,  Newcastle-upon-Tyne,  or  the  city  of  Dublin, 
shall  be  found  fit  for  those  places.  Sufficient  forces  are  to  be 
maintained  at  the  King's  charges  for  safety  of  the  under- 
takers for  a  convenient  time. 

It  is  agreed  that  for  settling  and  securing  all  things  touch- 
ing the  said  plantation,  the  King  will  give  his  royal  assent  to 
Acts  of  Parliament  here,  and  the  like  in  Ireland  to  pass. 

And,  finally,  the  city  is  to  have  time  during  the  term  of 
seven  years  to  make  soch  other  reasonable  demands  as  time 
shall  show  to  be  needful ;  but  to  set  forward  the  plantation 
in  such  sort  that  there  be  60  houses  built  in  the  Dei-ry  and 
40  houses  at  Coleraine  by  the  1st  of  November  following, 
with  convenient  fortifications ;  and  the  rest  of  the  houses 
with  the  fortifications  to  be  built  and  perfected  by  the  1st  of 
November,  which  will  be  in  the  year  1611.^ 

Pp.  5.     Copy. 

Jan.  29.      245.        LoRD  Deputy  and  Council  to  the  Privy  Council, 
Toi'^^e'^f'  According  to  their  .directions  signiSed  by  letters   of  the 

8th  of  October  last,  they  have  dealt  with  the  Lord  of  Howth, 
and  find  that  he  persists  in  his  accusation  against  Sir  GaiTet 
Moore,  yet  will  not  be   drawn  by  any  persuasion  of  theirs, 
either  before  them  at  the  table  or  before  the  King's  learned 
Council  here,  so  far  to  open  himself  in  his  proofs  or  informa- 
tion,  as   to  enable  them  to  judge  how  far  it  may  bear  the 
ordinary  and  common  course  of  indictment,  but  refuses  to 
produce  his  witnesses  or  to  deliver  their  names.     Having  thus 
far  proceeded  at   the  table,  the  Deputy  dealt  with  him  in 
private  to  make  known  the  ground  of  the  accusation,  and 
what  proofs  he  had  to  maintain  the  same ;  he  said  he  would 
give  him  satisfaction  therein,  so  he  would  keep  it  to  himself 
until  the  time   served  to  lay  it  open.     The   Deputy  answered 
that  what  he  should  deliver  to   him  should  further  and  not 
hinder  his  proceedings  against  Sir  Garret  Moore,  for  if  he 
were  false  to  the  King's  Majesty  he  should  hate   him  more 
than  Tyrone,  or  any  traitor  in  the  land.     Upon  this  he  said 
that  he  could  accuse  him  (Moore)  out  of  his  own  mouth,  upon 
two  several  conferences  which  passed  between  them  ;  the  one 
as  they  rode  together,  and  the  other  walking  in  the  garden 
at  Millefont,  which  discourse  was   overheard  by  a  gentleman 
riding  close  Isehind  them,  when  they  were  on  horseback,  and 
by  the  same  man  when  they  walked  in  the  garden  at  Mille- 
font, by  lying  under  a  bank  close  by  where  they  walked, 
which  gentleman  said  soon  after  unto  him,  that  he  hoped  that 
he  (Howth)  and  Sir  Garret  Moore  did  not  mean  as  they  said 


■  Printed  at  length  in  the  Carew  Calendar,  pp.  37-9. 


138  lEELAND — JAMES  I. 

1609. 

in  their  conference  together  ?  The  Baron  replied,  "  Why  what 
did  we  confer  of  ? "  "Of  matters,"  said  he,  "  tending  to  treason ; 
and  I  lay  under  the  bank  and  heard  it."  The  Baron  said  it 
was  not  so,  and  bade  him  hold  his  peace.  Now  whether  the 
first  discourse  were  on  horseback  or  walking  in  the  garden  he 
(the  Deputy)  knows  not,  neither  did  he  (Howth)  tell  him, 
nor  who  was  the  man  that  overheard  them,  albeit  he  demanded 
it  of  him.  This  notwithstanding,  and  the  secrecy  he  tied 
him  unto,  he  told  as  much,  and  also  the  party's  name  soon 
after  to  one  Lawrence  Moore,  of  Drogheda,  and  others  ;  which 
when  he  (the  Deputy)  understood  to  be  one  Chr.  Eustace,  a 
man  usually  with  the  Baron,  he  acquainted  the  rest  of  the 
Council  therewith ;  and  with  their  privity  sent  for  him  in 
hope  to  have  gotten  some  particulars  from  him ;  and  yet, 
conjecturing  that  he  would  not  come  without  acquainting  the 
Baron  therewith,  wrote  also  to  his  Lordship,  praying  him 
to  send  him,  but  between  them  both  the  matter  is  so  handled 
that  Eustace  comes  not  to  them,  but  is  going  with  him 
(Howth)  for  England,  to  strengthen  his  information  to  the 
King,  unto  whom  only  (and  none  else)  he  gives  out  he  will 
discover  all,  being  so  commanded  from  His  Majesty.  Where- 
fore, having  well  observed  their  Lordships'  directions  for  the 
carriage  of  this  cause  thus  borne  on  by  the  Lord  of  Howth, 
which  their  persuasions  could  not  alter,  unless  they  would  have 
.  yielded  to  the  indictment  or  imprisonment  of  Sir  Garret  Moore, 
before  other  particular  matter  alleged  than  was  contained  in 
the  first  accusation  (which  they  saw  no  ground  for  and  which 
besides  is  at  variance  with  their  Lordships'  directions,  they 
long  ago  enjoined  the  Lord  of  Howth  to  repair  thither  with 
such  as  he  thought  fit  to  take  with  him  for  that  business. 
And  thus  they  have  taken  good  bonds  of  Sir  Garret  Moore  to 
answer  the  matter  there,  which  he  is  ready  to  do  presently,  if 
the  Lord  of  Howth  go  now,  as  he  professes  he  intends  to  do. 

Further  than  this  they  have  not  been  able  to  prevail  with 
the  Lord  of  Howth,  although  they  let  him  know  that  their 
Lordships  thought  it  a  strange  part  in  him  to  prescribe  an 
order  of  proceeding  and  make  conditions  for  the  doing  of  that 
which  in  his  allegiance  he  ought,  and  by  justice  might  be  con- 
strained to  do ;  and  admonished  him  of  his  duty,  as  from  His 
Majesty,  who  likes  not  such  irregular  humours  in  any  man, 
of  what  quality  soever  he  be.  Hopes  they  will  be  satisfied 
with  this  bare  relation,  without  further  declaration  of  their 
opinions ;  inasmuch  as  they  have  no  ground  but  what  is  before 
alleged,  but  must  expect  further  light  and  directions  from 
them  when  they  shall  have  heard  the  full  of  this  discovery. 
—Dublin  Castle,  29  January  1608-9. 

Signed :  Arthur  Chichester,  Tho.  Dublin,  Cane,  Th.  Ridge- 
way,  Ni.  Walsh,  Hum.  Wynche,  H.  Power,  Ad.  Loftus,  Ey. 
Cooke. 

Pp.  4.  Add.  Endd. :  "  The  accusations  are  enclosed. 
Eecd  the  19th." 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  139 


1609. 

Jan.  31.     246.        LoRDS  OF  Council  to  Sir  Aethur  Chichester. 

^^^^'  355  The  citizens  of  Limerick,  like  those  of  other  towns,  have 

sent  to  have  their  great  customs  as  heretofore,  and  to  be  dis- 
charged of  poundage.  The  answer  has  been  returned,  that 
when  the  lease  to  Chetham  and  Long  shall  fall  in,  their  suit 
shall  receive  all  reasonable  consideration.  As  to  their  other 
demands,  they  (the  Lords)  are  willing  to  give  them  such 
further  ease  as  he  (Chichester)  may  deem  convenient.  Ac- 
cede to  their  request  that  the  liberties  contained  in  a  Book 
of  Liberties,  drawn  up  in  the  late  Queen's  time,  but  not  passed 
by  reason  of  her  death,  may  be  now  confirmed  to  them.  Their 
prayer  for  compensation  for  the  liouses  pulled  down  in  the 
late  works  on  the  fortifications,  although  such  expenses  are 
commonly  borne  by  the  towns  themselves,  is  referred  to  him 
(Chichester)  to  report  on  the  amount  of  allowance  which  is 
reasonable  in  the  case. — Whitehall,  the  last  of  January  1608. 
Signed:  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  E.  Zouche, 
W.  Knollys,  E.  Wotton,  L.  Stanhope,  J.  Herbert,  Jul.  Csesar, 
Thos.  Pary. 

Pp.  1.     Orig.     Sealed.     Add.     Endd. 

[Jan.]       247.        Memoranda  on  the  Plantation  of  Ulster. 
^•^■' ^™'^"'^'  Memoranda  of  points  for  the  King's  pleasure  to  be  signified 

'     ■  touching  the  plantation  of  Ulster. 

Pp.  4.     Endd. :  "  Articles."     In  Sir  John  Bavys's  hand. 

[Jan.]        248.         Orders  and  Conditions  of  the  Ulster  Plantation. 

^'^}''^^t^v^'  -^  collection  of  such  orders  and   conditions  as  are  to  be 

'     '  observed  by  the  undertakers,  upon  the  distribution  and  plan- 

tation of  the  escheated  lands  in  Ulster. 

Printed. 

[Founded  on  the  report  of  the  committee  of  20  December 
1608.  There  is  no  date  to  this  document ;  it  is  evident  from 
Chichester's  letter  of  12  February  that  these  orders  were  not 
in  print  on  the  I7th  of  January,  at  which  time  he  received 
the  directions  relative  to  Tyrone  only ;  it  is  probable  they 
were  set  forth  about  the  end  of  January.] 

[Jan.]       249.        Project    of    the     Plantation    of    the     Escheated 

S.V.,  Ireland,  LANDS. 

'     ■  The  project   of  the  Committee,  the  Bishop  of  Derry,  Sir 

James  Ley,  and  others,  for  the  division  and  plantation  of  the 
escheated  lands  in  Tyrone,  Coleraine,  Donegal,  Fermanagh, 
Armagh,  and  Cavan.  The  proportions  into  which  the  lands 
were  to  be  divided,  reservation  for  glebe  lands,  persons  to 
whom  the  proportion  should  be  leased,  &c. 

Drawn  up  in  pursuance  of  a  direction  in  the  above  printed 
orders  and  conditions.     [See  also  Dec.  20,  1608.] 

Pp.  16.     Endd. 


140  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1609. 

[Jan.]        250.        Tabular  Abstkact  of  the  Plantations.  ' 
S.P.,Jreland,  Abstract,  in  a  tabular  form,  of  the    orders  and  conditions 

^°  ■  -    '     •  \h\q\  down  for  the  distribution  and  plantation  of  the  escheated 

lands  in  Ulster. 
P.  1,  large.    iVo  date.     (Engrossed). 

Feb.  ].       251.        Declaeation   of  Andrew  Hamlin,  Mayor  of  Drog- 

S.P.,  Ireland,  HEDA. 

'  '  '    ■  Declaration    of   Andrew    Hamlin,    mayor    of    Drogheda, 

stating  the  deposition  of  James  Taffe,  relative  to  a  conver- 
sation he  heard  between  Christopher  Eustace  and  others 
on  their  determination  to  swear  falsely  against  Sir  Garret 
Moore. 

This  1st  day  of  February  1608  [9]  came  before  Andrew 
Hamlyn,  mayor  of  the  town  of  Drogheda,  of  his  own  free 
Avill  and  disposition,  one  James  Taffe,  of  Pilletston,  in  the 
county  of  Meath,  gentleman,  of  the  age  of  45  years  or  there- 
abouts, and  did  swear  upon  the  Holy  Evangelists  that  about 
four  years  since,  anno  1604,  somewhat  after  the  recovery  of 
500Z.  sterling,  before  the  justices  of  assize,  by  Sir  Garret 
Moore,  Knight,  one  of  His  Majesty's  Privy  Council  in  Ireland, 
against  Oliver  Pluncket,  of  Gibbston,  gentleman,  the  foresaid 
James  Taffe  went  to  the  Navan  to  buy  corn  in  the  market 
there  ;  and,  wanting  single  money  to  pay  the  party,  went  into 
the  house  of  Edmond  Warren,  of  the  said  Navan,  merchant, 
and  seeking  for  the  wife  of  the  house  to  get  his  exchange,  went 
into  a  chamber,  where  one  Christopher  Eustace,  of  Lescartane, 
John  Drake,  of  Drakeston,  gentleman,  and  a  kerne  in  their 
company,  were  drinking,  and  they,  hearing  that  the  foresaid 
Pluncket  was  condemned  at  the  suit  of  Sir  Garret  Moore  as 
aforesaid,  the  deponent  did  then  and  there  hear  the  said  John 
Drake  say,  "  What  cursed  people  were  the  Duffes,  that  did 
not  bear  witness  with  Pluncket  against  the  said  Sir  Garret, 
whether  it  were  in  right  or  wrong,"  and  the  kern  that  then 
was  by  said  to  Drake,  "  Would  you  have  so  done  if  you  were 
called  to  witness  ?"  "  By  God,  I  would,"  said  Drake,  "  if  all 
the  men's  lives  in  Ireland  lay  thereon;"  and  the  said  Eustace 
said,  "  I  pray  God  I  never  die  till  I  see  a  wringing  one 
laid  upon  Sir  Garret  by  some  good  warrant,  and  that  I  may 
be  called  as  a  witness;  I  pray  God  the  Devil  cut  off  my 
head,'  but  I  would  swear  the  falsest  lie  against  him  as  soon  as 
the  truest  tale." 

And  since  it  is  charitable  that  the  truth  should  appear  in 
all  tilings,  whereby  the  innocent  be  not  damnified  by  the 
malicious,  he  (Hamlyn)  has  to  this  present  testimonial  set  his 
hand,  and  for  the  more  credit  thereof,  has  also  affixed  the  secret 
seal  of  his  office,  the  day  and  year  above  said. 

F.  1.     Signed  (seal  gone).    Endd. 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  141 


1G09. 
Feb.  1.       252.        Sir  Thomas  Eoper  to  Salisbury. 
^■^I'JlfTi''  Thanks  his  Lordship  for  the  addition  of  50  to  his  company 

''"■■'     ■  —Island  of  Kerry,  1  February  1608  [9]. 

P.  1.     Signed.     Add.     Eadd. 


Feb.  2.       253.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
^■^■'o^o'^r'Tq'  Expreses  his  gratitude,  and  leaves  the  same  as  a  debt  upon 

■  "'  '     ■  his  posterity,  who,  if  they  receive  anything  from  him,  cannot 

deny  to  have  enjoyed  it  by  his  Lordship's  patronage.  Since 
his  coming  into  Ireland,  resolving  upon  good  cause  to  forbear 
the  too  much  familiarity  he  had  sometime  with  the  Lord  of 
Howth,  he  (Howth)  gave  out  before  the  Lord  Deputy  that  the 
reason  of  this  was,  because  he  (Delvin)  thought  Howth  was 
the  discoverer  of  his  fault ;  upon  which  some  speech  passed 
betwixt  them  before  his  Honour,  whose  relation  he  humbly 
desires  his  Lordship  to  await  before  ci'cdit  be  given  to  any 
such  suggestion,  which  the  Lord  of  Howth  may  perhaps  offer 
against  him. — 2  February  1608  [9]. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

Feb.  3.      254.        Draft  Sentence  in  the  suit  of  Earl  of  Kildare  and 

S.r.,Irulan(T,  SiR   EOBERT   DiGBY. 

^'*'""  '     '^'  Draft  of  the  sentence  of  the  Castle  Chamber  in  the  cause 

betwixt  the  Earl  of  Kildare  and  Sir  Robert  Digby,  chiefly  as 
to  the  endorsements  on  the  deed  by  Burnell. 
Pp.  4.     Endd. 

Feb.  .S.       255.        Decree  of  Castle  Chamber  in  suit  of  Lady  Kildare 

S.F.,  Irelaiiil,  and    SiR    ROBERT    DiGBY. 

^"  '  ""  '     '  Decree  in  Court  of  Castle  Chamber  by  the  Lord  Deputy  and 

Council  in  the  case  between  the  Lady  Kildare  and  Sir  Robert 
Diffby,  on  the  validity  of  the  deed  of  jointure  of  Mabell, 
Countess  Dowager  of  Kildare,  condemning  the  whole  of  the 
endorsements  on  the  deed,  and  imposing  a  line  of  500  marks 
on  Henry  Burnell  for  making  them.  —  Court  of  Castle 
Chamber,  3  February  1608. 

Present :  Lord  Deputy,  Lord  Chancellor,  Master  Treasurer, 
Lord  Chief  Justice  Winchc,  Lord  Justice  Walshe,  Sir  Adam 
Loftus,  Sir  Richard  Cooke. 

P.  1.     Copy,  attested  by  A.  Stoughton.     Endd. 

Feb.  5.      256.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Privy  Council. 
S.F.,  Ireland,  After  receipt  of  their  letters   of  the  last  of  November  for 

apprehending  pirates  and  sending  them  over  to  be  tried  there, 
where  the  law  is  in  force,  he  signified  the  same  to  the  Lords 
President  of  Connaught  and  Munster. 

About  the  same  time  Jennings,  tlie  pirate,  who  often  fre- 
quents these  coasts,  as  they  have  heard,  came  into  a  place  called 
Irris  [Erris],  in  the  county  of  Mayo,  in  Connaught,  with  a 
Dutch  prize  of  some  1  SO  ton.s,  where  some  of  his  peojale  were 
apprehended  by  Sir  Theobald  Burke,  and  a  certain  number  of 


vol.  22G,  21. 


142  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

soldiers  appointed  of  purpose  to  lie  in  wait  for  such  stragglers 
by  the  Lord  President,  who,  both  before  and  after  the  signi- 
fication of  their  Lordships'  pleasure,  carefully  intended  that 
matter.  Most  of  them  were  found  to  be  lame  and  feeble 
persons,  hurt  in  a  fight  which  the  pirate  had  had  with  a 
Frenchman,  so  that  they  could  not  be  conveniently  brought 
out  of  that  boggy  country  at  such  a  time,  when  the  fresh 
waters  were  so  great  and  high.  Besides,  it  was  credibly 
alleged  by  one  of  the  prisoners  that  there  was  a  great  party 
of  them  discontented  and  mutinous  against  their  captain 
about  the  sharing  of  the  Dutchman's  goods  and  the  hard 
usage  they  had  sustained  in  that  belialf ;  in  regard  whereof  a 
third  part  of  the  whole  company  would  gladly  aid  and  assist 
such  as  should  be  appointed  at  any  time  to  surprise  Jennings 
and  his  party,  as  of  themselves  they  were  otherwise  inclined 
to  do,  if  they  had  opportunity  and  means.  In  consideration, 
therefore,  of  this  suggestion  (which  on  proof  they  found  to  be 
very  true),  and  forasmuch  as  they  had  no  present  means  to 
surprise  him,  it  was  resolved  to  let  the  sick  mariners  return 
again  aboard  from  whence  they  came,  taking  the  oath  of  one 
of  the  principal  malcontents  to  be  secret  and  trusty  to  further 
the  service  when  means  and  occasions  should  serve  to  attempt 
it.  Diligent  watch  is  laid  to  attend  what  this  practice  will 
come  unto  amongst  themselves  ;  but  for  his  (Chichester's)  own 
part,  he  can  hope  for  no  good  effect,  considering  the  jealousy 
and  circumspection  of  the  pirate,  and  that  there  is  no  con- 
venient shipping  upon  this  coast,  The  pirate  and  the  prize  at 
this  instant  ride  near  the  mouth  of  the  river  Shannon,  where 
he  expects  an  answer  to  a  letter  written  to  the  Earl  of 
Thomonde,  of  which  a  copy  is  here  enclosed,  to  be  considered. 
Prays  their  Lordships'  resolution  and  direction  therein,  with  as 
much  speed  as  may  be.  In  the  meantime  has  advised  the  Earl 
of  Thomond,  if  he  cannot  otherwise  by  practice  or  force,  surprise 
them  with  efl^ect,  to  use  some  connivance  in  the  matter,  and  to 
permit  them  quietly  to  rest  thereabouts  until  he  (Chichester) 
shall  hear  again  from  their  Lordships,  in  answer  to  the  pirates' 
offer  and  demand,  which  he  promised  might  be  within  20 
days  or  thereabouts.  This,  he  conceives,  wiU  temper  them, 
and  restrain  them  for  the  time  from  doing  further  mischief. 
Three  of  the  pirate's  cousorts  were  sent  hither  yesterday  from 
Athlone ;  one  of  them  was  the  boatswain,  who  left  him  upon 
discontentment,  as  he  says  ;  his  name  is  John  Williams,  a 
Norfolk  man ;  another  is  called  John  Lodge,  of  London,  and 
the  third  is  one  Thomas  Eeinoldes,  of  Cork.  The  two  first 
shall  be  sent  to  Chester,  together  with  their  examinations.  As 
for  the  third,  it  is  evident  that  he  was  a  poor  shoemaker's  man, 
and  was,  upon  occasion  of  business  with  the  pirate,  detained 
and  carried  away  against  ]iis  will,  as  shall  further  appear  by 
liis  examination  taken.  Thinks  fit  to  release  him  after  some 
further  restraint.  There  are  very  strict  commandments  given 
in  all  the  counties  upon  the  sea-coasts,  that  no  man  shall  pre- 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  143 


1609. 


sume  to  relieve  this  sort  of  men  with  any  victuals,  but  rather 
shall  lay  hands  upon  as  many  of  them  as  they  can.  Hopes 
this  order  taken  will  make  them  weary  of  these  coasts. 

But  this  kind  of  pirates  and  sea  thieves  is  much  inferior 
for  malice  and  dangerous  effects  to  another  sort,  which  infests 
this  land  and  sea.  They  are  such  corsaries  as,  indiflferently  aad 
without  war,  specially  prey  upon  His  Majesty's  proper  subjects 
of  this  realm  ;  and  they  are  so  presumptuous  and  obstinate 
an  enemy  to  this  State  as  cannot  otherwise  be  suppressed  or 
expulsed  but  with  fire  and  sword.  These  are  the  seminary 
priests  and  Jesuits,  who  daily  repair  into  this  land  in  great 
numbers,  with  their  receivers,  favourers,  and  defenders,  ofi'ering 
violence  to  religion  and  laws,  in  this  only  place  of  the  world 
without  punishment  or  control.  Formerly  wrote  a  serious 
letter  to  their  Lordships  about  the  restraining  of  them  while 
this  remnant  of  His  Majesty's  forces  is  yet  on  foot ;  and  as 
he  has  hitherto  received  no  direction  nor  answer  thereto,  he 
is  timorous  to  deal  with  them  in  such  sort  as  is  expedient  and 
necessary.  It  is  needless  for  him  to  urge  it  any  further,  but 
he  begs  them  to  consider  of  it,  and  of  what  he  has  written  in 
that  behalf  It  is  a  matter  of  great  weight  and  consequence, 
wherein  if  there  be  no  reformation,  all  the  buildings  and 
labours  here  are  but  in  vain ;  and  this  needs  no  further 
demonstration  nor  argument. 

The  realm  otherwise  is  at  this  present  in  good  quiet.  By 
reason  of  the  fine  of  1,000  marks  imposed,  as  they  have  heard, 
upon  the  northern  counties  (ia  case  they  should  relieve  traitors 
amongst  them)  and  the  effectual  levying  of  some  small  part  of 
it,  where  it  is  requisite,  (with  intimation  to  levy  and  take  the 
whole  arrear  if  they  shall  neglect  to  perform  their  duties 
required  by  the  proclamation  published  in  that  behalf),  the 
principal  rebels  are  driven  to  great  necessities  and  misery,  for 
which  they  lie  close,  and  intend  to  steal  up  into  some  of  these 
parts,  where,  as  he  is  informed,  they  have  friends  that  promise 
to  secure  them,  and  he  is  in  good  hope  to  catch  them  if  they 
come.  The  county  of  Armagh  has  made  petition  to  him  to 
pardon  their  wood  kerne,  he  means  some  of  then:,  or  else  to 
permit  them  to  go  beyond  sea.  Has  answered  them  that  for 
the  principal,  as  Oghie  Oge  O'Hanlon,  Brian  M'Arte's  base 
son,  and  such  like,  he  will  neither  pardon  them  nor  license 
them  to  depart  the  realm.  As  for  the  rest,  that  shall  do  any 
acceptable  service  for  the  State  in  cutting  off  of  some  of  their 
own  consorts  and  fellows  in  rebellion,  he  has  promised  them 
pardon  and  license  to  depart  this  realm  for  some  other,  if  their- 
Lordships  shall  allow  of  their  banishment. 

The  treasury  here  is  emptied  long  since,  as  they  may  truly 
guess,  and  there  is  no  lawful  means  which  they  have  not  tried 
to  supply  their  wants  hitherto.  Now  at  length  the  soldiers  of 
necessity  are  forced  in  many  places  to  cess  upon  the  countries 
adjoining,  or  by  violence  to  borrow  of  them,  with  incredible 
bitterness  and   grudging  of  both  sides.     Beseeches  them  to 


14i4>  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

remedy  this  dangerous  inconvenience  in  time,  by  making  even 
■with  them  for  what  is  past,  and  by  sending  over  their  portion 
in  the  beginning  of  every  quarter,  according  to  the  hope  they 
have  heretofore  given  them.  The  King  saves  nothing  by  this 
protraction  of  time,  and  yet  the  subject  is  much  damnified 
and  discontented. 

"Where  their  Lordships  have  required  him  to  permit  some 
corn  to  be  hence  transported  into  the  sea  towns  of  England, 
lie  has  restrained  the  transportation  of  any  elsewhere  out  of 
tlie  King's  dominions.  Finds  by  certificates  from  divers  parts 
that  there  is  no  great  store  here  to  be  transported,  specially  in 
Connaiight,  which,  as  the  Lord  President  advertises  him,  is 
supplied  for  corn  out  of  Leinster.  The  price  in  most  places  is 
about  16  and  17  shillings,  harps,  the  Bristowband  barrel,  and 
it  is  like  to  be  enhanced  in  time  and  by  licenses  of  transporta- 
tion thither,  which  he  intends  to  give  as  the  time  and  plenty 
shall  serve,  and  as  their  Lordships  shall  direct.  In  Ulster 
there  grows  little  other  corn  but  barley  and  oats,  which  is 
at  reasonable  rates  as  yet  ;  for  which  he  has  not  restrained 
them  at  any  time,  because  the  commodity  of  transportation 
from  thence  is  only  for  Great  Britain,  and  not  elsewhere. 

There  are  many  servitors  and  other  persons  of  good  merit 
and  quality  that  expect  some  portions  of  land  in  Ulster,  upon 
the  division  and  disposing  of  that  province,  which  is,  for  the 
most,  now  in  the  King's  hands  by  just  escheat  and  forfeiture. 
Some  of  them,  fearing  to  be  neglected  or  forgotten  in  that 
behalf  (they  being  either  out  of  sight  or  not  known  to 
their  Lordships),  or  otherwise  to  satisfy  their  appetites,  have 
been  instant  with  him  (Chichester)  to  permit  them  to  repair 
unto  and  solicit  their  Lordships,  each  man  for  himself;  but, 
foreseeing  that  the  same  would  be  a  continual  vexation  to 
tlieir  Lordships,  and  knowing  that  private  suits  and  private 
respects  have  ever  been  a,ncl  will  be  noisome  to  public  delibera- 
tion and  counsel,  such  as  that  of  the  settlement  of  Ulster  is, 
he  has  therefore  persuaded  them  to  stay,  with  assurance  that 
there  will  be  just  consideration  and  regard  had  of  every  one  of 
them,  without  their  troubling  their  Lordships  or  themselves 
any  further  in  that  behalf  Prays  their  Lordships  to  enable 
him  to  perform  towards  them  according  to  this  assurance, 
which  he  has  given  and  formerly  received  from  them. 

Their  Lordships  in  some  former  letters  ascribed  it  to  some 
want  of  providence  in  him  that  the  forts  within  the  main  were 
not  always  victualled  for  two  or  three  months  beforehand,  as 
in  the  last  year  they  were.  It  was  one  of  his  instructions, 
therefore,  to  Sir  Oliver  Saint  John,  at  his  going  hence,  to 
certify  them  that,  howsoever  necessarj^  the  same  be  for  His 
Majesty's  service,  yet  they  have  no  money  to  do  it  with ;  for 
the  Ti'easurer,  after  the  victual  was  spent,  defaulked  the 
money  from  the  ca]-itains,  and  now  has  no  means  to  supply 
them  again  till  their  Lordships  shall  assign  money  for  that 
pui'pose.     Beseeches   them  to  consider   of  it  with  effect,   or 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  145 


1609. 

otherwise  he  holds  himself  excused ;  for  magazines,  there  is 
none  in  this  kingdom  such  as  thej"  supposed. 

Lastly,  begs  to  be  resolved  what  course  he  shall  take  with 
Sir  Neale  O'Donnell  and  Sir  Donnell  O'Cahane,  prisoners  in 
this  castle,  from  whence  they  practised  to  escape  of  late  and 
were  by  accident  discovered  and  prevented  within  this  five 
nights.  Besides  that  they  are  very  dangerous  to  be  long  kept 
in  this  weak  prison,  they  are  likewise  so  poor  and  needy 
that  he  (Chichester)  is  constrained,  in  respect  of  their  quahties, 
to  lay  out  money  for  their  meat  and  apparel.  The  reason  is, 
that  howsoever  they  are  reputed  to  be  great  lords  at  home 
(as  in  effect  they  are  as  to  the  bodies  and  goods  of  their 
tenants  while  they  live  and  converse  amongst  them),  yet  when 
they  are  accused  and  restrained  for  matters  of  this  kind  for 
which  they  are  now  laid  up,  their  tenants  and  creaghtes  for 
the  most  part  forsake  their  land,  howsoever  they  provide  for 
the  contrary,  in  respect  of  the  King's  possibility  thereunto. — 
DubUn  Castle,  5  February  1608[-9]. 

Sends  herewith  two  papers  containing  the  Lord  of  Howth's 
declaration  against  Sir  Garrett  Moore,  under  his  own  hand. 
Transmits  them,  fearing  the  copies  which  he  formerly  sent 
might  not  be  found,  and  what  use  their  Lordships  may  have 
of  them  he  knows  not. 

Pp.  6.     Signed.     Seeded.     Add.     Endd.     Encloses, 

Jan.  23.       257.         Jennings,  the  Pircde,  to  the  Earl  of  Thomond. 
^'^  '226*' 2^1'^'  Prays  his  Lordship  to  be  a  inediator  for  their  ^^arcZoTi. 

'      '  Offers  to  deliver  up  the  ship  and  stores. — River  of  Shanon, 

2.3  January  1608  [-9]. 
P.  1.    Endd. 

.     Feb.  5.      258.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Earl  of  Northampton. 
Cotton.  MSS.  Eecommends  Mr.  Nettervylle,   who   came   over   with    his 

f.'i9i.      '  Lordship's  honourable  testimony,  and  has  borne  himself  since 

that  time  with  great  discretion.  Thanks  his  Lordship  for 
the  many  favours  which  he  has  done  to  himself,  and  upon  his 
recommendation.  Owing  to  unfavourable  winds,  only  one 
passage  has  come  to  them  since  October,  and  they  have  re- 
ceived few  directions  from  their  Lordships,  and  little  money. 
This  has  "  enforced  the  soldiers  to  wrong  the  country,"  which 
causes  great  discontent  both  to  the  army  and  to  the  people. 
Wishes  he  could  bring  the  kingdom  to  keep  itself,  but  of  this 
there  has  long  been  small  likelihood.  If  Ulster  were  once 
settled  by  a  plantation  of  honest  and  industrious  men,  it 
might  be  hoped  that  the  King  would  in  a  few  years  be  greatly 
eased  of  his  charge.  This  is  now  in  hand.  Many  good  and 
deserving  men  have  applied  for  licenses  to  repair  thither. 
Prays  his  Lordship  to  have  care  of  these  suitors,  for  they  are 
the  fittest  and  best  assured  men  to  make  the  plantation 
good.  As  he  moves  for  them,  so  neither  does  he  forget  the 
natives,  who  must  likewise  be  provided  for  or  removed ;  the 
3.  K 


146  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

latter  may  be  spoken  of  and  wished,  but  hardly  and  not  ■with- 
out great  expense  attained.  Sent  by  Sir  James  Ley  and  Sir 
John  Davys  a  brief  account  of  the  escheated  lands,  but  either 
it  was  not  perused  or  not  understood,  for  lie  hears  that  their 
Lordships  complained  that  no  scheme  was  sent  to  guide  them 
in  the  form  of  the  plantation.  If  he  were  thoroughly  informed 
of  their  wishes  as  to  the  ordering  of  the  plantation,  no  one 
would  be  more  zealous  nor  have  better  power  to  give  them 
furtherance. 

When  he  heard  that  suit  was  made  to  His  Majesty  for  the 
lands  of  the  traitor  O'Doghertie,  he  directed  his  servants  there 
to  put  forward  his  claim  towards  obtaining  them  for  him- 
self^ and  has  received  intimation  of  his  Lordship's  "  noble 
inclynation  to  give  furtherance  to  his  desire."  If  he  obtains 
it,  will  do  his  best  "  to  reforme  it  by  a  cyvUe  plantation." 
Assures  him  that  the  prosecution  of  "  the  traytor  [O'Dogher- 
tie] and  his  accomplices  hath  consumed  both  the  people  and 
the  goods  of  the  countrie,  and  it  will  be  long  ere  it  can  be 
brought  to  any  good." 

The  Baron  of  Howth  is  gone  thither  to  prosecute  his  accu- 
sation against  Sir  Garrett  Moore,  and  has  brought  certain 
persons  to  support  his  charge.  The  accusation  is  "here 
thought  to  be  grounded  more  upon  malyce  than  good  matter," 
and  that  "  some  of  the  parties  brought  in  support  of  it  are  not 
of  sufficient  honestie  upon  their  wordes  or  oathes  to  condemne 
a  horsboye."  "  If  he  thought  that  Sir  Garrett  Moore  bore 
a  false  or  traitorous  harte  towards  His  Majesty  he  would  hate 
and  persecute  him  more  severely  than  Tyronne  or  anye  other 
traytor  in  the  lande."  Hitherto,  however,  he  has  given 
countenance  to  the  accuser,  and  has  debarred  Sir  Garrett 
from  access  to  the  Council  table  and  to  this  city. 

Suggests  that  the  cause,  when  it  shall  have  been  opened  to 
the  King,  may  be  remitted  hither,  where  it  may  receive  "  a 
juditiale  triall  in  the  place  to  which  it  is  most  proper."  Other- 
wise his  (Howth's)  representation  of  "  his  greatness  with  the 
King  and  of  the  mean  opinion  made  of  most  of  them  will 
begett  a  daungerous  opinion  among  this  people." — At  His 
Majesty's  Castle  of  Dublin,  5  February  1608. 

Pp.  5.     Eol.    Sealed.    AM. 

Feb.  6.       259.        Sir  Arthxir  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
vd '226^  22^'  GaXh  his  Lordship's  attention  to  the  pressing  want  of  money, 

'     '  and  the  manifold  inconveniences  arising  therefrom.     All  the 

several  points  have  been  answered  in  the  former  dispatches. 
Points  out  that  the  servitors  coming  over  to  sue  for  escheated 
lands  is  attended  with  inconvenience  ;  and  therefore  makes  suit 
on  their  part  that  they  shall  be  remembered  in  the  plantation 
settlement.  A  discourse  has  been  sent  by  Sir  James  Ley  and 
Sir  John  Davys  giving  an  account  of  the  Ulster  lands  in  each 
county.  Explains  the  reason  why  he  did  not  send  an  exact 
project.     Renews  his  own  suit  for  a  grant  on  Innishowen  in 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  147 


1609. 

O'Dogherty's  Country.  Refers  again  to  the  cause  between  the 
Lord  of  Howth  and  Sir  G.  Moore.  It  is  certain  that  the 
Lord  of  Howth  is  the  publisher  of  his  own  discourse.  Repre- 
sents strongly  that  the  cause  ought  to  be  transmitted  thither 
for  trial,  in  order  to  maintain  the  authority  of  the  State,  which 
has  been  too  meanly  respected  by  the  Lord  of  Howth. 

Sentence  has  been  given  in  the  cause  between  the  Earl  of 
Kildare  and  Sir  R,  Digby.  Recommends  Mr.  John  Denham 
to  be  Chief  Baron.— Dublin  Castle,  6  February  1608-9. 

Pp.  6.    Signed.     Add.    Endd. 

Feb.  6.     260. .      SiK  Aethtje  Chichester  to   the  Bishop  of  Derby, 

S.P.,  Ireland,  RaPHO,   and  ClOGHEE. 

vol  226  23 

Not  having  occasion  of  greater  importance  to  write,  and  yet 
being  willing  to  acquaint  him  with  this,  which  it  somewhat 
concerns  him  to  know  and  the  State  to  remedy,  sends  enclosed 
letters  from  Captain  Vaughan  and  the  Dean  of  Derrie  to  be 
used  according  to  his  own  discretion  and  wisdom.  The  pre- 
sumption in  priests  and  friars  is  like  to  grow  to  an  exorbitant 
greatness,  except  some  remedy  be  soon  applied  answerable  to 
the  desperate  disease.  Wrote  a  long  letter  of  purpose  to  the 
Lords,  that  forasmuch  as  the  continual  flocking  of  such  locusts 
into  this  realm  is  like  to  produce  dangerous  efifects,  their 
Lordships  should  grant  warrant  to  castigate  them  like 
rogues  and  beggars  by  martial  law  or  other  like  course,  such 
as  they  thought  fit  and  effectual  to  make  them  forbear  this 
place,  and,  being  in  it,  to  make  them  study  how  they  might 
quickly  get  them  hence.  Has  had  no  answer  to  this  hour, 
though  the  matter  was  serious  and  of  exceeding  consequence 
and  weight.  Has  now  again  touched  that  matter  to  the 
Lords,  and  he  (the  Bishop)  may  urge  it  to  the  King  if  he 
pleases.  His  not  receiving  any  answer  to  it  seems  to  him  a 
tacit  interdiction  to  proceed  with  them  as  is  requisite  ;  and 
on  the  other  side,  if  nothing  be  done  upon  these  crying  occa- 
sions all  will  fall  into  contempt,  the  last  degree  towards  the 
ruin  of  a  State. 

Prays  him  to  remember  to  eflFect  something  for  the  poor 
Dean,  answerable  to  his  merit  and  integrity  and  the  lines  he 
formerly  wrote  in  that  behalf  His  experience  and  the  hard 
life  he  has  lived  in  that  discomfortable  country  deserves  a 
good  consideration  to  be  had  of  him. — Dublin,  6  February 
1608-9. 

P.  1.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

Feb.  7.      261.        SiE  Thomas  Ridgewat  to  Salisbury. 
vol.  226*  24  '  Hopes  to  hear  from  England  without  further  delay.     Has 

received  no  treasure  since  October.     In  order  to  meet  the 
urgency  of  the  present  demands,  requests  that  two  quarters 
may  be  sent  at  once. — Treasury,  near  Dublin,  7  February 
1608-9, 
P.  1.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

E   S 


148  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1609. 
Feb.  7.       262.        The  King  to  Sir  A.  Chichestee. 
Phiiad.  P.,  Edward  Sexton,  of  Limerick,  having  represented  that  he  is 

^'°  ■   '  P"      •  seised  of  the  Abbey  of  Ffayres,  with  other  hereditaments  its 

appurtenances  in  the  city  of  Limerick,  which  were  granted  by 
King  Henry  VIII.  to  his  grandfather,  Edmond  Sexton  the 
elder,  reserving  an  annual  rent  of  2s.  2d,  as  also  of  the  abbey 
of  the  Blessed  Virgin  Mary  and  the  lands  and  hereditaments 
thereof,  and  having  made  petition  to  be  allowed  to  surrender 
and  to  have  a  re-grant  of  the  same,  His  Majesty  directs  him 
(Chichester)  to  accept  the  surrender  and  re-grant  the  said 
abbeys  and  land,  at  the  reserved  rent  of  20s.  Irish. — Given 
under  the  signet,  at  "Westminster,  the  7th  of  February,  in  the 
sixth  year  of  the  reign. 

Pp.  2.     Orig.     Add.     Endd.     Enrol. 

Feb.  8.       263.        Lords  of  Council  to  Sir  A.  Chichester. 
Phiiad.  p.,  Information  having  lately  been  given  by  Sir  Humphrey 

^°  ■  '  ^'      ■  Winche,  Chief  Justice,  of  the  urgent  necessity  of  providing 

fitting  depositories  for  the  safe  keeping  of  records  of  attain- 
ders, inquisitions,  surveys,  and  other  public  documents,  for 
want  of  which  they  have  remained  in  the  custody  of  officers 
in  their  private  houses,  he  (Chichester)  is  to  take  order  that 
a  fit  place  be  assigned  and  proper  receptacles  be  provided 
for  the  safe  custody  of  the  public  records.  And  with  the 
advice  of  the  Chief  Justice  and  others  of  the  Council  he  is  to 
appoint  some  persons  of  sufficiency  and  discretion  to  take 
charge  of  them. — Whitehall,  8  February  1608-9. 

Signed :  T.   EUesmere,   Cane,  K.  Salisbury,   T.    Suffolke, 
E.  Zouche,  "W.  Knollys,  T.  Herbert,  Jul.  Caesar. 
F.  \.     Orig.     Add.     Endd. 


vol.  226,  25. 


Feb.  11.     264.         Corn  Powder  sent  into  Ireland. 
S.P.,  Ireland,  ^  note  of  such  proportions  of  corn  powder  as  have  been 

issued  out  of  His  Majesty's  store  within  the  office  of  the  Ord- 
nance, and  sent  into  His  Highness's  realm  of  Ireland  in  the 
several  years  following  : 

20  March  1594,  8  lasts;  8  Sept.  1695,  13  lasts;  20  July 
1596,  8  lasts;  18  Jan.  1596[7],  20  lasts;  27  Jan.  1597, 
12  lasts,  half  by  sea  and  half  by  land;  16  Mar.  1597[8], 
10  lasts;  5  July  1598,  12  lasts  ;  16  Jan.  1698[9],  100  lasts  ; 
8  June  1600,  12  lasts  for  Dublin,  5  lasts  for  Munster  ;  2  May 
1601,  15  lasts  for  Dublin,  5  for  Munster;  30  Aug.  1601, 
20  lasts;  7  Oct.  1601,  30  lasts;  9  Jan.  1601[2],  60  lasts, 
whereof  40  by  sea  and  20  by  land ;  7  Aug.  1602,  6  lasts  for 
Munster;  19  Aug.  1602,  12  lasts  for  Dublin;  8  Aug.  1603, 
5  lasts  ;  23  Jan.  1604[5],  10  lasts,  sent  all  by  sea  ;  7  July 
1606,  10  lasts;  12  May  1607,  10  lasts.  Total,  383  lasts. 
This  is  a  true  collection  according  to  such  warrants  and  pro- 
portions of  delivery  as  do  remain  with  me  in  the  Office  of  His 
Majesty's  Ordnance,  Fra.  Morice,  Koger  Daly  son. 
P.  1.     Endd. 


IRELAND^JAMES  I.  149 


1609. 

Feb.  12.      265.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
vol!'2^fT^'  ^^^  ^°°g  expected  the  treasure,  the  Establishment,  and 

other  dispatches  from  thence,  and  when  he  was  most  in 
despair  by  reason  of  the  continuance  of  the  adverse  wind, 
dispatched  a  packet  containing  sundry  points,  the  mention  of 
which  he  might  have  spared,  if  his  Lordship's  letters  (which  he 
has  even  now  received)  had  come  sooner  to  his  hands,  for  they 
give  full  satisfaction  in  that  which  he  made  humbly  bold  to 
recommend  to  his  remembrance ;  and  with  them  the  bark  in 
which  he  dispatched  the  packet  is  (as  he  hears)  driven  back, 
which  make.s  him  to  hasten  these  aboard  her  to  give  him  to 
understand  that  the  treasure,  the  Establishment,  and  two 
letters  from  the  Lords  of  the  Council  are  come  to  hand,  and 
one  from  the  King's  Majesty,  declaring  his  princely  pleasure  in 
the  behalf  of  the  Archbishop  of  Cashell.  Those  from  the 
Lords  of  the  Council  bear  date  the  17th  of  January  and 
declare  their  pleasures  touching  the  corporations,  their  claimed 
customs,  and  for  the  fines  imposed  upon  the  recusants  in 
Munster,  and  concerning  the  plantation  of  the  escheated  lands 
in  the  county  of  Tyrone.  In  this  he  will  carefuUy  carry  out  his 
Lordship's  directions  ;  but  until  the  project  come  over  in  print 
(which  is  here  generally  noised  to  be  prepared  for  that  pur- 
pose), finds  few  will  resolve  what  to  do,  albeit  the  most  part 
of  the  servitors  and  others  here  have  heretofore  earnestly 
importuned  to  have  shares  there,  but  doubting  (as  they 
say)  that  their  purses  will  not  answer  their  minds  for  planting 
those  lands  according  to  the  conditions  to  be  laid  down,  they 
wiU  see  the  printed  copy  before  they  will  resolve  further,  after 
which  he  will  hasten  the  names  of  those  that  intend  to  set 
up  their  fortunes  in  the  plantation  and  settlement  of  that 
country. — Dublin,  12  February. 
Pp.  2.     Signed.     Add.     Sndd. 


Feb.  16.     266.        Henry  Pvne  to  Salisbury. 

vT  226^^27*^'  -^^^   shipped   95    planks   of   divers   sorts.     Refers  to  the 

proposal  of  Sir  R.  Boyle  and  his  partner   to  hire  ships  at 
Amsterdam.     Suggests  a  course  to  counteract  it  by  freighting 
English  vessels. — Mogeley,  16  February  1608-9. 
Pp.  3.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 


Feb.  17.     267.        Henry  Wright  to  Salisbury. 
^■^•'226^™^'  S!as  shipped  the  timber  for  the  King's  service  on  board  the 

'     ■  Seamew. — Iron  MiUs,  near  Talaughe,  17  February  1608-9. 

P.  1.     Signed.     Add.     Endd.     Encloses, 

S.P.,  Ireland,    268.         Charter-Govenant  of  the  Ship  "  Seamew." 

'      '  Agreement  of  Baslian  Cornelius,  master  of  the  Seamew,  to 

ship  95  oak  planhs,  and  to  unlade  at  Woolwich  or  Deptford. 
—17  February  1608-9. 
P.  1.    Signed. 


150  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 


1609. 
S.P.,  Ireland,   269.        Bill  of  Lading. 

vol.  226, 28 11.  ^^^j  ^y.  i^^i^g  o/  the  above  timber  and  account  of  expenses 

disbursed  in  the  shipment,  17  February  1608-9.    Signed  by 
Wright  and  Pyne. 
Pp.2. 

Feb.  17.    270.        Sir  Aethur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
S.P.,  Ireland,  Eecommends  young  Mr.  Plunkett,  son  to  the  Baron  of 

vol.  226, 29.  Killene.     Begs  his  Lordship  to  intercede  with  the  Countessof 

Kildare  not  to  use  him  and  her  daughter  so  hardly. — Dublin, 

17  February  1608-9. 

P.  1.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

Feb.  21.     271.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
S.P.,  Ireland,  Recommends  that  Sir  Thomas  Rooper  shall  have  a  pension 

vol.  226, 30.  allowed  him,  in  case  he  should  be  deprived  of  his  company.— 

Dublin,  21  February  1608-9. 
Fp.  2.    Signed. 

Feb.  23.     272.        SiR  Garret  Moore  to  Salisbury. 
S.P.,  Ireland,  ^as  come  hither  in  obedience  to  the  commandment  of  the 

vol.  226, 31.  i^Q^^s   of  the   Council,   signified   by  the   Lord  Deputy,  for 

answering  the  accusations  of  the  Lord  of  Howth.  And 
though  he  has  a  great  desire  to  do  his  duty,  yet  standing  as 
he  does,  he  will  not  adventure  to  ofiFer  himself  to  their  honour- 
able presence  without  their  license,  neither  has  he  presumed 
to  stir  out  of  his  lodging  since  he  came,  nor  will  he  do 
the  one  nor  the  other  till  he  shall  understand  their  further 
pleasure. 

Though  the  consciousness  of  his  own  innocency  and  the 
knowledge  that  he  is  to  appear  before  the  most  honourable,  the 
most  grave,  and  most  just  assembly  in  the  world,  support  him, 
yet  he  holds  himself  a  most  unfortimate  man  to  have  so  much 
as  the  least  question  made  of  his  loyalty,  which  has  been  ever 
of  dearest  esteem  unto  him.  To  plead  his  innocency  or  his 
service,  or  to  say  that  his  persecutor  is  malicious  or  infamous, 
are  no  justifications  to  him,  as  he  must  be  justified  or  con- 
demned as  their  Lordships  shall  see  cause,  only  humbly 
attends  their  honourable  pleasure. — 23  February  1608-9. 
F.  1.     Signed.    Sealed.    Add.    Endd. 

Feb.  24'.     273.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Privy  Council. 
S'P'.  -^eland,  gas  been  obliged  to  detain  Sir  James  Perrott  for  the  pro- 

'  secution  of  the  rebels  Oghie  Oge  O'Hanlon  and  others.     He 

has  already  contrived  the  apprehending  of  Roor  O'Doghertie, 
only  lawful  brother  to  the  traitor  Sir  Cabir,  and  the  killing 
and  taking  of  many  others.  Begs  that  the  agent  he  had  sent 
may  receive  contentment  and  satisfaction  in  effecting  his 
suits.— Dublin  Castle,  24  February  1608-9. 
P.  1,    Signed.    Sealed.    Add,    Endd. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


151 


1609. 

Feb.  24. 

S  J.,  Ireland, 

vol.  226,  33. 


274.        LoED  Chancellor  op  Ireland  to  Salisbury. 

Thanks  his  Lordship  for  the  grant  of  the  fee  farm  of  Tris- 
ternaghte.  Claims  protection  against  Lord  Howth's  calum- 
nies.— St.  Sepulchre's,  Dublin,  24  February  1609. 

P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 


Feb.  24. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  226,  34. 


Feb.  27. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  226,  35. 


275.  Lord  Danvers  to  Salisbury. 

The  course  concluded  on  some  few  days  since  has  been  so 
well  carried  by  the  Lord  of  Toumond  [Thomond]  that  Jen- 
nings is  already  prisoner,  and  his  Lordship  writes  that  the 
ship  with  all  her  goods  will  be  delivered  into  his  hands  by 
the  rest,  who  promise  to  yield  upon  sight  of  a  letter  from  him 
(Danvers).  Leaves  the  particulars  to  his  own  relation,  which 
he  makes  account  to  convey  more  speedily  by  Dublin.  Has 
sent  the  vice-admiral  aboard  to  inventory  all  things  and  pre" 
vent  spoil,  which  in  some  measure  cannot  be  avoided,  for  they 
are  very  rich  in  commodities  apt  to  be  carried  concealed ;  but 
the  best  shall  be  done  for  the  proprietor's  benefit. 

Some  suspicious  disorders  which  have  arisen  amongst  the 
Mahonnes  and  the  Cartyes  have  kept  him  here  this  month, 
and  although  he  can  find  no  just  cause  to  fear,  yet  as  the 
time  of  their  assembling  in  consultations  and  some  in  arms 
falls  in  with  Neil  Garve's  intended  escape,  he  thinks  fit  to 
speak  with  the  Lord  Deputy,  the  clearlier  to  compare  these 
plots  and  correspondence  with  the  intelligence  which  he  has 
in  his  possession.  Hence  it  will  be  April  before  he  can  come 
over. — Malo,  24  February. 

P.  1.     Signed.    Endd.:  "25  Feb." 

276.  Ralph  Birchensha  to  Salisbury. 

His  Lordship's  of  the  15th  January  arrived  on  the  14th 
hereof.  Thanks  him  for  his  good  opinion  of  his  service. 
Although  he  might  use  brevity  herein,  yet  the  remembrance 
of  some  remarkable  points  in  his  Lordship's  letters  invites 
him  to  enlarge  a  few  lines,  as  well  in  order  to  give  him  satis- 
faction in  some  words  used  in  his  last  as  to  acquit  himself  of 
weakness  in  suspecting  an  ill  office  done  before  he  had  cause. 

Eegarding  his  letter  of  l7th  May,  enclosed  to  a  friend  to 
deliver  to  his  Lordship,  his  friend's  letter  has  these  words  : — 

"  I  delivered  your  letter  to  my  Lord  Treasurer  at  his  house 
in  the  Strand,  which,  after  he  had  read,  he  sent  to  Mr.  Dudley 
Norton,  his  secretary  for  Irish  causes,  and  said  there  should 
be  an  answer  written  unto  you,  and  after  Mr.  Corbett  told 
me  (being  there  at  the  delivery  of  your  letter)  that  my  Lord 
said  you  should  be  sent  for  to  come  over ;  I  then  went  to 
Mr.  Norton,  who  was  sick  in  his  chamber,  and  prayed  him  to 
remember  the  dispatch  to  you,  and  to  fiu-ther  it  with  the  best 
expedition  he  could,  and  that  you  at  your  coming  would  be 
thankful  imto  him  for  any  kindness  he  showed  you.  He  said 
he  would  do  no  less  than  further  it,  because  it  was  for  the 


152  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

King's  service,  but  for  your  particular,  you  had  deserved  little 
kindness  at  his  hands,  because  you  had  heretofore  used  him 
and  some  of  his  friends  not  so  kindly  as  you  might  have 
done,  &c.  About  this  time  I  saw  a  letter  of  Mr.  Norton's 
written  to  a  great  man  here,  which  had  these  words,  such  a 
man  (and  naming  him)  shall  come  strongly  armed  against 
Mr.  Birchensha,"  &c. 

Hereupon,  finding  his  Lordship's  purposes  for  '  sending  for 
him  not  effected,  and  writing  again  in  June  following,  with- 
out hearing  anything  thereof,  he  concluded  that  Mr,  Norton's 
omission  to  remind  his  Lordship  of  him  was  the  chief  cause  of 
his  receiving  no  answer ;  therefore  thought  good  to  point 
thereat,  as  in  his  last  was  expressed. 

Defends  him  from  the  charge  of  presumption  in  expecting 
an  answer  to  such  a  poor  snail  as  himself,  whereas  he  ought 
rather  to  address  himself  for  redress  of  abuses  to  the  Lord 
Deputy.  Alleges  that  it  is  no  new  thing,  but  ancient  and 
usual,  for  officers  of  his  place  to  inform  such  men  as  his  Lord- 
ship by  place  and  office  of  such  occurrence  and  present  con- 
dition of  the  strength,  state,  and  manner  of  dealing  with  the 
soldier,  for  from  thence  that  infinite  number  of  instructions 
and  ordinances  sent  from  England  hither  to  reform  abuses 
in  the  musters  hath  grown.  So  that  he  levels  not  the  mark 
but  where  he  ought,  neither  does  he  inform  that  into  England 
which  he  is  afraid  to  speak  of  in  Ireland. 

Touching  the  Lord  Deputy :  he  is  wise  and  of  good  know- 
ledge where  and  in  what  manner  the  King  is  abused,  very 
willing  and  ready  to  see  all  things  amended,  nevertheless  he 
(Birchenshaw)  doubts  not  but  he  is  content  that  courses 
might  be  had  from  England,  to  direct  and  command  that, 
which  in  wisdom  and  policy,  himself  would  not  entertain 
here. 

Will  not  further  enlarge,  as  his  Lordship  has  signified  that 
the  verbal  relation  of  Sir  James  Fullerton  has  given  him 
satisfaction  touching  the  musters;  indeed  he  had  sufficient 
matter  from  himself  (Birchenshaw)  at  his  departure  to  have 
shown  the  truth  and  the  necessity  to  bemoan  the  time. — 
Dublin,  27  February  1608. 

Pp.  3.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

[Feb.  1609.]  277.        Lady  Arabella  Stuart  to  the  King. 
^3^''Q9fi'^afi^'  Petition  of  Lady  Arabella  Stuart  to  the  King,  for  a  grant 

to  her  and  her  assigns,  for  the  term  of  31  years,  of  certain 
privileges  and  impositions  upon  hides,  and  for  license  to  trans- 
port yearly  from  Ireland  40,000  hides,  paying  a  poundage 
and  a  rent  of  50L  per  annum,  with  a  statement  of  reasons  in 
support  of  the  petition. 

Pp.  2.  Not  dated,  but  certainly  not  later  than  February 
1609.     Encloses, 


vol.  226,36. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


153 


1609. 
[Feb.  1609.] 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  226,  36  A. 


[Feb.  1609.] 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  226,  36  B. 


[Feb.  1609.] 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  226,  37. 


March!. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  226,38. 


S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  226,  38  I. 


March  1. 
S. P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  226,  39. 


March  1. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  226,  40. 


March  3. 

Docquet  Book, 

March  3. 


278.  Points  of  the  Petition. 

Points  of  the  petition  touching  transportation  of  raw  hides 
of  Ireland;  with  observations  ivpon  the  bearings  of  each 
particidar  point. 

Pp.  3.     Endd. 

279.  Objections  to  the  Petition,  and  Answers  thereto. 
Objections  and  ansivers  in  the  Irish  suit  concerning  the 

exportation  of  raw  hides. 
Pp.  6.     Endd. 

280.  Objections  to  the  Petition,  and  Answers. 
Copy  of  the  above. 

Pp.  5.     Endd. 


[About 
Feb.  1609.] 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  226,  37  E. 


281.  Depositions  of  Lord  Delvin. 

Depositions  of  Richard  Lord  Delvin,  touching  the  matter 
betwixt  the  Baron  of  Howth  and  Sir  Gerrot  Moore.  He  im- 
putes Howth's  accusations  to  malice.  Examines  the  character 
of  one  Eustace,  an  informant  in  the  cause. 

Pp.  2.     Signed  by  Delvin  {in  tivo  places  on  each  sheet). 

282.  Sir  Thomas  Ridgeway  to  Salisbury. 

Calls  for  a  further  supply  of  treasure,  as  the  proportion  last 
sent  was  wholly  insufficient. — Treasury  by  Dublin,  1  March 
1609. 

P.  1.     Signed.     Add.     Endd.    Encloses, 

283.  Estimate  of  Charge  for  Ireland. 

Estimate  of  such  sums  as  will  be  due  for  the  remainder  of 
the  quarter  ended  last  of  December  1608,  as  also  for  the  due 
for  the  half  year  ending  June  1609,  together  with  allowances 
for  extraordinaries. 

Signed  by  Chichester  and  Ridgeiuay. 

P.  1.     Broad  sheet.     Engrossed. 

284.  Charge  of  the  Army  in  Ireland. 

Charges  of  the  army  and,  forces  in  Ireland  for  10  years 
and  three  quarters,  ended  30  June  1606. 
1  broad  sheet.     Endd.     {Engrossed). 

285.  A  bstract  of  Charge  for  Army. 
Abstract  of  the  above. 

P.  1.     Endd.     {Engrossed). 

286.  Release  of  Sir  John  Davys  from  the  Serjeantcy. 
Release  to  Sir  John  Davys  from  all  attendance  and  service 

that  he  ought  to  give  or  do,  by  reason  of  his  being  a  serjeant- 
at-law,  and  also  from  wearing  a  Serjeant's  coif 
Docqu£t. 


154  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1609. 
March  3.     287.        The  KiNG  to  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Chancellob. 
Philad  p.,  The  cities  of  Dublin,  Waterford,  Cork,  and  Limerick,  the 

vo .  1,  p.  298.  towns  of  Di-ogheda,  Galway,  Wexford,  New  Ross,  Youghal, 

Bansale,  and  Knockfergus,  have,  by  their  direction,  sent  over 
agents  to  receive  a  final  order  as  to  the  customs  of  the  ports  ; 
and  among  the  points  in  which  they  sued  for  His  Majesty's 
favour  was  a  snit  for  the  renewal  of  their  charters  of  in- 
corporation and  confirmation  of  the  ancient  liberties,  with 
addition  of  reasonable  franchises.  Inasmuch  as  they  have 
proved  conformable  in  the  matter  of  the  customs,  His  Majesty 
has  thought  fit  to  direct  the  renewal  of  the  charters,  with 
reasonable  liberties,  reserving  his  interest  in  the  great  and 
petty  customs,  and  the  subsidy  of  poundage  and  tonnage. 

He  directs  that,  for  the  benefit  of  the  said  cities  and  towns 
and  the  general  good  of  the  provinces  of  Munster  and  Con- 
naught,  his  justices  of  assize  shall  make  circuit  twice  each 
year,  in  the  Lent  and  in  the  summer  vacation,  in  these  pro- 
vinces, and  shall  hold  the  sessions  in  the  several  counties 
thereof 

His  Majesty  has  learned  that  most  of  the  lords  and  gentle- 
men, both  of  the  Irishry  and  the  degenerated  English,  have 
surrendered  their  lands  to  the  Crown,  and  have  taken  back 
estates,  to  hold  them  according  to  the  course  of  law,  with  re- 
servation of  rent  and  tenure  to  the  Crown.  His  Majesty  is 
gratified  by  the  success  of  the  Commission,  and  directs  that 
they  shall  proceed  to  accept  the  surrenders  of  such  others  in 
Munster  and  Connaught  as  have  not  yet  taken  the  benefit 
of  it. 

Consulting  for  the  safety  of  the  records,  which  have 
hitherto  been  exposed  to  much  danger  and  insecurity  for 
want  of  due  custody,  His  Majesty  directs  that  a  suitable 
room  shall  be  provided  in  the  Castle  of  DubUn  for  the  custody 
of  the  records,  in  which,  having  been  viewed  and  sorted,  they 
shall  be  preserved  in  some  press  or  chest,  with  two  locks  and 
keys,  one  to  be  in  the  charge  of  the  Chief  Justice  and  one  in 
that  of  the  Attorney-General,  as  is  provided  in  England. — 
Westminster,  3  March,  in  the  6th  year  of  the  reign. 

[A  marginal  note  in  the  handwriting  of  Sir  A.  Chichester  is 
appended  to  the  clause  reserving  the  great  and  petty  customs 
'to  the  Crown,  directs  "  this  part  of  the  letter  to  be  inrolled 
in  the  Chauncerye,  with  the  date  of  the  letter."'] 

Pp.  \\.     Orig.    Add.    Endd.    Enrol. 

March  7.    288.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 

S.P.,  Ireland,  The  enclosed  was  delivered  to  him  (Chichester)  on  the  4th 

^°  ■  ^^  '     ■  instant  by  one  Thomas  Nugent,  a  gentleman  of  good  estate  in 

the  county  of  Westmeath.     For  the  matter  therein  contained, 

■  albeit  he  knows  his  Lordship  does  not  esteem  of  the  tale  nor 

the  talker,  yet  will  it  show  how  unfit  a  man  that  Lord  is  to 

be  trusted  with  matters  of  secresy,  and  how  full  of  fiction  and 

vanity   his   discoui'ses  are  among  his  familiars.     There  are 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


155 


1609. 


S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  226,  41 1. 


March  9. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  226,  42. 


March  9. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  226,  43. 


sundry  other  tokens  and  testimonies  which  will  manifestly 
declare  himself  to  he  the  discoverer  of  that  which  he  conjures 
others  to  keep  secret ;  but  he  (Chichester)  thinks  them  not  fit 
to  be  published  to  his  further  shame. — Dublin  Castle,  7  March 
1608-9. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Sealed.    Add.    Endd.    Encloses, 

289.  Thomas  Fugenfs  Relation. 

Thomas  Nugent' s  relation  of  a  conversation  with  the  Lord 
Hoivth,  in  which  Hoiuth  said  "  the  King  had  granted  him 
1,000L,  hut  the  little  Treasurer  had  deceived  him  of  300Z." 

P.  1.    Signed. 

290.  Sib  Thos.  Ridgeway  to  Salisbury. 

Sends  a  person  over  to  England  on  afi^airs  of  his  office ; 
wiU,  on  his  Lordship's  recommendation,  follow  the  course  for 
borrowing  money. — Treasury  by  Dublin,  9  March  1608[9]. 

P.  1.    Signed.     Add.    Endd.    Sealed. 

291.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 

Received  on  the  6th  hereof  the  imprinted  books  concern- 
ing the  plantation  of  the  escheated  lands,  together  with  two 
letters  from  his  Lordship,  the  one  importing  a  suit  to  His 
Majesty  for  a  grant  of  a  new  imposition  upon  hides,  and  a 
license  for  yearly  transportation  of  40,000  for  31  years.  This 
poor  kingdom  is  infinitely  bound  to  his  Lordship  for  having 
so  great  a  care  to  make  stay  of  such  suits  until  he  be  informed 
whether  the  granting  thereof  will  stand  with  the  good  of  the 
Commonwealth  and  with  the  condition  of  the  times.  By  the 
next  he  shaU  understand  what  he  (Chichester)  conceives  of 
the  suit,  he  not  having  yet  had  sufficient  time  to  inform 
himself  therein. ' 

The  other  letter  evinces  so  vividly  his  care  to  supply  this 
poor  army  with  money  from  time  to  time  as  he  is  thereto 
enabled,  that  nothing  is  more  grievous  to  him  (Chichester) 
than  to  write  of  that  subject,  but  the  poverty  of  the  soldier 
who,  for  want  of  his  week's  allowance,  must  either  fast  or  fall 
upon  the  country,  and  the  people's  exclamation  when  any- 
thing of  theirs  is  taken  wherewith  to  relieve  them,  sometimes 
enforces  him  to  touch  that  untunable  string ;  and  he  fears  his 
letters  now  and  then  come  unto  his  Lordship  when  the  King's 
cofiers  are  not  sufficiently  stored,  which  makes  the  motion 
the  more  harsh. 

Before  the  receipt  of  those  letters  Mr.  Treasurer  had  made 
an  estimate  what  money  is  and  will  be  due  to  the  army  to  the 
last  of  June  next,  according  to  the  Establishment ;  to  which 
were  added  allowances  for  extraordinaries,  gifts,  rewards 
carriages  and  transportations,  works,  fortifications,  and  many 
things  else  incident  to  the  charge  of  a  kingdom ;  and  finding 
the  same  justly  laid  down  for  as  much  as  concerns  the  Esta- 
blishment, and  the  rest  as  necessary  and  available  for  His 


156  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

1609. 

Majesty's  service,  and  for  the  preservation  of  the  peace  of 
the  kingdom  as  the  charge  of  the  Establishment  itself,  he 
(Chichester)  has  thereto  subscribed  with  him,  and  prays  his 
Lordship  to  supply  them  accordingly  as  soon  as  it  may  be 
convenient.  In  the  meantime  they  will  make  the  best  shift 
they  may  ;  and  Mr.  Treasurer,  to  whom  he  has  imparted  the 
contents  of  his  Lordship's  letter  in  that  point  which  concerns 
him,  will  take  up  all  the  money  he  may  upon  his  credit,  to  be 
repaid  there. 

Now  for  the  money  demanded  for  the  works  and  fortifica- 
tions, his  Lordship  knows  well  that  to  lay  men  in  places 
unbuilt  and  indefensible  were  dangerous,  and  a  consumption 
of  money  to  no  purpose.  By  present  disbursement  of  so 
much  money  His  Majesty  will  be  eased  of  a  continual-eating 
charge  of  patching  and  daily  amending  of  them ;  and  when 
they  are  once  built,  and  others  already  built  are  sufficiently 
repaired,  he  (Chichester)  will  provide  the  best  he  may  to  have 
them  kept  so  without  further  charge  to  His  Majesty,  by  laying 
laud  unto  them  where  it  is  the  King's  so  to  dispose,  or  by 
binding  the  constable,  before  he  be  admitted  to  have  the 
pay  and  command  of  the  place,  to  perform  that  duty  upon 
his  own  charge,  unless  some  extraordinary  accident  shall 
happen,  beyond  the  compass  of  his  ability  to  repair.  These 
wards,  with  some  few  others,  once  made  strong  and  established, 
(for  all  which  be  demands  not  half  so  much  as  Sir  Josias 
Bodley  did  by  his  estimate,)  and  the  escheated  lands  of  Ulster 
being  distributed  and  planted,  he  conceives  His  Majesty  may 
then  ease  himself  of  a  good  part  of  the  charge  of  his  army,  as 
long  as  they  are  assured  that  they  receive  no  hurt  by  Tyrone's 
return  or  by  foreign  invasion  ;  but  he  sees  not  how  the  forces 
can  be  diminished  with  safety  untO  that  Ulster  business  be 
fully  perfected. 

Has  careful  Ij'  endeavoured  to  make  the  best  of  all  escheats 
and  other  casualties  for  His  Majesty's  profit  and  advantage, 
and,  notwithstanding  the  troubles  in  Ulster  by  O'Doghertie's 
revolt,  has  raised  2,000?.  out  of  Tyrone's  living  (only)  since 
he  went  hence,  and  at  Easter  another  half  year's  rent  is  to  be 
paid.  Has  made  the  counties  of  the  north  to  pay  betwixt 
4>00l.  and  500?.  for  the  pardons  of  certain  persons  for  whom 
they  made  suit,  who  are  men  of  no  note  nor  substance,  and 
has  taken  assurance  for  their  future  loyalty  of  each  barony 
in  which  any  of  them  were  born. 

If  Mr.  Treasurer  were  supplied  from  thence  quarterly 
according  to  the  Establishment,  and  with  the  1,000?.  for  extra- 
ordinaries,  these  and  other  sums  of  this  nature  might  be  con- 
verted towards  the  works  and  other  unexpected  charges 
which  this  miserable  and  unprofitable  kingdom  necessarily 
requires ;  but  when  the  soldier  wants  his  weekly  allowance, 
all  the  money  they  can  raise  must  be  converted  towards 
their  reliefs,  the  same  being  accounted  for  before  the  Commis- 
sioners here,  his  endeavours  in  this  kind   are  seldom  made 


IRELAND — JAMES  I.  157 


vol.  226,  44. 


1609. 

known,  nor  can  they  appear  to  his  Lordship  ;  neither  do  they 
know  what  is  brought  into  the  receipt  but  by  the  declaration 
of  the  receiver  or  his  deputy,  for  there  is  no  officer  of  the 
Exchequer  that  can  charge  him  therewith,  which  is  a  point 
worthy  of  consideration  and  to  be  remedied.  For  albeit  Mr. 
Treasurer  (who  is  likewise  Receiver)  be  a  very  worthy  and 
most  upright  gentleman,  yet,  seeing  he  cannot  attend  that 
service  in  person  at  all  times,  he  cannot  foresee  and  prevent 
the  abuse  and  deceit  of  inferior  officers,  to  which  they  have  in 
this  kingdom  of  long  time  been  inured. 

Suggests  that,  if  the  Commissioners  of  the  accounts  were 
required  to  bring  the  charges  and  discharges  to  the  Lord 
Deputy  before  they  perclose  the  accounts  of  any  kind,  it  would 
be  for  His  Majesty's  profit ;  and  albeit  he  may  of  himself  call 
for  them  (as  sometimes  he  has  done),  yet  for  many  con- 
siderations he  had  rather  it  should  come  from  his  Lordship's 
directions. 

Prays  him  to  burn  this  paper. — Dublin  Castle,  9  March 
1608[9]. 

Pp.  4.     Signed.     Add.     Endd. 

March  10.    292.        Sir  Authuk  Chichester  to  the  Privy  Council. 

^■|?''™^™'^'  Has  received,  with  other  letters  that  amved  on  the  6th 

instant,  the  printed  books  formerly  promised  by  their  Lord- 
ships, containing  the  orders  and  conditions  for  the  intended 
plantation  of  Ulster,  much  amended  in  some  points,  and  in 
many  respects  compared  with  that  other  first  project  drawn 
by  some  of  the  Privy  Council  of  this  realm  now  in  England, 
and  the  Attorney  of  the  same,  for  the  plantation  of  the  county 
of  Tyrone  only. 

Has  published  it  everywhere  to  as  many  as  may  best  im- 
part His  Majesty's  royal  intention  therein,  and  to  all  others  to 
whom  it  may  appertain.  What  this  will  work  in  the  minds 
of  men  here  is  not  known  yet ;  but  the  other  manuscript  in- 
duced only  two  men  likely  to  undertake  lands  and  to  perform 
the  conditions.  Though  this  other  is  more  to  be  approved,  as 
being  more  large  as  to  the  manner  it  is  set  down,  yet,  foreseeing 
the  great  difficulties  and  incommodities  thereof  likely  to  arise 
to  hinder  this  plantation,  he  has  thought  it  his  duty  to  give 
his  opinion  concerning  the  same  in  some  few  particulars  ;  not 
doubting  but  their  Lordships  will  pardon  him  if  he  shall  but 
offer  of  his  best,  tending  to  the  furtherance  of  so  good  a  work 
for  the  public  benefit  and  the  satisfaction  of  private  persons 
whom  His  Majesty  intends  thereby  to  encourage  and  gratify. 
First,  concerning  the  quantities  of  the  proportions  to  be 
distributed,  it  is  true  that  by  former  letters  he  had  generally 
advised  and  wished  that  these  escheated  lands  of  Ulster  might 
be  divided  and  passed  to  as  many  particular  persons  and 
into  as  many  small  parcels  (to  be  held  in  free  estates)  as 
conveniently  might  suffice  every  man  ;  the  which  he  has  found 
to   have   been   in   some   sort  observed  in  this  project;   yet 


158  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

he  prays  their  Lordships  to  understand  that  he  meant  it 
not  to  be  in  the  arithmetical  proportion  or  popular  equality, 
■which  is  here  laid,  but  rather  to  have  held  much  more  of  that 
other  proportion  of  distributive  justice  vy^hich  was  anciently 
held  in  partition  of  common  treasure  and  lands  conquered, 
and  which  always  respected  every  man's  particular  well- 
doings, merits,  and  quality,  as  duly  appertaining  to  every 
one  in  terms  of  right.  The  wisdom  and  good  discretion  to 
be  used  in  the  well  mixing  and  tempering  of  these  two  pro- 
portions, is  the  only  thing  which  can  produce  that  content  and 
harmony  which  is  to  be  wished  in  this  plantation ;  and  it  is  a 
point  of  so  great  consequence,  that  it  concerns  the  very  making 
or  marring  of  it,  as  also  the  well  managing  of  the  state  of 
that  unruly  province  ever  hereafter.  Therefore,  to  express  his 
meaning  therein  more  plainly  and  without  shadows,  and  yet 
with  due  reverence  to  their  Lordships,  he  holds  it  expedient 
and  necessary  that  there  should  be  a  difference  made  of  the 
undertakers,  such  as  the  observation  of  the  parts  of  a  com- 
monwealth and  of  every  private  family  naturally  offers  to 
every  one  of  us,  to  be  considered  of  and  imitated.  Principal 
men  of  worth,  reputation,  or  discourse,  such  as  are  able  to 
draw  many  civil  and  honest  men  of  all  sorts  and  conditions 
to  follow  them  into  Ulster  or  any  part  thereof,  there  to 
settle  themselves  and  their  fortunes  under  them,  for  the 
opinion  they  may  conceive  of  their  wisdom  and  justice, 
would  be  admitted  to  have  greater  portions  of  lands  than 
other  inferior  persons,  who,  though  they  wish  it  well,  yet 
have  neither  men  at  their  devotion,  goods,  money,  nor  credit 
to  inhabit  half  a  balibetaghe,  and  who  may  not  with  reason 
affect  to  hold  so  much  immediately  from  His  Majesty  under 
these  conditions.  Considers  again  that  eminent  persons  and 
powerful  must  be  the  sinews,  or  rather  the  cyment  [cement], 
to  be  applied  to  hold  the  rest  of  the  parts  together  ;  without 
which  it  will  be  like  a  dry  wall,  subject  to  every  injury,  and 
in  the  end  to  separation  and  downfall  in  very  short  time. 
Daily  experience  here  teaches  that  the  new  comers  will  be 
undoubtedly  robbed  and  oppressed  by  the  natives,  if  they  be 
not  countenanced  by  the  best,  and  for  a  long  time  supported 
with  a  strong  hand.  His  advice,  therefore,  must  be  this ; 
that  this  class  of  undertakers  should  have  such  quantities 
of  lands  (though  not  entire  and  lying  together,  yet  sepa- 
rate) as  each  wUl  assume  to  settle  and  inhabit,  some  more, 
some  less,  as  shall  be  thought  meet ;  and  that  they  again, 
if  they  shall  undertake  for  much,  shall  be  enjoined  to  make  a 
certain  number  of  freeholders  under  them,  of  such  parcels  of 
lands  as  they  shall  be  induced  to  do  out  of  a  second  con- 
sideration and  due  respect  of  every  man's  worth  and  quality  ; 
and  further,  to  accomplish  all  other  reasonable  or  needfal 
conditions  within  some  time  conveniently  limited.  This,  in 
his  opinion,  does  no  whit  destroy,  but  rather  furthers,  their 
Lordships'  intention  concerning  the  other  proportions,  con- 


IRELAND— JAMES  1.  159 


1609. 


sisting  of  three  accords  only,  that  is  to  say,  of  1,000,  1,500, 
and  2,000  acres  laid  down  ia  the  project  for  every  man. 
Provided  always,  that  other  consideration  be  had  concerning 
the  natives  generally,  who  should  not  exceed  the  proportions 
already  laid  down  for  them,  and  some  of  whom  ought  to  have 
less. 

Now  for  the  manner  of  allotment.     It  seems  that  for  the 
avoiding  of  emulation  and  controversy,  which  otherwise  might 
happen  by  choice,  it  must  be  decided  by  lot :  which  is  an  ex- 
ceeding good  course,  he  confesses,  and  practised  with  wonderful 
success  by  the  wisest  law-giver  that  ever  was ;  and  he  heartily 
wishes  that  the  times  and  occasions  were  now  such  as  might 
cause   it  to  take   effect  in  this  intended  plantation.      But 
their  case  is  very  different.     The  Hebrews   were  mighty  ia 
numbers  and  rich  in  substance  ;  compelled  into  the  land  of 
promise,  by  divine  necessity,  to  extiuguish  the  nations  and  to 
possess   their  vineyards,  cities,  and  towns,  all  ready  built, 
where,  and  not  elsewhere,  they  and  the[ir  sons']  posterities 
were  to  remain.     But  in  the  present  plantation  they  have  no 
armies  on  foot,  they  are  but  a  few,  without  means  of  plantation 
(as  being  separated  by  sea),  and  every  man  having  free  wiU 
to  take  or  leave.     The  country  to  be  inhabited  has  no  sign  of 
plantation,  and  yet  is  full  of  people  and  subject,  but  of  no 
faith  nor  truth  in  conversation,  and  yet  hardly,  or  not  at  all,  to 
be  removed,  though  they  be  thorns  in  the  sides  of  the  English. 
The  county  of  Tyrone,  with  Colrane,  only  has  5,000  able  men, 
by  which  their  Lordships  may  likewise  consider  of  the  rest. 
Another  notable  inconvenience,  which  he  has  lately  found  and 
considered  of  in  this  manner  of  allotment,  is,  that  kindred, 
iriends,  and  acquaintance,  who    otherwise   for  their  mutual 
comforts  and  supportation  shall  affect  and  purpose  to  dwell 
near  together,  wiU  by  this  means  be  far  separated  asunder. 
These  considerations,  and  many  others,  do,  in  his  judgment, 
make  this  manner    of  division  at  large  very  improper   for 
them.     But  if  His  Majesty  and  their  Lordships  shall  hold  it 
convenient  to  stand  as  a  public  act,  it  should  be  then  con- 
sidered what  places  in  each  county  are  fittest  to  be  inhabited 
by  the  new  undertakers  ;  and  therein  the  principal  seats  ought 
to  be  so  well  chosen,  for  the  two  first  sorts  of  them,  both  in 
consideration  of  State  and  for  their  private  satisfactions,  that 
none  may  be  justly  displeased  with  the  lot  of  their  inheritance 
in  the  county  where  they  shall  affect  to  dwell,  which  he  must 
conceive  to  be  their  Lordships'  intention ;  and  this  was  his 
meaning  when  he  first  gave  that  advice.     Herein,  as  in  many 
things  else,  there  can  be  no  certain  rules   so  set  down,  but 
that  much  must  be  left  to  the  discretion  of  the  commissioners 
upon  view  or  examination. 

The  states  and  rents  are  not  justly  to  be  excepted  against, 
for  it  appears  plainly,  as  His  Majesty  graciously  professes, 
that  of  his  princely  bounty,  he  does  not  respect  his  own  profit 


160  IRELAND— JAMES  1. 

1609. 

therein,  but  the  public  peace  and  welfare  of  his  kingdoms  and 
subjects ;  only  the  time  of  freedom  is  generally  thought  to  be 
too  short. 

But  as  to  the  tenure  by  knight's  service  in  capite  and  of  the 
Castle  of  Dublin,  every  man  regards  that  as  the  hardest  and 
most  unfit  condition  that  may  be ;  for  which  reason  they  cast 
off  all  thoughts  of  acceptance  of  such  portions.  And  this  the 
rather  because  all  grants  of  lands  in  Leinster  ever  since  His 
Majesty's  time  have  been  passed  in  free  and  common  soccage. 
Moreover  the  undertakers  of  Munster,  who  have  greater 
benefits  of  sun,  sea,  and  land,  and  who  there  found  castles 
and  houses  in  great  numbers  ready  built,  hold  by  no  other 
tenure.  Of  these  two,  men  make  a  precedent  in  this ;  as  also 
concerning  the  right'of  transporting  all  commodities  growing 
and  rising  out  of  their  lands,  as  the  undertakers  of  Munster 
may,  by  their  letters  patent,  do. 

The  next  thing  that  discourages  and  will  discourage  men 
to  engage  in  this  plantation  is  the  short  limitation  of  time 
wherein  they  are  enj(jined  to  buUd  their  castles,  houses,  and 
bawns,  without  distinction  as  to  who  may  dwell  within  or 
near  the  woods,  and  ■who  may  dwell  20  miles  off";  nor  yet  of 
the  workmen,  who  cannot  be  here  found  sufficient  for  so  many 
and  great  works  at  once  for  any  price  or  reward.  Wherefore 
this  condition  is  to  be  respectively  enlarged ;  for  they  must 
presume  that  every  new  undertaker  will  provide  for  his  own 
security  and  that  of  his  tenants  with  all  expedition  possible 
after  his  settling  down  upon  the  place  of  his  habitation,  for 
which  there  should  be  a  certain  time  limited. 

Thus  much  of  his  own  opinion  concerning  the  articles,  condi- 
tions, and  orders  contained  in  the  book.  He  will  add  this  one 
thing ; — that,  forasmuch  as  this  plantation  is  of  the  nature  of 
those  things  that  are  to  be  wished,  leather  than  hopeful  to  be 
efiected,  their  Lordships  would  be  pleased  to  leave  very  much 
to  the  discretion  of  the  commissioners  to  be  appointed,  both  for 
assignation  of  greater  quantities  of  lands  to  the  forts  now  in 
use,  and  for  any  other  place  needful  to  be  specially  provided 
in  that  behalf,  and  also  to  the  ministers,  since  their  glebe 
lands  are  like  to  be  their  principal  maintenance.  Likewise 
the  bishops'  lands  may  perhaps  require  some  alteration  in 
regard  of  convenience  or  other  circumstance  concerning  the 
Termon  lands.  It  should  be  also  left  in  the  power  and  discre- 
tion of  the  commissioners  to  provide  so  sufficiently  for  the 
natives  as  shall  be  then  thought  requisite.  There  are  many 
more  of  them  claiming  and  in  expectation  of  freeholds  than 
seems  to  have  been  considered  of;  specially  those  of  the 
counties  of  Cavan,  Fermanagh,  and  Donegal,  who  are  still,  as 
they  allege,  to  be  accounted  freeholders,  notwithstanding  the 
ofiices  taken  after  the  killing  in  rebellion  of  their  several 
chieftains  or  the  attainder  of  any  of  them,  the  under-tenants ; — 
many  of  them,  claiming  and  being  in  possession  of  freeholds 


IRELAND— JAMES  1.  161 


1609. 


at  this  day,  not  escheated,  as  they  affirm,  notwithstanding  the 
proceedings  against  their  said  chieftains. 

Albeit  that  in  the  written  project  there  was  some  respect 
had  of  the  natives  of  Tyrone,  yet  the  quantity  of  lands  and 
the  number  admitted  to  become  freeholders  was  thought  very 
small.  At  which,  as  well  as  at  tlie  report  which  was  spread 
touching  the  removing  of  the  swordmen  or  idle  gentlemen, 
who,  in  effect,  are  the  greatest  part  of  men  bearing  credit 
and  sway  in  that  province,  they  were  all  so  incensed,  as  he 
was  credibly  infoi-med,  that  he  has  since  studied  to  qualify 
them.  To  which  end,  and  to  rid  the  jails  of  a  great  number 
of  prisoners,  he  has  sent  the  judges  thither  in  circuit,  and 
into  all  the  other  counties  of  Ulster,  contrary  to  the  custom  of 
this  time  of  the  year,  and  has  instructed  them  to  declare  that 
the  King  is  graciously  pleased  to  settle  every  principal  man 
in  a  competent  freehold,  according  to  their  respective  merit 
and  quality  and  the  experience  or  hope  to  be  had  of  their 
future  service  and  loyalty  ;  which  shall  appear  at  this  time  in 
nothing  more  than  in  their  submitting  themselves  to  the 
good  will  and  pleasure  of  His  Majesty,  who  knows  so  well 
how  to  rule,  that  all  men  in  reason  and  dniy  must  obey  him. 

He  has  given  order  likewise  for  a  fresh  disarming  of  the 
swordmen,  who  had  got  some  store  of  arms  together  upon  the 
defection  of  O'Dogherty  ;  and  this  is  already  in  some  good 
forwardness  to  be  effected. 

Is  of  opinion  that  but  a  very  few  here  will  bear  any  part 
in  this  intended  plantation,  for  they  are  all  either  not  able  or 
not  content  to  undergo  the  conditions.  Upon  the  coming  of 
the  commissioners  he  will  endeavour  to  do  his  uttermost, 
according  to  the  latitude  of  the  instructions  now  and  then  to 
be  sent  in  that  behalf.  What  cannot  be  accomplished  at  that 
time  must  be  referred  to  a  further  deliberation. 

Thus  much  he  has  thought  fit  to  deliver  to  their  Lordships, 
without  any  further  protraction  of  time,  as  being  agreeable  to 
his  duty  and  trust,  with  protestation  that  whatsoever  he  has 
said  is  only  meant  to  give  their  Lordships  whereof  to  think 
concerning  the  perfection  of  so  good  a  work,  and  without  any 
intention  to  prejudicate  the  noble  and  princely  resolution  and 
courses  which  have  been  taken  or  may  be  taken  in  that  be-' 
half; — herein  acknowledging  his  own  weakness  and  ignorance 
in  the  inquisition  and  decision  of  these  deep  mysteries  of 
State,  what  the  truth  may  be,  and  where  it  lies  hidden,  having 
observed  that  in  all  like  human  actions  (besides  all  other 
difficulties  hindering  their  perfections),  truth  and  error,  good 
and  evil,  are  found  to  be  so  like  and  nearly  joined  together, 
that  many  times  the  one  has  been  simply  mistaken  for  the 
other.  So,  humbly  craving  pardon  of  their  Lordships  in  this 
behalf,  he  recommends  the  same  to  the  Divine  protection,  and 
what  he  has  said  to  their  better  consideration  and  wisdom. 
—Dublin  Castle,  10  March  1608. 

Pp.  6.    Signed. 


162 


IRELAND —JAMES   I. 


1609. 
March  10. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  226,  45. 


March  1 0. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  226,  46. 


March  10. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
-sol.  226,47. 


293.  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
Eecommends  Mr.  James  Carroll  to  succeed  Sir  James  Ful- 

lerton  as  Muster-master-General  and  Clerk  of  the  Check ; 
Sir  Wm.  Usher  to  succeed  Sir  G.  Fenton.  Sends  herewith 
a  copy  of  the  decree  of  the  Court  of  Castle  Chamber  in  the 
cause  betwixt  the  Earl  of  Kildare  and  Sir  Rob.  Digbye. — 
Dublin  Castle,  10  March  1608[9]. 
Pp.  2.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

294.  Earl  of  Thomond  to  Salisbury. 

Gives  an  account  of  the  affair  of  taking  the  pirate  Jennings 
and  his  ship.— 10  March  1608[9]. 
Pp.  2.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

295.  Earl  of  Thomond  to  Sir  Thomas  Smyth  (one  of  the 

Clerks  of  the  Ptivy  Council). 

Has  lost  the  use  of  his  right  arm  in  boarding  the  vessel  of 
the  pirate  Jennings.  Enters  into  particulars  regarding  the 
disposal  of  the  ship.— 10  March  1608-[9]. 

P.  2.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 


March  10. 

Philad.  P., 
vol.  1,  p.  300. 


March  10. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  226,  48. 


March  10. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  226,  49. 


296.  The  King  to  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Lord  Chancellor. 
At  the  suit  of  Sir  James  FitzGerald,  Knight,  and  in  con- 
sideration of  his  faithful  service  in  the  late  wars,  the  spoiling 
of  his  lands,  and  the  murder  of  his  father  and  mother  by  the 
I'ebels,  the  King  directs  them  to  accept  surrender  of  his  house, 
castle,  and  town  of  Ballysonan,  and  to  re-grant  the  said  castle 
and  lands  and  that  of  Coshogcowllie  for  ever  in  fee  simple,  to 
be  holden  of  His  Majesty's  Castle  of  Dublin  in  free  and  common 
soccage. — Westminster,  10  March,  in  the  sixth  year  of  the 
reign. 

P.  1.     Orig.     Add.     Endd.     Enrol. 

297.  Sir  Dominick  Sarsfield  to  Salisbury. 

Repels  some  underhand  complaints  made  against  him  by 
the  Lord  Roche  regarding  the  purchase  of  some  lands  from 
Sir  Robert  Ashfield.— Dublin,  10  March  1G08[9]. 

P.  1.    Signed.    Add.     Endd. 

298.  Examination  of  Christopher  Eustace. 

The  examination  of  Christopher  Eustace,  gent.,  taken 
by  the  direction  of  the  right  honourable  the  Lords  of  His 
Majesty's  Privy  Council  in  the  Council  Chamber  at  Whitehall, 
10  March  1608[9]. 

Was  with  the  Lord  of  Howth  at  Slane  when  the  Lord  of 
Howth  and  the  Lady  Moore  came  to  Mellifont  together,  and 
the  Lord  of  Howth  sent  him  from  Slane  towards  the  borders 
of  Meath.  Upon  the  way  met  with  a  gentleman's  boy  (which 
gentleman  he  refuses  to  name)  carrying  letters  to  the  Lord 
of  Howth,  which  letters  he  took  from  the  boy,  and  taking 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  163 


1609, 


the  boy  -with  him,  went  with  the  letters  to  Mellifont  with 
a  purpose  to  deliver  them  to  the  Lord  of  Howth.  Alighted 
from  his  horse,  which  he  delivered  to  the  boy  and  went  into  a 
ditch  on  the  west  side  of  the  garden  there,  with  a  purpose  to 
untruss  a  point,  and  being  on  the  outside  of  the  ditch  he 
heard  the  Lord  of  Howth  and  Sir  Garrett  Moore  talking  upon 
the  walk  where  the  willows  grew  ;  whereupon  he  descended 
into  the  bottom  of  the  ditch  and  hid  himself,  and  they  staying- 
over  against  the  place  where  he  then  was,  he,  this  examinate, 
heard  Sir  Garrett  Moore  say,  that  if  God  had  not  prospered 
this  action  which  Tyrone  had  then  in  hand,  they  should  have 
been  all  made  slaves  and  conquered  ;  for  it  was  a  long  practice 
in  England,  and  that  if  all  would  stick  firmly  to  Tyrone  he 
would  make  them  as  free  a  state  as  the  Low  Countries  ;  for  he 
was  much  surer  of  foreign  forces  than  now  he  is,  and  of  the 
assistance  of  the  country,  since  this  punishment  for  religion 
has  drawn  the  hearts  of  all  the  people  from  the  Xing  ;  and  it 
is  an  easy  matter  to  compass  what  they  intend,  for  the  King 
is  not  valiant ;  and  for  his  own  part  he  would  hazard  all  his 
fortunes  to  take  part  with  Tyrone  in  this  action.  And  walk- 
ing a  little  further,  and  turning  back  again,  he  heard  him  say, 
"  Well !  your  Lordship  shall  hear  strange  news  within  this 
month  or  six  weeks  : "  and  so  they  walked  away  and  be  heard 
them  speak  no  more.  Whereupon  he  re-delivered  the  letters 
to  the  boy,  and  willed  him  to  bear  them  to  the  Lord  of  Howth 
and  tell  him  that  this  examinate  had  been  there,  and  hoped 
that  the  Lord  of  Howth  had  received  a  dispatch  of  his  business 
in  those  letters  ;  and  if  he  has  not,  that  the  boy  should  bring 
him  word  and  he  would  be  upon  the  borders  the  next  day  by 
eight  of  the  clock  in  the  morning.  This  examinate  further 
saith  that  he  never  told  these  speeches  to  any  man  but  to 
the  Lord  of  Howth,  which  was  shortly  after  his  return  out 
of  England,  when  he  was  delivered  out  of  the  Tower. 

Being  demanded  whether  he  heard  Sir  Garrett  Moore  say 
that  the  King  was  not  wise,  he  saith  he  doth  not  remember 
directly  any  such  word. 

Being  also  demanded  whether  he  knoweth  of  any  displea- 
sure between  Sir  Garrett  Moore  and  himself,  he  saith  he 
knoweth  none  nor  of  any  cause  of  displeasure,  unless  Sir 
Garrett  Moore  bore  him  ill  will,  suspecting  that  he  knew  of 
the  foresaid  speeches  ;  and  being  demanded  how  Sir  Garrett 
might  conceive  any  such  suspicion,  he  saith  he  knoweth  not 
how,  unless  his  own  conscience  did  move  him  thereunto. 

Being  also  demanded  why  he  did  not  go  into  the  house  and 
deliver  the  letters  himself,  having  come  out  of  his  way  and 
made  a  journey  on  purpose ;  his  answer  is,  that  he  was  so 
offended  with  the  foresaid  speeches  that  he  was  unwilling  to 
go  into  the  house. 

Being  demanded  whether  he  knows  that  Sir  Garrett  Moore 
knew  of  his  being  at  Mellifont  at  that  time,  saith  he  doth  not 
know. 

L  2 


164  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

Being  demanded  whether  he  put  the  foresaid  speeches  in 
writing,  he  saith  he  never  put  the  same  in  writing  himself, 
but  about  a  month  after  that  he  first  told  the  same  to  the  Lord 
of  Howth  ;  being  with  the  Lord  of  Howtli  in  his  study  at 
Howth,  he  repeated  the  said  speeches  again  to  the  Lord  of 
Howth  ;  and  whether  the  Lord  of  Howth  then  put  the  said 
speeches  in  writing  or  no  he  knoweth  not ;  but  withal  he 
saith  that,  since  he  came  now  last  to  London,  he  put  the  said 
speeches  in  writing  and  delivered  the  same  to  the  Lord  of 
Howth. 

Being  lastly  demanded  whether  he  heard  Sir  Garrett  Moore 
use  any  of  the  like  speeches  as  aforesaid  at  any  other  time  or 
in  any  other  place,  he  saith  he  never  heard  Sir  Garrett 
Moore  use  the  said  speeches  or  the  like  at  any  other  time  or 
place. — Christ.  Eustace. 

Subscribed :  James  Ley,  Anth.  Sentleger,  Jo.  Davys. 

P.  1.  Endd. :  "  The  examination  of  Christopher  Eustace, 
gent.,  touching  the  accusation  of  Sir  Garrett  Moore." 

S.P.,  Ireland,    299.        INTERROGATORIES   ministered  to  Sir   Garrett  Moore, 
vol.  226,  !50.  Knight,    on    His    Majesty's    behalf,    concerning   such 

matters  wherewith  he  standeth  charged. 

1.  Imprimis  :  at  what  time  or  times  was  the  Lord  of  Howth 
with  you  at  your  house  of  Mellifont  within  the  compass  of 
two  years  last  past  ? 

2.  Item,  whether  did  the  said  Lord  of  Howth  walk  witli 
you  in  your  garden  at  Mellifont  at  one  of  those  times  when 
he  was  with  you  there  ;  if  he  did,  how  long  did  you  walk 
together  there,  and  in  what  part  of  the  garden  ? 

3.  Item,  whether  at  that  time  when  you  walked  with 
the  Lord  of  Howth  there,  did  you  see  one  Christopher  Eustace, 
gent.,  in  or  near  the  said  garden  ? 

4.  Item,  whether  at  that  time  when  you  walked  with  the  , 
Lord  of  Howth  there,  did  you  see  one  Francis  Annesley,  gent.  ; 
in  what  part  of  the  garden  were  you  when  you  saw  the  said 
Annesley,  and  did  the  said  Annesley  see  you  or  speak  with 
you  at  that  time  ? 

6.  Item,  what  speeches  did  there  pass  between  you  and  the 
Lord  of  Bowth  when  you  walked  together  in  the  garden,  or 
to  "what  effect  were  your  speeches  at  that  time  ? 

6.  Item,  whether  did  you  at  that  time  or  at  any  other 
time  say  unto  the  Lord  of  Howth,  that  the  Earl  of  Tyrone 
was  past  all  his  greatest  cares,  for  that  Tjrrconnell  did  assure 
him  that  Delvyn  and  the  said  Lord  of  Howth  were  joined 
with  him  in  the  action  which  the  Earl  then  intended ;  and 
that  he  feared  none  to  take  arms  against  him,  now  that  he 
was  sure  of  these  two,  or  other  words  to  the  like  effect  ? 

7.  Item,  did  you  at  that  time  or  at  any  other  time  say 
unto  the  Lord  of  Howth  that  Tyrone  was  the  only  hope  this 
poor  kingdom  (meaning  the  kingdom  of  Ireland)  had  for  their 
relief,  upon  their  then  extremities,  and  that  tiie  time  fell  out 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  165 


1609. 


well  for  tliosG  plots  which  Tyrone  had  then  in  hand  in  regard 
of  the  discontentment  of  the  whole  kingdom  for  the  persecu- 
tion of  religion,  which  was  a  comfort  to  him,  the  said  Tyrone, 
together  with  the  assurance  he  had  of  foreign  forces  to  assist 
him,  whereof  he  had  notice  from  one  Father  Florence,  or 
words  to  the  like  effect  ? 

8.  Item,  whether  did  you  at  that  time  or  any  other  time  say 
unto  the  Lord  of  Howth  that  you  for  your  own  part  had  de- 
served well  of  the  Crown  of  England,  yet  did  you  never 
receive  any  favour  or  countenance  from  thence  but  what  you 
bought  with  your  purse  ;  and  that  you  knew  it  was  only  for 
the  love  your  father,  your  brother,  and  yourself  did  bear  unto 
Tyrone ;  and  that  you,  for  your  own  part,  would  run  the  same 
fortune  Tyrone  did,  for  that  you  were  sure  he  would  carry 
that  kingdom  with  the  plot  he  had  then  in  hand,  and  make 
that  State  very  happy,  or  words  to  the  like  effect  ? 

9.  Item,  did  you  at  that  time  or  at  any  other  time  say  unto 
the  said  Lord  of  Howth  that,  if  good  should  not  prosper 
the  action  which  Tyrone  had  then  in  hand,  we  should  be  all 
made  slaves  and  conquered,  for  so  it  had  been  long  practised 
in  England,  and  that,  if  all  would  stick  by  firmly  to  Tyrone, 
he  would  make  the  State  of  Ireland  as  free  as  the  States  of 
the  Low  Countries  ;  for  that  Tyrone  was  never  so  assured  of 
foreign  forces  as  then  he  was  and  the  assistance  of  the  country, 
since  the  punishment  for  religion  had  drawn  the  hearts  of  all 
the  people  from  the  King,  or  words  to  the  like  effect  ? 

10.  Item,  did  you  not  at  that  time  say  unto  the  Lord  of 
Howth  that  as  for  the  King  himself  (meaning  his  most  excel- 
lent Majesty),  he  is  neither  wise  nor  valiant,  and  that  it  was 
an  easy  matter  to  compass  that  which  they  (meaning  Tyrone 
and  his  complices)  did  intend  to  do,  and  that  you,  for  your 
part,  would  hazai'd  all  your  fortunes  in  the  world  to  take  part 
with  them  in  that  action,  or  words  to  the  like  effect  ? 

11.  Item,  whether  did  you  at  that  time  or  at  any  other 
time  say  unto  the  Lord  of  Howth  that  within  one  month  his 
Lordship  should  hear  strange  news,  or  words  to  the  like 
effect  ? 

12.  Item,  whether  did  you  know  of  the  traitor  Tyrone's 
purpose  to  depart  the  realm  of  Ireland  into  some  foreign 
country  before  his  last  going  away,  and  of  any  of  his  con- 
spiracies or  treasons  against  His  Majesty?  Or  whether  did 
you  advise  or  persuade  any  others  to  join  with  him  in  his 
said  traitorous  practices  ? 

13.  Item,  whether  did  you  at  any  time  during  the  actual 
rebellion  of  Tyrone  against  Her  late  Majesty  send  private  in- 
telligence unto  the  said  traitor  Tyrone  that  he  should  beware 
of  Captain  Tirrell,  who  seemed  to  be  his  friend,  for  he  was  to 
betray  him,  being  then  ready  to  receive  his  pardon  from  the 
late  Lord  Lieutenant,  or  some  message  to  the  like  effect  ? 

14.  Item,  whether  were  you  acquainted  with  the  going 
away  of  Coconaght   M'Guyre  out  of  Ireland  into  the  Low 


166  IRELAND— JAMES  1. 

1609. 

Countries  ;  whether  did  you  relieve  him  in  your  house  know- 
ing he  was  to  withdraw  himself  out  of  that  realm  in  that 
manner;  and  whether  did  you  or  your  wife  lend  him  any  sum 
or  sums  of  money  to  bear  his  charges  in  that  journey  ? 

15.  Item,  whether  do  you  know  one  Shane  M'Brieu  O'Rely, 
and  whether  do  you  know  that  the  said  Shane  did  adhere 
to  O'Dogherty  in  his  late  rebellion  as  a  follower  of  Brien-ne- 
Savagh  M'Mahon  ;  and  whether  did  you,  knowing  the  same, 
relieve  the  said  Shane  with  meat,  drink,  or  money,  or  by  any 
other  means  ? 

Pp.  3. 

March  13.   300.        The  Answers  of  Sir  Garrett  Moore,  Knight,  to  the 
S.P.,  Ireland,  INTERROGATORIES  hereunto  annexed,  made  by  him  and 

vol.  226, 51.  taken  by  us  at  the  house  of  Sir  Anthony  Ashley, 

Knight,  in  Holborn. 

1.  To  the  first  interrogatory  he  saith, 'that  in  August  1607, 
not  long  before  the  departure  of  the  traitor  Tyrone,  the  Lord 
of  Howth  came  to  this  examinant's  house  at  Mellifont  in  the 
company  of  this  examinant's  wife,  his  coming  being  altogether 
unexpected  by  this  examinant ;  since  which  time  the  Lord  of 
Howth  was  not  at  his  house,  nor  in  a  long  time  before. 

2.  To  the  second  he  saith,  that  at  the  time  aforesaid  this 
examinant,  expecting  his  wife's  coming  home  to  supper,  met 
his  wife  and  the  Lord  of  Howth  at  a  back  gate  of  the  house, 
at  what  time  his  supper  was  ready  to  be  set  on  the  table,  and 
as  they  were  passing  into  the  house,  the  garden  door  standing 
open,  the  Lord  of  Howth,  this  examinant,  and  one  Sir  Roger 
Jones  went  into  tlie  garden  and  walked  in  the  broad  alley 
next  to  the  great  stone  house,  being  a  stone's  cast  from  the 
walk  where  the  willows  do  grow  ;  and  after  one  turn  or  two 
in  the  said  broad  alley,  this  examinant  did  send  Sir  Roger 
Jones  to  see  if  meat  were  upon  the  table,  who  in  a  very  short 
time  returned  and  brought  word  that  meat  was  upon  the  table  ; 
whereupon  the  Lord  of  Howth  and  this  examinant  went 
immediately  in  to  supper. 

3.  To  the  third  interrogatory  he  saith,  that  he  did  not  see 
the  said  Christopher  Eustace  in  or  near  the  said  garden  at  the 
time  mentioned  in  the  said  interrogatory. 

4.  To  the  fourth  he  saith,  that  he  did  see  the  said  Francis 
Annesley  at  that  time  looking  out  at  a  window  into  the 
garden,  the  Lord  of  Howth  and  this  examinant  then  walking 
in  the  great  alley  before  spoken  of,  and  that  the  said  Francis 
Annesley  did  then  both  see  this  examinant  and  speak  unto 
him. 

,5.  To  the  fifth  he  saith,  that  the  speech  which  passed 
between  him  and  the  Lord  Howth  at  that  time  was  to 
this  efiect,  as  he  doth  now  remember,  viz.,  the  Lord  of 
Howth  said  unto  him  that  there  was  no  man  more  hardly 
dealt  withal  than  himself,  for  he  had,  or  was  to  have,  in 
the  Low  Countries  1,000  men  in  his  regiment,  and  20s.  a 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  167 


1609. 


day,  and  being  drawn  over  by  the  Lords  of  the  Council, 
and  promised  a  great  reward,  and  after  his  coming  over,  His 
Majesty  being  pleased  to  give  him  a  pension  of  10s.  a  day,  that 
the  Lord  Treasurer  crossed  him  therein  ;  and  while  the  Lord 
of  Howth  was  telling  a  tale  to  this  effect,  Sir  Roger  Jones 
entered  into  the  garden,  and  finding  them  in  the  alley  where 
he  left  them  told  them  meat  was  upon  the  table,  and  so  im- 
mediately they  went  to  supper ;  and  as  they  were  sitting 
down,  this  examinant  asked  the  Lord  of  Howth  where  his 
company  was,  who  answered  that  Mad  Eustace  (meaning  the 
said  Christopher  Eustace)  had  carried  them  all  to  Drogheda, 
where  the  wife  of  the  said  Eustace  then  lay. 

6.  To  the  sixth,  he  utterly  denieth  that  at  that  time  or  at 
any  other  time  he  spake  the  words  mentioned  in  this  inter- 
rogatory, or  any  other  words  to  the  like  effect  or  intent. 

7.  To  the  seventh,  he  utterly  denieth  that  at  that  time  or 
at  any  other  time  he  ever  spake  the  words  mentioned  in  this 
interrogatory,  or  any  words  to  the  like  sense  or  effect. 

8.  To  the  eighth,  he  utterly  denieth  the  speaking  of  the 
words  contained  therein,  or  any  other  words  to  that  effect. 

9.  To  the  ninth,  he  saith  that  he  never  spake  the  words 
mentioned  in  that  interrogatory,  or  like  words  tending  to  that 
purpose. 

10.  To  the  tenth,  with  great  and  Vehement  protestations, 
he  utterly  denieth  the  speaking  of  the  words  contained  therein, 
or  any  words  tending  to  that  effect. 

11.  To  the  eleventh,  he  utterly  denieth  the  words  therein 
contained,  as  to  the  former  interrogatory  he  hath  answered. 

12.  To  the  twelfth  he  saith,  that  he  did  not  know  of  the 
purpose  of  the  traitor  Tyrone  to  depart  the  realm  of  Ireland 
into  any  foreign  country  before  his  late  going  away,  nor  of 
any  of  his  conspiracies  or  treasons  against  His  Majesty,  and 
that  he  never  advised  or  persuaded  any  other  to  join  with  the 
said  traitor  Tyrone  in  any  of  his  said  traitorous  practices. 

And  here,  the  said  Sir  Garrett  Moore  having  made  the  said 
several  answers  to  the  former  interrogatories,  did  earnestly 
desire  us  that  we  would  also  set  down  some  of  his  reasons  or 
arguments  to  clear  himself  from  aU  suspicion  or  likelihood  that 
ever  he  spake  those  treasonable  words,  or  intended  any  of  the 
treacherous  actions  wherewith  he  standeth  charged,  which  we 
thought  fit  to  leave  to  his  own  declaration  to  your  Lordships, 
either  by  word  or  writing.-*^ 

13.  To  the  thirteenth  interrogatory,  he  utterly  denieth  that 
ever  he  gave  any  such  intelligence  to  the  traitor  Tyrone,  and 
withal  denieth  the  whole  contents  of  the  said  interrogatory. 

14.  To  the  fourteenth,  he  saith  he  was  never  acquainted 
with  the  going  away  of  Coconaght  M'Guyre  into  t.he  Low 
Countries,  neither  did  he  relieve  him  in  his  house,  knowing 


See  this  Declaration  in  p.  169. 


368  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

any  such  purpose  of  his ;  hut  he  saith,  that  this  examinant 
being  at  DubHn  in  the  term  time,  Coconaght  M'Guyre  came 
to  this  examinaat's  liouse  in  his  absence  about  six  weeks  before 
his  departure,  and  remained  there  one  or  two  nights  (as  he 
heard),  and  from  tlrence  came  to  Dublin  ;  but  he  utterly  denieth 
tliat  he,  this  examinant,  lent  him  any  money,  and  saith  also 
that  he  verily  believeth  that  his  wife  did  not  lend  him  any 
money  then  or  at  any  other  time. 

15.  To  the  fifteenth,  he  saith  that  he  knoweth  Shane  M'Brien 
O'Eely  mentioned  in  the  interrogatory,  but  knoweth  not  that 
he  did  adhere  to  O'Dogherty  or  Brien  M'Savagh  M'Mahon  ; 
and  he  iitterly  denieth  that  he  did  ever  relieve  him  with  meat, 
drink,  or  money  ;  but  saith  that  on  his  coming  to  this  exami- 
nant to  complain  of  Captain  Tirrell,  who  had  formerly  charged 
him  with  felony,  he  bound  the  said  Shane  to  appear  at  the 
next  general  sessions  of  the  Cavan  to  answer  the  said  felony. 
— Garrett  Moore. 

Subscribed :  James  Ley,  Anth.  Sentleger,  Jo.  Davys. 

Pp.  4.  Endd :  "  The  examination  of  Sir  Garrett  Moore, 
Knight,  upon  interrogatories  taken  13  March  1608[9]." 

March  14.    301.         Pensioners  of  Ireland  and  others  now  in  England. 

^(^'226^^2''  Pensioners:    Sir  John  Jepson,   per   ann.  1001.  Irish;    Sir 

'     '  Ralph  Gonnestable,  per  ann.  lOOJ.  Irish  ;   Sir  Richard  Percy, 

per  ann.  1001.  Irish  ;  Sir  Rich.  Trevor,  per  ann.  501.  Irish  ;  Rob. 
Bowen,  Provost  Marshall  of  Leinster,  per  ann.  1021.  Irish ; 
Ric.  Owen,  per  ann,  731.  Irish ;  Lisagh  O'Connor,  per  ann. 
7ol.  Irish  ;  Eusebius  Andrewes,  besides  his  place  of  clerk  of 
tlie  Crown  in  the  King's  Bench,  per  ann.  9U.  5s.  sterling — 
this  was  bought  of  Sir  Ant.  Standon  for  150^.,  and  given  to 
him  to  attend  the  Deputy ;  Lawrence  Masterson,  731.  Irish  ; 
Rob.  Moore,  201.  Irish.  Councillors  of  State :  Sir  Hen.  Doc- 
wrajr,  Sir  Oliv.  St.  John,  Sir  Ja.  FuUerton,  Sir  Ant.  St.  Leger, 
Sir  John  Davys,  Attorney-General,  Lord  of  Howth,  Sir  Garrett 
Moore,  Sir  Geo.  Beverley,  comptroller  of  the  victuals. 
P.  1.     Endd. 

March  15.    302.        The  King  to  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Lord  Chancellor. 
Pbilad.  P.,  jjjg  Majesty  had  formerly  granted  by  letters   patent   to 

^°  ■   '  ^'       ■  James  Hamilton,  Esq.,  sundry  manors,  lands,  and  tenements, 

whereof  he  has  assigned  parts  to  tlie  Lord  Deputy  and  to  other 
subjects,  English,  Scottish,  and  Irish  ;  the  title  to  which  has 
been  attempted  to  be  impeaclied  by  certain  suggestions  of 
Sir  William  Smith,  Kniglit.  His  Majesty  therefore  autho- 
rises them,  in  order  to  strengthen  the  said  servant's  title,  to 
make  a  new  grant  or  grants  to  him  of  the  same  manors,  lands, 
and  tenements,  to  be  holden  at  the  same  rents  and  on  the 
same  conditions,  and  to  maintain  him  in  peaceful  possession 
according  to  the  law. — Westminster,  15  March,  in  the  sixth 
year  of  the  reign. 

P.  1.     Oria.     Add.     Endd.    Enrol. 


IRELAND— JAMES  T.  169 


1609. 

March  16.    303.        Sir  Garrett  Moore  to  Salisbury. 

^vol'226^53'  Apologizing   for  his  failure  in  answering   directly  at  his 

examination  before  the  Council  to  Lord  Howth's  false  and 
slanderous  accusations,  he  bespeaks  indulgent  consideration 
for  the  written  answer  which  he  sends  herewith.  Refers  to 
all  who  are  in  authority  in  Ireland,  and  to  all  who  know  him, 
for  a  testimony  of  his  loyal  services  and  those  of  his  family  ; 
and  appeals  to  His  Majesty  and  to  Salisbury  for  comfort  and 
relief.— 16  March  1609. 

Pp.  2.     Add.     Endd.     Encloses, 

S.P.,  Ireland,    304.         The  Ansiuer  of  Sir  Garrett  Moore,  Kniglit,  to  the  Lord 

■vol.  226,  53  I.  ^y  Jfoyj^J^'g  aCCUSCUionS. 

Urges  the  improhahility  of  his  plotting  with  Lord  Howth, 
seeing  that  there  hcod  been  a  quarrel  hetiveen  them,  and  de- 
clares on  the  salvation  of  his  soul  that  it  is  utterly  false. 

Secondly,  the  story  of  Eustace's  overhearing  their  conver- 
sation from  his  hiding  place  in  the  ditch  is  manifestly  false, 
the  ditch  being  at  least  a  stone's  cast  from  the  place  where 
they  are  said  to  have  been  walking. 

Thirdly,  it  is  improbable  that  Sir  Garrett  would  confer 
with  the  Lord  of  Hoivth  in  such  business ;  he  {Sir  Garrett) 
having  discovered  to  the  Lord  Deputy  the  several  vieetings  of 
Tyrconnell,  Delvyn,  and  the  said  Lord  of  Howth,  and  where 
they  plotted  their  treasons,  and  of  a  friar's  passing  in  ones- 
sage  between  them,  as  also  Tyrone's  discontent  which  he 
conceived  of  some  speeches  uttered  unto  him  by  the  Lord  of 
Howth,  how  that  His  Majesty  stood  not  well  affected  towards 
him,  ivhich  the  said  Tyrone,  being  in  drink,  revealed  unto  the 
said  Sir  Garrett  at  his  house,  and  so  he  unto  the  Lord  Deputy. 
And  this  in  all  likelihood  was  the  principal  cause  of  his, 
the  said  Tyrone's,  so  sudden  departure. 

Likewise  the  Lord  of  Howth  in  his  discovery  agaAnst  the 
Lord  of  Delvyn  (in  which  practice  and  plot  he  %vas  also  par- 
taker hiinself),  luould  have  then  undoubtedly  uttered  it  (if 
ought  he  kneiu  by  the  said  Sir  Garrett),  who  then  tuas  em- 
ployed by  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Council  for  the  prosecution 
of  the  Lord  of  Delvyn. 

Further,  had  Sir  Garrett  found  himself  to  be  in  danger 
from  the  Lord  of  Hoivth,  tuho  loas  never  noted  to  be  a  counsel- 
keeper,  he  ivould  not  have  moved  him  ivith  that  bitter  message 
he  did ;  tuhich  luas  one  of  the  chief  causes  ccnd  grounds  of  his 
mcdice  to  the  said  Sir  Garrett,  for  thereupon  he  sivore  that 
within  five  days  he  loould  have  the  said  Sir  Garrett  Icdd  up, 
and  ivitliin  two  days  after  frcovied  these  false  accusations. 

Another  cause  ivhy  he  maligned  the  said  Sir  Garrett  ivas 
in  that  he  supposed  the  said  Sir  Garrett  luas  bound  for 
Mccguyre,  and,  therefore  jecdous  that  the  said  Maguire  heed 
discovered  his,  the  said  Lord  of  Howth's,  ccnd  the  Lord  of 
Delvin's  secrets  unto  him  the  said  Sir  Garrett,  ctnd  so  he 
unto  the  Lord  Deputy,  tvhereby  their  doings  might  all  be 


170  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

known ;  as  the  Lord  of  Delvin  hath  since  confessed  under  his 
hand  extant. 

Therefore,  the  said  Lord  of  Howth,  understanding  that 
the  Lord  of  Delvin  fell  from  him  in  his  wicked  practice 
against  the  said  Sir  Garrett  Moore,  he  dealt  with  one  Plun- 
kett,  of  Clonybrenin,  a  gentleman  in  the  borders  of  Meath, 
and  likewise  tuith  Captain  Terrell  {both  which  he  knew  hated 
the  said  Sir  Garrett),  that  they  would  join  with  him  in  ac- 
cusing the  said  Sir  Garrett,  which  they  (having  no  just  ground 
thereunto)  refused,  as  is  tuell  known  to  some  of  good  account 
in  Ireland. 

Now,  lastly,  he  hath  betaken  himself  to  the  most  false  testi- 
mony of  one  Eustace  (a  retainer  of  his  own),  a  man  of  a 
•most  tvicked,  licentious,  and  dissolute  life,  one  likewise  that 
voived  to  swear  anything  true  or  false  that  might  prejudice 
or  hurt  the  said  Sir  Garrett  (ivith  many  other  vehement  pro- 
testations), ivisliing  that  the  Devil  might  cut  off  his  head  (for 
so  core  his  oivn  phrases  of  speech),  if  he  would  not  sivear  the 
falsest  tale,  as  well  as  the  truest,  against  the  said  Sir  Garrett  ; 
as  by  sufficient  testir)iony  ready  to  be  shown  may  appear. 
And  had  not  the  Lord  of  Hoiuth  most  untruly  and  ma- 
liciously forged  these  accusations  against  the  said  Sir  Garrett, 
cold  of  purpose  suborned  the  said  Eustace  for  his  false  ivit- 
ness  therein,  he  would  (no  doubt)  have  brought  them  in 
question  before  the  Lord  Deputy  in  Ireland,  tvhere  he  might 
stand  cossicred  of  justice,  but  only  revioved  them  hither,  where 
(he  well  understood)  the  said  Eustace's  xvicked  life  is  not  so 
well  known,  and  that  his  testimony  in  Ireland  is  not  to  be 
believed  by  any.  The  said  Lord  of  Howth's  malice  to  the 
English  is  cdso  well  knoiun,  and  hoiu  that  publicly  he  used  the 
onost  detracting,  disgraceful,  and  malicious  speeches  he  could 
of  the  whole  nation  in  the  Lord  Lieutenant's  time  (the  said 
Lord  of  Howth  being  then  Governor  of  Monaghan),  which 
being  proved  against  him  before  the  Lord  Lieutenant,  he  rvas 
therefore  displaced  and  thrust  out  of  his  said  government 
tuith  foul  terms  of  disgrace. 

Likewise,  upon  a  very  slight  occasion,  he  hanged  a  poor 
Englishinan,  a  household  servant  of  his  oiun,  in  his  orchard  ; 
which  bei/ng  found  by  the  coroner's  inquest  to  be  murder  in 
him,  the  said  Lord  of  Howth,  he  was  sent  for  by  the  Lord 
Chancellor  and  others  of  the  Council  (in  the  absence  of  the 
Lord  Lieutenant)  to  anstver  the  'matter,  who  accordingly 
went  to  Dublin  (well  accompanied)  with  intent  (as  he  con- 
fessed himself,  and  since  made  boast  of)  to  have  murdered 
the  whole  Council  in  the  Council  Chamber,  if  they  had  offered 
then  to  have  made  stay  of  him.  This  he  bragged  of  at  Ruske, 
the  dwelling-house  of  M'Mahon,  in  the  presence  of  Sir  Law- 
rence Esmonde,  Knight,  and  Mr.  William  Colley. 

Represents  finally  the  improbability  founded  on  his  do- 
mestic relations,  his  sevices,  his  religion,  his  country,  and  the 
nature  of  his  property,  by  which  his  loyalty  must  be  assured 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


171 


S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  226,  53  A. 


1609. 

that  he  could  have  taken  fart  in  such  a  plot,  and  especially 
with  such  a  man  as  Lord  Hoiuth,  an  enemy,  and  a  puhlio 
slanderer  of  the  King. 

1  broad  sheet.    Signed.     Endd. 

305.        Sir  Garrett  Moore's  Petition. 

The  humble  petition  of  Sir  Garrett  Moore  to  the  Lords  of 
His  Majesty's  onost  honourable  Privy  Council. 

In  order  to  undo  the  evil  impression  which  may  have  been 
made  by  his  examination  before  their  Lordships,  submits  a 
written  statement  in  reply  to  the  charges  of  Lord  Howth, 
for  which  statement  he  bespeaks  their  patient  consideration. 

P.  1.     Signed.    Endd. 

March  16.    306.        Pateick  Crosbie  to  Salisbury. 

S.P.,  Ireland,  jjas  been  stayed  by  the  Lord  Deputy  to  bring  to  an  end 

the  service  of  transplanting  the  Moores. — Dublin,  16  March 

1608[9]. 

P.  ].    Signed.    Add.    Endd.    Sealed. 


vol.  226,  54. 


March  16. 

Carew  MSS., 
vol.  630,  p.  17, 


307.  The  Propositions  of  the  CJommissioners  unto  the  Bishops 
within  the  7  escheated  counties  in  Ulster  concerning 
the  plantation  of  the  Termone  and  Herenagh  lands 
there  granted  to  the  Bishops  by  the  King's  bounty, 
to  be  planted  by  them  ;  with  the  answers  of  the 
Bishops  of  Derry,  &c.,  in  the  behalf  of  the  Lo.  Primate 
of  Ardmagli,  and  the  rest  of  the  Bishops  within  the 
counties  aforesaid,  unto  the  said  propositions ;  and  the 
reply  aud  approbation  of  the  Commissioners  iinto  the 
answers  of  the  Bishops.' 
The  propositions  to  the  Bishops  are  seven  : 

1.  By  whom  they  will  people  and  plant  the  said  lands. 

2.  What  number  of  castles,  houses,  and  bawns  they  will 
erect. 

3.  What  estates  they  will  grant  to  these  undertakers. 

4.  What  power  they  require  from  the  King  to  enable  fcheni 
to  grant  estates  to  these  undertakers. 

5.  What  conditions  will  be  given  by  them  for  the  execution 
of  these  covenants. 

6.  Within  what  time  they  will  undertake  to  perform  these 
covenants. 

7.  What  rent  they  will  reserve  upon  the  land  in  succession. 

8.  What  answer  they  give  to  the  other  cautions  in  the 
printed  book  of  the  Plantation. 

Signed  by  the  Bishop  of  Derry,  fee,  Mr.  Usher,  son  to  the 
Archbishop  of  Ardmagh. 

Signed  by  Sir  Roger  Wilbraham,  Sir  Thomas  Ridgway,  Sir 
Anthony  St.  Leger,  Sir  James  Ley,  Sir  James  FuUerton,  Sir 
John  Davis. 

Pp.  3.     Copy. 


Printed  at  length  in  Calendar  of  Carew  MSS.,  pp.  38-40. 


172  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1609. 
March  18.    308.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 

vol  ^a'e'^sf '  Received  lately  the  King's  letter  in  behalf  of  Sir  Ralph 

'   ' '  Bingley,  to  accept   of  his  surrender  of  certain  lands  in   the 

county  of  Donegal,  formerly  passed  to  him'by  letters  patent, 
and  to  pass  a  new  grant  thereof  But  forasmuch  as  there  was 
omission  of  some  necessarj''  circumstance  he  has  forborne  to 
follow  it  through  with  effect,  and  has  sent  again  thither  to 
have  it  amended  in  that  respect.  Sir  Ralph  was  in  a  sort 
compelled  to  alien  these  lands  to  the  late  Earl  of  Tyrconnell 
for  a  certain  sum  of  money,  which  hitherto  has  never  been 
paid,  except  a  very  small  part,  as  is  alleged.  Now,  for  the 
sure  conveyance  of  the  said  lands  back  again  to  him  (if  His 
Majesty  be  so  pleased)  express  mention  should  be  made  hereof 
in  the  King's  letter  and  grant,  for  otherwise  it  may  hereafter 
seem  that  His  Majesty  has  been  deceived  therein.  Sir  Ralph 
has  a  statute  of  2,400^.  forfeited  unto  him  by  the  said  late 
Earl  for  non-payment  of  the  price  agreed  upon,  which,  in  con- 
sideration of  this  new  grant,  he  will  render  up  to  His  Majesty. 
He  holds  likewise  some  other  lands  from  the  King  in  that 
county,  which  he  desires  also  to  surrender  and  take  again  by 
a  new  grant,  in  all  which  he  (Chichester)  recommends  him  to 
favour.  Finds  him  to  be  a  very  honest  and  active  gentleman, 
studious  to  plant  and  settle  in  that  part  if  he  may  be  therein 
graciously  favoured  and  permitted  ;  and  in  effect  he  has 
already,  it  is  said,  drawn  thither  and  keeps  about  him  the 
number  of  40  Englishmen  who  are  well  inclined  to  venture 
their  lives  and  fortunes  there  with  him  in  respect  of  his  pro- 
mises to  pass  them  free  estates  of  the  lands,  upon  such  rents 
and  conditions  as  His  Majesty  shall  be  pleased  to  grant  the 
same  to  himself  He  has  neither  pension  nor  entertainment 
from  His  Majesty,  and  therefore  stands  in  need  of  all  lawful 
favour  possible,  which  in  his  (Chichester's)  opinion  he  will 
well  deserve.  Is  the  rather  induced  to  write  thus  much, 
because  his  Lordship  was,  he  hears,  his  principal  mean  for 
obtaining  the  King's  last  letter. — Dublin  Castle,  18  March 
1608[-9]. 

Pp.  2.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

March  20.    309.        SiR  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Privy  Council. 
Si'-'Jj''^'^"'-^'  Reports  the  death  of  Captain  Edmund  Leighe,  constable  of 

^"  ""  '     '  Omey.     He  has  continued  the  command  thereof  to  Lieutenant 

Daniel    Leighe,   and  desires  that  the  constableship   may  be 
granted  to  him  and  his  brother  John. — Dublin  Castle,  20 
March  1608  [-9]. 
P.].     Signed.    Seeded.    Add.     Endd. 

March  20.     310.        Wm.  Saxey  to  Salisbury. 

^'i!i  'J-^n'T?''  ^^^  always  desired  the  good  of  the  commonwealth. 

Has  already  advertised  of  the  state  of  that  country  and  dis- 
position of  that  people,  and  how  that  might  be  settled  in  her 
late  recovered  quiet,  and  has  pointed  out  the  means  to  sup- 
press rebellion  and  to  give  fi'ee  course  to  law  and  justice,  and 


vol.  2iG,  .07. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  173 


1609. 


maintain  His  Majesty's  forces  with  small  charge  to  His  High- 
ness, without  rebellion  or  open  hostility,  by  the  undertakers 
and  by  cess  upon  the  country,  as  has  been  before  1 6  years  last 
past. 

Has  also  observed  the  great  sterility  of  godly  ministers  and 
preachers  within  that  province,  and  the  cause  thereof,  and 
remedies  for  the  same. 

Also  of  great  numbers  of  recognizances  taken  by  him  in  the 
end  of  the  last  rebellion  (the  several  suras  amounting  to  more 
than  100,000^.),  which,  if  he  had  carried  a  mind  to  have  made 
his  own  benefit,  he  might  easily  have  gained  many  thousands 
of  pounds  by  concealment  or  secret  composition  without  check 
or  controlment,  for  the  King's  general  pardon  would  have  freed 
him  a  culpa  et  pcena,  et  sic  malum  quod  imjjune  facere  potui, 
non  feci,  wherein  it  pleased  his  Lordship  to  say  to  him  that  he 
might  therein  do  good  service  to  the  King  and  benefit  him- 
self :  the  credit  of  which  recognizances  the  recognizors  perad- 
venture  will  dare  to  calumniate  in  his  absence  before  whom 
they  were  taken,  and  the  Irish  may  justly  be  doubted  to 
stand  more  affected  to  their  kindred  and  countrymen  than 
will  be  for  the  King's  profit. 

As  these  causes  are  of  great  moment  and  deeply  concern 
that  State,  so  timely  reformation  would  work  the  advance- 
ment of  God's  religion,  the  King's  honour  and  benefit,  and  the 
public  good  in  greater  proportion  than  all  the  services  that 
have  been  done  in  that  realm  within  time  of  memory. 

Now,  whereas  for  services  in  Ireland  in  matters  of  justice 
all  others  have  been  graciously  rewarded,  some  with  lands  and 
tenements  of  great  value,  others  with  preferment  divers  ways, 
and  forasmuch  as  his  former  endeavours,  which  have  given 
sufficient  testimony  of  his  faithful  service  so  many  years  with 
so  great  danger  and  loss,  have  never  been  respected  with  any 
reward,  as  all  others  have  been,  and  he  has  not  even  been  paid 
his  due  entertainment,  though  his  Irish  employment  has  spent 
his  best  years,  which  would  have  been  most  beneficial  for  his 
preferment  in  England,  and  has  wrought  the  discontinuance  of 
the  practice  of  his  profession ;  his  humble  petition  in  regard 
of  all  his  travails,  dangers,  and  losses  is  only  this,  that  he  may 
be  employed  in  some  place  answerable  to  his  profession,  which 
is  to  be  one  of  the  King's  counsel,  attendant,  and  resident  in 
the  Marches  of  Wales,  whereby  he  may  live  and  end  the 
residue  of  his  aged  years  in  as  good  state  as  he  did  before  he 
was  publicly  employed. 

Is  assured  that  two  words  from  his  Lordship  to  His  Majesty 
will  easily  draw  his  gracious  allowance,  as  well  for  the  grant 
of  this  humble  petition  as  for  his  former  employment  in  this 
service  now  offered ;  which  he  _hopes  will  be  greatly  to  the 
advancement  of  God's  service  and  to  the  King's  honour  and 
benefit,  by  discovery  of  his  concealed. rights,  and  no  less  good 
to  the  people,  who  thereby  shall  be  better  instructed  in  God's 
religion  and  due  obedience  to  His  Majesty,  as  also  be  a  con- 
venient mean  to  work  satisfaction  of  his  entertainment  out 


I74i  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

of  that  which  shall  grow  to  His  Highness  through  his  travail 
and  industry,  and  thereby  put  an  end  to  his  daily  suits  for 
entertainment  which  he  is  forced  to  continue  until  he  be 
satisfied,  as  it  was  promised  in  the  last  Trinity  term. — 
20  March  ]608[-9]. 
Pf.  2.     Signed.    Sealed.    Add.     Endd. 


■vol.  3,  p.  168. 


March  24.     311.        Lords  of  Council  to  Chichestek. 

vri'^a^n  TfiR  ^^  consequence  of  the  increasing  rarity  of  timber,  their 

Lordships,  learning  the  abundance  of  valuable  timber  in 
Ireland,  and  the  great  waste  thereof  for  pipe-staves  and 
similar  minor  uses,  and  its  exportation  to  foreign  countries, 
direct  that  he  shall  henceforth  take  order  that  none  of  the 
timber  growing  in  the  King's  woods  may  be  employed  in  such 
commodities  or  transported  beyond  seas,  but  may  be  reserved 
for  building  and  repairing  the  King's  ships.  —  Whitehall, 
24  March  1608-9. 

Signed  :  R.  Cant.,  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  North- 
ampton, Lenox,  T.  SnlFolke,  E.  Worcester,  E.  Zouche,  E.  Wotton, 
T.  Herbert,  Jul.  Csesar,  T.  Bruce,  Thos.  Parry. 
P.  I.     Orig.     Add.    Endd. 

[Mar.  24.]     312.        Memorial  for  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Council. 
^■^•' ^i''^'™'^'  A  note  or  memorial  of  such  matters  whereof  His  Majesty's 

■  "  '     "  ■  pleasure  may  be  signified  to  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Council  of 

Ireland. 

1.  That  the  common  gaol  be  removed  oat  of  the  Castle,  and 
that  such  part  of  the  Castle  as  shall  remain  a  prison  for 
prisoners  of  state,  be  made  safe  and  strong,  and  that  they 
do  divide  it  by  a  wall  from  that  part  of  the  Castle  where  the 
Deputy  doth  lodge. 

2.  That  in  all  grants  from  His  Majesty,  as  well  upon  sur- 
renders of  the  Irish  or  otherwise,  the  great  woods  may  be 
surveyed  and  valued  in  the  particular  as  it  is  used  here,  which 
hitherto  hath  not  been  used  in  Ireland. 

3.  That  they  do  consider  and  make  report  how  the  aids  for 
making  the  Prince  Knight  may  be  levied  in  that  kingdom, 
and  that  to  that  end  they  do  view  the  ancient  records  there. 

4.  That  ecclesiastical  persons  be  restrained  from  alienation 
of  the  lands  of  their  churches  by  His  Majesty's  proclamation 
until  a  law  may  be  made  to  that  end. 

5.  That  the  noblemen  and  gentlemen  of  Ireland  may  like- 
wise be  restrained  from  sending  their  sons  beyond  the  seas 
without  special  license  of  the  Lord  Deputy. 

6.  That  no  special  liveries  be  granted  and  passed  without  a 
schedule  of  the  lands  whereof  the  party  is  to  have  his  livery. 

P.  1.    Endd. 

March  2G.    313.        The  King  to  Sm  Arthur  Chichester. 

^  Mwchle?'''  ^®^*^^"  *'°  *^^  ^°^^  Deputy  to  pass  letters  patent  of  the  office 

of  Chief  Remembrancer  of  the  Exchequer  in  Ireland  to  John 


IRELAND — JAMES  I,  175 


1609. 

Carpenter,  in  reversion,  after  Eic.  Coleman  and  John  Bingley 
in  possession,  and  Richard  Hopper  having  the  immediate 
reversion. 

March  26.    314.        Sir  Henky  Docueae's  Ceetificate. 

Carew  MSS.,  j^  j^Q^-g  ^f  g^g]^  money  as  I  have  received  for  fines  of  houses 

vol.  630,  p.  16.  J.   IT,      T, 

at  the  Derry. 

Containing  the  names  of  the  parties,  with  the  amount  of 
the  fines  levied  from  each.' 

Pp.  2.     Copy. 

March  29.     315.        The  King  to  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Chancellor. 
Philad.  P.,  j]j  consideration  of  divers  inconveniences  attendant  on  the 

^°  "   '  ''■       "  keeping  of  the  common  gaol  within  the  Castle  of  Dublin,  His 

Majesty  directs  that  they  shall  consider  of  some  other  suitable 
place  in  the  city  to  which  it  may  be  removed  ;  and  if,  notwith- 
standing, it  be  found  necessary  that  certain  prisoners  of  state 
should  still  continue  to  be  confined  within  the  precincts  of  the 
Castle,  he  directs  that  a  wall  shall  be  built,  sejDarating  such 
persons  from  the  part  reserved  for  the  lodging  of  the  Lord 
Deputy. 

His  Majesty  reprobates  most  severely  a  custom  which  he 
has  learned  with  great  surprise  to  prevail  among  the  clergy  of 
that  kingdom,  of  alienating  at  pleasure  the  temporalities  of 
their  benefices.  In  order  to  provide  a  temporary  remedy  for 
this  grievous  abuse,  until  a  Parliament  shall  be  holden  in 
Ireland,  he  directs  them  to  call  together  the  principal  clergy, 
and  to  point  out  the  impiety  of  such  a  course  and  his  grievous 
reprobation  thereof ;  and  to  notify  that,  if  any  one  hereafter 
should  be  guilty  of  such  impiety  and  contempt  of  his  authority, 
such  person  shall  be  marked  as  unworthy  of  preferment  in 
the  church,  and  punished  by  any  civil  punishment  which  the 
law  or  authority  may  inflict  on  so  notorious  a  contempt. 

Finding  that  a  great  disorder  prevails  whereby  the  sons  of 
nobleman  and  gentlemen  of  Ireland  are  passed  into  foreign 
parts  to  be  educated  in  seminaries  of  priests  and  colleges  of 
Jesuits,  and  infected  with  opinions  of  undutifulness,  he  directs 
them  to  publish  a  proclamation  forbidding,  from  a  date  to  be 
limited  in  the  proclamation,  any  nobleman  or  gentleman  to 
send  his  son  abroad  without  leave  of  the  Deputy  ;  and  in  order 
to  prevent  the  education  of  youth  in  these  seminaries  and 
colleges,  all  who  shall  receive  the  Deputy's  license  to  travel 
abroad  shall  enter  into  bonds  not  to  place  their  sons  in  such 
seminaries. 

In  all  future  grants  of  lands  in  fee  simple  or  otherwise,  the 
great  woods  thereon  are  to  be  valued  and  rated  as  in  this 
particular  is  accustomed  to  be  done. — Westminster,  29  March, 
in  the  7th  year  of  the  reign. 

P'p.  2.     Orig.     Add.    Endd. 

'  Printed  at  length  in  Calendar  of  Carew  MSS.,  p.  40. 


176  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 


1609. 
March  29.    316.        The  King  to  the  Loed  Deputy  and  Chancellor. 

vd'^'i'^'^  ^04  Expresses  his  great  satisfaction  with  the  services  of  Sir  John 

'    '    '  "    '  Davys,  Attorney-General,  in  the  matter  of  the  plantation  of 

Ulster,  and  other  affairs  of  the  customs  and  revenues,  and  has 
conferred  on  him  the  dignity  of  a  Serjeant.  In  order  to  obvi- 
ate all  scruple  lest  by  the  grant  of  this  office,  that  of  Attorney- 
General  should  be  made  void,  His  Majesty  directs  new  letters 
patent  of  the  latter  office  to  be  made  out,  as  ample  as  before : 
and  because  he  has,  in  his  services  to  the  Crown,  suffered 
much  hindrance  to  his  income,  the  King  directs  that  a  grant 
be  made  to  him  of  lands  or  other  tenements  in  fee-farm,  to 
the  vulue  of  4<0l.  per  annum. — Westminster,  29  March,  in  the 
7  th  year  of  the  reign. 

Pp.  1^.     Orig.    Add.     Endd.    Enrol. 


March  31.    317.        The   King   to   the   Lord   Deputy  and    Lord  Chan- 

Philad.  p.,  CELLOR. 

Directs  them  to  accept  a  surrender  from  Bryan  Kelly  of  all 
his  interest  in  the  lands  held  in  the  counties  of  Roscommon 
and  Galway,  in  the  province  of  Connaught,  by  his  late  father, 
Bryan  Kelly,  and  to  have  a  survey  made  of  the  five  quarters 
of  land  held  by  the  said  father,  Bryan  Kelly,  in  the  said  pro- 
vince, and  on  due  proof  of  the  title  of  Bryan  Kelly,  to  frame  a 
book  in  due  form,  passing  the  same  to  him,  with  such  reserved 
rents  as  may  seem  fit  to  the  Lord  Deputy. — Westminster,  the 
last  of  March,  in  the  7th  year  of  the  reign. 

F.  i      Orig.     Add.     Endd. 

March  .51.    318.         Sir  A.  Chichester  to  Sir  John  Davys. 

^^  '22'g' Ts"'  Wrote   lately  to   him  touching   the  intended  plantation  of 

'     '  Ulster,  and   declared  to  the  Lords  his  opinion  in   the  most 

material  points  thereof.  The  farther  they  search  into  men's 
affections  touching  the  project,  the  more  difficult  does  he  find 
the  performance  of  what  is  expected,  for  no  man  here  (but 
the  two  named  in  his  last)  once  seeks  to  him  for  any  part 
thereof,  neither  will  they  (as  they  both  say  and  write)  unless 
some  of  the  conditions  be  altered,  and  unless  they  may  make 
choice  of  their  seats.  Such  as  command  in  forts  and  smaller 
wards  desire  that  part  which  lies  next  to  them,  albeit  it  be 
not  of  the  best  and  most  fertile  land,  as  he  knows  ;  others  that 
know  the  country  and  the  natives  (who  are  subject  to  change 
and  alteration)  affect  to  seat  themselves  near  the  sea  and  upon 
portable  rivers.  Many  natives  have  answered  that  it  is  hard 
for  them  to  alter  tlieir  course  of  living  by  herds  of  cattle  and 
creating  ;  and  as  to  building  castles  or  strong  houses  and 
bawns,  it  is  for  them  impossible  :  none  of  them  (the  Neales  and 
such  principal  surnames  excepted)  affect  above  a  ballybeatoe, 
and  most  of  them  will  be  contented  with  two  or  three  bal- 
liboes  ;  and  for  the  others,  he  knows  whole  counties  will  not 
content  tlie  meanest  of  them,  albeit  now  they  have  but  their 
mantle  and  a  sword.       The  Commissioners,   therefore,  who 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  177 


1609. 


shall  come  or  be  appointed  here  to  settle  this  business,  will 
have  a  tough  piece  of  work  of  it,  and  the  strangers  that  shall 
come  for  undertakers  must  resolve  to  abide  some  storms 
before  they  come  to  a  profitable  harvest.  The  very  report  of 
displanting  the  swordmen  was  like  to  have  brought  new  work 
upon  them.  That  course  is  not  to  be  thought  upon,  unless 
the  King  will  be  at  the  charge  of  an  army  as  great  for  a  time 
as  any  in  the  last  rebellion,  with  which  they  will  sooner  ruin 
than  remove  them  ;  and  what  fire  such  insurrection  in  those 
countries  may  kindle  in  other  parts  of  this  kingdom  and 
abroad,  they  know  not.  To  be  plain,  he  must  say  (as  the 
arrantest  knave  of  the  Byrnes  answered  Sir  Henry  Sydney, 
when  he  reproved  him  for  dwelling  upon  the  Archbishop  of 
Dublin's  lands  without  paying  him  any  rent),  "  My  Lord," 
quoth  he,  "  if  I  dwelt  not  here,  none  but  thieves  and  outlaws 
would  ;"  so  he  says,  that  if  the  Irish  do  not  possess  and  inhabit 
a  great  part  of  the  lands  in  some  of  those  escheated  counties, 
none  but  wolves  and  wild  beasts  would  possess  them  for  many 
years  yet  to  come  :  for  where  civil  men  may  have  lands  for 
reasonable  rents  in  so  many  thousand  places  in  that  province, 
and  in  this  whole  kingdom,  they  will  not  plant  themselves  in 
mountains,  rocks,  and  desert  places,  though  they  might  have 
the  land  for  nothing. 

He  (Davys)  knows,  or  may  understand,  that  since  Tyrone's 
departure,  he  (Chichester)  has  raised  out  of  his  living  only, 
near  as  much  rent  to  His  Majesty  as  by  the  project  all  the 
escheated  lands  will  amount  unto,  at  which  the  people  grudge 
not ;  and  that  favour  done  them,  of  holding  by  like  tenure, 
and  paying  the  same  rents  that  the  English  or  Scottish  under- 
takers do  that  will  plant  their  lands  with  Irish  tenants,  is 
not  understood  by  them,  though  he  must  confess  it  is  exceed- 
ing great.  Acknowledges  that  the  orders  and  conditions 
laid  down  in  the  printed  book  were  well  conceived,  and 
wishes,  with  all  his  heart,  they  might  receive  perfection  accord- 
ingly ;  but,  foreseeing  the  difficulty,  and  finding  the  difference 
between  wishing  and  acting,  he  is  at  a  stand  what  to  say. 
Nevertheless,  seeing  that  the  hardest  matters  and  such  as 
sometimes  are  thought  impossible  are,  by  care,  wise  managing, 
and  industry,  brought  to  pass,  the  time  will  not  be  misspent  in 
making  an  essay  of  the  plantation,  according  to  that  form, 
some  material  points,  of  which  he  has  written  to  the  Lords, 
and  will  in  another  paper  note  to  him  (Davys),  further  con- 
sidered of  and  enlarged  ;  and  if  they  cannot  do  as  they  would, 
est  aliquid  prodire  tenus,  and  the  rest  must  be  left  to  a  second 
consideration.  Doubts  not  but  the  Commissioners  will  be 
directed  and  authorised  to  perform  conditions  agreed  on  the 
behalf  of  Conner  Roe  Maguyre,  in  Fermanagh,  Sir  Neale 
O'Donnell  and  Sir  Donnell  O'Cahane,  in  the  counties  of  Donegal 
and  Coleraine,  if  they  or  either  of  them  escape  the  gallows,  and 
with  the  sons  of  Sir  Art  O'Neale,  and  to  enlarge  the  pos- 
session of  Sir  Tyrloue  M'Henrie,  by  giving  unto  him  part  of 
'3.  M 


178  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609, 

Toaghaghie,  and  something  to  the  sons  of  Sir  Henry  Oge 
O'Neale,  his  grandchild,  yet  an  infant,  being  his  heir  by  course 
of  law,  or  otherwise  to  make  them  safe ;  for  he  foresees  that 
these  men,  without  some  reasonable  content  given  to  them, 
will  be  thorns  in  their  feet  and  pricks  in  their  sides,  donee 
desinant  esse.  The  like  consideration  should  be  had  of  the 
chiefs  of  the  O'Realys,  in  the  county  of  Cavan,  for  he  (Davys) 
knows  two  ballebeatoes  of  land  will  give  them  no  more  con- 
tent than  one  acre  for  the  portreeves,  remembered  him  in 
his  last ;  of  which  consideration  must  be  had,  for  when  Sir 
Ri.  Cooke  has  the  corn,  he  protests  he  knows  not  how  the 
Deputy  wiU  be  able  to  keep  house  in  fashion  as  he  ought, 
for  the  honour  of  the  place  and  as  it  is  expected. 

Must  now  remember  him  of  the  county  of  Monaghan,  where 
the  inhabitants  pay,  or  rather  are  to  pay,  20s.  sterling  for 
every  balliboe  or  taffe  of  land.  They  have  hitherto  neglected 
to  take  out  their  letters  patent,  being  either  unsatisfied  with 
the  portions  severally  allotted  unto  them,  or  expecting  an 
abatement  of  the  rent,  which  hitherto  they  have  paid  in  Irish 
9d.  for  I2d.,  and  unless  changed  by  the  favour  done  to  their 
neighbours  in  reserving  a  smaller  rent  upon  the  lands  to  be 
passed  to  them,  they  would  not  gi'udge  to  pay  it  in  Irish  stUl, 
and  so  take  out  their  letters  patent ;  othervsrise  he  conceives 
more  of  that  sept  will  play  the  part  of  Brian-ne-Savagh 
[M'Mahon],  their  kinsman,  who  never  submitted  himself  to 
the  course  of  justice  until  he  (Chichester)  brought  his  head  to 
stand  upon  one  of  the  gates  of  the  city. 

Has  now  weU  weeded  out  the  most  pestilent  instruments  of 
the  last  rebellion;  and  if  he  could  get  Oghie  Oge  O'Hanlon, 
Brian  M'Arte's  bastard,  and  Neale  M'Swynne,  it  mattered  not 
if  all  the  rest  were  pardoned,  saving  one  of  the  Mullens,  who 
was  a  principal  actor  in  the  murder  of  Denis,  his  kinsmnn, 
four  of  which  number  were  hanged  at  the  last  assizes  held  in 
the  county  of  Coleraine. 

Has  promised  to  make  a  lease  of  Brian-ne-Savagh's  lands  to 
Mr.  Treasurer  ;  and  on  getting  a  farther  estate  therein  he  will 
undoubtedly  build  there,  and  place  a  younger  son  or  friend 
upon  it,  which  would  be  very  available  for  the  King's  service, 
and  for  the  reformation  of  that  part  of  the  country.  Has 
heretofore  written  to  him  concerning  Monaghan,  on  which  he 
begs  him  to  bring  some  answer.  Sir  Neale  O'Donnell  per- 
petually practises  his  escape  ;  there  was  found  about  him  three 
days  since  a  rope  of  sufficient  length  and  strength  to  have 
carried  him  over  the  wall/rom  the  highest  tower  thereof.  The 
escape  of  Delvin  makes  him  have  more  eyes  over  the  prisoners 
now  here  than  the  constable's,  albeit  he  be  a  careful  man. 
That  office  does  not  concern  him  otherwise  than  in  charging 
the  constable  to  perform  his  duty,  and  yet  he  hears  he  was 
taxed  with  Delvin's  escape. 

Prays  him  to   bring  full    directions  concerning  him,  Sir 
Donnell  O'Cahane,  Caflfer  O'Donnell,  against  whom  they  may 


lEEL AND— JAMES  I. 


179 


1609. 


March  31. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
T01..226,  58a. 

[March.] 

Cotton  MSS. 

Veap.  C.  xi. 

B.M. 


proceed  of  themselves,  and  what  he  shall  do  with  the  children, 
to  wit,  of  the  Earl  of  Tyrone's,  Caffer  Oge  O'DonneU's,  Sir 
Neale  O'DonneU's  sons,  and  with  the  brother  of  Sir  Cayre 
O'Doghertie,  whom  he  lately  caused  to  be  apprehended ;  the 
eldest  of  these  is  his  (Davys's)  acquaintance,  Naughtan,  Sir 
Neale's  son.  Sir  Donnell  O'Cahane  has  likewise  a  son  who 
will  make  as  wicked  an  instrument  as  any  of  these,  if  their 
fathers  be  hanged.  Wishes  that  the  sons  were  all  (and  the 
fathers,  if  they  escape  the  gallows)  sent  to  the  plantation  in 
Virginia. 

His  (Davys's)  letters  of  the  13th  of  this  instant,  were  deli- 
vered to  him  on  the  27th  of  the  same.  By  them  and  sundry 
others  from  his  servants,  find  he  has  done  him  many  friendly 
and  kind  offices  there,  for  which  he  heartily  thanks  him,  and 
will  be  as  ready  to  requite  him  as  time  serves,  as  he  is  now  to 
acknowledge  himself  his  debtor. 

If  he  have  Enishowen  (as  by  some  letters  he  is  put  in  hope 
of  it),  prays  him  to  befriend  him  what  he  may  in  the  condi- 
tions.— Dublin  Castle,  last  of  March  1609. 

Doubts  not  he  considers  of  the  state  of  Sir  Oghie  O'Hanlon 
and  his  country,  which  cannot  be  taken  from  him  during  his 
life. 

Pp.  5.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

319.         Abstract  of  the  above. 
Pp.  2.    Endd. 


320.        Sir  Chaeles  Cornwallis  to  Lords  of  Council. 

The  late  contempt  and  calumny  of  the  Irish  has  had  no 
effect  beyond  an  order  to  cease  to  negociate,  but  the  only 
result  is  to  change  day  into  night.  They  now  visit  the 
Secretary  of  State  in  the  dark  and  avoid  being  seen  by  sun- 
light. Is  annoyed  that  so  wise  a  State  will  adventure  dis- 
tasting so  mighty  a  King  for  so  beggarly,  so  inutyle,  and 
contemptible  a  people.  The  subject  of  theii-  negociations  is 
secret.  The  Secretary  only  admits  that  they  urge  private 
affairs,  and  means  to  live  for  Tyrone  and  others  of  his  coun- 
trymen. When  pressed,  he  retaliates  about  the  harbouring  of 
the  Dutch  in  England,  and,  when  answered  that  the  cases  are 
very  different,  as  the  Dutch  repaired  to  England  in  order  to 
flee  fire  and  not  in  order  to  kindle  it;  he  "  shrinks  upp  his 
shoulers,"  and  says  that  the  King  has  obligations  to  some  of 
these  poor  Irish  for  service  and  to  the  rest  in  charity.  The 
conclusion  is,  that  they  will  not  be  withdrawn  from  the 
nourishing  that  nation,  and  to  these  reprobate  times  he  leaves 
them. 

Some  late  night  conferences  have  been  held  between  the  Earl 
of  BothweU  and  an  agent  of  Tyrone,  and  he  hears  a  whisper 
that  the  island  of  Orkney  is  a  place  much  eyed  by  that 
viperous  generation. 

M  2 


180  lEELAND — JAMES  I. 

1609. 

The  causes  of  British  subjects  in  the  Court  of  the  Couucil 
of  War  have  been  somewhat  forwarded  of  late.  Hopes  to 
clear  that  court  between  this  and  July, — Madrid,  March  IGOg.'- 

Pp.  5. 

[March.]      321.         The  Quantity  of  the  Bishops'  demesne  and  mensal  lands, 
Cf«;j  MSS.,  and   of  the  Errenagh  and  Termon  lands  within  the 

"""•  ^^^'  P-  ^^-  escheated  counties  in  Ulster.^ 

The  bishops'  demesne  or  mensal  lands.  The  Archbishop 
of  Ardmagh  3,390,  the  Bishops  of  Deny  428,  Raphoe  3,728, 
Clogher  320,  Kilmore  120  acres.  The  Errenagh  and  Termon 
lands  in  the  dioceses  of  Ardmagh  27,120,  Derry  17,619, 
Clogher  6,625,  Raphoe  6,378,  Kilmore  3,204,  Ardagh  24  acres[ 
60,970  mensal,  Herrenagh  and  Termon  68,956. 
Pp.  2.      Copy. 

March.       322.        English  Undertakees  for  the  Ulster  Plantation. 

^oliiel^l'  4  ^^^^  °^  *^'®  number  of  English  undertakers  for  the  plan- 

tation of  the  escheated  lands  in  Ulster. 

In  Armagh,  English  and  Scottish  have  allotted  28  propor- 
tions; 18    of  the   least;    6  of  the   middle;  4   of  the  great; 
whereof  the  English  are  to  have  14  ;  viz.,  9  of  the  least ;  3  of 
the  middle ;  2  of  the  great. 
The  undertakers  of  this  county  may  be,  for  example, 

1.  Sir  Maurice  Berkeley,   of  3  small  proportions  ;  viz., 

3,000  acres. 

2.  Sir  Richard  Trevor         -         -     3  small  proportions. 

3.  Arthur  Bagenall  of  the  Newry     3  small  proportions. 

4.  The  King's  Attorney  of  Ire- 

land -         -         -         -         -     2  middle  proportions. 

5.  Richard  Hadsor,  counsellor-at- 

law    -         -         -         -         -     1  middle  proportion. 

6.  The  Lord  Audelay  -         -     2  great  proportions. 

In  all  14. 
Besides  these,   there  are  6  proportions  left  for  English 
servitors  ;  viz.,  4  of  the  least,  1  of  the  middle,  1  of  the 
greatest. 
In  Tyrone,  34  proportions  are   allotted   for   English   and 
Scottish,  whereof  the  English  are  to  have  17  ;  viz.,  10  of  the 
least,  4  of  the  middle,  3  of  the  great ;  for  example, 
The  undertakers  of  this  county  may  be — 
Sir  James  Harrington         -         -     2  great  proportions. 
Sir  Thomas  Williams  -         -     1  great  proportion. 

Sir  Oliver  St.  John    -         -         -     2  middle  proportions. 
Sir  William  Smith,  of  Essex       -     2  middle  proportions. 
The  other  10  small  proportions  are  easily  supplied  out  of 
the  list  of  names  remaining  with  Mr.  Corbett. 

'  Printed  in  Sawyer's  Memorials  of  State  Affairs,  ii.  487. 
'  Printed  at  length  in  Calendar  of  Carew  MSS.,  p.  40. 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  181 


1609. 

Besides  there  remain  for  English  servitors  12  propor- 
tions ;  3  great,  2  middle,  7  small. 
Colrane  hath  only  12  proportions  for  English  and  Scottish 
undertakers,  whereof  the  English  are  to  have  only  6 ;  viz., 
1  of  the  great,  1  of  the  middle,  4  of  the  least ;  for  example, 
The  undertakers  of  these  proportions  may  be — 

The  Lord  Clifton,  for  I  hear  he  desires  it  for  the  English, 

and 
The  Duke  of  Lenox  and  Lord  Aubigny  for  the  Scottish. 
There  remain  in  this  county  but  3  proportions  for  the 
English  servitors. 
Tyrconnell  hath  40  proportions  for  Scottish   and  English  ; 
whereof  Enishowen,   which  was  O'Doghertie's  country,  con- 
taineth  14  proportions,  10  of  the  small,  3  of  the  middle,  2  of 
the  great.     The  Lord  Deputy  desireth  to  undertake  this. 
26  do  remain,  whereof  13  are  to  be  allotted  to  English. 
These  may  be  well  distributed  to  merchants,  whereof  there 
is  a  competent  number  already  in  the  list. 

1 0  proportions  remain  for  the  English  servitors. 
Fermanagh.     The  English   and  Scottish    have  no  propor- 
tions, because  Connor  Ro  M'Guyre  hath  His  Majesty's  word 
and  promise  to  hold  well  nigh  one  half  of  the  country. 

The  English  servitors  have  only  4  proportions  allotted  for 
them  ;  viz.,  3  of  the  least,  1  of  the  middle. 

Cavan.  The  EngUsh  and  Scottish  have  but  6  proportions, 
which  bordering  upon  the  Pale,  will  be  easily  undertaken. 
The  English  servitors  have  also  6  proportions. 
The  list  of  names  already  made  will  fill  up  the  number  ot 
sufficient  undertakers^  or  if  it  shall  come  short  now,  before 
the  raiddest  of  Easter  term  the  number  will  be  double,  if  his 
Lordship  appoint  commissioners  to  whom  they  shall  repair. 

Specially  if  he  remit  the  capite  tenure   and  enlarge  the 
time  for  building. 
Pp.  3.     Endd. 

[March.]     323.     Copy  of  the  above. 

S.P.,  Ireland,  P.  3.      Endd. 

vol.  226,  60. 

March  ?      324.        Instructions  to  the   Commissioners  for  the  Ulster 

S.P.,  Ireland,  PLANTATION. 

Instructions  given  unto  the  Commissioners  for  the  planta- 
tion of  the  escheated  lands  in  Ulster. 

1.  First.  You  shall  have  a  general  care  that  such  orders, 
conditions,  or  articles  as  are  lately  published  in  print  touch- 
ing the  said  plantation  be  observed  and  put  in  execution,  as 
well  on  our  behalf  as  on  the  behalf  of  the  undertakers. 

2.  You  shall  be  ready  to  begin  your  journey  into  the  pro- 
vince of  Ulster  for  the  execution  of  this  commission  within 
10  days  after  the  end  of  Trinity  term  next. 

3.  You  shall  divide  and  sever  the  ecclesiastical  lands  from 
the  temporal,  and  withal  set  and  limit  by  metes  and  bounds 


TOl.  226,  60  a. 


182  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

so  many  proportions  thereof  in  every  county,  of  1,000  acres, 
1,500  acres,  and  2,000  acres  apiece,  as  are  contained  in  the 
project  for  plantation  transmitted  unto  you  together  with 
this  commission. 

4.  You  shall  consider  and  inquire  how  many  English  acres 
every  ballibo,  quarter,  tath,  poll,  or  the  like  Irish  precinct  of 
land  doth  contain,  and  thereupon  you  shall  set  forth  the 
several  proportions  by  making  an  estimate  of  the  number  of 
acres  ;  yet  in  making  the  said  proportions  you  shall  have  a 
care  not  to  break  the  said  Irish  precincts  of  land,  except  in 
case  of  necessity,  where  the  said  precincts  being  laid  together 
will  not  make  up  the  proportions  in  any  reasonable  equality. 

5.  You  shall  consider  whether  one  or  more  proportions  be 
fit  to  make  a  parish,  and  according  to  your  discretions  limit 
and  bound  out  the  several  parishes,  wherein  you  shall  keep 
the  ancient  limits  of  the  old  parishes,  as  far  forth  as  it 
may  stand  with  the  plantation  ;  which  being  done,  you  shall 
assign  unto  every  incumbent  of  the  said  parishes  60  acres  of 
glebe  for  every  1,000  acres  contained  within  his  parish,  and 
you  shall  take  care  that  a  proviso  be  inserted  in  every  grant 
of  the  said  glebes  to  restrain  the  alienation  thereof,  but  in 
such  form  as  you  shall  prescribe. 

6.  If,  upon  setting  forth  and  limiting  of  the  proportions, 
there  shall  be  found  any  parcels  of  land  not  surveyed  or  not 
allotted  in  the  project,  you  shall,  according  to  your  discretions, 
divide  the  same  into  proportions  or  add  the  same  to  some  pro- 
portion and  lay  the  same  within  some  parish,  and  thereupon 
dispose  the  same  to  undertakers  according  to  the  articles. 

7.  You  shall  allot  and  set  out  by  means  and  bounds  unto 
every  undertaker  so  much  bog  and  wood,  over  and  above  his 
number  of  acres,  as  the  place  where  the  proportion  shall  lie 
may  conveniently  afford,  having  respect  to  the  neighbour 
undertakers. 

The  Lords  to  be  moved  8.  You  shall  take  care  that  the  lands  allotted  to  the  cor- 
Der^^lnd^si*^ George  po^^^te  towns  may  be  laid  as  near  the  said  towns  as  conve- 
Pa-wlett's  lands  adjoin-  niently  they  may  be,  and  planted  as  the  lands  of  the  other 
ing.  undertakers  ;  and  you  shall  forthwith  limit  the  circuit  of  the 

said  towns,  and  cause  the  same  to  be  incorporated  by  our 

several  charters,  and  to  be  endowed  with  reasonable  liberties  ; 

and  you  shall  use  your  best  endeavours  to  inhabit  the  said 

towns  with  tradesmen  and  artificers. 

9.  You  shall  set  out  and  distinguish  by  means  and  bounds 
such  parcels  of  land  as  are  allotted  to  the  coUege  of  Dublin 
and  the  freeholders  in  the  several  counties,  to  the  end  the 
same  may  be  accordingly  passed  by  our  several  grants. 

10.  If  any  of  the  Term  on  lands  or  other  lands  out  of  which 
the  bishops  had  any  rent  or  pension,  shall  appear  to  be  omitted 
in  the  survey  of  ecclesiastical  lands,  you  shall  take  a  new 
inquiry  or  survey  thereof,  and  divide  the  same  into  proportions 
according  to  the  project. 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  183 


1609. 


11.  You  shall  take  special  care  that  the  portions  of  the 
natives  shall  be  not  laid  together,  but  shall  be  scattered  and 
laid  asunder  upon  the  making  up  of  the  lots. 

12.  If,  upon  distribution  of  the  lots,  any  of  the  undertakers 
shall  consent  and  agree  to  change  their  lots,  in  respect  of 
neighbourhood,  with  their  friends  or  allies,  you  shall  consider 
of  the  conveniency  thereof,  and  if  you  shall  find  the  same  to 
be  fit,  you  shall  give  way  thereunto,  and  cause  the  several 
grants  to  be  made  accordingly. 

13.  You  shall  examine  the  titles  of  such  as  claim  any  estates 
under  any  of  the  persons  attainted,  and  thereupon  allot  unto 
them  such  proportions  as  you  in  conscience  and  discretion 
shall  think  meet,  and  withal  provide  that  they  make  such 
plantation  and  pay  such  rents  as  other  undertakers  rateably. 

14.  You  shall  consider  what  portions  are  fit  to  be  allotted 
to  the  mother  of  the  late  Earl  of  Tyrconnell,  the  mother  of 
M'Guyre,  Katheiine  Butler,  the  late  widow  of  Mullmora 
O'Eely,  the  widow  of  Sir  John  O'Relie,  and  such  others  as 
claim  jointures  out  of  the  proportions  which  are  to  be  allotted 
to  the  natives,  and  shall  assign  the  same  unto  them  during 
their  lives,  the  reversion  to  the  said  natives,  they  observing 
the  articles  of  plantation  as  other  undertakers. 

15.  You  shall  make  choice  of  the  best  and  best-afiected 
natives  to  be  freeholders  in  every  county,  and  shall  allot  unto 
them  greater  or  lesser  proportions  according  to  their  several 
qualities  and  deserts. 

16.  You  shall  take  consideration  of  such  Irish  natives  as 
have  been  servitors,  and  reserve  upon  their  grants  lesser  rents 
than  are  to  be  reserved  upon  grants  made  to  other  natives, 
who  have  performed  no  special  purpose. 

17.  You  shall  take  order  that  every  undertaker  do  take  out 
his  letters  patent  within  four  months  after  his  portion  allotted 
and  set  forth  unto  him  ;  and  shall,  within  four  months  after 
that,  transport  such  English  or  Scottish  tenants  as  are  to  be 
planted  upon  their  several  portions ;  which  if  they  neglect  to 
do,  they  are  to  lose  the  benefit  of  their  lots,  and  you  shall 
grant  their  portions  to  others  who  wiU  perform  the  articles 
of  the  plantation. 

18.  You  shall  take  order  with  undertakers  of  such  pro- 
portions wherein  the  highways  and  common  passages  shall 
lie,  that  they  build  their  castles,  houses,  or  bawns,  and  erect 
villages  as  near  the  said  highways  as  conveniently  they  may, 
for  the  ease  and  safety  of  passengers. 

19.  You  shall  take  order  that  the  castles  or  stone  houses  to 
be  built  and  erected  by  the  several  undertakers  do  contain  one 
pile  of  ]  8  foot  square  at  least  within  the  walls,  and  two  storeys 
high  at  least,  with  a  battlement  on  the  top. 

20.  You  shall  appoint  some  discreet  and  skilful  persons  to 
assign  convenient  timber  to  every  undertaker  for  his  buUdiag, 
out  of  our  great  woods  growing  upon  the  lands  escheated. 

21.  You  shall  allot  the  several  fishings  found  in  His  Ma- 
jesty's possession  by  the  inquisition  of  survey  unto  the  pro- 


184  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

J  609. 

portions  next  adjoining  to  the  loughes  or  rivers  wherein  the 
said  fishings  are  ; — the  one  moiety  to  the  proportion  lying  on 
the  one  side  of  the  river  or  lough,  and  the  other  moiety  to 
the  proportion  lying  on  the  other  side  ;  unless  the  fishing  shall 
be  found  to  belong  by  ancient  prescription  unto  the  land 
lying  on  the  one  side  only,  upon  which  allotment  you  shall 
reserve  such  rent  unto  us  as  in  your  discretions  you  shall  think 
meet. 

22.  Lastty,  if  any  matter  or  thing  shall  arise  unto  you 
which  may  be  of  importance  for  the  plantation,  albeit  there 
be  no  mention  thereof  in  these  instructions,  we  give  you  full 
power  to  proceed  therein,  according  to  your  discretions,  for 
the  accomplishment  of  this  service. 

Signed :  Anth.  Sentleger,  James  Ley,  Henry  Docwra,  01. 
St.  John,  Ja.  Fullerton,  Jo.  Davys. 

PjJ.  5.     Endd. 

April  1.       325.        Deputy  and  Council  to  the  Privy  Council. 

^pol'  226^^61'  ^^  ^'^^^  enclosed  letter  from  the  Archbishop  of  Tuam  to  the 

Deputy,  their  Lordships  may  perceive  his  honest  and  good 
desire  to  discharge  himself  (now  in  his  declining  years)  of 
the  great  burden  of  his  place,  wherein,  as  they  must  commend 
him,  so  can  they  not  but  very  well  allow  of  his  care  in  recom- 
mending Doctor  Daniell  to  succeed  him,  whom  they  know, 
both  for  his  learning,  sincere  conversation,  and  earnest  desire 
to  further  the  good  of  this  church,  as  well  by  his  continual 
preaching  as  his  great  labour  and  pains  in  translating  the 
New  Testament  and  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer  (which  is 
now  at  the  press  in  good  forwardness)  into  the  Irish  tongue, 
to  be  very  fit  for  that  place.  Having  long  desired  an  occasion 
to  give  him  entrance  int(j  such  a  place  in  this  church,  wherein, 
both  by  his  language  and  other  good  parts,  they  are  persuaded 
he  can  do  as  much  good  among  tliis  people  as  any  man  in  this 
kingdom,  they  recommend  him  to  their  Lordships,  as  one  of 
whom  they  hold  themselves  bound  to  take  care,  even  if  the 
Bishop  had  said  nothing  of  him.  And  forasmuch  as  the 
bishopric  is  very  remote  in  the  furthest  part  of  Connaught, 
and  but  of  mean  value,  they  suggest  that  he  may  with  it  hold 
in  commendam  the  treasurership  of  St.  Patrick's,  Dublin,  a 
mean  prebend,  whereupon  only  he  now  liveth  ;  otherwise  he 
may,  upon  occasion  of  any  of  his  troubles  in  the  province,  be 
in  worse  case  than  now  he  is. — Dublin,  1  April  1 609. 

Signed :  Arth.  Chichester,  Tho.  Dublin,  Cane,  Thomond, 
H.  Danvers,  Th.  Ridgeway,  R.  Wingfelde,  H.  Power,  Rich. 
Moryson,  Ad.  Loftus. 

Pp.  2.     Add.    Endd.    Encloses, 

S.P.,  Ireland,    326.        Nehemiah  Donellan,  ArchbisJiop  of  Tuam,  to  the  Lord 

^'''•^2«'"'-  Deputy. 

Finding  the  weak  state  of  his  body,  and  his  impotency  to 
discharge  his  place  of  Archbishop  of  Tuam,  begs  his  Lordship 
to  prefer  his  petition  to  His  Majesty  for  resignation  of  his 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


185 


1609. 


April  1. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  226,  62. 

April  3. 

Philad.  P., 
vol.  3,  p.  308. 


April  5. 

Philad.  P., 
Tol.  3,  p.  310. 


April  6. 

Philad.  P., 
vol.  3,  p.  369. 


place,  being  unable  to  perform  the  least  part  of  the  duty  that 
belongs  to  it.  But  as  the  ancient  bishops  in  the  primitive 
church  ever  made  choice  of  their  successors  to  the  good  liking 
of  the  church  and  people  of  their  diocese,  so  he  prays  that  a 
ivorthy  successor  of  his  choice,  and  the  choice  of  the  people  of 
this  province  in  general,  may  be  preferred.  The  person  that 
he  means,  and  thai  the  tuhole  country  (if  their  several  voices 
tvere  required  in  particular)  would  point  out,  is  Mr.  Doctor 
Daniell,  a  man  of  great  luisdom,  learning,  and  experience  in 
these  parts,  having  lived  many  years  amongst  them,  and  such 
a  one  as  is  both  generally  feared  and  loved,  and  every  way 
unspotted,  even  amongst  the  greatest  enemies  of  the  church. 
Most  humbly  beseeches  his  Lordship,  therefore,  to  recovi- 
mencl  hivi  to  His  Majesty.  And  in  case  His  Majesty  will 
be  pleased  to  accept  his  re.signation  for  the  preferment  of  so 
worthy  a  person,  he  will  utterly  resign  in  the  best  form  that 
laiu  can  afford. — Tuam,  16  FebrxMry  1608[9]. 
P.  1.     Signed.     Add.     Endd. 

327.  Copies  of  the  above  letter  and  enclosure. 
Pp.  2.     Add.     Endd. 

328.  The  King  to  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Chancellor. 

In  consideration  of  the  services  of  the  late  Edward  Corbet, 
Ensign  of  the  foot  company  serving  under  Sir  George  Paulet  at 
the  Derry,  directs  a  grant 'of  a  pension  of  8d  English,  to  his 
widow,  Margaret  Corbet,  for  her  life,  payable  from  the  Feast 
of  the  Annunciation  of  the  Blessed  Virgin  Mary  last  past. — 
Westminster,  3  April,  in  the  7th  year  of  the  reign. 

P.  \.     Orig.     Add.     Endd.     Enrol. 

329.  The  King  to  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Chancellor. 

At  the  suit  of  Robert  Bower,  of  Adamstown,  in  the  Queen's 
County,  Provost-marshal  of  Leinster  and  of  the  county  of 
Meath,  His  Majesty  accepts  the  surrender  of  the  said  Robert 
Bowen,  and  of  Henry  Brereton,  and  Alexander  Barrington, 
jointly  or  severally  at  their  pleasure,  of  the  castle,  town,  and 
lands  of  Adamstown,  of  Ballyntubered,  and  of  Rossbranagh, 
also  of  the  town  lands  and  village  of  Loghteoge,  in  said 
county,  in  the  tenure  of  Henry  Brereton,  and  of  the  castle 
town  and  lands  of  Cullinagh  in  said  county,  in  the  tenure  of 
Alexander  Barrington,  and  of  the  town  and  lands  of  Castle 
Karrow,  in  Mayo,  and  of  all  their  other  possessions  in  the 
realm  of  Ireland  ;  and  directs  that  the  same  be  re-granted  to 
them  in  fee-farm. — Westminster,  5  April,  in  the  7th  year  of 
the  reign. 

Pf.  2.     Orig.     Add.     Endd.     Enrol. 

330.  Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
In    sending    back     Mr.    Serjeant    Davys,    His    Majesty's 

Attorney-General,  they  abstain  fi-om  dwelling  on  his  services 


186 


lEELAND — JAMES  I. 


1609. 


because  the  King  has  done  this  in  his  particular  letter.  They 
will  only  say  that,  in  relating  the  affairs  of  the  Plantation,  he 
has  carried  himself  so  as  to  merit  their  commendation  both 
of  his  own  services  and  of  those  of  the  Council. — Whitehall 
6  April  1609.  ' 

Signed:  R.  Cant.,  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  T. 
Suffolke,  E.  Worcester,  E.  Wotton,  L.  Stanhope,  E.  Bruce, 
Jul.  Caesar,  Thos.  Parry. 


P.  4.    Sealed.    Add.    Endd. 


April  6. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.226,  63. 


April  6. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
voL  226,  64. 

April  7. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  226,  65. 


331.        Earl  of  Thomond  to  Salisbury. 

Recommends  his  countryman,  Mr.  Doctor  Daniel,  for  pre- 
ferment to  the  Archbishopric  of  Tuam.  His  labours  in  trans- 
lating the  New  Testament  and  Book  of  Common  Prayers  into 
the  Irish  tongue,  for  the  general  good  of  tbis  kingdom,  de- 
serve both  commendation  and  reward ;  his  continual  preach- 
ing also,  both  in  Enghsh  and  Irish,  has  won  him  love  and 
credit.  Would  to  God  there  were  many  of  his  sort,  so  able 
and  willing  to  do  good  in  this  church.  Then  doubts  not  the 
church  would  flourish.  The  State  has  had  sufficient  trial  of 
his  ability  in  church  government,  having  employed  him  in 
many  services  ; — especially  of  late  by  joiner  of  him  with,  the 
Lord  Chancellor  in  Commission  for  visiting  the  disordered 
dioceses  of  Cashel,  Imly,  Waterford,  and  Lismore,  and  by 
sending  him  afterwards  as  sole  Commissioner  to  settle  reforma- 
tion there.  Could  heartily  wish  for  his  own  part  that  his 
employment  might  fall  out  near  Thomond,  in  order  that  the 
Bishop  might  receive  assistance  from  him  and  he  comfort  from 
the  Bishop.  But,  seeing  that  both  the  State  and  province  of 
Connaught  in  general  (wherein  he  has  heretofore  taken  great 
pains,  especially  in  Gal  way  by  the  appointment  of  the  State), 
earnestly  wish  his  return,  cannot  but,  in  his  love  to  him  and 
his  good  wishes  to  those  parts,  most  earnestly  recommend  him 
to  his  Lordship  ;  hoping  that  in  time  he  may  be  translated  to 
a  better  place,  if  his  desert  deceive  not  their  expectation. — 
6  April  1609. 

P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

332.  Duplicate  of  No.  331. 
P.  1.    Add.    Endd. 

333.  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Privy  Council. 

The  Earl  of  Thomond  came  hither  lately,  and  has  brought 
with  him,  of  the  pirates,  only  Jennings  and  Roope ; — the  first 
in  condition  of  a  prisoner,  the  other  upon  protection,  and  with 
assurance  given  to  procure  his  pardon  if  by  any  good  means 
he  can.  He  has  left  Trevor,  Drake,  and  Jacobson,  the  master, 
behind  him  with  the  charge  of  the  ship,  and  upon  like  condi- 
tions and  assurance  with  Roope,  together  also  with  some  four 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  187 


1609. 


or  five  others,  prisoners,  that  are  but  common  persons.  The 
rest  of  the  company  were  delivered  over  to  the  Vice-Admiral, 
to  be  transported  into  England  accoi'ding  to  the  promise  made 
to  them.  Sends  herewith  the  examinations  of  Jennings  and 
Roope,  as  they  have  been  taken  by  the  Lord  Chancellor  and 
others  of  this  Council. 

Is  given  to  understand  that  Jennings,  after  his  coming  to 
the  river  Shannon,  and  his  oflPer  of  his  ship  and  goods  to  His 
Majesty's  disposing,  as  he  has  formerly  certified,  did  not  intend 
to  go  any  more  to  sea,  but  being  penitent  for  his  former 
courses,  as  it  seems,  resolved  (as  the  year  before  he  had  offered 
to  the  Lord  President  of  Munster)  to  submit  himself  freely  to 
the  King's  gracious  mercy,  if  he  could  not  prevail  upon  other 
conditions  ;  and  thereupon  having  had  some  conference  with 
the  Earl,  brought  soon  after  to  shore  some  necessaries  for  him- 
self, without  the  privity  of  any  of  the  company,  except  some 
of  those  he  has  named,  whom  he  knew  to  be  inclined  as  him- 
self was.  After  his  apprehension  (which  was  otherwise  than 
he  made  account  of)  the  Earl  dealt  with  Roope,  who  was 
likewise  apprehended  at  the  same  time,  and  the  others  for- 
merly mentioned,  to  persuade  the  rest  of  the  company  to  stay 
and  deliver  up  the  ship,  which  at  length  was  efiected  by  their 
mediation ;  howsoever,  upon  the  first  bruit  of  the  arrest  of 
Jennings,  they  made  preparation  to  go  to  sea  and  to  depart 
the  coast.  This  is  affirmed  to  be  effected  with  the  great  grief 
and  repining  of  Jennings,  because  they  had  outstripped  him 
in  the  merit  of  that  service  which  himself  had  begun  and 
intended  to  accompKsh. 

Before  he  saw  and  spake  with  Jennings,  confesses  he  wished 
him  and  aU  his  consorts  hanged  for  the  wrong  which  he  and 
others  of  his  sort  do  to  this  nation  and  government  specially ; 
but  now  his  free  submission  or  offer  to  submit  himself  confi- 
dently to  His  Majesty's  mercy,  his  contrition,  his  respective 
usage  of  His  Majesty's  natural  subjects  in  preserving  their 
goods  and  restoring  what  he  found  of  theirs  at  any  time  in 
strange  bottoms,  (whereof  the  Lord  President  of  Munster  has 
given  and  can  give  good  testimony,)  and  his  abilities  to  do  the 
King  some  good  and  faithful  service  hereafter,  together  with 
some  other  reasonable  considerations,  do  in  his  opinion  deserve 
some  commiseration  and  favour  towards  him.  But  he  will  no 
further  intercede  for  him  than  as  his  Lordship  may  otherwise 
think  it  fitting  in  honour  or  wisdom. 

Is  given  to  understand  that  the  Vice-Admiral  has  taken 
inventory  of  all  that  was  found  aboard  the  ship  at  his  coming, 
and  has  unladen  and  laid  them  up  at  Limbricque  [Limerick]. 
It  is  not  to  be  doubted  but  the  small  ends  (which  were  the 
best  commodities)  were  carried  away  in  the  shipmen's  great 
breeches  ;  but  Jennings  is  left  here  as  it  were  in  his  lio-ht 
doublet  and  hose,  without  any  means  but  what  the  Earl 
allows  him  for  his  needful  maintenance  out  of  the  goods  he 
had. 


188  IRELAND—JAMES  I. 

1609. 

The  Earl  delivered  to  him,  in  the  presence  of  the  Council 
and  of  Jennings  himself,  only  certain  parcels  of  diamonds, 
which  are  all  close  sealed  up  in  a  small  hag,  and,  for  ought 
he  can  judge  by  the  parcels  opened,  of  small  value.  What  they 
are  and  as  they  are,  so  they  shall  remain  until  he  receives  their 
Lordships'  further  directions  ;  which  he  craves  the  rather  since 
the  charge  of  the  ship,  her  keepers,  and  others  will  eat  up  all, 
or  the  greatest  part,  of  the  goods  in  short  time.  The  ship 
will  likewise  undoubtedly  decay,  if  she  be  not  cared  for  very 
shortly',  for  she  was  sore  beaten  and  bruised  by  a  French  man- 
of-war  before  she  last  came  hither. 

Has  directed  the  Earl  of  Thomond  to  send  the  few  prisoners 
he  has,  if  they  be  worthy  the  sending,  together  with  their 
examinations,  to  Bristol  or  Barnestaple,  according  to  their 
Lordships'  former  directions.  Retains  Jennings  here  until 
the  proprietors  or  any  other  to  whom  they  may  appertain, 
shall  come  to  lay  claim  justly  to  the  goods,  to  the  end  he  may 
yield  a  true  account  thereof,  if  possibly  he  can. 

Understands  that  Bushope  and  some  other  pirates  are  now 
about  these  coasts.  If  he  or  any  other  should  offer  to  submit 
themselves  upon  such  terms  and  conditions  as  they  can  bring 
them  to,  desires  to  be  instructed  how  far  he  may  deal  with 
them. 

Has  no  other  occurrence  of  importance  to  certify  out  of  these 
parts  more  than  that  of  late  he  has  gotten  the  head  of  Brian- 
ne-Savagh  M'Mahouna,  a  notable  rebel  for  many  years  past. 
He  was  brother  to  that  M'Mahoune  who  was  executed  at 
Monaghan  (in  the  government  of  Sir  "William  Fitzwilliams), 
by  whose  attainder  the  lands  of  that  county  for  the  most  part 
accrued  to  the  Crown.  Here  is  also  fresh  report  of  the  assured 
hope  which  Tyrone  has  of  returning  with  force,  and  it  is  a 
matter  exceedingly  wished  by  many  that  may  soon  have  just 
cause  to  repent  it. 

Finds  himself  exceedingly  bound  to  their  Lordships  for  the 
honourable  good  opinion  and  favours  continued  towards  him. 
—Dublin,  7  April  1609, 

Roope,  Trevor,  Drake,  and  Jacobesonne  expect  the  King's 
gracious  pardon,  according  to  the  hopes  given  them  by  the 
Earl  of  Thomond.  Desires  their  pleasure  therein,  that  he  may 
rid  himself  of  them.  But  to  be  given  them  here  (as  it  is  said) 
will  not  avail  them.  If  it  would,  they  shall  not  have  it  without 
His  Majesty's  or  their  Lordships'  directions. 

Pp.  3.     Signed.     Add.     Endd. 

April  7.     334.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
S.P.,  Ireland,  ^phe  enclosed  from  the  Lord  Chancellor  and  himself  have 

vol.  226,  66.  j^.^  j^^g  ^y  j^-^  £^j,  ^^^^  Qf  pessage  and  a  trusty  person  by 

whom  to  convey  them  to  his  Lordship  ;  the  declaration  of  the 
party  contains  matter  which  greatly  troubled  him  when  he 
first  heard  it  from  the  Chancellor,  and  he  well  perceives  by  him 
that  he  was  and  is  perplexed  in  the  same  kind.     Finds  by 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  189 


1609. 


the  party  that  he  discovered  what  he  had  heard  accidentally, 
and  the  Lord  Chancellor  wishes  with  all  his  heart  he  had 
never  imparted  it  to  him.  When  he  understood  thereof,  he 
thought  it  the  safest  course  for  him  to  proceed  to  an  ex- 
amination ^of  the  party,  and  to  transmit  the  same  to  His 
Lordship,  as  he  has  done  ;  and  what  he  shall  further  direct 
shall  be  faithfully  performed.  Sir  Thomas  Phillips,  who  is 
the  bearer  of  these,  has  occasion  to  repair  thither  concerning 
his  private.  He  prays  him  to  offer  his  excuses  for  making 
some  hasty  ad^'ertisements  to  his  Lordship  upon  the  revolt  of 
O'Doghertie^  which  in  that  point  of  Sir  Neale  O'Donnell's 
proclaiming  himself  O'Donnell,  fell  not  out,  as  he  was  in- 
formed, not  for  want  of  good  will  in  Neale  (as  is  now 
apparent),  but  by  his  being  prevented.  That  error  will  make 
him  more  wary  in  his  intelligence  henceforth. 

Sir  Thomas  is  not  unknown  to  his  Lordship,  and  he 
(Chichester)  has  so  good  experience  of  him  that  he  may  boldly 
recommend  him.  He  and  a  few  others  who  have  spent  much 
of  their  time  in  the  service  of  Ulster,  and  are  now  seated 
there,  some  with  companies,  others  in  wards,  would  gladly 
undertake  part  of  the  escheated  lands  if  they  might  have  it 
assigned  near  the  garrisons  and  forts  they  hold,  which  for  the 
most  part  is  the  worst  land,  and  lies  in  the  most  dangerous 
places. 

Thinks  this  course  would  avail  His  Majesty  as  well  in  his 
service  as  them  in  their  profits  ;  for,  if  they  have  their  portions 
assigned  to  them  of  the  lands  next  adjoining  to  that  which  is 
or  shall  be  laid  to  the  forts,  they  may  attend  the  building 
a-nd  settlement  of  their  own,  and  likewise  the  charge  com- 
mitted unto  them  by  His  Majesty  ;  whereas  in  taking  it  by  lot 
(which  may  fall  out  a  dozen  or  20  miles  off)  by  caring  for 
the  one,  they  may  chance  to  omit  the  other.  Thinks  this  con- 
sideration has  stayed  them  all  from  seeking  of  him  for  any 
portion  at  all ;  albeit  it  wa^  never  meant  by  him  that  these 
men  should  be  put  to  lots  for  their  portions,  but  strangers,  to 
whom  all  places  were  alike,  the  division  being  equally  made. 

The  Earl  of  Thomond  and  the  Lord  President  of  Munster 
are  now  with  him,  whose  business  (the  one  touching  Jennings, 
the  pirate,  and  the  other  for  the  affairs  of  that  province)  takes 
up  so  much  of  his  time  that  he  prays  his  Lordship  to  await 
until  the  next  passage  his  return  of  answer  to  the  proposition 
for  transportation  of  raw  hides  and  other  particulars. 

The  arrival  of  a  portion  of  treasure  was  the  more  welcome 
in  that  it  came  at  that  time  unlooked  for  and  in  specie,  as  it 
was  delivered,  which  has  been  a  great  comfort  and  relief  to 
all  in  general. 

Recounts,    in    conclusion,  the    death    of   Brian-ne-Savagh 
M'Mahoune,  who  had  been  a  rebel  these  two  years. — Dublin 
7  April  1609. 

Pp.  2.    Signed.    Add..     Endd. 


190  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1609. 
April  8.      335.        Lords  op  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
^^*09  ^^m  ^^^  corporation  of  Waterford  have  petitioned  to  have  the 

'  '  town  and  lands  of  BallycrokiU,  being  their  inheritance  by 

grant  from  the  late  Queen,  brought  within  their  liberties  and 
made  part  of  the  county  of  the  city  ;  and  also  complain  of  an 
unjust  charge  for  the  lodging  of  100  soldiers  of  Sir  Richard 
Morison.  The  King  grants  the  former;  for  the  latter,  they  (the 
Lords)  direct  Chichester  to  examine  the  complaint,  and  to  take 
order  to  reform  the  matter. — Court  at  Whitehall,  8  April 
1609. 

Signed :  R.  Cant.,  T.  EUesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  Tho. 
Suffolk,  E.  Worcester,  E.  Wotton,  L.  Stanhope,  Jul.  Caesar, 
E.  Bruce. 
Pp.  2.     Copy.      Endd. 

April  9.      336.        Lords  op  the  Council  to  Chichester. 

PhUad.  p.,  Qf  divers  statutes  enacted  in  that  kingdom  some  have  been 

'  '  printed  and  published,  and  others  remain  unpublished  among 

the  Chancery  roUs  of  Parliament.  Hence  has  arisen  much 
confusion  and  prejudice  to  His  Majesty,  as  weU  as  dissatisfac- 
tion to  the  subject,  as  has  appeared  in  the  late  matter  of  the 
customs,  as  well  as  in  other  affairs.  It  is  therefore  His  Majesty's 
pleasure,  in  order  that  all  men  may  have  knowledge  of  the 
statutes,  and  that  the  agents  of  the  corporate  towns  may  receive 
satisfaction,  that  his  Lordship  should  appoint  some  of  the 
judges  and  learned  counsel  to  review  the  Acts  of  Parliament, 
and,  having  perfected  as  well  the  printed  as  the  unprinted 
ones,  to  have  them  aU  collected  into  one  body,  and  printed  and 
published  in  such  good  order  and  method  as  to  his  Lordship 
and  the  judges  small  seem  fit. — Whitehall,  9  April  1609. 

Signed :  R.  Cant.,  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton,  Noting- 
ham,  T.  Suffolke,  E.  Worcester,  L.  Stanhope,  E.  Bruce,  Jul. 
Csesar,  Thos.  Parry. 
P.  1.     Sealed.    Add.    Endd. 

April  11.     337.        The  King  to  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Chaj^cellor. 

Phiiad.  P.,  Signified  formerly  to  them  his  pleasure  as  to  the  remission 

Tol.  i,p.  312.  ^^  certain  arrears  of  rent  due  by  Mr.  Arthur  Denny  for  his 

lands  in  Munster.  He  (Denny)  has  since  made  suit  for  an 
abatement  of  the  rents  ;  and,  having  referred  the  petition  to 
learned  counsel.  His  Majesty  is  pleased  to  direct  that  the  rent 
be  reduced  to  the  rate  paid  by  undertakers  in  the  county  of 
Cork,  as  his  Lordship  and  the  Commissioners  of  defective 
titles  may  see  fit. — Westminster,  1 1  April,  in  the  seventh  year 
of  the  reign. 
F.  \.     Orig.    Add.    Endd. 

April  13.     338.       The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Phiiad.  p.,  The  case  of  the  Baron  of  Howth  is  well  known  to  his  Lord- 

vol.  1,  p.  314.  ^^.^^  ^^  ^^j^  when  he  was  subject  to  some  impeachment  in 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  191 


1609. 

point  of  loyalty,  as  since  he  has  given  proofs  of  fidelity  in  the 
performance  of  his  duty.  His  faithful  discharge  of  this  duty 
having  drawn  on  him  the  disfavour  of  some  persons,  the  King 
commends  him  to  the  protection  and  favour  of  his  Lordship, 
he  having  conformed  himself  to  His  Majesty's  pleasure,  and 
departing  in  a  clear  conceit  of  his  loyalty.  Recommends  him 
to  be  employed  in  any  fitting  service  which  may  fall  out. 

As  to  Sir  Garrett  Moore,  his  case  is,  in  part,  of  a  nature 
which  can  only  be  known  to  God  and  to  himself;  but  His 
Majesty,  unwilling  to  be  captious  in  taking  advantage  against 
his  subjects,  especially  those  whose  religion  he  has  no  cause  to 
doubt,  has  preferred,  in  defect  of  legal  evidence,  to  dismiss 
him  with  favour,  rather  than  to  enter  into  any  curious  exa- 
mination. As  to  his  controversy  with  the  Lord  Howth,  His 
Majesty  desires  him  (the  Lord  Deputy)  to  inform  him  that 
if  he  should  find  him  to  retain  towards  Lord  Howth  any 
dregs  of  displeasure,  he  will  hold  him  unworthy  the  favour  he 
has  shown  him.  The  Lord  Deputy  and  Council  and  His 
Majesty's  judges  are  to  do  him  right  in  all  causes  of  justice 
which  shall  concern  him.  A  conceit  has  arisen  that  in  his 
disclosures  regarding  the  conspiracy,  the  Lord  Howth  com- 
promised the  safety  of  Lord  Delvin.  Declares  in  verba  regis 
that  this  is  untrue,  and  that  Lord  Howth  was  more  careful  of 
Delvin's  safety  than  of  his  own.  Charges  the  latter,  there- 
fore, to  dismiss  all  unkindly  memories  of  the  afiair,  and  directs 
Chichester  to  assure  him,  that,  if  the  King  should  find  his  car- 
riage towards  Lord  Howth  otherwise,  it  will  be  highly  dis- 
pleasing to  him. — Westminster,  13  April,  ia  the  7th  year  of 
the  reign. 

Pp.  2.     Orig.    Sealed.    Add.    Endd. 

April  13.     339.        The  King  to  Sie  Arthur  Chichester. 
Philad.  P.,  T]jg  Lord  Dudley  having  worthily  spent  many  years  in  the 

^°  ■  '^-      ■  service  of  that  realm,  both  in  the  late  Queen's  time  and  his 

own,  it  is  the  King's  pleasure  that  he  be  called  for  the  place 
of  a  councillor  of  that  realm,  and  take  the  oaths  accustomed. 
— Westminster,  13  April,  in  the  7th  year  of  the  reign. 
P.  ^.     Orig.     Sealed.    Add.    Endd. 

April  14.     340.        Ralph  Biechensha  to  Salisbury. 
^'^'aafi'^fiT^'  ^^^  returned  from  a  journey  of  460  miles,  and  has  delivered 

'     ■  his  certificate  of  musters  to  the  Lord  Deputy.     Complains  of 

the  inordinate  desire  that  some  commanders  have  for  their 
private  profit.    Requests  his  allowance  may  be  paid  in  sterling 
money. — Dublin,  14  April  1609. 
P.  1.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

April  14.     341.        SiR  Arthur  Chichester  to  [Salisbury]. 
S.P.,  Ireland,  His  former  letters  having  been  at  sea,  and  returned,  have 

^^  ■      '     ■  so  long  attended  a  passage,  that  these  will  come  at  the  same 

time  with  them.     Sends  herewith  his  conceit  of  the  suit  pre- 


192  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

1609. 

ferred  for  transportation  of  raw  hides,  in  which  he  has  had  the 
advice  of  some  of  the  Council,  and  so  leaves  it  to  his  farther 
consideration.  On  the  13th  of  this  instant,  the  mayor  of 
Chester  advertised  him  that  he  had  lighted  upon  sundry  popish 
books,  printed  and  manuscript,  with  papers  and  other  relics 
which  were  intended  to  be  brought  over  into  this  kingdom  by 
one  Hamlyn,  who  was  lately  there  an  agent  for  this  city.  Sent 
for  Hamlyn,  and  un(ierstands  by  him  that  the  fardle  in  which 
the  books,  &c.  were  found,  was  to  be  delivered  to  a  younger 
son  of  Sir  Christopher  Plunkett's,  from  an  elder  brother  of 
his,  a  student  in  the  Inns  of  Court  there. 

This  younger  son  of  Sir  Christopher's  was  brought  up  in 
the  college  at  Dowaye,  and  coming  thence  to  London,  about 
six  months  since,  met  with  one  Neugent,  a  Jesuit,  who 
prayed  him  to  convey  that  fardle  after  him  into  Ireland ; 
which  (as  he  says)  after  protestations  of  the  party  that  there 
was  only  in  it  certain  books  of  history,  philosophy,  and  otiier 
sciences,  he  undertook  to  send  after  him,  and  the  rather 
because  Neugent  promised  him  some  of  them  at  his  coming 
into  this  kingdom  ;  but  the  young  gentleman  coming  from 
London  sooner  than  he  intended,  at  the  priests'  departure 
from  him  (for  so  he  terms  him),  left  the  fardle  with  his  bro- 
ther, who  dealt  with  Hamlyn  to  bring  it  hither.  At  Chester 
it  fell  into  the  mayor's  hands.  Has  taken  security  for  the 
appearance  of  young  Plunkett  and  Hamlyn,  of  which  he 
thought  fit  to  give  his  Lordship  notice. 

There  are  many  priests,  seminaries,  and  Jesuits  lately  come 
into  this  kingdom,  who  have  bad  sundry  conventicles  and 
meetings.  The  last  and  greatest  that  he  hears  of  was  upon 
the  borders  of  the  country  of  Tipperary ;  which  country  is  the 
principal  receptacle  and  safeguard  of  those  poisoners  of  the 
subjects'  hearts,  but  altogether,  he  thinks,  without  the  privity 
of  the  Earl  of  Ormond.  There  came  to  this  assembly  (as  he 
is  credibly  informed)  above  7,000  persons  of  all  sorts.  Yester- 
day morning  was  the  first  notice  he  had  thereof,  and  this  day 
they  are  all  dismissed.  Has  sent  for  a  gentleman  that  was 
there,  from  whom  he  conceives  he  shall  be  informed  in  the 
particulars  and  of  the  cause  of  their  meeting,  which  is  said  to 
be  for  pardons  lately  come  from  Rome  for  all  oifences  and 
sins  committed  for  the  16  years  last  past.  These  conventicles 
and  meetings  have  been  noted  to  be  the  forerunners  of  re- 
bellion, and  he  prays  God  this  prove  otherwise.  Sure  he  is 
they  ground  their  hopes  on  Tyrone,  and  his  return  was  never 
more  expected. 

Renders  his  special  thanks  for  the  favour  he  has  done  him 
concerning  O'Dogherty's  country.  All  that  he  is  rests  at  his 
Lordship's  commandment,  and  shall,  whilst  he  lives ;  and  all  is 
too  little  to  deserve  what  he  has  received  from  him,  not  only 
in  services  done  for  him,  but  likewise  in  protecting  him  from 
the  malice  of  such  as  seek  to  do  him  harm,  upon  unjust  and 
ill-grounded  pretences. 


lEELAND— JAMES  T.  193 


1609. 

This  rumour  of  Tyrone's  return  has  somewhat  cooled  men's 
affections  to  the  Ulster  plantation.  Yet  their  noble  Treasurer 
(who  will  adventure  at  the  hardest  times  when  it  shall  give 
furtherance  to  His  Majesty's  designs),  now  offers  to  undertake 
a  double  portion  or  more,  if  it  stand  with  the  rules  of  the 
project;  and  this  example  he  doubts  not  others  will  follow, 
when  the  commission  is  once  on  foot ;  but  there  is  such  store 
of  waste  land  in  Connaught  and  other  parts  to  be  had  for  a 
little  money,  that  they  look  not  into  Ulster,  as  otherwise 
they  would. — Dublin  Castle,  15  April  1609. 

Fp.  3.    Signed. 

April  1 5.     342.        Sir  Robert  Jacob  (Solicitor-General)  to  Salisbury. 

^'^1  'gof^^ro'  Although  it  may  seem  a  boldness  and  presumption  in  him 

■   '  '     ■  to  write  to  a   personage  of  so  great  honour  and  authority, 

being  but  a  mere  stranger  and  not  known  to  his  Lordship 
except  by  the  recommendation  of  some  of  his  friends,  yet  in 
regard  that  the  principal  direction  and  ordering  of  the  affairs 
of  this  kingdom  of  Ireland  (wherein  he  serves  His  Majesty  as 
his  Solicitor),  is  committed  to  his  Lordship's  care,  and  as  lie 
came  to  this  place  by  his  favour  at  the  suit  of  their  worthy 
Lord  Deputy,  he  has  thought  it  his  duty  to  present  to  him 
such  occurrents  as  happened  in  his  last  circuit  into  Ulstei-, 
and  to  recommend  to  his  consideration  a  view  and  model 
of  the  present  condition  of  those  northern  parts,  having  a 
purpose  hereafter  to  give  him  an  account  from  time  to  time 
of  the  charges  of  the  same,  as  they  shall  happen  to  suffer  any 
alteration  or  revolution. 

On  the  27th  February  last,  was  sent  justice  of  assize  into 
the  province  of  Ulster ;  and  the  first  place  where  they  sate 
was  at  the  Newry,  in  the  county  of  Down,  Avhere  they  found 
.  the  country  as  quiet  as  the  English  Pale,  saving  only  it  was 
reported  that  there  were  six  or  seven  woodkerne  out,  which 
lay  about  the  pass  of  the  Moyery,  which  is  in  the  midway 
betwixt  Dondalke  and  the  Newrye.  All  that  country  is  (as 
the  rest  of  the  north  is)  false  in  their  hearts,  though  they 
make  a  fair  outward  show  of  obedience  ;  but  so  long  as  their 
leader.  Sir  Arthur  Macginesse,  is  kept  under,  they  dare  not 
attempt  anything.  Sir  Arthur  Macginesse  was  very  busy 
this  last  term  about  the  dividing  of  his  country  and  seeking  to 
get  more  land  to  himself; — as  if  he  meant  notliing  but  peace, 
and  to  set  up  his  rest  upon  that  portion  which  was  left  to 
him,  which  although  at  first  he  seemed  to  mislike,  yet  at 
last  he  was  very  well  contented  therewith.  And  yet  the 
dividing  of  so  large  a  territory  into  several  men's  hands, 
whereof  he  himself  had  been  heretofore  the  sole  proprietoi-, 
will  so  weaken  him  and  raise  up  so  many  opponents  against 
him,  that  he  will  never  be  able  to  make  any  strong  party  if 
the  freeholders'  patents  shall  once  be  made,  and  the  country 
continue  quiet  but  two  or  three  years.  This  work  of  dividing 
that  country  was  principally  imposed  upon  himself  (Jacob) 
3.  N 


& 


194  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

by  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Council.  The  division  was  made 
this  last  term,  and  the  freeholders  had  several  particulars  of 
such  lands  as  were  assigned  unto  them  ;  and  this  next  term 
Sir  Arthur  Macginesse  is  to  surrender  up  his  letters  patent, 
and  then  he  and  the  freeholders  are  to  take  new  gi'ants  from 
His  Majesty. 

From  the  Newry  went  on  in  their  circuit  through  Killul- 
tagh  into  the  county  of  Antrim,  where  they  had  no  commis- 
sion to  sit  (for  what  cause  he  knows  not)  ;  and  in  two  days' 
journey  they  found  almost  no  habitation,  but  at  those  places 
where  they  lodged.  From  thence  crossed  the  river  of  the 
Banne  and  went  into  the  county  of  Coleraine,  called  O'Cane's 
Country,  where  they  held  their  sessions  at  Lemyvaddy, 
O'Cane's  principal  house,  being  an  ill-favoured,  ruinous  castle, 
but  good  land  round  about  it.  The  people  of  that  country 
are  yet  in  peace,  although  they  had  many  inducements  to 
make  them  think  they  would  revolt  as  soon  as  opportunity 
should  be  offered.  There  are  divers  persons  that  live  upon 
the  spoil  betwixt  the  castle  of  Dongiven  and  Glanconcane ;  but 
now  Captain  Dodington  has  a  ward  of  14  men  at  Dongiven, 
whereby  it  is  possible  that  he  may  clear  those  parts  of  such 
unprofitable  members  of  the  commonwealth.  It  is  for  the 
most  part  a  champaigne  country,  and  lies  all  upon  Loughfoile ; 
and  where  the  woods  are,  the  passes  are  well  cut  and  made 
very  passable. 

Sate  likewise  at  the  Derry.  It  was  the  fairest-begun  city 
that  ever  was  made  in  so  short  a  time,  and  so  well  seated  upon 
a  goodly  river ;  but  now  all  is  wasted,  saving  only  the  rampiers 
of  the  forts  ;  and  it  is  hardly  to  be  brought  to  his  [its]  former 
goodness,  unless  some  great  man,  who  shall  be  lord  of  O'Dog- 
liertie's  country,  shall  make  his  principal  residence  there.  In 
the  meantime  it  is  a  place  of  small  strength,  and  lies  at  the 
mercy  of  any  that  will  attempt  to  seize  upon  it.  Besides, 
there  is  never  a  provost,  vice-provost,  nor  other  governor,  but 
only  the  two  sheriffs  of  the  town,  who  are  simple  men,  and 
not  of  wisdom  or  authority  to  govern  a  place  of  that 
importance. 

From  hence  they  went  into  TyrconneU,  which  is  now  called 
the  county  of  Donegal,  and  there  held  their  sessions  at  Lifford. 
This  country  is  yet  the  worst  of  all  the  north,  the  people  ever 
expecting  news  of  some  forces  to  come  from  beyond  the  seas. 
There  be  four  notable  rebels  in  that  county,  Neal  M'Swyny-doe, 
Eduiond  O'DonneU,  and  one  Edmond  O'Molarchy,  a  friar  (who 
was  the  first  plotter  and  contriver  of  O'Doghertie's  treasons), 
and  another  friar  called  Tirlagh  O'Gallaghor.  The  first  two 
are  lately  fled  from  thence,  and  lurk  closely  in  the  county  of 
Cavan  ;  the  other  two  wander  up  and  down,  like  Satan  com- 
passing the  eaiih,  seducing  the  people,  and  persuading  them  to 
run  into  rebellion,  who  are  too  apt  to  run  into  it  of  themselves. 
Anotlier  of  the  M'Swynes,  called  M'Swyny  Banaght,  was 
indicted  and  arraigned  before  them  for  entering  into  Calebegg 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  195 


1609. 


[Killybegs]  with  60  or  80  men'  in  warlike  manner,  the  same 
day  that  the  Derry  was  burnt ;  but  although  the  presumptions 
were  very  great  and  the  circumstances  many  that  his  intent 
was  treasonable,  and  that  he  meant  to  have  kept  the  town  for 
himself,  if  the  Lifford  and  other  towns  had  been  surprised  by 
Sir  Neal  Garvy  O'Donnell  and  others,  according  to  their  pro- 
ject, yet  the  jury  (who  were  of  the  best  men  of  that  county) 
would  not  find  him  guilty  of  treason,  but  acquitted  him 
thei-eof  Bound  him  over,  therefore,  with  two  sufficient 
sureties  to  the  next  assizes,  and  also  bound  the  jury  which 
acquitted  him  in  1,200?.  for  his  good  behaviour  during  his  life. 
M'Swyny  Fanaght  sate  with  them  as  a  justice  of  peace, 
though  he  came  in  an  uncivil  manner  in  his  mantle  ;  but  Sir 
Mulmury  M'Swyne  (who  is  a  younger  brother  of  the  house  of 
Doe),  was  then  at  Dublin  upon  pretence  of  some  business, 
because  he  was  afraid  to  be  called  in  question  before  them  for 
some  things  which  he  doubted  would  be  construed  for  treason. 
These  four  M'Swynes  are  the  only  men  of  account  left  in 
Tyrconnell,  and  yet  they  are  but  followers  of  the  O'Donnells  ; 
but  of  the  O'Donnells  there  is  not  one  man  left  of  any  reckon- 
ing, now  that  Sir  Neale  Garvy  is  clapped  up  in  prison. 

When  they  came  to  Dungannon  and  kept  their  assizes  there, 
they  found  that  country,  which  was  wont  to  be  the  receptacle 
of  all  traitors,  in  best  order  of  all  Ulster.  There  was  not  one 
arraigned  for  treason,  but  only  some  few  for  petty  felonies. 
All  that  country  is  in  peace,  and  exceedingly  well  governed 
by  the  discreet  and  temperate  carriage  of  Sir  Toby  Caulefield, 
upon  whom  they  rely  greatly,  and  by  whom  they  wiU  be  very 
much  directed.  There  is  never  a  great  man  of  the  O'Neales 
left,  but  Sii-  Tirlogh  M'Henry,  who  dwells  in  the  county  of 
Armagh  ;  he  is  Tyrone's  half  brother,  the  most  eminent  man 
and  the  most  potent  of  that  name,  and  the  next,  if  Tyrone 
come  not  again  ;  he  has  three  sons  who  are  swordmen,  which 
is  a  great  motive  to  the  people  to  follow  him,  and  he  has  linked 
himself  with  the  most  powerful  men  in  that  country.  This 
man  is  very  much  to  be  suspected,  for  he  has  100  men  at  his 
command,  and  gives  meat  and  drink  and  wages  (which  they 
call  bonnaght),  to  idle  and  loose  persons,  which  has  always 
been  a  course  held  amongst  the  Irish  to  make  themselves 
great ;  but  the  noble  Lord  Deputy  (who  will  not  spare  his 
purse  to  do  the  King  service)  has  set  such  a  spy  upon  him, 
that  he  shall  not  plot  or  practise  anything  against  the  State, 
but  they  shall  presently  have  advertisement  of  it. 

The  county  of  Armagh  is  somewhat  disquieted  by  reason 
that  the  rebel  Oghey  O'Hanlon  (whose  country  lies  in  that 
county)  robs,  and  burns,  and  spoils  all  the  borderers  near  about 
him.  About  two  days  before  they  held  their  sessions  there, 
he  killed  one  M'Court,  and  burnt  his  house  and  robbed  1 6 
passengers  in  the  Fughes,  near  Sir  Tirlagh  M'Heury's,  in  one 
day ;  and  yet  he  has  but  four  or  five  in  his  company. 

N  2 


196  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

Upon  complaint  thereof  made  to  them  by  the  parties  that 
were  robbed,  they  ordered  that  all  the  damages  which  they 
had  sustained  should  be  levied  upon  those  two  baronies  where 
the  robberies  were  committed,  and  it  is  likely  that  those  pay- 
ments will  be  a  means  to  drive  him  out  of  that  countrj',  or 
an  occasion  that  he  will  be  the  sooner  apprehended.  Sir  Tir- 
lagh  M'Henry  might  easily  take  him,  if  he  listed  ;  but  he  will 
not  be  persuaded  unto  it,  because  O'Hanlon  is  Tyrone's  sister's 
sou,  and  besides  he  may  make  a  strong  party  for  Sir  Tirlagh, 
if  he  have  any  purpose  to  stand  for  the  title  of  O'Neale.  There 
is  never  another  rebel  out  in  those  parts,  now  tliat  Bryan-ne- 
Savagh  M'Mahonne  is  slain,  and  Bryan  M'Arte's  bastard  son  is 
fled  into  Munster,  to  try  if  he  can  secretly  pass  beyond  the 
seas ;  so  that  all  the  rebels  in  Ulster  are  but  six  men  of 
account,  whereof  only  Oghey  Oge  O'Hanlon  is  in  action, 
hoping  thereby  to  enforce  the  State  to  give  him  his  pardon. 
Tlie  rest  but  lurk  secretly  without  doing  any  hurt,  desiring 
nothing  but  to  save  their  lives.  Nevertheless,  there  are  great 
probabilities  that  all  the  people  of  that  province  would  easily 
run  into  rebellion  if  Tyrone  should  return,  or  if  any  munition 
or  aid  should  be  sent  them  from  foreign  parts  :  for  they  are  all 
generally  diseased  with  the  rumour  of  the  new  plantation  that 
is  intended,  not  so  much  for  the  manner  of  it,  as  because  they 
are  afraid  to  be  supplanted  or  mastered  by  the  English.  For 
though  in  their  (the  State's)  view,  all  the  land  be  in  the  King's 
hands,  yet  the  Irish  deny  this,  and  claim  it  as  their  own  inhe- 
ritance ;  alleging  that  they  have  ever  been  freeholders  thereof, 
and  that  their  lords  had  only  a  chiefry  out  of  it.  Besides 
their  priests  (who  are  many)  have  such  a  commanding  power 
oyer  them  that  they  can  persuade  them  to  hazard  their 
estates  and  their  lives,  whensoever  they  shall  call  them  unto  it. 
In  the  county  of  Monaghan,  all  the  M'Mahowns,  who  are 
many  and  of  divers  septs  or  kindreds,  and  were  always  wont 
to  be  divided  into  several  factions,  are  now  strangely  united, 
not  for  any  love  that  they  bear  one  to  another,  but  rather  the 
better  so  enable  them  to  execute  some  conspiracy  against  the 
State ;  for  it  is  almost  an  infallible  rule,  that  none  of  those 
Irish  at  any  time  serve  their  Prince  against  their  countrymen  ; 
except  when  some  of  their  own  adversaries  are  out  in  rebellion, 
to  the  end  that  by  that  means  they  may  have  the  moi-e  power 
and  opportunity  to  be  revenged  upon  their  enemies.  The  only 
thing  that  keeps  them  in  subjection  is  their  want  of  arms;  for 
there  is  a  strict  course  holden  against  the  Irish,  that  all  their 
weapons  are  taken  from  them  and  brought  into  the  King's 
store,  so  that  they  have  no  means  of  themselves  to  enable 
them  for  a  war.  O'Dogherty  could  not  have  done  much  hurt, 
if  he  had  not  lighted  upon  the  King's  storehouse  at  first,  so 
as  to  arm  his  men.  But  they  want  no  men,  notwithstanding 
tlie  late  wars,  the  famine,  and  the  great  plague  that  was 
amongst  tliem ;  for  there  are  5,000  men  booked  in  Tyrone  and 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  197 


1609. 

Coleraine,  4,000  in  Armagh,  6,000  in  Tyrconnell,  and  in  other 
counties  3,000  ;  in  others,  4,000  ;  so  that  in  all  that  province 
there  are  at  the  least  20,000  men  of  the  sword.  They  want 
a  great  man  to  be  president  amongst  them,  whose  countenance, 
power,  and  authority  might  govern  them  and  keep  them  in 
awe  ;  for  now  they  are  a  multitude  without  a  head,  and  the 
country  lies  open  to  all  invasions,  having  neither  men  nor 
means  to  make  resistance. 

Has  been  bold  thus  to  report  the  present  state  of  that 
province,  which,  he  fears,  will  ever  retain,  the  name  of  the 
wild  Irisli,  and  most  humbly  recommends  the  same  to  his 
Lordship's  wisdom  and  consideration.  Could  write  of  clivers 
inconveniences  which  are  fit  to  be  remedied  in  this  kingdom, 
but  fears  to  offend  in  length  ;  but,  when  he  shall  understand 
that  his  relations  are  not  tedious  or  troublesome  to  his  Lord- 
ship, he  will  discover  them  particularly  and  truly  to  him ; 
knowing  that  he  sits  at  the  helm,  and  stirs  and  sways  the 
affairs  of  this  kingdom,  and  therefore  may  give  direction  for 
the  amendment  of  that  which  is  amiss.  —  Dubliu,  15  April 
1609. 

Pp.  8.     Signed.    Endd. 

Apiil  17.    343.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Phijad.  R,  ^  ^^^j^  jjj^g  been  presented  to  them  by  Captain  Richa]'d 

'   '     '^    '  Bingley  to  be  appointed    Muster-master  of  the  province   of 

Leinster ; — an  appointment  which  appears  to  them  very  ex- 
pedient as  well  for  the  purpose  of  training  the  selected 
bands  as  for  other  reasons  alleged  in  his  petition,  which  is 
enclosed.  His  Lordship  is  therefore  directed  to  consider  how 
it  may  be  arranged,  and  how  the  recompense  is  to  be  pro- 
vided by  some  contribution  without  increasing  the  King's 
charge ;  and  on  his  reporting  his  opinion  to  them  he  shall 
receive  directions  accordingly. — Whitehall,  17  April  1609. 

Signed  :  R.  Cant.,  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton,  T.  Suf- 
folke,  E.  Zouche,  J.  Herbert,  L.  Stanhope,  Jul.  Csesar. 

P.  1.    Sealed.     Add.     Endd. 

April  20.    344,        Return  of  Export  of  Hides  from  Dublin. 

^^ 'i'e'To'  •^  *'"^^®  certificate  of  all  such  salted  and  tanned  liides  as 

have  been  laden  in  the  port  of  Dublin  for  three  whole  years 
last  past,  according  as  by  the  farmer  of  the  customs  and  sub- 
■  sidies  of  the  said  port  have  received  custom  for  the  same. 

Dublin.— From  the  20th  of  April  1606  till 
the  20th  of  April  then  next  following 
1607,  salted  hides  -  -    9  last. 

20th  April    1606    till    20th   April    1607, 

tanned  hides      -  -  -  -    ]  last,  4  dicker. 

20th  April  1607  till  20th  i\pril  1608, 
salted  hides       -  -  -  -    8  last,  y  dicker. 


198  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

20tli  April    1607   till   20th   April    1608, 

tanned  hides     -  -  -  -    2  last,  2  dicker. 

20th  April    1608    till   20th   April    1609, 

salted  hides        -  -  -  -  13  last,  7  dicker. 

20th  April   1608   tiU  20th    April    1609, 

tanned  hides     -  -  -  -    5  last,  6  dicker. 

_  The  custom  due  for  the  said  hides  is,  for  every  last  of  salted 

hides,  laden  by  a  freeman  of  the  city,  10s.  sterling,  and  for 

every  last   laden    by  a  stranger,  40s.  sterling,  but  freemen 

lade  them  altogether  for  saving  of  the  custom. 

The  custom  of  tanned  hides  is  usually  50s.  sterling  for  the 
last,  which  is  paid  as  well  by  freemen  as  strangers,  for  that 
they  are  prohibited  to  be  carried  out  of  the  realm  by  statute 
without  paying  51.  in  a  last  for  custom  to  the  King's  Majesty. 
— Geo.  Grymesdiche. 

In  the  hand  of  Chichester :  "  By  this  it  appears  that  out  ot 
the  port  of  Dublin  for  three  years  last  past  hath  been  trans- 
ported only — 

Kaw  hides,  30  last,  10  dicker,  in  hides  -     6,100. 

Tanned  hides,  7  last,  11  dicker,      „  -     1,510." 

P.  1.     Endd. 

April  22.     345.        TreASUREK-AT-War's  Account,  September  1603 -June 

Lansdowne  MSS.  1606. 

'f.'ils'     '  A  brief  declaration  of  the  accompt  of  Sir  George   Carey, 

Knight,  Treasurer-at-War,  within  the  realm  of  Ireland,  from 
1  October  1603  to  80  June  1606. 

Pp.4.  Endd.:  "22  April  1609.  A  declaration  of  the 
Irish  accompt  from  Sept.  1603  till  June  1606." 

April  24.     346.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
rhilad.  p.,  gip  James  Fitz-Piers  [FitzGerald],  having  dispatched  the 

^°  ■    '  ^'       ■  private  affairs  on  which  he  had  come  over  with  his  Lordship's 

recommendations,  is  about  to  return  to  Ireland.  They  are 
willing  to  let  him  taste  the  fruits  of  his  good  deserts  ;  but  as 
his  suit  is  for  an  allotment  of  the  escheated  lands,  which  is 
reserved  for  the  disposal  to  be  made  in  that  kingdom,  they 
can  but  recommend  his  suit  for  one  of  the  greatest  proportions 
of  those  lands,  to  such  favour  and  respect  as  are  afforded  to 
any  other  suitor  in  that  kind,  not  doubting  that  his  Lordship 
will  be  willing  to  acknowledge  his  past  services,  and  that  he 
will  have  good  cause  to  find  his  favour  well  bestowed.  — 
Whitehall,  24  April  1609. 

Signed :  T,  EUesmere,  Cane,  K.  Salisbury,  Notingham,  T. 
Suffolke,  E.  Worcester,  W.  Knollys,  E.  Wotton,  L.  Stanhope, 
J.  Herbert,  Jul.  Csesar. 

P.  1.  Sealed.  Add.  Endd.:  "From  the  Lords  of  the 
Councell  on  the  behalfe  of  Sir  James  Fitz-Piers  Fitzgerralde, 
in  vf^  is  made  mention  of  his  desire  to  undertake  landes  in 
Ulster.     Eec.  the  d"^^  of  No." 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  199 


1609. 
April  24.     347.        Lords    of   the    Council  to  the  Lord  Deputy  and 
I'liiiad.  p.,  Council. 

Have  been  informed  that,  upon  the  differences  regarding 
the  fishing  of  the  Bann,  -which  have  grown  between  Sir 
Randall  M'Donnell  and  Mr.  James  Hamilton,  his  Lordship  has 
sequestered  the  profits  as  well  of  the  quarter  claimed  by  Sir 
Randal],  as  of  the  moiety  on  Tyrone's  side,  to  which  Mr.  Nicholas 
Weston  pretends  some  claim.  Referred  the  matter  to  several 
commissioners,  who,  upon  hearing  of  the  parties  and  their 
counsel,  and  examining  the  titles  to  the  fishing,  have  certified 
their  opinions  under  their  hands.  Mr.  James  Hamilton  now 
makes  suit  to  have  the  mesne  profits  and  the  possession. 
But  as  the  trial  of  the  several  titles  and  claims  and  of  the 
sequestration  cannot  conveniently  be  determined  except  in 
Ireland,  where  the  parties  interested  may  prove  their  several 
claims,  they  (the  Lords)  have  collected  together  all  the  cer- 
tificates and  opinions  of  the  commissioners,  which  they  send 
to  his  Lordship,  directing  him  to  call  together  some  of  the 
judges  and  learned  counsel,  and  to  take  such  course  in  the 
matter  as  may  be  most  agreeable  to  equity,  and  also  to  deter- 
mine it  with  all  convenient  expedition,  so  that  the  parties 
may  enjoy  the  rights  of  fishing  in  the  next  season,  and  that 
His  Majesty  may  be  no  further  importuned  in  the  matter. — 
Whitehall,  24  April  1609. 

Signed :  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northamp- 
ton, T.  Suffblke,  E.  Worcester,  W.  Knollys,  E.  Wotton,  L. 
Stanhope,  J.  Herbert,  Jul.  Csesar. 

P.  1.     Sealed.     Add.    Endd.    Encloses, 

March  25.     348.         Nicholas  Weston's  Petition  to  Lord  Salisbury.. 
Phiiad.  P.,  Represents  that,  as  security  for  a  debt  of  1,200Z.  the  Earl  of 


vol.  3,  p.  37& 


Tyrone  had  assigned  to  him  the  fishioig  of  the  Banne  and  the 
salmon  leap  in  Tyrone,  which  he  enjoyed  for  four  years. 
Afterwards,  the  Lord,  Deputy  and  Council  having  thought 
fit  thcd  the  fishing  should,  be  restored,  to  Tyrone,  it  tvcvs  ordered 
that  Tyrone  should  give  security  for  the  pchyment  of  the  debt 
with  interest  at  10  per  cent. ;  but  Tyrone,  being  sent  for  into 
England,  he  had,  come  to  petitioner,  and  told  him  that  he  had 
no  other  security  to  give,  and  therefore  returned  to  him  again 
the  deed  thereof  passed,  to  himself  by  Mr.  James  Hamilton. 

Prays  that  either  the  aforesaid  siom  of  1,200L  m,cty  be  paid 
to  him  ivith  interest,  out  of  the  rents  of  Tyrone  eschecUed  to  His 
Majesty,  or  else  that  the  fishing  left  to  him  for  security  may 
be  reserved  to  him,  to  be  enjoyed  according  to  equity  till  the 
cause  shcdl  be  determined. 

[Referred  by  the  Lord  Treasurer  to  the  Master  of  the  Rolls 
and  the  Attorney-Genercd  for  Ireland  to  call  Mr.  Hamilton 
and  the  petitioner,  and  examine  the  matter  and  certify  to 
him  ivhat  they  find. — 25  March  1609.] 

P.  1.     Copy. 


200  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1609. 
April  3.      349.       Certificate  of  Sir  Anthony  St.  Leger  and  Sir  John  Davys. 

vol.  i'^p.^sTs' dors.  ■^"^'^^  ^'^'^''*  ^''®  '''''■5''^*  ^/  ^^^'^  Aching  remains  with  Mr.  James 

Hamilton. 

Find  also  that  a  sum  reduced  to  1,117^.,  a^id  20  in-calf 
cows,  was  clue  by  the  Earl  of  Tyrone  to  Nicholas  Weston,  and 
that  pctyment  thereof,  ivith  interest  at\Q  per  cent,  and  security 
for  sctid  pcoyment,  was  ordered  to  be  made  by  the  Earl,  but 
that  no  such  payment  ^oas  made  and  no  security  given  to 
Mr.  Weston. 

Recommend,  therefore,  in  consideration  of  the  loyal  services 
rendered  by  the  said  Weston  in  the  late  rebellion,  and  known 
to  Sir  Anthony  St.  Leger,  that  His  Majesty  may  be  moved 
to  direct  that  payment  of  the  cd>ove  debt,  with  interest,  and  of 
such  further  sum  as  may  be  proved  to  be  due,  may  be  made  to 
Nicholas  Weston  out  of  the  rents  and  p>rofits  of  the  escheated 
lands,  until  the  said  lands  shall  be  allotted,  to  undertakers 
upon  the  new  plantation. 

Signed  by  Sir  Anthony  St.  Leger,  and  Sir  John  Davys. 

Pp.  IJ.     Copy. 

April  27.     350.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

^^3^*^  g '■  Commend  the  measures   taken  by  him  and  the   Earl  of 

'  '  '      '  Thomond  for  the  apprehension  of  the  pirate  Jennings,  the 

course  taken  with  regard  to  the  ship,  and  the  sequestering  of 
the  goods,  until  the  rights  of  the  proprietaries  shall  be  ascer- 
tained. Direct  that  measures  be  taken  for  the  safe  keeping 
of  the  pirate  and  the  sending  him  over,  and  that  he  be  com- 
mitted to  the  charge  of  some  trusty  persons,  so  as  to  guard 
against  his  escape,  which  would  at  this  time  give  no  small 
cause  of  scandal.  Remind  him  that  Captain  Coward,  to 
whom  favour  was  lately  shown  in  a  similar  case,  has  returned 
to  his  former  courses,  aud  is  now  a  dangerous  f)irate.  Jennings 
is  to  be  sent  over  by  a  suitable  ship  and  delivered  to  the 
charge  of  the  Mayor  of  Chester,  and  there  kept  in  prison  till 
they  shall  have  signified  further  as  to  the  course  to  be  held 
with  him.  And  as  the  Earl  of  Thomond  had  undertaken 
that  those  who  were  induced  to  deliver  up  the  captain  and 
ship  should  have  their  pardon,  they  direct  that  they  shall 
also  be  sent  over  for  examination,  in  order  that  by  aiding  in 
the  discovery  of  others  they  may  deserve  His  Majesty's 
favour.— Whitehall,  27  April  1609. 

Signed:   R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton,  Notinghara,   T. 
Suffolke,  E.  Worcester,  E.  Wotton,  J.  Herbert,  Jul.  Csesar. 

P.  1.    Seeded.    Add.    Endd. 

April  28.     351.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Phiiad.  r.,  jjj^j  already  apprized  him  of  the  return    of  Lord  Howth, 

^°-   'P-'     ■  ji^d  ijas  now  to  communicate  that  of  Sir  Garrett  Moore ;  and 

as  in  the  raatter  in  which  Lord  Howth  had  impeached  his 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  201 


,  1609. 

loyalty,  His  Majesty  lias  chosen  rather  to  judge  of  his  loyalty 
by  his  former  carriage  and  his  disposition  in  religion,  than  by 
the  allegations  against  him,  he  has  restored  him  freely  to  his 
favour  as  before.  Recommends  him  therefore  to  the  same 
favourable  judgment  of  his  Lordship.  Directs  that  the  bonds 
for  his  appearance  which  were  taken  from  him  at  his  being 
sent  over,  shall  be  cancelled. — Westminster,  2S  April,  in  the 
seventh  jea,T  of  the  reign. 

P.  ^.     Orig.     Sealed.     Add.     Endd. 

April  28.    352.         Sir  John  Davys  to  Salisbury. 

vol  'aa^G^'Ti^"  Though  at  all  times  and  places  he  remembers  his  duty  to 

his  Lordship,  yet  he  did  not  think  to  express  tlie  same  by 
letters  until  he  should  have  arrived  in  Ireland.  Howbeit, 
when  he  met  with  this  enclosed  letter,  directed  to  him  from 
the  Lord  Deputy,  thought  it  his  duty  to  transmit  it  to  his 
Lordship,  because  it  contains  sundry  matters  which  he  should 
have  moved  if  be  had  been  present,  and  should  have  obtained 
his  Lordshij)'s  direction  therein.  Touching  the  defects  which 
the  Lord  Deputy  notes  in  the  printed  project,  if  his  Lordship 
had  seen  the  instructions  which  are  to  be  annexed  to  the 
commission  of  plantation,  he  should  find  that  such  liberty  is 
given  to  the  commissioners  and  so  much  is  left  to  their  dis- 
cretion that  all  those  defects  may  easily  be  supplied. 

Marvels  not  a  little  that  his  Lordship  should  now  expect 
further  directions  touching  the  proceeding  against  Neale 
Garve  and  O'Cahane;  because  he  well  remembers  that  he 
(Salisbury)  signified  the  King's  pleasure  that  they  should  be 
proceeded  against  the  last  term.  But  as  concerning  the  traitors' 
children,  how  they  shall  be  disposed  of,  thinks  there  has  not 
been  any  express  declaration  of  His  Majesty's  pleasure.  For 
his  particular,  he  is  now  at  Chester  expecting  a  passage,  and 
hopes,  by  God's  favour,  to  arrive  at  Dublin  before'  the 
beginning  of  the  term. — Chester,  28  April  1609. 

P.S. — If  his  Lordship  shall  think  it  fit  that  Mr.  Treasurer 
may  have  Brian-ne-Savagh  M'Mahon's  land  in  fee-farm 
whereof  tlie  Lord  Deputy  makes  mention  in  his  letter,  he 
(Davys)  knows  his  industry  and  good  mind  to  do  good  thi'no-s 
so  well,  that  he  verily  thinks  it  would  be  a  profitable  bounty 
to  His  Majesty. 

P.  1.     Signed.     Add.     Endd. 

April  30.     353.        Earl  of  Kildare  to  Salisbury. 

^;^o\lltil'  ^'^'"^?''  ^°  ^^'^''^^  °^  ^''-  S'lrnel],  who  had  been  found  guilty 

'  '  "  of  putting  the  endorsements  on  the  deed  of  jointure.     Ha"s 

sent  a  brief  to  the  Lords.     Impugns  the  judgment  pronounced 

by  the   Lord   Deputy  and    Council. — Dublin,   last   of  April 

1609.  ^ 

P,  1.    Signed.    Add.    Endd.    Encloses, 


202 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1609. 
S.P.,  Ireland,    354,         CctsG  of  the  Em'l  of  KUclaTe. 

'     ^'  Proof s  of  the  truth  and  perfection  of  the  deed  of  %°  Eliz.  in 

the  Earl's  lifetime,  ivherehy  the  allegation  that  the  same  was 
forged  after  his  death  is  meetly  falsified. 
P.  1.    Endd. 

355.        Sir  Thomas  Phillipps's  Petition. 

Petition  of  Sir  Thomas  Phillipps  to  Salisbury,  for  a  grant 
of  the  escheated  lands  lying  near  to  Coleraine,  where  he  had 
induced  many  English  and  Scotch  to  settle,  and  had  nearly 
completed  a  fort. 

P.  1. 

May  10.      356.        Commission  to  sell  Crown  LANDS  in  Ireland. 

Grant  Book, 
p.  58. 


[April] 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  226,  66  a. 


Commission  to  the  Lord  Chancellor,  Salisbury,  and  others. 


May  11. 

Docquet  Book, 
May  11. 


May  n. 

Dom.  P., 

James  I., 

vol.  XLV.,  No.  46. 


May  1 3. 

rhilad.  P., 
vol.  1,  p.  320. 


May  1 3. 

Philad.  P., 
vol.  l,p.  322. 


to  sell  divers  of  the  King's  lands  in  Ireland. 

357.  The  King  to  the  Lord  Deputy. 

Directs  the  Lord  Deputy  to  grant  to  John  King  the  office 
of  Muster-master-General  and  Clerk  of  the  Cheque  of  His 
Majesty's  army  and  garrisons  in  Ireland,  upon  the  surrender 
of  Sir  James  Fullerton,  Knight. 

358.  Commission  to  hear  Suits  in  the  Ulster  Plantation. 
Commission  [to  Sir  Roger  Wilbraham,  Sir  Robert  Gardiner, 

and  others]  to  examine  all  suitors  to  the  Council  on  matters 
relating  to  the  plantation  in  Ulster,  to  settle  minor  points,  and 
to  refer  difficult  cases  to  the  decision  of  the  Council. 
[See  Domestic,  James  I.,  Vol.  XLV.,  No.  46.] 

359.  The  King  to  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Chancellor. 
Directs  them  to  accept  the  joint  and  several  surrender  of 

Richard  Archdeacon  of  Corballymoore,  in  the  county  of  Water- 
ford,  and  of  his  kinsman  Richard  M'Odo,  of  Baronmore,  in 
county  of  Kilkenny,  of  all  their  castles,  lands,  and  tenements 
within  the  realm  of  Ireland,  and  to  regrant  the  same,  to  be 
held  in  free  and  common  soccage,  and  not  in  capite,  reserving 
a  yearly  rent  of  Qd.  for  every  ploughland,  and  also  the  King's 
composition  sent  during  the  continuance  thereof — Westminster, 
13  May,  in  the  seventli  year  of  the  reign. 
P.  1.     Orig.    Sealed.     Add.    Endd.    Enrol. 

360.  The  King  to  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Chancellor. 

Had  formerly  granted  to  Sir  Daniel  Norton,  of  Tj^sted,  a 
lease  for  certain  years  of  the  late  dissolved  monastery  of  Bally- 
beg,  now  in  the  hands  of  Sir  John  Jephson,  and  had  also 
directed  a  grant  of  the  said  dissolved  monastery  in  fee-farm  to 
be  made  to  the  said  Sir  John  Jephson  at  the  former  reserved 
rent.  The  sufficiency  of  this  grant  being  now  doubted.  His 
Majesty  directs  that  a  new  grant  in  fee-farm  be  passed  to  Sir 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  203 


1609. 

John  Jephson,  reserving  the  ancient  and  accustomed  rent  as 
aforesaid. — Westminster,  13  May,  in  the  seventh  year  of  the 
reigni 

P.  1.     Orig.     Sealed.    Add.    Endd.    Enrol. 

May  14!.      361.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
^•■^•'Jf^''™^'  Sir  John  Davys  landed  here  on  the  5th  of  this  instant,  by 

'     '  whom  he  received  divers  letters,  some  from  the  King  and 

others  from  the  Lords  of  his  Council ; — all  vt^hich  rather  require 
execution  than  answer,  which  shall  be  performed  with  all  con- 
venient expedition.  Not  intending  to  have  troubled  his  Lord- 
ship until  greater  occasion  should  have  invited  him  to  wi'ite, 
he  this  morning  acquainted  Mr.  Dudley  Norton  with  some- 
thing which  he  prayed  him  to  impart  to  his  Lordship  at  some 
convenient  time.  But  the  enclosed  coming  to  his  hands  before 
the  departure  of  the  passage,  thought  it  fit  to  transmit  the 
same,  albeit  there  is  no  other  ground  but  the  abundance  of 
priests  lately  arrived  and  the  parties'  own  declaration  to  give 
it  credit.  This  Woods  is  a  Scottishman,  well  known  to  the 
Bishop  of  Dyrrie,  and  was  called  to  appear  before  him  (Chi- 
chester) about  a  year  and  a  half  or  two  years  since  upon  some 
complaints  made  of  his  caiTiage  and  of  his  misdemeanor, 
among  which  it  was  said  that,  notwithstanding  he  made  show 
to  be  of  the  religion  of  the  true  and  Apostolic  Church,  yet 
among  the  Papists  and  recusants  he  declared  himself  to  be  a 
disciple  of  the  Church  of  Rome ;  and  at  that  time  he  confessed 
his  familiarity  with  men  of  that  profession,  which,  as  he  said, 
was  to  discover  their  practices,  and  that  by  the  allowance  of 
Sir  Henry  Brouncker  whilst  he  lived.  Upon  which,  and  his 
submission  to  the  bishop,  he  dismissed  him  at  that  time,  with 
allowance  to  return  to  his  place  and  to  the'charge  of  the  cure 
at  Kyllmallocke  ;  and  this  is  all  he  has  heard  from  him  since 
that  time. 

Among  other  letters  from  the  King,  one  made  mention  of 
His  Majesty's  pleasure  to  bestow  on  him  the  lands  of  the  late 
traitor  O'Doghertie,  for  which  he  can  return  no  more  but 
the  protestation  of  his  humble  and  faithful  service,  with  the 
thankful  acknowledgment  to  His  Majesty  and  to  his  Lord- 
ship that  procured  it  for  him. — Dublin,  14  May  1609. 

Pp.  1.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

May  15.       362.        The  King  to  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Chancellor. 
Philad.  p.,  jjig  Majesty  is  pleased  to  grant  to  Richard  Harding,  in  con- 

^°  ■   '  ^'       ■  sideration  of  his  faithful  service,  all  the  monasteries,    abbeys, 

priories,  castles,  lands,  and  other  possessions  in  the  realm  of 
Ireland,  which  he  now  holds  for  certain  years  yet  to  come,  by 
lease  under  the  great  seal,  in  virtue  of  a  grant  of  the  late 
Queen  Elizabeth,  at  the  yearly  rent  of  40?. ;  and  directs  that 
a  grant  be  made  of  the  same  to  him  in  fee-farm,  to  be  holden 
of  the  King's  Castle  of  Dublin,  in  free  and  common  soccage, 


204-  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

]609. 

and  not  in  capite,  at  the  same  reserved  rent  of  40J.  yearly. — 
Westminster,  ]  5  May,  in  the  seventh  year  of  the  reign. 
P.  1.     Orig.    Sealed.  Add.  Endd.  Enrol. 

May  15.1     363.        Sie  Thomas  Kidgeway  to  Salisbuey. 

vol'  ''"iif  "■"i''  Deems  it  his  duty  to  attend  the  joint  letter  sent  from  the 

Lord  Deputy  and  this  Council,  concerning  Bryan-ne-Savagh 
M'Mahon's  late  lands,  with  these  few  lines  to  his  Lordship 
only.  Prays  his  support  of  their  and  his  mutual  request ; — that 
barbarous  and  remote  corner  being  left  waste  and  depopulate 
(some  portion  excepted,  which  was  mortgaged  by  Bryan,  and 
must  be  compounded  and  paid  for  by  His  Majesty's  grantee) ; 
and  this  last  month  being  the  only  time  both  of  retaining 
those  in  place  and  of  drawing  thither  honest  tenants  and 
inhabitants  for  this  year  ensuing,  unless  otherwise  it  be  left 
(as  heretofore)  at  large,  and  subject  to  be  made  a  den  and 
receptacle  of  thieves  and  rebels  upon  every  occasion. 

There  appeared  to  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Council  a  necessity 
so  to  settle  it  speedily,  that  at  once  the  King's  rent  might  be 
secured  and  increased,  the  place  civilized  and  strengthened, 
the  stomach  of  the  country  thereabouts  stayed,  and  some 
good  exemplary  beginning  made  in  this  kind  of  cases  for  the 
better  future  service  of  His  Highness.  Upon  which  motives 
principally  what  has  been  done  here,  is  done,  and  that  desired 
to  be  done  there,  is  now  desired. 

All  which  he  humbly  and  willingly  submits  to  his  Lordship's 
grave  judgment  and  best  liking,  with  resolution  of  modesty 
and  patience  where  he  finds  unexpected  rubs,  and  of  a  true 
measure  of  hearty  and  effectual  thankfulness  and  endeavour 
to  deserve  better,  where  he  finds  favour.  —  Rathfernham, 
15  May  1609. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 


vol.  226,  74  A. 


May  10.     364.        Sm  Francis  Shaen  to  Salisbury. 
S.P.,  Ireland,  pj^g  \,qq^  long  a  suitor  for  grants  according  to  the  King's 

letters,  and  also  for  the  1,(J00Z.  arrear  of  the  1,700  rent-beeves 
of  Granard.     Eenews  his  suit. — Dublin,  16  May  1609. 

P.  1.    Signed.     Add.    Endd. 


vol.  22 (i, 


iMaylT.      365.        Sir  John  Davys  to  Salisbury. 

y-l'-.  Iicland,  Since  his  return  into  this  kingdom,  the  5th  of  this  month, 

has  heard  of  no  new  accident  here  of  any  note  or  importance. 
Found  the  term  begun  and  the  toAvn  full  of  people,  which 
concur  out  of  all  the  parts  of  this  kingdom  hither,  rather  to 
hear  news  than  to  prosecute  suits  in  law  ;  whereof  the  courts 
of  justice  are  almost  empty,  by  reason  that  the  priests,  who 
now  swarm  in  this  realm  more  than  ever,  by  spreading 
rumours  of  war  and  troubles,  make  the  people  believe  that 
the  times  are  very  doubtful,  though  otherwise  there  was 
never  a  more  universal  inward  peace  than  now. 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  205 


1609. 

Their  martial  men,  for  the  most  part,  take  exceptions  to  the 
project  for  the  plantation  of  Ulster,  because  they  have  not 
the  privilege,  every  one  to  choose  his  own  seat  or  portion. 
If  this  -were  granted  to  them,  they  do  not  now  so  much 
quarrel  with  the  project,  as  they  would  then  quarrel  one  with 
another.  But  the  Lord  Deputy,  since  he  showed  him  a 
copy  of  the  instructions  which  are  to  be  annexed  to  the 
commission  for  plantation,  is  very  well  satisfied. 

Neal  Garve  and  O'Cahane  have  been  arraigned  upon  their 
indictments  since  his  coming,  and  are  to  receive  their  trial  the 
next  term,  because  the  juries  of  those  remote  countries,  where 
their  treasons  were  committed,  cannot  be  returned  before  that 
time.  The  evidence  against  Neal  Garve  to  prove  him  guilty 
of  the  treasons  committed  after  he  was  protected  by  the 
Marshal,  is  made  more  clear  and  strong  every  day,  by  new 
discoveries  and  confessions,  so  that  there  will  be  little  doubt 
of  his  conviction. 

His  Majesty's  book  ^  was  here  in  many  men's  hands  before 
his  arrival,  and  is  mucli  admired  by  men  of  ail  sorts ;  the 
matter  not  only  being  full  of  strength  and  sinews,  but  the 
form  and  phrase  thereof  so  princely,  that  the  book  which 
was  published  in  King  Henry  VIII.'s  name  against  Luther, 
seems  a  very  pedantical  declamation  in  comparison. — Dublin, 
17  May  1609. 

P.  1.     Signed.     Add.    Endd. 

May  18.      366.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
S.P.,  Ireland,  Recommends  the  bearer,   Sir  Henry  Harrington,  who  has 

vol.  22C,  7b.  j^^^  served  the  State.— Dublin  Castle,  18  May  1G09. 

P.  1.     Signed.     Add.     Endd. 

May  21.      367.        Baron  Delvin  to  Salisbury. 
^'^rq^r'^-'?'  Is  already  bound  to  his  Lordship  as  much   as  his  life  and 

■  ~'  '  '  •  fortunes  are  worth,  both  which    (being  all  he  has)   are  un- 

feignedly  at  his  command ;  being  well  assured  that,  being  so 
disposed,  they  are  subject  to  such  an  inclination  as  will  employ 
the  one  and  the  other  honourably,  he  means  not  for  his  own 
private,  so  much  as  for  the  public  good.  Wherein  if  his  Lord- 
ship (who  sees  all  that  can  be  seen  therein)  holds  him  an  able 
instrument,  he  prays  him  to  spare  not  to  expose  him  to  the 
hardest  trial.  Will  attempt  it,  and  (if  his  life  may  be  a  pledge) 
will  endure  it.  Thanks  the  King  for  the  mercy  shown  to  him 
and  to  those  who  relieved  him. 

1  Seemingly  the  "  Apologia  pro  Juramento  ITidelitatis,"  which,  although  printed 
anonymously  in  1605,  now  first  appeared  with  the  King's  name,  with  the  following 
title  : — "  Apologia  pro  Juramento  Fidelitatis  ;  primum  quidem  ANnNTM03,  nunc 
vero  ah  ipse  Auctore,  Serenissimo  ac  Potentissimo  Principe  Jacobo  Dei  Gratia,  &e. 
denuo  edita.  Cui  pra3missa  est  Pra;fatio  Monitoria  Hacratiss.  Cassari  Eodolpho  II] 
semper  Augusto  cseterisque  Christiani  Orbis  Sereniss.  ac  Potentiss.  Monarchis 
Regibus,  &c.,  inscripta  eodem  Auctore."  Londini,  anno  1G09.  12mo.  A  trans- 
lation into  Enghsh  of  the  same,  4to.,  was  printed  at  London  in  the  same  year, 
April  8,  1609,  by  Robert  Barker,  King's  printer. 


206  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

It  having  lately  happened  that  one  Grome,  a  friar,  who 
was  apprehended  soon  after  his  own  restraint,  being  lately 
accused  upon  his  confession  then  made  to  the  Lord  Deputy, 
has  received  his  judgment  to  die ;  he  prays  humbly  that  his 
Lordship  would  advise  that  he  should  be  pardoned  or  banished, 
or,  if  he  be  permitted  to  remain  within  the  kingdom,  that 
he  should  put  in  sufficient  security  to  answer  for  any  mis- 
demeanor which  he  shall  hereafter  incur.  Suggests,  first, 
that  he  cannot  be  dangerous ;  next,  he  may  prove  an  instru- 
ment to  good  purpose  ;  thirdly,  if  he  suffer,  it  will  hinder  the 
intelligence  that  may  be  had  hereafter  by  such,  especially  to 
himself,  who  will  be  accounted  the  cause  of  his  death.  But 
though  this  be  his  desire,  leaves  it  to  his  Lordship's  judgment, 
which  can  best  apprehend  and  determine  matters  of  this  nature. 
—Dublin,  21  May  1609. 
P.  2.     Signed.    Sealed.    Add.    Endd. 

May  23.      368.        Edward  Fitzgeeald  to  Salisbury. 

1  '•)  'fi' 78  '  ^^^  petition  here  enclosed  was  sent  to  him  out  of  Ireland, 

subscribed  by  many  gentlemen  of  good  account  in  the  county  of 
Kildare,  and  also  the  first  petition  with  the  articles  thereunto 
annexed,  which  was  preferred  to  his  Lordship  and  the  rest 
of  the  Lords  of  the  Council  here  against  one  Kobert  Nangle, 
for  many  misdemeanors  and  wrongs  committed  by  him  upon 
His  Majesty's  subjects  there.  It  appears  by  these  several 
petitions,  and  by  other  writings  upon  complaint  made  to  his 
Lordship  in  the  second  year  of  the  King's  reign,  against  the 
said  Nangle,  that  he  was  rejected  at  the  Council  board,  and  so 
went  unto  Ireland  ;  and  now,  understanding  that  there  is  a 
suit  preferred  in  behalf  of  the  said  Nangle  and  like  to  take 
effect  to  draw  some  benevolence  from  His  Majesty  in  con- 
sideration of  service,  he  has  thought  it  his  duty  to  recom- 
mend the  humble  suit  of  those  gentlemen  in  the  enclosed 
petitions,  in  procuring  a  commission  to  certain  commissioners 
in  Ireland,  to  call  upon  them,  and  to  examine  them  touching 
the  misdemeanors  and  carriage  of  the  said  Nangle. — 23  May 
1609. 
P.  1.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

May  26.     369.        Sir  Humphrey  Winche  to  Salisbury. 

^^1  'J'-'c'^-g''  ^^  ^^^  Humphrey)  and  the  Barons  of  the  Exchequer  received 

'   "  '  '  '  the  15th  of  this  May  a  letter  from  his  Lordship  and  others  of 

the  Council  in  behalf  of  David  Eoche  of  Kynsale,  with  his 
complaint  there  enclosed,  that,  contrary  to  the  express  order  of 
that  court  and  his  long  possession,  a  commission  was  awarded 
to  put  him  out  of  possession  of  the  manor  of  Cullin  in  the 
county  of  Cork.  The  truth  and  cause  of  their  proceeding 
therein,  they  have  certified  in  the  letter  herewith  sent.  The 
object  was  to  recontinue  His  Majesty's  revenues,  which  were 
suppressed  by  negligence,  and,  he  hears,  by  corruption.  They 
found  the  King's  manor  of  Glynney,  called  by  a  rich  bordering 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


207 


1609. 


freeholder,  Cullin ;  and  to  many  in  the  county  of  Cork  it  is 
as  -well  known  to  be  the  King's,  as  any  land  in  Cullin  is  known 
to  be  Roche's. 

Has  not  seen  fairer  records  for  any  inheritance  the  King 
has  here,  than  for  this  manor  of  the  Glynney.  Upon  the  first 
process  served  upon  Eoche  for  intruding  tato  this  manor, 
offered  to  be  a  means  to  procure  him  a  lease  thereof  for  the 
old  rent,  which  he  refused  ;  yet  more  was  offered  to  have  had 
the  suit  stayed  and  the  King's  title  suppressed.  In  the  pro- 
ceeding they  used  no  haste,  but  yielded  Roche  all  favours 
fitting;  only  they  urged  him  to  plead  his  title  (if  he  had  any), 
and  thought  not  fit  to  hazard  the  King's  manor  upon  the 
general  issue  to  a  jury  in  that  county,  because  the  affections 
of  jurors  here  sway  more  with  them  than  any  record,  whereof 
they  want  no  experience.  Their  desires  were  to  do  their 
duties  to  His  Majesty  without  wrong  to  the  petitioner,  who 
may  yet,  for  very  small  charge,  have  a  lease  of  the  manor,  if  he 
will  become  tenant  to  His  Majesty.  But  that  he  will  not,  so 
long  as  any  means  is  left  him  to  continue  his  former  wrongs  ; 
which  would  be  heavy  to  him  if  they  look  back  to  the  intrusion, 
which  has  not  been  attempted. — Dublin,  26  May  1609. 

P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 


May  26. 

S.V.,  Ireland, 
TOl.  226,  80. 


May  26. 

Philad.  P., 
yol.  1 ,  p.  332. 


370. 


Sir  Humphrey  Winche,  and  the  Barons  of  the  Exche- 
quer, Cooke,  Oglethorp,  and  Elyot,  to  the  Privy 
Council. 


To  the  same  purport  as  the  above.- 
P]).  2.     Signed.    Add. 


-Dublin,  26  May  1609. 


May  28. 

Philad.  v., 
vol.  3,  p.  85. 


371.  The  King  to  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Chancellor, 
His   Majesty  had   authorised  the  late  Earl  of  Devonshire 

and  Sir  John  Carey,  Lord  Deputy,  to  pass  by  letters  patent 
to  John  Wakeman,  in  fee-simple,  100?.  of  the  King's  lands, 
whereof  the  abbey  of  St.  Mary,  near  Dublin,  was  part.  Some 
doubt  of  the  validity  of  the  grant  having  arisen,  His  Majesty, 
at  the  suit  of  Henry  Earl  of  Southampton,  one  of  the  over- 
seers of  the  will  of  the  Earl  of  Devonshire,  directs  that  a 
grant  of  the  said  monastery  be  passed  to  the  said  John  "Wake- 
man,  to  be  holden  by  such  tenures  and  services  as  are  men- 
tioned in  the  aforesaid  letters  patent. — Westminster,  26  May, 
in  the  seventh  year  of  the  reign. 

P.  1.     Orig.     Seeded.    Add.     Endd. 

372 .  Plantation  of  Derry  by  City  of  London. 

Motives   and   rectsons   to   induce  the  City  of  London  to 
tLtulertahe  plantation  in  the  north  of  Ireland. 

1.  The  late  ruined  city  of 'Derry,  situate  upon  the  river  of 
Lough  Foyle,  navigable  above  Derry,  and  another  place  near 
the  Castle  of  Coleraine,  situate  on  the  river  Ban,  navigable 
with  small  vessels  only,  by  reason  of  the  bar  a  little  above 


208  lEEL AND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

Coleraine,   seem    to   be   the   fittest   places  for  the  City  of 
London  to  plant. 

2.  With  small  charges,  these  places  (especially  Derry)  may 
be  made  impregnable. 

3.  His  Majesty  offers  to  grant  to  these  two  places  charters 
of  incorporation  ;  the  whole  territory  betwixt  them,  however, 
which  is  above  20  miles  in  length,  bounded  by  the  sea  on  the 
north,  by  the  Ban  on  the  east,  and  the  river  Deny  or  Lough 
Foyle  on  the  west,  (out  of  which  3,000  acres  or  more  may  be 
allotted  to  each  of  the  towns  for  their  commons),  to  be  planted 
with  such  undertakers  as  the  City  of  London  shall  think  fit, 
paying  only  for  the  same  the  easy  rent  of  the  undertakers. 

4.  These  towns  to  have  the  benefit  of  all  the  customs  on 
goods  imported  or  exported,  as  also  tonnage  and  poundage, 
and  the  great  and  small  customs,  for  21  years,  paying  yearly 
Cs.  ad.  Irish  as  an  acknowledgment. 

.5.  That  His  Majesty  would  be  pleased  to  buy  from  the 
possessors  the  salmon  fishing  of  the  Ban  and  Lough  Foyle, 
and  bestow  the  same  upon  these  towns. 

6.  Also  license  for  free  export  of  all  goods  growing  on  their 
own  lands. 

7.  That  the  Admiralty  jurisdiction  in  the  coasts  of  Tyr- 
connell,  now  supposed  to  be  in  the  Lord  Deputy  by  the  Lord 
High  Admiral's  grant,  may  be  transferred  to  them  for 
21  years. 

The  Land  Commodities  which  the  North  of  Ireland  affords. 

1.  The  country  is  well  watered,  and  supplied  with  fuel 
either  of  trees  or  turf 

2.  It  supplies  such  abundance  of  provisions  as  may  not 
only  sustain  the  plantation,  but  may  furnish  provisions  yearly 
to  the  City  of  London,  especially  for  their  fleets,  as  beeves, 
pork,  fish,  rye,  here,  peas,  and  beans,  and  in  some  years 
will  help  the  dearth  of  the  city  and  country  about,  and  the 
storehouses  appointed  for  the  relief  of  the  poor. 

8.  It  is  fit  for  breeding  of  mares  and  for  cattle,  and  thence 
may  be  expected  store  of  hides,  tallow,  &c. 

4.  The  soil  is  suited  for  English  sheep,  and  if  need  were, 
wool  might  be  had  cheaply  out  of  the  West  of  Scotland. 

5.  It  is  fit  in  many  parts  for  madder,  hops,  and  woad. 

6.  It  affords  fells  of  red  deer,  foxes,  sheep  and  lambs,  cony, 
martens,  squirrels,  &c. 

7.  It  grows  hemp  and  flax  better  than  elsewhere,  and  thus 
might  furnish  materials  for  canvas,  cables,  cordage,  and  such 
like  requisites  for  shipping.  Also  for  thread,  linen  cloths, 
and  stuffs  made  of  linen  yarn,  which  is  finer  there  and  more 
plentiful  than  in  all  the  rest  of  the  kingdom. 

8.  Timber,  stone,  lime,  and  slate,  and  building  materials  are 
to  be  had,  and  the  soil  is  good  for  making  bricks  and  tiles. 

The  goodliest  timber  in  the  woods  of  Glanconkein  and  Kel- 
leitragh  may  be   had,  and   may  compare  with  any  in  His 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  209 


1009. 


Majesty's  dominions,  and  may  be  brought  to  the  sea  by 
Lough  Eagh  and  the  Ban.  Fir  masts  of  all  sorts  may  be 
had  out  of  Loughnaber  in  Scotland  (not  far  from  the  north  of 
Ireland)  more  easily  than  from  Norway. 

9.  All  materials  for  building  of  ships  (except  tar)  is  there 
to  be  ha,d  in  great  plenty,  and  in  countries  adjoining. 

10.  There  is  wood  for  pipe  staves,  hogshead  staves,  barrel 
staves,  hop  staves,  clap  boards,  wainscot,  and  dyeing  ashes, 
glass  and  iron  work  ;  copper  and  iron  ore  are  thei-e  found 
abundantly. 

11.  The  country  is  fit  for  honey  and  wax. 

The  Sea  and  River  Commodities. 

1.  The  harbour  of  Deny  is  very  good,  and  the  roads  at 
Portrush  and  Lough  Swilly  (not  far  distant  from  Derry) 
tolerable. 

2.  The  sea  fishings  are  plentiful  of  all  manner  of  fishes, 
especially  herrings  and  eels.  Yearly,  after  Michaelmas,  above 
seven  or  eight  score  of  sail  of  the  King's  subjects  and  strangers 
are  there  for  loading,  besides  an  infinite  number  for  fishing 
and  killing. 

3.  There  are  great  fishings  in  the  adjacent  islands  of  Scot- 
land, where  many  Hollanders  do  fish  all  the  summer,  and 
plentifully  vent  their  fishes  into  Spain  and  within  the  Straits. 

4.  Much  train  and  fish  oil  may  be  made  upon  the  coast. 

6.  As  the  sea  yieldeth  fish,  so  the  coast  afibrds  abundance 
of  sea  fowl,  and  the  rivers  great  store  of  fresh  fishes,  more 
than  any  of  the  rivers  of  England. 

6.  There  be  store  of  good  pearls  upon  the  coast,  especially 
within  the  river  of  Loughfoyle. 

7.  These  coasts  are  ready  for  traflac  with  England  and  Scot- 
land, and  lie  open  and  convenient  for  Spain  and  the  Straits, 
and  fittest  and  nearest  to  Newfoundland. 

The  Profits  that  London  shall  receive  by  this  Plantation. 

If  multitudes  of  men  were  employed  proportionally  to  these 
commodities,  many  thousands  would  be  set  at  work,  to  the 
great  service  of  the  King,  the  strength  of  his  realm,  and  the 
advancement  of  several  trades.  It  might  ease  the  city  of  an 
insupportable  burthen  of  persons,  which  it  might  conveniently 
spare,  all  parts  of  the  city  being  so  surcharged  that  one  trades- 
man is  scarce  able  to  live  by  another ;  and  it  would  also  be  a 
means  to  free  and  preserve  the  city  from  infection,  and  conse- 
quently the  whole  kingdom,  which  of  necessity  must  have 
recourse  hither,  and  being  pestered  and  closed  up  together  can 
never  otherwise  or  very  hardly  avoid  infection. 

These  colonies  may  be  a  means  to  utter  infinite  commodities 
from  London  to  furnish  the  whole  North  of  Ireland  and  Isles 
of  Scotland,  which  may  be  transported  by  means  of  the  river 
Ban  and  Loughfoyle  into  the  counties  of  Coleraine,  Donegal, 
Tyrone,  Armagh,  and  Antrim. 


210  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

The  city  of  Dublin  being  desolate  by  the  slaughter  of  the 
Easterlings,  who  were  the  ancient  inhabitants  thereof,  was 
given  by  King  Henry  the  Second  to  the  city  of  Bristol  to 
be  inhabited,  which,  without  any  charge  to  the  King,  Bristol 
performed,  whose  posterity  continues  there  to  this  day. 

This  plantation,  thus  performed  to  the  eternal  commenda- 
tion of  Bristol,  was  not  the  least  cause  of  civilizing  and 
securing  that  part  of  the  country. 

It  were  to  be  wished  this  noble  precedent  were  followed 
by  the  City  of  London  in  these  times,  with  so  much  the 
more  alacrity  as  they  excel  Bristol  in  ability  and  means. 
And  so  much  the  rather,  since  the  commodities  which  the  City 
of  London  will  reap  hereby  far  surpass  the  profits  which  could 
redound  to  Bristol  by  the  other. 

Pp.  4.  Not  signed  or  add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chi- 
chester:  "The  28th  of  May  1609.  Motives  and  reasons  to 
induce  the  Citie  of  London  to  undertake  plantation  in  the 
North  of  Ireland." 

«  Re.  the  29th  of  August  1609." 

May  29.      373.        Earl  of  Kildaee  to  the  King. 

^^  '226 ^si'*'  Expresses  his  confidence  in  His  Majesty's  protection  under 

'     '  aU  his  necessities,  and  especially  in  matters  of  justice,  and  his 

reliance  on  the  due  course  of  His  Majesty's  laws,  the  true  exer 
cution  of  which  is  the  chief  good  and  principal  inheritance 
that  his  subjects  are  born  and  by  their  birth  are  entitled  unto. 
Although  loth  in  any  kind  to  be  troublesome  to  His  High- 
ness, yet  he  is  constrained  to  appeal  to  him  for  relief,  the 
whole  state  of  his  poor  living  and  birthright  being  brought 
into  question  by  the  undue  courses  of  Sir  Robert  Digby,  who 
haS  these  many  years  past  unjustly  vexed  him  in  the  Court 
of  Castle  Chamber.  Yet  by  the  censure  of  that  court  he 
is  clearly  acquit  of  the  matters  wherewith  he  was  untruly 
charged  by  him,  and  the  principal  cause  between  them  was 
referred  to  the  common  law,  the  right  mean  for  trial  of  matters 
touching  land.  Notwithstanding  he  has  of  late  proponed  a 
suit  in  His  Majesty's  Chief  Bench  against  him  (Lord  Digby) 
for  a  parcel  of  his  inheritance,  which  being  ready  to  come  to  a 
trial  (and  the  law  by  all  likelihood  to  pass  on  his  side)  the  suit 
was  staid  both  by  an  order  from  the  Council  Board  and  by  an 
inimition  [inhibition]  out  of  the  Chancery,  and  his  counsel 
and  solicitors  were  thereby  forbidden  to  plead  or  further  to 
prosecute  his  suit  in  that  place.  Prays  the  King,  therefore,  in 
regard  of  his  long  service  to  His  Majesty's  late  sister,  and  his 
willingness  ever  to  continue  his  true  and  faithful  servant  to 
the  hazard  of  himself  and  the  expense  of  his  poor  patrimony 
in  His  Majesty's  service,  to  direct  letters  hither  requiring 
that  no  extraordinary  courses  contrary  to  the  law  may  be 
permitted  against  him,  but  that  all  suits  between  Sir  Robert 
Digby  and  him  concerning  title  of  land  and  inheritance  may 
be  determined  by  the  ordinary  course  of  comnion  law. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  211 


1609. 

Professes  himself  His  Majesty's  bounden,  grieved,  and  per- 
plexed servant,  in  that  he  is  utterly  barred  from  all  employ- 
ments under  His  Highness  whereby  he  might  express  himself 
according  as  he  is  in  duty  obliged,  His  Majesty's  most  humble 
servant  in  all  dutiful  subjection. — Dublin,  29  May  1609. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

May  29.     374.        Earl  of  Kildake  to  Salisbury. 

vol.  226^  82  '  Details  the  same  grievance,  and  requests  his  Lordship's  aid 

in  furtherance  of  his  suit. — Dublin,  29  May  1609. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

May  31.      375.        Petition  of  Alexander  Spicer  to  the  Privy  Council. 
vol  '2'^it  8°  A  Expresses  his  desire  to  further  the  intended  plantation  of 

Ulster,  and  prays  to  be  admitted  into  the  number  of  under- 
takers. 

Mem.    signed  by   Salisbury  :    "  Referred  to   the  Commis- 
sioners appointed  for  the  Ulster  plantation,  the  last  of  May 
1609." 
P.  1. 

May.         376.         Reasons  proving  that  the  deferring  of  the   Plantation 
S.P.,  Ireland,  iQ  Ulster  until  the  next  spring  is  most  convenient  for 

^°  ■    ~  '     ■  the  King's  Majesty,  for  the  Undertakers,  and  for  the 

general  service. 

First.  The  Commissioners  may  this  summer  proceed  to 
make  a  more  exact  survey  than  the  former  Avas,  wherein 
they  may  supply  the  omissions,  assure  the  quantities,  divide 
and  plot  the  proportions,  and  make  a  model  ready  for  casting 
the  lots. 

Secondly.  By  reason  of  the  monastery  lands,  Termon  lands, 
bishop's  lands,  and  church  lands,  which  lie  intermixed  with 
the  escheated  lands,  and  are  now  to  be  assigned  in  specie  to 
the  owners,  the  casting  out  of  the  proportions  will  become 
very  difficult,  and  will  require  longer  time  than  if  the  first 
intended  project  of  exchanges  had  stood. 

Thirdly.  If  the  undertakers  shall  repair  thither  this  summer, 
they  will  be  forced  to  attend  the  execution,  which  cannot  be 
done  before  Michaelmas  at  the  soonest,  the  same  being  to  be 
sped  in  six  counties ;  so  that  they  will  not  only  spend  their 
stock  by  lingering  all  the  summer  in  a  country  where  is 
neither  lodging  nor  provision  for  them,  but  may  also  by 
contrary  weather  be  compelled  to  spend  a  great  part  of 
the  winter  time  in  that  kingdom,  by  which  they  may  be 
disappointed  of  the  next  summer's  preparation. 

Whereas  now  all  things  will  be  so  made  in  readiness 
against  the  next  spring,  that  the  undertakers  may,  in  the 
beginning  of  the  season,  enter  into  and  sit  down,  every  man 
in  his  proportion,  anr]  have  the  summer  before  them  for 
preparation  of  buildings  and  other  supplies. 

0  2 


212  IRELAND— JAMES   1. 

1609. 

Fourthly.  Many  have  been  and  daily  are  petitioners  to  be 
admitted  undertakers ;  but,  because  they  dwell  in  remote 
countries,  their  abilities  cannot  be  known  until  the  summer 
vacation,  that  inquiry  may  be  made  thereof  in  the  countries. 

Fifthly.  The  natives  yet  dwell  dispersedly  over  all  the 
countries,  who  are  to  be  drawn  into  certain  limits  before  the 
undertakers  can  begin  any  plantation  ;  which  restraint  must 
be  effected  by  the  countenance  and  po  wer  of  the  Lord  Deputy 
this  summer. 

Sixthly.  The  English  plantation  and  the  servitors'  planta- 
tion must  begin  together,  and  strengtlien  each  other,  by 
reason  that  the  servitors  in  Ireland  have  forborne  to  under- 
take at  all,  the  English  cannot  proceed  until  some  other 
course  be  taken,  for  except  the  servitors  defend  the  borders 
and  fastnesses  and  suppress  the  Irishry,  the  new  planters,  who 
neither  "know  the  country  nor  the  wars  nor  the  qualities  of 
that  people,  can  never  prosper. 

Seventhly.  There  is  a  common  report  in  England,  and  a 
strong  expectation  in  Ireland,  that  the  Earl  of  Tyrone  or  his 
sons  will  draw  certain  forces  into  Ulster  this  summer, .which 
is  no  small  discouragement  of  the  plantation,  and  will  not  be 
cleared  until  experience  hath  satisfied  the  same. 

Eighthly.  It  has  been  thought  fit  to  mitigate  some  of  tlie 
conditions  in  the  project  of  the  plantation,  which  mitigation 
is  to  be  published,  which  cannot  so  speedily  be  done  but  that 
this  season  will  be  partly  over  past. 

Bishop  of  Armagh. 

Pp.  3.  Endd. :  "May  1609,  Ireland.  Reasons  for  deferring 
the  plantation  till  the  next  summer." 

June  2.       377.        Lord  Danvees  to  Dudley  Norton. 
S.P.,  Irrfaiid,  Being  sure  that  his  Lordship  desires  that  these  stranger 

vol.  "Alt.  84.  .  -,    .  ^ 

merchants  interested  in  the  propertj'  of  such  goods  as  ai-e  saved 
or  in  the  ship  Jennings  was  master  of,  he  adds  his  opinion  that 
the  Admiral's  commissions  will  not  procure  them  current  satis- 
faction ;  suggests  therefore  that  they  should  have  letters  from 
the  Lords  to  the  Lord  Deputy.  Pretermitted  this  yesterday, 
and  leaves  it  to  his  discretion.— 2  June  1609. 
P.  1.     Signed,.     Sealed.     Add.     Endd. 


vol.  -m,  84. 


June  5.      378.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Philad.  p., 
¥0l.  1,  p.  334. 


Philad.  P.,  rpj^g  King  having  given  permission  to  Sir  Antony  Sentleger, 


late  Master  of  the  E.olls  of  Ireland,  to  leave  his  place  and  make 
his  abode  in  England,  and  having  chosen  Sir  Francis  Aungier,  a 
counsel lor-at-law  here,  for  supply  of  that  place,  he  (Sir  Arthur) 
is  required  to  admit  him  to  that  office,  with  all  such  fees,  port- 
corn,  house  rent,  allowance  for  beeves,  and  all  such  other 
allowances  as  Sir  Antony  Sentleger  had  while  in  that  ofiice. — 
Westminster,  5  June  1G09. 

P.  ^.     Signed.  ^j,t  head.     Add.     Endd.     ^i  /oof ;"  This  is 
enrolled  in  the  Councell  book. — Pa.  Fox." 


IRELAND — JAMES  I.  213 


1609. 
June  5.      379.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

vol  1  "^p  336  ^^^"  Jo^^  Denham,  serjeant-at-law,  to  be  appointed  to  the 

place  of  Chief  Baron,  vacant  by  the  preferment  of  Sir  Hum- 
phrey Wynche,  late  Chief  Baron,  to  the  post  of  Chief  Justice. 
— Westminster,  5  June  1609. 

P.  J.  Signed  at  head.  Add. :  "  Of  the  fyfth  of  June, 
1609.  From  the  Kinge's  Majestic  to  sweare  Sir  John  Denham 
of  His  Highness's  Privie  Councell,  and  to  passe  to  him  a  patent 
for  the  office  of  Chief  Baron.     Re.  the  third  of  July."     Enrol. 

June  6.      380.        Lords  of  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

vol'^a^'^r)  387  Would  have  been  willing  to  gratify  the  bearer,  Sir  Thomas 

Williams,  in  his  suit  for  some  certain  proportion  of  land  in  the 
Ulster  plantation,  because  of  his  long  services  in  Ireland,  only 
that  it  would  have  disordered  the  course  set  down  for  that 
plantation.  They  therefore  refer  him  to  his  (Sir  Arthur's) 
consideration,  to  gratify  and  encourage  him  as  he  best  may. — 
Greenwich,  6  June  1  609. 

Signed :  T.  Ellesraere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton, 
Notingham,  T.  SufFolke,  E.  Worcester,  E.  Zouche,  Jul.  Caesar. 

P.  |.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester :  "  From  the 
Lis.  of  the  Councell  in  the  behalfe  of  S"^  Thomas  Williames  for 
lands  in  Ulster.     Re.  the  6th  of  July." 

June  6.      381.        The  Second  Proclamation  touching  Defective  Titles 

(.'areiv  MSS.,  and  SURRENDERS.^ 

By  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Council. 

Dated  at  the  Castle  of  Dublin  and  signed  Thomas  Dublin, 
Cane,  Thomas  Ridgeway,  Richard  Wingfield,  Humph.  Winch, 
Arch.  Walch,  Oliver  Lambert,  Garret  Moore,  Henry  Power, 
Adam  Loftus,  Richard  Cooke. — Printed  at  Dublin  by  John 
Francton,  King's  printer  in  Ireland. 

P.  1.     Printed. 

June  9.     382.        Remembrances  for  the  Ulster  Plantation. 
^^^^Z¥'^^i'  Remembrances  for  the  Preparation  of  the  Plantation, 

vol.  630,  p.  7.  .  i^-_^  ' 

With  articles  to  be  sent  to  the  Lord  Deputy,  to  be 
annexed  to  the  Commission  of  Survey,  and  for  ordering 
titles,  together  with  an  advice  for  removing  the  natives 
who  are  swordmen.^ 
Concerning  the  place  ;  namely,  the   perfecting  of  the  pro- 
portions, the  pacifying  and  ordering  of  the   titles,    and   the 
removal   of  sojne   of  the  natives.     And  also  concerning  the 
persons    of  the   undertakers ;    who    are   of    two    sorts,    the 
Servitors  and  Britons. 
P.  1.     Copy. 

June  10.     383.        Sir  John  Davys  to  Salisbury. 

vol.'227  85  '  Fears  that  these  letters  will  come  to  his  hands  when  wearied 

with  suits  and  businesses  of  far  greater  importance  than  any 

'  Care-w  Calendar,  p.  42.  ^  Ibid,  p.  42. 


214  IRELAND— JAMES   I. 

1609. 

advertisement  he  can  give  from  hence.  This  is  a  tribute  and 
a  duty  which  he  is  pleased  to  accept ;  and  therefore  he  is  bold 
to  write  upon  all  opportunities,  but  does  not  wish  his  Lord- 
ship to  read  his  letters,  but  at  his  full  and  best  leisure. 

The  cities  and  port  towns  here  begin  to  renew  their  charters, 
among  the  rest,  Waterford,  seeking  to  have  confirmation  of 
their  ancient  liberties. 

Found  in  their  old  charters,  strange  and  unreasonable 
clauses  ;  namely  : — 

1.  That  they  might  lawfully  sell  all  manner  of  victual  and 
other  things  vendible  to  the  King's  enemies  and  rebels. 

2.  That  they  might  give  safe  conduct  to  aU  the  King's 
enemies  and  rebels. 

3.  That  it  should  be  lawful  for  them  to  keep  and  hold  out 
of  their  city  the  King's  Deputy  or  Lieutenant  if  he  came  with 
a  greater  company  than  they  were  able  to  master. 

4.  That  if  the  Deputy  or  other  magistrate  should  arrest  any 
citizen  of  Waterford  for  any  oifence  whatsoever,  if  the  party 
arrested  appealed  to  the  King  or  Council  of  England,  he 
should  forthwith  be  set  at  liberty. 

These  and  the  like  absurd  and  unreasonable  privileges,  being 
granted  unto  them  in  desperate  times,  he  has  omitted  alto- 
getlier  out  of  their  new  charter,  which  he  hopes  his  Lordship 
will  approve  as  well  done,  if  any  complaint  shall  be  made  by 
them. 

The  Bishop  of  Waterford  desires  that  the  liberties  of  his 
church  may  be  saved  in  this  charter ;  whereupon  he  presumes 
to  note  one  thing,  which  perhaps  will  make  his  Lordship 
smile.  The  Bishop  would  in  nowise  suffer  the  mayor  to  bear 
up  his  sword  within  the  precinct  of  the  cathedral  church. 
Tlie  mayor  and  citizens  being  all  Papists  and  recusants  not- 
withstanding exclaim  against  the  Bishop,  afiirming  that  he 
goes  about  to  erect  a  papacy  in  Waterford,  in  that  he  will 
not  admit  the  King's  sword  into  his  liberties,  and  desire  us, 
that  are  the  King's  ofiicers,  to  maintain  the  temporal  sword 
against  the  usurpation  of  the  clergy.  The  State  here  expects 
the  commission  for  the  plantation  of  Ulster  with  a  kind  of 
longing ;  because  they  doubt  that  the  summer  will  be  far 
spent  before  the  commissioners  can  begin  their  journey,  for 
which  they  '■an  make  no  preparation  until  the  commission, 
with  the  instructions,  be  transmitted.  The  martial  men, 
though  they 'refused  to  give  in  their  names  to  the  Lord 
Deputy  fo^.  portions  to  be  assigned  to  them,  yet  expect  and 
desire  to  be  undertakers,  but  they  thought  that  by  their 
refusal  to  accept  their  portions  by  lot,  they  should  have 
had  their  choice  of  the  best  places  ;  wherein  now  they  think 
their  expectation  deceived.  But  they  that  expect  and  long 
for  the  settling  of  the  peace  of  this  kingdom,  assure  them- 
selves that,  if  the  empty  veins  of  Ulster  were  once  filled  with 
good  British  blood,  the  whole  body  of  this  commonwealth 
would  quickly  recover  perfection  of  health. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  215 


1609. 

The  fines  imposed  upon  the  recusants  of  Munster  by  Sir 
H.  Brunker  are  drawn  down  to  a  low  proportion,  but  not 
altogether  remitted ;  the  total  wiU  amount  to  a  reasonable 
good  sum,  and  yet  the  particular  persons  are  reasonably  well 
contented. 

The  Lord  Deputy  has  been  lately  much  importuned  to  pro- 
hibit the  selling  of  wines  without  special  license.  His  Lord- 
ship demanding  his  (Davys's)  opinion,  told  him  that  the  same 
suit  had  been  often  moved  in  England  for  this  realm,  but  has 
not  been  thought  fit  to  be  granted  as  yet  in  this  kingdom. 
—Dublin,  10  June  1609. 

Pp.  2.     Signed.    Sealed.    Add.    Endd.. 

June  10.     384.        William  Ravenscroft  to  Sie  John  Davys. 
vorf^^^fii  '^^^  bearer  hereof,  their  noble   friend.  Sir  John  Denham, 

coming  so  fresh  from  the  Court,  will  so  amply  furnish  him 
with  aU  present  occurrents,  that  he  (Ravenscroft)  needs  not 
to  write  much  at  this  time,  and  yet  the  desire  he  has  to  hear 
from  him  commands  him  not  to  be  silent. 

The  Sovereign  never  employed  time  more  nobly  than  of 
late,  before  the  holidays,  in  hearing  the  differences  betwixt 
the  judges  and  the  Ecclesiastical  Courts  touching  prohi- 
bitions; his  scope  and  end  being  to  cut  off  multiplicity  and 
long  sums  of  suits,  which  are  grown  to  be  too  burdensome  to 
the  subject. 

And  now,  since  the  holidays,  he  is  giving  public  audience  to 
other  grievances  against  the  officers  of  the  navy,  several  days, 
both  forenoon  and  afternoon,  having  been  spent  in  either  of 
these  causes ;  wherein  His  Majesty  has  so  equally,  under- 
standingly,  and  judicially  carried  himself  as  to  him  (Ravens- 
croft) it  was  very  admirable,  and  he  doubts  not  the  common- 
wealth will  be^  much  advantaged  by  the  example. 

Sir  John  Denham  delivered  unto  him  the  King's  Bench 
record  of  the  attainder  of  Sir  Walter  Raleigh,  and  some  others 
to  be  exemplified  and  transmitted  into  Ireland,  which,  because 
it  was  a  matter  commended  by  him  (Sir  John),  he  has  the 
rather  undertaken  to  dispatch  to  be  sent  over  by  Sir  Francis 
Aungier  ;  wiU  disburse  clerks'  fees  for  writing  and  passing, 
to  be  considered  as  he  (Sir  John)  shall  find  cause  by  those 
that  are  to  be  benefitted  by  it. 

If  he  be  weary  of  his  late  purchase  at  any  time,  prays 
him  to  let  his  friends  know  of  it,  and  he  shall  have  his 
money  with  advantage ;  but  he  (Ravenscroft)  will  rather  wish 
him  to  keep  it,  and  to  add  twice  so  much  more  to  it  at  his 
next  return. 

Sends  his  very  kind  salutation  to  himself  and  that  honour- 
able lady,  his  bedfellow. 

Lincoln's  Inn,  10  June  1609. 

P.  1.  Hoi  Add.  "  To  the  Right  WorU  his  muche  es- 
teemed worthy  frend  S'^  John  Davies,  Knt.,  Attorney  Gen'all 
of  Ireland." 


216 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


]609. 

June  13. 

Philad.  P., 

vol.  1,  p.  338. 


June  ]  5. 

Philad.  P., 
vol.  3,  p.  389. 


385.  The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Directs  him  to  accept  surrender  from  Robert  Nangle  of 
Ballysax,  in  consideration  of  his  good  services  to  the  Crown  in 
Queen  Elizabeth's  time,  and  the  recommendations  as  well  of  the 
former  Deputy,  as  of  him  (Sir  Arthur)  for  some  recompense 
for  his  losses  and  maims,  of  the  castle  and  lands  of  Ballisax 
in  the  county  of  Kildare,  and  the  abbey  called  Hore  Abbey 
in  the  county  of  Tipperary,  and  the  poor  friary  of  Kilmacahil 
in  the  county  of  Westmeath,  and  of  all  other  the  lands  and 
rectories  in  Ireland,  which  he  holds  from  the  Crown  for  terms 
under  60  years  or  thereabouts,  and  to  re-grant  to  him  Ballisax 
and  Hore  Abbey,  and  the  Friary  of  Kilmacahil,  and  all  the  said 
rectories  for  so  many  years  as  are  yet  to  come  of  the  said 
terms,  and  for  60  years  further  in  reversion,  reserving  the 
former  rents,  with  a  covenant  that  he  shall  repair  the  ruinous 
castle  of  Ballisax,  according  to  such  directions  as  he  shall 
receive  from  him  (Sir  Arthiir)  and  the  Council. — "Westminster, 
13  June  1609. 

Pp.  Ig.  Signed  at  the  head.  Add.  Enrol,  in  the  Audi- 
tor's Office.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester:  "Of  the  13*^ 
of  June  1609.  From  the  Kinge's  Matie  on  the  behalfe  of 
Robert  Nangle.     Re.  the  7^^  of  July." 

386.  Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Though  the  intended  repair  of  Lady  O'Dogherty,  widow  of 

the  late  traitor,  to  the  Council  in  London,  in  pursuit  of  some 
relief,  was  prevented  by  his  (Sir  Arthur's)  good  discretion, 
and  though  she  had  small  reason  to  undertake  such  a  journey 
in  hope  of  finding  any  favour  there,  both  in  respect  of  the 
traitor,  her  husband,  and  others  to  whom  she  is  allied ;  yet, 
because  it  is  said  that  her  marriage  money,  which  should  have 
been  paid  by  her  brother,  the  Lord  Viscount  Gormanston, 
remains  unpaid,  they  pray  him  (Sir  Arthur)  to  have  the 
matter  examined  into  ;  and  as  her  dower  is  forfeited  by  her 
husband's  rebellion,  the  King  will  bestow  upon  her  40Z.  a  year, 
to  be  paid  out  of  the  rents  of  Innishowen  (lately  O'Dogherty's 
land)  daring  the  King's  pleasure. — Greenwich,  15  June  1609. 

Signed:  R.  Cant.,  T.  EUesmere,  Cane,  H.  Northampton, 
E.  Zouche,  J.  Herbert,  H.  Bruce,  Jul.  Csesar. 

P.  |.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester:  "  Of  the  15^^ 
of  June  1 609.  From  the  Lords  of  the  Counsel],  to  give  iOl. 
per  annum  to  the  Ladie  O'Doughertie  out  of  the  rents  of 
Ennishowen,  &c.     Re.  the  2S^'^  of  August  1609." 

"  This  is  enrolled  in  the  Councell  Book. — Pa.  Fox." 


June  17.     387.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 

S.P.,  Ireland,  j^  ^g  j^q.^  almost  three  years  since  he  first  entered  into  the 

consideration  of  removing  of  the  Moores  and  other  unruly 
septs  out  of  the  Queen's  County  into  some  of  the  remote 
counties  of  this  kingdom  ;   and  when  he  had  obtained  the 


vol.  227,  86. 


IRELAND— JAMES  1,  217 


1609. 


King's  letters  to  authorise  and  warrant  him  therein,  he  sought 
to  bring  it  to  pass  by  treaty  and  persuasion.     To  that  end  he 
employed  Mr.  Patrick  Crosbie  to  deal  with  them,  who,  as  he  was 
told,  had  good  credit  and  power  among  them.     And  forasmuch 
as  he  must  have  been  at  an  extraordinary  charge  in  winning 
them  to   his  bias,   and  greatly  hindered  in   his   private  by 
making  his  lands  in  that  county  waste  through  their  remove 
from  the  same,  he  was  an  humble  suitor  to  His  Majesty  for 
some  recompense  to  be  giveft  to  him.     His  Highness  bestowed 
the  lands  of  Terbert  on  him,  with  something  else  of  no  great 
value,  and  from  that  time  to  this,  he  has,  at  great  charge  and 
travel,  carefully  and  painfully  laboured  to  carry  them  thence 
by  a  mild  and  temperate  course  ;  and  albeit  he  prevailed  with 
some  of  the  meaner  sort,  such  as  had  little  or  nothing  to  live 
on,  yet  the  most  and  chiefest   could  not  be  so  led  by  him, 
partly  out  of  their  pride  and   affection  to  live  where  they 
had  so  often  kindled  the  fire  of  rebellion,  and  more  by  the 
underhand  dealing   of  such  as  at  first  pretended  a  willingness 
to  be   rid   of  them.     But  when  he  (Chichester)  found  by  the 
project  of  the  Ulster  plantation,  that,  among  other  conclusions, 
a  resolution  was  taken  to  remove  the  swordmen  out  of  some  of 
those  shires,  he  thought  it  would  have  been  one  of  Hercules' 
labours  to  have  attempted  that,  if  they  could  not  effect  this 
with  all  the  providence,  care,  and  travel  they  had  employed. 
And,  therefore,  he  resolved  to  add  force  to  persuasion  ;  and  so 
with  the  terror   of  tlie   one,  and   the  travail  and  charge  of 
Mr.   Crosbie,  with  the  good  assistance  given   by  Mr.  Piggott, 
an  honest  and  discreet  gentleman  of  that  county,  the  business 
is  now  fully  brought  to  pass,  and  all  the  seven  septs  are  de- 
parted thence,  some  into  Thomonde,  more  into  Connaught, 
and  most  into  Kerry,  with  Mr.  Crosbie  ;  for  which  service  he 
has  passed  him  the  manor   of  Terbert,  and  has  forgiven  him 
five  years'  rent  due  to  His  Majesty  for  his  lands  in  the  Queen's 
County,  which  exceeds  not  121.  a  year,  and,  by  reason  of  the 
remove   of  those  septs,  is  now  become  in  a  manner  waste, 
according  to   His   Majesty's  directions.     This  he  thinks  is  no 
full  recompense  for  his  travel  and  expenses,  and  he  has,  there- 
fore, requested  him  to  move  his  Lordship  for  the  particulars 
mentioned  in  the  note  sent  herewith.     And  albeit  he  thinks 
that  he  has  deserved  what  is  given  him,   even  in  his  travels 
and  expenses  since  he  first  entered  into  this  business,  and  that 
his  loss  (most  of  his  land  lying  waste  as  aforesaid)  merits  some 
further  recompense,  yet  he  will  not  press  further  in  his  behalf 
than  may  stand  with  his   (Salisbury's)  approbation,  now  that 
he  understands  the  full  effect  of  the  business.     He  is  greatly 
maliced  for  what  he  has  clone,  and   those  septs  will  ever  hate 
him  (Chichester)  deadly  ;  but  he   doubts  not  the  harm  they 
can  do  to  himself,  and  all  he  desires  herein  is  that  Mr.  Crosbie 
may  have  his  Lordship's  favour  for  his  speedy  dispatch  in  his 
reasonable  demands,  that   he  may  return   to  overlook  and 
welcome  his  unruly  guests  into  Kerry,  and  that  Mr.  Piggott 


oa^ 


218  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

may  know  that  he  has  recommended  his  honest  service. — 
Dublin  Castle,  17  June  1609. 

Has  delivered  to  Mr.  Crosbie  such  letters  as  the  principal 
freeholders  of  the  Queen's  County  writ  to  him,  upon  the  re- 
move of  those  septs,  by  which  his  Lordship  may  perceive  that 
the  business  is  effected  to  their  good  liking.  Mr.  Crosbie  would 
have  attended  him  there  long  ere  this,  but  that  he  (Chichester) 
made  stay  of  him,  the  better  to  perform  the  service  for 
reuioving  of  the  Moores  and  other  septs,  which  at  his  request 
he  thought  fit  to  signify  to  his  Lordship. 

Pp.  2.    Signed.     Add.    Endd. 

June  19.     388.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

vof  Y^p  340  '^^^^  gentleman.  Captain  [  ]  Steward,  who  led  a  com- 

pany of  men  into  that  country  out  of  Scotland,  has  humbly 
besought  His  Majesty  for  some  part  of  the  escheated  lands 
in  the  province  of  Ulster  to  be  bestowed  upon  him.  And 
though  His  Majesty  will  not  alter  the  common,  course  in- 
tended for  all  servitors,  he  yet  desires  extraordinary  respect 
to  be  shown  to  him  when  the  distribution  shall  come,  "  in 
regard  he  hath  been  one  of  the  country  of  Scotland  that 
hath  first  borne  the  brunt  of  service  against  those  rebels  ; "  so 
that,  if  there  shall  be  any  part  of  those  lands  which  he  shall 
specially  affect,  and  that  they  may  be  granted  to  him  without 
interruption  of  the  common  allotment,  be  may  therein  be 
regarded  before  another. — Westminster,  19  June  1609. 

P.  If.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chi- 
chester :  "  Of  the  19tli  of  June  1609.  From  the  Kinge's  Ma^e, 
in  the  behalfe  of  Capt.  Steward  for  a  portion  of  the  escheated 
lands,  &c.     Ee.  the  28th  of  July." 

June  19.     389.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
f'i''^''^2  Orders  that  Sir  John  Jephson  shall,  in  consideration  of  his 

long  service  in  Ireland,  be  admitted  of  the  Privy  Council.  And 
that  Sir  John  King,  who  succeeds  Sir  James  FuUerton  in  the 
office  of  Mustermaster- General,  shall  be  likewise  of  the  Council, 
for  the  better  authorising  him  in  the  execution  of  his  office,  as 
Sir  James  Fullerton  was. — Westminster,  19  June  1609. 

P.  ^.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chi- 
chester :  "  Of  the  19^11  of  June  1609.  From  the  Kinge's  Matio, 
to  swear  Sir  John  Jephsonne,  and  Sir  John  Kinge  of  the 
Privie  Councell.     Ke.  the  29*11  of  July." 

"  This  is  enrolled  in  the  Councell  Booke. — Pa.  Foxe." 

June  20.     390.        Lords  of  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Phiiaxi.  p.,  ^j.g  surprised  to  hear  from  Sir   John  Davys,  the  King's 

^°  ■   '  ^'      ■  Attorney,  that  he  (Sir  Arthur)  delays  to  bring  Neale  Garve 

and  O'Kane  to  their  trial,  (who  were  arraigned  last  term,  and 
are  to  receive  their  trials  as  soon  as  juries  can  be  returned 
from  the  counties  where  their  treasons  were  committed),  ex- 
pecting some  further  direction  hence  ;  the  more  especially  as 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  219 


1609. 

the  Attorney  was  here  present  when  his  letter  was  received, 
signifying  the  danger  of  the  persons  (escape)  and  how  plainly 
the  evidence  against  them  was  proved.  And  it  was  left  to 
him  to  report  the  King's  resolution.  Understanding  that 
further  and  conclusive  evidence  has  been  since  obtained 
against  them,  they  request  he  wiU  give  present  order  for  their 
speedy  trial.  With  regard  to  Rorie  O'Donnel,  the  traitor's 
only  lawful  brother,  apprehended  by  Sir  James  Parrott,  whom 
the  Judge  of  Assize  of  the  county  of  Down  declined  to  try 
as  being  only  eleven  years  of  age,  and  very  simple.  His 
Majesty  approves  of  the  Judge's  conduct  and  commends 
Sir  James  Parrott  for  his  diligence.  For  the  other  two 
children,  the  one  being  a  child  to  the  late  Earl  of  Tyrone, 
and  the  other  of  Caphar  O'Donel,  Tyrconnell's  brother,  His 
Majesty  directs  that  they  shall  only  have  such  allowance  as 
may  be  fit  for  branches  sprung  from  such  traitorous  and  ill- 
deserving  parents,  and  shall  be  detained  there,  without  putting 
His  Majesty  to  any  furtlier  trouble  or  charge. — Whitehall, 
20  June  1609. 

Signed :  K  Cant.,  T.  Ellesmere,  R.  Salisbury,  H.  North- 
ampton, Notingham,  T.  Suffolke,  E.  Worcester,  E.  Zouche, 
W.  KnoUys,  Jul.  Csesar. 

F.  |.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  :  "  Of  the 
20th  of  June  1609.  From  the  Lords  of  the  Councell,  to 
putt  S"^  Neale  O'Donnell  and  Sir  Donnell  O'Cahaine  to  their 
trialls,  and  signifieing  their  pleasures  tutchinge  the  chyldren  of 
Tyrone,  &c.     Re.  the  second  of  July." 

June  21.       391.        Sir  John  Bouechiee  to  Salisbuey. 

^'voi'^lf'^sr'  Having  premised  a  long  apology,  he  proceeds  to  report  a 

' "    '     '  matter  which  came  to  his  knowledge  yesternight.     There  is 

in  Ireland  one  Captain  Bartholomew  Owine,  not  long  since, 
he  understands,  much  accounted  of  and  privately  trusted  by 
the  Earl  of  Tyrone,  who  being  employed  at  Dublin  by  the 
said  Earl  at  his  departure  (the  same  beino-  hastened  sooner 
than  was  intended),  he  was  by  that  occasion  left  behind,  yet 
carried  himself  in  so  subtle  a  fashion  that  the  horses  and 
many  other  things  left  by  the  said  Earl  were  committed  to 
his  custody.  This  man  very  lately  brought  into  Cheshire  a 
young  son  of  his  own  to  be  kept,  and  is  again  returned  into 
Ireland  with  a  purpose  very  shortly  to  quit  himself-  thence 
and  to  repair  to  the  said  Earl.  Wherefore  that  his  courage 
and  cunning  may  add  danger  to  a  desperate  resolution,  and 
being  so  weU  assured  of  his  Lordship's  prudeiit  care  and 
great  vigilance  over  these  kingdoms  for  the  good  and  safety 
thereof,  he  holds  it  probable  that  some  use  might  be  made  of 
this  unexpected  advertisement. 

Purposely  encloses  this  letter  to  one  now  at  London  to  be 
delivered  by  him,  his  man  being  presently  ready  to  ride. 
Neither  the  party  himself  from  whom  he  gathered  this  report 
nor  any  other  knows  one  word  thereof  or  of  any  purpose  at 


220  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

all  on  his  part  of  writing  to  his  Lordship. — Grimston,  21  June 
1609. 

P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 


vol.  3,  p.  393. 


June  22.     392.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Philad.  p..  Direct  him  to  grant  to  the  bearer,  Captain  Anthony  Hug- 

gon,  200Z.  current  English  money  and  the  post  of  Provost 
Marshal  (a  post  which  he  formeiiy  held),  whenever  there  shall 
be  need  of  such  an  office,  in  consideration  that  he  has  been 
long  kept  out  of  a  pension  of  4s.  per  day  ordered  him  by  the 
late  Queen,  having  only  received  Is.  6d.  per  day  since  that 
time. — Greenwich,  22  June  1609. 

Signed. :  R.  Cant.,  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  Noting- 
ham,  E.  Worcester,  E.  Zouche,  W.  Knollys. 

P.  |.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester :  «  Of  the  22 
of  Jime  1609.  From  the  Lis.  of  the  Councell  to  geve  unto 
Captain  Huggen  200L  by  concordatum,  &c.  Re.  the  last  of 
[  ]•" 


Tol.  3,  p.  395. 


June  28.    393.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

„r/"i^''r^  ^Q/;  "  ^f^sr  our  hearty  commendations  to  your  Lordship.    Where- 

as upon  suit  made  by  the  agent  for  the  town  of  Youghal  in 
December  last  (in  the  name  and  on  the  behalf  of  the  rest  of 
the  inhabitants  of  tha.t  town),  that  in  the  division  of  the 
county  of  Cork  (which  was  then  intended  in  regard  of  the 
spaciousness  thereof  to  be  made  two  counties),  the  said  town 
of  Youghal  might  be  a  shire  town  in  the  new  county  as  being 
the  most  fittest  place  for  that  purpose,  we  signified  unto  your 
Lordship  by  our  letter  bearing  date  the  20th  of  January  last, ' 
that  His  Majesty  was  graciously  pleased  to  yield  unto  their 
said  suit,  and  to  gTant  unto  them  other  privileges  and  liberties 
as  in  the  letters  is  expressed  ;  forasmuch  as  His  Majesty  and 
we  have  since  that  time  received  information  from  the  Lord 
President  of  Munster  and  by  the  gentlemen  freeholders  and 
others  of  the  county  aforesaid,  that  the  dividing  thereof  in 
that  sort  will  prove  many  ways  enormous  and  inconvenient 
to  the  inhabitants  in  general  (which  was  and  is  intended  for 
their  good),  the  said  county  being  60  miles  in  length,  and 
Youghal  standing  at  tlie  east  border  thereof;  we  do  therefore 
think  it  very  unfit  (although  we  hold  the  town  of  Youghal 
otherwise  worthy  to  be  favoured),  that  standing  so  near  to 
Cork  as  it  doth  (being  26  miles  distant  from  thence,  and  in 
the  uttermost  confines  of  the  county  eastward  as  aforesaid), 
thej-  should  be  divided  into  two  counties  as  by  the  said  former 
direction  was  appointed.  We  do  pray  your  Lordship  to  take 
special  care  that  on  the  division  of  the  said  county  it  may  be 
laid  out  into  equal  proportions  as  near  as  may  be,  so  that  Cork 
may  continue  the  shire  town  (as  it  hath  done)  in  the  one,  and 
Rosscarbery  (being  an  ancient  corporate  town  and  the  bishop's 
see),  or  some  other  town  in  the  west  (as  your  Lordship  shall 
think  fittest)  may  be  the  shire  town  of  the  new  county.     And 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  221 


vol.  61,  p.  296. 


1609. 

if  the  baronies  be  too  great,  it  is  His  Majesty's  pleasure  that 
they  be  divided.  And  whereas  the  White  Knight's  Country 
is  now  in  three  counties  and  answereth  to  none,  His  Majesty 
is  likewise  pleased  that  upon  this  division  it  be  laid  into  one 
of  the  new  counties  at  your  Lordship's  discretion.  And  so 
we  bid  your  Lordship  very  heartily  farewell. — Court  off 
Greenwich,  23  June  1609." 

Signed:  R.  Cant.,  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbiiry,  H. 
Northampton,  E.  Zouche,  J.  Herbert,  H.  Bruce,  Jul.  Cfesar. 

P.  1.  Add.  Endd.:  "  23d  Junii  1609.  From  the  Lis. 
about  the  division  of  the  county  of  Cork,  Rosscarbery  to  be 
the  head  town  of  one.  The  White  Knight's  country  to  be  laid 
to  one  of  them." 

June  23.     394.        Petition  of  Richard  Plunkett,  of  Rathmore,  to  the 

Carte  Papers,  LOED  DEPUTY  and  COUNCIL. 

Showing  that  Sir  TLeobald  de  Verdon  was  long  since  Lord 
of  the  Brenny,  commonly  called  O'Reilly's  Country,  which  was 
held  of  Sir  Theobald  by  escuage  uncertain,  who  had  issue 
four  daughters,  Jane,  Elizabeth,  Margery,  and  Isabella,  his 
daughters  and  heirs,  to  whom  the  said  seignory  and  services 
descended  ;  they  made  partition,  as  by  deed  ready  to  be  shown 
at  this  honourable  table  may  appear. 

The  Brenny  aforesaid  was  allotted  to  Margery,  the  third 
daugliter,  who  died  seised,  having  issue  Sir  John  Crews 
(Cruise)  of  Rathmore,  Knight,  son  and  heir  to  the  said  Mar- 
gerie,  to  whom  the  premises  descended  by  her  death.  Sir 
John  had  issue  Sir  Thomas,  his  son  and  heir  ;  Sir  Thomas 
had  issue  Dame  Marian  Cruise,  his  daughter  and  heir,  who 
intermarried  with  Sir  Thomas  Plunkett  of  Rathmore,  Knight, 
whose  lineal  heir  their  orator  is. 

Now  the  Brenny  ,being  come  to  His  Majesty  by  the  at- 
tainder of  the  inhabitants  and  tenants,  so  that  petitioner's 
rents  and  services  were  suspended  or  extinguished  thereby, 
and  being  about  to  be  passed  to  undertaker.s,  prays  it  may  be 
passed  to  petitioner  on  such  conditions  as  may  be  thought  fit, 
in  regard  the  seignory  and  services  thereof  were  always  due 
and  payable  to  his  ancestors,  who  have  ever  been  most  loyal* 
and  obedient  subjects. 

P.  \.  Orig.  Add.  Endd.  in  Sir  John  Davys  s  hand- 
%uriting :  "  Rich.  Plunkett^  of  Rathmore,  for  the  lands  of  the 
Cavan." 

At  foot  is  the  following,  all  in  'Sir  Arthur  Chichester's 
handwriting : — 

"  The  23rd  of  June  1609.  I  pray  you  Mr.  Attornie  to  con- 
sider of  this  petition,  and  thereon  and  therein  to  give  me  your 
advise  and  opinion,  and  I  would  have  Mr.  Plunkett  to  declare 
unto  you  when  his  auncestores  did  last  receive  the  siguorie, 
rents,  and  services  of  the  sayd  Brenie. — Arthure  Chichester." 


222  IRELAND — JAMES  1. 


1609. 
June  24).     395.        Sir  Aethitr  Chichester  to  the  Attorney-General. 
Y^r'e'ifpl'sS.  Warrant  for  a  fiant  of  a  new  charter  to  the  corporation  of 

Gal  way  by  the  name  of  the  mayor  and  sheriflfs,  and  a  county 
within  themselves  as  Drogheda  is,  with  the  privileges  granted 
to  other  corporations,  and  also  according  to  the  tenor  of  their 
old  charter  of  36  Hen.  VIII.  and  20  Elizabeth,  that  they  be 
discharged  of  poundage  and  other  customs  in  all  the  ports  of 
Ireland  except  the  cocket  of  hides. 

And  whereas  the  now  limits  of  their  town  extends  but  two 
miles  of  all  sides,  in  the  new  grant  their  town  shall  stretch 
three  miles,  excepting  always  the  Abbey  of  St.  Francis  now 
within  the  liberties  of  the  town,  which  is  to  be  used  for 
the  sessions  house  of  the  county,  and  that  all  the  lands  and 
farms  of  the  inhabitants  be  free  of  all  country  charges  as  any 
other  lands  in  the  country,  paying  however  the  composition 
rent.— Dublin  Castle,  24  June  1609. 

Pp.  2.  Orig.  Add.  Endd.  in  Sir  John  Davys' s  hand: 
"  Warrant  for  Galway.     Past  away  fro  mee,  14  Dec.  1610." 

June  24.     396.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Tol  1  "^p  344  Directs  him  to  make  a  grant  in  fee  farm  to  Sir  Henry  Wallop 

of  all  the  rectories,  chapels,  tithes,  and  the  hereditaments  lately 
belonging  to  the  dissolved  abbey  of  Selskar,  in  the  county  of 
Wexford,  which  were  now  or  of  late  were  in  the  possession 
of  Richard  Sinnot,  Esq.,  deceased,  of  the  said  Sir  Henry  Wallop 
or  Sir  Oliver  St.  John,  to  hold  in  free  and  common  soccage  of 
the  King's  Castle  of  Wexford  at  a  rent  of  761.  per  annum, 
being  the  usual  rent  paid  for  forty  years  past. — Westminster, 
24  June  1609. 

Pp.  1^.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Enrol.  Endd.  hy  Sir 
Arthur  Chichester :  "  Of  the  24th  of  June  1609.  From  the 
Kinge's  Ma^ie  to  pass  unto  Sir  Henry  Wallop  the  fee  farme  of 
the  impropriat  parsonages  of  Selskarr,  &c.  Ee.  the  10th  of 
March  following." 


June  26.     397.        Committee  for  Irish  Causes  to  the  Privy  Council. 
^■■'l''Jof  Tr''  Request  that  the  controversies  between  Sir  Ralph  Sydley 

"'  '     '  and  others  may  be  referred  to  other  parties. — 26  June  1609. 

Signed :  Roger  Wilbraham,  Anth.  Sentleger,  J  a.  FuUerton, 
James  Ley. 
P.  1.    Endd. 

June  27.      398.        Sir  John  Davys  to  Salisbury. 

^■^i"  Treiauii,  Qj^   Friday  last,  being  Midsummer  eve,  Sir  Neale  Garve 

'     '  O'Donnell   was  put  upon  his  trial  in  the  King's  Bench  here 

for  sundry  treasons  whereof  he  stands  indicted. 
The  indictment  consisted  of  two  parts. 
].  First,  that  he  moved  and  incited  O'Dogherty  to  enter 
into  rebellion,  and  that  he  laid  the   plot  of  taking  the  fort  of 
Kilmore  and  of  sacking  and  burning  of  the  Derry. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  223 


1609. 


2.  That,  O'Dogherty  being  in  actual  rebellion,  and  Sir 
Neale  Garve  admitted  to  be  one  of  the  King's  captains, — 

1.  He   betrayed   the   counsels   of    the  King's   army   to 

O'Dogherty ; 

2.  Gave  his  counsel  and  advice  how  to  decline  and  avoid 

the  King's  forces ; 

3.  And  gave  him  comfort  and  encouragement  to  persist  in 

his  rebellion. 

The  jurors  by  w^hom  he  was  to  be  tried  were  all  Irish  of 
the  county  of  Tyrconnell,  where  the  matters  in  fact  were  com- 
mitted ;  neither  were  they  of  the  best  quality  or  understanding, 
for  that  the  English  servitors  planted  there  and  the  better 
sort  of  the  Irish  were  of  that  grand  jury  which  indicted  him, 
and  therefore  were  not  to  be  empanelled  upon  his  trial.  To 
this  jury  Sir  Neale  himself  took  exception,  as  being  too  base 
and  mean  to  be  his  triers,  and  desired  a  jury  of  English 
knights,  and  he  (Davys)  would  gladly  have  yielded  to  that 
motion  of  his  if  it  had  stood  with  a  legal  course  of  proceeding 
in  this  kingdom,  because  he  also  thought  the  jury  too  weak 
to  convict  an  Irish  Lord,  though  the  evidence  were  clear  and 
full  against  him. 

They  gave  no  evidence  to  prove  the  first  part  of  the  indict- 
ment against  him,  namely,  that  he  was  the  author  of  the 
sacking  and  burning  of  the  Derry,  though  that  point  was  as 
manifest  and  clear  as  the  sun  at  mid-day  or  as  the  burning 
of  the  Derrj'  itself  Himself  did  but  faintJy  deny  it,  and 
desired  the  benefit  of  Mr.  Marshal's  protection  given  unto 
him  after  that  fact  committed.  Therefore,  because  His 
Majesty's  royal  word  was  engaged  in  that  protection,  they 
altogether  forbore  to  charge  him  with  that  pregnant  and  pal- 
pable treason,  and  began  only  with  those  treasons  (which  are 
laid  in  his  indictment  after  the  date  of  his  protection,  and 
after  he  was  received  and  trusted  in  the  army  as  a  servitor), 
■  consisting  in  three  points: — 1,  in  betraying  the  counsels  of 
the  camp  to  O'Dogherty  ;  2,  in  giving  advice  and  counsel  to 
O'Dogherty  how  he  might  avoid  the  King's  forces  ;  3,  in  giving 
him  comfort  and  encouragement  to  oppose  and  resist  the 
King's  forces. 

All  which  points  Sir  Neale  Garve  himself  acknowledged  to 
be  high  treason,  if  they  might  be  proved  against  him. 

The  three  points  were  proved  against  him  by  eight  several 
witnesses,  whereof  four  were  produced  vivd  voce  ;  and  of  four 
others  they  had  the  voluntary  confessions  taken  before  the 
Lord  Deputy  and  Council,  all  agreeing  in  substance,  though 
examined  at  several  times,  discovering  several  messages  de- 
livei'ed  by  several  messengers,  whereby  he  betrayed  the 
purposes  of  the  King's  army  and  counselled  and  comforted  the 
rebel  at  sundry  times  after  his  protection. 

For,  O'Dogherty  being  retired  with  all  his  adherents  and 
herds  of  cattle  into  the  fastness  of  Glanvagh,  whereas  Mr.  Mar- 
shal and  the  rest  of  the  King's  captains,  whereof  Sir  Neale  was 
one,  had,  upon  consultation  had  among  themselves,  resolved  to 


224  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

1609. 

give  on  upon  him  in  three  several  places,  being  in  a  strait  where 
he  could  not  possibly  escape  ; — having  such  an  impediment 
as  his  creaghts  or  herds  of  cattle,  which  he  knew  his  followers 
would  follow  rather  than  himself; — Sir  Neale,  being  of  the 
council  of  war,  the  night  before  this  service  should  have  been 
done,  sent  a  messenger  to  O'Dogherty,  by  whom  he  advertised 
him  of  the  Marshal's  counsel  and  purpose,  and  advised  him 
withal  to  disperse  his  creaghts  and  to  fly  out  of  the  fastness, 
for  otherwise  they  should  be  cut  in  pieces,  every  mother's 
son.  The  foster  father  of  Sir  Neale's  eldest  son,  who  was  then 
in  rebellion  with  O'Dogherty  by  Sir  Neale's  commandment, 
testified  this  vivd  voce,  affirming  that  he  brought  the  mes- 
senger to  O'Dogherty,  and  so  did  three  others  who  were 
present  and  heard  the  message  delivered. 

Phelim  Eeaugh  and  three  others,  whose  testimonies  were 
given  in  evidence,  spake  of  this  message  expressly,  and 
affirmed  that  Sir  Neale  sent  sundry  other  messages  of  counsel 
and  encouragement,  sometimes  advertising  that  the  Marshal 
was  but  weak,  and  sometimes  that  himself  would  join  with 
O'Dogherty  as  soon  as  he  could  [get]  arms  out  of  the  King's 
store. 

Besides  these  eight  witnesses  testifying  directly  the  points 
of  treason  contained  in  the  indictment,  Mr.  Marshal  himself, 
Mr.  Treasurer,  and  Sir  Oliver  Lambert  declared  upon  their 
oaths  divers  particular  actions  and  omissions  of  his,  after  his 
protection,  whereby  he  showed  himself  disobedient  and  per- 
fidious ;  so  that  he  might  have  been  condemned  to  death  in  a 
marshal's  court,  but  that  they  thought  it  the  more  moderate 
course  to  put  him  under  arrest  and  to  leave  him  to  his  trial 
by  the  common  law. 

These  things  being  thus  proved  and  declared,  and  repeated 
again  and  again,  both  in  English  and  Irish,  after  eight  or  nine 
hours  spent  in  the  delivery  of  the  evidence,  the  jurors  were 
put  together  on  Friday  night,  and  so  continued  till  Monday 
morning,  for  Saturday  (being  Midsummer  Day)  and  Sunday 
were  no  days  in  court.  In  the  meantime  they  desired  to 
deliver  a  private  verdict ;  but  the  judges,  understanding  they 
would  find  him  not  gTiilty,  refused  to  accept  thereof  Not- 
withstanding they  continued  obstinate  till  Monday  morning, 
having  bound  themselves,  it  was  said,  by  a  voluntary  and 
mutual  oath,  never  to  find  the  Lord  of  their  coimtry  guilty. 
Whereupon  the  judges,  calling  the  King's  learned  counsel 
unto  them,  repaired  to  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Council,  and 
acquainted  them  with  the  state  of  the  business.  Where- 
upon, though  it  were  an  ill  precedent  to  dismiss  this  jury 
unpunished  (for  they  could  not  punish  them  unless  they 
received  their  verdict),  yet,  because  it  was  more  dangerous  to 
suffer  him  to  be  acquit  directly  contrary  to  the  evidence,  it 
was  concluded  that  he  (the  King's  Attorney)  should  withdraw 
the  indictment,  and  so  discharge  the  jury  before  they  gave 
their  verdict.  Which  he  accordingly  did  ;  pretending  that  he 
liad  more  evidence  to  give  for  the  King,  but  that  he  found 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  225 


1609. 

the  jury  so  weak  with  long  fasting  that  they  were  not  able  to 
attend  that  service  and  deliberate  thereupon  so  long  time  as 
was  fit ;  and  therefore,  in  commiseration  of  their  faintings,  and 
for  reasons  concerning  His  Majesty's  service,  he  desired  the 
jury  might  be  dismissed. 

Upon  all  this  matter  they  that  are  of  the  long  robe  are  of 
opinion,  that,  if  Sir  Keal  Garve  shall  be  tried  by  the  course  of 
common  law,  he  must  either  be  transmitted  into  England  and 
tried  by  a  jury  of  Middlesex,  as  0'E.oork  was,  or  else  he  must 
be  kept  in  prison  till  the  colonies  of  English  and  Scottish  be 
planted  in  Tyrconnell ;  for  by  this  his  Lordship  may  perceive 
what  need  they  have  of  honest  men  in  those  parts,  for  of  the 
Irish  many  are  so  devoted  to  the  gentlemen  of  the  country 
that  they  will  not  convict  them,  and  the  most  part  dare  not 
convict,  and  not  without  reason,  for  the  priests  on  the  one  side, 
and  the  kindred  of  the  party  on  the  other  side,  will  prosecute 
them  with  revenge  to  the  death.  The  experience  they  have 
had  of  this  northern  jury  has  caused  them  to  put  ofi'  O'Chane's 
trial  till  direction  come  from  England. 

Prays  pardon  for  this  trifling  narration,  which  proceeds 
from  his  duty. — Dublin,  27  June  1609. 

Pp.  4.     Signed. 

June  30.     399.        Sir  Thomas  Eidgeway  to  Salisbury. 

^'T''  ^if'^^^'  •    Promises  to  transmit  his  accounts  half-yearly. — Kathfernam, 

.01.227,90.  30  June  1609. 

P.  1.     Add.    Endd.    Encloses, 

S.P.,  Ireland,    400.     True  state  of  the  accounts  oj  His  Majesty^s  rents,  revenues, 
vol.  227,  90 1.  casualties,  and  composition  money,  &c.  during  the  space  of 

15  years,  begun  at  Michaelmas  1592  and  ended  at  Michael- 
mas 1607,  and  for  a  year  after ;  and  an  estimate  to  the  end 
of  Michaelmas  1609. 
1  sheet,  parchrifient. 

July  1 .  401.  Certificate  of  concordatums  granted  for  extraordinary 
S.P.,  Ireland,  services  in  three  quarters  of  a  year  ending  the  last  of 

Tol.  227,  90ii.  June   1609,  with  some  others  to  be  granted  for  and 

until  the  last  of  September  following,  to  some  persons 

who  continue  in  employment. 

Concordatums  for  extraordinary  service  done  to  His  Majesty, 
as  within  particularly  appeareth,  viz.,  to — 

Harps.  Harps. 

Phillip  Cottingham,  of  London,  car-  £  s.  d.  £  s.  d. 
penter,  for  money  by  him  dis- 
bursed for  hewing  and  carriage  of 
timber  and  planks  wrought  for 
His  Majesty's  service  in  the  woods 
of  Kilbarro  and  Killcoran,  in  the 
county  of  Waterford,  &c.,  March 
1608,  the  sum  of  -  -     71     3     41 


226  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 


Harps.  Harps. 

£     s.    d.        £    s.     d. 


Samuel  Newce,  serjeant-at-arms  in 
Munster,  3  April  1609,  for  his  at- 
tendance on  Sir  Henry  Brounker, 
Knight,  late  Lord  President  of 
Munster,  the  Earl  of  Thomond, 
and  Sir  Rich.  Morrison,  late  com- 
missioners there,  and  the  Lord 
Danvers,  now  Lord  President,  in 
their  several  journeys  in  that 
province,  as  by  their  certificates 
appeareth  -  -  -     35     6     8 

Edward  Lenton,  Provost-marshal  of 
the  army,  12  March  1608,  for  the 
allowance  of  eight  beeves,  where- 
of six  were  delivered  to  certain 
voluntaries,  by  direction,  in  the 
journey  to  view  of  Leix,  in  anno 
1608,  and  the  other  casually  lost       8     0     0 

John  Hoy,  pursuivant,  for  a  coat 
with  the  King's  arms  to  be  pro- 
vided for  him,  by  concordatum 
dated  24  January  1608  -  -     10     0     0 

Phinees  Cley,  gent.,  being  employed  . 

in  Connaught  for  the  burning  of 
such  navigable  boats  as  were  in 
the  possession  of  dangerous  per- 
sons in  the  year  1603,  as  appeareth 
by  certificate  and  warrant  of  the 
Earl  of  Clanrickarde,  by  concor- 
datum dated  9  Dec.  1608  -     19  13     4 

Daniel  Mullinex,  Ulster  king-at- 
arms,  for  his  attendance  and  pub- 
lication of  His  Majesty's  stile  on 
eight  solemn  and  festival  days, 
by  concordatum  of  the  last  of 
January  1608     -  -  -     10  13     4 

Thadie  Ferrall,  pursuivant,  who  hath 
not  pension  as  others  of  His  Ma- 
jesty's pursuivants  have,  for  his 
attendance  on  the  State,  by  con- 
cordatum, 13  December  1608      -       6  13     4 

William  Daniell,  doctor  of  divinity, 
being  sent  as  a  commissioner  into 
the  dioceses  of  Cash  ell  and  Emelie 
to  reform  (according  to  certain 
instructions  given  him)  certain 
enormities,  and  to  set  some  good 
courses  in  tlie  churches,  by  con- 
cordatum, 25  November  1608      -     45     6     4 


IRELAND — JAMES  I.  227 


1609. 


Captain  John  Vaughan,  for  forti- 
fications done  upon  the  fort  of 
the  Derry  by  direction  of  Sir  Rich. 
Wingfield,  Knight,  Marshal  of 
Ireland,  and  for  which  no  allow- 
ance was  before  given,  by  concor- 
datum,  3  March  1608      -  -     38     6     8 

Thomas  Dromegoale,  one  of  the 
sheriffs  of  the  city  of  Dublin,  to 
whom  the  Lady  O'Dogherty,  her 
child,  O'Dogherty's  sister,  and 
three  others  were  committed,  for 
their  diet  and  charges  the  space 
of  80  days,  by  concordatum, 
10  November  1608  -  -     32     0     0 

Captain  William  Cole,  in  recom- 
pense of  his  trouble  and  charges, 
having,  by  direction  of  the  Lord 
Deputy,  taken  up  two  pieces  of 
brass  that  were  hidden  and  sunk 
under  water  10  miles  from  Ennis- 
killen,  by  concordatum,  6  Decem- 
ber 1608  -  -  -     13     6     8 

Nicholas  Bevans,  for  necessaries  by 
him  provided  for  the  Council 
Chamber  -  -  -     18  17     6 

Captain  Thomas  Leycester,  for  the 
keeping  of  certain  warders  in  the 
castle  of  Inchelough  Carr,  in  the 
King's  County,  for  the  safe  keep- 
ing thereof  for  His  Majesty's  ser- 
vice upon  the  entry  of  Sir  Cahir 
O'Dogherty  in  rebellion,  by  con- 
cordatum 18  November  1608       -     10     0     0 

Giles  Stanley,  pursuivant,  being 
commanded  to  give  his  continual 
attendance  on  the  State,  and  to 
have  a  horse  in  readiness  to  travel 
about  His  Highness 's  service,  by 
concordatum,  18  December  1608  [ — ] 

Mr.  HenryjPiercye,  for  money  by  him 
disbursed  to  messengers  and  spies, 
&c.,  by  concordatum,  20  October 
1608       -  -  -  -     83     7     4 

Captain  William  Cole,  for  the  yearly 
repair  and  maintenance  of  the 
boats  at  Balleshannon,  by  concor- 
datum, 13  April  1609     -  -     26  13     4 


Harps.  Harps. 

£     s.     d.        £    s.     d. 


P  2 


228  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 


Harps.  Harps. 

£     s.    d.       £    s.    d. 


The  Lord  Danvers,  Lord  President 
of  Munster,  for  sundry  extraor- 
dinary charges,  as  well  utensils, 
house  rent,  necessary  buildings, 
rewards  to  messengers,  and  other 
charges  expended  in  His  Majesty's 
service  between  1  January  1607 
and  6  April  1609,  payable  out  of 
the  fines  and  casualties  or  out  of 
the  Treasury,  the  sum  of  -2131511^ 

Sir  Francis  Slingsby,  Knight,  for  the 
new  building  and  furnishing  of 
the  boat  belonging  to  Halebow- 
ling,  being  now  grown  old  and 
unserviceable,  by  concordatum, 
4  April  1609       -  ■■  -     40     0     0 

William  Croftou,  late  sheriff  of  the 
county  of  Sligo,  for  his  extraor- 
dinary employment  by  command- 
ment of  the  several  vice-presidents 
in  Connaught,  for  the  safe  keeping 
of  Bryan  M'Donnogh,  committed 
for  high  treason,  and  for  the  main- 
taining of  a  ward  of  eight  men 
in  the  castle  of  Cawclawny  at  his 
own  charges  by  the  space  of  80 
days,  for  which  he  is  allowed,  by 
concordatum,  2  July  1608  -     21     6     8 

Nicholas  Gernon,  gent.,  for  appre- 
hending the  body  of  Phelim 
O'Hagan,  brother  to  Henry  O'Ha- 
gan,  a  notable  traitor,  by  concor- 
datum, 18  November  1608  -     13     6     8 

Ensign  George  Readmond,  in  recom- 
pence  for  his  cost,  travel,  and 
danger,  being  employed  in  the 
prosecution  of  the  traitor  Neale 
M'Swyne  and  divers  others,  some 
of  which  were  brought  in  by  him 
and  executed  at  the  Lyff'er  the 
last  assizes,  by  concordatum, 
19  April  1609     -  -  -     13     6     8 

Edward  Lenton,  Provost-marshal, 
for  the  keeping  of  26  prisoners 
27  days,  in  O'Dogherty's  rebellion, 
who  were  all  executed  at  the 
Lyff'er,  by  concordatum,  7  March 
1608       -  -  -  -     10     0     0 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  229 


1609. 


Harps.  Harps. 

£     s.    d.        £    s.    d. 


Captain  Hugh  Clotworthie,  for  main- 
taining and  keeping  in  continual 
reparation  the  barque  and  boats 
lying  in  Lough  Sidney,  belonging 
to  His  Majesty,  for  a  year  ended 
at  Michaelmas  1608,  by  concor- 
datum,  25  November  1608  -     40     0     0 

George  Sexten,  gent.,  for  money  by 
him  disbursed  for  His  Majesty's 
service  to  messengers,  spies,  &c., 
by    concordatum,    10    November 

1608  -  -  -  -  195     7     4 
Sir    Francis  Rooe,    Knight,  for  re- 
inforcing the  rampier,  making  the 

parapet  higher  and  larger,  and 
making  the  ditch  broader  and 
deeper,  and  for  other  reparations 
and  works  done  upon  His  Ma- 
jesty's fort  of  Mountjoy,  by  con- 
cordatum, 16  October  1608  -  90  0  0 
Sir  Charles  Calthrop,  Knight,  late 
His  Majesty's  Attorney-General, 
and  now  one  of  the  justices  of  the 
Common  Pleas,  in  augmentation 
of  his  fee,  at  lOOi.  per  annum, 
here  charged  for  the  whole  time 
of  his  certificate,  being  three- 
quarters  of  a  year,  begun  1  Oc- 
tober  1608  and  ended  30  June 

1609  -  -  -  -     75     0     0 
Nicholas   Bennet,  one   of   His  Ma- 
jesty's pursuivants,  in  considera- 
tion of  his    daily  attendance  on 

the  State,  by  concordatum,  22  De- 
cember 1608        -  -  -       6  13     4 

Edward  Trevor,  gent.,  for  money 
by  him  disbursed  to  espiers  and 
intelligencers,  by  concordatum, 
1  January  1608  -  -     15     0     0 

Joice  Everard,  engineer,  for  his 
entertainment,  at  6s.  Sc?.  per  diem, 
for  183  days  ended  last  of  Sep- 
tember 1608,  by  concordatum, 
28  February  1608  -  -     61     0     0 

William  Higges,  for  his  entertain- 
ment for  half  a  year  ended 
31  March  1609,  by  concordatum, 
3  April  1609      -  -  -     SO     6     8 


230  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 


Sir  Henry  FoUyot,  Knight,  for 
money  by  him  disbursed  for  the 
hire  of  one  boat,  two  mariners, 
and  10  sailors  that  were  employed 
by  the  space  of  five  weeks  at  the 
surprising  of  the  Isle  of  Torrey, 
by  concordatum,  20  April  1609  -     29     6     8 

The  corporation  of  Waterford,  in 
respect  of  losses  by  them  sustained 
in  the  receipt  of  5001.  in  copper 
for  5001.  in  silver,  by  virtue  of  a 
letter  from  the  Lords  of  the 
Council  in  England,  by  concor- 
datum, 11  May  1609  -  -  33  6  8 
By  virtue  of  His  Sir  John  Davys,  Knight,  His  Ma- 
f^tZluoi:''"''  jesty's  Attorney-General  in  Ire- 
land,  for  his  employment  in 
England  for  special  matters 
touching  His  Majesty's  service, 
by  the  space  of  203  days,  begin- 
ning the  15  October  1608  and 
ending  5  May  following,  at  20s. 
English  per  diem,  amounting  to 
the  sum  of           -             -             -  270  13     4 

Sir  James  Ley,  Knight,  late  Lord 
Chief  Justice,  in  consideration  of 
his  employment  from  hence  into 
England,  by  direction  of  the  Lords 
of  the  Council,  in  which  service 
and  travel  he  continued  by  the 
space  of  150  days,  whereof  there 
is  abated  50  days,  and  allowed 
him  after  40s.  harps  per  diem  for 
the  other  100  days,  by  concor- 
datum, 15  June  1609      -  -  200     0     0 

Captain  John  Vaughan,  for  money 
by  him  paid  to  20  soldiers,  by 
concordatum,  3  May  1 609  -     10     0     0 

Tristram  Eccleston,  late  constable  of 
Dublin  Castle,  for  the  diet  and 
charges  of  prisoners  committed 
to  him,  by  concordatum,  7  No- 
vember 1608       -  -  -     90     0     0 

Edwin  Babyngton,  for  money  by 
him  disbursed,  by  direction  of 
the  Lord  Deputy,  to  certain  dis- 
tressed citizens  of  the  Derry,  by 
concordatum,  10  March  1608       -     10     0     0 


Harps.  Harps. 

£     s.     d.         £    s.     d. 


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1609. 


Harps.  Harps. 

£    s.    d.      £    s.     d. 


William  Turvin,  in  respect  of  charges 
by  him  sustained  in  bringing  out 
of  England,  by  direction  of  the 
Lords,  Edmond  M'Gennis,  and 
Wm.  Saughnes,  being  restrained 
there  for  mattei^  of  suspicion      -     26  13     4 

John  Wilson,  employed  as  a  mes- 
senger into  Elio  Carroll  [Ely 
O'CarroU],  to  summon  certain 
persons  there  who  were  charged 
with  arrears  owing  to  His  Majesty, 
the  sum  of  -  -  -       4     0     0 

James  Williamsj  for  the  repair  of 

the  boats  of  Athlone        -  -       8  17     9^ 

Lieutenant  Tegg  O'Byrne,  for  his 
employment,  being  sent  with  a 
commission  of  martial  law  into 
the  county  of  Lowth,  there  to 
prosecute  divers  wood-kerne, 
thieves,  and  malefactors  -       5     0     0 

Tristram  Eccleston,  by  concordatum, 
29  March  1609,  for  an  old  remain 
due  to  him  for  the  pay  of  the 
warders  of  Dublin  Castle,  which 
is  granted  to  be  paid  to  him  by 
virtue  of  a  letter  from  the  Lords 
of  His  Majesty's  most  honourable 
Privy  Coimcil     -  -  -  106  11     8 

Sir  Thomas  Rotheram,  by  concor- 
datum, 10  March  1608,  for  money 
by  him  disbursed  for  reparations 
of  the  fort  of  Galway  before  Sir 
Josias  Bodley  was  appointed  to 
build  the  same    -       '     -  -     54     0     2^ 

Sir  Charles  Calthrop,  for  a  year's 
allowance  of  his  augmentation,  to 
end  at  Michaelmas  1609  -     25     0     0 

William  Higges,  carriage-master,  for 
half  a  year,  to  end  30  September 
1609       -  -  -  -     30  10     0 

John  Dob,  paymaster  at  Carrig- 
fergus,  for  a  year,  to  end  30  Sep- 
tember 1609"      -  -  -     54  15     0 

Thomas  Younge,  collector  of  the 
rents  and  composition  in  Munster, 
for  half  a  year  ended  30  March 
1609       -  -  -  -     60     6     8 


232  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 


Harps.  Harps, 

£     s.    d.      £    s.    d. 


Henry  Crosse,  of  Barnestable,  mer- 
chant, in  consideration  that  his 
ship  and  goods,  to  the  value  of 
2,000?.,  was  wrecked  and  cast 
away  upon  the  coast  of  Kinsayle, 
and  after  service  done  to  Her  late 
Majesty  in  landing  400  men  at 
Waterford  under  the  conduct  of 
Sir  Anth.  Cooke,  Knight,  in  anno 
1602,  unto  which  service  he  was 
suddenly  prest  out  of  Barnestable, 
by  warrant  of  certain  commission- 
ers in  Devonshire,  then  authorised 
by  commission  from  the  Lords  of 
Her  late  Majesty's  Council,  where 
he  was  purposed  to  have  trans- 
ported his  said  ship  of  the  burthen 
of  220  tons,  laden  with  'goods,  to 
the  islands  of  Canarie,  in  conside- 
ration of  his  service  and  great  loss, 
having  been  an  humble  suitor  to 
the  Lords  of  His  Majesty's  Privy 
Council  in  England  that  some 
favourable  respect  may  be  had  of 
him,  who,  by  their  letters,  have 
recommended  him  hither ;  in 
consideration  of  all  which  he  is 
allowed,  by  concordatum  -  200     0     0 

The  Lady  Jane  Fitzgerrold,  sister 
to  the  late  Earl  of  Desmond,  in 
consideration  of  her  costs  and  ex- 
penses travelling  to  Dublin,  by 
commandment  of  the  State, 
whither  she  was  sent  for  upon 
special  occasions  -  -     20     0     0 


•  2,603  12     5| 

Allowances  made,  by  way  of  concordatum,  to  the  judges, 
&c.,  for  keeping  of  sessions,  as  and  within  is  men- 
tioned, viz.,  to — 

Sir  Humphrey  Winch,  Knight,  late 

Lord  Chief  Baron,  and  now  Lord 

Chief    Justice,   by   two    concor- 

datums,  10  November  1608  and 

14.  April  1609     -  -  -     94     0     0 

Sir    Nich.    Welsh,    Knight,    Lord 

Chief    Justice    of    the   Common 

Pleas,     by     two     concordatums, 

8  November  1608  and  4  May  1609    82  13     4 


lEELAND— JAMES  I, 


233 


1609. 


Harps. 
£     s.    d. 

Sir  Dominic  Sarsfield,  Knight,  one 
of  the  judges  of  the  King's  Bench, 
by  two  concordatums,  8  Novem- 
ber 1608  and  4  May  1609  -     87     0     0 

Christopher  Sibthorpe,  one  other  of 
the  judges  of  the  same  coui-t,  by 
two  concordatums  of  the  same 
date        -  -  -  -     87     0     0 

Peter  Palmer,  one  of  the  judges  of 
the  Common  Pleas,  by  two  con- 
cordatums, 13  October  1608  and 
14  April  1609     -  -  -     55     0     0 

Sir  Charles  Calthrop,  Knight,  one 
other  of  the  judges  of  the  same 
court,  by  concordatum,  4  May     -     23     0     0 

Sir  Robert  Oglethorpe,  Knight,  one 
of  the  Barons  of  the  Exchequer, 
by  two  concordatums,  8  Novem- 
ber 1608  and  4  May  1609  -     82     0     0 

Sir  John  Eilyot,  Knight,  one  other 
of  the  Barons  of  the  court,  by 
two  concordatums,  dated  as 
before     -  -  -  -     76     0     0 

Nich.  Kerdiff,  His  Majesty's  serjeant- 
at-law,  by  concordatum,  8  No- 
vember 1608       -  -  -     20     0     0 

Sir  Rob.  Jacob,  Knight,  His.  Ma- 
jesty's SoHcitor-General  inlreland, 
by  two  concordatums,  8  Novem- 
ber 1608  and  19  May  1609  -     79 

Rich.  Bowlton,  by  concordatum      -     27 

Henry  Dillon,  by  two  concordatums, 
8  November  1608  and  29  April 
1609       -  -  -  -     49  18     0 


Harps. 
£    s.     d. 


0 
0 


Amounting  in  all,  the  several  entertain- 
ments aforesaid,  for  the  travelling 
charges  of  the  judges  in  the  circuits, 
to  the  sum  of    - 


762  11     4 


Allowance  of  robes  to  each  of  the  judges,  viz., 

To  13  several  judges  with  the  King's  Council 
aforesaid,  for  allowances  made  unto  them  for 
their  robes,  at  ISl.  6s.  8d.  sterling  the  piece 
per  annum,  as  by  particular  concordatum, 
with  acquittances,  appeareth,  amounting  in 
all  to  the  sum  of       -  -  -  .     231     2 


^ 


234  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

Entertainments  payable   out   of  the  cheques,  and  not 
comprised  in  the  Establishment,  viz.,  to  — 

Harps.  Harps. 

Captain  Rob.  Culme,  for  his  pension   £     s.    d.        £    s.     d. 
of  4s.  per  diem,  payable,  as  before, 
for  273  days,  from  1  October  1608 
to  30  June  1609,  being  by  the 
space  of  three-quarters  of  a  year     .54  12     0 

And  for  a  quarter  to  end  30 
September  1609  -  -     18     8     0 

The  Provost  and  Fellows  of  Trinity 
College,  near  Dublin,  for  the 
pay  of  six  footmen  warders,  at 
8d.  the  piece  per  diem,  for  273 
days,  begun  and  ended  as  before      54  12     0 

And  for  a  quarter  to  end  30 
September  1609  -  -     18     8     0 

• 146     0    0 


Sum  total  of  all   the   concordatums   con- 
tained in  this  certificate  -  -  3,743     6     0;^ 

Harps. 

Besides  the  other  extra  ordinaries  for  the  quarter  beginning 
1  July  1609  and  ending  30  September  1609  mentioned  in  an 
abstract  sent  herewithal. 

Pp.  9.     Endd.  Th.  Ridgeway. 

S.P.,  Ireland,    402.         A  brief  estimative  account  of  the  extraordinary  charges 
vo .  227, 90  m.  expended   and   to   be   expended  in   Ireland  for   His 

Highness's  service,  in  the  space  of  one  whole  year, 
beginning  the  1st  October  1608  and  to  end  the  last  of 
September  1609,  as  hereafter  may  appear ;  viz. : — 

His  Highness's  charge.     Three  quarters,  ended  30  June 
1609. 
Concordatum  for  services  and  rewards  granted 
by  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Council,  from  1  Oc- 
tober 1608  to  30  June  1609  -  -3,743     6     0 

In  the  quarter  beginning  the  1  July  1609  and  to  end 
30  September  same  year,  viz. : — 
Concordatums  for  the  judges  circuits  in  the  said 
quarter;  for  loss  in  victuals  in  this  northern 
journey  ;  carriages  ;  extraordinary  entertain- 
ments to  officers  serving  in  the  field  and  com- 
missioners ;  works  to  be  done  in  the  Castle 
of  Dublin,  and  enlarging  of  the  gaol  there  ; 
gifts  and  rewards,  with  divers  other  extra- 
ordinaries  ;  imprests  to  the  Lord  Deputy's 
secretaries,  for  rewards  and  other  services  by 
them  to  be  disbursed  by  his  Lordship's  direc- 
tion ;  to  the  constable  of  Dublin  Castle,  for 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  235 


1609. 


Harps. 

£  s.  d. 
dieting  of  prisoners ;  to  several  captains,  for 
transportation  of  their  soldiers  discharged  at 
the  end  of  November  1608,  and  for  their  diet 
after  their  discharge  tUl  they  were  shipped  ; 
for  building  a  new  court  for  the  Common 
Pleas ;  for  money  disbursed  by  the  late  con- 
stable of  the  Castle  of  Dublin  in  repairing 
the  gaol  there  ;  in  all  -  -  -    5,622     0     0 


Sum  of  the  charge  of  the  extraordinaries 
aforesaid,  estimated  for  a  whole  year, 
beginning  1  October  1608  and  to  end 
80  September  1609        -  -  -    9,365     6     0 


Will  remain  to  be  answered  out  of  the  trea- 
sure to  come  from  England  to  satisfy  the 
extraordinary  charges  aforesaid  -  -    4,365     6     0 

Which  sum,|it  is  humbly  desired,  may  be 
sent  with  the  treasure. 

"  It  is  to  be  remembered  that  albeit  I  have  set  down  that 
4,000?.  of  the  remain  of  this  year's'  revenue  will  rest  good  on 
mine  account  towards  the  answering  of  the  extraordinaries 
aforesaid,  yet  that  the  same  will  not  come  into  the  receipt  tiQ 
after  the  end  of  Hilary  term  next  at  the  soonest,  albeit  the 
payments  that  are  to  be  made  with  the  same  must  of  necessity 
be  satisfied  long  before. 

"  Mem.  I  have  already  paid  to  the  army  the  2,900?.  re- 
maining of  the  quarter's  allowance  for  the  Establishment 
ended  30  December  1608,  as  also  the  pay  of  600  footmen  for 
two  months  ended  30  November  1608,  both  which  are  contained 
in  my  certificate  dated  1  March  1608  ;  and  I  have  likewise 
paid  divers  sums  of  money,  by  the  Lord  Deputy's  direction, 
towards  the  buildings  mentioned  in  my  said  certificate ;  for 
all  which,  as  the  other  extraordinaries  before  mentioned 
in  this  certificate,  I  humbly  desire  that  treasure  may  be 
assigned." 

P.  3.     Endd. 

S.P.,  Ireland,     403.  ABSTRACT   OF   ESTIMATE. 

^°  ■      '     '  A  summary  of  the  foregoing  brief  estimate. 

P.  1. 

June  30.    404.        Lords  of  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Philad.  p.,  Eecommend  Thomas  Lloyd,  who  served  the  Lord  President 

vol.  3,  p.  397.  ^£  Munster  and  the  State  there  as  chaplain  for  four  years,  and 

was  bj^  the  President  of  Munster  and  the  Council  there  granted 

by  concordatum  40?.  out  of  140?.  due  to  him  for  his  service, 

but  the  remainder  is  unpaid,  and  he  has  been  a  suitor  for  it 


236  IEELAND-— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

to  the  King  in  Council  They  recommend  him  to  his  (Sir 
Arthur's)  favour  for  the  first  vacant  competent  living. — 
Greenwich,  30  June  1609. 

Signed :  E.  Cant.,  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  E,  Salisbury, 
T.  SufFolke,  E.  Zouche,  J.  Herbert,  Jul.  Csesar,  Thos.  Parry. 

P.  \.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester :  "  Of  the 
30*1^  of  June  1609.  From  the  Lordes  of  the  Councell  in  the 
behalfe  of  Mr.  Lloyd,  minister  in  Munster.  Ee.  the  28*^  of 
October." 

June  30.     405.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Phiiad.  p ,  Although  the  King  has  already  recommended  this  gentle- 

■  ■  man  [Captain  Steward]  for  a  proportion  of  the  escheated  lands 

as  a  servitor,  according  to  the  ordinary  course  of  plantation, 
yet  they  now  request  him  (Sir  Arthur  Chichester)  to  favour 
him  by  alloting  him  his  proportion  with  those  of  the  best 
merit,  and  to  give  him  dispatch  with  the  first,  and  in  a 
country  that  may  be  most  commodious ;  His  Majesty  being 
pleased  that  he  shall  be  placed  in  any  county  (allotted  for  ser- 
vitors) which  he  shall  make  choice  of,  as  he  seems  to  have  a 
good  mind  to  put  forward  his  plantation,  and  has  already 
made  preparation  to  bring  over  both  labourers  and  provisions. 
Signed:  E.  Cant.,  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  E.  Salisbury,  H. 
Northampton,  T.  Suffolke,  E.  Worcester,  E.  Zouche,  W. 
Knollys,  J.  Herbert. 

P. -|.  Signed.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester : 
"  Of  the  last  of  June  1609.  From  the  Lordes  of  the  Councell 
in  the  behalfe  of  Captain  Stewarde  for  a  portion  of  the 
escheated  lands  in  anie  countie,  &c.     Ee.  the  28tii  of  July." 

June  30.     406.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
.    Philad.  P.,  jjj^g  intended  nothing  with  greater  earnestness  than  that 

^°  ■    '  '^^       '  the  plantation  of  Ulster,  now  in  hand,  with   civil  men,  and 

men  well  affected  in  religion  should  be  accomplished  ;  but, 
finding  that  this  business  which  he  had  once  intended  should 
both  have  been  begun  and  finished  this  summer,  will  require 
longer  consideration,  he  intends  for  the  present  only  those 
things  which  may  make  a  due  preparation  for  a  solid  plan- 
tation thereafter.  His  will  and  pleasure  therefore  is  that, 
with  the  aid  of  so  many  of  the  Privy  Council  as  can  best 
give  him  assistance,  he  (Sir  Arthur)  shall  have  a  commission 
prepared  authorising  them  to  inquire  of  all  the  lands  that  are 
or  ought  to  be  in  the  King's  possession  by  forfeiture,  escheat, 
or  any  other  means  within  the  counties  of  Ardmagh,  Coleraine, 
Tyrone,  Donegal,  Fermanagh,  and  Cavan,  and  to  survey  the 
same,  and  to  plot  out  and  divide  the  lands  into  proportions 
according  to  the  project,  and  to  execute  all  the  contents  of 
the  said  project  and  of  certain  articles  of  instruction,  both  of 
which  he  shall  receive  herewith  signed  by  His  Majesty's  hand, 
to  hear  and  determine  all  questions  of  title  to  the  said  lands. 
Confides  in  his  Lordship's  integrity  not  to  allow  any  private 


IRELAND — JAMES  I. 


237 


1609. 


ends  and  any  of  the  commissioners  or  others  to  prevail,  so 
that  the  plantation  should  be  hindered  or  perverted ;  and 
he  is  to  send  over  transcripts  of  all  their  proceedings  under 
the  great  seal  to  be  considered  of  by  the  Privy  Council  in 
England. — Westminster,  .30  June  1609. 

Pp.  2.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Enrol.  Endd.  by  Sir 
Arthur  Chichester :  "Of  the  last  of  June  1609.  From  the 
Kinges  Ma^^'^  concerninge  the  service  to  be  done  in  Ulster 
this  summer  to  prepare  the  plantation,  &c.  Re.  by  ReynoUs, 
the  commissary,  the  26*^  of  July." 


June  30. 

Carew  MSS., 
vol.  G30,  p.  11. 

June  30. 

Carew  MSS., 
Tol.  630,  p.  7a. 


407.  The  King  to  the  Lord  Deputy.^ 

Duplicate  of  No.  406. 
Pf)-  2.     Co2oy. 

408.  Articles  for  Instructions  to  such  as  shall  be  appointed 

by  His  Majesty'.s  Commissioners  for  the  Plantation  of 
Ulster,  with  the  Commissioners'  Answer.^ 
The  instructions  refer  to  the  time  of  beginning  their  journey 
into  that  province ;  the  omissions  aiid  defects  in  former  sur- 
vey of  the  escheated  lands  ;  the  marking  out  by  the  known 
meares  and  names  ;  a  new  mode  of  distributing  the  proportions 
by  lot ;  reserving  to  the  King's  use  and  that  of  the  under- 
takers such  great  woods  as  the  commissioners  shall  make 
choice  of;  determining  what  proportions  by  name  are  fittest 
to  be  allotted  to  the  Britons,  what  to  the  servitors,  and  what 
to  the  natives  ;  wherein  this  respect  is  to  be  had,  that  the 
Britons  should  be  put  in  places  of  best  safety,  the  natives 
dispersed,  and  the  servitors  planted  in  those  which  are  of 
greatest  importance  to  secure  thereof;  assigning  glebes  after 
the  rate  of  60  acres  for  every  1,000  acres  within  the  parishes  ; 
allotting  certain  proportions  for  towns  in  places  mentioned  in 
the  project ;  determining  the  parcels  of  land  which  shall  be 
allotted  to  the  College  in  Dublin  and  the  free  schools  in 
the  several  counties  ;  reserving  12,000  acres  for  the  endow- 
ment of  an  hospital  for  maimed  and  diseased  soldiers  ;  hearing 
and  determining  all  titles  and  controversies  concerning  lands 
and  possessions  (the  church  lands  only  excepted)  ;  enforcing 
recovery  of  the  sites  of  some  cathedral  churches,  residences 
of  bishops,  deans,  chapters,  dignitai-ies,  and  prebends  in  Ulster, 
which  have  been  passed  away  in  fee  farm  to  divers,  by  letters 
patent,  under  pretence  of  monastery  lands ;  causing  the  judges 
and  learned  counsel  to  set  down  the  King's  titles  to  the 
several  lands  lately  escheated  in  Ulster,  and  to  see  the  records 
perfected,  and  safely  preserved  and  kept  secret ;  recording  all 
acts,  orders,  and  decrees  in  two  books,  the  one  to  remain 
there  in  some  court  of  record,  and  the  other  to  be  transmitted 
to  our  council  here ;  determining  what  portions  are  fit  to  be 


Carew  Calendar,  p.  43. 


Carew  Calendar,  pp.  44-48. 


238  IEELAND-— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

allotted  to  the  mother  of  the  late  Earl  of  Tyrconnell,  the 
mother  of  M'Gwire,  Catherine  Butler,  the  late  widow  of 
Mulmury  O'Reyly,  and  such  others  as  claim  jointures; 
allotting  the  river  fishings  in  loughs  and  rivers  to  the  pro- 
portions next  adjoining  to  the  loughs  and  rivers  wherein  the 
said  fishings  are ;  and  finally,  making  a  return  of  their  pro- 
ceedings and  doings  by  virtue  of  this  commission  and  instruc- 
tions before  Hallowmas  next. 

Pp.  7.     Copy. 

[June.]      409.         Advice  for  removing  of  the  Natives  who  are  Swoedmen.' 
^r6lo^^^i2  The  Lord  Deputy  is  to  use  all  persuasion  to  induce  them 

'   '     '  to  remove  ;  to  assign  settlements  for  them  under  those  Lords 

who  have  large  quantities  of  waste  land  on  their  estates  ;  to 
confine  within  certain  limits  in  the  escheated  districts  those 
who  decline  to  remove  ;  and  finally  to  facilitate  their  enlist- 
ment in  foreign  service,  supplying  at  the  King's  charge  or  that 
of  those  by  whom  they  are  engaged,  the  necessary  expenses. 

Pp.  2.     Copy. 
July  S.       410.        The    King's    Proclamation  against  Alienations  by 

Philad.  p.,  SPIEITTJAL   PeESONS. 


Tol.  1,  p.  345. 


Inasmuch  as  the  godly  and  religious  laws  of  England 
which  restrain  spiritual  persons  from  alienating  their  livings, 
being  the  dowries  of  their  churches,  through  the  neglect  of 
the  times,  have  not  been  followed  or  imitated  by  any  Act  of 
Parliament  made  in  Ireland,  by  means  whereof  the  church 
there  is  like  to  grow  to  utter  ruin  and  overthrow,  His  Majesty 
commands  all  archbishops,  bishops,  deans,  chapters,  prebends, 
archdeacons,  parsons,  vicars,  and  all  other  ecclesiastical  persons, 
that  from  henceforth  they  shall  not  make  any  gift,  grant, 
alienation,  or  lease  in  possession  or  reversion,  of  any  of  the 
lands,  tithes,  or  possessions  of  their  churches  or  spiritual  pro- 
motions other  than  during  their  incumbency  or  for  21  years  ; 
and  that  such  lease  be  in  nowise  of  the  Bishop's  seat  or  prin- 
cipal mansion  house,  whether  the  same  have  been  heretofore 
let  or  not,  and  also  that  the  best  rent  which  has  formerly  been 
yielded  be  reserved ;  and  if  not  formerly  let,  then  such  as 
shall  be  certified ;  and  His  Majesty  charges  all  his  loving 
subjects  to  abstain  from  dealing  for  such  possessions.  And  as 
there  will  be  great  need  of  timber  for  repairing  and  rebuilding 
the  mansion  houses  belonging  to  such  ecclesiastical  posses- 
sions, he  expressly  prohibits  spiritual  persons  from  felling  any 
timber,  unless  for  repairing  and  building  of  their  said  houses 
and  maintenance  of  then'  husbandry,  for  three  years,  iipon 
pain  of  contempt. — Westminster,  8  July  1609. 

Pp.  2.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur 
Chichester  :    "  Of  the  3rd  of  July  1609.     From  the  Kinge's 

'  Carew  Calendar,  p.  48. 


IRELAND — JAMES  I,  239 


1609. 

M.sfi'^,  to  restrayne  the  makinge  awaye  of  the  temporalties 
belonginge  to  byshoprics,  by  proclamation.  Ke.  the  16th 
eodem,  by  Reynolls." 

July  3.       411.        Sir  James  FitzGeeald  to  Salisbury. 
V ol'  027^^94 '  Desires  to  return  to  Ireland,  and  offers  to  convey  the  trea- 

"  '    '     '  sure  which  is  to  be  sent  over. — 3  July  1609. 

P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

July  3.      412.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 

^^\^2i^lt'  -^  ^"^*  betwixt  Mr.  George  Courtney  and  one   Morice  Fitz 

Thomas  FitzGerald  has  long  depended  before  him,  in  which 
he  earnestly  endeavoured  to  make  some  end,  as  well  as  to  free 
his  Lordship  from  the  trouble  thereof ;  but  finding  after  all  his 
labour,  that  his  order  could  not  content  them  nor  end  the 
difference,  in  due  regard  of  the  several  letters  which  Morice 
FitzThomas  had  procured  in  his  behalf  from  that  honourable 
Council,  he  restrained  Mr.  Courtney  from  commencing  suit 
against  him  by  course  of  law  ;  and  so  they  have  appealed  to  his 
Lordship,  and  have  both  resolved  to  repair  thither  to  receive  a 
final  answer.  The  matter  and  their  (the  Deputy  and  Council's) 
proceedings  here  is  more  fully  declared  in  their  general  letters 
to  the  Lords  of  the  Council.  George  Courtney  is  his  (Chi- 
chester's) near  kinsman,  and  he  makes  bold  by  these  letters  to 
present  him  to  his  Lordship,  being  the  rather  induced  thereto 
because  he  is  a  very  honest  and  towardly  young  gentleman, 
who  greatly  affects  the  good  plantation  and  settlement  of  his 
signories,  and  desires  to  pay  His  Majesty's  rents  ;  but  he  finds 
that  his  mind  is  partly  unsettled  by  reason  of  this  difference, 
and  that  he  is  forbidden  the  course  of  law  in  a  matter  of  that 
value,  and  so  properly  his,  as  his  learned  counsel  has  informed 
him.  Prays  his  Lordship  therefore,  that  if  in  consideration  of 
State  and  of  the  hopes  given  to  Morice  FitzThomas,  those 
lands  be  confirmed  to  him,  Courtney  may  then  receive  some 
other  comfort  and  consideration  from  His  Majesty,  such  as  his 
Lordship  shall  think  convenient ;  for  Morice  FitzThomas  does 
not  expect  to  carry  it  gratis,  being  contented  here  to  have 
given  his  kinsman  some  money  for  an  end  in  the  matter  ;  but 
in  respect  of  the  sum,  it  being  but  100?.,  a,nd  the  hopes  he 
has  of  better  favour  there  upon  the  hearing  of  his  cause,  he 
has  refused  it,  holding  it  his  better  course  to  apply  himself  to 
his  Lordship,  to  whose  favour  he  (Chichester)  recommends 
him.— Dublin,  3  July  1609. 
P.  1.     Signed.     Add.    Endd. 

July  3.      413.        The  King  to  the  Lord  Deputy. 
Docquet  Book,  Letter  to  the  Lord  Deputy  for  a  grant  in  reversion  to  be 

•^"'y  ^-  made  for  Walter  Wilson  of  the  offices  of  prothonotary  and 

clerk  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  after  William  Crowe. 


2i0  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1609. 

July  3.      414.        The  King  to  the  Lord  Deputy. 
^"^jT's""*^'  Letter  to  the  Deputy   of   Ireland,   -with    a  proclamation 

touching  restraint  of  the  clergy  from  alienating  their  tempo- 
ralities, according  to  a  minute  entered  at  large  in  the  private 
book.     [Docquet  of  No.  410.] 

July  4.      415.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Privy  Council. 
^■^•'2^2'^^'^gg^'  The  O'Moores,  together  with  some  other  Irish  septs,  their 

'  .  "  fosterers  and  followers  in  the  Queen's  County,  are  all  removed 

from  tJience  and  dispersed  into  sundry  remote  places  of 
Munster  and  Connaught ;  by  which  it  is  to  be  hoped  that 
others  will  be  warned  by  their  example  to  forbear  such  despe- 
rate and  rebellious  courses  as  they  have  often  attempted. 
Only  some  young  children  of  that  name,  without  parents  or 
other  near  kinsmen  that  have  any  care  of  them,  are  yet 
remaining  among  their  fosterei's  in  and  about  those  borders. 
Wishes  they  were  taken  into  England,  to  be  put  to  occupa- 
tions and  other  services,  where  they  may  forget  their  fierceness 
and  pride,  which  they  will  otherwise  retain,  though  they  be 
but  bastards  of  that  name.  This  is  a  course  not  to  be  taxed, 
easy  and  incommodious  to  none,  saving  to  such  of  this  nation 
as  are  or  shall  be  inclined  to  kindle  the  fire  of  rebellion,  which 
has  commonly  been  wont  to  be  fetched  or  taken  from  those 
white  Moores. 

Urges  a  like  consideration  of  the  children  of  the  Earl  of 
Tyrone  and  Caphare  O'Donnell,  notwithstanding  his  late 
letters ;  for  he  foi'esees  that  the  keeping  of  them  here  will  at 
one  time  or  other  breed  an  infallible  mischief,  which  in 
wisdom  ought  now  to  be  prevented. 

The  Jesuits  and  priests  from  abroad  have  flocked  hither  of 
late,  in  greater  numbers  than  has  at  any  time  heretofore  been 
observed.  The  most  eager  and  stirring  of  them  usually  come 
and  go  hence  with  the  swallow,  making  a  yearly  revenue 
here  of  poor  and  rich  by  their  indulgences,  pardons,  and  other 
Romish  illusions  (such  as  he  thinks  no  nation  in  Christendom 
are  abused  withal  besides  this) ;  and  keep  in  life  the  party  of 
ill  subjects  with  feigned  remonstrances  of  matters  of  state, 
intelligences,  and  news.  Herewith  they  have  an  excellent 
faculty,  but  very  dangerous  to  this  State,  that  they  can  at 
any  time  (without  his  being  able  to  prevent  them  or  even  to 
hear  of  them  until  it  has  been  done  and  past)  ;  assemble  to- 
gether an  incredible  number  of  people  to  receive  absolutions 
and  pardons,  specially  the  idler  sort  and  malefactors.  There  is 
not  one,  from  the  murderer  of  his  brother  to  him  that  steals  a 
goat,  but  believes  in  them  and  flocks  to  them,  and  will  make  a 
conscience  to  cherish  and  protect  them  from  officers,  if  any  be 
so  honest  and  dutiful  as  to  offer  to  attach  them.  At  a  place 
called  Minahinche,  on  the  borders  of  the  county  of  Tipperary, 
the  week  before  Easter  last,  and  since  at  anotlier  place  called 
Inishgaltaghe  (in  Connaught),  an  island  near  the  Shannon  side, 
there  were  gathered  together  in  each  place  to  the  number  of 


IRELAND— JAMES  1..  241 


1609. 


at  least  15,000  persons,  and  some  say  they  were  many  more. 
Presumes  to  inform  his  Lordship  of  these  mischiefs,  hoping 
that  in  due  time  he  will  be  pleased  to  prescribe  some  con- 
venient remedies  in  so  desperate  estate. 

Sir  Neile  O'Donnell  was  here  arraigned  this  last  term  many 
days  before  thexeceipt  of  his  Lordship's  letters  in  that  behalf; 
for,  after  conference  with  Mr.  Attorney,  he  (Chichester)  expected 
no  other  directions  ;  but  it  seems  by  his  Lordship's  letter,  that 
the  Attoi'ney  mistook  him  therein.  Though  the  evidence 
against  him  were  as  clear  as  the  sun,  in  the  judgment  of  all 
the  standers  by,  yet  the  jury  which  were  here  elected  out  of 
threescore  at  least,  determined  rather  to  starve  themselves  than 
to  find  him  guilty  without  he  could  have  been  proved  to  have 
drawn  his  sword,  and  so  have  declared  himself  in  open  action 
against  the  King.  Soon  afterwards  he  (Chichester)  heard  that 
in  their  way  hither  they  had  all  bound  themselves  with  vows 
and  oaths,  one  to  another,  to  acquit  him ;  wherefore,  their 
resolution  and  obstinacy  being  known,  and  after  they  had 
been  kept  together  near  fall  three  days,  he  caused  the  King's 
Attorney  to  withdraw  the  indictment,  and  so  to  dismiss  them. 
Expected  no  better  success  against  Sir  Donell  O'Cahane,  and 
therefore  forbare  to  proceed  with  him.  For  all  this  incon- 
venience and  mischief  knows  no  effectual  remedy  nor  hope  of 
redress,  so  long  as  jurors  have  no  freehold  nor  goods  of  value 
to  answer  their  undutifulness  or  contempts. 

Sir  Neale's  brothers  and  his  son  have  been  here  in  prison 
as  long  as  himself,  and  yet  no  criminal  offence  can  be  justly 
laid  to  their  charge.  Is  determined,  therefore,  to  dismiss 
them  home  upon  security  of  their  good  behaviour.  Would 
willingly  have  his  son  sent  back  again  to  Oxford,  where  he 
may  be  kept  without  any  greater  charge  to  His  Majesty  than 
has  been  allowed  him  here  for  these  two  years  in  respect  of 
his  father's  former  services,  out  of  3001.  a  year  allowed  to  be 
disposed  in  pensions  to  some  Irishry,  at  the  Deputy's  discre- 
tion. The  boy  is  of  an  active  spirit,  and  yet  much  inclined 
to  his  book. 

Expected  with  the  coming  over  of  the  Chief  Baron  and  the 
Master  of  the  Ordnance,  or  one  of  them,  to  have  received 
commission  to  go  into  Ulster  this  summer  about  the  settlement 
of  some  part  thereof  at  least,  or  else  to  put  it  in  some  for- 
wardness. The  year  is  already  far  spent,  and  the  winter  will 
grow  on  very  pearly  in  those  parts ;  and  withal  some  necessary 
preparations  are  to  be  made  aforehand,  besides  the  drawing 
together  of  some  convenient  forces  to  attend  the  commis- 
sioners ;  howsoever,  in  order  that  there  may  be  no  obstacle 
for  that,  if  he  or  other  commissioners  less  chargeable  to  he 
King,  shall  yet  be  required  to  go  thither  in  any  due  time,  he 
has  provided  sufficient  store  of  bread  to  be  sent  before  to  the 
Newrie,  which,  if  the  journey  be  put  off,  may  be  otherwise 
expended  among  the  garrisons,  without  extraordinary  chaiwe 
to  His  Majesty.— Dublin  Castle,  4  July  1G09. 

Pp.  3.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

3.  Q 


242  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 


1609. 

July  4.      416.        SiK  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
^■-^•' J^'^^Jl^'  Many  of  his  Lordship's  letters  express  a  wish  and  expectation 

"    '     '  that  this  kingdom  should  yield  some  better  means  than  hitherto 

towards  the  support  of  the  charge  thereof,  and  he  (Chichester) 
confesses,  were  the  people  lovers  of  peace,  the  King  might  be 
eased  of  his  charge,  and  the  kingdom  might  easily  be  brought 
within  short  time  to  keep  itself  and  to  repay  part  of  England's 
expenses  so  long  disbursed  to  preserve  it  from  tuin.  But  they 
are  so  guided  by  the  hot-brained  Jesuits  and  seminaries  who 
never  leave  working  upon  their  weakness  until  they  have 
brought  them  to  utter  ruin  by  rebellious  courses,  or  to  appa- 
rent beggary  by  feeding  upon  them,  that  nothing  is  left  them 
to  give  to  His  Majesty  by  way  of  subsidy  or  composition 
towards  all  his  charges  and  disbursements.  The  consideration 
thereof,  and  of  the  huge  deal  of  dross  and  rubbish  which 
must  be  removed  and  carried  away  before  they  come  to  the 
groundwork  of  that  business,  makes  him  almost  despair  to  see 
in  his  days  his  Lordship's  good  intentions  take  that  effect 
which  is  wished  by  all  good  men.  To  preserve  it  as  it  is,  will 
require  providence  and  labour,  with  the  helps  they  have  from 
thence,  and  to  refine  it  greater  store  of  workmen.  If  every 
Irish  county  in  the  kingdom  had  three  or  four  honest  and 
industrious  men,  lovers  of  peace  and  reformation,  and  having 
a  power  and  voice  with  the  people,  to  be  able  to  put  such 
orders  and  directions  as  the  State  or  Deputy  should  give  them 
in  due  execution,  much  more  were  to  be  expected  from  them. 
But  howsoever  he  maj-  be  understood,  he  prays  his  Lordship  to 
believe  that  he  has  not,  abroad  nor  nearer  home,  that  assistance 
which  is  supposed.  Loves  rather  to  do  other  men's  labours  than 
complain  of  their  sloth,  which  makes  his  burthen  heavier  than 
otherwise  it  would  be.  His  hope  is,  that  things  amiss  will  in 
due  time  be  amended  ;  and  that,  every  man  adding  a  little  of 
his  invention  or  advice  for  the  King's  profit,  His  Majesty's 
charge  will  be  eased  and  his  revenue  increased,  which  he  wishes 
and  studies  more  than  all  his  own  private  whatsoever. 

Sends  herewith  a  project,  whereof  some  profit  may  be 
made.  Prays  him  to  consider  of  it,  and  to  return  him  some 
answer  at  his  good  pleasure,  that  he  may  accordingly  proceed, 
or  surcease  the  discourse  he  has  had  with  the  party  that  would 
undertake  it,  who  is  a  Dutchman,  and  factor  here  for  some 
merchants  of  Amsterdam.  The  coin  of  England  is  of  so  fine 
silver  that  little  or  none  of  it  stays  here ;  which  makes  the 
kmgdom  so  bare  of  money  that  most  times  it  is  not  to  be 
gotten  upon  any  conditions  whatsoever ;  and  surely  the  silver 
alloyed  according  to  the  project  cannot  be  grievous  or  unwel- 
come unto  any;  and  seeing  it  may  be  undertaken  without 
disbursements  of  money  beforehand,  or  other  charge  to  His 
Majesty,  he  is  the  more  bold  to  recommend  it  to  his  Lordship. 

The  King  has  assumed  his  customs  from  the  corporations, 
and  a  reservation  thereof  is  made  in  such  charters  as  pass 
here  ;  yet  they  do  not  permit  the  farmers  thereof,  Long  and 


IRELAND—JAMES  I.  243 


1609. 

Cheatam,  to  collect  the  profits  nor  to  look  into  the  business  ; 
as  Sir  John  Davys  states  it  is  not  his  Lordship's  pleasure  that 
they  should,  but  that  it  should  be  taken  up  by  the  mayors  or 
some  others  in  each  corporation,  and  the  money  left  in  their 
custody  for  a  time.  For  this,  however,  he  has  given  no  direc- 
tions, conceiving  that  Mr.  Attorney  misunderstood  his  Lord- 
ship, for  by  that  course  the  corporations  will  surely  conceal  the 
values  and  expect  ever  to  retain  it  as  hitherto  they  have  done. 
Wishes  rather  that  the  farmers  should  be  permitted  to  look 
into  it,  and  to  execute  their  ofRce  for  some  few  years ;  by 
which  course  it  may  be  brought  into  charge  without  further 
grudging  or  repining  against  His  Majesty,  after  which  they  may 
surrender  their  lease,  and  His  Majesty  may  make  his  best  profit 
thereof  Their  lease  was  for  21  years  ;  has  dealt  with  them  to 
surrender  it  for  some  reasonable  consideration  towards  their 
travels  and  expenses.  They  demand  a  lease  for  seven  years, 
or  some  valuable  consideration,  in  money  or  other  ways,  upon 
which  they  are  content  to  submit  themselves.  Thought  they 
had  done  the  King  good  service  when  they  first  passed  them 
the  lease  for  1201.  rent  yearly,  where  nothing  was  ever  paid 
before ;  since  which  time  they  have  prosecuted  the  business 
(as  they  say)  to  their  great  charges,  and  paid  the  rent  reserved. 
Now  if  his  Lordship,  upon  these  considerations,  consent  to  give 
them  a  lease  for  five  years  or  other  satisfaction  in  money,  he 
(Chichester)  will  conclude  with  them,  and  follow  his  directions 
to  bring  the  customs  in  charge,  Avhich,  he  conceives,  is  too  long 
neglected,  and  which  the  farmers  will  do  with  least  trouble 
and  charge  to  His  Majesty. — Dublin  Castle,  4  July  1609. 
Pp.  3.     Signed.     Encloses, 

S.P.,  Ireland,    ^yj  gi^te  of  the  Coinage  in  Ireland. 

vol.  227    97 1.  .  . 

'   ~  '  ,    '  A  project  for  the  relief  of  the  'miserable  estate  of  this  king- 

dom of  Ireland  that  noiu  it  stand^s  in,  hy  reason  of  tvant  of 
ononey  both  small  and  great. 

People  of  all  sorts  are  driven  to  great  extremity ;  for  the 
better  sort,  having  occasion  to  take  up  rtwneys  to  serve  their 
use,  are  forced  to  give  to  the  greedy  usurer  after  40J.  per 
lOOL,  a't%d  thai  upon  a  2xcivn  either  of  plcde  or  land  in  mort- 
gage, not  daring  to  trust  one  another  upon  their  bonds.;  the 
poor  sort  being  forced  to  pawn  their  apparel  or  other  neces- 
sary implements  tuhereivith  they  get  their  living,  and  pay 
ordinarily  for  20s.,  Qd.  every  xveek,  to  their  utter  undoing. 

The  marshcdl  men  aiul  poor  soldiers  tvho  have  no  nneans 
but  the  King's  entertainment  to  live  upon,  by  reason  of  their 
^vant  land  the  imcertainty  of  the  treasure  coming  forth  of 
England,  are  forced  to  give  after  the  same  redes,  or  else  to 
sell  their  entertainment  then  due,  at  as  hard  condition,  to 
their  utter  undoing,  aoid  no  benefit  at  all  to  His  Majesty  ; 
and  the  poor  farmer,  for  ivant  of  money,  is  forced  to  sell 
part  of  his  corn  on  the  ground  before  it  be  ripe,  and  only  for 
ivant  of  money  to  get  in  the  rest  of  his  corn.     The  want  of 

Q  2 


244  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

1609. 

small  nnoney  in  this  Jdngdom  of  Ireland  is  such  that  the 
poor  tvant  relief,  and  men's  charities  are  altogether  hindered 
and  grown  cold,  whereby  the  poor  are  in  m,iserable  estate,  as 
not  being  able  to  buy  unto  themselves  any  relief  at  all  in 
such  a  country  as  this,  where  victuals  are  at  reasonable  rates. 
A  reason  of  this  scarcity  and  want  of  money  in  this  king- 
dom of  Ireland)  as  experience  shows,  is  that  the  coin  that 
comes  forth  of  England  and  is  there  used,  is  of  so  pure  silver 
that  it  is  luorth  the  value  it  goes  for  in  any  place  where- 
soever it  shall  be  transported.  The  result  of  this,  together 
with  the  excessive  rates  exacted  by  usurers,  is  an  enriching  to 
some  few,  and  the  utter  undoing  of  many  thousands,  being 
taken  upon  pctivns  which  within  a  year  or  two  eat  out  them- 
selves. 

It  were  good_  (if  it  so  please  His  Majesty)  to  grant  and 
alloiv  in  this  kingdom  of  Ireland  a  mint  of  small  money  to 
be  here  coined,  the  biggest  piece  to  be  3d,  and  so  doivnivard 
to  a  halfpenny,  vjhereby  they  may  be  relieved,  and  all  sorts 
of  people  in  the  land  bettered,  as  experience  shows  in  other 
Icingdoms  where  small  money  (although  but  base  money)  is 
used,  and  that  in  great  abundance;  as  in  Spain,  France, 
Germany,  and  all  the  Low  Countries,  and  as  has  been  used 
hi  England  in  the  times  of  His  Majesty's  predecessors  of 
famous  memory,  the  plenty  of  whose  days  is  yet  fresh  in  the 
knoivledge  of  many  yet  living. 

The  coin  too,  being  all  silver,  bearing  weight  with  the 
standard  of  England,  but  20  in  the  100  coarser  in  the  silver 
than  the  coin  now  used  in  England,  and  being  30,000L 
yearly,  will  in  time  bring  a  plenty  in  this  land,  and  luill  be 
an  occasion  to  retain  therein  money  which  now  is  trans- 
ported forth  to  the  prejudice  of  this  kingdom.  Divers  other 
benefits  this  mint  would  bring,  as  may  easily  be  conceived. 

Therefore,  in  consideration  thereof,  the  undertaker  prays  of 
His  Majesty  to  have  a  patent  for  four  years  for  the  coining 
of  this  small  money,  and  %vill  yearly  pay  unto  His  Majesty's 
use  in  Ireland  2,500^  of  the  said  money  so  coined,  by  equal 
portions  every  half  year  during  the  said  patent. 

His  Majesty  to  appoint  two  sea  onasters  [assay  masters'], 
for  the  trying  of  the  silver  to  be  of  the  said  value,  to  whom 
the  undertaker  xoill  alloiv  yearly  lOOJ.  o,piece. 

His  Majesty  to  pay  in  London  every  14  days,  for  the  use 
of  the  undertaker,  unto  his  assigns,  1,0001.  sterling,  and  he 
will  pay  to  His  Majesty's  use  in  Ireland  every  two  months 
4,000^.  of  the  small  coin. 

Further,  His  Majesty  to  appoint  four  stamps  for  the 
coining  of  the  small  monies,  viz.,  of  3d,  2cZ.,  Id.,  \d. 

And  by  reason  that  there  is  yet  some  small  store  of  mixed 
money  in  this  land  ivhich  goes  at  no  certain  rates,  but  _  as 
pleases  the  giver  and  taker,  the  King  by  his  proclamation 
to  ccdl  in  all^  such  coins  that  exceed  the  value  of  4d,  to  be 
brought  unto  the  Mint-master,  there  to  be  exchanged  at  such 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  245 


1609. 

rates   as   the   State   shall   appoint ;    and   by  His  Majesty's 
procla'mation  this  money  only  to  be  made  current. 
Pp.  3.     Endd. 

July  8.      418.        The  King  to  Sm  Arthur  Ceichester. 
voTf  ^"^  346  Kecommends  Captain  John  Baynard,  for  some  fit  employ- 

ment in  consideration  of  his  good  service  in  Ireland  in  the 
time  of  the  late  Queen. — Westminster,  8  July  1609. 

P.  I-.  Signed  at  head.  Endd. :  "8  July  1609.  From  the 
Kinge,  that  Captain  Baynard  may  have  some  imployment 
here  that  shall  be  without  charge  to  His  Ma*''^." 

July  8.       419.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Phiiad.  P  jj^  consideration  of  the  long  and  faithful  service  in  Ireland 

"   '    '       '  performed  to  us  and   the   late  Queen   by  John  Leigh    and 

Daniel  Leigh,  brothers,  and  more  especially  for  their  building  of 
a  fort  of  lime  and  stone  at  their  own  cost,  named  Fort  Omagh, 
in  the  county  of  Tyi.-one,  His  Majesty  has  granted  to  them 
and  the  longest  liver  of  them  the  constableship  of  the  said 
Castle  of  Omagh,  and  of  the  20  warders  there,  with  their 
several  entertainments,  as  at  present. — Westminster,  8  July 
1609. 

Pp.  2.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur 
Chichester :  "  Of  the  8  of  July  1609.  From  the  Kinge's  Matia 
in  the  behalfe  of  Mr.  John  and  Daniel  Leigh,  to  be  constables 
of  the  Omaghe,  &c.     Re.  the  21st  of  September." 

July  8.       420.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Phiiad.  P ,  Having  resolved  upon  the  settlement  of  Ulster,  heretofore 

■  '  the  seat  of  rebellions  through  the  great  Lords  abusing  the 

ignorance  of  the  people  to  their  own  ends,  and  by  a  firm 
plantation  of  his  civil  subjects  there  to  make  those  parts  not 
only  secure,  but  a  pattern  to  the  other  provinces  of  that 
kingdom;  and  considering  that  his  greatest  hope  of  good 
success  in  this  scheme  depends  upon  planting  the  Gospel  in 
those  churches  for  the  comfort  of  the  settlers,  and  the  re- 
ducing of  the  natives  to  God's  true  service,  and  a  due  ac- 
knowledgment of  their  loyalty  to  him ;  for  this  purpose 
he  has  in  his  project  and  instructions  directed  unto  him 
(Sir  Arthur  Chichester),  taken  care  of  the  plantation  of  the 
particular  churches  of  that  province  by  appointing  tithes  to 
paid  to  them  in  kind,  and  by  allotting  them  convenient 
glebes  in  every  parish.  And  as  he  must  chiefly  trust  the 
bishops,  understanding  that  the  estates  of  those  bishoprics 
have  been  much  entangled  and  rendered  nearly  unprofitable 
to  them,  partly  by  the  claims  of  the  late  temporal  Lords 
to  all  the  churches'  patrimony  within  their  countries  (who 
seek  to  discourage  men  of  worth  and  learning  from  under- 
taking the  care  of  those  places,  and  by  that  means  to  continue 
the  people  in  their  former  ignorance  and  barbarism,  that 
they  (the  Lords)  may  the  more  easily  lead  them  into  all  dis- 


246  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

1609. 

loyal  courses) ;  and  partly  by  the  claims  of  the  patentees, 
who  under  colour  of  abbey  lands  and  of  escheated  lands,  the 
seats  of  cathedral  churches,  and  residences  of  the  bishops, 
deans,  and  canons  not  excepted,  seek  the  frustration  of  his 
religious  intent,  the  King  hereby  makes  known,  as  well  to 
prevent  this  inconvenience,  as  to  restore  the  other  decayed 
bishoprics  in  Ireland,  that  it  never  was  his  intent  to  pass 
away  the  patrimony  of  the  church  to  any  temporal  person 
whatsoever;  and  therefore  authorises  him  (Sir  Arthur)  to 
compound  with  any  patentees  found  by  the  approaching  in- 
quisition for  determining  titles  to  be  in  possession  of  chiorch 
lands  under  their  patents,  and  to  pass  them  other  escheated 
lands  in  exchange.  If  any  shall  refuse,  and  shall  be  afterwards 
evicted  by  law,  they  shall  then  meet  no  consideration.  All 
expedition  is  to  be  used  in  trying  these  titles  at  law,  and  all 
favour  to  be  shown  to  the  church.  And  that  the  bishops 
may  be  wholly  employed  about  the  reformation  of  the  country 
and  not  diverted  from  their  proper  business  by  suits  at  law, 
he  (Sir  Arthur)  is  to  take  notice  that  such  lands  as  by  the  late 
survey  were  found  to  owe  any  rents,  refections,  or  pensions  in 
former  times  to  the  bishops,  are  to  be  passed  granted  to 
those  bishops'  sees,  notwithstanding  any  claim  that  he  (the 
King)  or  his  successors  might  claim  by  attainder  or  escheat, 
Act  of  Parliament,  or  other  means.  And  if  upon  the  new 
survey  any  similar  lands  be  discovered,  they  are  to  be  added 
to  the  bishops'  sees,  the  better  to  maintain  the  dignity  of 
their  places.  And  as  the  bishops  have  relinquished  to  the 
incumbents  their  interest  in  the  tithes  of  the  several  parishes 
in  those  northern  dioceses,  whereof  they  have  been  heretofore 
possessed,  excepting  only  such  impropriations  as  have  been  im- 
propriated to  the  bishops,  deans  and  chapters  in  right  of  their 
cathedral  sees  and  dignities,  which  he  (the  King)  is  content 
they  shall  still  retain,  yielding  a  proper  stipend  to  those  that 
shall  serve  the  cures  for  their  maintenance ;  this  relinquish- 
ing of  their  rights  being  a  great  prejudice  to  the  bishops, 
which  he  (the  King)  intends  to  repair  unto  them  by  this  his 
grant,  it  is  his  (the  King's)  will  that  this  survey  of  the 
ecclesiastical  lands  shall  be  enrolled  in  some  court  of  record, 
in  perpetual  proof  of  his  gracious  pleasure  ;  and  a  transcript  is 
to  be  sent  over  by  the  Bishop  of  Derry,  that  thereby  he  (the 
King)  may  be  directed  in  the  erecting  and  settling  of  those 
bishoprics,  and  confirming  the  patrimony  of  the  church  to 
the  succeeding  bishops  in  those  sees,  which  being  the  first 
of  his  (the  King's)  erection,  he  is  pleased,  for  the  glory  of 
God,  the  encouragement  of  worthy  prelates,  and  the  honour 
of  liimself  and  his  successors,  to  effect  with  all  favour  and 
according  to  the  form  of  the  foundation  of  bishoprics  in 
England.  To  the  Bishop  of  Derry  he  (the  King)  has  com- 
mitted this  business,  and  he  is  therefore  to  be  sent  over 
to  England  fully  instructed  for  that  purpose.  With  regard  to 
the  Commission  for  the  plantation  of  Ulster,  the  Archbishop 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  247 


1609. 

of  Dublin  is  to  be  of  the  quorum  in  the  distribution  of  church 
lands,  also  the  Archbishop  of  Armagh  and  the  Bishop  of 
Derry. — Westminster,  8  July  1609. 

Pp.  3.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur 
Chichester:  "Of  the  8th  of  July  1609.  From  the  Kinge's 
Matie^  signitieing  his  pleasure  tutchinge  the  Byshopp's  landes 
and  the  lands  of  the  church  in  Ulster  ;  and  to  send  over  the 
Byshope  of  Dyrrie,  &c.,  with  sundrie  other  directions,  &c. 
Be.  the  18th  of  the  same." 

July  8.      421.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Phiiad.  p.,  rjij^g  Bishop  of  Derry,  Rapho,  and  Clogher  to  be  Bishop  of 

'   '   '       '  Meath,  and  the  first-fruits  to  be  remitted  in  consideration  of 

his  great  losses,  and  charges  sustained  attending  to  the  affairs 
of  the  church  by  the  King's  appointment.  And  understand- 
ing that  the  bishopric  of  Meath  had  in  former  times,  before 
our  Chancellor  of  Ireland  was  possessed  thereof,  been  much 
impaired  by  the  Bishops  of  that  see,  and  that  the  grant  of  the 
rectory  of  Lough  Suethy  formerly  annexed  to  that  see  by  his 
(the  King's)  predecessors,  is  defective  in  point  of  law ;  he 
(Sir  Arthur)  is  to  make  inquiry  how  the  proxies,  the  con- 
sideration of  the  said  grant,  have  been  paid  to  the  King ;  the 
lease  of  which  proxies  and  the  arrears  was  made  to  one  Sed- 
grave  and  to  George  Beeston,  on  information  that  they  had 
not  been  paid. — Westminster,  8  July  1609. 

Pp.  li  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur 
Chichester:  "Of  the  8th  of  July  1609.  From  the  Kinge's 
Ma^e,  to  passe  the  Byshoprie  of  Meath  to  the  late  Byshope  of 
Dyrrie,  fee.     Re.  the  20th  of  No.  1611." 

[July  8.]     422.        John  Leigh's  Petition  to  Prince  Henry. 

^1^22^7^97"^'  Petition  of  John  Leigh  (commander  of  Omagh)  to  Prince 

'       "  Henry.     Prays  that  his  appointment  to  the  command  of  the 

Omagh  may  be  signified  to  the  Lord  Treasurer  and  Pi-ivy 

Council.     [The  privy  seal  granting  this  office  to  John  and 

Daniel  Leigh  is  dated  8  July  1609.] 

P.  1. 

July  11.     423.        Patrick  Crosbie  to  Salisbury. 

^••^•'  llf^^'  They  have  a  custom  amongst  them  in  Ireland  when  they  come 

'     ■  into  parleys  to  decide  country  causes,  that  those  who  dwell 

furthest  off  shall  be  first  heard  and  dispatched,  and  those  that 
dwell  nearest  shall  be  last.  If  this  order  be  used  here,  where 
all  good  orders  of  Christendom  are,  he  (Crosbie)  cannot  be 
stayed  long,  considering  the  distance  between  this  most  noble 
court  and  poor  Kirrie  where  he  dwells.  Besides,  he  sees  that 
all  good  husbands  of  England,  when  they  plant  a  young  tree, 
will  be  very  careful  of  it  until  it  have  taken  root,  which 
puts  him  in  mind  that  it  behoves  him  to  be  much  more  care- 


J48  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

ful  of  those  trees  which  he  has  planted,  as  being  even  more 
subject  to  every  blast  and  mischief;  and  albeit  his  Lord- 
ship's consideration,  together  with  the  Lord  Deputy's  advice, 
are  good  motives  for  his  speedy  dispatch,  yet  he  is  very 
fearful  to  be  troublesome  to  him  to  whom  he  sees  everybody 
is  troublesome.  If  his  Lordship  dislike  of  anything  in  his 
petition,  something  else  may  serve  instead  of  it,  what  may  be 
more  pleasing  to  his  Lordship,  though  less  profitable  to  him- 
self If  he  could  of  himself  go  through  with  this  business 
without  any  help,  he  would  be  loth  to  importune  his  Lord- 
ship ;  but  since  he  is  not  able  to  bear  the  weight  of  so  great 
a  body,  he  hopes  he  is  the  more  excusable.  It  were  pity 
that  so  great  a  service,  so  well  begun,  and  so  successful 
hitherto,  should  receive  disparagement  for  want  of  ability  in 
him,  considering  how  small  means  may  bring  it  to  a  perfect 
and  perpetual  establishment. — 11  July  1609. 
P.  1.     Signed.     Add.     Endd. 

[July  12.]     424.        Sir  Thomas  Phillips  to  Salisbury. 

^•!'-'  ^l'^'™'^'  Has  thought  good  to  present  the  enclosed  estimate  of  the 

'     '  charge  of  this  worthy  plantation,  and  how  it  might  be  de- 

frayed, which,  as  he  has  set  it  down,  will  not  only  remain 
ever  a  firm  strength  to  His  Majesty's  service,  but  a  great  com- 
modity to  the  undertakers.  When  it  shall  please  his  Lordship 
to  command  him  he  will  yield  them  sufficient  reasons  to  every 
particular  which  they  may  desire  to  know.  They  deal  like 
merchants  who  will  first  know  what  benefit  will  arise  for  their 
money  disbursed.  Mr.  Edmonds,  agent  for  the  city,  was  with 
him  to  have  the  particulars  of  his  knowledge,  which  he  has 
omitted  till  he  should  first  acquaint  his  Lordship.  In  the  mean 
time  has  given  them  all  the  encouragement  that  may  be.  The 
first  year  will  be  the  worst,  in  which,  with  such  courses  as  he 
shaU  set  down,  will  come  to  them  between  3,000L  and  4,000?. 
What  the  years  following  wiU  be  when  they  are  settled  into 
the  trade,  his  Lordship  may  judge  of. 

Reminds  his  Lordship  that  in  this  his  forwardness  to  further 
this  worthy  work  he  goes  against  his  own  profit  in  divers 
ways.  But  his  zeal  for  lEis  Majesty's  service,  and  his  bounden 
duty  to  his  Lordship  in  particular,  in  whom  rest  his  fortunes, 
is  the  cause.  Represents  the  great  losses  he  must  sustain  by 
this  plantation,  in  which,  at  his  great  charge  and  infinite  toil 
and  danger,  he  has  made  the  bogs  and  woods  passable  to  trans- 
port timber,  of  which  he  has  a  lease  for  six  years  to  come  of 
some  seven  miles.  Suggests  further  the  great  charge  he  has 
been  at  to  bring  that  plantation  to  that  pass  of  himself,  where 
he  has  a  fair  market  and  where  there  is  a  good  congregation 
every  day  at  church  to  hear  divine  service,  to  the  discomfort 
of  the  ill-disposed  people.  After  these  great  charges  and  losses 
he  was  now  in  hope  to  reap  some  profit.  His  being  here  11 
weeks,  and  his  losses  at  home,  have  hindered  him  very  much ; 
so  that  through  the  many  crosses  it  has  pleased  God  to  send 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  249 


1609. 

him,  his  estate  is  not  much  better  than  when  his  Lordship 
caused  him  to  come  out  of  France. 

P.  1.     Signed.    Sealed.    Add.     ^^TicZd:  "12  July  1609." 

Encloses, 

S.P.,  Ireland,    425.         A  Brief  of  such  things  as  Sir  Thomas  Phillips,  Knight, 
fol.  227, 99 1.  ^g  ^Q  convey  unto  His  Majesty  for  the  advancement  of 

this  intend^ed  plantation  in  Ireland. 
Enumerates  the  particulars  of  the  froperty  proposed  to  he 
surrendered  to  tlie  Crown,  of  the  expenditure  already  incurred 
by  the  proprietor,  and  of  the  pecuniary  loss  tvhich  he  will 
suffer  by  the  transfer,  the  total  of  which  is  2,500^.  Notiuith- 
standing  all  things  thus  undervalued,  it  is  alleged  by  some 
(not  being  thoroughly  acquainted  with  the  dangerous  hazards 
he  had  in  getting  and  holding  the  place),  that  it  cost  him  a 
small  tnatter  ;  to  tuhom  it  may  be  iuell  answered,  the  price  of 
a  head,  which  he  often  ventured  for  it,  is  not  to  be  under- 
valued ;  besides,  it  is  luell  known  that  his  plantation  there, 
and  maJcing  good  that  p>lace  and  others  in  those  parts,  was  a 
great  means  of  relief  to  such  of  His  Ma.jesty's  subjects  as  fled 
at  the  overlhroiu  of  the  Berry  and  gave  a  scope  to  O'Dogherty 
and  others  that  they  (thanks  be  to  God)  did  His  Majesty  no 
further  damage ;  to  this  may  be  remembered  that  he  was  a 
good  means  so  to  civilize  that  part  that  it  gave  no  small  en- 
couragement to  the  Londoners  to  proceed  and  esteevi  things 
of  good  value  in  this  their  plantation.  In  bringing  of  this 
from  a  vast  tvilderness  he  spent  much  money  and  long  time ; 
and  yet  for  all  this,  his  hazard,  care,  and  industry  hath  not 
made  his  estate  much  better  (his  debts  being  paid)  than  it  was 
in  France,  where  he  first  tasted  the  bounty  of  his  honourable 
good  Lord  that  drew  him  thence  into  that  kingdom,  by  whose 
only  favour  he  has  ever  since  been  upholden,  and  has  raised 
to  himself  this  small  fortune  xvhich  he  noiv  prays  may  notbe 
undervalued. 
Pp.  2.    Endd. 

[July.]       426.         Estimate  of  Profits  of  the  Derry  Plantation. 

^T'227*^q9'^'  Particulars  of  ivhat  profit  would  arise  yearly  in  paying 

'       '  the  citizens  5  per  cent,  on  50,000Z.  in  the  plantation  of  Berry 

ctnd  Coleraine,  by  Sir  Thomas  Phillips,  in  addition  to  the 
estimate  alluded  to  in  the  above  letter. 

Also  of  the  profits  to  be  derived  from  fisheries,  houses, 
cattle,  'jjork  and  bacon,  tillage,  pipe  staves,  export  of  corn, 
malt,  ocotmecd,  flax,  yarn,  and  linen,  tanneries  at  Berry  and 
Coleraine,  brew-houses  in  each  city,  &c.;  tvhich  are  certain 
to  be  for  the  first  year  not  less  than  9,050?.,  but  which,  if 
transported  wholly  into  other  countries,  ivill  amount  to  a 
far  greater  profit. 

There  is  reserved  over  and  above  the  profits  set  doivn,  1,500?., 
which  is  to  be  employed  either  in  the  iron-works  or  such  other 
commodities  as  shcdl  be  thought  for  the  best  profit ;  as  likewise 
the  sum  of  2,500/..  more  to  be  taken  out  of  the  estimate  of 


vol.  227,  100. 


250  IRELAOT)— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

charges  and  employed  in  like  manner,  amounting  together 
to  4,000?.,  which  are  here  omitted. 
P.  1.    Endd. 

July  13.     427.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Privy  Coukcil, 
S.P.,  Ireland,  Being  now  constrained  in  some  sort  to  leave  this  place  for  a 

wrtl    097    inn  CD  tot  •  pi»i  1 

season,  m  regard  oi  the  noisomeness  oi  this  house,  has  thought 
it  fit  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  two  letters  of  His  Majesty, 
one  of  the  3rd  of  March,  and  the  other  of  the  24th  of  the  same, 
in  all  which  points  he  will  dutifully  perform  whatsoever  is 
therein  commanded. 

Sends  herewith  an  estimate  of  the  cost  of  the  work  which 
is  required  to  be  done  in  this  castle  for  strengthening  the 
gaol  and  making  up  offices  to  keep  His  Majesty's  record ;  and 
requests  his  Lordship's  direction  for  the  money.  Keports  the 
decay  of  Kilmanam  [Kilmainham],  His  Majesty's  only  house 
in  this  kingdom  meet  for  the  Deputy  to  reside  at,  which, 
unless  some  present  charge  be  bestowed  upon  it  this  summer, 
to  sustain  it,  is  likely  to  be  utterly  ruined  and  blown  down 
this  next  winter  ;  the  hall  is  so  weak,  and  the  rest  for  the 
most  part  uncovered.  It  has  been  a  goodly  vast  building,  and 
therefore  will  now  require  3,000?.  at  least  to  make  it  habitable 
as  becomes ;  whereas  less  than  half  that  money  would  have 
repaired  it  since  his  (Chichester's)  time.  Says  this  only  in 
discharge  of  his  duty,  not  expecting  money  to  rebuild  and 
repair  it,  unless  this  shall  seem  fit  in  consideration  of  future 
times. 

Has  by  letters  acquainted  the  bishops  and  prelates  with  His 
Majesty's  princely  direction  concerning  the  lamentable  im- 
poverishment of  the  church  by  alienations  of  the  temporalties 
thereof.  It  is  no  ordinary  spirit,  specially  of  the  English  nation, 
that  can  now  content  himself  with  pluralities  of  benefices  here 
of  what  kind  soever,  whence  many  mischiefs  and  inconve- 
niences arise.  But  yet,  to  make  the  same  more  binding  and 
coercive,  he  has  determined  to  publish  it  by  proclamation,  as 
also  His  Majesty's  commandment  for  revocation  and  restraint 
of  noblemen  and  gentlemen's  children  from  the  seminaries  of 
beyond  the  seas,  but  with  some  convenient  distinctions  from 
that  other  late  proclamation  to  like  purpose  in  England.  And 
therein  he  will  also  include  the  sons  of  merchants,  that  is,  such 
as  may  go  thither  for  education  in  seminaries,  and  others  who 
are  amenable  to  law,  and  who  can  answer  their  fines  or  other 
penalties  to  be  inflicted  upon  offenders  in  that  kind. — Dublin, 
13  July  1609. 

Thinks  it  fit  to  revoke  those  children  that  are  already  beyond 
sea,  and  will  insert  that  in  this  new  proclamation,  as  being  in 
his  opinion  a  thing  very  expedient.  Prays  three  or  four  lines 
of  warrant  for  this,  which  he  will  first  expect. 

Pp.  2.  Signed.  Add.  Endd. :  "  Rec<i  the  25th,  with  an 
estimate  of  the  charges  of  the  works  to  be  done  within  the 
castle  of  Dublin.     Somewhat  of  Kilmainham." 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  251 


1G09. 

July  13.     428.        Abstracted  out  of  the  Lord  Deputy's  three  Letters  to 
S.P.,  Ireland,  the  LoEDS  of  the  2nd,  4th,  and  13th  of  July. 

'      '  2  July.  Jennings,  the  pirate,  sent  over,  and  the   Earl  of 

Thomond  written  to,  to  send  over  Trevor,  Koope,  and  Drake. 

That  neither  they  of  Dublin  nor  Waterford  ever  spake  or 
complained  to  him  of  any  burthen  they  endured  by  the  cessing 
of  soldiers,  until  they  brought  over  letters  from  the  Lords 
about  it. 

The  agent  of  Waterford  complained  against  Sir  Eic.  Mor- 
rison without  warrant  or  direction  from  the  city,  who  have 
disavowed  the  complaint. 

200  or  300  men  in  readiness  to  be  transported  by  Captain 
Richard  Bingley  into  Sweden. 

That  hereafter  Irish,  and  not  English,  commanders  be 
directed  to  transport  men  for  that  service. 

4  July.  That  the  Moores  being  transplanted,  there  are  yet 
remaining  some  of  their  children  with  their  fosterers,  and 
some  that  are  without  parents,  and  so  nourished  by  their  other 
friends. 

That  some  may  be  taken  in  England  and  put  to  occupation, 
and  so  taught  to  forget  their  first  breeding. 

That  Tyrone's  and  Gaffer  O'Donnell's  children  may  be  also 
brought  over. 

Of  the  great  number  of  Jesuits  and  seminaries  that  flock 
over,  and  of  the  hurt  they  do. 

Of  assemblies  of  at  least  15,000  persons  at  two  several 
places  in  Tipperary  ond  Connaught. 

Of  Sir  Neile  Garvye's  trial  and  the  jury's  obstinacy. 

That  example  caused  O'Chane's  trial  to  be  forborne. 

That  he  means  to  dismiss  Sir  Neile's  brother  and  his  son 
upon  secxirity. 

That  the  son  may  be  sent  to  Oxford  and  kept  there  at  the 
King's  charges  out  of  the  allowance  of  300?.  a  year  left  to  the 
Deputy's  discretion  to  give  in  pensions  to  some  of  the  Irishry. 

13  July.  Expectation  of  money  for  the  alteration  commanded 
in  the  castle  of  Dublin,  being  500?.  or  1,000  marks  English, 
according  to  an  estimate  thereof  now  sent. 

Of  the  great  ruins  of  Kilmainham. 

Direction  for  recalling  the  children  of  the  Irish  from  beyond 
the  seas. 

Pp.  2.    Endd. 

July  15.     429.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Philad.  p.,  gy  ijig  (gir  Arthur's)  own  testimony,  and  that  of  the  Chan- 

^°  ■   '  ^'      ■  cellor  of  Ireland,  the  bearer,  Robert  Maxwell,  has  painfully 

laboured  for  certain  years  past  in  his  ministry.  And  he  (the 
King),  intending  a  reformation  of  that  country  in  manners  and 
I'eligion,  designs  to  confer  upon  him  some  ecclesiastical  livings 
in  his  gift  as  they  shall  fall  void,  to  see  him  sufficiently  pro- 


252  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609.  .  .    "  . 

vided  for.     Meantime  he  is  to  continue  to  receive  the  means 
he  (Sir  Arthur)  has  hitherto  afforded  him. — 15  July  1609. 

P.  ^.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chi- 
chester :  "  Of  the  15th  of  July  ]  609.  From  the  Kinge's  Ma«e 
in  the  behalfe  of  Mr.  Maxwell.     Ee.  the  21st  of  October." 

July  16.      430.        SiE  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
Add.  Fapers,  Wiites  in  behalf  of  Francis  Annesley  and  for  the  reversion 

P.K.O.'  of  the  office  of  provost  marshal  of  the  province  of  Connaught 

after  the  decease  of  Captain  Charles  Coote,  who  now  holds  the 
same  by  letters  patent  during  life,  and  is  as  young  and  as 
likely  to  live  as  the  other.  Annesley  has  lived  in  Ireland  long 
enough  to  learn  the  experience  of  the  country,  and  is  one  whose 
fidelity  and  sufficiency  he  (Chichester)  knows  well,  for  which 
he  presumes  to  recommend  him  to  favour  and  furtherance 
therein.  Assures  his  Lordship  he  will  find  it  a  benefit  but 
well  bestowed  upon  Annesley,  and  in  himself  no  other  than  an 
effect  of  debt  and  obligation.  Craves  pardon  for  troubling 
his  Lordship  so  often  in  this  kind  of  requests.  Does  it  with 
intention  only  to  give  satisfaction  where  it. is  due,  and  many 
times  to  free  his  Lordship  of  further  importunities. — Castle  of 
Dublin,  16  July  1609. 

P.  1.  Signed.  Add.:  " To  the  Right  Honorable  my  very 
good  Lord  the  Earl  of  Salisbury,  Lord  High  Treasurer  of 
England."  JEndd. :  "16  July  1609.  L.  Deputy,  in  favour  of 
Mr.  Annesley  for  the  reversion  of  the  provost-marshalship  of 
Connaught." 

July  16.    431.        Earl  of  Clanricard  to  Salisbury. 

^  f  997'''i'n2'  Though   he   purposed    before   this  time    to  have   been   in 

'       '  England,  yet  the  many  incumbrances  and  lets  unto  which  all 

the  affairs  of  those  that  live,  and  specially  that  govern,  in 
this  kingdom,  are  subject,  have  prevented  his  doing  so.  And 
now  also,  although  ready  at  Dublin  to  go  over,  he  has  met 
with  such  accidents  and  with  such  a  pack  of  villainy,  that  out 
of  reason  and  care  he  has  resolved  for  some  few  days  to  return 
into  Connaught  again,  the  better  to  settle  and  secure  the  state 
of  things  there  in  his  absence.  The  particulars  of  all  this  and 
all  things  else  he  will  dgfer  till  his  over-coming,  which  shall  be, 
God  willing,  within  this  month,  if  wind  and  weather  fail  not. 
Has  also  resolved  for  the  present,  till  he  shall  himself  speak 
with  his  Lordship,  not  to  settle  any  vice-president  in  the  place 
he  holds,  many  having  used  many  means  for  it ;  but  he  thinks 
it  fitter  to  leave  for  the  present  a  commission  with  two  of  the 
Council  of  the  province,  who  cannot  take  exceptions  to  their 
alteration.  And  the  person  whom  his  Lordship,  upon  his 
(Clanricard' s)  coming,  will  admit  or  allow  of,  shall  be  the  most 
pleasing  to  him. — Dublin,  16  July  1609. 
Pp.  2.     Signed.    Endd. 


IRELAND^JAMES  I.  253 


1609, 
July  18.     432.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 

^  T''22?''i03'  Some  former  letters  of  his  have  had  worse  speed  than  other 

'       '  men's  written  about  the  same   time  ;  for,  intending  that   his 

should  go  by  the  post  bark,  they  are  returned,  and,  before  he 
could  again  dispatch  them,  the  King's  letters  and  instructions 
for  a  more  exact  survey  of  the  escheated  lands  and  other  pre- 
parations towards  the  intended  plantation  of  Ulster,  have 
arrived ;  all  which  he  received  together  with  his  Lordship's, 
on  the  16th  inst.  Had  they  stayed  but  one  week  longer,  the 
judges  would  have  been  in  circuit  and  the  Council  dispersed, 
so  that  nothing  could  have  been  done  therein  this  summer. 
But  now  he  has  so  ordered  and  disposed  the  business  that,  God 
willing  (if  money  fail  not),  they  will  be  at  Dundalke  on  the 
last  of  this  inst.,  and  the  next  day  about  Armagh  ;  with  which 
country  they  intend  to  begin,  and  so  to  proceed  as  the  time 
and  season  of  the  year  will  give  leave. 

Has  acquainted  Mr.  Treasurer  with  his  Lordship's  letters. 
He  is  labouring  by  all  means  to  get  money  to  set  them 
forward,  in  which  he  has  his  (Chichester's)  best  credit  and 
assistance  ;  but  in  respect  of  the  great  sums  already  taken  up 
for  the  times  past,  part  of  which  is  to  be  paid  here  out  of  the 
treasure  appointed  for  the  last  of  June,  which  is  not  yet 
arrived,  it  is  very  scarce  and  hard  to  be  gotten.  Takes  with 
him  such  horse  and  foot  as  may  be  spared  in  these  parts  and 
others  that  lie  in  his  way,  but  draws  none  from  Munster  nor 
Connaught. 

The  Lord  Chancellor  is  not  well  able  to  travel  at  this  time, 
but  will  be  ready  to  follow  them,  if  they  have  occasion  to  call 
for  him.     The  Bishop  of  Derry's  absence  will  be  a  great  im- 
pediment to  the  service,  especially  for  so  much  as  shall  con- 
cern the  lands  claimed  by  him  and  other  bishops.     Prays  his 
Lordship  to  hasten  him  away,  for  some  of  their  instructions 
require  his  presence,  advice,  and  consent;  he  has,  as  it  seems, 
made  strange  propositions,  and  well  laboured  his  own  ends, 
and  he  (Chichester)  fears  the  granting  of  his  desires  will  both 
disadvantage  the  King  and  the  plantation.     He  has  incensed 
against  him  (Chichester)  the  Lord  Archbishop  of  Canterbury, 
who  has  complained  of  him  to  the  King,  which  he  willed  Sir 
Oliver  St.  John  to  communicate.     Takes  God  to  witness  he 
never  gave  cause  of  offence  to  the  one  nor  the  other  to  his 
knowledge,  unless  the  Bishop  of  Derry  take  it  for  advising  him 
sometimes  to  leave  the  care  of  the  world,  to  which  he  thought 
him  too  much  affected,  and  to  attend  to  his  pastoral  calling 
and  the  reformation  of  his  clergy,  which,  for  what  appeared  to 
him  (Chichester),  he  greatly  neglected  ;  but  that  my  Lord   of 
Canterbury   should  complain  of  him   to  the  King  upon  his 
Lordship's  or  any  other  man's  bare  reports  (and  in  such  a 
manner  to  make  him  odious  to  His  Majesty,  whom  he  serves 
with  a  faithful  heart,)  before  his  Grace  had  heard  what  he 
could  say   for  himself,  seems  very  strange  ;  and  if  his  Grace 
understood  the  carriage  and  behaviour  of  most  of  the  bishops 


254  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

here,  he  would  rather  blame  him  for  his  sufferance  than  com- 
plain of  him  for  advising  them  to  the  care  and  attendance 
of  their  charges.  Could  deliver  much  more  of  these  passages, 
but  holds  it  not  fitting  ;  neither  would  he  have  made  mention 
of  this  much,  had  not  my  Lord  of  Canterbury  told  Sir  Oliver 
St.  John  that  his  Lordship  knew  he  had  complained  of  him 
(Chichester)  and  thereby  thought  that  he  had  understood  it. 
Now,  by  his  (Salisbury's)  never  making  mention  thereof,  he 
(Chichester)  conceives  it  is  his  meaning  that  he  should  take 
no  further  notice  thereof,  to  which  he  submits  himself  if  His 
Majesty  and  his  Lordship  be  well  satisfied  therein  ;  and  during 
the  time  of  his  being  Deputy,  he  will  not  so  much  as  speak 
unto  the  Bishop  of  Derry  of  it,  unless  himself  minister  the 
occasion  ;  for  this  place  has  taught  him  patience  to  suffer  these 
and.  the  like  wrongs  to  pass  unspoken  of.  Confesses,  however, 
it  is  hard  to  dissemble  his  affection.  Intends  to  go  hence  as 
far  as  Drohedagh  [Drogheda],  on  Friday  next,  which  will 
hasten  the  coming  of  the  Commissioners  and  companies.  Will 
leave  the  Lord  Chancellor  with  the  secretary  and  some  other 
of  the  Council,  to  attend  the  service  here,  and  will  take  with 
him  the  Treasurer,  the  Marshal,  and  some  others  of  the  Council, 
besides  the  Lord  Chief  Justice  and  the  King's  Attorney.  They 
have  set  down  all  the  bishops  interested  in  any  lands  within 
those  escheated  counties  to  be  of  the  commission,  which  was 
so  expected,  as  Sir  John  Davys  reports. 

Must  recommend  to  his  consideration  the  cause  of  Sir  Henry 
Power,  who  by  letters  patent  passed  in  my  Lord  of  Devon- 
shire's time,  is  Governor  of  the  Queen's  County,  and  has  a 
fee  of  10s.  a  day.  The  place  necessarily  requires  the  atten- 
dance of  such  a  one ;  and  having  occasion  upon  the  remove  ot 
the  Moores  to  send  Sir  Henry  Powre  thither,  he  complained 
that,  his  Government  being  left  out  of  the  Establishment,  his 
fee  was  taken  from  him,  notwithstanding  he  had  been  at  great 
charge  and  expense  in  living  there  at  all  times  to  give  further- 
ance to  the  service.  This  he  (Chichester)  knows  to  be  true, 
and  thereon  he  (Sir  Henry)  besought  him  to  move  his  Lord- 
ship that  his  fee  might  be  restored,  which  his  service  and 
charge  well  deserve.  It  is  but  10s.  harps,  and  unless  he  have 
it,  he  (Chichester)  will  not  make  him  stay  there,  whereby 
much  harm  may  ensue  if  those  Moores,  or  other  ill  neigh- 
bours, should  chance  to  be  stirring. — Dublin  Castle,  18  July 
1G09. 

Pp.  3.     Signed.    Not  add.  or  endd. 

July  18.     433.        Abstract  of  the  Lord  Deputy's  three  Letters  to  Salis- 
S.P.,  Ireland,  BURY  of  the  2nd,  4th,  and  18th  of  July. 

vol.  227, 104.  2  July   That  there  is  a  charge  sent  to  Mr.  Cliancellor  of 

the  Master  of  the  Ordnance's  defalcation  upon  apparel  from 
the  1st  of  October  1603  to  the  last  of  March  160-5. 

That  Mr.  Treasurer  hath  sent  a  certificate  of  the  receipts 
and  issues  of  the  revenue. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  255 


1609. 

Of"tlie  friar  Owen  Groine  Magragh,  and  the  reason  why 
the  Lord  of  Delvin  was  brought  to  give  evidence  in  person 
against  him. 

The  man  is  old,  not  able  to  do  harm ;  neither  active  nor 
ingenious.  He  is  willing,  in  respect  of  my  Lord  of  Delvin, 
that  he  be  pardoned,  and  rather  confined  into  some  part  of 
Ulster  than  loanished,  for  there  is  hope  of  intelligence  by  him. 

The  Lord  of  Delvin  beareth  himself  well  and  thankfully 
for  the  grace  he  hath  received. 

The  Lord  of  Howth  and  Delvin  not  to  be  reconciled,  neither 
their  reconciliation  to  be  much  wished. 

Howth  is  a  discontented  man,  and  no  good  to  be  expected 
of  him  if  he  were  able  to  do  harm. 

The  Viscount  Gormanston  is  discontented  at  his  pardon,  he . 
desires  rather  to  put  himself  to  the  trial  of  the  law  than  to  stand 
suspected.     He  and  Sir  Thomas  Fitzwilliams  oifer  but  2001. 
for  Mr.  Florio  ;  it  is  hoped  that  they  will  be  drawn  to  2501. 

That  Sir  Neili  Garvey  and  O'Chane  may  be  sent  into 
England. 

4th  July.  Of  the  priests  and  Jesuits. 

The  project  for  base  moneys. 

Of  the  customs. 

That  Long  and  Chetham  are  not  permitted  to  collect  the 
profits,  because  the  Attorney  signified  your  pleasure  to  be  so. 

He  wisheth  they  executed  their  office  for  some  few  peers, 
whereby  it  may  be  brought  in  charge. 

The  corporation  are  like  to  conceal  the  values  in  hope  to 
retain  them  still. 

Long  and  Chetham  demand  for  their  old  lease  a  new  one  of 
seven  or  five  years,  or  valuable  consideration  if  they  surrender. 

18th  July.  Acknowledgment  of  the  receipt  of  the  com- 
mission, and  instructions  for  plantation,  and  accordingly  will 
prepare  for  the  journey. 

The  Lord  Chancellor  not  able  yet  to  go,  but  will  set  forward 
when  he  shall  be  sent  fox-. 

That  the  Bishop  of  Derry  may  be  hastened  away. 

He  hath  made  strong  propositions,  and  well  laboured  his 
own  ends,  but  hurt  the  plantation. 

By  his  means  the  Lord  of  Canterbury  hath  complained  to 
the  King  against  him  ;  he  never  offended  the  bishop,  but  by 
advising  him  sometimes  to  leave  the  cares  of  the  world,  and 
to  intend  better  his  pastoral  calling. 

Of  Sir  Henry  Power's  complaint  that  his  fee  of  10s.  a  day 
was  taken  from  him,  because  his  Government  was  left  out  of 
the  Establishment. 

Pp.  3.    Endd. 

July  19.     434.        Commission  of  Escheated  Lands. 
S.P.,  Ireland,  Commission  to   the    Deputy,    Chancellor,   Archbishop   of 

vol.527,  105.  Armagh,  and  others,  giving  authority  to  ascertain  the  extent 

of  escheated  lauds  in  Armagh,]  Coleraine,  Tyrone,    Donegal, 


256  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

Fermanagh,  and  Cavan,  to  make  an  exact  survey  of  the  said 
lands,  and  to  divide  them  into  parishes,  precincts,  and  pro- 
portions, according  to  the  former  project. 

Pp.  3.  Endd. :  "  Copy  of  the  Commission  for  the  planta- 
tion." 

July  20.     435.        Sir  John  Davys  to  Salisbury. 

^T  227^^106'  ■^^  ^^^  ^^^^  dispatch  received  a  letter  from  his  Lordship, 

'      '  wherein,  to  his  great  comfort  and  encouragement,  he  found  the 

continuance  of  his  Lordship's  favour  towards  him,  which  he 
will  ever  study  to  preserve.  This  dispatch  has  given  new 
life  to  the  liope  they  had  of  the  plantation,  which  had  begun 
to  languish,  when  they  saw  the  year  so  far  spent  before  any 
directions  came  for]  that  business  ;  but  now  they  are  glad  to 
see  every  man  so  cheerful  and  ready  to  undertake  the  journey, 
as  they  hope  it  presages  a  fortunate  success.  The  Chief  .Justice 
and  himself  were  appointed  Justices  of  Assize  for  the  shires 
of  Low  Leynster ;  but  these  new  directions  have  diverted 
their  course  from  thence  into  Ulster. 

Has  opportunity  to  send  a  copy  of  their  commission  for  the 
plantation,  because  in  the  draught  of  it  opus  laboris  was 
imposed  upon  him.  Conjectures  my  Lord  L)eputy  named  so 
many  commissioners  in  order  to  take  away  occasion  of  emula- 
tion among  the  Privy  Councillors,  which  might  arise  if  some 
were  named  and  others  omitted.  Confesses,  however,  that  he 
himself  was  an  earnest  suitor  that  all  the  bishops  of  the  north 
might  be  put  in  this  commission,  because  the  omitting  of  one 
bishop  the  last  year,  though  he  was  present  when  the  inquisi- 
tion was  taken,  and  showed  all  his  title  and  opposed  against 
the  King's  title  more  than  he  could  have  done  if  he  had  been 
a  commissioner,  gave  him  some  colour  to  complain,  whereby 
he  gained  all  the  Termon  land.  If  there  had  been  fewer 
commissioners  appointed  now,  perhaps  the  service  would  have 
been  performed  as  soon  as  now  it  will  be  ;  for  he  thinks  that 
prince  wished  well  and  wisely  for  himself,  who  said,  "  Give 
me  a  thousand  hands  to  defend  me,  but  only  two  or  three 
heads  to  counsel  me."  For  his  particular,  though  his  voice  and 
opinion  will  have  but  a  weak  passage  among  so  many  counsel- 
lors, which  is  a  rank  above  his  place,  yet  in  his  zeal  and 
diligence  to  advance  this  service  he  will  not  be  inferior  to 
any. 

Is  not  a  little  comforted  to  hear  that  my  Lord  Audeley  and 
hia  son  desire  to  be,  and  are  like  to  be,  undertakers  in  so  large 
and  frank  a  manner.  They  do  not  in  this  degenerate  from 
their  ancestors,  for  it  was  an  ancestor  of  the  Lord  Audeley 
who  first  undertook  to  conquer  or  reduce  North  Wales,  and 
was  one  of  the  first  Lord  Marchers  there.  Besides,  one  or  two 
of  the  same  family  accompanied  Sir  Jo.  de  Cursy  (sic)  in  the 
conquest  of  Ulster,  and  planted  there,  in  testimony  whereof 
Audley  Castle  is  yet  standing  in  Lecael  [Lecale],  inherited  at 
this  day  by  one  of  same  surname. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  257 


J  609. 

The  Lord  Deputy  moves  northward  to-morrow,  the  21st, 
but  they  do  not  begin  their  journey  till  the  31st,  when  they 
will  make  Dundalk  their  rendezvous.  As  occurrents  shall 
arise,  he  will  make  the  best  commentaries  thereof  that  he  can  ; 
and  according  to  his  duty  wiU  transmit  them  to  his  Lordship 
from  time  to  time,  albeit  he  expects  after  their  return  a  perfect 
relation  from  all  the  commissioners. — Dublin,  20  July  1609. 
Pp.  2.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

July  21.     436.        Earl  of  Kildaee  to  Salisbuef. 

vol  227  in^-R  Complains  of  the  course  pursued  against  him  by  Sir  Eobert 

■      '         ■  Digby.— DubUn,  21  July  1609. 

P.  1.     Signed.     Add.    Endd. 

July  23.      437.         P.  Aethuee,  Mayor  of  Limerick,  to  Salisbury. 
Toi  aa^'iog'  ^^®  corporation  of  Limerick,  out  of  their  excessive  grief  and 

poverty,  have  enforced  him  to  come  thither  to  declare  the 
same  to  his  Lordship,  and  to  be  suitor  in  their  behalf  only 
for  the  coquette  customs,  as  all  other  cities  and  corporations  of 
Ireland,  especially  those  of  Munster,  have  been  granted  them, 
having  no  other  means  or  revenue  to  repair  their  great  and 
spacious  walls,  bridges,  with  many  castles,  bulwarks,  and 
towers  of  defence.  Prays  his  Lordship,  therefore,  to  pity  their 
poor  estates,  and  to  respect  their  several  services,  especially 
against  the  traitor  Tyrone,  besides  the  voluntary  parting 
with  a  great  deal  of  land  upon  promise  of  recompense  from 
His  Majesty  for  the  enlarging  of  the  fort  and  castle  there. 
Besides  of  late  they  gave  a  thousand  men's  labour  or  more, 
with  other  helps,  for  the  speedy  finishing  of  the  work,  Begs 
him  to  recommend  their  suit  to  His  Majesty  for  his  grant  of 
the  said  coquette  custom  (if  not  their  poundage),  or  at  least 
to  procure  His  Highness's  promise  of  the  same  when  the  lease 
in  Ireland  is  resumed.  Unless  they  receive  relief  herein, 
the  inhabitants  will  abandon  the  city  and  disperse  themselves 
to  the  other  cities  and  towns  of  Munster  that  are  exempted 
from  that  kind  of  taxation ;  and  the  suppliant  being  their 
mayor,  unfortunately  employed  by  them  as  their  agent,  re- 
ceiving no  favour  herein,  will  be  more  willing  to  go  to  the 
remotest  part  of  the  kingdom  than  return  again  to  them,  his 
suit  unsuccessful. — 23  July  1609. 
P.  1.     Signed.     Add.     Endd 

July  24,     438.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

^ Ir  i^^r'^^'  Directs  the  appointment  of  —  Hasset,^  Esq.,  an   ancient 

councillor,  as  extra  Baron  of  the  Court  of  Exchequer,  with  the 
customary  fees,  &c.  of  the  others,  by  reason  of  the  infirmity 
of  some  of  the  barons,  the  extraordinary  charge  and  oflfice  to 
continue  until  some  place  of  a  baron  now  full  fall  void. — 
Westminster,  24  July,  seventh  year  of  the  reign. 
P.  1.     Add. 

'  John  Blennerhasset,  created  Chief  Baron  and  a  knight,  March  1,  1621. 
3.  E 


268  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 


1609. 
July  24.       439.        Lords  of  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

vol'' 3^*^  400  ^^   *^®   application   of  the  Lady  Sydley,  late   widow  of 

Henry  Malby,  Esq.,  praying  some  allowance  towards  repair- 
ing the  castles  of  Roscommon  and  Longford  held  by  her  under 
a  rent  payable  to  His  Majesty,  Roscommon  being  ruined  by 
the  garrison  planted  there  first  by  Sir  John  Norris,  and  after- 
wards by  other  governors,  being  a  place  much  decayed  by 
that  means  and  fit  to  be  maintained  for  His  Majesty's  service, 
they  direct  that  some  fines  and  casualties  be  allotted  to  its 
repair  ;  but  some  money  having  been  assessed  on  the  county 
of  Longford,  and  part  thereof  collected,  they  pray  him  to 
apply  that  sum  already  collected  to  the  repair  as  was  in- 
tended, and  to  proceed  to  collect  and  apply  the  remainder. — 
Whitehall,  24  July  1609. 

Signed :  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northamp- 
ton, T.  Sufi'olke,  W.  Knollys,  L.  Stanhope,  Jul.  Csesar,  Thos. 
Parry,  John  Corbett. 

P.  i.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester :  "  Of  the 
24th  July  igo9.  From  the  Lords  of  the  Councell  in  the 
behalfe  of  the  Ladie  Sydley  to  give  an  allowance  out  of  some 
casualties  towards  the  rebuildinge  of  the  house  of  Roscommon, 
and  for  the  convertinge  of  a  cesse  imposed  upon  the  countie 
of  Longford  towards  the  buildinge  of  the  castle  of  Longford. 
Re.  the  20*^  of  October  1610." 

July  25.     440.        LoRDS  OF  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
^^j'^g^'p  -^j^g  He  will  see  by  the  enclosed  a  proposal  made  by  the  Lord 

Audelay  to  undertake  in  Ireland,  and  on  what  conditions. 
They  do  not  mean  to  enter  into  the  question  of  the  planta- 
tion generally,  but  only  to  apprize  him  that,  as  Lord  Audelay 
spent  a  long  time  in  Ireland,  and  has  had  much  experience  of 
the  country  and  people,  the  King  has  favourably  noticed  his 
services,  and  commends  his  zeal  in  furthering  the  plantation. 
Refer  the  particulars  of  the  oSer  to  his  Lordship's  considera- 
tion.—Whitehall,  25  July  1609. 
Postscript. — 

"  For  the  better  satisfaction  of  the  Lord  Audelay  for  the 
proportions  which  he  desires  to  have  of  woods,  we  pray  your 
Lordship  that  he  may  find  himself  so  much  favoured  by  your 
Lordship  as  may  not  be  prejudicial  to  the  general  work,  which 
must  be  preferred  before  aU  private  respects  whatsoever." 

Signed:  R.  Cant.,  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  H. 
Northampton,  T.  Suffolke,  E.  Worcester,  W.  Knollys,  L.  Stan- 
hope, Thos.  Parry. 

P.  1.     Orig.    Add.    Endd.     Encloses, 

July  10.      441.         Lord  Audley's  proposed  Plantation  in  Tyrone,  10  July 

PMad.P.,  1609. 

Articles  propounded  and  offered  by  the  Lord  Audelay  to 
the  Commissioners  for  Irish  causes. 

The  Lord  Audelay  is  an  humble  suitor  to  His  Majesty  for 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  259 


1609. 

100,000  acres,  which  he  promises  to  undertake  to  plant  in 
manner  following : — 

1.  The  100,000  acres  to  be  in  Tyrone  or  the  adjoining  parts 
of  Armagh,  excepting  lands  allotted  to  forts,  colleges,  free 
schools,  hospitals,  and  natives. 

2.  He  will  divide  the  100,000  acres  into  S3  ptafts,  on  tuhich 
he  xuill  build  33  castles  and  cts  many  towns.  To  each  castle 
he  tvill  assign  600  acres  and  to  each  town  2,400,  %vhich  shall 
consist  of  at  least  ^0  families,  comprising  foot  soldiers,  arti- 
ficers, and  cottagers,  with  allotments  of  land  to  each. 

3.  He  will  pay  the  rent  expressed  in  the  articles  533?.  Os.  8c?. 
for  100,000  acres,  the  first  half  year  to  be  paid  at  Michaelmas 
come  four  years. 

4.  He  will  perform  the  building  within  four  years, 

5.  He  prays  that  of  the  33  towns,  six  may  be  market  towns 
and  one  incorporate,  with  txvo  fairs  yearly  and  one  fair 
yearly  in  each  market  toivn. 

6.  He  is  content  to  have  only  the  advowsons  %uithin  his 
own  territories. 

7.  He  desires,  within  five  manors,  felons'  goods,  outlaws, 
and  fugitives,  felons  of  theinselves,  vjaifs  and  strays,  court 
leet,  and  court  baron. 

8.  He  desires  license  freely  to  erect  iron  mills,  to  onake  iron 
and,  glass,  ctnd  soiu  woad  tvithin  his  own  land  for  forty-one 
years. 

9.  Lord  Audelay  and  his  son  are  content  jointly  to  assure 
land  o/ 1,000?.  vcdue  on  recognizance  to  His  Majesty  for  the 
perforviance  of  the  conditions ;  the  bond  to  be  cancelled  at 
the  end  of  five  years  on  the  Lord  Deputy's  certificate  of  the 
fulfilment  of  the  conditions. 

Lastly,  the  great  woods  of  Glanconkeyne,  Killetro,  and 
Slutart  and  others,  are  reserved  to  His  Majesty. 

All  these,  together  ivith  coll  the  printed  articles  not  repug- 
nant to  these,  he  undertakes  to  peo-foron,  and  he  desires  that 
they  be  transmitted  to  the  Lord  Deputy  for  his  consideration 
and  ccpprovcd  or  disapproved. 

{Signed)     Q.  Audelay. 

Pp.  1|.     Orig.    Endd. 

July  25.     442.        Lords  of  Council  to  Sie  Arthur  Chichester. 

^I'^s^'^  ^07  '^^^  controversy    depending  between  Sir    Eichard    Boyle, 

^°  ■   '  ^'       ■  Thomas  Ball,   and  one  William  Chishall  was,  by  their  (the 

Lords')  letters  in  December  last,  referred  to  the  determination 
of  the  Lord  President  of  Munster,  to  be  concluded  before 
Midsummer  last,  if  he  could ;  if  not,  then  to  be  left  to  the 
decision  of  him  (Sir  Arthur).  And  the  wife  of  Chishall 
afhrming  that  the  Lord  President  made  his  award  by  consent 
of  all  parties  on  the  6th  of  March  1608,  but  it  being  alleged 
on  the  other  side  that,  by  reason  of  new  matter  very  con- 
siderable on  behalf  of  Sir  Richard  Boyle,  the  Lord  Presi- 
dent left  the  determining  of  the  matter  to  him  (Sir  Arthur), 

R  2 


260  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

he  is  to  consider  of  the  allegation,  and,  if  it  be  true  that  Sir 
Richard  Boyle  and  BaU  were  present  by  their  attornies,  and 
consented,  he  is  to  go  no  further ;  but  if  not,  then  he  is,  "with 
the  aid  of  the  Chief  Justice,  Lord  Chief  Baron,  and  Master 
of  the  Rolls,  or  any  two  of  them,  to  rehear  the  cause ;  and 
in  the  determination  thereof  charitable  care  is  to  be  had  of 
Chishall,  as  also  of  the  preservation  of  the  iron-works. — 
Whitehall,  25  July  1609. 

Signed :  R.  Cant.,  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  H. 
Northampton,  T.  SufFolke,  W.  Knollys,  L.  Stanhope,  Jul.  Csesar, 
Thos.  Parry. 

P.  1.  Add.  ^?icZd.-  "Of the 25  July  1609.  Iny-^behalfe 
of  M"^  Chiswell,  concerning  the  matters  betweene  him  &  S'"  R"^ 
Boyle  &  others." 

July  26.     443.        The  King  to  Sie  Arthur  Chichester. 

Plulad.  P  ,^  ip^  confer  on  the  bearer,  John  Aston,  who  has  been  over 

there,  having  been  summoned  for  the  causes  he  (Sir  Arthur) 
knows,  and  has  suffered  sufEcient  punishment  for  his  folly 
in  his  (the  King's)  opinion,  such  ecclesiastical  preferment  as 
may  be  lit  for  him.  But  he  (Sir  Arthur)  is  to  admonish  liim 
that  he  forbear  from  henceforth,  not  only  in  earnest  but  in 
sport,  to  publish  that  he  has  any  skill  in  that  faculty  which 
it  is  so  unseemly  for  his  calling  to  use  in  one  kind  or  the 
other.  And  he  (the  King)  thinks  him  the  rather  to  be  warned 
of  it  since,  even  of  late  and  since  his  reconciling  to  the  King's 
favour,  he  has  not  abstained  from  speeches  that  he  is  not 
without  such  knowledge. — Farnham,  26  July  1609. 

P.  1.  Sigoied  at  head.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chi- 
chester: "Of  the  26  of  July  1609.  From  the  Kinge's  Mat'e, 
in  the  behalf e  of  M""  Aston,  minister.  Re.  the  23'^  of  June 
1610." 

July  26.    444.        Lords  oi'  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Phiiad.  p.,  The  practices  of  the  Lord  Bourke   having   defeated    the 

^°  '    '  ^'       ■  several  attempts  during  four  years  past  of  Edmond  Bourke, 

son  of  Thomas  the  elder  brother  of  Theobald,  the  reputed 
Lord  Bourke  (which  Thomas  was  slain  in  the  sei-vice  of  the 
late  Queen)  to  prove  his  legitimacy,  notwithstanding  the 
obtaining  of  many  commissions,  as  alleged  by  the  mother 
and  nearest  friends  of  the  said  Edmond,  they  (the  Lords), 
though  they  have  no  intention  of  determining  anything  to 
the  prejudice  of  the  Lord  Bourke,  whose  deserts  are  worthy 
of  favour,  cannot  but  recommend  the  cause  to  his  (Sir 
Arthur's)  care,  that  he  may  direct  speedy  inquisition  and 
trial,  considering  that  the  child's  father  was  slain  in  the  ser- 
vice of  the  State,  and  that  His  Majesty  has  some  interest  in 
the  wardship.— Whitehall,  26  July  1609. 

Signed  :  R.  Cant.,  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  H. 
Northampton,  T.  Suffolke,  E.  Worcester,  E.  Zouche,  W.  Knollys, 
Jul.  Ctesar  Thos.  Parry. 


IRELAND — JAMES  I.  261 


1609. 

P.  1.  Signed.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester: 
"  Of  the  26  of  July  1609.  From  the  Lis.  of  the  Councell  in 
the  cause  in  difference  betwixt  tlie  L.  Bourke  and  his  nephew. 
Ee.  the  23'i  of  Sept.  following." 

July  26.     445.        Lords  of  Council  to  Sm  Arthur  Chichester. 

v^of  6i!p^  «:  Duplicate  of  No.  444. 

P.  1.  Copy.  Not  add.  Endd.  in  Sir  John  Davys's  hand : 
"  The  Lords'  Letter." 

July  27.      446.        Lords  of  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Tol  3d  411  Request  him  to  call  to  his  aid  such  of  the  Judges  as  are 

of  the  Council,  and  inquire  into  the  complaint  of  Edward 
White,  clerk  of  the  Council  of  Connaught,  who  alleges  that 
of  late  the  justice  and  attorney  of  that  province,  under  pre- 
tence that  the  bills  and  pleadings  of  common  causes  are  deter- 
minable by  virtue  of  the  general  commissions  for  holding 
of  assizes  and  sessions,  and  not  by  the  Lord  President's  joint 
commission  and  their  own  incident  to  the  presidency,  have 
taken  to  their  use  and  that  of  their  clerks,  the  fees  and 
perquisites  which,  for  thirty  years,  he  had  been  accustomed  to 
receive  as  clerk  of  the  Council  of  Connaught  and  Thomond. — 
Whitehall,  27  July  1609. 

Signed :  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton,  T.  Suffolke,  E.  Wor- 
cester, E.  Zouclie,  W.  Knollys,  J.  Herbert,  Jul.  Csesar,  Thos. 
Parry. 

P.  1.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester:  "  Of  the 
27  of  July  1609.  From  the  Lordes  of  the  Councell  tutch- 
inge  the  difference  betweene  the  Justice,  &c.  of  Connaught 
andtheclarke  of  the  councell  there.     Re.  the  18th  of  No." 

July  28.     447.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Privy  Council. 
^  f  '927^'no'  Among  other  propositions  made  to  him  for  erecting  of  new 

'      "  offices,  not  altogether  warranted  by  law,  and  yet  not  seeming 

unnecessary  for  the  Commonwealth,  this  one  has  been  lately 
moved :  that,  whereas  there  are  two  or  three  measures  of 
several  kinds  in  all  or  most  of  the  port  towns  of  this  kingdom, 
with  which  they  use  to  buy  and  sell  at  their  pleasures,  to  the 
great  deceit  and  discouragement  of  merchants,  strangers,  and 
to  the  impoverishment  of  the  realm,  it  is  thought  expedient 
for  reformation  thereof,  that  one  sole  measure  of  the  Bristol- 
band-barrel  should  be  established,  by  proclamation,  in  all  the 
said  port  towns  at  least,  as  the  manner  is  now  in  England, 
and  none  other  permitted  ;  and  that  a  sworn  officer  should  be 
authorized  by  His  Majesty's  prerogative  to  oversee  the  due 
execution  of  the  said  proclamation,  with  allowance  of  some- 
thing out  of  each  barrel  of  salt  and  corn  exported  or  imported 
only ;  whereby  the  abuses  may  be  corrected  and  restrained 
without  charge  to  His  Majesty  or  further  contention  and 
trouble.  The  reasons  offered  to  induce  him  hereunto  are  these 
enclosed  ;  whereof  it  may  please  his  Lordship  to  consider,  as 
also  that  many  other  now  laudable  institutions  have  some- 


262  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

times  been  new,  and  unwillingly  received,  which  are  since 
become  so  necessary  that  the  Commonwealth  cannot  well 
stand  without  them.  Should  their  Lordships  allow  thereof, 
there  is  one  Clement  Greene,  an  honest  and  sufficient  English- 
man, that  he  (Chichester)  thinks  very  fit  to  be  employed  in 
this  reformation,  and  one  that  will  give  His  Majesty  a  com- 
petent yearly  rent  for  it,  according  to  the  allowance  to  be 
made  to  him  out  of  every  barrel  of  corn  and  salt  brought  in 
or  carried  out  of  the  realm.  Refers  it  to  their  Lordships' 
further  consideration. — Mellefont,  28  July  1609. 
P.  1.     Sealed.    Signed.    Add.    Endd.    Encloses, 

S.P.,  Ireland,    448.         Uniform  Standard  Measure  for  Ireland. 

'  '  Reasons   for   adopting  the    Bristol    hand  barrel   at    the 

standard  measure  to  measure  all  sorts  of  corn,  salt,  Sc, 
imported  into  Ireland. 
P.l. 

July  30.     449.        Sir  Alexander  Hay  [to  Salisbury]. 

^i^227'^^'^ni  ^^  ^^^  ^^^^  certified  to  him  by  packet  from  their  Chancellor 

'  that  there  are  now  a  great  many  undertakers  for  the  Irish 

plantation  of  their  countrymen,  who  have  found  sureties  to 
their  Council  there  for  performing  of  all  conditions  enjoined. 
And  as  it  is  much  urged  by  them  that  they  may  presently  be 
put  a- work,  my  Lord  Chancellor  has  willed  him  to  certify  him 
what  course  these  undertakers  are  now  to  take,  and  to  whom 
they  are  to  address  themselves  in  order  to  receive  their  pro- 
portion of  land,  which  shall  be  by  lot  apportioned  to  them. 
His  Majesty  has  commanded  him  to  write  hereanent,  that 
advice  may  be  returned  with  speed.  In  setting  down  the 
proposition  to  undertakers,  finds  most  of  all  the  proportions  to 
be  of  2,000  acres  apiece.  The  reason  whereof  is  alleged  to  be 
the  unwillingness  of  any  of  ability  to  accept  a  less  quantity. 
There  is  a  roll  of  names  of  undertakers,  and  their  cautioner 
is  sent  up,  who  has  undertaken  the  planting  of  75,000  acres, 
which  he  thinks  is  more  than  is  intended  for  their  country 
people.  Will  expect  his  answer  as  to  what  he  may  certify 
back  to  my  Lord  Chancellor. — Bewlie,  30  July. 
P.  1.    Signed.    Endd. 

July  31.     450.        Lords  of  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Philad.  p.,  Request  his  advice  on   the  suit  of  John  Fitzpatrick,  son 

^°-   'P-      ■  Qf  Lord  Upper  Ossory,  for  the  reversion  in  fee  farm  of  the 

impropriate  parsonages  belonging  to  the  Abbeys  of  Rathhassell 
and  Jerripont,  now  in  lease  for  seventy-one  years  to  come. 
He  has  been  recommended  for  some  good  services  done  by 
him  both  in  the  last  wars  and  since,  and  they  would  be 
willing  to  give  him  good  contentment  as  well  for  his  own 
deserts,  as  also  in  regard  of  the  nobleman,  his  father,  who  has 
ever  been  a  faithful,  true  subject,  well  afi'ected  to  the  State, 
and  always  a  good  furtherance  in  His  Majesty's  service. 
They  also  require  him  to  confirm  unto  Dermot  O'Brien,  the 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  263 


1609. 

young  Baron  of  Inchiquin,  and  to  Mabel,  his  mother,  wife  to 
the  said  John  [Fitzpatrick],  the  wardship  of  the  said  Dermot, 
according  to  the  King's  pleasure,  that  the  wardships  of  all 
those  that  perish  in  His  Highness's  service  be  granted  to  the 
use  of  their  wives  and  children.  Lastly,  they  recommend  to 
his  care  the  freedom  of  Harold's  Grange,  near  Dublin,  that,  if 
he  find  that  it  is  an  ancient  freedom,  he  may  give  him  such 
satisfaction  that  he  may  not  further  trouble  His  Majesty. 
—The  last  of  July  1609. 

Signed ;  T.  EUesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  T.  Suffolke, 
W.  Knollys,  Jul.  Csesar. 

P.  1.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester :  "  Of  the 
last  of  July  1609.  From  the  Lords  of  the  Councell  in  the 
behalfe  of  John  Fitzpatricke.     Ke.  the  7th  of  December." 

July  31.     451.        The  King  to  Sib  Arthur  Chichester. 

^I'^l^*^  m'9  Neale  Garvy  and  O'Cahan,  both  prisoners  in  the  Castle  [of 

"    '  '  Dublin],  to  be  sent  over  under  sure  guard  and  in  the  charge  of 

some  discreet  person  ;  inasmuch  as  the  proceedings  of  the  jury 
in  the  case  of  Neale  Garvy  may  be  otherwise  than  justice, 
theii-  notorious  treasons,  and  the  manifest  proof  of  them  re- 
quires ;  as  also  because  of  the  danger  of  keeping  them  in  the 
King's  castle. — Farnham  Castle,  31  July  1609. 

P.  1.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chi- 
chester :  "  Of  the  last  of  July  1609.  From  the  Kinges  Matie 
requireinge  me  to  send  over  Sir  Neale  O'Donnell  and  Sir 
Donnell  O'Cahaine.     Ee.  the  16th  of  August." 

[July.]      452.        WiLLUM  Saxey  to  Salisbury. 

voT  227'n2'  Solicits  the  place  held  by  Baron  Heron,  lately  deceased, 

and  also  payment  of  his  entertainments,  being  550L 

P.  1.     Signed.    Add.     Endd. 

[Aug.  3.]      453.         An  Estimate  what  the  charge  of  transport,  victualling, 
S.P.,  Ireland,  and    apparelling  of    1,000    men  out  of  Ireland  into 

vo .  227,   12.  Swethland  [Sweden]  may  amount  unto. 

£       s.    d. 
First,  for  their  transport,  after  10s,  the  man, 

amounting  unto  -  -  -  -     500     0     0 

For  their  victuals,  after  5d.  per  diem  a  man, 

amounting  to  per  diem  201.  16s.  8d.,  and  * 

for  one  month,  at  30  days  to  the  month  -     625     0     0 
For  their  apparel,  which  shall  be  one  cassock, 
one  pair  of  hose,  one  pair  of  stockings, 
one  pair  of  shoes,  one  shirt,  one  cap,  at  20s. 
theman,  which  in  the  1,000  will  amount  to  1,000     0     0 


Sum  total  of  the  whole  charge  of  1,000  men 

in  manner  aforesaid         ...  2,125     0     0 
P.  1.     Endd. 


264i  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


vol.  3,  p.  421. 


1609. 

Aug.  3.      454.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Philad.  P.,  PeBcUng  the  return  of  the  King  from  his  progress,  they 

proceed  to  give  answer  to  the  most  pressing  parts  of  his  (Sir 
Arthur's)  late  letter. 

And  first,  for  Sir  Neale  Garve,  they  approve  of  his  (Sir 
Arthur's)  proceedings  both  in  preparing  his  trial  and  in 
causing  the  Attorney  General  to  withdraw  the  indictment, 
and  to  dismiss  the  jury,  when  he  perceived  their  strange 
combination  and  obstinate  resolution  to  acquit  him.  So  they 
also  allow  that  he  made  use  of  that  example  in  forbearing 
the  trial  of  Sir  Donel  O'Cahan,  which  has  fallen  out  so  con- 
trary to  the  King's  expectation  and  theirs  (the  Lords),  that 
His  Majesty  has  resolved  upon  bringing  them  over  thither, 
for  which  Sir  Arthur  shall  ^receive  direction  under  the  King's 
hand. 

Although  there  are  only  these  two  named  in  the  warrant, 
yet,  conceiving  it  fi.t  that  Sir  Neale's  son  be  brought  over,  they 
send  an  order  of  themselves  until  they  can  procure  another 
letter  from  the  King.  As  regards  the  brothers  of  Sir  Neal, 
seeing  that  no  criminal  offence  has  been  laid  to  their  charge 
after  so  long  imprisonment,  he  may  discharge  them  according 
to  his  suggestion.  But  the  younger  sons  of  Tyrone  and 
Caphar  O'Donnell  may  be  continued  in  their  present  restraint 
awhile,  and  may.be  as  conveniently  sent  over,  if  any  alteration 
appear.  But  they  cannot  be  induced  to  think  that  it  is 
worth  the  trouble  and  charge  to  send  over  into  England  such 
children  of  the  Moores  as,  being  without  parents  of  other 
near  kinsmen  to  take  care  of  them,  yet  remain  among  their 
fosterers  in  Leinster,  seeing  His  Majesty  and  the  country  has 
been  already  at  charges  enough  with  the  transportation  of 
the  gross  of  them  ;  amongst  whom  these,  as  well  as  the  other 
young  imps  of  that  generation,  may  have  their  breeching  by 
the  care  and  provision  of  Patrick  Crosby,  who  hath  been  well 
rewarded  by  His  Majesty,  and  is  to  receive  good  contribution 
from  the  country  for  the  same,  and  who,  having  been  now 
dealt  with  to  that  effect,  is  willing  to  remove  them  to  the 
rest. 

Are  glad  to  hear  that  the  few  soldiers  that  Captain  Bingley 
has  prepared  for  Sweden  are  in  readiness,  if  (as  they  hope 
they  are)  they  are  such  as  were  swordmen  and  ill  affected.  It 
seems  that  if  he  (Chichester)  had  had  more  money  and  better 
acquaintance  among  the  Irish,  he  might  have  had  more  than 
these  two  or  three  hundred,  which  His  Majesty  would  have 
liked  of,  so  as  he  did  not  carry  away  amongst  the  Irish  any 
English  bodies,  or  any  arms,  which  are  always  bought  for 
the  King's  soldiers. 

For  they  esteem  it  a  special  good  service,  as  well  for  the 
state  of  the  kingdom  as  for  the  plantation,  that  as  many  of  the 
native  Irish  as  possible  were  vented  out  of  the  land.  With 
this  view  His  Majesty  has  resolved  to  send  1,000  men  more 
to  be  levied  in  that  land  ;  and  they  (the  Lords)  suggest  that 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  265 


1609, 


some  of  the  gentlemen  of  the  better  sort,  of  their  own  nation, 
be  chosen  to  be  their  commanders,  who  by  their  love  and  credit 
amongst  them  will  make  the  levying  of  them  easier.  The 
King  will  be  at  the  charge  of  their  transportation,  and  is  will- 
ing that  he  (Chichester)  shall  disburse  some  small  sums  to  put 
them  into  some  such  clothing  as  may  cover  their  nakedness, 
and  only  take  away  the  mark  of  their  miserable  and  barbarous 
condition,  and  that  it  be  made  of  English  fashion,  but  of 
country  stuff,  which  they  are  informed  is  cheap  ;  it  being  only 
to  serve  them  at  sea,  for  upon  their  arrival  in  Sweden  they 
are  to  receive  new  apparel,  and  to  be  furnished  with  arms. 
They  have  already  provided  shipping,  but  it  is  detained  in  the 
river  by  contrary  winds.  They  are  to  set  sail  in  14  days,  if 
the  wind  serve,  for  the  port  of  Derry.  Besides  this  letter 
(which  they  send  that  he  may  have  time  to  prepare)  there  will 
presently  follow  the  commander  of  this  regiment.  Sir  Eoberfc 
Stewart,  brother  to  the  Earl  of  Orkney,  His  Majesty's  near 
kinsman,  or  his  brother. 

They  send  him  the  commander's  commission,  and  the  quality 
of  the  entertainment,  that  he  may  the  better  know  how  to 
persuade  or  engage  to  those  that  shall  be  employed. 

He  is  to  take  care  that  no  English,  whether  as  commander 
or  otherwise,  be  permitted  to  transport  himself  with  the  rest ; 
for  this  would  be  to  deprive  the  realm  of  so  much  of  its  best 
defence,  well  remembering  the  confidence  he  has  often  ex- 
pressed in  the  sufficiency  and  fidelity  of  numbers  which  are 
not  now  in  pay  within  that  kingdom,  some  of  them  being 
natives,  and  though  Irish,  yet  descended  of  their  (the  Lords') 
nation  ;  preferring  them  far  beyond  those  they  (the  Lords) 
can  upon  a  sudden  send  from  England.  And  this  much  they 
hold  sufficient  upon  that  point. 

For  the  recalling  of  those  children  of  Ireland  that  are 
beyond  sea,  they  agree  with  him  in  thinking  that  some  clause 
should  be  inserted  in  the  proclamation,  and  request  him  to 
frame  one  and  send  it  over  to  them  for  their  consideration. 

They  let  him  know  that  the  old  friar,  Owen  Groome  Magrath, 
shall  have  the  King's  pardon,  he  having  been  condemned  upon 
Lord  Delvin's  evidence,  who  appeared  personally  in  court  to 
justify  it,  on  condition  that  he  (the  friar)  confine  himself  to 
some  part  of  Ulster,  where  he  may  best  serve  the  uses  the 
Lord  Delvin  promises  himself  of  him.  Not  that  the  King 
expects  miTch  fruit  from  it,  but  because  they  think  it  of  more 
use  for  the  King  that  the  Lord  Delvin  has  given  evidence 
against  a  friar,  than  to  take  the  life  of  one  where  there  are  so 
many.  They  remind  him  how  the  event  concurred  last  year 
with  his  observation  of  the  frequent  rumour  of  Tyi'one's 
Avelcome ;  as  they  doubt  not  but  that  this  year  he  finds  the 
seeds  sown  by  these  viperous  priests,  who  desire  nothing  more 
than  to  hinder  the  plantation  by  these  rumours.  But  they 
inform  him  that  they  (the  Lords)  do  not  expect  any  such 
descent  of  forces  as  may  make  any  great  charge.     But  he  may 


266  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

rely  upon  succour,  if  any  such  thing  should  occur. — Whitehall, 
3  August  1609. 

Signed :  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  T.  SufiFolke,  W. 
Knollys,  Julius  Csesar. 

Pp.  3.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester:  "Of  the 
third  of  August  1609.  From  the  Lis.  of  the  Councell,  in 
answer  of  myne  of  the  [  ]  of  July  to  send  over  Sir  Neal 

O'DonneU,  &c.  Men  into  Sweden,  &c.  Owen  Groom  Ma- 
gragh  to  be  pardoned.  Re.  Att  [the  Campe,  near  Dungannon, 
the  16*'!  of  August." 


vol.3,  p.  417. 


Aug.  3.      455.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

nf 'a^'^n  417  ^^^^  ^^^^  °^  Loudon  being  willing  to  undertake  such  a  part 

as  might  befit  them  in  the  project  of  the  plantation  of  Ulster, 
and  to  be  a  means  to  reduce  that  savage  and  rebellious  people 
to  civility,  peace,  religion,  and  obedience,  and  having  commis- 
sioned the  bearers,  John  Erode  Goldsmill,  John  Monroes, 
Robert  Treswell,  painter,  and  John  Rowley,  draper,  to  view 
of  the  county,  and  make  report  on  their  return,  he  (Sir 
Arthur)  is  to  direct  a  supply  of  all  necessaries  in  their 
travel  into  those  countries,  and  to  aid  them  in  every  way. 
And  they  (the  Lords)  have  directed  Sir  Thomas  Philips  to 
accompany  them,  whose  knowledge  and  residence  in  those 
parts,  and  good  affection  to  the  cause  in  general,  they  assure 
themselves  will  be  of  great  use  at  this  time  ;  seeing  there  is  no 
man  that  intendeth  any  plantation  or  habitation  in  Ulster, 
who  ought  not  to  be  most  desirous  of  such  neighbours  as  will 
bring  trade  and  traffic  into  the  ports. — Whitehall,  3  August 
1609. 

Signed :  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northamp- 
ton, T.  SufFolke,  W.  Knollys,  Jul.  Caesar. 

P.l.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester:  "Of  the 
third  of  August  1609.  From  the  Lordes  of  the  CounceU, 
tutchinge  the  sendinge  over  of  the  agents  of  London  to  view 
Colrayne,  the  Dyrrie,  &c.     Re.  the  29*^1  eodem." 


vol.  3,  p.  419. 


Aug.  3.      456.        Lords  of  the  Coukcil  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Ti^*^*^ 'd'l'q  Referring  to  their  foregoing  letter  recommending  certain 

citizens  appointed  by  the  City  of  London  to  view  the  Derry 
and  Colrane,  and  the  country  between  them,  they  anxiously 
entreat  him  to  select  discreet  persons  to  conduct,  and  accom- 
pany them,  who  shall  be  able  to  control  whatever  discouraging 
reports  may  be  made  to  them  out  of  ignorance  or  malice. 

The  conductors  must  take  care  to  lead  them  by  the  best 
ways,  and  to  lodge  them  in  their  travel,  where  they  may,  if 
possible,  receive  English  entertainment  in  Englishmen's  houses. 
And  though  they  (the  Lords)  have  the  opportunity  to  lay  the 
first  hand  upon  this  offer  (of  the  city's)  and  to  make  the  pro- 
ject to  the  city ;  yet  that  it  may  be  well  followed  up  they 
send  the  same  in  that  their  letter  enclosed  ;  and  must  leave 


IRELAND — JAMES  I.  267 


1609. 

it  to  him  to  perfect.  The  persons  sent  with  these  citizens  to 
conduct  them  must  be  prepared  beforehand  to  strengthen  every 
part  thereof  by  demonstration,  so  as  they  may  conceive  the 
commodities  to  be  of  good  use  and  profit ;  on  the  other  hand, 
that  matters  of  distaste,  as  fear  of  the  Irish,  of  the  soldiers, 
of  cess,  and  such  like,  be  not  so  much  as  named,  seeing  that 
he  (Sir  Arthur)  knows  that  discipline  and  order  will  easily 
secure  them.  If  there  be  anything  in  the  project,  whether  it 
be  the  fishing,  the  Admiralty,  or  any  other  particular  which 
may  serve  for  a  motive  to  induce  them,  although  his  Lordship 
(Sir  Arthur)  or  any  other  have  interest  therein,  yet  he  (Sir 
Arthur)  should  make  no  doubt  but  His  Majesty  will  have 
such  consideration  thereof  that  no  man  shall  be  a  loser  in  that 
which  he  shall  part  with  for  the  furtherance  of  this  service. 
As  for  his  Lordship  (Sir  Arthur),  he  cannot,  besides  his  general 
duty,  but  be  glad,  in  his  own  particular,  to  have  such  good 
neighbours  to  his  plantation. — Whitehall,  3  August  1609. 

Signed :  T.  EUesmere,  Cane,  E.  Salisburv,  H.  Northampton, 
T.  SufiFolke,  W.  KnoUys,  Jul.  C^sar. 

P.  1.  Add.  Endd.hy  Sir  Arthur  Chichester:  "Of  the 
third  of  August  1609.  From  the  Lordes  of  the  Councell, 
tutchinge  the  London  agents,  &c.     Re.  the  29tii  eodem." 

Aug.  4.      457.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Philad.  p.,  Request  him  to  confer  with  the  Attorney-General  how  far 

it  may  be  fit  to  grant  to  the  corporation  of  Limerick  the 
cocquet  customs  which  have  (as  they  allege)  been  granted  to 
all  the  other  towns  of  Munster. — Whitehall,  4  August  1609. 

Signed  :  R.  Cane,  T.  EUesmere,  R.  Salisbury,  T.  Suffolke, 
W.  KnoUys,  Thos.  Parry. 

P.  |.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester :  "  Of  the 
4*^^  of  August  1609.  From  the  Lis.  of  the  Councell,  in  the 
behalfe  of  the  cyte  of  Lymerick.  Re.  the  lOtli  of  April  1611. 
Delayed  in  the  deliverie  by  the  death  of  Patrick  Ai-thur,  the 
then  mayor.  This  Ire  is  enrolled  in  y^  Councell  Booke. — 
Pa.  Foxe."    Enrol.    Encloses, 

Report  of  Sir  John  Davys  to  the  Right  HonourcMe  the 
Lord  Deputy. 
The  principcd  toiuns  in  Munster  have  the  cocquet  granted 
them  in  this  manner : — 

1.  Waterford  has  them  under  charter  of  Henry  V.,  as 
appears  by  the  certificate  of  the  judges  in  England. 

2.  Cork  is  discharged  of  the  cocquet  customs  payable  by  their 
citizens,  as  ap>pears  by  the  same  certificate. 

3.  Youghal  had  license  to  collect  them  in  perpetuity  by 
charter  of  Henry  VII.,  and  to  employ  them  in  repair  of  their 
walls. 

4.  Kinsale  has  a  lease  of  them  for  twenty-one  years, 
dated  31st  Elizabeth. 

5.  Limerick  had  them  in  perpetuity  by  charter  of  Henry  V., 


268  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609, 

but  that  grant  is  resumed  \_Act  of  Resumption,  10  Hen.  VII^, 
in  which  there  is  no  saving  for  them,  as  there  is  for  Water- 
ford. 

As  it  is  the  King's  pleasure,  therefore,  that  Limerick  should 
enjoy  the  same  privileges  as  the  other  towns  of  Munster,  he 
conceives  Chichester  might  grant  same  to  the  corporation  of 
Limerick,  provided  some  fc(,rm  he  reserved  to  His  Majesty. — 
11  May  1611. 

Jo.  Davys. 

P.  1.    Signed. 

Aug.  4.      458.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Phiiad.  p..  They  have  chosen  Sir  Thomas  Philips,  from  his  experience 

■  '  (jf  the  country,  where  he  has  served  and  resides,  to  accompany 

the  city  agents  to  Ireland,  and  to  convey  them  safely  and  give 
them  comfort  when  they  are  there,  so  as  to  give  them  heart 
at  their  return  to  animate  the  city  to  go  on  with  the  enter- 
prise that  they  (the  Lords)  so  much  affect.  They  find  that 
he  has  by  his  conference  with  some  of  the  citizens,  and  by 
the  light  he  has  given  them,  given  them  good  encouragement. 

They  (the  Lords)  intend  he  shall  return  back  with  them, 
and  in  due  time  the  King  will  reward  them. 

Meantime  he  (Chichester)  is  to  give  him  every  countenance. 
—Whitehall,  4  August  ]  609. 

Signed:  E.  Cant.,  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  T.  Suffolke,  W. 
KnoUys,  Thos.  Parry. 

P.  ^.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  :  "  Of  the 
4*1'  of  August  1609.  From  the  Lis.  of  the  Councell,  signifieing 
their  good  opinion  of  S"^  Thomas  Philips,  and  his  employment 
with  the  agents  of  London.     Ee.  the  29*^1  eodem." 

Aug.  6.      459.        Sir  Alexander  Hay  to  [Salisbury]. 
^'^  'a^'? 'Ti*s'  Since  he  last  saw  his  Lordship,  has  received,  by  packet  from 

'       '  their  Chancellor,  a  roll  of  new  undertakers  for  Ireland,  being 

men  of  greater  stuflT  and  ability  than  those  in  the  fitrst  roll ; 
so  all  the  delay  in  this  business  until  the  next  spring  will  do 
•  much  good,  for  their  Council  will  accept  surety  of  all  who 
offer  themselves  to  undertake.  And  when  order  shall  be 
given  for  their  going  over,  then  the  Council  intends  to  select 
and  make  choice  of  such  as  are  of  greatest  abilit)^ ;  and  where 
in  the  first  division  made  the  most  part  of  undertakers  had 
2,000  acres  apiece,  they  may  now  be  put  to  the  smallest  pro- 
portion, which  will  be  a  great  surety  to  the  service  and  a  good 
means  for  peopling  of  these  bounds.  Has  written  to  the  Lord 
Chancellor  that  no  direction  for  the  undertakers  going  over 
can  be  expected  before  the  spring. 

Had  a  letter  from  a  countryman  of  his  out  of  Brussels, 
who,  being  acquainted  with  a  novice  of  the  Jesuits'  College 
there,  showed  him  that  he  had  been  at  Graveling  the  15th  of 
the  last  month  conducting  four  or  five  of  their  society  over 
to  England,  with  some  necessaries  which  they  carried  over 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  269 


1G09. 

with  them  ;  and  they  were  landed  in  the  river  of  Thames  in  a 
fish  boat.  None  of  them  are  Englishmen,  but  Flemings  and 
Walloons,  who  pass  and  repass  in  the  habit  of  merchants  at 
their  pleasure.  His  Lordship's  directions  may  soon  procure  a 
trial  of  this  matter,  and  to  certify  some  other  things,  which  he 
will  not  commit  to  the  uncertain  carriage  of  a  letter,  if  it  be 
worthy  of  his  Lordship's  hearing,  he  will  be  bold  upon  his 
first  comrQg  to  bring  him  to  his  Lordship.  Was  demanded  by 
His  Majesty,  concerning  his  Lordship's  remove  from  London, 
which  he  told  His  Majesty  was  upon  Thursday,  and  that  the 
Sunday  was  kept,  as  he  supposed,  solemnly  at  Basinge,  his 
Lordship  being  there  attending  the  Queen's  Highness.  His 
Majesty  and  Prince  are  all  his  Lordship  can  wish. — Bewlye, 
6  August. 

P.  1.     Signed.    Endd. 

[Aug.  8.]      460.        Beiefs  of  Eemembrance  (by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester) 

S.P.,  Ireland,  for  the   LoHD   DANVERS. 

^°  ■       '       ■  To    declare   the    state   of  tlie  kingdom,   and  that  all  here 

carries  the  face  of  quiet.  But  the  sea  is  not  sooner  altered 
by  wind  or  tempest  tlian  this  people  by  reports  which  the 
Jesuits,  seminaries,  and  priests  (by  their  directions)  frame  of 
invasion  or  home  insurrection,  which  doth  best  please  the 
greater  part  of  the  people  who  are  loose,  idle,  and  discontented 
persons,  and  keeps  many  a  good  man  from  resolving  on  the 
better  part. 

That  some  course  may  be  taken  from  [for]  keeping  those 
caterpillars  from  resorting  hither,  and  for  banishing  those  that 
are  here  (he  means  those  that  are  factious  and  seducers  of  the 
people).  The  means  to  do  this  he  knows  not,  in  that  the  law 
has  not  provided  sufficient  punishment  for  them  here,  as  in 
England,  but  must  leave  that  to  his  Lordship's  consideration. 
The  best  course  he  can  advise  is,  seeing  they  depart  not  ac- 
cording to  the  proclamation,  to  hang  them  by  martial  law,  and 
to  confiscate  the  goods,  or  to  imprison  the  bodies  of  such  as 
are  known  to  harbour  or  relieve  them. 

That  the  education  of  gentlemen's  children,  of  the  children 
of  merchants,  and  others  of  this  nation  in  the  seminaries  and 
colleges  beyond  the  seas  is  a  pernicious  suff'erance  and  fit  to 
be  provided  for. 

That  Tyrone's  return  is  lately  bruited  and  by  many  ex- 
pected, which  has  given  fresh  hopes  to  the  discontented.  If 
there  be  foreknowledge  thereof,  they  must  be  enabled  to 
encounter  him  upon  his  first  arrival,  otherwise  he  will  soon 
grow  great  as  well  in  force  as  in  opinion. 

Confesses  the  King's  charge  here  is  very  great,  and  would 
feign  [fain]  abate  it,  but  until  the  North  be  planted  and  men's 
minds  touching  the  point  of  Tyrone's  coming  better  settled,  it 
is  neither  safe  nor  convenient  to  advise  it. 

Care  has  been  taken  and  some  allowance  made  for  fortifying 
and  repairing  some  of  the  forts  in  Munster  and  that  of  Gall- 


270  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

■way.  The  like  would  be  had  for  others  in  Leinster  and  Ulster, 
according  to  a  note  lately  sent  over  by  him.  If  all  be  not 
presently  granted,  yet  Philliptowne  and  Maryborough  in 
Leinster,  the  Deny,  Liffer,  Balleshenon,  and  Dungannon  in 
Ulster,  would  specially  be  cared  for.  Something  is  done  to 
the  rest,  but  these  being  places  of  principal  import  for  keeping 
and  governing  the  country  are  left  very  weak,  for  these  they 
want  money  to  do  them  effectually.  To  patch  them  up  were 
to  small  purpose. 

That  how  well  soever  they  wish  to  the  plantation  of  Ulster, 
according  to  the  project  laid  down,  yet  he  despairs  to  see  it 
effectually  performed  upon  private  men's  undertaking ;  for 
such  an  act  must  be  the  work  of  a  commonwealth,  and  upon 
the  common  charge,  towards  which  a  subsidy  or  two  were 
well  given  ;  and  that  (if  he  be  not  deceived)  will  save  many 
a  subsidy  in  40  years. 

If  that  be  not  liked  of,  let  every  parish  in  England  con- 
tribute towards  the  planting  of  a  man,  two  or  three,  according 
to  their  circuit  and  abilities  ;  the  men  to  be  sons  or  natives  of 
the  parish,  but  such  especially  to  be  chosen  as  are  now  in 
employment  here,  and  next  unto  them  old  soldiers  that  have 
served. 

By  this  course  towns  will  be  fortified,  houses  will  be  built, 
men  of  valour  and  understanding  enabled  to  plant  there,  who 
will  defend  their  own  and  make  good  what  they  have  under- 
taken ;  and  the  Irish  wiU  be  put  out  of  hope  to  weary  or 
overmaster  them,  and  towards  so  good  a  work  he  thinks  every 
well-affected  subject  will  contribute  willingly. 

Pp.  3.    Endd. 

Aug.  14.      461.         Exchequer  Issues  for  Service  of  Ireland,  from  Easter 

Lansdowne  MSS.,  IgOS  to  14  AugUSt  1609. 

159    74.  f.  234 

'b.M.       '  Money  issued  out  of  the  receipt  of  His  Majesty's  Exchequer 

since   the   Feast  of  Easter  1603   until  this  present  14th  of 
August  1609. 
P.  3.     Endd. 

Aug.  17.     462.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
S.r.,  Ireland,  jjg^g  jjqw  received  the  King's  letters,  by  which  he  is  re- 

voi.  227, 115.  quired   to   send  over  Sir  Donnel  O'Cahane   and   Sir   Neale 

O'Donnell,  with  other  letters  from  his  Lordship  and  the 
Council,  by  which  he  is  directed,  among  other  things,  for  send- 
ing hence  1,000  men  of  this  nation  to  the  service  of  the 
King  of  Sweden,  together  with  a  private  letter  of  his  Lord- 
ship, the  contents  of  which  assure  him  of  his  good  opinion, 
and  bind  him  more  and  more  to  love  and  serve  his  Lordship. 

The  Earl  of  Clanricarde  went  from  him  yesterday,  before 
the  receipt  of  those  letters.  At  his  Lordship's  being  here  he 
acquainted  him  with  the  course  they  hold  in  this  new  survey. 
The  work  is  very  intricate  and  full  of  labour,  and  will  be 
chargeable  to  His  Majesty,  but  when  it  is  finished  after  the 


IRELAND — JAMES  I,  271 


1609. 


form  they  have  begun  (which  shall  be  this  journey,  if  con- 
veniently they  may),  hopes  it  will  give  His  Highness  and  his 
Lordship  good  satisfaction. 

They  want  the  presence  of  the  Lord  Bishop  of  Derry, 
who,  for  what  he  hears,  is  not  yet  arrived.  The  Bishop's 
absence  made  him  send  for  the  Lord  Chancellor,  albeit  he  was 
not  well  able  to  take  these  travels  upon  him.  Having  been 
now  a  week  with  him,  hears  he  has  not  done  and  will  not 
do  anything  in  matters  appertaining  to  the  church  without 
his  and  the  Lord  Primate's  privity,  advice,  and  consent.  Con- 
fesses that  the  Lord  of  Derry 's  complaints,  grounded  upon  ima- 
gination, from  which  no  public  officer  or  minister  can  be  free  if 
he  please  not  at  all  times,  have  in  some  kind  made  him  more 
wary,  but  can  never  make  him  more  honest  in  his  proceedings 
than  he  has  been  towards  His  Majesty,  the  church,  himself, 
and  the  commonwealth. 

The  consideration  of  the  service  in  hand  and  of  the  large 
dispatch  he  is  to  make  soon  after  his  return  to  Dublin,  em- 
boldens him  to  pray  his  Lordship  to  accept  of  a,  summary 
answer  to  certain  especial  points  of  his  letters,  and  the  rest  at 
this  time,  and  to  assure  him  that  he  will  perform  what  remains 
as  soon  as  he  may  and  as  he  shall  be  enabled. 

For  Sir  Neale  O'Donnell  and  the  rest,  cannot  conveniently 
send  them  over  untU  his  return  or  towards  Michaelmas ;  about 
which  time  he  prays  his  Lordship  to  give  direction  to  the 
sheriff  of  Cheshire  and  other  counties  to  give  assistance  on 
their  way  towards  London  to  him  that  shall  have  the  con- 
duction of  them. 

Touching  the  thousand  men  to  be  sent  into  Sweden,  will 
make  the  substance  of  the  Lords'  letters  in  that  point  known 
to  the  Lord  President  of  Connaught,  the  Earl  of  Thomonde, 
and  the  Vice-President  of  Munster,  from  whose  countries  and 
jurisdictions  more  men  are  to  be  expected  than  from  other 
parts.  For  all  that  went  with  Captain  Bingley  were  raised 
in  Leinster  and  this  province,  being  in  number  full  240  men, 
most  of  them  idle  swordmen  that  served  on  the  one  side  or 
the  other  in  the  last  rebellion  of  Tyrone,  and  some  of  them 
were  with  O'Dogherty.  Ai-ms,  they  had  none ;  no  more  shall 
these,  but  such  as  they  keep  of  their  own  secretly,  the  loss  of 
which  will  be  no  weakness  to  them.  Will  direct  their  Lord- 
ships to  make  choice,  each  of  the  most  factious  _^ and  stirring 
men  to  take  the  charge  and  command  of  the  soldiers  to  be 
levied,  who  will  soonest  gather  idlers  together,  and  there  will 
be  a  good  riddance  of  them  all  when  they  are  gone.  But  to 
draw  so  many  ill-disposed  persons,  for  of  such  he  wishes  this 
body  to  be  composed,  together  into  this,  the  worst  affected 
province  of  the  kingdom,  at  this  time,  he  cannot  hold  to  be 
convenient,  nor  to  send  any  ships  from  thence  to  trans- 
port them  ;  but  he  wishes  rather  that  it  may  stand  with 
his  Lordship's  good  allowance  to  have  them  conveyed  from 
several  ports,  as  they  may  be  gotten  together  by  hundreds  or 


272  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

1609. 

more  ;  where  convenient  shipping  will  be  had  with  less  charge 
than  any  can  be  imprested  from  the  Thames,  and  will  not  run 
the  hazard  of  attending  their  freight  at  an  extraordinary 
cha,rge  to  His  Majesty,  as  those  must,  seeing  the  men  are  not 
to  be  compelled,  but  of  such  only  as  will  voluntarily  put  them- 
selves into  the  service.  Found  by  the  trial  he  Ifitely  made  in 
that  kind  that  the  swordmen  of  this  nation  do  not  affect  the 
service  of  that  kingdom,  which,  as  they  are  informed,  is  worse 
than  their  own ;  and  in  this  province  (when  Bingley  went 
hence)  they  gave  it  out  that  it  was  a  device  of  his  (Chichester's) 
to  send  them  out  of  the  way  in  order  that  they  might  not  assist 
the  fugitives,  who  (as  they  presumed,  and  so  much  the  rather 
for  his  advising  and  urging  them  to  be  gone),  were  to  return 
this  summer.  What  this  will  beget  he  knows  not;  but  all 
their  labour  will  be  in  vain  unless  Sir  Robert  Stewart,  or  some 
other  sufficient  man,  comes  with  monej''  to  keep  them  together 
and  transport  them  when  they  are  levied  ;  and  to  give  each  of 
them  apparel  after  the  English  fashion,  will  be  very  charge- 
able, albeit  the  same  be  made  of  the  cloth  of  this  country.  A 
side  cassock  to  cover  the  upper  part  of  their  trousers  will  be 
sufficient  and  graceful  enough,  if  it  please  the  King  to  bestow 
so  much  upon  them,  which  by  supposition  will  amount  to 
1,000  marks.  Prays  that  the  ships  may  be  stayed,  if  they  be 
not  already  come  from  thence,  and  that  the  general  com- 
mander of  them  may  be  dispatched  with  money,  and  he  will 
do  his  best  to  fit  him  with  men  and  shipping. 

The  base  money  of  which  his  Lordship  makes  mention  is 
the  main  point  that  concerns  him,  since  the  project  (as  it  is 
taken)  went  from  hence.  Prays  him  to  make  stay  of  sending 
any  of  those  small  coins  (unless  they  be  of  the  same  fineness 
with  the  standard  of  England),  until  he  (Chichester)  shall  im- 
part that  affair  to  the  Council  here,  and  take  their  opinion 
and  advice  therein.  His  Lordship  will  hold  this  request  very 
reasonable  when  lie  calls  to  mind  that  it  concerns  them  all  in 
general,  and  reflects  what  a  distaste  and  danger  it  may  bring 
upon  him  (Chichester),  if  to  the  present  loss  of  a  fourth  part  of 
their  pays,  which  some  of  the  servitors  sustain  by  reason  of  the 
liarp  shilling  only,  he  should  assent  to  add  a  fifth  part  more 
without  their  privity  or  advice  ;  but  if  the  pay  of  His  Majesty's 
servants  here,  as  well  the  soldier  as  the  officer,  might  be  re- 
duced to  the  same  it  was  before  Tyrone's  rebellion,  by  coining 
a  portion  of  small  moneys,  201.  or  251.  in  the  100?.  of  baser 
metal  than  the  fine  standard  of  England,  it  were  a  princely 
deed  ;  and  he  thinks  it  would  be  gratefully  accepted  of  most 
men  in  the  kingdom  until  the  same  were  well  replenished 
with  that  coin,  and  the  rather,  if  the  moiety  of  their  pay 
came  over  in  pieces  of  sixpence  and  shillings  ;  and  it  is  not 
to  be  doubted  when  there  shall  be  wars  in  this  kingdom,  the 
poverty  of  the  soldier  living  on  his  bare  entertainment,  and 
doing  his  duty,  and  the  complaint  of  the  better  sort  for  want 
of  siifBcient  means,  will  restore  them  to  their  ancient  pay 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  273 


1609. 


-without  that  profit  which  in  the  meantime  may  be  made  by- 
bringing  those  base  moneys  to  be  current ;  besides  which,  the 
projectj  was  that  a  mint  should  be  erected  here,  where,  he 
understands,  there  is'good  store  of  base  silver  and  some  mixed 
money  to  set  it  on  work,  and  that  it  should  be  vented  when  it 
was  converted  into  coin,  as  well  to  the  rest  of  the  subjects  as 
to  the  servitors.  He  had  ever  hoped  and  does  still,  that  his 
Lordship  would  have  transmitted  the  project  after  he  had 
perused  it,  to  be  considered  of  and  debated  here  before  it  had 
been  concluded ;  otherwise  he  was  assured  to  plunge  himself 
into  an  irrecoverable  ill  opinion  of  all  men  in  general,  from 
which  he  hopes  his  Lordship  will  free  him  by  hearing  the 
opinions  of  this  Council  before  he  shall  resolve  to  send  the 
money.  Otherwise  he  doubts  it  will  not  be  taken  for  current 
without  infinite  distaste  and  murmur.  For  the  loss  of  251.  in 
the  100?.  is  more  repined  at  than  his  Lordship  is  informed  of  ; 
and  if  by  the  alloy  this  other  201.  should  be  likewise  taken, 
he  fears  it  will  be  held  intolerable,  and  will  draw  on  him 
much  infamy. 

Makes  bold  to  deliver  what  he  wishes  and  what  he  thinks 
in  this  matter,  and  so  leaves  it  to  his  Lordship's  grave  con- 
sideration. Has  given  to  my  Lord  of  Clanricarde  an  ab- 
stract drawn  out  of  several  letters  received  yesterday  from 
Munster,  making  mention  of  the  arrival  there  of  10  or  11 
ships  of  pirates,  under  the  command  of  Byshope,  their  admiral, 
and  that  they  expect  as  many  more  to  abide  with  them  upon 
that  coast  this  winter.  Has,  with  the  advice  of  the  Council 
here,  drawn  a  proclamation  to  hinder  the  commerce  which  is 
held  with  them  and  to  strengthen  the  Vice-President  in  the 
prosecution  of  them  ;  but  they  are  grown  to  that  height  of 
strength  and  pride  that  he  doubts  his  endeavours  will  hardly 
prevail  without  the  assistance  of  some  of  His  Majesty's  good 
ships.  He  (the  Vice-President)  desires  to  understand  whether 
he  may  assure  pardon  to  such  as  submit  themselves.  Cannot 
satisfy  him  therein  without  allowance  and  directions  from  the 
King  or  his  Lordship,  but  has  advised  him  to  preserve  the 
good  subjects,  and  to  annoy  the  pirates  all  he  may.  There 
came  lately  hither  some  few  gentlemen  and  others  from  Scotland 
to  undertake  of  the  escheated  lands,  and  when  he  told  them 
he  was  sent  at  this  time  to  survey  and  not  to  make  a  distribu- 
tion, they  departed  in  ill  fashion  ;  and  he  hears  they  mean  to 
complain  of  him,  which  he  hopes  will  not  hurt  him,  the  same 
being  so  weakly  grounded. 

Sir  Donnogh  O'Connor  is  lately  dead.  A  letter  from  his 
brother,  who  is  his  heir,  has  just  arrived.  He  is  an  unstaid. 
man,  and  in  the  late  Queen's  days  long  served  the  Spaniards. 
This  happened  since  the  Earl  of  Clanricarde  came  from  Con- 
naught,  so  did  the  death  of  O'Connor  Roe,  and  the  sickness  of 
Sir  Hugh  O'Connor  Dune,  who  (as  the  Judges  of  Assize  write) 
is  thought  past  recovery.  The  accident  is  the  more  remarkable, 
the  deaths  happening  within  two  days  one  of  another. 

3.  s 


274  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

1609. 

The  King  requires  him  to  return  the  Bishop  of  Derry  with 
the  survey  of  the  ecclesiastical  lands.  Mr.  Treasurer  is  very 
desirous  to  make  a  step  thither  about  that  time,  and  if  it  stand 
with  his  Lordship's  good  allowance,  he  shall  bring  the  survey 
of  the  rest  with  such  other  remembrances  and  occurrents  as 
shall  fall  out  fit  to  be  imparted,  in  which  he  desires  to  receive 
his  Lordship's  directions. — At  the  Camp,  near  Dungannon  in 
Tyrone,  17  August  1609. 

P-p.  7.    Signed. 

Aug.  17.     463.        Sir  Aethur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
^■^•'00^,"^^?^  Abstract  of  the  above. 

vol.  227,  116.  -n       a         -nil 

Pp.  2.    Endd. 

Aug.  18.      464.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
^'^''^'^- ^•'  Grants  to 'William  Bourne,  for   his   good  service  done    in 

^   ■   '  ''■       ■  Ireland  in  the  late  Queen's  time,  the  office  of  constable  and 

keeper  of  the  King's  gaol  of  Ardmagh. — Salisbury,  18  August 
1609. 

P.  1.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur 
Chichester :  "  Of  the  ISt^i  of  August  1609.  From  the  Kinge's 
Ma^^,  to  passe  the  office  of  geolershipe  of  Armagh  to  William 
Bourne,  &c.     Ee.  the  20*^1  of  No.  1609." 

Aug.  20.     465.        The  King  to  the  Lord  Deputy. 
Docquet  Book,  Letter  to  the  Lord  Deputy  for  a  grant  to  be  made  of  the 

"^"*     ■  office  of  constable  or  keeper  of  the  gaol  of  Armagh  to  Wm. 

Bourne,  for  life.     \_Docquet  of  464.] 

Aug.  21.     466.        Lord  Howth  to  the  King. 

^  f  997^'i'?7'  ^^  bound  by  the  gracious  favour  which  His  Majesty  has 

'       '  shown  him  to  endeavour  to  make  known  that  which  a  honest 

and  high-rewarded  subject  ought  to  perform.  But  some  of 
highest  estate  here  and  their  allies  having  reported  that  he  is 
dangerous,  and  thus  withdrawn  his  friends  and  kinsmen  from 
him,  his  expectation  cannot  have  such  success  as  is  to  be  ex- 
pected, nor  he  himself  the  end  of  his  desire.  Others  of  no  less 
estate  have  threatened  to  hunt  him  out  of  this  island,  of  which 
they  could  chase  out  none  more  faithfuller  to  His  Majesty. 
Some  of  thei]'  allies  have  in  public  (as  cannot  be  denied) 
ranked  him  amongst  the  unworthy  sort  of  cowherds. 

Most  humbly  bemoans  and  appeals  to  His  Majesty,  as  to 
the  only  stay  of  his  life,  honour,  and  fortune,  to  have  a  princely 
respect  of  his  (Howth's)  poor  honour  which  is  brought  in 
question.  Most  humbly  upon  his  knees  craves  pardon,  if  he 
seeks  his  own  right  before  these  submissive  letters  be  pre- 
sented to  His  Majjesty,  with  which  (he  takes  God  to  witness) 
he  yields  a  faithful  heart,  with  this  poor  life  of  his,  if  oc- 
casion be  proffered,  in  His  Majesty's  service.  For  he  sees 
those  letters  which  it  pleased  His  Majesty  to  send  by  him 
at   his  last    being   with   His    Highness  is   (sic)   rather   con- 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  275 


1609. 

stered  [construed]  disgraceful  than  of  favour  or  protection 
for  him.  So  that  it  stands  ill  with  him  when  those  that  are 
his  professed  enemies  shall  be  his  judges,  and,  only  for 
doing  His  Majesty  service  ;  for  any  private  of  his  own,  he 
protests  to  God  he  never  gave  the  cause.  His  Majesty  knows 
how  far  he  trusted  the  Deputy,  and  how  he  made  choice  of 
him,  to  lay  his  honour  in  his  hands  ;  but  how  he  has  dealt  with 
him,  he  leaves  it  to  God.  But  now  the  Deputy  will  not  look 
at  him,  notwithstanding  he  proffered  his  service  to  attend  him 
this  journey,  which  he  refused,  in  order  that  he  might  give 
the  world  the  more  notice  of  his  former  disgraces  done  to  him, 
which  he  forbore  to  acquaint  His  Majesty  withal  at  his  last 
being  with  His  Highness.  He  writes  in  the  passion  of  his 
grief,  moved  with  his  wrongs  ;  humbly  craving  His  Majesty's 
farther  protection,  and  his  princely  letters  commanding  them 
to  suecease  [surcease]  their  course,  or  his  favourable  license  to 
quit  this  unfortunate  country  and  to  live  in  England  a  poor 
private  life ;  which  he  will  hold  to  be  a  high  and  princely 
favour,  where  he  will  become  his  humble  beadsman.  Must 
confess  he  presumes  much  in  daring  to  write  thus  to  His 
Majesty  ;  but  his  estate  being  upheld  by  none  other  than  by 
His  Majesty's  princely  bounty  and  favour,  he  prostrates  him- 
self before  his  feet,  humbly  craving  pardon  to  bemoan  his  woes 
or  wrongs  to  none  save  himself,  who,  he  knows,  can  and  will 
relieve  him  ;  with  the  expectancy  of  which  he  most  earnestly 
and  daily  prays  for  his  long  and  happy  reign  in  highest  pro- 
sperity, and  upon  his  knees  most  humbly  kisses  His  Majesty's 
hand,  and  with  humble  pardon  takes  leave.  —  Howtb,  21 
August  1609. 
P.  1.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

Aug.  21.     467.        Lord  Howth  to  the  Privy  Council. 

vol  227^'ii8'  Upon  their  Lordships'  command  he  is  come  to  this  unfor- 

'      '  tunate  country,  where  it  seemed  to  him  there  was  some  use 

of  his  service  ;  but  here  he  finds  there  is  none,  for  he  proffered 
his  service  to  the  Deputy,  but  it  pleased  him  to  refuse  it,  and 
he  will  not  seem  to  look  at  him.  So  that  his  being  here 
cannot  stand  the  King  in  any  good,  but  may  fall  to  his  own 
ill,  if  the  practices  of  his  enemies  may  take  force,  as  now  by 
the  entreaty  of  the  Lord  Chancellor  and  Sir  Gerald  Moore. 
Notwithstanding  the  command  their  Lordships  gave  Sir 
Gerald  in  his  presence  at  the  Council  table  to  forego  the 
Carolans,  yet  he  will  not  forbear  them,  but  has  wrought  the 
Deputy  to  protect  them  ;  although  my  Lord  had  promised 
him  that  he  would  never  show  them  favour  in  regard  they 
had  committed  so  vile  a  murder  as  they  did  of  a  man  of 
his  ;  there  was  four  or  five  and  twenty  of  them  upon  three 
men  of  his,  of  which  they  kilt  (sic)  one  and  gave  the  other 
two  eighteen  wounds  apiece.  He  was  forced  to  follow  it  by 
the  course  of  law,  and  could  not  get  that  allowance  till  he 
was  fain  to  procure  my  Lord  Treasurer's  letter  to  my  Lord 

s  2 


S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  227,  119. 


276  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

Deputy ;  and  now  when  he  has  brought  them  so  that  they 
could  not  escape  their  deserts,  my  Lord  Deputy  has  pro- 
tected them.  At  present  they  are  both  horse  and  foot,  and  he 
assures  their  Lordships  it  is  not  for  his  good.  Humbly 
desires,  therefore,  that  the  Lord  Deputy  may  be  dealt  withal 
to  withdraw  his  favour  from  them,  and  that  he  (Howth)  may 
have  the  just  course  of  law  against  those  common  murderers 
which  have  had  20  pardons  and  protections.  Prays  that  he 
be  not  held  to  give  any  cause  of  offence,  for  this  concerns 
both  his  own  life  and  his  followers.  Protests  that  he  dares 
not  go  anywhere  but  when  he  is  as  well  provided  as  he  was 
in  the  last  wars,  and  this  is  his  life  since  his  coming  hither. 
Craving  pardon  for  his  boldness,  he  leaves  himself  to  their 
care  and  takes  leave. — Howth,  21  August  1609. 
P.  1.     Signed.     Add.    Endd. 

Aug.  21.    468.        Lord  Howth  to  Salisbuky. 

Has  long  expected  his  Lordship's  letters  promised  to  him 
upon  his  leavetakiag,  and  assured  to  be  posted  after  by  his 
secretary,  Mr.  Northon  [Norton],  which  as  yet  he  has  not 
received.  Does  not  marvel  however  he  should  use  him  thus 
in  this,  having  had  the  practice  of  it  in  other  matters  con- 
cerning ]iim  which  he  doubts  not  his  Lordship  has  notice  of. 
Finds  that  the  State  here  has  no  feeling  of  the  good  disposition 
entertained  by  his  Lordship  towards  him,  whose  protection 
only  he  desired,  having,  upon  his  promise,  ceased  to  seek  or 
make  means  for  any  other  upon  which  he  should  rely  and 
ground  his  fortune.  And  now  he  begins  to  bemoan  the 
wrongs  that  some  of  his  Lordship's  friends  of  the  State  here 
do  him,  not  doubting  to  be  righted  by  his  Lordship,  how  well 
soever  he  has  dealt  with  them.  Doubts  not  but  that  his 
Lordship  remembers  how  (concerniug  the  Carolans)  he  wrote 
to  the  Deputy  that  the  course  of  law  might  be  extended 
against  them,  which  the  Deputy  promised  ;  yet  has  he  protected 
them,  and  where  the  chiefest  of  them,  during  his  being  in 
rebellion,  had  but  his  boy,  now  he  has  of  his  confederates  both 
horse  and  foot.  Knows  not  what  the  reason  of  this  may  be, 
but  is  assured  it  tends  not  to  his  good.  Has  been  sent  hither 
to  attend  the  Lord  Deputy  in  this  service,  who  will  scarce  afford 
him  a  good  look.  Has  proffered  his  attendance,  which  not 
being  accepted,  he  must  imagine  there  is  no  use  of  his  being 
here,  albeit  there  be  of  his  company.  Beseeches  him,  therefore, 
to  be  a  means  to  His  Majesty  to  license  him  to  return  into 
England  again.  What  dishonours,  what  imputations,  and 
disgraces  are  laid  upon  him  by  the  Lord  Chancellor  and  Sir 
Gerald  Moore,  he  under  the  burden  of  their  authority  must 
heavily  bear,  being  bound  thereto  by  the  bounds  of  his  duty, 
which  he  must  never  seek  to  violate.  They  affirm  that  he 
upon  his  honour  before  his  Lordship  and  the  rest  of  the  Lords 
of  His  Majesty's  Council,  affirmed  that  all  such  as  he  put  in 
his  pardon  were  of  the  late  conspiracy  with  Tyrone  and  the 


& 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  277 


1609. 

rest ;  for  the  clearing  which,  to  satisfy  his  friends,  he  humbly 
beseeches  .him  to  signify  what  he  declared,  and  how  far  he 
engaged  his  honour  in  that  matter,  letting  his  friends  also 
understand  his  favour  towards  him,  and  causing  the  rest  to 
forbear  in  their  authority  to  do  him  wrong. — Howth,  21 
August  1609. 

P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

Aug.  22.    469.        Sir  Richard  Moryson  to  Salisbury. 

vol  '227^120'  "^^^  continual  repair  of  the  pirates  to  the  western  coast  of 

this  province,  in  consequence  of  the  remoteness  of  the  place, 
the  wildness  of  the  people,  and  their  own  strength  and  wealth 
both  to  command  and  entice  relief  is  very  difficult  for  them 
to  prevent  or  remedy.  Howsoever  others,  not  natives,  not 
knowing  this  country  well,  may  be  persuaded  that,  living  in 
such  security  as  they  have  been  accustomed  and  daily  do,  and 
being  so  plentifully  relieved  with  men  and  all  other  neces- 
saries, it  is  not  without  the  toleration  of  some  of  His  Majesty's 
officers  here.  In  which,  for  so  much  as  concerns  himself,  now 
interested  in  the  government  (in  Lord  Danvers'  absence)  and 
the  rest  of  the  Council,  he  is  bold  (according  to  his  duty) 
humbly  to  send  their  excuses  to  his  Lordship's  favourable 
acceptance,  and  to  suggest  the  best  means  he  can  conceive  to 
divert  them  from  this  ill  course  of  life  aud  to  ease  His  Majesty 
and  his  Lordship  of  the  continual  clamour  of  those  poor  people 
that  are  daily  robbed  and  spoiled  by  them,  besides  what  use 
may  be  made  of  them  (being  so  well  manned  and  shipped 
and  so  good  mariners)  in  some  remote  service,  having  made 
themselves  unfit  (for  the  present)  for  His  Majesty's  gracious 
pardon  and  returning  into  their  country,  where  they  will 
be  continually  followed  by  the  proprietors  of  those  goods 
they  have  so  unlawfully  taken,  and  will  not  be  able  ever  to 
satisfy  the  least  part  thereof  The  only  hindrance  he  has  yet 
been  enabled  to  give  them  has  been  by  proclamation,  to  warn 
the  people  from  holding  commerce  or  traffic  with  them,  or 
relieving  them,  and  when  they  came  in  weak,  by  sending  some 
horse  and  foot  to  attend  those  harbours,  and  both  hinder  their 
landing  and  the  people's  resort  unto  themj  which  they  both 
performed  and  took  divers  of  them  prisoners,  whom  he  has 
sent  over,  according  to  his  instructions  from  the  Lord  Deputy. 
But  they  are  now  here  of  that  strength,  being  1 1  sails  and 
1,000  men,  that  he  is  enforced  to  forbear  any  prosecution  of 
them,  fearing  to  engage  this  unruly  multitude  into  any  act 
either  of  spoiling  or  burning  the  country  that  might  make 
them  despair  of  pardon,  and  fit  to  be  entertained  by  any  ill- 
affected  to  the  quiet  of  this  kingdom,  or  to  be  made  fit  instru- 
ments to  second  our  banished  fugitives,  of  whose  return  this 
people  is,  by  the  continual  persuasion  of  the  priests,  as  con- 
fidently persuaded  as  ever.  They  have  elected  one  Busshopp 
for  their  admiral,  a  man,  he  is  informed,  of  such  parts  and 
experience  in  that  profession  that,  if  his  courses  of  life  were 
any  way  suitable  to  them,  good  use  might  be  made  of  him  in 


278  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

His  Majesty's  service.  Howsoever,  he  thinks  he  might  be  a 
fit  instrument  to  disperse  this  unruly  multitude,  which  in  thus 
increasing  may  prove  dangerous.  He  has  lately  desired  to 
speak  with  Captain  Skipwith  (a  gentleman  that  the  Lord 
President  had  formerly  employed  unto  him)  to  acquaint  him 
(Sir  Richard)  with  some  desire  of  his.  Has  permitted  Skip- 
with accordingly  to  meet  him,  and  has  instructed  to  keep  him 
in  hope  of  his  being  a  means  for  his  pardon,  until  he  shall 
further  know  his  Lordship's  pleasure  ;  so  that  he  will  under- 
take to  dispatch  the  company  and  deliver  up  all  the  ships  to 
be  re-delivered  to  the  proprietors.  But  of  this  he  has  little 
hope  (being  only  to  entertain  time  with  him).  Should  his 
Lordship  please  to  allow  of  their  employment  in  the  intended 
plantation  of  Virginia,  which  he  has  not  yet  motioned  to 
them,  he  thinks  good  use  might  be  made  of  them  for  the 
present  there,  both  in  defending  them  now  in  the  beginning, 
if  they  shall  be  disturbed  by  any  in  their  first  settling,  in  re- 
lieving their  wants  from  time  to' time,  and  in  easing  the  charge 
of  the  journey  coming  so  good  cheap.  Besides,  being  active 
men  and  good  mariners,  hereafter  when  time  shall  wear  out 
their  former  ofi^ences,  with  better  desert  in  other  countries  not 
troubled  so  near  at  hand  with  their  spoiling,  they  may  return 
and  prove  necessary  instruments  of  His  Majesty's  service. 
But  if  they  be  thus  permitted  to  continue  in  number  and 
offending,  they  may  prove  dangerous,  as  has  been  many  times 
seen  from  less  beginnings.  They  expect  10  sail  more  to  join 
with  them,  hearing  of  a  fleet  setting  forth  to  suppress  them. 
Begs  to  be  informed  what  course  his  Lordship  shall  be  pleased 
to  command  him  to  take  with  them  if  they  stay  here  or  re- 
turn ;  which  there  is  no  doubt  but  they  will  shortly,  this  being 
their  only  place  of  relief,  being  so  plentifully  supplied  for  all  sea 
provisions  by  the  fishermen  that  come  daily  out  of  England 
with  merchandise. — Youghall,  22  August  1609. 
Pp.  2.     Signed.     Add'.     Endd. 


vol.227,  121. 


Aug.  22.    470.        Henry  Pepwell  to  Salisbury. 

^aT 'qo™'?9?'  Presumed  some  time  past  to  write  to  his  Lordship  from  the 

roode  [road]  of  Livorno  [Leghorn]  of  divers  wrongs  done  by 
the  late  Duke  of  Florence.  From  thence  (according  to  his 
directions  from  the  Lord  Admiral)  he  departed  to  Tunis,  to 
persuade  Ward  and  his  confederates  to  forsake  their  wicked 
course  of  life  and  to  follow  the  instructions  given  him ;  but, 
not  prevailing,  he  laboured  all  he  could  to  destroy  them  and 
their  proceedings.  In  the  meantime,  what  with  gifts  and 
further  hope  of  spoils,  Ward  so  won  his  (Pepwell's)  sailors 
that  they  became  pirates  with  him,  whereby  he  was  com- 
pelled to  part  with  his  pinnace  at  an  under  rate  to  the  Turks, 
and  so,  returning  into  England,  he  was  desirous  to  give  account 
to  his  Lordship  of  his  endeavours  in  that  voyage,  and  for  that 
purpose  he  gave  his  attendance  and  requested  one  Mr.  Bruton 
(one  of  his  Lordship's  secretaries)  to  make  him  known  to  his 
Lordship  ;  but  failing  thereof,  and  pressed  through  want,  he 


IRELAJSTD— JAMES  I.  279 


1609. 


took^his  journey  for  Ireland,  where^  having  since  heard  of  the 
many  robberies  committed  by  those  pirates,  and  now  lately 
of  one  Edward  Bisshopp  and  divers  others  to  the  number  of 
nine  ships  being  on  the  coast  of  Ireland,  he  has  again  adven- 
tured to  write  to  him  to  declare  that  now  which  he  would 
gladly  before  have  delivered  by  speech. 

At  his  being  in  Tunis  there  were  four  captains  and  chiefs 
of  those  pirates,  John  Ward,  John  Kerson  of  Embden,  Edward 
Bisshopp,  Anthony  Jhonson,  William  Graves,  Samson  Denball, 
Toby  Glanfield,  one  Harris,  and  Captain  Dansker  of  Flushing. 
Being  past  hope  to  reclaim  Ward  (the  head  of  them),  he  made 
a  proposal  to  Kerson,  who  was  captain  of  a  ship  of  300  tons, 
and  who  hated  Ward  extremely,  that,  if  by  any  opportunity  or 
means  he  would  take  O]-  destroy  Ward,  his  ship,  and  company, 
he  would  assure  him  that  he  would  procure  his  protection  in 
England,  and  that  he  should  there  possess  his  gotten  spoils  ; 
for  the  execution  whereof  he  promised  his  best  assistance. 
He  agreed  and  vowed  to  do  accordingly.  But  Ward's  hap 
was  such  that  Kerson,  being  forced  by  one  Crosomond,  captain 
of  the  Janissaries,  to  depart  forthwith  for  a  place  called  Sio 
[Scio],  to  bring  to  Tunis  divers  Janissaries  who  there  had 
made  shipwreck,  his  ship  and  pinnace  were  surprised  by  one 
of  the  Galiasses  of  the  Venetians,  himself  and  some  few  being 
slain  and  the  rest  taken ;  whereof  36 'the  next  day  were  hanged 
in  view  of  the  town  of  Zant  [Zante],  the  rest  in  other  places, 
amongst  which  number  were  divers  Englishmen  This  news 
came  with  great  speed  to  Tunis  ;  whereupon  he  [Pepwell]  was 
driven  again  to  bethink  himself  of  some  other  course,  and 
iinding  that  Captain  Bisshopp  was  of  a  different  inclination  and 
a  better  understanding,  and  had  more  desire  to  enjoy  his 
country  than  the  rest  ;  hearing  him  withal  many  times  com- 
plaining of  the  wrongs  Ward  had  done  him,  especially  detesting 
his  associating  with  Tui'ks  at  sea,  his  taking  of  Christians  and 
selling  them,  with  divers  other  outrages ; — he  propounded  to 
him  terms  like  those  which  he  offered  before  to  Kerson.  He 
seemed  to  consent  thereto  willingly  ;  but  he  (Pepwell)  being 
forsaken  of  his  sailors,  and  Bisshopp  being  then  of  small 
strength,  they  found  their  weakness,  on  examining  all  their 
means,  to  be  such  that  they  were  unable  to  put  in  execution 
that  which  they  had  determined.  Leaves  to  his  Lordship's 
consideration  how  much  it  imports  to  effect  the  destruction 
of  these  fellows  in  such  manner  that  they  may  never  have 
refuge  or  be  trusted  hereafter  by  the  Turks,  and  that  they 
themselves  may  hardly  trust  one  the  other.  In  which  services 
he  will  do  his  uttermost. 

For  the  affairs  here  in  Ireland,  can  write  little  but  that  the 
captains  and  such  as  have  wards  (for  the  most  part)  have 
not  half  the  company  they  receive  pay  for,  and  such  as  they 
entertain  are  mostly  Irish  soldiers  without  pay,  only  to  be 
protected  by  them,  howsoever  they  shuffle  in  their  musters. 
Besides  he  has  observed  that  the  Blackwater,   which   was 


2S0  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1C09. 

so  worthily  defended  by  Sir  Thomas  Williams  and  cost  so 
many  valiant  men's  lives,  is  now  inhabited  by  three  especial 
ministers  of  Tyrone,  two  of  them  dwelling  in  the  late  forts, 
one  called  Sheale,  the  other  Murto  Okiron  [Murtagh  O'Kieran], 
and  just  on  the  other  side  of  the  water  Bartholomew  Owen, 
who  spare  not  openly  to  commend  the  actions  of  Tyrone, 
the  habitation  being  far  better  for  honester  men. — Dublin,  22 
August  1609. 

Pp.  2.  Signed.  Add.  Endd. :  "  22  Aug.  1609.  Henry 
Pepwell,  from  Dublin. 

"  That  Capt.  Bisshop  will  seize  or  destroy  Capt.  Ward  when 
he  may  have  the  means. 

"  That  the  bands  and  wards  are  compounded  of  many  Irish 
and  keep  not  half  their  numbers. 

"  That  dangerous  persons  inhabit  Blackwater." 

Aug.  28.     471.        SiE  John  Davys  to  Salisbury. 

vol  '22r'i2^'  They  are  now  in  the  county  of  Coleraine,  which  contains 

O'Chane's  fruitful  country,  and  is  the  third  stage  in  their 
journey.  From  thence  he  gives  this  third  advertisement  of 
their  proceeding.  They  pu:'sue  their  first  course  in  describing 
and  distinguishing  the  land.  Their  geography  has  had  the 
speedier  dispatch,  inasmuch  as  here  the  county  is  .but  little, 
consisting  only  of  three  baronies,  and  as  they  had  sent  two 
surveyors  before  to  perambulate  the  country  and  to  prepare  the 
business  by  gathering  notes  of  the  names,  sites,  and  extents  of 
the  townlands.  This  they  performed  well  and  readily,  being 
accompanied  with  but  a  slender  guard.  Speaks  of  a  guard  as 
of  a  necessary  circumstance ;  for  though  the  country  be  now 
quiet  and  the  heads  of  greatness  gone,  yet  their  geogi-aphers 
do  not  forget  what  entertainment  the  Irish  of  Tyrconnell  gave 
to  a  map-maker  about  the  end  of  the  late  great  rebellion  ;  for 
one  Barkeley  being  appointed  by  the  late  Earl  of  Devonshire 
to  draw  a  true  and  perfect  map  of  the  north  parts  of  Ulster 
(the  old  maps  being  false  and  defective),  when  he  came  into 
Tyrconnell,  the  inhabitants  took  off  his  head,  because  they 
would  not  have  their  country  discovered. 

For  the  distinction  of  the  church  lands  in  this  county  they 
had  a  jury  of  clerks  or  scholars  ;  for  the  jurors,  being  fifteen 
in  number,  thirteen  spake  good  Latin,  and  that  very  readily. 
These  clerks  being  chosen  in  the  presence  of  the  Lord  Primate, 
should,  by  reasonable  presumption,  rather  be  partial  for  the 
clergy  than  for  the  King.  They  conceived  their  verdict  or 
presentment  in  a  singular  good  form  and  method,  and  gave 
them  more  light  than  ever  they  had  before  touching  the 
original  and  estate  of  Herenaghes  and  Termon  lands. 

Here  at  length,  after  long  expectation  the  Lord  Bishop  of 
Derry  came  to  the  camp,  and  was  present  at  the  getting  up 
of  the  jurors'  presentment ;  wherein,  because  it  was  found 
that  the  lands  possessed  by  the  Herenaghes  and  their  septs 
were  their  proper  inheritance,  and  not  the  inheritance  of  the 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  281 


1609 

bishops,  and  that  the  bishops  had  only  rents  out  of  those 
lands  and  not  the  lands  themselves,  (though  herein  they  con- 
curred with  the  verdicts  given  in  Tyrone  and  Armagh  this 
year,  and  v^rith  all  the  presentments  made  the  last  year,  being 
indeed  the  manifest  and  infallible  truth),  yet,  because  it  con- 
tradicts his  Lordship's  suggestion,  made  in  England  with 
great  confidence  and  assurance  ; — viz.,' that  these  lands  were  the 
very  demesne  lands  of  the  bishops,  upon  which  suggestion  His 
Majesty  was  specially  moved  to  confer  all  those  lands  to  their 
several  sees  ; — therefore  his  Lordship  took  exception  to  that 
part  of  the  verdict,  affirming  that  he  would  not  believe  that 
they  all  agreed  in  that  point ;  and  thereupon  he  examined  them 
by  the  poll,  before  the  Lord  Deputy  and  the  rest  of  the  com- 
missioners ;  and  though  ho  expostulated  with  them  somewhat 
roundly  and  sharply  (which  might  have  altered  such  poor 
men  as  must  live  under  his  jurisdiction),  yet  every  one  held 
his  opinion  constantly,  and  every  one  severally  gave  such 
plain  and  probable  reasons  of  his  opinions  that  the  commis- 
sioners were  fully  satisfied,  and  the  presentment  was  received. 
In  this  little  county  they  have  had  a  great  gaol  delivery,  but 
no  execution  of  any  prisoner  ;  for  the  Lord  Deputy  has  spared 
and  reserved  them  all  to  fill  up  the  companies  that  are  to  be 
sent  into  the  wars  of  Swethen  [Sweden]. 

The  Londoners  are  now  come  and  are  exceeding  welcome  to 
them.  They  all  use  their  best  rhetoric  to  persuade  them  to 
go  on  with  their  plantation,  which  will  assure  this  whole 
island  to  the  Crown  of  England  for  ever.  They  like  and 
praise  the  country  verj''  much,  specially  the  Banne  and  the 
river  of  Loghfoyle  ;  one  of  the  agents  is  fallen  sick,  and 
would  fain  return,  but  the  Lord  Deputy  and  all  the  rest  here 
use  all  means  to  comfort  him  and  to  retain  him,  lest  this  acci- 
dent should  discourage  his  fellow  citizens.  Desires  pardon  for 
his  boldness  in  giving  so  many  rude  and  ill -written  letters  to 
his  Lordship,  which  this  rude  place  and  distraction  of  business 
may  excuse. — The  Camp  near  Limevaddy  in  O'Chane's  country, 
28  August  1609. 

Pp.  2.    Signed.     Add.    Endd. 

Aug.  30.     472.        Earl  of  Clanricard  to  Salisbury. 
^vol'^T^T23'  Having  landed  here  at  Holyhead  at  this  instant,  thinks  it 

fit  to  send  his  Lordship  a  packet  which  the  Lord  Deputy  sent 
after  him  from  the  camp,  with  the  particulars  whereof  his 
Lordship  made  him  acquainted  before  his  departure.  Was 
forced  to  stay  twelve  days  at  Dublin  for  a  wind,  which  makes 
him  commit  this  the  rather  to  the  running  post,  who  can 
make  much  better  expedition  than  they  can  ;  and  he  himself 
will  wait  on  his  Lordship  as  soon  as  he  can  possibly. — Holy- 
head, 80  August,  at  seven  at  night. 

P.  1.  Signed.  Add.  Endd.:  "  Eeceived  at  Conweythe 
last  day  at  4  in  the  afternoon,  at  Riothland  {sic)  at  10  of  the 
clock  at  night." 


282  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 


1609. 
Aug.  30.     473.        The  King  to  the  Lord  Deptjty. 
■Docquet  Book,  Letter  to  the  Lord  Deputy  for  a  grant  to  be  made  to  James 

"^'     ■  Sherlock   of    a  perpetual  freedom,  -without  fine,  in   certain 

demesne  lands  called  Tample  Iwrick,  Bally  David,  and  Rath- 
moylan  in  Waterford. 

Aug.  31.     474.        Henry  Schypwych  to  [  J. 

Add.  Papers,  "pj^g  servant's  haste  prevents  him  of  rendering  so  large  dis- 

P  j^  0.'  course  as  he  willingly  "would,  having  much  to  say,  though  he 

must  confess  it  insubstantial.  For  this  kingdom  afibrds  nothing 
but  trivial,  rather  for  laughter  than  for  observation ;  news  being 
good  merchandize,  but  not  new  where  none  arrives  but  at  the 
tenth  hand,  like  mackerel  in  the  hamlets  near  London,  where 
few  buyeth  in  regard  of  the  staleness.  Hears  that  Sir  Bar- 
narde  Grimhall  is  with  the  Lord  President  in  Wiltshire  ;  must 
en  treat  ^therefore,  that  his  absence,  joined  with  the  messenger's 
haste,  may  be  his  excuse,  his  service  ever  attending  him. 
Hears  that  Mr.  Bellew,  with  his  bride,  is  coming  over,  whom 
they  hourly  expect,  being  as  desirous  of  his  presence  as  he  is 
joyful  of  his  destiny,  and  it  well  becomes  him.  BeUew  would 
be  glad  to  see  him  (the  correspondent)  in  his  own  fashion,  for  he 
has  long  enough  been  a  "  good  fellow ;"  and  if  he  cannot  speak 
for  himself,  let  him  find  out  the  match  and  he  (Schypwych) 
will  woo  for  him  if  he  please.  Doubts,  however,  that  he  has 
read  a  better  lesson  than  he  (Schypwych)  was  ever  able  to 
follow,  knowing  the  diff'erence  of  ease  and  trouble;  so  that 
ho  will  take  order  they  shall  not  laugh  at  him  for  company. 
In  what  state  soever  he  shall  remain,  he  (Schypwych)  will 
ever  wish  his  society. — Carekenassy,  August  the  last,  1609. 

His  servant  Joseph  Harrys  cannot  pay  money,  but  it  shall 
suffice  whenever  he  conveniently  may. 

P.  1.     Orig.     Signed. 

Sept.  1.      475.        Army  Accounts  in  Ireland. 
Lansd.  MSS.,  rpj^g  charge  of  the  army  in  Ireland  for  ten  years  and  three 

24'i  245  quarters,  begun  prime  die  Octobris  1595,  and  ended  ultimo 

'      '  Junii]606.—1  September  1609. 

Pp.  3.    Endd. 

Sept.  12.     476.        Sir  John  Davys  to  Salisbury. 

S.P.,  Ireland,  ^^.g  jjq^  come  to  the  tropic  or  turn-point  of  their  journey  ; 

'      ■  for,  having  finished  the  services  which  were  to  be  performed 

in  Tyrconnell,  they  begin  to  return  homewards  from  hence  to 

Fermanagh  ;  from  thence  to  the  Cavan ;  where  they  will  make 

the  last  period  of  this  summer's  progress  or  circuit. 

The  description  or  maps  of  the  land  are  made  here  as  in 
the  former  counties.  Divers  persons  have  exhibited  th'eir 
pretended  titles  to  lands  in  this  country,  whereof  some  are 
merchants  of  the  Pale  to  whom  the  late   fugitive   Earl  of 


IRELAND — JAMES  I.  283 


1609. 

Tyrcoimell  had  mortgaged  great  scopes  of  land  for  small  sums 
of  money  ;  others  are  natives,  who  being  chiefs  of  septs,  sup- 
pose their  long  continuance  of  possession  under  O'Donnell  to 
be  a  good  title  now  against  the  Crown.  Besides,  some  of  their 
widows  claim  jointures  and  dowers,  though,  by  their  own 
Irish  law,  no  woman  may  have  any  estate  in  land.  But  aU 
these  titles  appear  to  be  void  or  voidable  in  English  law,  so 
that  the  pretenders  are  left  entirely  to  His  Majesty's  grace  and 
bounty.  Every  title  whereupon  there  shall  arise  any  doubt, 
shall  be  drawn  into  a  case,  and  transmitted  over  ;  but  because 
the  dead  case,  if  any  question  shall  be  made  upon  it,  can 
make  no  reply,  perhaps  it  will  be  needful  that  some  one  "  of 
the  robe"  should  come  over  to  give  satisfaction  in  every  point. 

The  inquisition  taken  of  the  church  land  here  varies  but 
little  in  substance  from  their  former  inquisitions.  The  bishops 
have  rents  and  duties  out  of  the  Termon  lands,  but  the  pro- 
priety is  found  in  the  Erenaghes  and  their  septs.  There  are 
more  parcels  of  land  of  this  nature  found  in  Enishowen  than 
in  any  other  barony,  which  diminishes  not  a  little  the  value 
of  the  Lord  Deputy's  portion. 

Thus  have  they  proceeded  in  this  county  of  Tyrconnell, 
and  thus  has  he  presumed  to  trouble  his  Lord.sliip  with  his 
weak  advertisements  out  of  every  county. — The  Camp,  near 
Lifford,  12  September  1609. 

P.  1.     Signed.     Add.    Endd. 

Sept.  12.     477.        William  Thimble  to  Salisbukt. 

^'^^'^fT^^  Apologises  for  his  boldness  in  writing,  to  which  he  is  en- 

couraged by  his  Lordship's  reputation  for  readiness  of  access. 

Is  one  amongst  many  Englishmen  who  ha-s'-e  lately  come  over 
into  Ireland.  Having  lived  here  now  two  years,  and  having 
carefully  noted  the  impediments  which  hinder  the  flourishing 
of  this  commonwealth,  has  judged  it  to  be  a  kind  of  inbred 
hatred  which  the  natives  here  bear  to  the  English  nation  ; 
which  being  kindled  by  the  infectious  breath  of  seditious 
Jesuits,  they  make  religion  at  least  the  colour  of  their  disloyalty 
to  His  Majesty,  and  their  malice  towards  the  English.  How 
infinitely  this  brood  of  viperous  seducers  increases  in  number 
and  boldness  he  is  persuaded  is  known  neither  to  His  Majesty 
nor  his  honourable  Council ;  which  has  excited  him,  though 
unknown  to  his  Lordship,  to  give  him  notice  thereof,  not  by 
way  of  complaint,  but  of  information,  in  order  that  he  may 
consider  the  event  and  provide  the  remedy. 

Which  information  is  twofold  :  The  Brst  is  of  the  shameful 
neglect  of  God's  true  service  here ;  the  second  of  the  infinite 
number  and  impudent  boldness  of  dangerous  Jesuits.  For  the 
first,  beseeches  his  Lordship  to  accept  in  general  thus  much, 
thinking  it  not  safe  to  particularise  until  he  shall  receive  further 
encouragement  from  him  ;  but  that  capital  vice  here  generally 
reigns  amongst  Protestants  ;  which  has  been  a  chief  means 
to  cause  many  who  were  not  well  grounded  to  be  seduced 


284  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

from  tliem  and  to  become  the  most  obstinate  Papists.  For  the 
latter,  it  is  wonderfu]  to  see  how  bold  they  are  grown  through 
the  connivance  and'remissness  of  the  magistrates.  For  a  man 
may  as  familiarly  salute  a  popish  priest,  even  in  the  streets  of 
Dublin,  as  a  preacher  ;  •  and  in  the  country  they  are  grown  to 
that  boldness  that  they  publicly  draw  together  thousands  to 
their  idolatrous  sacrifices,  as  they  have  done  this  year  in  two 
several  parts  and  times  in  this  kingdom ;  which  being  per- 
mitted without  control,  what  in  time  it  may  grow  unto  he 
leaves  to  his  Lordship's  consideration ;  remembering  always 
that  all  is  not  divinity  which  they  preach  to  factious  and 
turbulent  spirits,  especially  at  those  times  when  they  perceive 
good  courses  in  hand  for  the  edifying  of  God's  true  church,  as 
he  doubts  not  but  are,  or  will  be  taken  in  the  northern  planta- 
tion. One  forcible  reason  that  persuades  him  their  teachings 
and  doctrine  tend  to  no  good,  is  the  publishing  of  the  Answer 
to  His  Majesty's  Apology  for  the  Oath  of  Allegiance ;  which 
in  an  EDglish  manuscript,  they  have  not  spared  to  divulge 
not  only  to  Irish  and  English  Papists  but  to  Protestants 
also,  with  such  an  acclamation  of  applause,  as  if  an  angel 
from  heaven  had  written  the  book.  Afterwards,  when  the 
*  Bishop  of  Lincoln's  book  came  over,  it  being  proffered  to  read 
over  to  the  Papist  that  was  forward  to  publish  the  other,  he 
refused  it,  saying  he  was  prohibited  by  their  church.  Points 
out  the  malice  of  these  pernicious,  damned  Jesuits,  who  not 
onty  seek  to  bring  His  Majesty's  subjects  into  hatred  with  his 
sacred  person  and  religious  proceedings,  but  also  take  away 
the  means  of  reconciliation.  And  now,  having  been  thus  bold, 
beseeches  him  to  vouchsafe  to  read  with  patience  that  which 
follows.  It  is  the  opiaion  of  many  Englishmen,  both  loyally 
and  religiously  affected  to  His  Majesty  and  the  commonwealth, 
that  if  the  ancient  statute  concerning  recusancy  (which  is  that 
every  one  neglecting  to  come  to  church  at  the  time  of  divine 
service  should  forfeit  12f?.  for  ev^Tj  Sabbath's  absence)  were 
revived  and  daily  executed,  at  first  in  the  ci vilest  parts  of  this 
land,  it  would  without  doubt  be  a  means  to  draw  many  to 
church,  where  (with  God's  blessing)  they  may  be  made  civil,  if 
not  relioious  ;  and  from  the  richer  and  more  obstinate  sort  of 
them  might  in  a  small  time  be  collected  money  enough  to 
repair  all  the  churches  and  build  free  schools  in  all  the  counties 
of  Ireland.  He  himself,  if  he  were  able  to  give  security  for 
so  great  a  matter,  would  undertake  to  give  4,000?.  a  year  for 
those  mulcts  in  Leinster,  Munster,  and  Connaught,  so  that  he 
might  have  competent  aid  by  the  ecclesiastical  and  civil 
magistrate  for  the  collecting  tliereof.  But  wanting  friends  to 
undertake  for  him  in  so  great  a  business,  he  would  willingly 
expose  himself  to  any  danger  about  the  executing  of  the  said 
statute,  or  doing  anything  wherein  he  might  do  His  Majesty 
or  his  Lordship  any  service  in  this  or  any  place  ;  but  he  pre- 
sumes not  to  prescribe  anything  in  this  matter,  or  to  presage 
the  consequence.     His  pui-pose  is  only  to  remind  his  Lordship 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  285 


1609. 

thereof,  and  to  make  tender  of  his  services,  and  so  to  leave  it 
to  his  Lordship's  consideration,  to  dislike  or  approve  as  shall 
seem  best  to  his 'wisdom. — Dublin,  12  September  1609. 

P.  1.     Signed.     Add.     Endd. :  "  Mr.  Thimble  to  my  Lord, 
from  Dublin. 

"  Of  the  frequent  resort  of  Jesuits. 

"  And  of  great  profit  to  be  raised  out  of  the  statute  of 
recusancy  in  Ireland. 

"He  offereth  4,000^.  yearly  for  the  benefit  of  the  forfeitures 
of  that  statute." 

Sept.  13.     478.        The  King  to  SiE  Arthur  Chichester. 

Phiiad.  p.,  Directs  him  to  accept  a  surrender  from  the  portreeve,  bur- 

'  '  gesses,  and  commons  of  Athboy  in  the  county  of  Meath,  of 

all  their  lands  and  hereditaments,  in  consideration  that  part  of 
the  said  town  was  burnt  in  the  rebellion  of  the  traitor  Tyrone, 
and  that  the  then  portreeve  with  many  cf  the  townsmen  was 
slain  in  defence  thereof  and  in  the  service  of  our  Crown,  and 
to  re-grant  them  their  lands  without  fine,  for  ever,  to  be  held 
of  the  Castle  of  Dublin  in  common  soccage  and  not  in  capite 
or"by  knight's  service. —  Hampton  Court,  13  September  1609. 
Pp.  2.  Copy.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Endd. :  "  13*ii  Sept. 
1609.  Copie  of  the  Kinge's  Ire  on  graunt  of  land  unto  the 
corporation  of  Athboy." 

Sept.  18.     479.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
^T  '997^^1 9  7'  Have  now  with  much  labour  and  some  difficulty  gone  through 

'       '  with  the  survey  and  other  business  in  the  counties  of  Armagh, 

Tyrone,  Coleraine,  the  county  and  city  of  Derry,  and  Donegal, 
and  are  already  entered  into  the  like  for  this  county  of 
Fermanagh.  In  the  first  two  counties  they  had  the  company 
and  assistance  of  the  Lord  Chancellor  and  Lord  Prima,te  of 
Armagh,  when  the  Lord  Chancellor,  growing  sickly  and  very 
weak,  they,  with  much  ado,  persuaded  his  return,  sore  against 
his  will.  In  the  county  of  Coleraine,  soon  after  the  Chan- 
cellor's departure,  they  were  overtaken  by  the  Lord  Bishop  of 
Derry,  who  has  been  as  ■well  a  party  as  a  commissioner,  in 
the  lands  sought  under  the  title  of  ecclesiastical  or  church 
lands,  ever  since  that  time  ;  so  that  they  have  done  nothing 
in  that  kind  without  the  presence  and  test  of  two  prelates 
of  the  church  ;  and  if  this  survey  and  inquiry  help  them  not, 
it  is  apparent  that  they  (the  commissionersj  did  but  their  duty 
in  the  last,  and  that  some  of  them  sought  that  of  right  whicli 
they  must  have  of  grace  if  they  possess  it  at  all.  Wishes 
they  may  have  it  according  to  the  King's  good  pleasure,  but 
cannot  so  digress  from  the  duty  and  service  he  owes  to  his 
Sovereign  as  to  feed  the  unsatiable  humours  of  craving  men, 
when  they  tend  to  His  Majesty's  loss  or  dishonour,  in  order 
thereby  to  preserve  himself  from  their  envy  and  complaints. 
The  labour  and  travel  ended,  it  will  require  good  time  to  digest 
it  into  form  and  method  fit  to  be  presented  to  His  Majesty 


286  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

and  his  Lordship ;  so  that  he  thinks  it  will  be  near  Christmas 
before  they  will  send  it. 

Sir  Thomas  PhiUips,  with  the  four  agents  of  London,  came 
unto  them  likewise  in  the  county  of  Coleraine,  a  day  or  two 
before  the  Bishop.  They  landed  at  Knockfergus,  and  in  their 
way  from  thence  they  beheld  Coleraine  and  the  river  of  Banne 
beneath  the  Leape  ;  they  have  now  seen  the  Derry,  the  river 
of  Loughfoyle,  the  Lyffer,  and  sundry  parts  adjoining  ;  and  they 
like  so  well  of  the  scites  (sic),  the  lands  adjoining  the  rivers,  and 
the  commodities  they  think  to  raise  by  their  purse  and  good 
husbandry,  that  they  assure  him  the  City  of  London  will  really 
undertake  the  plantation  upon  the  report  they  are  to  make, 
and  that  with  expedition.  If  they  should  not,  as  he  has  often 
told  them,  they  will  be  enemies  to  themselves ;  for  the  fishings, 
lands,  and  woods,  with  toleration  of  custom  and  other  privi- 
leges which  His  Majesty  has  graciously  proffered  to  them,  are 
wofth  not  less  than  2,000?.  a  year  as  they  now  are,  and  their 
purse  and  industry  will,  within  two  or  three  years,  improve 
them  to  double  that  value. 

They  came  in  a  convenient  time,  when  the  people  in  each 
county  made  their  appearance,  declaring  their  obedience  and 
submission  to  the  law  in  a  far  better  fashion  than  within  these 
three  years  he  ever  expected  to  have  seen  in  this  proviuce ; 
and  if  his  good  usage  and  that  of  the  Council  with  him  could 
aid  to  the  other  encouragements  they  have  found,  it  has  not 
been  and  shall  not  be  wanting.  Advised  them  to  send  an  assay 
of  the  commodities  which  the  country  at  this  time  afforded 
to  the  Lord  Mayor,  of  which  they  took  good  liking;  and  so 
he  procured  them  raw  hides,  tallow,  salmon,  herrings,  eels, 
pipe-staves,  beef,  and  the  like,  at  easy  prices.  Also  procured 
them  some  of  the  iron  ore,  and  will  add  specimens  of  the  lead 
and  copper. 

Thej'  are  now  gone  to  take  a  more  exact  view  of  the  river 
of  Banne  above  the  Leape,  and  of  the  woods  of  Glankonkeyne 
and  Kylletra,  intending  to  meet  him  (Chichester)  about  14 
days  hence  upon  his  return  towards  Dublin.  Sir  Thomas 
Phillips,  to  his  great  charge  and  trouble,  daily  accompanies  them 
from  one  place  to  another,  which  is  a  great  comfort  to  them. 
He  will  return  with  them  ;  and  in  the  meantime  nothing  shall 
be  wanting  to  continue  them  in  the  resolution  they  have  taken  ; 
for,  albeit  he  perceives  they  aim  at  some  things  that  yield  no 
good  profit,  yet  he  will  not  hinder  so  good  a  work,  the  best 
that  ever  was  undertaken  in  his  time  for  the  general  good  of 
the  kingdom,  for  his  own  private,  as  he  doubts  not  they  will 
declare  unto  his  Lordship. 

Upon  receipt  of  the  Lords'  letters  declaring  it  to  be  the 
King's  pleasure  that  his  subjects  of  this  nation,  affecting  the 
wars,  should  (if  they  liked)  employ  themselves  in  the  service  of 
the  King  of  Swethland  [Sweden],  he  imparted  the  same  to  the 
Presidents  and  Vice-Presidents  of  Munster  and  Connaught,  and 
to  the  Earl  of  Thomond,  with  directions  to  leave  men  fittest  to 


IRELA]S[D— JAMES  I.  287 


1609. 

be  spared  within  their  several  jurisdictions ;  and  gave  some  com- 
missions to  such  as  he  knew  to  be  of  most  power  and  best  able 
to  raise  the  like  within  this  province  and  in  Leinster :  in  which 
they  have  proceeded  as  far  as  men  without  money  are  able ; 
and  he  has  made  ready  some  cashockes  [cassocks]  and  other 
apparel  for  them,  which  is  the  sum  of  what  he  was  directed. 
Has  now  received  letters  from  Mr.  Stallinge  by  William  Carter, 
master  of  the  "  Sea  Flower,"  of  London,  that  that  ship  and 
three  others  are  sent  to  transport  the  1,000  men  to  Sweden, 
which  ship  (with  the  victuals  for  their  transportation  only) 
arrived  at  the  Derry  on  the  13th  of  this  instant,  the  other 
ships  being  separated  from  him,' as  he  reports,  in  a  storm.  He 
thinks,  however,  they  are  by  this  time  at  the  Derry  likewise  ; 
but  of  the  colonel.  Sir  Robert  Stewarde,  hears  nothing  by  word 
or  writing,  so  that  he  is  doubtful  what  to  do.  For  he  thinks  it 
is  not  the  King's  pleasure  that  he  should  send  the  men  without 
the  colonel,  or  some  other  from  him  to  make  claim  of  the 
benefit  of  the  contract  made  with  the  King  of  Swethland  upon 
their  arrival ;  and  to  draw  them  together  when  they  are  all 
ready  (which  yet  they  are  not)  before  there  be  money  to  feed 
and  content  them  until  they  shall  embark  or  come  all  together, 
were  full  of  hazard  and  of  danger  in  this  province,  where  they 
cannot  but  perceive  that  an  alteration  of  their  estates  and 
course  of  life  is  intended.  The  opportunity  of  sending  men 
so  ill  affected  out  of  this  kingdom  has  made  him  accept  of 
the  submission  of  Oghie  Oge^O'Hanlon  and  Brian  M'Arte's  son, 
with  all  their  wicked  crew  in  this  province  ;  who  so  freely 
proffered  themselves  to  this  service  for  avoiding  further  danger 
by  the  prosecutions  he  made  upon  them,  that  there  is  not  a 
rebel  or  woodkerne  that  stands  upon  his  keeping  at  this  time 
in  the  whole  province.  And  having  brought  it  to  this  pass,  he 
is  at  a  stand  until  he  receives  further  directions,  or  until  the 
colonel  comes  to  furnish  the  captains  with  money  and  conduct 
them  hence.  If  the  time  be  deferred  twentydays  longer,  the  sea- 
men say  there  will  be  no  going  upon  that  coast  until  the  spring. 
If  there  be  no  alteration  by  foreign  invasion,  that  delay  cannot 
be  dangerous,^  unless  some  ill  news  arrive  from  their  fellows 
that  are  gone  before  them  with  Captain  Bingley.  Prays  his 
Lordship  to  hasten  the  colonel  or  to  direct  him  what  to  do  in 
an  affair  of  this  moment ;  for  to  send  the  men  under  so  mean 
and  unknown  captains  without  the  colonel,  the  whole  Council 
agree  with  him  in  thinking  is  unfit. — From  the  Camp  in 
Fermanagh,  near  Enishkeelyn  [Enniskillen],  18  September 
1609. 

Pf.  5.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

Sept.  18.     480.        SiE  Arthue  Chichester  to  the  Privy  Council. 
vof  22W28'  Enters  into  details  regarding  the  levy  of  the  1,000  men  for 

'      '  Sweden.     The  report  of  the  favourable  view  of  their  planta- 

'  Marginal  note  — "  I  am  not  of  his  opinion." 


288  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

tion  has  been  left  to  the  Commissioners  of  London  to  deliver. 
The  report  of  the  survey  of  Ulster  cannot  be  arranged  for  a 
fortnight. — Camp  near  Enniskillen,  Fermanagh,  18  September 
1609. 
Pp.  2.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

Sept.  20.     481.        Sir  John  Davys  to  Salisbury. 

^f  22^7*^^29'  Hitherto  has  not  omitted  to  advertise  his  Lordship  briefly 

'      '  of  their  proceedings  in  every  county  wherein  they  have  exe- 

cuted their  commission. 

Have  now  finished  their  service  in  Fermanagh,  which  is  so 
pleasant  and  fruitful  a  country  that  if  he  should  make  a  full 
description  thereof,  it  would  rather  be  taken  for  a  poetical 
fiction  than  for  a  true  and  serious  narration. 

The  fresh  lake  called  Lough  Erne  (being  more  than  40  miles 
in  length  and  abounding  with  fresh-water  fish  of  all  kinds 
and  containing  100  dispersed  islands),  divides  that  county  into 
two  parts  ;  the  land  on  either  side  the  lough,  rising  in  little 
hills  of  80  or  100  acres  apiece,  is  the  fattest  and  richest  soil 
in  all  Ulster. 

Here  is  a  Dutch  merchant  called  Maximilian,  who,  like  the 
rest  of  his  nation,  is  diligent  and  industrious  to  improve  the 
commodities  of  this  kingdom.  He  makes  suit  to  the  Lord 
Deputy  that  a  colony  of  Hollanders  may  be  planted  in  the 
islands  of  this  lough.  If  his  demands  be  not  unreasonable, 
they  wish  his  suit  may  be  granted  ;  for  a  plantation  of  the 
Dutch  in  this  place  will  be  a  great  encouragement  and 
benefit  to  the  undertakers  ;  for  by  their  industry  all  the  com- 
modities of  those  parts  ■will  be  wrought  and  vented,  and  the 
lake  will  be  so  full  of  boats  and  barks  that  they  will  be  a 
great  strength  to  all  the  civil  inhabitants  round  about. 

About  the  inquiry  of  the  church  lands  in  this  county  there 
has  grown  a  difi^erence  between  the  old  Archbishop  of  Casliel 
and  the  Bishop  of  Derry  and  Clogher,  who,  in  the  right  of  his 
bishopric  of  Clogher,  claims  all  the  patrimony  of  the  Arch- 
bishop in  these  parts,  for  the  Archbishop's  father  was  a  Corb 
or  Erenagh  of  the  Termon,  wherein  St.  Patrick's  Purgatory 
stands,  called  Termon  Magragb.  The  Archbishop  long  since, 
in  Queen  Elizabeth's  time,  obtained  letters  out  of  England 
that  his  father's  surrender  should  be  accepted  and  a  grant 
made  to  him  by  letters  patent,  which  was  done  accordingly, 
and  the  Archbishop  inherits  that  land  by  virtue  of  the  Queen's 
grant.  Howbeit,  because  the  Bishop  of  Clogher  has  a  rent 
out  of  that  Termon,  he  claims  the  possession  by  virtue  of 
His  Majesty's  letter. 

The  estate  of  the  Erenaghes  and  tenants  of  the  Termon 
lands  is  found  the  same  here  as  in  the  other  counties.  The 
description  of  the  country  in  maps  is  also  exactly  done,  and 
the  people  are  satisfied  with  the  administration  of  civil 
justice. 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  289 


1609. 

And  now  they  are  passing  to  the  last  period  of  their  journey, 
the  county  of  Cavan. — The  Camp  in  Fermanagh,  20  September 
1609. 
P.  1.    Signed.    Sealed.    Add.    Endd. 

Sept.  20.     482.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Phiiad.  v..  Directs  him  to  pass  to  James  Neuterville,  in  consideration  as 

'  "''  well  of  the  loyalty  of  his  ancestors  as  his  own,  the  reversion  of 

the  lands  and  mill  of  Tobber,  in  the  county  of  Wicklow,  at  the 
rent  of  71.  Also  certain  lands  in  the  town  of  Lusk,  likewise  the 
rectory  of  Kilpatrick,  in  the  county  of  Meath,  of  the  yearly 
value  of  ISl.  6s.  8d.,  amounting,  in  the  whole,  to  2U.  10s.  6d. 
To  hold  for  21  years  immediately  after  the  determination  of 
any  leases  of  the  same  granted  by  Queen  Elizabeth  to  any 
person  whatsoever. — 20  September  1609. 

Pp.  2.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Enrol.  Endd.  by  Sir 
Arthur  Chichester :  "  Of  the  22d  of  Sept.  1609.  From  the 
Kinge's  Ma*'**,  to  pass  unto  M"^  James  Neuterville  certain  par- 
cels of  lands,  &c.  by  lease  of  21  yeares  in  reversion.  Rec.  the 
14*  of  No." 

Sept.  22.      483.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Philad.  P.,  Granting  to  Captain  Eobert  Bowen,  who  has  long  claimed 

^°'    '^'       '  700Z.  as  due  to  him  out  of  Tyrconnell,  now  escheated,  a  pension 

of  3s.  Qd.  by  the  day  for  the  life  of  himself  and  his  son  Oliver 
Bowen,  in  consideration  of  his  long  and  acceptable  services,  in 
revenge  whereof  the  rebels  committed  upon  him  many  great 
sjDoils,  burnings,  and  other  mischiefs,  and  he  is  thus  rendered 
poor  and  left  unable  to  live  as  he  has  done,  or  to  provide  for 
his  children  when  God  shall  call  for  him. — Hampton  Court, 
22  September  1609. 

P.  1.  Signed  at  head.  Enrol.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur 
Chichester:  "Of  the  22d  of  Sept.  1609.  From  the  Kinge's 
Ma*'",  to  graunt  a  pension  of  three  shillings  and  sixpence  English 
a  daye  to  Rob*  Bowen  and  his  son  Oliver." 


vol.  61,  p.  313. 


Sept.  24.     484.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Attorney-General. 

Carte  Papers,  Warrant  to  draw  a  fiant  of  a  grant  to  John  Leigh  and 

Daniel  Leigh,  Esqrs.,  jointly  and  severally  of  the  office  of 
constables  or  constable  of  the  fort  of  Omagh,  in  the  county 
of  Tyrone,  with  the  20  warders  there,  viz.,  6  horsemen  and 
14  footmen,  with  entertainments  according  to  the  present 
Establishment ;  to  hold  during  their  lives  and  the  life  of  the 
survivor,  and  that  neither  of  them  shall  be  removed  from  their 
charge  nor  any  of  the  number  of  the  warders  or  their  enter- 
tainment as  allowed  by  the  Establishment  to  be  diminished  by 
the  Lord  Deputy  or  other  chief  Governor  for  the  time  being, 
except  His  Highness's  express  pleasure  under  his  own  hand 
be  first  particularly  signified  to  him,  according  to  His  Majesty's 

3.  T 


290  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1G09. 

letters  dated  at  Westminster,  8  July    1609. — Dated   at  the 
Camp  at  the  Cavan,  24  September  1609. 

P.  1.     Orig.    Signed.     Add.    Endd. :   "  Mr.  John  Leigh 
and  Mr.  Daniel  Leigh,  1 609." 

Sept.  24.     485,        Sir  Thomas  Phillips  to  Salisbury. 

^■f  ■'  07*^^130'  They  arrived  at  Knockverges  [Knockfergus]  the  22d  August ; 

^°  ■   "  '      ■  fromthence,Coleraine,  where  they  stayed  two  days;  ft'om  thence 

to  Lemavadie,  some  twelve  miles  off,  where  they  met  the  Lord 
Deputy  and  continued  in  his  company  till  he  came  to  the 
Lyffar,  where  they  remained  four  days  ;  and  afterwards  he 
brought  them  to  the  Derry,  and  so  to  Coleraine,  in  which  travel 
he  brought  them  several  ways,  to  the  end  they  might  have  a 
full  view  of  the  country.  From  thence  through  part  of  Tyrone, 
and  so  to  Toome,  within  which  circuit  he  showed  them  good 
land,  very  fair  woods,  and  rivers.  At  Toome  caused  some  of 
the  ore  to  be  sent  for,  of  which  he  caused  a  smith  to  make 
iron  of  before  their  faces,  and  of  the  iron  made  steel  within  less 
than  one  hour.  Mr.  Broad,  one  of  the  agents  for  the  city,  who 
has  skill  in  such  things,  says  that  this  poor  smith  has  better 
satisfied  him  than  Jarmaynes  [Germans]  and  others  that  pre- 
sumed much  of  their  skill.  Has  sent  a  sample  of  each  to  his 
Lordship.  The  ore  is  rich,  for  they  judge  by  what  they  see 
wrought  that  very  near  the  sixth  part  will  be  iron.  From 
Toome  brought  them  by  boat  along  the  river  of  the  Bann, 
where  he  showed  them  a  goodly  river,  fair  woods,  and  good 
land,  as  likewise  the  eel  fishing  which  they  saw  experience  of; 
so  that  in  all  things  he  finds  them  exceeding  well  satisfied, 
and  can  say  no  less  but  everything  is  answerable  to  what  it 
pleased  his  Lordship  he  should  acquaint  the  citizens  with,  and 
for  their  better  satisfaction  they  have  detained  the  ship  they 
came  over  in,  in  which  they  will  send  some  of  the  country 
commodities,  as  salmon,  eels,  yarn,  hides,  tallow,  iron  ore,  and 
pipe  staves.  Protests  all  his  care  and  endeavour  is  to  further 
this  worthy  enterprise  undertalcen  by  his  Lordship,  in  which 
he  will  not  let  to  hazard  life  and  all  he  has  in  the  world  to 
perform  the  faith  and  service  ever  vowed  to  his  Lordship. 
Has  resolved,  with  the  consent  of  the  agents,  on  the  felling  of 
10,000  trees  to  be  seasoned  against  the  spring.  The  three 
ships  which  are  to  carry  the  soldiers  for  Swetheland  are  some 
five  days  past  arrived  at  Derry.  Of  the  idle  men  who  are 
fitting  to  go  many  hide  themselves,  so  that  he  knows  not  as 
yet  how  the  number  will  be  made  up,  for  they  are  very  fearful 
to  go  thither. — Coulrayn,  24  September  1609. 
P.  1.     Sealed.    Signed.     Add.     Endd. 

Sept.  26.     486.        Robert  Treswbll  Somersett  to  Salisbury. 
T  r  22?^i3i'  Expresses  his  great  satisfaction  with  the  country  he  has 

'      '  viewed  in  company  with  Sir  Thomas  Phillips.     Will  not  sur- 

vey any  other  part.    The  commodities  here  named  are  salmon 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


291 


1609. 


eels,  herrings,  yarn,  hides,  tallow,  wheat,  barley,  oats,  barrel 
boards,  and  iron  ore. — Coleraine,  26  September  1609. 

P.  1.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 


Sept.  28.      487, 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  227,  132. 


Captain  Edward  Codington  to  Salisbury. 
Has  undertaken  a  settlement  in  Ireland.     Desires  to  be 
favoured  and  encouraged. — Dongeven,  28  September  1609. 

P.  1.     Signed.     Add.     Endd.:  "  Capt.  Dodington." 


Sept.  29.     488.        Army  Account. 

''isg'^ao "p  ^ff '  '^^^  charge  of  the  army  in  Ireland  for  fourteen  years,  begun 

primo  Octobris  1595,  and  ending  at  Michaelmas  1609. 

Pp.  .3.     Endd. 


Sept.  29. 

Carte  Papers, 
vol.  61,  p.  74-77. 


489.  The  Passages  upon  the  Inquiry  of  the  Lord  Bourke. 
A  commission  in  the  nature  of  a  die'in  clausit  exiremtivi, 
issued  to  Sir  Richard  Morrison,  Knight,  then  President  of 
Munster,  Sir  Dominic  Sarsfield,  Chief  Justice  of  the  province, 
and  to  other  commissioners  ;  and  a  jury  being  returned  be- 
fore the  said  commissioners  at  Kilmallock  upon  the  29th 
September  A.D.  1609,  the  evidence  and  matters  urged  before 
the  jury,  as  well  on  the  King's  behalf  as  the  now  suppliant 
Lord  Bourke,  were  these  following :  For  the  King  it  was 
alleged  that  Edmund  Bourke,  a  child  of  1 1  years  of  age,  then 
was  His  Majesty's  ward,  inasmuch  as  the  lands  whereof 
Richard  late  Lord  Bourke  died  seised,  descended  with  the 
title  of  honour  to  the  infant,  being  cousin  and  heir  unto 
the  said  Richard  Lord  Bourke,  viz.,  son  and  heir  to  Thomas 
Bourke,  brother  and  next  heir  to  the  said  Richard  Lord 
Bourke,  begotten  upon  the  body  of  Honora  ny  Mulryan,  the 
said  Thomas's  lawfully  married  wife  ;  and  so  His  Majesty 
was  entitled  to  the  wardship  of  the  said  Edmund,  because  that 
barony  was  held  in  capite  of  His  Majesty. 

Then  follows  an  account  of  the  points  urged  by  the  posses- 
sor of  the  lands  and  title  of  honour,  the  proofs,  the  arguments 
on  both  sides,  the  conduct  of  the  commissioners.  Finally, 
the  counsel  for  the  King,  fearing  the  corruption  of  the  jury 
and  subornation  of  the  witnesses,  would  have  withdrawn  the 
commission  without  a  verdict,  but  this  the  commissioners 
denied  them.  And  the  commissioners,  having  that  day  con- 
ference with  the  jury,  the  next  day  following  dismissed  the 
juiy  before  they  acquainted  any  of  both  parties  therewith, 
because,  as  the  commissioners  then  said,  the  jury  could  not 
agree.  And  this  was  the  substance  of  all  the  proceeding  at 
Kilmallock,  for  the  King's  ward  against  the  supposed  Lord 
Bourke. 


Pp.  7.     Copy.     Not  add.     Not  endd. 


T  2 


292  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

On  the  back  of  the  last  page  is  the  following  : — 

The  principal  points  questioned  in  the  Lord  Bourke's  cause. 

Sir  Jolm  Davys's  notes  of  the  evidence  produced  at  the 
trial,  first  to  prove  the  marriage  between  Thomas,  third  son 
of  Lord  William  first  Lord  Bourke  and  Honora  O'Mulryan. 
Then  the  evidence  offered  against  it.    And  the  counter  proofs. 

P.  ] .     Hoi.  of  Sir  John  Davys.     Not  endd. 

Sept.  30.     490.        Sir  John  Davys  to  Salisbury. 

^'T'oo^'iss'  ^^^  °^^  ^^  ^^^^  come  to  the  Cavan,  which  is  the  last  period 

of  their  long  progress,  and  have  there  performed  their  several 
services  in  the  same  form  as  in  the  former  counties.  In  dis- 
tinguishing the  church  land  from  the  rest,  find  also  in  this 
county  that  tlie  tenants  of  the  Termon  lands  were  the  true 
proprietors  and  inheritors  thereof,  and  that  the  bishops  had 
only  certain  rents  and  refections ;  so  that  tlie  universal  con- 
sent of  all  the  juries  in  Ulster  proves  their  offices  taken  the 
last  year  to  be  true  in  that  point,  and  not  false,  as  it  was 
suggested  by  the  Bishop  of  Derry  with  a  little  too  much  con- 
fidence ;  and  they  assure  themselves  that,  if  the  like  inquisi- 
tions were  taken  in  Munster  and  Connaught  (for  there  are 
also  Termon  lands  in  every  diocese  within  those  provinces), 
the  like  presentments  would  be  made  there,  and  everywhere 
throughout  the  kingdom  ;  for  the  Archbishop  of  Cashel,  who 
was  present  with  them  in  Fermanagh,  affirmed  his  own  know- 
ledge, that  the  Bishops  in  Munster  and  Connaught  are  so 
far  from  removing  those  tenants  or  enhancing  their  rents, 
that  they  would  be  glad  to  receive  all  the  duties  contained  in 
their  registers  without  demanding  the  land  itself ;  for  they 
find  divers  duties  mentioned  in  their  registers  which  the 
tenants  refuse  to  pay,  because  the  payment  thereof  has  been 
discontinued  for  some  space  of  time. 

And  now  although  they  have  ended  this  journey  (for  this 
day  their  camp  is  broken  up),  they  have  not  yet  ended  their 
business ;  for  the  making  up  of  these  inquisitions  in  form  of 
law,  the  drawing  of  the  titles  into  cases,  the  engrossing,  en- 
rolling, and  exemplification  thereof,  the  absolute  finishing  of 
the  maps,  the  limiting  and  setting  forth  of  the  parishes,  pre- 
cincts, and  proportions,  which  must  be  done  upon  the  maps, 
with  divers  other  real  parts  of  the  main  service  are  to  be 
performed  after  they  return  home,  which  will  require  extra- 
ordinary labour  and  diligence,  and  two  months'  time  at  least. 

Have  left  the  province  of  Ulster  in  more  complete  peace 
and  obedience  than  has  ever  been  seen  since  the  Conquest. 
For  the  Lord  Deputy  has  taken  in  all  the  woodkerne  and 
loose  people  in  every  county,  and  has  bound  them  with  sure- 
ties to  depart  into  Sweden  with  Colonel  Stewart,  who  is  like 
to  prove  a  better  justice  of  gaol  delivery  in  clearing  the 
country  of  malefactors  than  the  Lord  Chief  Justice  and  he 
(Davys)  have  been  ;  for  two  persons  only  have  been  executed 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  293 


1609. 

by  their  doom  in  all  this  long  circuit. — From  the  Camp  upon 
the  border  of  Meath,  near  Lough  Raen,  30  September  1609. 
P.  1.     Signed.     Add.    Endd. 

[1609.]       491.        A  Note  of  the  Termon  Lands. 

voi^227^'*i33^I  '^^^  Termon  lands  escheated  to  the  Crown  in  Ulster,  which 

the  Bishops  claim  as  their  demesnes  in  possession,  amount  to 
39,921^  acres,  viz.,  in  Tyrone,  18,275  acres;  in  Coleraine, 
6,090  ac.  ;  in  Tyrconnell,  9,168  ac. ;  in  Fermanagh,  3,022  ac.  ; 
in  Cavan,  3,366  ac.  Of  these  lands  the  Bishop  of  Derry 
claims  as  belonging  to  his  three  bishoprics  of  Derry,  Clogher, 
and  Eaphoe,  27,280  ac,  viz.,  in  Tyrone,  9,000  ac. ;  in  Cole- 
raine, 6,090  ac.  ;  in  Tyrconnell,  9,168  ac. ;  in  Fermanagh, 
3,022  ac.  Besides,  in  Monaghan,  he  claims  at  least  5,000  ac. 
In  all  32,280  acres. 

P.  1.  In  Sir  J.  Davys' s  hand.  Endd.:  "Termon  lands 
in  Ulster." 

Sept.  30.     492.        The  King  to  the  Lord  Deputy. 

°°3o"scpr'''  ^'^*'^®^  ^°  *^^  ^°'"<i  Deputy,  at  the  suit  of  the  Portreeve,  &c. 

of  the  town  of  Athboy,  in  co.  Meath,  to  accept  a  surrender  of 
their  houses,  lands,  &c.,  and  to  re-grant  the  same. 

Sept.  30.     493.        Baeon  Oglethorpe  to  Salisbury. 

vol  22^  134  Objects  to  Mr.  Hassett  superseding  him  as  second  Baron  of 

the  Exchequer.     Hopes  to  have  a  grant  of  land,  as  he  offered 
to  be  an  undertaker. — Dublin,  last  of  September  1609. 
P.  1.     Signed.     Add.     Endd. 

Sept.  30.     494.        A  Relation  of  the  Proceedings  of  the  Lord  Deputy 
S.P.,  Ireland,  and  the  rest  in  Ireland,  from  3 1  July  to  30  September, 

vol.  227,  135.  I,        J.1  J-     1  J 

'  when  the  camp  was  discharged. 

The  last  of  July  (being  Monday)  the  Lord  Deputy  and  all 
his  attendants  came  to  Dundalk,  where  they  rested  the  1st  of 
August,  and  agreed  of  a  course  for  their  proceeding. 

lii  every  county  they  were  to  summon  the  assizes,  where- 
unto  all  people  of  any  worth  used  to  resort,  of  whom  they 
were  to  swear  some  for  the  grand  jury,  others  chosen  of  every 
barony  for  a  jury  of  survey  or  inquiry,  what  ecclesiastical 
lands,  tenements,  or  hereditaments  the  clergy  had  in  every 
parish  within  each  county,  and  by  what  title ;  what  lands  and 
tenements  belonged  to  the  King's  Majesty  ;  and  other  articles 
prescribed  from  His  Majesty ;  and  also  they  agreed  to  select 
out  of  every  barony  men  that  were  able  to  nominate,  meere, 
and  bound  every  parish,  balliboe,  or  ballibetaghe  ;  and  these 
were  to  attend  Sir  Josias  Bodley  and  the  surveyor,  who  were 
to  make  card  [chart]  or  maps  of  every  county. 

On  Wednesday,  the  3rd  of  August,  they  marched  from 
Dundalk  ;  the  weather  being  foul,  the  camp  pitched  in  the 
midst  of  the  Fewes.  The  next  morning  they  rose  and  passed 
through  the  rest  of  the  Fewes,  a  long  march,  and  pitched 
their  tents  within  four  miles  of  Armagh,  and  there  rested 
the  Friday  and  Saturday,  which   they  spent  in  hearing  the 


294  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

1609. 

claims  of  the  Lord  Primate,  the  surveyors  setting  in  cer- 
tainty the  limits  of  some  land.  They  passed  the  Thursday 
in  observing  many  particulars  from  the  inhabitants  of  the 
country,  who  gathered  to  the  camp  as  they  passed. 

On  Monday,  the  7th  of  August,  they  came  to  Armagh ; 
there  they  began  the  assizes,  proceeding  according  to  their 
former  resolutions,  and  ended  on  Saturday  following. 

On  Saturday  following,  the  12th  of  August,  they  rose  and 
passed  by  Charlemount  on  the  Blackwater,  through  woods 
and  paces,  and  pitched  their  tents  within  three  miles  of  Dun- 
gannon,  and  began  the  assizes  and  other  businesses  in  the 
county  of  Tyrone,  the  13th  of  August,  and  ended  the  23rd  of 
of  August.  The  24th,  they  marched  towards  Coleraine ;  the 
mountains  of  Slewsishe  and  Slewgannon  not  being  passable 
with  carriages,  they  were  constrained  to  pass  by  Deserte  Linn 
and  Glanconkane,  near  to  Kilulter,  the  greatest  fastness  of 
Tyrone.  Through  the  glens  in  this  passage  they  were  enforced 
to  camp  three  nights. 

The  27th  day,  being  Sunday,  they  obtained  Limavaddie, 
the  chief  house  of  O'Cahan,  and  the  best  town  of  that  country, 
and  camped  a  mile  and  more  from  the  town. 

The  28th  day  of  August,  being  Monday,  they  began  the 
assizes  and  the  rest  of  their  business  at  Limavaddie,  and 
ended  the  Thursday  following.  The  Lord  Bishop  of  Derry 
came  to  them  there  and  heard  the  presentments  of  the  jury, 
but  was  not  at  the  swearing  of  them.  There  also  came  to 
them  the  four  agents  for  London. 

On  Friday,  being  the  1st  of  September,  they  began  the 
assizes  and  business  at  the  Derry,  where  in  the  afternoon  the 
Lord  Primate,  the  Lord  Bishop  of  Derry,  and  Sir  Oliver  St. 
John  came  to  them.  About  this  island  grew  great  contention 
betwixt  the  Lord  Bishop  and  Sir  Thomas  PhiUips.  They 
themselves  and  the  jury  trod  the  island,  and  swore  the  Lord 
Bishop's  witnesses  on  the  ground  (the  Lord  Primate  inter- 
preting) ;  but  yet,  he  not  being  contented  with  their  proceed- 
ing, they  on  the  Monday  adjourned  'the  jury  to  the  Liffer, 
where  they  were  to  meet  the  Lord  Deputy  and  the  rest  of 
the  Council,  his  Lordship  having  rode  to  see  Enishowen. 

The  7th  of  September,  they  began  the  assizes  at  the  Liffer, 
for  Donegal.  The  5th  day,  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Council 
coming  all  thither  together,  they  swore  the  jury  for  survey 
and  inquiry ;  and  the  10th  day  they  heard  the  claims  of 
divers  of  the  country  of  Donegal.  With  much  difficulty  they 
ended  there  the  13th  day  late,  their  camp  being  then  gone 
10  miles  towards  Fei'managh.  They  all,  but  the  Bishop  of 
Derry,  were  enforced  to  ride  in  the  night  to  the  camp. 

The  14th  day,  being  Thursday,  they  rose  early,  being  en- 
vironed with  strong  waters,  and  passed  by  the  Omy  some 
five  miles  towards  Fermanagh. 

Friday  morning,  the  15th,  the  Lord  Deputy  urged  the 
writer,  not  being  well,  to  go  from  the  camp  to  Monaghan  to 
Sir  Edward  Blainey's  for  recovery  of  his  health,  and  the  dis- 


IRELAND— JAMES  1. 


295 


1609. 


Sept.  30. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  227,  136. 


[Sept.] 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  227,  136  A. 


Sept. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  227,  136  B. 


Oct.  3. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  227,  137. 


Oct.  4. 

Philad.  P., 

vol.  1,  p.  369. 


patch  of  the  assize  there,  whilst  his  Lordship  and  the  rest  of 
the  commissioners,  with  Mr.  Attorney,  were  in  Fermanagh ; 
which  he  performed  the  12  th  day  at  night.  He  was  in  his 
travel  enforced  to  Sir  Cormocke  M'Baron's  house,  now  pri- 
soner in  the  Tower.  His  lady  gave  them  house  room,  but 
had  neither  bread,  drink,  meat,  nor  linen  to  welcome  them, 
yet  kindly  helped  them  to  some  two  or  three  muttons  from 
her  tenants.  At  Monaghan,  he  ended  the  business  on  Friday, 
the  22nd  of  September,  and  then  the  Lord  Deputy  and  the  rest 
ended  at  Fermanagh.  On  Sunday  the  24<th,  they  all  met  at  the 
Cavan,  and  there  ended  at  Michaelmas-day,  and  then  marched 
some  nine  miles.  The  next  day,  the  last  of  September,  the 
camp  was  discharged,  and  they  returned  towards  Dublin. 
Pp.  3.    Endd. 

495.  Teeasueer-at-War's   Account.      October  1607 — Sep- 

tember 1609. 

A  brief  declaration  of  the  account  of  Sir  Thomas  Eidge- 
waie,  Knight,  Treasurer-at-War  in  the  said  realm  of  Ireland, 
for  two  whole  years,  begun  the  first  of  October  1607  and 
ended  the  last  of  September  1609,  anno  septimo  regni  Dni 
nostri  nunc  Regis  Jacobi. 

Pp.  6.     {Three  sheets  pasted  together.)     Endd. 

496.  Estimate  of  Charges  which  may  be  spared. 
Statement  of  the  entertainment  and  charges  which  may  be 

best  spared ;  abatements  in  various  forts  and  wards. 
Pp.  4. 

497.  Army  Account,  1595 — 1609. 

Charges  of  the  army  in  Ireland  for  14  years,  from  1  October 
1595  to  Michaelmas  1609.  Sum  totals,  late  Queen's  time, 
1,845,696L  ;  the  King's,  571,000?. 

P.  1.     Endd. 

498.  Sir  Humphrey  Winche  to  Salisbury. 

Gives  an  account  of  their  proceedings  in  the  northern 
journey.  Reports  the  promise  of  the  agents  for  London  to 
further  the  plantation.  Tells  of  the  arrival  of  Colonel  Stew- 
ard. State  of  the  country  people,  and  the  proposed  force  to 
be  raised  for  Sweden.  Requests  leave  to  retire  to  England. — 
Dublin,  3  October  1609. 

P.  1.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

499.  The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Wishes  him  to  give  some  ecclesiastical  promotion  to  the 
brother  of  George  Marshal,  one  of  the  squires  of  the  stable  ; 
his  said  brother,  who  had  borne  some  place  there,  having,  after 
other  courses  of  life,  disposed  himself  to  the  study  of  divinity. 
If  he  (Sir  Arthur)  knows  of  any  infirm  bishop  wanting  as- 
sistance, or  of  any  other  ecclesiastical  dignity  which  he  shall 
think  meet  for  him,  he  is  so  to  provide  for  him. — Hampton 
Court,  4  October  1609. 


206  lEELAND — JAMES  I. 

1609. 

P.  I.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chi- 
chester:  "Of  the  4th  of  October  1609.  From  the  Kinge's 
Matie,  in  the  behalfe  of  Mi"  Marshall,  &c.  Re.  the  17th  of 
Februarie." 

Also  this  fiurther  endorsement:  "1  praye  you,  my  Lord 
Chancellour,  and  you  the  Lord  of  Dyrrie,  or  one  of  you,  to 
call  for  the  said  M'  George  Marshall,  and  retourne  me  your 
opinion  tutchinge  the  man  and  his  sute,  and  what  you  thinke 
fitt  for  me  to  doe  in  answer  of  His  Mat'^'s  directions. — Arthur 
Chichester." 

Oct.  8.      500.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Privy  Council. 

Tof  22^38'  ^^''  Wil^i^"!  Stewart  arrived  at  Dublin  some  ]  4  days  since, 

and  soon  after  came  to  the  camp  at  the  Cavan,  from  whence 
he  (Chichester)  dispatched  him  forthwith  towards  the  Derry, 
there  to  expect  the  new  levies,  which  he  gave  order  should 
draw  thither  from  all  parts  with  all  convenient  speed.  Wishes 
that  the  success  may  be  answerable  to  His  Majesty's  desires, 
and  that  he  may  stand  clear  of  ill  imputation,  when  he  has 
laboured  to  effect  it  with  that  earnestness  and  integrity 
which  shall  appertain  to  a  matter  of  such  public  consequence, 
and  to  the  preservation  of  his  own  credit.  In  the  beginning  and 
before  the  colonel's  coming  over,  they  were  in  exceeding  great 
towardness  and  confident  of  success  ;  but  now  in^effect  they 
feel  that  certain  furies  and  fii'ebrands  of  sedition  go  about  to 
frustrate  their  designs  by  giving  out  malicioas  and  incredible 
foul  defamation  of  the  same  in  many  respects  ;  by  reason 
whereof  he  understands  that  idlers  and  swordmen  everywhere 
(specially  within  the  province  of  Ulster)  now  withdraw  them- 
selves into  the  woods,  and  some  of  them  upon  their  keeping ; 
which  causes  them  on  the  other  side  to  reinforce  their  en- 
deavours, and  to  try  some  extraordinary  means.  Will,  how- 
ever, reserve  the  certificate  of  this  affair  to  another  time,  and 
forbears  to  prognosticate  of  ill  before  the  event ;  this  overt 
objection  they  make,  that  they  will  not  go  into  so  far  an 
unknown  country  with  a  man  they  know  not.  In  order  to 
help  this,  and  to  clear  some  other  lewd  suspicion  they  conceive, 
has  permitted  LieutenantSamford  (an  English  gentleman  well 
affected  by  the  people  of  Ardraagh  and  Tyrone),  and  some 
three  or  four  other  English  officers  (who  were  reputed  of  good 
credit  with  the  Irishry  where  they  dwelt),  to  try  their  abilities 
to  levy  men  and  to  go  with  them.  Finds  now  that  these 
idle  gentlemen  of  Ulster  are  all  peers,  and  so  jealous  and 
emulous  one  of  another,  that  they  had  rather  be  commanded 
by  an  Englishman  they  know  and  can  affect,  than  by  any  of 
their  own  kinsmen.  Must  humble  them  in  what  he  can. 
Three  of  the  ships  appointed  to  transport  them  are  now  at 
length,  one  after  another,  arrived  at  Loughfoyle,  and  the 
fourth  at  Carlingford.  This  last  was  driven  thither  by  foul 
weather  and  contrary  winds,  after  adverse  fortune  upon  the 
coast  of  France,  where  she  spent  her  foremast.  Hopes  to 
freight  her  away  from  thence  with  men  of  those  parts,  and 


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297 


1609. 


Oct  8. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  227,  139. 


Oct.  13. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  227,  140. 


will  go  that  way  himself  to  dispatch  her,  if  it  shall  be  ex- 
pedient or  aeedful. — Millefont,  8  October  1609. 
Pp.  2.     Signed.     Add.     Endd. 

501.  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Privy  Council. 
Commends  the  agents  for  London  on  their  leaving.     Ke- 

commends  the  care  and  charges  of  Sir  Thomas  Phillips. — 
Millefont,  8  October  1609. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Add.     Endd. 

502.  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 

The  agents  of  London  have  seen  and  observed  whatsoever 
may  make  for  pleasure,  profit,  and  advantage  within  the 
limits  assigned  unto  them,  and  return  (if  they  mean  as  they 
speak)  full  freighted  with  desire  and  reasons  to  draw  on  a 
speedy  plantation.  Is  sure  they  have  found  all  things 
here  far  better  than  they  expected.  Sir  Thomas  Phillips  has 
been  a  host,  a  guide,  and  a  watchman  for  them  in  all  their 
travels,  which  has  been  as  well  a  charge  as  a  trouble  to  him  ; 
and  which,  added  to  his  former  services,  deserves  such  recom- 
pense as  their  Lordships  are  accustomed  to  procure  for  those 
that  bring  so  good  testimonies  with  them.  If  the  Londoners  go 
through  with  the  two  cities,  they  must  needs  have  the  lands 
in  which  he  is  interested  in  and  near  the  Derry,  and  other 
things  about  Coleraine,  which  are  now  beneficial  to  him  ;  and 
what  to  demand  in  lieu  thereof  without  diving  into  His 
Majesty's  coffers,  which  he  has  advised  Sir  Thomas  to  for- 
bear, he  knows  not ; — inasmuch  as  these  agents  aim  at  all  the 
places  of  profit  and  pleasure  which  lie  upon  the  rivers  of  the 
Bann  and  Loughfoyle  ;  but  he  prays  God  they  prove  not  like 
their  London  women,  who  sometimes  long  to-day  and  loathe 
to-morrow.  When  they  went  last  from  him,  they  presented 
certain  demands  to  which  he  gave  them  present  answer,  the 
copy  of  which  he  lias  delivered  to  Sir  Thomas  Phillips  ;  and 
if  they  had  anything  else  to  propound,  he  willed  them  to  do 
it,  but  they  answered  nothing  here.  Whereby  he  thinks 
they  depart  fully  satisfied  ;  and  seeing  they  now  so  well  affect 
the  matter,  he  hopes  his  Lordship  will  take  hold  of  it,  and 
make  a  speedy  conclusion  with  them  ;  for  the  least  trouble 
or  storm  that  shall  blow  will  alter  them,  as  it  has  done 
others  of  whom  he  (Chichester)  has  had  experience  here. 
They  affect  something  of  his  besides  Culmore  and  tlie  fishing 
there,  which  they  shall  have,  as  his  Lordship  shall  think  fit. 
Now  report  and  letters  from  thence  tell  us  that  the  Lord 
Audley  has  a  grant  from  the  King  of  100,000  acres  in  Tyrone,^ 
which  is  more  than  the  whole  county  is  found  at  by  the  book 
of  survey.  He  is  au  ancient  nobleman,  and  apt  to  undertake 
much  ;  but  his  manner  of  life  in  Munster,  and  the  small  cost 
he  has  bestowed  to  make  his  house  fit  for  him  or  any  room 


'  See  supra,  pp.  250-1. 


298  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1:609. 

within  the  same,  does  not  promise  the  building  of  substantial 
"*  castles,  nor  a  convenient  plantation  in  Ulster.    Besides  which, 

he  is  near  to  himself,  and  loves  not  hospitality.  Such  a  one 
will  be  unwelcome  to  that  people,  and  wiU  soon  make  himself 
contemptible  ;  and  if  the  natives  be  not  better  provided  for 
than  he  has  yet  heard  of,  doubts  they  wiU  kindle  many  a  fire 
in  his  buildings  before  they  be  half  finished.  This  out  of 
duty,  and  for  no  other  by  respect  whatsoever  ;  for  he  afiects 
nothing  more  than  the  reformation  and  well  planting  of  that 
province  in  which  he  has  spent  the  best  of  his  time,  and 
where  the  greatest  part  of  his  living  is. — Melephont,  18  Octo- 
ber 1609. 
Pp.  2.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 


vol.  227,  141. 


Oct.  18.      503.        Sir  Robert  Jacob  to  Salisbttey. 
^f  aar'f"?'  Having,   this  last  vacation,   been''employed   as  justice  of 

assize  into  Connaught,  in  which  journey  he  had  occasion  to 
visit  all  the  parts  of  that  province,  he  thought  it  appertain- 
ing to  his  duty  to  give  his  Lordship  an  account  in  what 
state  he  found  that  part  of  this  kingdom. 

In  all  that  circuit  there  were  not  above  two  or  three 
notable  malefactors  arraigned  before  them  for  any  heinous  or 
exorbitant  crimes  ;  the  rest  (and  that  but  a  small  number) 
were  for  petty  stealths  and  felonies.  Traitors  there  were 
none,  saving  only  in  the  pass  betwixt  Shrowle  and  Gallwey 
there  lay  some  10  or  12  rebels,  who  rob  and  spoil  the  pas- 
sengers, and  are  relieved  up  and  down  the  country  secretly 
amongst  their  friends.  Upon  complaint  thereof  by  the  par- 
ties grieved,  they  ordered  that  they  should  recover  all  their 
damages  against  the  inhabitants  of  the  barony  where  the 
robberies  were  committed,  which  they  find  to  be  the  only 
means  to  "enforce  them  either  to  apprehend  the  traitors  or  to 
drive  them  out  of  the  country. 

O'Connor  Roe  and  O'Connor  Sligo  (two  of  the  greatest 
Irish  Lords  in  Connaught)  both  died  while  they  were  holding 
their  sessions  at  Sligo.  O'Connor  Roe  has  left  divers  sons, 
who  are  all  good  swordmen,  and  may  prove  honest  or  dis- 
honest as  occasion  serves.  O'Connor  Sligo  died  without 
issue,  and  his  land  is  descended  to  his  brother  Donnell 
O'Connor,  who  is  a  widower  of  the  age  of  four  or  five  and 
thirty  years.  He  is  to  marry  with  one  of  the  Earl  of  Des- 
mond's daughters  ;  he  speaks  English  well ;  he  was  bred  up 
in  the  wars  in  France,  the  people  have  a  great  opinion  of  him, 
and  he  is  like  to  prove  an  honest  man  if  his  grafiing  [graft- 
ing] upon  a  crabbed  stock  do  not  alter  his  proper  nature. 
The  only  discontented  persons  that  he  could  hear  of  in  that 
province  are  Sir  Thomas  Bourke  and  Mr.  John  Bourke,  the 
Earl  of  Clanrickard's  brothers,  and  Sir  Tibbott  Bourke,  called 
Tibbot-ne-Longe,!  who  are  malcontent  about  some  private 

1  Cepoiirc  ii.\  loiis,  «  Theobald  of  the  Ships."    See  Four  Masters,  A.D.  1599, 
III.,  p.  2122. 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  299 


1609. 


grudges  betwixt  them  and  the  Earl,  but  they  are  able  to 
do  little  hurt  to  the  State  as  things  now  stand.  O'Flag- 
herty  (who  is  lord  of  a  great  barren  rocky  country  lying 
south-west  from  Galway)  had  lately  built  a  strong  fort  in 
his  couutry  upon  the  sea,  where  is  a  pretty  harbour  for  ships  ; 
whereof  having  advertisement,  they  demanded  of  him  the 
reason  why  he  built  it.  His  answer  was,  that  he  did  it  only 
to  have  a  safe  house  where  he  might  be  out  of  all  danger 
of  his  enemies  ;  and  he  offered  voluntarily  to  raze  and  utterly 
to  destroy  it,  rather  than  the  State  should  take  any  offence 
at  it;  upon  which  promise  to  perform  it  forthwith  they 
dismissed  him ;  otherwise  intended  to  have  sent  certain 
soldiers  to  have  defaced  it,  for,  if  that  fort  were  well  manned 
and  victualled,  the  country  were  almost  inaccessible  either 
by  land  or  sea. 

There  are  at  least  2,000  idle  men  in  Connaught  who  have 
neither  house,  lands,  trade,  nor  other  means,  but  live  idly  and 
feed  upon  the  gentlemen  of  the  country  ;  and  when  the  lords 
and  gentlemen  meet  upon  their  parley  hills,  he  is  accounted  the 
bravest  man  that  comes  attended  with  most  of  those  followers. 
There  are  4,000  of  that  quality  yet  left  in  Ulster,  3,000  in 
Leinster,  and  as  many  in  Munster.  These  sparks  are  raked 
up  in  the  embers  for  a  new  rebellion.  These  are  they  who 
fill  the  heads  of  the  gentlemen  with  treason,  and  when  they 
see  a  fit  opj)ortunity,  they  thrust  them  out  into  open  action. 
The  course  that  is  now  taken  to  send  them  away  into 
Sweveland  [Sweden]  may  do  much  good,  and  of  there  could 
be  a  colourable  means  devised  to  send  away  1,000  more  out 
of  every  province  this  next  summer,  they  would  be  much 
the  better  able  to  govern  those  that  remain.  Many  of 
these  idle  men  are  soldiers  lately  returned  out  of  the  Low 
Countries. 

There  is  great  plotting  and  private  intelligence  betwixt  this 
kingdom  and  Spain  and  the  Low  Countries.  Heaps  of  letters 
are  sent  hither  from  thence  every  day.  It  is-  reported  that 
all  the  Irish  who  are  in  Flanders  are  to  have  leave  to  visit 
their  own  country.  Tins  is  a  matter  of  great  consequence  if 
it  be  true.  There  are  2,000  in  the  English  Pale  turned  re- 
cusants since  the  last  attempt  concerning  religion  Avas  given 
over,  and  there  are  a  great  number  of  priests  sent  o\er  into 
this  kingdom  who  are  all  lusty  able  young  men,  and  go 
always  well  armed.  Every  gentleman  has  one  or  two  in  his 
house  ;  Dublin  and  all  the  towns  are  full  of  them  ;  masses  in 
every  other  house  ;  and  the  priests  are  grown  to  that  height 
of  boldness  that  they  have  wrought  the  people  not  to  pray 
for  the  church  nor  for  the  King.  It  is  to  be  feared  that  they 
will  give  them  some  sudden  blow ;  now  is  the  time,  while 
they  are  secure  and  the  King's  forces  small  and  weak,  and  (in 
comparison  of  what  they  should  be)  none  at  all.  But  when- 
soever the  next  attempt  shall  be  made  to  bring  them  to 
church,  it  must  be  undertaken  in  a  better  fashion  and  per- 


300  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

formed  with  resolution  and  constancy,  or  otherwise  it  will  do 
more  hurt  than  good. — Dublin,  18  October  1609. 
Pp.  3.     Signed.     Add.    Endd. 

Oct.  19.      504.        Sir  John  Davys  to  Salisbuey. 
^T  227^^142'  Since   they  returned  home  from  the  northern  circuit,  the 

'      '  Commissioners  for  the  Plantation  have  been  scattered  so  that 

little  has  been  added  to  their  former  labours,  by  reason  of  the 
absence  of  the  Lord  Deputy,  who  has  ever  since  been  detained 
upon  the  borders  about  the  levying  and  embarking  of  soldiers 
for  Sweveland  ;  which  business  his  Lordship  found  the  more 
difficult,  since,  in  order  to  give  impediment  thereunto,  on  the 
one  side  the  priests  of  Ulster  gave  out  that  this  was  but  a 
pretence  and  policy  of  the  English  to  draw  the  swordmen  out 
of  the  country,  and  that  it  was  not  intended  that  they  should 
be  put  on  land  in  Sweveland,  but  that,  when  they  were  put 
out  to  sea  they  should  be  cast  overboard  and  drowned,  every 
mother's  son'; — on  the  other  side,  the  Jesuits  and  seminarypriests 
in  Leinster  and  Connaught  persuaded  the  people  that  it  was 
altogether  unlawful  to  go  to  such  a  war,  where  they  should  fight 
for  a  heretic  and  an  usurper  against  a  Catholic  and  a  right- 
ful King.  Notwithstanding,  my  Lord  Deputy,  with  his  wonted 
diligence,  has  overcome  the  business ;  and  he  is  now  gone  him- 
self in  person  to  Carlingford  to  see  some  companies  embarked 
there,  from  whence  he  will  immediately  return  to  Dublin,  and 
then  will  proceed  to  finish  the  remains  of  the  main  service, 
which  he  hopes  will  be  made  ready  to  be  transmitted  upon 
the  end  of  this  term. 

Heard  his  Lordship,  when  last  in  England,  wish  for  a  book 
of  the  statutes  made  in  Ireland,  and  thereupon  he  gave  direc- 
tion hither  that  the  Parliament  Rolls  should  be  perused,  and 
a  new  impression  made,  with  [addition  of  such  statutes  as, 
being  fit  to  be  published,  were  formerly  left  unprinted.  This 
work  was  assigned  to  be  done  in  this  summer  vacation, 
but  their  journey  into  Ulster  took  up  so  much  time  that  they 
have  yet  found  no  leisure  to  peruse  the  records.  Yet  some- 
what shall  be  done  in  it  before  the  term.  In  the  mean- 
time he  is  bold  to  send  his  Lordship  an  old  book  of  the 
first  impression,  the  best  he  could  get,  and  bound  up  as 
handsomely  as  our  bookseller  here  can  do  it.  Has  also  sent 
him  a  new  book  of  Common  Prayer  in  Irish,  the  language 
whereof,  though  it  be  strange  and  will  need  an  interpreter,  yet 
his  Lordship  of  himself  will  make  this  interpretation  upon 
it,  that  the  civil  magistrate  here  is  careful  (as  well  as  the 
clergy)  to  plant  religion  ;  for  Sir  James  Ley  first  set  this 
work  in  hand,  otherwise  it  had  not  been  finished  as  it  is. — 
Dublin,  ]  9  October  1  609. 

P.  1.     Signed.     Add.     Endd. 

Oct.  2a.      505.        LoiiDS  OF  Privy  Council  to  the  Lord  Deputy. 
S. p.,  Ireland,  Directs  him  to  send  all  the  proceedings  in  the  case  between 

'      ■  Moris  Fitz  Thomas  Gerald  and  George  Courtney,  who  are 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  301 


1609. 


ordered  to  attend  the  Privy  Council  in  Easter  term  next. — 
20  October  1609. 
P.  1.     Add. 


Oct.  23.      506.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 

^'r'22r'u4'  Enters  into  the  subject   of  victualling  the  army  and  navy  ; 

'       ■  the  fittest  persons  to   be   contracted  with  ;  100  men  may  be 

well  victualled  for   501.   English  a  month  of  28    days,  and 

1,500?.  imprested  will  serve   to  furnish  the  places  of  most 

import  for  four  months  beforehand. 

For  contracts,  the  captains  and  constables  of  the  forts,  as 
they  are  men  of  abiUty,  and  as  the  safety  of  the  place  concerns 
them,  will  do  it  faithfully.  If  he  would  prefer  others  to 
contract  for  this  service,  there  are  here  and  to  come  over, 
four  practised  gentlemen  who  have  entertainment  by  patent, 
to  wit,  Sir  Robert  Newcomen,  purveyor-general  of  the  vic- 
tuals, with  a  fee  of  10s.  English  a  day  ;  Sir  George  Beverley, 
comptroller  of  the  victuals,  at  10s.  by  the  establishment ;  Sir 
Allen  Appesley,  commissary  of  the  victuals  in  Munster,  at 
3s.  4<d.,  and  Thomas  Smith,  commissary  of  the  victuals  in  Con- 
na  ght,  at  6s.  a  day  by  the  establishment,  and  another  6s.  a  day 
to  the  said  Thomas  Smith,  payable  out  of  the  revenue  for  com- 
missary of  victuals  in  Tyrconnell ;  all  which  entertainments 
were  given  by  letters  patent  before  his  (Chichester's)  time,  and 
are  continued  by  His  Majesty's  special  directions  ;  of  which 
one  or  more  must  be  dealt  with  for  the  contract  if  that  be 
his  Lordship's  pleasure.  Wishes,  however,  that  they  should 
be  employed  (for  the  fee  they  receive)  to  survey  the  victuals, 
and  that  the  captains  and  constables  should  lay  in  store 
rather  than  provide  them  ;  otherwise  he  doubts  the  charge 
of  transportation,  waste,  and  issuing  will  greatly  exceed  the 
price  of  the  victuals  itself 

Came  hither  on  the  20th  of  this  inst.,  where  he  met  with 
letters  from  Sir  William  St.  John,  who  is  captain  of  the 
"  Advantage."  He  reports  his  want  of  victuals,  and  demands 
500Z.  English  to  supply  him  for  the  present. — Dublin  Castle, 
23  October  1609. 

Pp.  4.     Signed. 

Oct.  27.      507.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Privy  Council. 
S.V.,  Ireland,  jj^g  received  a  letter  from  the  King,  dated  8  July  1609,  in 

'       ■  which  his  Highness's  pleasure  is  signified,   that,  whereas  the 

traitor  Tyrone  at  the  time  of  his  revolt  had  2001.  or  there- 
abouts remaining  in  the  hands  of  James  Carroll,  His  High- 
ness is  pleased  that  one  John  Manwoode,  His  Majesty's 
servant,  or  his  assign  authorised,  shall  have  warrant  from 
the  Lord  Deputy  and  the  Council  to  receive  the  said  200?. 
as  of  His  Majesty's  royal  bounty.  Before,  however,  he  puts 
the  said  directions  in  execution,  thought  it  fit  to  make  known 
the  state  of  that  cause  to  his  Lordship  in  particular,  for  the 
reasons  ensuing.      The   said  Tyrone   pretended  title  to  the 


& 


302  lEELAND— -JAMES  I. 

1609. 

moiety  of  the  fishing  of  the  Bann  ;  and  he,  finding  his  title 
not  good  in  law,  and  hearing  that  the  whole  river  of  the 
Bann  was  passed  in  fee  by  virtue  of  the  King's  letter  to  one 
Wakeman,  who  was  in  trust  for  the  late  Earl  of  Devonshire, 
Tyrone  desired  him  (Chichester)  to  be  a  means  to  the  said 
Earl  that  he  might  have  the  one  half  of  it  for  2001.,  in  regard 
he  had  some  claim  to  it.  Wrote  accordingly  in  his  behalf  to 
the  Earl  of  Devonshire,  who  at  that  time  seemed  to  be 
willing  at  his  entreaty  that  Tyrone  should  have  it,  but  died 
before  anything  was  effected.  After  his  death  the  said 
Wakeman  (with  the  consent  of  the  Earl  of  Devonshire's 
executors)  sold  that  whole  fishing  and  the  rest  of  Wakeman's 
grant  to  James  Hamilton,  His  Majesty's  servant,  with  whom 
also  at  Tyrone's  request  he  (Chichester)  had  speech  about 
the  same,  and  who  was  content  that  Tyrone  should  have 
it ;  but  he  moved  Mr.  Auditor  Ware  to  be  a  means  to  the 
Earl's  executors  to  yield  him  some  other  thing  that  he 
demanded  in  lieu  thereof  over  and  above  the  money  Tyrone 
was  to  pay  him  ;  and  thereupon  he  (Chichester)  gave  his 
word  for  payment  of  the  money  to  Mr.  Hamilton  according 
to  the  agreement  that  should  pass  betwixt  him  and  Tyrone  ; 
but  (as  he  is  informed)  Tyrone  soon  after  this  delivered  beeves 
to  some  of  the  garrisons  in  Ulster  upon  his  direction,  amount- 
ing to  more  than  the  200Z.  ;  and  he  (Chichester)  willed 
Mr.  Carroll,  then  vice-treasurer,  to  pay  him  the  overplus  of 
the  money,  and  to  stay  the  2001.  in  his  hands,  and  to  deliver 
it  to  Mr.  Hamilton,  which  he  thought  had  verily  been  after- 
wards performed,  and  the  fishing  thereupon  made  over  to  the 
Earl  of  Tyrone.  Has  now,  upon  receipt  of  His  Majesty's 
letter  in  Manwoode's  behalf,  called  the  said  Carroll  and 
others  before  himself  and  the  Council ;  and  the  said  CarroU 
confesses  that  the  money  remains  still  in  his  hands,  but  says 
further,  that  he  ever  was  and  is  ready  to  deliver  the  said 
money  unto  anyone  that  shall  give  him  a  sufiicient  dis- 
charge in  law  for  the  same.  Mr.  Ware  also  affirms  confi- 
dently that,  to  his  knowledge,  nothing  was  effected  before 
Tyrone's  departure;  yet  notwithstanding,  Tyrone,  in  the 
absence  of  Mr.  Hamilton,  entered  upon  the  moiety  of  the 
said  fishing  the  summer  before  he  fled  hence  ;  whereupon 
it  was  found  by  office  that  he  was  possessed  of  the  same 
at  his  departure,  so  that,  if  the  bargain  had  been  duly  per- 
formed, the  moiety  of  the  fishing  thereof  had  been  in  the 
King,  and  the  money  should  by  that  means  belong  to  Mr. 
Hamilton,  who,  being  now  in  England,  may  be  examined  con- 
cerning the  same  by  such  commissioners  there  for  Ireland  as 
his  Lordship  shall  please  to  appoint.  In  the  meantime  has 
made  stay  of  the  money  till  His  Majesty's  pleasure  be  furthei' 
signified  ;  for,  if  the  fishing  be  the  King's,  then  is  the  money 
Mr.  Hamilton's,  and  may  not  be  delivered  to  Mr.  Manwoode. 
—Dublin  Castle,  27  October  1609. 

Pp.2.     Signed.     Add.    .^/wZd  ;  "  Reed,  the  1st  of  Feb." 


lEELAND — JAMES  I.  303 


1609. 
Oct.  27.     508.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Earl  of  Nottingham. 

wf  227^'l46'  ^^^  ^"-  ^^-  "^^^^  ^^^  arrived  with  letters.     He  demands 

5001.  for  provision.     Moreover,  he  claims  the  Spanish  cannon 
of  1588  which  were  taken  out  of  the  sea  near  Dunluce,  as 
being  of  his  right,  in  virtue  of  his  office  as  Vice- Admiral  of 
Ulster.— Dublin  Castle,  27  October  1609. 
Pp.  2.     Signed.     Add.    Endd. 

Oct.  28.      509.        Ralph  Biechensha  to  Salisbury. 

^'227^^147'  Hopes  that  his  suit  for  his  allowances  to  be  paid  in  English 

'      '  money  will  be  granted  some  other  time.     In  support  of  his 

claim  to  this  favour,  states  his   diligence  and   his  long  and 
faithful  services. — Dublin,  28  October  1609. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd,. 

Oct.  SO.      510.        Sir  Oliver  St.  John  to  Salisbury. 
S.P.,  Ireland,  'H.n.s  attended  the  Lord  Deputy  in  this  last  northern  journey, 

'       ■  and  commends  his  great  care  and  industry  both  in  surveying 

the  escheated  lands  of  Ulster,  and  discovering  the  quality 
and  pretences  of  the  claimers  of  some  part  of  it.  The 
question  of  the  Herenagh  lands  claimed  by  the  Bishops  has 
been  the  labour  of  greatest  moment  and  most  subject  to  con- 
tradiction. Dares  not  presume  to  preoccupy  that  which  will 
plainly  appear  by  the  verdicts  of  the  country  ;  but  cannot 
find  that  the  Bishops  anciently  had  or  ought  to  have  over 
the  Herenaghs  any  other  jurisdiction  but  spiritual,  to  confirm 
their  elections,  and  to  keep  them  in  discipline  by  visitations 
and  correction  as  often  as  they  were  found  faulty  in  the  duties 
belonging  to  their  Herenaghs ;  nor  that  they  had  any  interest 
or  dominion  over  these  lands  more  than  an  annual  pension  or 
rent,  which  was  ever  certain  and  might  not  justly  be  raised  or 
altered  ;  and  that,  howsoever  length  of  time  and  the  unfaith- 
ful degradation  of  those  into  whose  hands  they  were  first  con- 
signed have  turned  the  true  and  original  use  of  these  charitable 
foundations  into  worse,  they  were  undoubtedly  the  particular 
patrimony  of  the  parish  churches  ;  for  there  is  no  parish  cliurch 
in  Ulster  but  is  built  upon  the  Herenagh  lands,  and  has  an 
Herenagh  belonging  unto  it.  Nevertheless,  as  the  case  now 
stands  with  these  lands,  they  are  in  the  King's  power  to  dis- 
pose ;  and  the  provision  for  the  particular  parish  churches, 
being  now  ruined  and  wasted,  is  that  which  is  most  worthy 
of  consideration  in  the  disposing  of  them,  which  otherwise 
will  hardly  be  framed  into  a  competency  to  give  maintenance 
to  a  worthy  ministry. 

The  pretences  of  the  natives  have  been  many  and  their 
expectations  equal,  but  the  Lord  Deputy,  who  is  best  ac- 
quainted with  their  qualities  and  merit,  can  best  propound 
such  allotments  as  shall  give  the  best  of  them  reasonable 
contentment. 

The  levy  of  the  1,000  luenfor  Sweden  came  very  seasonably 
to  give  a  better  passage  to  the  plantation  in  general ;  and 


304  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

-  indeed  the  invention  was  very  good,  for  it  has  discovered  a 
possibility  to  compel  those  that  live  idly  and  unprofitably 
here  to  be  transported  into  foreign  countries,  and  -will  cause 
those  who  remain  behind  to  learn  to  labour,  in  order  to  free 
themselves  from  such  a  just  punishment. 

The  project  of  the  Londoners  for  building  Derry  and 
Coleraine,  if  it  succeed,  will  no  doubt  bring  forth  an  effect  of 
profit  and  security,  the  building  of  towns  being  the  most 
necessary  bridles  for  these  countries.  Their  agents  are  gone 
back,  it  seems,  well  contented.  If  it  go  forward  and  be 
succeeded  by  other  corporations  in  England,  who  may  find  as 
good  places  as  those  to  set  down  in,  it  will  be  a  means  of  a 
more  speedy  reduction  of  this  people  to  order  and  civility. — 
Dublin,  30  October  1609. 

Pp.  3.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 


Tol.  227,  149. 


Oct.  31.       511.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Privy  Council. 
ToT  '227'T49'  After  his  return  out  of  Ulster,  made  stay  upon  the  borders, 

to  countenance  and  further  the  design  for  Sweden,  wherein 
he  was  in  many  ways  engaged  and  stirred  up  to  do  his  utter- 
most. After  he  had  been  at  Carlingford  and  had  given  order 
for  the  manner  of  proceedings  in  all  other  parts  of  Ulster, 
came  hither  on  the  20th  inst.  ;  since  when  he  is  certified  that 
the  three  ships  which  attended  at  Loughfoyle  are  departed 
thence  with  800  men ;  more  than  their  full  number.  The 
other  at  Carlingford  is  now  at  length  ready  to  set  sail  with 
her  full  proportion  likewise.  She  had  been  departed  thence 
three  or  four  days  since,  but  for  a  mutiny  that  was  raised 
amongst  them,  in  which  they  took  prisoner  a  gentleman 
whom  he  (Chichester)  had  appointed  to  superintend  them,  took 
possession  of  the  ship,  slipped  the  cables,  and  let  her  run  upon 
a  shelf  with  intention  to  land  and  to  escape  away ;  but  in 
effect  a  contrary  wind  set  in,  with,  which  some  other  accidents, 
detained  them  in  the  harbour  iintil  with  forces  of  some  of  the 
next  garrisons  and  with  boats  they  were  forced  to  yield 
themselves  within  24  hours  after.  Has  given  order  to  take 
an  exemplary  punishment  of  three,  four,  five,  or  six  of  the 
chief  actors,  and  has  given  money  to  the  master  to  provide 
compasses  and  other  like  necessaries  for  navigation,  which  in 
their  drunkenness  and  fury  they  had  broken  and  spoiled. 
Further  relation  is  left  to  Sir  Thomas  Phillips  and  the  other 
London  commissioners  who  were  witnesses  of  the  events.  To 
endear  this  service  to  their  Lordships,  assures  them  that 
about  900  of  these  men  were  natives  of  Ulster,  and  such  as 
troubled  the  quiet  thereof.  For  example  to  other  parts,  he 
began  with  the  levy  out  of  Tnishowen,  from  whence  are  gone 
30  tall  fellows  of  those  that  were  in  rebellion  with  O'Dogherty ; 
the  rest  were  cessers  upon  the  Pale  (under  colour  of  being 
soldiers)  or  of  the  septs  of  the  Cavanaghtes,  Byrnes,  and 
Tooles  out  of  Low  Leinster ;  and  to  speak  generally,  they  were 


IRELAND — JAMES  I.  305 


1609. 

all  but  an  unprofitable  burden  of  the  earth,  cruel,  wild,  male- 
factors, thieves ;  and  amongst  them  all,  Oghie  Oge  O'Hanlon, 
son  and  heir  to  Sir  Oghie  ;  Arte  Oge  M'Brian,  M'Arte 
O'Neile,  Donogh  M'Quin  Oge  O'Cahane,  Donogh  O'MuUan, 
•were  most  notorious  and  principals,  as  being  those  that  have 
ever  continued  in  action  of  rebellion,  from  the  first  defec- 
tion of  O'Dogherty  until  now  that  they  were  taken  in  upon 
protection,  and  with  assurance  given  to  depart.  If  hereafter 
His  Majesty  and  his  Lordship  shall  think  fit  to  make  any 
more  such  levies  here,  it  should  be  left  to  the  Deputy  to 
appoint  the  commanders,  such  as  he  in  his  knowledge  and 
experience  of  them  shall  think  most  popular  with  this  nation, 
and  best  able  to  perform  what  is  requisite ;  for  they  will 
distaste  and  avoid  all  strange  commanders,  and  especially 
when  they  are  not  able  to  offer  them  some  token  and  pledge 
of  utility  for  going  into  a  country  so  remote,  and  of  no  good 
fame  amongst  this  nation  ;  otherwise  it  will  require  a  greater 
stir  and  compulsion  than  is  fit  to  be  often  experimented  and 
repeated. 

Has  suffered  Captain  John  Maisterson,  an  honest  servitor 
of  this  country's  birth.  Lieutenant  Sampford,  and  Aurient 
Throgniorton  (both  Enghsh  gentlemen  and  of  good  credit  and 
opinions  with  the  Irishry  of  Tyrone,  Armagh,  and  Monaghan") 
to  raise  each  of  them  companies  in  several  quarters,  and  to  go 
along  to  command  them ;  besides  these  knows  not  three  more 
of  their  nation,  of  any  quality  whatsoever,  that  have  been 
suffered  to  go  in  this  expedition.  They  have  taken  few  arms 
with  them,  and  those  such  only  as  were  their  own,  and  taken  ~ 
out  of  the  bogs  and  other  places  where  they  had  hidden  them. — 
Dublin  Castle,  31  October  1609. 
Pp.  3.    Signed. 

[Oct.]       512.        Irish  Levies  for  Swedish  Service. 

^1  227  149  A  ^^®  names  of  some  of  the  Irishry,  being  principal  men, 

who  are  bound  for  Sweden. 

Art  Oge  O'Neale. — Is  nearly  allied  in  blood  to  the  Earl  of 
Tyrone,  was  a  special  leader  with  O'Dogherty,  of  little  discre- 
tion, of  a  mutinous  and  seditious  spirit,  and  apt  to  undertake 
any  mischief 

Oghy  Oge  O'Hanlon. — Is  nephew  to  the  Earl  of  Tyrone, 
heir  to  Sir  Oghy  O'Hanlon,  lord  of  a  great  country,  has 
forfeited  his  inheritance  by  entering  into  action  of  rebellion 
with  O'Dogherty  ;  of  a  malicious,  stubborn,  mutinous  disposi- 
tion, and  without  doubt  a  traitor  in  his  heart,  and  will  be 
ready  to  undertake  any  mischief. 

These  above-named  have  in  their  companies  about  the 
number  of  fifty  persons  of  their  kinsmen  and  followers  who 
have  constantly  followed  them  in  rebellion,  and  will  doubt- 
less partake  with  them  any  villainy  their  masters  shall 
attempt,  of  whose  names  or  ways  Captain  Sandford  can  give 
information. 

3.  U 


306  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609, 

Shane  O'Quin  M'Neale. — His  father  is  a  special  favourite 
of  the  Earl  of  Tyrone's ;  himself  of  a  good  estate  at  home,  puts 
himself  into  this  employment  voluntarily,  and,  as  it  is  credibly 
reported,  to  make  his  passage  that  way  to  the  Earl,  and  to 
inform  him  with  news  from  his  friends  in  these  parts.  He 
would  be  ensign  to  Art  Oge,  but  that  is  presumed  to  be  a 
colour. 

Captain  Neale  Oge  M'Art  O'Neale. — Is  of  a  sept  of  the  Neales 
which  has  ever  been  in  opposition  to  the  Earl  and  his  sept. 
His  father  served  against  the  Earl  faithfully  in  the  times  of 
war  ;  himself  and  his  brother  were  captains  in  the  Queen's 
army  against  O'Dogherty  and  served  valiantly  the  day  he 
was  slain  ;  and  he  is  verily  believed  to  be  a  loyal  subject  to 
His  Majesty  and  likely  to  prove  a  good  and  honest  captain. 

Edmond  M'Kenna,  Densleat  M'Kenna. — These  are  brothers. 
In  times  of  peace  they  ever  lived  as  thieves  and  murderers, 
and  in  war,  notorious  rebels.  The  one  is  lieutenant,  and  the 
other  ensign,  to  Captain  Throckmorton ;  they  must  be  weU 
looked  unto,  for  there  are  not  two  such  villains  in  all  the 
regiment. 

Donnogh  M'Quin  Oge  O'Chane. — Is  one  of  the  best  of  that 
sept;  was  a  leader  with  O'Dogherty,  entirely  affected  to 
Tyrone,  of  a  disposition  apt  to  undertake  any  treasonable 
course.  All  these,  being  80  men  of  the  regiment  which  were 
raised  in  O'Cahane's  Country,  will  without  doubt  adhere  to 
him  in  any  villainy  he  shall  attempt. 

Donnell  M'Art  O'Mullan.  —  One  that  was  a  leader  in 
O'Dogherty's  rebellion,  of  special  credit  with  those  of  O'Kane's 
country  next  to  Donnagh  M'Quin,  and  a  notable  rebel. 

Shane  O'Eey ley.— This  sept  has  been  lords  of  a  great 
country,  and  this  Shane  is  the  son  of  one  of  the  best,  who 
was  a  captain  in  Queen  Elizabeth's  time,  was  slain  at  the 
battle  of  Blackwater,  fighting  valiantly  on  the  Queen's  side, 
and  has  many  friends  and  followers  behind  him  that  will  be 
willing  to  follow  him  if  they  hear  well  of  his  usage. 

Conn  M'Rorey  M'Mahoune. — A  young  man  of  good  birth, 
nephew  to  M'Mahone,  best  of  that  name,  who  is  married  to 
the  Earl  of  Tyrone's  daughter,  and  without  doubt  fixmly 
devoted  to  him. 

Pp.  3.    EnM. 

Oct.  31.      513.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
S.P.,  Ireland,  gy  ^}j^g  i3earer,  Francis  Annesley,  has  sent  over,  as  directed, 

Toi.  227, 150.  g.^  j^^^^g  O'Donnell,  Sir  Donnell  O'Cahane,  and  Naughten 

O'Donnell,  son  to  Sir  Neale,  as  Mr.  Attorney  has  direction  to 
make  known  their  crimes  and  to  declare  against  them.  Has 
delivered  to  Annesley  a  brief  discourse  how  they  have  been 
proceeded  with  since  they  first  submitted  themselves  in  the 
late  Queen's  time,  that  it  may  be  known  they  have  been 
justly  dealt  with.  If  it  be  otherwise,  it  is  better  known  to 
Sir  Henry  Docwra  than  to  him  (Chichester),  and  he  doubts  not 


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1609. 

but  they  will  say  something  there ;  but  he  has  said  the  truth 
for  them  and  his  own  proceedings  with  them. 

Sir  Neale,  as  his  Lordship  knows,  is  a  hot-spirited  and  a 
stirring  man,  uncertain  and  unreliable.  Sir  DonneU  O'Cahane 
has  ever  been  reputed  a  man  true  of  his  word,  valiant  but  in- 
active as  may  be  seen.  The  crimes  with  which  each  of  them 
is  charged  are  foul,  but  more  probable  against  Sir  Neale  than 
the  other.  The  boy  has  more  wit  than  either  of  them.  He 
is  a  prettier  scholar,  apt  to  learn  and  desirous  to  be  put  to  the 
University ;  he  was  kept  at  Oxford  by  the  Earl  of  Devonshire, 
and  since  the  Earl's  death  he  (Chichester)  has  kept  him  at 
the  college  near  this  city.  He  has  done  no  harm,  neither  is 
he  charged  with  any,  but  is  as  proud  spirited  as  his  father. 
Thought  it  his  duty  to  let  his  Lordship  know  this  much,  and 
the  other  particulars  of  their  accusation  shall  follow  with  the 
King's  Attorney. 

His  Lordship's  of  the  18th  inst.  arrived  on  the  22nd  in  the 
morning,  which  was  the  speediest  passage  he  has  observed.  Is 
glad  his  letters  of  the  18th  of  the  last  gave  satisfaction.  Im- 
parted them  to  Mr.  Treasurer,  being  directed  to  them  both,  and 
must  leave  it  to  him  to  give  an  account  and  satisfa'ction  in 
money  matters.  Are  in  great  need  of  money ;  for  this  summer's 
journey,  in  which  they  were  driven  to  employ  sundry  men 
upon  extraordinary  pay,  and  the  Sweden  dispatch  in  which 
ready  money  was  for  the  most  part  used,  have  taken  up  much 
sent  for  ordinary  payments,  which  he  recommends  to  his 
Lordship's  consideration. 

Has  not  hitherto  made  any  allowance  to  himself  for  travel- 
ling charges,  but  by  direction  under  the  King's  hand,  which 
his  Lordship  has  been  pleased  to  procure  him.  Will  not  now 
begin,  but  prays  his  favour  for  a  letter  of  warranty  such  as 
heretofore  he  has  had. — Dublin  Castle,  31  October  1609. 

Pp.  4.     Add.    Endd. 

[Oct.]        514.        Case  of  Sir  Neal  Garve  O'Donnell. 

vo1."^22W5o'a.  ^^   stands  indicted  of  sundry  treasons ;    and  his  indict- 

ment consists  of  two  principal  parts  : — 

1.  That  he  moved  and  incited  the  late  traitor  O'Doo-h- 
erty  to  enter  into  rebellion,  and  that  he  laid  the  plot  of 
taking  the  fort  of  Culmore,  and  of  sacking  and  burnince 
the  Derry. 

2.  That,  O'Dogherty  being  in  actual  rebellion,  and  Sir 
Neale  Garve  having  been  received  into  the  King's  army 
as  a  captain,  became  a  traitor  in  three  points,  viz. :  (1).  In 
betraying  the  counsels  of  the  army  to  O'Dogherty.  (2.) 
In  giving  O'Dogherty  counsel  and  advice  how  to 'decline 
the  King's  forces.  (3.)  In  giving  him  comfort  and 
encouragement  to  persist  in  his  rebellion. 

1.  That  he  moved  O'Dogherty  to  enter  into  rebellion  and 
to  sack  and  burn  the  Derry,  is  directly  proved  by  eight 
several  witnesses,  viz. : — 

u  2 


308  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

1.  Phelim  Reaugh  [M'Devitt],  O'Dogherfcy's  chief  follower 
and  counsellor,  examined  by  Mr.  Marshal,  3  August 
1608. 

1.  That  two  days  before  the  burning  of  the  Derry,  O'Dogh- 
erty  came  to  Sir  Neale  O'Donnel  at  Castle  Finn,  where  they 
held  a  council  touching  the  surprise  of  the  Derry.  That  Sir 
Neale 'encouraged  O'Dogherty  to  that  enterprise,  and  that, 
whereas  O'Dogherty  only  purposed  to  take  the  King's  muni- 
tion and  spoil  the  town.  Sir  Neale  advised  him  to  burn  the 
town  and  massacre  the  people.  2.  That  after  the  sacking  and 
burning  of  the  town,  Sir  Neale  sent  twice  for  his  share'of  the 
spoil.  3.  That  he  promised  O'Dogherty  that  he  himself  would 
surprise  the  forts  of  Differ  and  Ballishannon. 

Phelim  Reaugh  examined  before  the  Lord  Deputy,  8 
August  1608. 
1.  That  Sir  Neale  sent  16  of  his  own  men  to  assist  O'Dogh- 
erty in  the  taking  and  burning   of  the  Derry.       2.  That 
O'Dogherty  promised  to   send    Sir   Neale  all   the  prisoners 
that  he  should  take. 

2.  James  Ballagh  M' Allen,  a  principal  follower  of  O'Dogh- 
erty, examined  10  September  1608. 

That  upon  the  Friday  before  the  burning  of  the  Derry, 
he  himself  was  sent  by  O'Dogherty  to  Sir  Neale  with  letters 
and  a  message  ;  thereupon  he  sent  for  certain  woodkerne  among 
whom  Dwaltagh  M'Gillduffe  was  chief;  and  when  they  were 
come  unto  him,  told  this  examinate,  "Here  are  the  men 
ready  to  go  with  you,  and  this  counsel  I  give  your  master ; 
let  him  divide  his  men  into  three  parts,  one  in  the  market 
place,  one  in  the  upper  fort,  and  the  third  in  the  lower  fort ; 
and  in  any  case  let  him  not  fail  to  take  the  storehouse ;  and 
being  entered  into  the  business,  let  him  spare  no  man."  He 
advised  further  that  as  soon  as  O'Dogherty  was  possessed  of 
the  Derry,  he  should  send  away  some  soldiers  to  take  the 
Differ,  and  that  Sir  Neale  himself  would  go  over  the  mountains 
to  betray  Sir  Henry  Folliot,  and  take  Ballishannon. 

3.  Dwaltagh  M'GilldufFe,  a  principal  follower  of  Sir 
Neale,  and  foster  father  to  his  son,  examined  by  the 
Lord  Deputy,  8  March  1608[9]. 

That  he  being  upon  his  keeping  with  other  woodkerne. 
Sir  Neale  sent  for  him,  and  told  him  of  the  plot  which  he  had 
laid  with  O'Dogherty  for  burning  the  Derry,  and  persuaded 
this  examinate  to  go  and  assist  O'Dogherty  ;  which  he 
did,  and  was  with  O'Dogherty  when  he  took  the  Derry. 
That  after  the  sacking  of  the  Derry,  Sir  Neale  sent  a  priest 
and  one  other  to  O'Dogherty  for  his  part  of  the  spoil,  which 
by  agreement  was  the  one  half  of  all  that  should  be  gotten ; 
but  when  they  saw  it  was  but  small,  they  refused  it,  and  said 
Sir  Neale  scorned  it,  the  rather  because  O'Dogherty  would  not 
yield  him  a  share  of  the  arms. 


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1609. 


4.  Korie  O'Dogherty,  brother  to  Sir  Cahir  O'Dogherty, 
examined  26  March  1609. 

That  he  heard  his  sister  Margaret,  wife  to  young  O'Hanlon, 
and  O'Molarky,  the  priest,  say,  that  before  the  burning  of  the 
Derry  Sir  Neale  told  Sir  Cahir  O'Dogherty,  that  if  he  went 
to  Dublin  he  should  lose  his  head,  and  therefore  advised  him 
to  be  a  rebel ;  and  promised  that  he  would  give  him  assistance, 
and  thereupon  told  him  of  the  plot  he  had  conceived  touching 
the  burning  of  the  DeiTy  and  taking  of  the  Liffer  and 
Ballishannon. 

5.  Phelim  Dogherty,  a  monk,  examined  22  June  1608. 

That  O'Dogherty,  before  the  burning  of  the  Derry,  sent 
James  Ballagh  M' Allen  to  Sir  Neale  for  the  men  whom  he 
promised  for  his  assistance ;  that  after  the  sacking  of  the 
Derry,  this  monk  wrote  a  letter  by  O'Dogherty 's  direction 
unto  Sir  Neale,  signifying  his  success ;  that  afterwards  Sir 
Neale  sent  a  priest  and  another  for  his  share  of  the  spoil,  who 
took  a  note  of  the  principal  things  of  value. 

6.  Margaret  O'Dogherty,  sister  to  Sir  Cahir  O'Dogherty, 
examined  2  March  1608[9]. 

That  she  heard  her  brother  Sir  Cahir  often  say,  that  Sir 
Neale  Garve  was  the  cause  that  he  entered  into  rebellion,  and 
that  she  knew  that  divers  messages  and  letters  passed  betwixt 
them  not  long  before  the  burning  of  the  Derry. 

7.  Jo.  Lineal,  whom  Sir  Neale  used  as  his  secretary, 
examined  15  June  1608. 

That  after  the  burning  of  the  Derry  Sir  Neale  O'Donnell 
was  upon  his  keeping,  and  did  not  like  of  any  protection  sent 
him,  nor  of  any  promises  made  unto  him  by  the  Lord 
Deputy's  letters,  but  protested  he  would  never  come  in,  if  he 
might  not  have  his  will  for  the  country  of  Tyrconnell,  with 
a  general  pardon  for  himself  and  his  followers  without  any 
proviso  ;  and  that  if  he  went  out  into  rebellion,  he  was  sure 
that  there  was  not  one  man  in  the  north,  or  in  the  most  part 
of  Connaught,  but  would  join  with  him  ;  and  that  they  did 
but  stay  to  see  what  course  he  would  take. 

8.  The  Lady  O'Dogherty,  Sir  Cahir  O'Dogherty's  wife, 
examined  1  July  1608. 

She  verily  believes  that  Sir  Neale  joined  with  her  husband 
in  the  whole  plot  of  rebellion,  and  she  knows  that  after 
the  burning  of  the  Derry  divers  messages  passed  betwixt 
them  ;  and  she  affirmed  to  Sir  Neale  himself,  in  the  pre- 
sence of  Mr.  Treasurer,  that  Sir  Neale  sent  to  Culmore  for  his 
share  of  the  spoil. 

All  which  treasons  above  mentioned  were  committed  by 
Sir  Neale  Garve  O'Donnell  before  he  received  a  protection 
from  Mr.  Marshall. 


310  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

2.  That  Sir  Neale  O'Donnell,  after  he  had  received  a 
protection  from  Mr.  Marshal,  and  was  come  into  the 
camp  and  made  one  of  His  Majesty's  captains  in  the 
army,— 

1.  Did  betray  the  counsels  of  the  army  to  O'Dogherty. 
2.  Did  give  O'Dogherty  counsel  and  advice  how  to  avoid  the 
King's  forces.  _  3.  Did  give  him  comfort  and  encouragement 
to  persist  in  his  rebellion. 

These  three  points  are  also  proved  by  eight  several  wit- 
nesses examined  at  several  times,  and  discovering  divers 
messages  sent  by  sundry  messengers  from  Sir  Neale  to 
O'Dogherty. 

1.  Dwaltagh  M'Gillduffe,  Sir  Neale's  follower,  and  prin- 
cipal actor  -with  O'Dogherty  in  his  rebellion  till  his 
death,  his  confession  before  the  Lord  Deputy,  8  March 
1608[9]. 

That,  after  Sir  Neale  had  been  with  Mr.  Marshal,  he  sent 
one  Hugh  M'Cormick  unto  O'Dogherty  (which  Hugh  was 
servant  to  this  examinate)  with  a  message  to  this  effect, — that 
they  should  disperse  their  creaghts  or  herds  of  cattle,  for  the 
Marshal  was  coming  upon  them  with  the  army ;  but  that 
they  should  themselves  stay  and  make  good  the  Glynnes ;  for 
hat,  if  the  goods  were  dispersed,  the  army  woiJd  never  attempt 
them. 

By  another  message  sent  by  the  same  man,  he  willed  them 
to  be  of  good  comfort,  for  he  was  sure  unto  them. 

Afterwards,  O'Dogherty  being  beaten  out  of  Glanvagh, 
sent  Brian  Ballagh  O'MuUarky  unto  Sir  Neale,  to  know 
whether  he  were  sure  unto  him,  as  his  message  imported ;  he 
returned  answer,  that  he  was,  and  would  join  with  him  if  he 
had  arms  for  his  men.  "  But,"  said  he."  Sir  Cahir  has  deceived 
me  of  the  arms  he  promised,  and  now  yet  must  stay  till  I  can 
get  arms  fi-om  the  Marshal,  which  I  expect  to  receive  out  of 
the  King's  store." 

2.  Teig  O'Carvell,  examined  6  October  1608. 

The  night  before  O'Dogherty  fled  out  of  Glanvagh,  one 
Hugh  M'Cormick  came  from  Sir  Neale  to  O'Dogherty  with 
this  message,  that  the  next  morning  the  Marshal,  then  lying 
in  camp  at  Loughvagh,  intended  to  give  upon  him  with  His 
Majesty's  forces  in  three  several  places  ;  and  therefore  he 
advised  him  to  be  gone  with  his  creaghts  and  kerne  out  of 
the  Glynne  ;  whereupon  O'Dogherty  gave  present  order,  that 
his  creaghts  should  be  dispersed  and  should  go  to  Sir  Neale, 
giving  forth  that  Sir  Neale  had  order  to  protect  them ;  and 
O'Dogherty  himself  and  his  kerne  the  next  day  left  the  said 
fastness. 

3.  Brien  O'Harkan,  examined  1  June  1609. 

That  the  day  before  Mr.  Marshal  purposed  to  give  on  upon 
O'Dogherty  in  Glanvagh,  there  came  a  messenger  late  in  the 


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1609. 


evening  from  Sir  Neale  Garve  to  O'Dogherty  with  intelligence 
sent  by  Sir  Neale,  that  the  next  morning  the  Marshal  in- 
tended to  give  on  upon  the  saidtraitor,  wishing  him  to  pro- 
vide in  time  for  himself  The  messenger  was  Hugh  M'Cormick, 
who  was  brought  to  O'Dogherty  by  Dwaltagh  M'Gillduffe, 
and  by  him  conveyed  out  of  the  camp  again  ;  and  that  there- 
upon after  the  night  was  shut  in,  O'Dogherty  gave  order  for 
dispatching  his  creaghts.  This  examinate  was  present,  and 
saw  and  heard  all  that  he  hath  deposed. 

4.  Makenhy  (sic)  O'Moriscm. 

Deposeth  the  same  in  effect  vivd  voce,  at  the  arraignment  of 
Sir  Neale  O'Donnell. 

The  four  witnesses  last  above  named  were  all  brought  in  to 
give  evidence  vi/vd  voce  at  Sir  Neale's  arraingment,  who  main- 
tained the  premises  to  be  true  in  substance,  with  many 
circumstances  which  are  omitted  in  their  examinations. 

5.  Phelim  Eeaugh,  examined  before  the  Lord  Deputy, 
8  August  1608. 

That  immediately  upon  Sir  Neale's  submission,  he  sent  two 
men  to  Sir  Cahir  O'Dogherty's  camp  with  a  message  that  he 
should  be  of  good  courage,  for  the  Marshal's  forces  were  very 
weak. 

That,  the  same  day  on  which  the  King's  forces  were  to  go  to 
Glanvagh,  Sir  Neale  sent  two  of  his  horsemen  on  foot  to 
O'Dogherty  to  a  hill  between  Loghvagh  and  Glanvagh,  who 
told  him  that  the  Marshal  was  coming  and  was  too  strong  for 
him,  and  therefore  advised  him  to  shift  away ;  and  that  the 
night  before,  Sir  Neale  sent  two  men  to  Glanvagh,  wishing 
O'Dogherty  to  shift  away  his  creaghts. 

Phelim  Keaugh,  examined  before  Mr.  Marshal,  3  August 
1608. 

That  immediately  after  Sir  Neale  had  been  with  Mr.  Mar- 
shal at  Killadonnell,  he  sent  a  message  to  O'Dogherty,  willing 
him  to  be  of  good  comfort  for  the  Marshal  was  but  weak, 
and  that  he  himself  would  join  with  O'Dogherty. 

And  that  when  O'Dogherty  was  in  Glanvagh,  Sir  Neale 
sent  unto  him  Shane  OgejM'Brien  Ivallie  and  Donogh  M'Gille- 
glasse,  advising  him  to  disperse  his  creaghts,  for  the  army  had 
a  purpose  to  set  upon  him. 

6.  Shane  Oge  M'Brien  Ivallie,  examined  by  the  Marshal, 
12  August  1608. 

That  when  the  Marshal  lay  at  Loughvagh,  Sir  Neale  sent 
Donogh  M'Gilleglasse  with  a  message,  and  this  examinate  as 
his  guide,  unto  O'Dogherty,  then  being  in  Glanvagh,  where 
Donogh  had  secret  conference  with  O'Dogherty,  and  that 
instantly  after  their  conference,  O'Dogherty  dispersed  his 
creaghts. 


312  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

7.  Donell  O'Dogherty,  base  brother  to  the  rebel  Sir 
Cahir ;  his  voluntary  confession,  sent  by  him  under 
his  hand  to  the  Lord  Deputy. 

That  Sir  Neale  sent  his  cupbearer  and  another  horseman 
unto  Sir  Cahir,  advising  him  to  leave  the  Glynne,  for  that 
the  English  forces  were  coming  upon  him. 

Sir  Neale  also  sent  word  to  O'Dogherty  that  he  did  but 
stay  to  have  some  pieces  from  the  English,  which,  when  he 
had  gotten,  he  would  come  to  Sir  Cahir. 

8.  Brien  O'Quynn,  examined  before  the  Lord  Deputy, 
8  August  1608. 

That  Sir  Neal,  after  he  came  in  to  the  Marshal,  sent  two 
several  messengers  to  O'Dogherty,  advising  him  to  shift  away 
his  creaghts  ;  the  messengers  were  Patrick  O'Galchor  [O'Gal- 
lagher]  and  Ferall  M'Donell  M'Mulcata. 

And  that  he  sent  a  message  to  O'Dogherty  by  Donogh 
M'Gilleglasse  and  Shane  Oge  M'Brien  Ivally,  that,  as  soon  as 
he  could  get  arms  from  His  Majesty's  store,  he  would  leave 
the  Marshal  and  join  with  O'Dogherty. 

These  treasons  only  which  are  laid  in  the  second  part  of 
the  indictment  were  committed  by  Sir  Neale  after  he  received 
his  protection  from  Mr.  Marshal;  but  because  there  is  a 
limitation  in  every  protection  that  the  party  protected  shall 
enjoy  the  benefit  thereof  as  long  as  he  behaveth  himself  as  a 
good  and  loyal  subject,  and  no  longer ; — therefore  by  these 
later  treasons  he  liath  broken  his  protection  and  lost  the 
benefit  of  it ;  so  that  now  he  standeth  chargeable  with  all  the 
treasons  laid  in  the  first  part  of  the  indictment,  namely,  the 
moving  and  inciting  of  O'Dogherty  to  enter  into  rebellion, 
and  the  sacking  and  burning  of  the  Derry,  &c. 

The  state  of  the  cause  touching  Sir  Donell  O'Chane. 

The  points  of  treason  wherewith  he  standeth  charged  are 
in  number  six. 

1.  He  moved  and  procured  Shane  Carragh  O'Chane,  his 
brother,  to  enter  into  actual  rebellion. 

2.  He  gave  direction  to  Shane  Carragh,  being  in  actual 
rebellion,  to  commit  divers  robberies  and  murders,  and  to  take 
prisoners,  which  Shane  Carragh  did  accordingly,  and  sent  such 
prisoners  as  they  took  to  Sir  Donell  O'Cahane. 

3.  He  relieved  Shane  Carragh  and  his  followers,  being  in 
actual  rebellion,  by  receiving  them  into  his  house  and  partici- 
pating of  their  spoils. 

4.  That  he  adhered  to  the  traitor  Tyrone  after  he  had  com- 
mitted the  treasons  whereof  he  is  now  lately  outlawed  and 
attainted ;  and  that  he  purposed  to  have  departed  with 
Tyrone  and  to  join  with  him  if  he  had  returned  with  foreign 
forces. 


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5.  That  he  sent  a  messenger  to  the  Baron  of  Delvin  after 
he  was  escaped  out  of  the  Castle  of  Dublin,  with  a  message 
that  he  would  join  with  him  in  action  of  rebellion. 

6.  That  he  sent  divers  messages  to  Brian  M'Arte's  son, 
Ferdorogh  M'Owen's  sons,  named  Gillaspecke  and  Randall, 
being  then  in  actual  rebellion,  promising  that  he  would  join 
with  them  and  assist  them. 

These  points  are  proved  by  sundry  witnesses. 

The  first  point  is  proved  by — 

Shane  Carragh  O'Chane,  his  voluntary  confession  before 
the  Lord  Deputy,  14  March  1607[8]. 

That  tliere  had  been  some  difference  between  Sir  Donell 
O'Chane  and  this  examinate,  but  about  Christmas,  after 
Tyrone's  departure,  Sir  Donell  sent  for  him  and  desired  him 
to  be  friends  and  to  run  his  courses,  promising  him  a  balli- 
betogh  of  land  free,  whereunto  this  examinate  assented;  then 
he  willed  this  examinate  to  get  as  many  men  as  he  could, 
with  arms,  to  strengthen  himself  against  the  return  of  Tyrone, 
and  that  in  the  meantime  he  should  be  upon  his  keeping. 

Gilliduffe  O'JMellan's  confession,  15  March  1607[S]. 

That,  Sir  Donell  O'Chane  and  Shane  Carragh,  his  brother, 
being  enemies.  Sir  Donell  O'Chane  sent  for  Shane  Carragh 
and  promised  him  that,  if  he  would  join  with  him  in  war  or 
peace,  he  would  give'him  a  ballibetogh  of  land,  advising  him 
that  he  should  gather  together  as  many  idle  men  as  he  could 
and  arm  them,  and  take  meat  and  drink  up  and  down  the 
country,  and  so  continue  in  arms  till  they  could,  take  some 
good  pledges,  namely,  the  Bishop  of  Derry,  Sir  George  Pawlett, 
or  Sir  Thomas  Phillips,  who  should  be  kept  prisoners  till  they 
had  made  their  peace  or  at  least  procured  liberty  for  himself 
and  his  followers  not  to  come  to  any  sessions,  till  aid  came  out 
of  Spain  by  the  coming  of  Tyrone  or  otherwise. 

Hereupon  Shane  Carragh  entered  into  actual  rebellion,  and 
was  afterwards  taken  and  executed. 

2.  The  second  point  is  directly  proved  by — 

Shane  Carragh  and  Gilliduffe  O'Mellan  in  their  said 
confessions.  Aveny  O'Chane  examined  29  June  1609. 
Patrick  O'Donelly  examined  loth  February  1607[8]. 

That  after  Sir  Donell  O'Chane  had  moved  Shane  Carraoli 
to  draw  idle  men  with  arms  unto  him  and  to  stand  upon  his 
keeping,  he  sent  two  of  his  followers  to  Shane  Carragh,  willino- 
him  to  do  all  the  mischief  he  could  to  one  Patrick  Roe 
O'Donnelly,  and  to  take  off  his  head.  Whereupon  Shane 
Carragh  and  his  followers  took  certain  mantles  and  aquavitse 
being  the  goods  of  the  said  Patrick,  which  they  found  in  the 
house  of  one  Jo.  Rosse,  but  found  not  Patrick  himself.  The 
goods  and  aquavitse  they  carried  to  Sir  Donnell  O'Chane's 


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house,  where  they  were  received.  But  Sir  Donell  O'Chane 
was  displeased  with  them  because  they  had  performed  no 
greater  matter,  for  he  would  have  had  them  to  take  the 
Bishop  of  Derry  or  Sir  Thomas  Phillips  prisoners. 

3.  The  third  point  is  proved  by — 

Aveny  O'Chane  and  Dermot  O'Chane,  examined  29  June 
1607.  Gilliduffe  O'MeUan,  examined  15  March  1607. 
Manus  O'Chane,  brother  to  Sir  Donell  O'Chane 
examined  8  November  1608. 

That  upon  Christmas  day  after  Tyrone's  departure  Shane 
Carragh,  being  upon  his  keeping  without  pardon  or  protection, 
Sir  Donell  O'Chane  sent  for  him  to  his  house,  who  came 
accordingly  with  some  of  his  followers.  Shane  Carragh  re- 
mained with  Sir  Donell  all  that  night,  and  four  of  his  followers 
were  sent  by  O'Chane  and  Shane  Carragh  to  take  away  certain 
arms  from  one  Patrick  Clabb. 

That  these  examinates,  with  others,  being  followers  of  Shane 
Carragh  and  upon  their  keeping,  the  next  day  after  sent  to 
Sir  Donell  O'Chane  to  speak  with  them  in  a  wood  where  they 
lay  all  night,  who  came  to  them  accordingly  and  carried  them 
home.  That  after  Shane  Carragh  and  his  woodkerne  had 
taken  Patrick  Roe  O'Connelly's  goods,  they  went  all  to  Sir 
Donell  O'Chane's  house,  and  were  received  by  them  and  then 
made  a  new  combination  to  be  sure  to  Sir  Donell  in  war  and 
peace.  That  he  was  daily  told  by  Sir  Donell  O'Chane's  ser- 
vants and  all  the  country  that  Sir  Donell  maintained  Shane 
Carragh  in  his  rebellion,  and  received  him  and  his  crew  and 
spoils  into  his  house. 

4.  The  fourth  point  is  proved  by — 

Manus  O'Chane,  brother  to  Sir  Donell  O'Chane,  examined 
8  November  1608. 

That  albeit  Sir  Donell  O'Chane  and  Tyrone  seemed  to  be 
enemies,  yet  at  the  last  sessions  holden  at  Dungannon  before 
Tyrone's  departure,  as  soon  as  the  commissioners  were  gone, 
he  saw  Tyrone,  O'Chane,  and  one  Shane  O'MuUan,  a  friar,  in 
private  conference  together,  after  which  time  they  were  good 
friends.  And  that  upon  that  very  day,  when  the  Earl  took 
shipping,  this  examinate  met  Sir  Donell  O'Chane  early  in  the 
morning  riding  in  post  haste  towards  Culmore,  where  he 
desired  to  pass  over  the  river,  but  could  not  by  reason  of  the 
absence  of  the  ferryman.  And  he  was  then  told  by  one  of 
Sir  Donell  O'Chane's  servants  that  Sir  Donell  had  that  night 
late  received  letters  from  Tyrone. 

This  point  is  confirmed  by  the   letters  of  Sir  George 
Pawlett  and  the  Lord  Bishop  of  Derrie. 

That  this  examinate,  meeting  with  Sir  Donell  O'Chane  after 
he  had  refused  to  come  to  His  Majesty's  commissioners,  being 
often  sent  for,  told  him  he  did  not  well,  and  wished  him  to  be 


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better  advised ;  whereunto  Sir  Donell  answered  that  he  would 
come  to  no  Englishman  till  May-day  was  past,  which  was  the 
day  affixed  by  Tyrone  for  his  return. 

Shane  Carragh,  examined  14  March  1607. 

That  Sir  Donell  O'Chane  never  meant  to  come  to  the  Lord 
Deputy  nor  any  of  the  King's  officers  till  May-day  were  past, 
which  speeches  he  heard  him  utter  very  often. 

Denis  O'Mullan,  examined  15  February  1607. 

That  the  night  before  Tyrone's  departure  out  of  Ireland 
O'Chane  said  to  his  smith  he  would  give  40^.  his  horse  were 
shod  ;  that  O'Chane  that  night  received  letters  from  Tyi'one, 
willing  him  to  meet  him  the  next  day ;  and  that  the  general 
voice  in  the  country  was  that  O'Chane  rode  to  the  ferry  at 
Culmore  to  pass  over  and  to  go  with  Tyrone. 

Hugh  Duff  O'Mullan,  examined  15  February  1607. 

That  this  examinate  having  obtained  a  warrant  dii-ected  to 
Sir  Donell  to  appear  before  His  Majesty's  commissioners  to 
answer  a  bill  offered  against  him,  came  to  Sir  Donell  and 
showed  him  the  warrant ;  to  whom  he  answered  he  would 
not  go  to  any  English  officer  tiU  May-day  were  past. 

5.  The  fifth  point  is  proved  by — 

Aveny  O'Chane,  examined  19  June  1609.      Gilliduffe 
O'Mullan,  examined  26  June  1609. 

That  the  Baron  of  Delvin  being  escaped  out  of  the  Castle 
ol  Dublin,  Sir  Donell  O'Chane  took  a  mantle  from  one  of  his 
followers,  and  gave  the  same  to  one  Donogh  O'Chane,  and 
thereupon  sent  him  with  a  message  to,  the  Baron  of  Delvin, 
to  this  effect, — that  he  desired  to  know  what  course  the  Baron 
would  hold,  and  that  he  would  join  with  him. 

This  message  was  sent  by  O'Chane  when  he  was  upon  his 
keeping  and  refused  to  come  to  His  Majesty's  commissioners, 
but  the  message  could  not  be  delivered  because  the  Baron  hid 
himself. 

6.  The  sixth  point  is  proved  by — 

Aveny  O'Chane,  examined   29  June  1609.      GiUiduffe 
O'Mellan,  examined  29  June  1609. 

That  Sir  Donell  O'Chane  sent  this  examinate  and  his  brother 
to  Brien  M'Arte's  son,  being  in  actual  rebellion  in  Tyrone, 
with  a  message  that  he  should  come  unto  Sir  Donell,  and  that 
Sir  Donell  would  give  him  bonnaght  upon  his  country  if  he 
would  come  and  do  what  he  would  direct  him  ;  and  willed 
the  said  Brian  M'Ai-te's  son  to  give  order  unto  two  Irish 
smiths  in  Killetragh  to  make  120  pikes  and  to  send  them 
unto  him,  for  which  he  would  make  payment  in  money  or 
cows. 


316  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

Dermot  O'Chane,  examined  29  June  1609. 

That  -when  Sir  Donell  O'Chane  was  coming  up  to  Dublin 
he  met  Brieu  M'Arte's  son,  being  then  in  rebellion,  upon  the 
way,  and  talked  with  him. 

Manus  O'Chane's  letter  to  Sir  George  Pawlett,  27  De- 
cember 1607. 
That  Sir  Donell  O'Chane  did  at  that  time  combine  himself 
with  the  rebels  named  in  this  article. 
Pf.  9. 

Oct.  [    ].     515.        Earls  of  Salisbury  and  Nottingham  to  the  Lord 

S.P.,  Ireland,  DEPUTY. 

'"  ■      '   ■  ■  Direct  him  to  procure  some  person  to  undertake  the  vic- 

tualling of  the  ships  in   Ireland,  at  the  same  rates  as  Sir 
Marmaduke  Darrell  and  Sir  Thomas  Bludder  contract  to  do 
it  in  England. — Hampton  Court,  [     ]  October  1609. 
Pp.  2.     Signed. 

[Oct.]        516.        Instructions  for  the  Survey  of  the  Derry  Planta- 

S.P.,  Ireland,  TION. 

^°  ■  ^    '      ■  Instructions  by  the  City  of  London  to  their  agents  appointed 

for  survey  of  some  fit  part  of  Ulster  for  a  plantation,  par- 
ticularly the  Derry  and  adjacent  country,  with  the  report  of 
the  said  agents  at  their  return : — 

The  viewers  are  required  to  survey  what  place  is  fittest  to 
plant ;  to  make  a  platt  or  map  thereof ;  to  report  on  its  natural 
benefits  and  commodities,  the  nature  of  the  soil,  whether  it 
will  afford  great  quantity  of  fells,  viz.,  red  deer,  foxes,  sheep, 
lamb,  coney,  martin,  squirrels  ;  whether 'also  hemp  and  flax ; 
materials  for  building,  and  for  building  of  ships ;  on  the 
timber  in  the  woods  of  Glankankayne  and  KiUatrough,  and 
what  length  and  breadth  ;  on  the  sorts  of  wood  for  soap  ashes 
and  dyeing  ashes,  and  for  glass,  iron,  and  copper  ore ;  on 
other  sorts  of  wood,  as  pipe  staves,  hogshead  staves,  hoop 
staves,  clapboard  staves,  wainscot,  and  such  like  ;  on  the  com- 
modities of  the  sea  and  river,  and  the  depth  of  the  harbour ; 
how  near  to  the  Derry  the  road  of  Portrush  and  Loughswilly 
is,  and  what  kind  of  road  it  is  ;  the  sea  fishing ;  the  store  of 
train  oil,  of  seals  or  other  fish  ;  the  sea-fowl ;  the  store  of  fish 
in  the  rivers  ;  whether  there  be  any  store  of  pearls  upon  the 
coast,  especially  within  the  river  of  Loughfoyle,  and  of  what 
value  ;  the  fitness  of  the  coast  for  traffic  with  England  and 
Scotland,  and  for  supply  of  provision  from  and  to  them ; 
and  whether  it  lies  open  and  convenient  for  Spain  and  the 
Straits,  and  fittest  and  nearest  for  Newfoundland. 

The  answer  returned  by  the  viewers  who  have  lately 

been  at  the  Derry  in  Ireland,  to  the  several  instructions 

and  directions  to  them  given  concerning  the  intended 

plantation  there  to  be  made :  — 

For  situation  whereon  to  inhabit  and  plant,  they  conceive 

none  more  fitting  than  the  Derry,  being  the  likeliest  place  for 


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safety  of  the  inhabitants ;  a  very  commodious  harbour  for  all 
sorts  of  shipping,  lying  also  convenient  for  transportation  of 
all  land  commodities. 

For  the  other,  the  abbey  of  Colrayne  is  the  fittest,  as  -well 
in  respect  of  the  natural  condition  of  the  place  for  defensive 
fortification,  as  also  for  the  goodness  of  the  air  and  the  fruit- 
fulness  of  the  lands  adjacent. 

The  places  are  sufficiently  furnished  with  springs,  brooks, 
and  rivers,  and  sundry  shrubby  wood  grounds,  but  much 
wasted,  and  plenty  of  good  and  wholesome  turf  to  supply  the 
want  of  other  fuel. 

The  said  country  is  most  fit  for  breeding  of  all  kind  of 
cattle,  as  horses,  mares,  kine,  goats,  sheep,  hogs,  &c.,  the  kine 
as  fair  and  likely  as  the  ordinary  cattle  of  England.  Swine 
are  there  both  plentifully  bred  and  fed.  The  land  is  apt  for 
all  kind  of  husbandry,  and  where  it  is  well  manured  yields 
increase  answerable  to  the  ordinary  sort  of  lands  in  England, 
will  produce  store  of  butter,  cheese,  tallow,  hides,  all  sorts  of 
grain,  as  wheat,  barley,  beare,  oats,  &c.  and  also  of  madder,  hops, 
wood,  coal,  rape,  hemp,  flax,  &c.  There  is  store  also  of  red  deer, 
foxes,  sheep,  lambs,  conies,  martins,  otters,  squirrels,  &c.,  the 
prices  of  each  being,  viz.,  red  deer  at  2s.,  foxes,  2Qd.,  sheep 
fells  at  4<d.,  martins  and  otters  at  4s.  per  piece,  lamb,  coney,  and 
squirrels  of  small  or  no  value. 

In  the  woods  of  Glankankayn  and  Killatrough  are  great 
store  of  goodly  oaks,  fit  for  all  manner  of  building,  ash 
also,  with  elm  of  great  bigness.  The  country  in  every  place 
is  plentiful  of  stone,  apt  for  any  uses  ;  clay  and  sand  in  divers 
places  thereof  for  'making  brick  and  tile ;  limestone  is  there 
also  in  great  abundance,  and  in  the  river  of  Loughfoyle  great 
and  plentiful  shoals  or  sheaves  whereof  the  inhabitants  for 
the  more  easy  charge  make  a  sort  of  good  lime.  There  is 
also  a  sort  of  slate,  but  not  very  good  nor  plentiful,  and  there- 
fore the  inhabitants  easily  supply  themselves  with  an  excellent 
sort  of  that  material  out  of  the  isles  of  Scotland,  the  coasts  of 
Wales,  and  the  Isle  of  Man. 

Of  timber  for  shipping  or  for  any  other  building,  the  woods 
of  Glankankayn  and  Killatrough  afford  great  plenty,  as  also 
good  store  of  pipe,  hogshead,  and  barrel  staves,  clapboard  and 
hoops.  For  soap-ashes,  &c.,  it  is  likely  there  may  be  store 
made,  but  they  conceive  the  woods  may  be  converted  to 
better  use.     Soap-ashes  have  been  and  are  daily  made. 

Of  minerals  there  is  no  certainty,  except  of  iron  ore,  and 
of  that  in  sundry  places  some  four  miles  from  the  main 
woods,  and  in  the  mountains  of  Slewgallen  further  distant 
yet  not  far  from  the  river  Mayola  which  divides  the  woods 
of  Glenkankeyn  and  KiUetrough. 

The  harbour  of  the  Derry  is  a  most  commodious  harbour, 
safe  and  convenient  for  aU  sorts  of  shipping.    Portrush  is  dis- 


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1609. 

tant  from  thence  12  miles,  and  Loughswilly  30  miles.  Port- 
rush  is  a  sufficient  road  for  the  summer  time  and  not  so  safe 
in  the  winter,  lying  open  to  the  north-east  wind.  Lough- 
swilly is  a  tolerable  harbour,  being  subject  to  the  north  winds 
only,  which  overblowing  there  is  safety  notwithstanding, 
running  further  into  the  land. 

It  is  likely  upon  the  said  coast,  store  of  cod,  ling,  skate,  and 
other  fish  might  easily  be  taken,  if  they  were  as  diligently 
sought  for  as  elsewhere ;  but  as  they  find  none  through  the 
whole  country  pliant  for  fishing,  they  cannot  certainly  make 
report  thereof;  but  it  is  certain  that  infinite  store  of  cods, 
herrings,  &c.,  are  there,  and  upon  the  near  adjacent  islands  of 
Scotland,  yearly  taken  by  Scots,  Flemings,  and  French,  whereof 
they  learn  there  are  200  sail  many  times  together. 

Find  great  store  of  seals,  whereof  the  inhabitants  complain 
exceedingly,  supposing  that  they  are  much  hindrance  to  their 
herring  , fishing,  which,  if  they  could  be  taken,  would  yield 
plenty  of  train  oil. 

Sea  fowl  are  found  in  great  abundance,  swan,  goose,  bar- 
nacles, godwite,  plovers,  duck,  mallard,  fee,  being  thereof  so 
great  plenty  as  it  is  almost  incredible  to  be  reported. 

In  the  rivers  of  Loughfoyle  and  Bann,  besides  salmon  and 
eels,  there  is  great  plenty  of  trout,  flounders,  and  other  small 
fish,  and  the  said  rivers  by  computation  yield  120  tons  of 
salmon  yearly,  and  sometimes  more. 

Learn  also  that  in  the  river  of  Loughfoyle  pearls  have  been 
and  are  taken,  but  cannot  report  of  the  quality  and  quantity 
thereof 

The  coast  is  apt  and  safe,  taking  a  first  wind,  to  go  for  all 
parts  and  such  as  are  convenient  for  trade  both  to  the  north 
and  to  the  south. 

Pp.  2.  Endd.:  "Dec.  1609.  The  plantation  of  Ulster. 
The  instructions  those  of  London  gave  to  the  agents  they 
employed  for  survey  of  some  fit  part  in  Ulster  to  plant  in  ; 
with  the  report  of  the  said  agents  at  their  return." 

Nov.  2.      517.  ■     The  King  to  the  Lorb  DEPursr. 

^°  Nov.  2°°'''  ^^^^^^  ^°  *^®  ^°^'^  Deputy  for  a  grant  to  Lady  Arabella 

Stewart,  for  21  years,  of  the  privilege  to  nominate  such  per- 
sons as  shall  sell  wines,  aquavitse,  or  usquebagh  within  that 
kingdom. 

Nov.  4.      518.       Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
voi^m^isl'A  Writes  in  behalf  of  Sir  Thomas  Hooper,  and  encloses  the 

copy  of  a  former  letter  and  Rooper's  petition. — Dublin  Castle, 
4  November  1609. 
P.  1.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 


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1609. 
Nov.  6.     519.        Francis  Annesley  to  Salisbxtby. 

^r  227^^153'  '^^®  Lord  Deputy  entrusted  him  with  the  conducting  of 

'      '  Sir  Neale  O'Donnell  and  Sir  Donnell  O'Chane,  Knights,  and 

Naelan  O'Donnell,  the  said  Sir  Neale's  son,  as  prisoners  to 
London  or  until  he  should  be  by  further  direction  discharged 
of  them.  Has  accordingly  brought  them  as  far  as  this  city  of 
Chester,  and  should  have  been  a  day's  journey  from  hence  by 
this  time,  but  that  he  finds  some  directions  here  with  the 
Mayor,  for  the  delivering  the  prisoners  from  sheriff  to  sheriff 
until  they  shall  come  to  London.  This  is  contrary  to  the 
course  he  had  intended  for  their  safe  and  more  speedy 
repair  hither,  by  taking  a  competent  guard  in  every  town 
where  he  should  lodge,  and  the  like  convoy  from  one  good 
town  to  another,  as  they  should  be  most  convenient  for  each 
day's  journey.  Will  make  forwards  in  the  course  appointed 
by  his  Lordship  and  the  other  Lords  of  the  Privy  Council 
until  he  shall  receive  some  further  directions  to  make  more 
haste  than  this  course  will  permit.  In  the  meantime,  in  dis- 
charge of  his  duty,  sends  the  Lord  Deputy's  letters  by  the 
running  post,  and  humbly  attends  his  Lordship's  directions  to 
authorise  him  to  come  along  without  staying  for  the  country's 
convoy.  Will  undertake  upon  his  Hfe  to  bring  the  prisoners 
as  safely  as  if  he  were  furnished  with  a  million  of  men,  and 
that  with  great  diminution  of  expense  and  charge  by  the  way, 
which  otherwise  cannot  be  avoided. — Westchester,  6  November 
1609. 
F.  1.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 


vol.  227,  154. 


Nov.  7.     520.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Privy  CoukciI;. 

vA?''997^'is4'  •'■*  ^^  ^^*  eight  or  nine  days  since  he  received  their  Lord- 

ships' letters  of  the  25  th  of  July  by  the  hands  of  Lord 
Audley,  wherein  he  is  required  to  consider  of  his  zealous 
offer  there  made  to  them  to  undertake  the  plantation  of 
a  very  great  scope  of  the  King's  escheated  lands  in  Ulster. 
It  is  for  more  lands  than  His  Majesty  has  to  bestow  in  any 
one  county  there,  and  therefore  requires  greater  consideration 
than  he  (Chichester)  can  suddenly  intend  to  look  into  upon 
so  small  warning,  being  otherwise  now  taken  in  a  very  busy 
time.  So  that,  though  very  much  importuned  by  him  to 
enter  into  it  presently,  he  must  crave  leave  to  advise  thereof 
more  at  leisure  and  to  examine  it  by  some  convenient  rules  • 
for  if  too  hasty  therein,  he  would  not  be  found  innocent 
perhaps,  either  in  respect  of  the  King's  service,  the  Lord 
Audley,  or  himself  Intends  truly  and  faithfully  to  satisfy 
them  therein  by  the  coming  over  of  Mr.  Treasurer,  so  far  as 
his  knowledge  and  opinion  touching  these  demands  may 
somewhat  guide  His  Majesty  and  their  better  judgment  in  a 
matter  of  such  difficulty  and  importance. — Dublin,  7  Novem- 
ber 1609. 
P.  1.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 


320 


lEEL AND— JAMES  I. 


1G09. 

Nov.  7. 

S.P. ,  Ireland, 
vol.  227, 155. 


Nov.  8. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  227,  156. 


521.  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 

Writes  in  favour  of  the  bearer,  Captain  Cooke. — Dublin 
Castle,  7  November  1609. 
P.].    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

522.  Lord  Howth  to  Salisbury. 

Has   heretofore    signified  to    his    Lordship    what    enter- 
tainment he  has  found  since  his  coming  into  this  kingdom, 
and  some  particulars  wherewith  he'  finds  himself  aggrieved  ; 
and  having  made  known  to  His  Majesty  some  hard  measure 
which  he  has  received,  he  also  entreats  his  Lordship's  pa- 
tience.    His  Highness  addressed  letters  to  the  Lord  Deputy 
and  the  rest  of  this  estate,  signifying  his  gracious  regard  and 
opinion  of  him,  and  directing  that  he  should  be  protected  from 
wrongs ;    and  although   the  words   apertly  set  down   what 
merely    concerned  himself,  yet  he   presumes   His  Majesty's 
meaning  was,  that  the  protection  should  extend  to  his  depen- 
dants, friends,  and  kinsmen.     Now  a  gentleman,  one  of  the 
best  rank  of  the  English  Pale,  son  and  heir  to  Sir  Robert 
Dyllon,  late   Chief  Justice   of    the   Common   Pleas,  at  the 
approach  of  the  Lord  Deputy's  coming  out  of  the  North  to 
the  frontiers  of  the  English  Pale,  being  at  the  Cavan  at  the 
time   of  the  general  assizes,  for  dispatch  of  some  business, 
going  to  visit  the  Lord  of  Delvin  at  his  lodging.  Sir  Gerrot 
Moore's  son,  without  any  cause,  colour,  or  pretence  of  matter 
ofiered,    but  merely  out  of  his   malicious    humour,  fell    a- 
quarelling  with  him  ;  and  when  he  could  not,  by  provocation 
of  words,  drive  him  to  quarrel,  Mr.  Dyllon,  respecting  the 
place  and  having  also  a  just  cause  to  fear  Mr.  Moore,  being 
then  accompanied  with  many  of  his  friends,  amongst  which 
the  Lord  Deputy's  nephews,  the  captain  of  his  troop,  and  the 
Lord  Chancellor's  son  were,  they  followed  him  with  great 
numbers  into  the  street ;  meaning  to  have  murdered  him  there, 
as  the  sequel  of  the  action  plainly  manifests,  in  that  having 
by  much  ado  gotten  into  the  Lord  Chief  Justice's  lodging, 
they  followed  him  thither  ;  where  they  had  assuredly  slain  him, 
had  not  some  of  the  Lord  Chief  Justice's  men,  seeing  them  in 
great  numbers,  with  weapons   drawn,   coming  up  into  the 
room,  thrust  him  into  their  master's  chamber,  which  they  by 
aU  means  endeavoured  to  break  open.     Such  was  their  fury 
and  rage,  contempt  of  law  and  justice,  and  more  than  greedy 
desire  to  take  away  this  gentleman's  life,  who  never  gave  any 
one  of  them  cause  of  offence,  save  that  Sir  Gerrott  Moore  is 
become  his  capital  enemy  for  his  joining  with  him  (Howth)  in 
prosecuting    some  notorious    malefactors   which   have  their 
dependancy  on  him.    And  as  he  cannot  expect  here  any  equal 
measure  of  justice  where  Sir  Gerrot  Moore  is   so  strongh' 
backed  with  friends,  among  them  from  whom  otherwise  he 
was  to  seek  redress,  he  must  therefore  most  humbly  beseech 
his  Lordship,  out  of  his  wonted  and  ever  careful  desire  to 
have  justice  duly  executed,  to  set  down  some  course,  both  to 


lEELAND— JAMES  T.  321 


1609. 

examine  the  truth  of  this  assertion  and  to  secure  his  friends 
hereafter  from  like  oppression  and  danger.  Other  courses  of 
his  adversaries  to  vex  liis  friends,  by  open  reproaches  and 
worse,  shall  appear  upon  the  examination. — Howth,  8  No- 
vember 1609. 

Fp.  2.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

Nov.  9.      523.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Dudley  Norton. 

vol  227^'i57'  Eecommends  the  suit  of  the  bearer,  Captain  Cook,  and  in 

favour  of  Sir  T.  Eoper. — 9  November  1609. 
Pp.  1.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

Nov.  15.       524.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
vo^'Y'^p  Tfi  Warrant  to  grant  Francis  Blundeville  the  reversion  of  the 

office  of  Surveyor  General  after  the  death  or  surrender  of 
William  Parsons,  Esq.,  the  now  Surveyor  General,  in  regard 
of  the  sufficiency  of  the  said  Francis  in  his  place  of  surveyor 
in  Ireland. — Westminster,  15  November  1609. 

P.  1.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Enrol.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur 
Chichester:  "Of  the  15th  of  Nov.  1609.  From  the  Kinge's 
Matie,  for  Mr.  Blundell  to  have  the  office  of  Surveyor  in  rever- 
sion, &c.     Re.  the  28th  of  Januarie." 

Nov.  27.     525.        Lord  Howth  to  the  King. 

voJ.'227  'I'ss  Professes  himself  ready  with  hand  and  sword  while  he  lives, 

and  with  his  blood,  if  occasion  so  require,  to  perform  every 
loyal  service  to  his  Prince  ;  but  his  concern  for  his  own  good 
name  compels  him  to  report  to  His  Majesty  how  some  five 
months  past,  one  Sir  Roger  Jones,  the  Lord  Chancellor's  son, 
and  who  is  married  to  the  daughter  of  Sir  Gerrott  Moore,  in 
the  presence  of  divers  persons  of  good  rank  and  fashion,  termed 
him  a  coward.  Expected  the  performance  of  His  Highness's 
pleasure  signified  to  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Council,  for  pro- 
tecting him  upon  all  occasions,  especially  against  Sir  Gerrott 
Moore,  from  the  root  of  whose  malice  this  branch  did  sprino-. 
The  24th  of  this  present  month,  came  by  chance  to  a  tennis 
court,  where  Sir  Roger  Jones  was  with  some  company,  and  so 
soon  as  he  perceived  him  enter,  he  presently  called  and  drew 
his  sword.  He  (Howth)  was  clasped  up  in  the  arms  of  one  of 
Jones's  company,  whilst  Jones  proffered  two  thrusts  at  him,  and 
had  he  not  broken  this  same  by  good  hap  with  a  wan  [wand] 
he  commonly  carried  in  his  hand,  he  was  in  danger  to  have 
been  lost  without  drawing  weapon  or  giving  any  occasion  • 
but  one  of  his  men  entertained  some  other  thrusts,  by  means 
whereof  Sir  Roger's  sword  was  broken.  Seeing  the  ser- 
vant in  danger,  drew  his  sword  to  save  him,  and  asked 
him  of  the  slanderous  speeches  he  had  reported.  In  this 
broil  a  kinsman  of  his  was  slain,  but  by  whom  it  is  not 
known,  but  thought  to  be  done  by  Sir  Roger  or  his  man. 
Sent  immediately  to  the  Lord  Deputy  the  whole  state  and 
truth  of  the  matter,  who,  upon  information  of  the  contrary 
3. 


322  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1G09. 

part,  committed  him  and  eight  of  his  servants,  leaving  Sir 
Roger  Jones  at  liberty.  The  coroners  of  the  city  swore  a 
jury  to  inquire  upon  the  death  of  the  man  slain,  and  they, 
hearing  of  some  evidences,  were  in  point  to  give  up  their 
verdict,  which  proceedings  the  State  understanding,  counter- 
manded the  same,  and  calling  the  coroners  before  them,  threa- 
tened them  with  imprisonment,  and  by  special  direction,  dis- 
charged the  jury,  and  a  warrant  to  elect  a  new  one  was  given, 
intending  to  bring  him  within  the  compass  of  law.  Beseeches 
His  Majesty  to  protect  him  here,  being  thus  oppressed,  for  no 
other  cause  than  the  discharge  of  his  duty. — Dublin,  27 
JSTovember  1609. 

"  I  protest  to  Your  Majesty  I  do  not  acquaint  your  High- 
ness with  half  the  wrongs  I  receive,  but,  sir,  I  shall  be  safe 
kept  if  Your  Majesty  wiU  not  bring  me  out." 

Pp.  2.  Signed.  Add.  Endd. :  "  L.  of  Howth  to  the 
King's  Majesty  upon  the  slaughter  of  BarnewelL" 

Nov.  27.     526.        Lord  Howth  to  Salisbury. 

^oi'w^ni  Gives  an  account  of  the  conflict  with  Sir  Roger  Jones,  and 

the  consequent  proceedings. — Dublin,  27  November  1609. 
Pp.  2.     Signed.     Add.    Endd. 

Nov.  28.     527.         Lord  Chancellor  to  Salisbury. 

vof  2?7^'i6o'  Highly  recommends  the  bearer  James  Ferrall,  one  of  the 

chiefest  gentlemen  in  the   county  of  Longford,   trained  up 
under  Sir  John  Norris. — St.  Sepulchre's,  28  November  1609. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Add.  -Endd. 


vol.  227,  161. 


Nov.  30.     528.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Francis  Annesley. 

vof  •'■'7'm'  ■'■^  ^®  known  to  him  (Francis  Annesley)  that  there  has  been 

some  difference  of  long  time  betwixt  the  Lord  of  Howth  and 
Sir  Roger  Jones,  grounded  (as  the  Lord  of  Howth  says)  on 
Howth's  part,  upon  some  words  of  Sir  Roger  calling  his 
valour  into  question,  and  on  the  part  of  Sir  Roger,  for  wrongs 
done  by  the  Lord  of  Howth  to  the  Lord  Chancellor,  his 
father.  This  has  been  long  smothered,  and  on  the  24th  of 
this  instant,  whilst  he  (Chichester)  was  at  Christchurch,  Sir 
Roger  Jones  was  at  tennis  in  a  court  in  St.  Thomas's  Street, 
of  which  it  seems  the  Lord  of  Howth  had  notice,  for  thither 
he  repaired  with  some  10  or  1 2  persons  in  his  company  and  a 
cudgel  in  his  hand,  with  purpose  to  have  cudgelled  him  (as  he 
himself  confesses)  if  he  did  not  deny  some  words  with  which 
he  intended  to  charge  him.  But  the  Lord  of  Howth  was 
hindered  of  his  purpose,  being  held  by  Francis  Loftus  upon 
his  entering  the  door,  and  Sir  Roger  Jones  and  his  man 
getting  their  swords,  defended  themselves  from  his  Lordship's 
followers  until  Sir  Roger's  sword  brake ;  after  which  he  called 
to  the  Lord  of  Howth  to  save  his  life,  for  which  he  gave 
direction,  but  in  the  meantime  one  Barnewell  (who  was  in 
the  court  with  Sir  Roger  attending  his  master  of  the  same 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  323 


1609. 

name,  and  helped  to  defend  Sir  Roger  in  the  fury  of  the 
assault)  was  slain,  by  whom  it  is  not  yet  discovered,  but  by 
one  of  the  Lord  of  Howth's  company,  it  is  apparent.  The 
report  of  this  fray  being  brought  to  him  whilst  he  was  at  the 
sermon,  he  directed  the  mayor  of  tliis  city  (who  was  then  in 
the  church  with  him)  to  apprehend  the  offenders,  and  there- 
upon he  took  the  Lord  of  Howth  and  some  six  of  his  servants 
and  followers,  and  carried  them  to  this  Castle,  where  he 
(Chichester)  found  them,  upon  his  return  from  the  church,  and 
so  staying  the  Lord  of  Howth  with  him  at  dinner,  upon  the 
Council's  coming  to  him  in  the  afternoon,  they  debated  of  the 
matter,  and  (upon  examinations  taken  of  Mr.  Barnewell, 
whose  man  was  slain,  and  some  others)  thought  it  fit  to 
commit  the  Lord  of  Howth  and  his  servants  until  the  coroners 
had  inquired  upon  the  body  of  the  dead  man,  as  well  because 
if  found  murder,  it  would  have  been  treason,  as  to  stay 
further  mischief.  The  jury  found  it  but  manslaughter,  and  so 
would  they,  he  is  persuaded,  if  Sir  Roger  himself  had  been 
slain,  and  thereupon  his  Lordship  was  presently  enlarged  upon 
bonds,  and  the  like  direction  he  has  given  for  his  servants. 
Writes  this,  as  it  is  told  him  that  the  Lord  of  Howth  has 
sent  over  a  servaut  of  his  by  whom  it  may  be  much  falsehood 
will  be  imparted  with  little  truth ;  but  on  his  (Chichester's) 
credit,  this  is  the  substance  and  verity  of  the  action  and  pro- 
ceeding hitherto,  and  if  he  (Annesley)  hear  anything  said  of 
it,  he  may  boldly  impart  it.  Leaves  him  to  God,  putting  him 
in  mind  that  he  (Chichester)  wants  slippers. — Dublin  Castle, 
SO  November  1609. 

Fp.2.  Signed.  Endcl:  "  The  last  of  Nov.  1609.  The 
Lord  Deputy  to  Mr.  Annesley,  his  servant,  concerning  the 
Lord  of  Houth's  assaulting  of  Sir  Roger  Jones,  and  the 
slaughter  of  one  of  Sir  Roger  Jones'  company.  This  letter  is 
to  be  returned." 

[Nov.]        529.        Lord  Caeew  to  Salisbury. 

vol.  22^  I62!  Solicits  his  Lordship's  favour  for  the  suit  of  the  bearer,  Sir 

Gerrard  Harvie. 

P.  1.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

[Nov.  30.]    530.        John  Carvtle's  Project  of  Plantation. 

vol.  227,^63.  Project  of  John  Carvyle,  of  Nunmonkton,  in  the  county  of 

Cork,  for  making  a  plantation  in  Ireland  upon  8,000  acres, 
besides  mountainous  bogs  and  unimprovable  underwoods. 
Pp.  3.     Endd. 

Nov.  30.     531.        Account  of  Arrears,  Ireland,  ]  605-1609. 
\o\.'22l,^\u.  State  of  the  arrears  and  of  the  execution  of  the  commission 

of  arrears  since  30  December  1605,  on  which  day  the  com- 
missioners first  sat, 

X  2 


324  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

States  the  particulars  of  the  several  years  under  various 
heads. 

Signed :  Jo.  Cottell,  chr.  Arrearag. 
Pp.  2.     Endcl. :  "  A  certificate  of  the  estate  of  the  arrears, 
28." 


vol.  227,  165. 


Nov.  SO.     532.        Commissions  of  Surrenders   and  Sale  of  Lands  on 

S.P.,  Ireland,  DEFECTIVE   TiTLES. 

Note   of  commissions  granted    upon   the   commission   of 
surrenders  and  sale  of  lands  upon  defective  titles,  but  not 
returned  into  His  Majesty's  High  Court  of  Chancery  : — 
Catherlogh  :  William  Birne  Fitzpatrick,  of  Moyle. 
Roscomon  :  Donell  M'Skally  and  others. 
Catherlogh  and  Kilkenny :    Piers  O'Ryan,  of  Stowally,  and 

others. 
Wexford :  Art.  M'Dermot  Cavenaghe  and  others,  inhabitants 

of  the  Murrowes. 
Mayo :  Piers  Barret,  of  Balleassakille,  and  others. 
Catherlogh  :  Garrald  M'Murtagh  Cavenaghe. 
Meath  :  Walter  Skourlock,  of  the  Frayne. 
Kilkenny :  John  Archer,  of  Kilkenny. 
King's  County  :  Hugh  O'Dempsye. 
Tipperary :    Redmond    Magrath    Milerus,   Archbishop   of 

Cashel. 
Kerry  and  Desmond  :  Donnell  M'Cartye. 
Roscommon :  Brian  Oge  M'Dermod,  of  Carrig  M'Dermod. 
Wexford  :  Dermot  M'Morrish  Cavenagh. 
Westmeath  :  Edward  Nugent  and  others. 
Wexford  :  William  Browne,  of  Molranckan. 
Westmeath  :  Brian  Magohegan  and  others. 
Wexford  :  Sir  Richard  Masterson,  Knight,  Patrick  Peppard, 

and  others. 
Down  :  Glasney  M'Aghelly  Magennis  and  others. 
Armagh  :  Sir  Oghie  O'Hanlon,  Knt. 
Kilkenny  :  John  Cantwell,  of  Cantwelscourt. 
Limerick  :  Richard  Fitzwilliam  Bourke  and  others. 
Tipperary  :  Philip  O'Kenedye,  of  Casteltowne  ;  John  O'Ken- 

nedy,  of  Lackye. 
Cork  :  Owen  M'Teige  Cartye. 
Limerick  :  Theobald,  Lord  Baron  of  Castelconnell. 
Tipperary  :  William  St.  John. 
Limerick   and    Tipperary :    Teige  M'Oughney  O'Mulrian, 

William  O'Mulrian. 
Galway :  Hugh  O'Kelly,  of  Clogher. 
Tipperary,  «Sjc. :  Turlagh  Magrath. 
Limerick  :  Edmond  Baggott  and  others. 
Sligo  :  Donnell  O'Connor,  of  Sligo. 
Cork  :  Edmond  FitzJohn  Gerrald,  of  Ballymartin. 

Commissions  granted  and  returned  by  virtue  of  His 
Majesty's  said  commission  of  surrenders,  but  have  not  passed 
the  great  seal : — 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  325 


1609. 

Mayo  :  Owen  Maly,  of  Caher-ne-mart ;  Sir  Tibbot  Bourke, 
of  Ballincarrowe. 

Kilkenny  :  Robert  Grace,  alias  Grace  of  Corstowne  [Cour- 
town]. 

Mayo  :  Walter  Bourke,  of  Turlagh. 

Cork  :  Donald  O'Donnevan,  alias  Donnevan,  James  White, 
John  Happell,  and  John  Carew. 

Roscommon :  Sir  Hugh  O'Connor. 

Cork  :  David  Lord  Roch,  Viscount  Fermoy. 

Galway  :  Teige-ne-blilly  O'Flahertye. 

Limerick :  Dominick  Roche. 

Wexford  :  Sir  Richard  Masterson,  Knt. 

Dublin  :  James  of  the  Shanganagh. 

Mayo :  Sir  Th.  Bourke,  of  Ballyloghmaske. 

Westmeath  :  Tho.  Hopp  [Hope],  of  Mollingarre. 

Galway  :  Morogh  Namoyre  O'Flahertye,  of  Bunnowen. 

Petitions  exhibited  for  passing  of  grants  upon  His  Majesty's 
commission  for  sale  of  His  Majesty's  lands,  but  have  not 
passed  the  great  seal : — 

Westmeath,  &c. :  Sir  Fran.  Rushe,  Knt. 

Kildare  :  Nicb.  Wogan,  of  Rathcoyffe  ;  John  Foster,  of 
Dublin. 

Dublin,  &c. :  Thomas  Bath,  of  Dromconragh. 

Meath  :  Nich.  Sedgrave,  of  Ballyhack ;  Donogh,  Earl  of 
Thomond  ;  Dean  and  Chapter  of  the  cathedral  church 
of  the  Blessed  Trinity,  Dublin ;  Walter  S'^dgrave  and 
Richard  Sedgrave ;  Philip  Conron  and  Rob.  Kennedy  ; 
Milerus,  Lord  Archbishop  of  Cashel ;  James  Delahoide,  of 
Moygaddye ;  Rob.  Ball,  of  Dublin,  alderman. 

Pp.  3.     Endd. :  "  Survey  and  sale  of  lands,  &c." 

[Nov.]       533.        Sir  Arthue  Chichester  to  Francis  Annesley. 

yoi''22r'i65'A  ^^  *°  acquaint  the  Lord  Treasurer  that  O'Quyne,  chief  of 

'         '  his  name,  whom  the  Earl  of  Tyrone  carried  with  him,  has 

sent  over  a  boy  to  his  brother,  Owen  Roe  O'Quyne,  and  to 
his  wife  to  procure  him  license  to  return  hither.  The  like  is 
demanded  by  Shane  O'Pounty,  who  was  here  the  Earl's  purse 
bearer.  Upon  the  notice  of  such  a  messenger's  coming  over, 
gave  order  for  the  apprehending  and  hanging  of  him,  but 
when  the  party  was  found  to  be  but  a  young  boy,  made  stay 
of  his  execution,  thinking  they  would  not  trust  him  with  any 
message  of  moment.  Tyrone  left  those  two  men,  among  others, 
behind  him  in  the  Low  Countries,  who  are  now  grown  very 
poor,  and  it  may  be  they  seek  to  return  out  of  necessity ;  if 
they  do  so,  their  coming,  in  his  opinion,  would  rather  benefit 
the  King's  service  than  give  any  hindrance  thereunto,  or  be 
occasion  of  any  danger  or  inconvenience ;  for  if  they  deliver  a 
trutli  to  the  people  of  their  usage,  and  what  small  expectance 
in  hope  there  is  to  be  had  of  the  fugitives'  return  with  forces 
to  make  their  designs  good,  he  thinks  the  people  "will  rather 
contemn  than  regard  them,  though  they  now  admire  at  their 


326  IRELAND— JAMES  1. 

1609. 

happiness,  as  it  is  reported  unto  them  by  priests  and  tale 
tellers.  This  is  but  his  opinion,  and  God  is  his  witness,  he 
wishes  none  of  them  one  hour's  quiet  or  content  whilst  they 
live,  unless  it  may  be  to  advantage  His  Majesty's  service,  but 
would  gladly  understand  his  Lordship's  pleasure  in  this  point, 
being  yet  uncertain  of  the  good  or  hurt  that  may  ensue 
thereof. 

P.  1.    Ilndd. 

[Nov.]      534.        Chauge  of    Military    Service    in    Ireland    before 

S.  P.,  Ireland,  O'DOGHERTY'S   EeBELLION. 

'      ■  Memoranda   (in   Salisbury's   hand)  of  the  charge  of  the 

military  service  in  Ireland,  before  the  rebelhon  of  O'Dogherty, 
and  the  charge  now  required. 

Before  O'Dogherty  the  charge  of  Ireland  for  the  military 
force  under  divers  titles  was  60,000Z.  Irish,  45,000?.  EngUsh. 

The  charge  required  now  is  in  sterling  16,000Z.  Sum  total 
80,000?.  Irish,  60,000?.  English. 

The  whole  martial  force  of  Ireland  is  either  in  officers  of 
the  army ;  in  soldiers,  or  in  wards. 

The  officers  of  the  army,  7,800.     Besides  the  two  presidents, 

3.934.  The  army  before  the  next  increase,  30,100 ;  the  wards, 

6.935,  by  which  it  appeareth  that  the  charges  of  all  the 
military  forces  was  48,469. 

The  officers  and  patentees  belonging  to  honour  and  justice, 
and  patentees.  The  pensioners,  5,573  ;  other  ministers,  2,300  ; 
other,  550. 

Now  there  is  pay  demanded  for  foot  1,000  ;  horse  25,  which 
amounteth  to  15,459?.  The  wards  to  be  erected  and  increased 
2,475?. ;  increase  by  pay  316?. ;  boats,  400?. ;  in  wards,  new 
bodies,  240.     In  all,  18,890. 

Pp.2. 


vol.  227,  1C8. 


Dec.  1.      535.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
^■^■'Jo?^Tr''«  The  letter  of  the  8th  of  April  last  signified  that  Captain 

vol.227.  108.  1         1  1    T  ,.  1.1  •  7.    n 

John  Vaughan  should  be  continued  in  the  possession  oi  the 
fort  of  Dunalonge  ;  and  that  he  should  be  allotted  two  balli- 
betaghes  of  land,  with  conditions.  In  confidence  whereof  he 
has  since  made  provision  of  all  materials  necessary  for  building 
or  repairing  of  the  place.  Now  the  Londoners  are  without 
doubt  to  plant  a  colony  at  the  Derry ;  he  is  doubtful  lest 
they  should  affect  to  have  that  from  him,  as  they  do  other 
things  on  the  opposite  side  in  the  county  of  Dunagall,  and 
has  besought  his  (Chichester's)  interference.  It  is  a  place  of 
no  importance  to  their  public  designment,  and  since  it  shall 
behove  them  very  much  to  have  neighbours  of  his  quality, 
experience,  and  ability  to  undertake  fot  so  much ;  adding  also 
thereunto  that  he  is  a  freeman  of  their  corporation  at  Derry, 
and  that  he  hopes  hereafter  to  be  allowed  of  and  continued 
amongst  them  ;  he  (Chichester)  makes  no  doubt  but  he  will 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  327 

1609. 

be  held  capable  of  their  honour  and  benefits  in  the  plantation. 
— Dublin  Castle,  1  December  1609. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

Dec.  2.      536.        Order  in  the  Cause  of  the  Countess  of  Kildaee  and 

S.P.,  Ireland,  SiR  ROBERT  DiGBY. 

vol.  227, 169.  Q^^^^  ^^  ^^^  j^^^^  Deputy  and  Council  between  the  Countess 

Dowager  of  Kildare,  and  Sir  Robert  Digbie  and  the  tenants 
of  "Woodstock  and  Athy. 
P.  1. 


vol.  227,  170. 


Dec.  3.      537.        Lord  Deputy  and  Council  to  the  Peivy  Council. 
vi^'^j^^n'  Although  it  may  seem  impertinent  that  when  dispatches 

concerning  the  pubhc  are  daily  expected  from  them  they 
should  be  the  reporters  of  the  death  of  a  private  gentleman 
lately  slain  here  ;  yet  they  hope  to  be  excused,  as  the  person 
principally  concerned  is  the  Lord  of  Howth,  a  nobleman  well 
known  to  their  Lordships,  and  the  object  is  to  prevent  such 
misreports  as  may  be  lavishly  spread  by  his  Lordship  or  his 
friends,  whom  (since  his  last  coming  out  of  England)  they  have 
found  exceeding  apt  to  make  a  hard  construction  of  anything 
concerning  himself  that  they  say  or  do. 

[Reports  the  affray  between  Lord  Howth  and  Sir  Roger 
Jones,  referred  to  in  several  former  letters,  adding  some  de- 
tails of  the  actual  conflict.] 

Having  that  morning  (in  all  likelihood)  gotten  notice  that 
Sir  Roger  was  in  the  tennis  court,  as  he  was  accustomed 
often  to  be,  Lord  Howth  attended  only  with  one  servant,  and 
knowing  that  place  being  private,  and  time  fit  for  Such  a  pur- 
pose, most  men  being  either  at  church  or  about  their  business 
in  the  courts  of  justice,  thither  his  Lordship  went  with  10  or 
12  followers,  exceeding  his  usual  number  of  attendants ; 
where  he  entered  with  a  cudgel  in  his  hand,  as  it  should 
seem,  to  have  stricken  Sir  Roger  therewith,  for  divers  affirm 
that  he  had  one,  and  himself  denies  it  not,  only  says  that  he 
brought  it  not  with  him  but  found  it  there,  which  purpose 
of  his  was  prevented  thus.  Sir  Roger  Jones,  having  newly 
left  off  play  and  making  himself  ready  to  depart,  had  more 
leisure  to  look  about  him  than  otherwise  being  at  play  he 
could  have  had,  who  seeing  his  Lordship  and  his  followers 
thus  enter,  and  being  formerly  made  acquainted  with  his 
threats,  betook  him  very  quickly  to  his  sword,  which  he 
earnestly  called  for,  and  which  was  given  him  by  his  man  ; 
besides  a  gentleman  there  at  play  caught  the  Lord  of  Howith 
in  his  arms,  and  held  him  at  the  entrance  into  the  court  so 
that  his  followers  conld  not  easily  come  in  that  way,  but  they 
supplied  that  want  so  readily  by  leaping  over  the  rail  thereof 
that  one  of  them  lighted  a  blow  upon  Sir  Roger's  sword 
before  it  was  fully  out  of  the  scabbard,  and  others  plied  him 
until  it  brake  and  divers  blows  after.  The  rest,  as  they  got 
over  the  rail,  pressed  upon  him  so  fast,  that  he  was  driven  to 


328  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

fall  off  to  the  other  end  of  the  court,  ever  as  he  went  break- 
ing their  thrusts  with  the  broken  part  of  his  sword  till  he 
was  gotten  beyond  Simon  Barnwell,  before  named,  who  en- 
deavoured all  he  could  to  put  them  by,  till  in  the  end  they 
carae  so  thick  that  Barnwell  himself  was  thrust  through  the 
body,  whereof  he  soon  died,  and  Sir  Roger,  through  his  clothes 
in  three  or  four  places,  who,  finding  himself  in  that  desperate 
estate,  his  sword  broken,  and  Barnwell  dead  at  his  feet,  said 
aloud,  "  Fie,  my  Lord  !  will  you  suffer  me  to  be  murdered  ? " 
The  Lord  of  Howth  then  coming  near  him,  willed  them  not  to 
kill  him,  and  thereupon  two  of  them  got  within  him  (sic),  and 
held  him  until  his  Lordship  came  and  took  him  by  the  bosom, 
asking  if  he  would  now  say  that  he  was  a  coward ;  Sir  Roger 
answered,  he  neither  would,  nor  ever  did ;  what  he  had  said 
he  would  not  deny,  "That  he  was  a  valiant  man  among 
cowards."  The  Lord  of  Howth  said,  that  was  all  one,  and 
therefore,  with  threats,  willed  him  to  kneel  down,  and  ask 
him  forgiveness,  which  he  refusing,  was  last  of  all  pressed  to 
acknowledge  his  life  to  be  in  his  hands,  which  Sir  Roger  said 
he  could  not  deny.  "  Then  go  thy  ways,"  said  the  Lord  of 
Howth,  striking  him  over  the  side  of  the  face  with  the  hilt  of 
his  rapier,  "like  a  boy  as  thou  art."  And  so  they  parted. 
Thus  much  they  have  gathered,  as  well  by  the  depositions  of 
such  as  were  eye-witnesses,  as  by  a  kind  of  consent  of  the 
parties'  own  speeches,  which  apparently  shows  what  was 
intended  from  the  beginning ;  which  being  in  itself  so  foul, 
and  besides  so  offensive  to  many  gentlemen  then  in  this  city, 
that  were  like  enough  to  draw  the  same  to  further  broils,  they 
thought  it  the  safest  and  fittest  course  to  commit  the  Lord  of 
Howth  to  the  Castle.  Enlarged  him  again  upon  bands, 
when  they  saw  that  things  were  somewhat  settled,  and  that 
the  coroner's  inquest  had  found  itbut  manslaughter. — Dublin 
Castle,  3  December  1609. 

Signed  :  Arthur  Chichester,  Thomond,  Geor.  Derrie,  &c., 
Th.  Ridgeway,  R.  Wingfelde,  01.  Lambert,  J.  Kinge,  Fra. 
Annsley,  Jo.  Denham,  01.  St.  John,  Ry.  Cooke. 

Pp.  21.     Add.    Endd. 

Dee.  6.      538.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Sir  John  Davys,  Attorney 
Carte  Papers,  General. 

'  '■     '  Reciting  His  Majesty's  letter,  dated  at  Westminster,  the 

8th  of  April  1609,  that  upon  the  Earl  of  Clanrickard's  sur- 
rendering his  estate  of  inheritance  in  an  annuity  of  40i.  Irish, 
payable  out  of  the  Exchequer  of  Ireland,  the  King  should 
grant  to  him  and  his  heirs  a  freedom  from  composition  due 
for  so  many  quarters  of  land  as  should  countervail  the  said 
annuity,  the  Deputy  gives  warrant  for  a  fiant  of  the  Earl's 
surrender  of  said  annuity  of  40Z.  Irish,  and  also  for  a  grant 
to  the  Earl,  his  heirs  and  assigns,  of  four  score  and  ten  quar- 
ters of  the  lands  of  the  said  Earl  in  Connaught,  free  and  dis- 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  329 


1609. 

charged  of  the  composition  for  the  same. — Dublin,  6  December 
1609. 

P.  1.  Orig.  Add.  Endd.  {in  Sir  John  Bavys's  hand) : 
"  1608,  for  my  Lo.  of  Clanrickard's  freedom  of  iiij^''  and  x. 
quarters  of  land."  With  this  addition  in  his  clerk's  hand, 
"  but  not  passed  till  a  yeare  after,  in  1611." 

Dec.  12.     539.        Loeds  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
PhUad.  p.,  They  urge  him  to    extraordinary  exertions  to  effect  the 

'   '  '      '  arrest  of  certain  pirates  named  in  a  list  enclosed  in  the  letter, 

on  account  of  the  high  sense  the  King  has  of  the  offence  these 
men  have  committed. 

Signed :  T.  Ellesmere,  Cauc,  R.  Salisbury,  H.  North- 
ampton, Notingham,  T.  Suffolke,  E.  Worcester. 

Pp.  l-g-.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester :  "  Of  the 
12**^  of  December  1609.  From  the  Lordes  of  the  Councell, 
requiringe  me  to  apprehend  certayne  persons  accused  with 
piracie,  &c.     Re.  the  20*''  of  Januarie  in  the  forenoone." 

Dec.  13.     540.        The  King  to  the  Lord  Treasurer. 

^^Drfia""'''  ^^*^®^  ^°^  license  to  Nicholas  Wise  to  transport  900  oz.  of 

wrought  plate  into  Ireland. 

Dec.  18.     541.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

T^'^*^'  -T^'c  On  the  allegation  of  Edmund  Fitzgerald,  Knight  of  the 

■   '  ■      '  Valley,  that  Patrick  Crosby  had  obtained  the  King's  letter, 

24th  of  July  last,  for  the  passing  of  the  castle  of  Glyn  in  the 
county  of  Limerick  to  the  said  Crosby  and  his  heirs  in  fee 
simple,  on  the  suggestion  that  the  castle  was  retained  from 
him  (the  Knight  of  the  Valley)  as  a  tie  to  keep  him  from 
revolt,  and  that  it  should  be  repaired,  fortified,  and  kept 
by  the  said  Crosby  at  his  own  charge ;  whereas  the  knight 
alleges  that  though  he  revolted  in  the  late  rebellion,  he  was 
received  to  mercy  by  the  Lord  Mountjoy,  and  all  his  lands  and 
goods  restored  to  him  except  this  castle,  which  was  kept  from 
him  for  a  short  time,  but  was  soon  restored  to  him,  and  has 
been  enjoyed  by  him  for  the  space  of  these  six  years  past,  and 
so  he  holds  it  still.  It  appears  by  the  certificate  of  Sir  Charles 
Wilmot,  Vice-President  of  Munster,  that,  upon  the  granting 
the  knight's  pardon,  he  was  not  attainted,  and  that  after 
a  short  detention  of  this  castle  it  was  restored  to  the  knight 
by  the  order  of  Lord  Mountjoy,  then  Lieutenant,  and  Lord 
Carew,  President  of  Munster.  They  therefore  require  him 
(Chichester)  to  investigate  the  state  of  the  case,  and  if  the 
knight's  allegations  be  true,  to  restore  the  castle  to  him  •  if 
not,  to  proceed  with  the  grant  directed  to  be  made  of  it  to 
Patrick  Crosby. — Whitehall,  18  December  1609. 

Signed:  R.  Cant.,  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  H. 
Northampton,  Lenox,  Notingham,  T.  Suffolke,  E.  Worcester, 
Exeter,  E.  Zouche,  W.  Knollys,  E.  Wotton,  L.  Stanhope,  J. 
Herbert,  Jul.  Csesar,  Thos.  Parry. 


830  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

Pp.  11.  Add.  Endd. :  "  Of  the  18'i^  of  December  1609. 
From  the  Lis.  of  His  Ma*'^'^  most  honourable  Privy  Councell, 
in  the  behalfe  of  Edmund  Fitzgerald,  Knight,  touchinge  stay- 
to  be  made  of  passinge  the  castle  of  Glynn  to  Patrick  Crosbie. 
Eeceived  the  21*^'  of  Januarie  in  the  yeare  abovesaid." 

Dec.  15.      542.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
Tof  22?'m'  Kecomraends  the  bearer,  Captain  Hart,  who  was  constable 

'      '  of  Culmore  when  it  was  surprised  by  O'Dogherty. — Dublin 

Castle,  15  December  1609. 
P^j.  2.     Signed.     Add.    Endd. 

Dec.  23.     543.        Earl  of  Kildare  to  Salisbury. 

vol'  '227 ^TtI'  Urges  on  his  Lordship's  consideration  the  inconvenience  to 

'      '  himself  of  repairing  to  England  for  the  causes  depending 

betwixt  Sir  R.  Digby  and  himself.     Promises  to  appear  per- 
sonally as  soon  as  he  can  get  money. — Dublin,  23  December 
1609. 
P.  1.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 


Dec.  24.     544.        Earl  of  Kilbare  to  the  King. 
^^  '22T'm'  Submits  for  His  Majesty's  consideration  various  represen- 

'      "  tations  respecting  the  suits  between  himself  and  Sir  R.  Digby. 

—Dublin,  24  December  1609. 
Pp.  2.     Signed.    Add.     Endd. 

Dec.  25.     545.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Phiiad.  P.,  Enclosing  him  a  letter  to   be   delivered,  as  he  best  and 

''^  •  '^-      •  soonest  may,  to  Sir  William  St.  John,  having  charge  of  one  of 

His  Majesty's  ships  employed  against  pirates  frequenting  the 
Irish  seas. — Whitehall,  25  December  1609. 

Signed:  R.  Cant.,  T.  EUesmere,  Canc,  R.  Salisbury,  H. 
Northampton,  Notingham,  E.  Worcester,  Exeter,  W.  Knollys, 
L.  Stanhope,  E.  Zouche. 

P.  i.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester:  "Of  the 
25*  of  December  1609.  From  the  Lods.  of  the  Councell, 
to  convaye  a  letter  of  their  Lops,  to  Si"  William  St.  John. 
"  Re.  the  20*  of  Januarie  1609." 


vol.  227,  174. 


Dec.  28.    546.        Lord  Chancellor  to  the  King. 
S.P.,  Ireland,  Apologizes  for  his  boldness  in  having  recourse  to  His  Ma- 

-trr.1    00*7     T7A  1  -11  P  r-r 

jesty,  and  requests  indulgence  as  to  his  style  of  [Latin]  com- 
position, which  he  has  disused  for  a  space  of  nearly  forty  years. 
Pleads  the  necessity  of  the  case  as  his  justification,  being 
driven  to  vindicate  himself  against  the  attacks  of  the  Lord  of 
Howth,  who,  although  of  noble  birth,  is  of  a  most  violent 
and  seditious  disposition,  and  who  has  never  ceased  since 
his  appearance  before  the  Council  in  England,  to  insult  and 
calumniate  him.  Passes  over  minor  grounds  of  complaint  on 
his  own  part,  and  the  murderous  attack  made  by  Howth  and 


lEELAND— JAMES  1.  331 


1609. 

his  cut-throat  (sieariorum)  retainers  upon  his  son,  and  confines 
himself  to  two  injuries,  the  first  aifecting  the  dignity  of  his 
office  and  authority,  the  second  impeaching  his  personal 
character  and  reputation. 

A  tenant  of  Sir  Robert  Digby,  of  the  manor  of  Woodstock, 
having  presented  a  petition  complaining  of  violence  done  to 
him  by  the  retainers  of  the  Earl  of  Kildare,  he  (the  Chan- 
cellor) addressed  to  the  Earl  at  his  manor  of  Kilkay,  by  a 
messenger  of  sufficiently  honourable  condition,  a  letter  re- 
quiring him  to  restrain  and  correct  his  servants.  When  the 
messenger  presented  himself  at  Kilkay,  where  the  Lord  of 
Howth  was  at  the  time,  access  was  denied  to  him ;  and  when 
he,  having  intimation  of  the  Earl's  coming  forth,  awaited  him 
upon  the  way  and  respectfully  tendered  the  letter.  Lord 
Howth  rode  violently  up,  seized  and  made  away  with  the 
letter  written  in  the  King's  name,  the  messenger  being 
warned  by  the  leader  of  the  Baron's  men  to  take  himself 
away,  lest  worse  should  befall  him. 

The  second  complaint  which  he  has  to  make  regards  a  case 
between  two  gentlemen  of  the  county  of  Meath,  which  was 
pending  before  him  in  His  Majesty's  Court  of  Chancery.  The 
Lord  of  Howth,  while  the  cause  was  pending,  went  to  the 
house  of  the  defendant,  and  publicly  in  the  presence  of  several 
persons,  stated  that  his  (the  Chancellor's)  son  had  received 
50^.  from  the  plaintiff  to  secure  his  (the  son's)  influence  in 
his  favour  with  the  Chancellor,  and  advised  the  defendant  to 
lose  no  time  in  paying  him  100?.  in  order  to  turn  the  scale  in 
his  own  favour.  Assures  His  Majesty  of  the  truth  of  these 
statements,  repudiating  most  solemnly  the  imputation  against 
his  integrity,  appealing  to  his  whole  past  career,  since  in  the 
year  1554  he  was  raised  to  the  episcopal  dignity  and  in  the 
same  year  to  the  Privy  Council,  as  evidence  of  his  integrity 
and  his  devotion  to  the  service  of  the  State  and  the  interests 
of  religion  ;  and  concludes  by  praying  that,  when  his  plaint 
against  the  Lord  of  Howth  shall  be  heard  in  the  Castle 
Chamber,  His  Majesty  will  give  order  to  the  Lord  Deputy 
and  the  Judges  that  strict  justice  shall  be  done  according  to 
the  ancient  law  of  the  realm,  without  respect  of  persons, — 
Dublin,  28  December  1609. 

Fp.  4.     Latin.     Signed.     Add.     Endd. 

Dec.  28.     547.        The  Lord  Chancellor  to  Salisbury. 

vol'''>2r^n5'  '^^^  injuries  which  the  Lord  of  Howth  has  heaped  upon 

■ '    '      '  him  since  his  last  return  out  of  England  have  forced  him 

to  complain  to  His  Highness  against  him.  Beseeches  his 
Lordship  to  peruse  the  statement,  and  to  deliver  it  into  His 
Highness's  hands.  Apologizes  for  troubhng  His  Majesty 
with  these  painful  disclosures  regarding  this  disordered  Lord  • 
but  thinks  his  humble  suit  is  very  reasonable,  meet  for  him 
to  seek  at  His  Majesty's  hands,  and  well  agreeing  with  his 
princely  justice  to  grant  unto  his  true  and  faithful  servant. 


332  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

1609. 

Therefore    beseeches    his  Lordship's   wonted  furtherance. — 
Dublin,  28  December  1609. 

Sends  a  copy  of  his  letter  to  the  Earl  of  Kildare  in  Sep- 
tember last,  which  could  not  get  access  to  the  Earl's  presence, 
and  which,  as  it  was  ready  to  be  presented  unto  him,  was 
forcibly  in  a  kind  of  contempt,  or  rather  despite,  taken  away 
and  suppressed  by  the  Lord  of  Howth. 

Pp.  2.     Signed.     Add.    Endd.     Encloses, 

Sept.  20.     548.         The  Lord  Chancellor  to  the  Earl  of  Kildare. 

^T  '227^^175'  Informs  him  that  Walter  Weldon  is  come  hither  unto  him 

'      '  with  a  pitiful  complaint,  if  it  he  true,  that  Woogan  Caddell 

and  one  Farriall  [Farrell],  his  Lordship's  servants,  have  in 
forcible  onanner  taken  away  sor)ie  part  of  his  corn  of  Wood- 
stock, c(,nd  that  Caddell  in  a  violent  manner  struck  his  wife 
as  she  was  helping  her  husband  to  rescue  his  corn.  In  like 
m,a,nner  that  his  Lordship  himself,  with  a  troop  of  horse, 
lately  came  to  the  land  of  Woodstock  to  give  countenance  to 
the  violence  offered  by  his  servants.  In  this  case  and  upon 
a  complaint  of  this  nature,  his  Lordship  must  allow  him  to 
interpose  the  authority  of  his  office,  which  he  holds  under  His 
Majesty,  for  the  relief  of  poor  and  weak  subjects  against  the 
mighty,  that  they  he  not  oppressed  by  them.  By  virtue  whereof 
he  must  both  signify  it  unto  him,,  that  the  course  observed  by 
him,  and  his  servants,  if  the  information  be  true,  is  neither 
honourable  nor  just,  much  less  is  it  agreeable  with  equity, 
that  a  man  having  sowed  his  corn  should  he  debarred  from, 
the  possession  thereof,  or  that  any  such  violence  should  he 
offered  as  is  cMeged. — Tallagh,  20  September  1609.  Copia 
vera. 

"  This  is  a  true  copy  of  my  letter  sent  to  the  Ewrl  of  Kildare 

in  September  last  past  tuhich  was  written  in  His  Majesty's 

name,  but  could  not  get  access  to  the  Earl's  presence,  but  was 

forcibly  and  in  a  kind  of  contempt,  or  rather  despite,  taken 

^  away  by  the  Lord  of  Howth  and  suppressed." 

The  last  paragragh  in  hand  of  the  Chancellor,  and  signed 
by  him. 

Pp.  2.     Endd. 


vol.  227,  176. 


Dec.  29.    549.        Sik  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Privy  Council. 

^aT'om*^'!  7fi'  ■^^'^  already  reported  that  the  King's  house  of  Kilmaynham, 

near  this  city,  was  much  decayed,  and  had  sued  for  money  to 
repair  it  in  time,  in  regard  it  is  His  Majesty's  chief  and  most 
convenient  house  in  this  kingdom,  and  in  his  opinion  neces- 
sary to  be  maintained.  Had  no  answer  till  now  of  late  he  has 
received  the  King's  letter  to  pass  away  that  remnant  of  land 
which  is  yet  left  tuito  it  in  demesne,  on  the  north  side  of  the 
river  of  Liffey  and  bridge  of  Kilmaynham,  to  Auditor  Sutton 
and  his  heirs  for  ever  in  fee-farm,  with  a  reservation  of  20i.  a 
year  ; — an  encounter  far  differing  from  his  purpose  and  from 
the  intention  he  had  to  be  a  good  steward  for  His  Majesty 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  333 


1609, 

and  those  that  should  come  after  him  into  this  place.  But 
although  the  profit  thereof  to  the  Deputies  here  be  very  little, 
and  his  own  interest  therein  much  less,  yet  he  has  presumed 
once  more  to  stay  the  grant  until  their  Lordships  shall  have 
considered  his  objections.  First,  the  house  may  be  thought 
worth  the  keeping  up  for  the  Deputies  to  lie  in,  as  there  is 
good  cause,  in  regard  of  the  great  inconvenience  of  resort  and 
noisomeness  of  continual  abiding  in  this  castle,  which  his  suc- 
cessors will  assuredly  find  to  be  much  greater  than  he  does  ; 
— albeit  he  might  justly  complain  of  it,  though  his  long 
breeding  in  this  country  has  made  him  sufEciently  incurious 
in  many  things  of  substance  and  form  when  they  do  not  other- 
wise cqncern  the  public  and  the  honour  of  this  State.  Now 
the  house  will  assuredly  go  to  ruin,  and  the  Deputies  will  be 
straitened  up,  when  these  lands  adjoining  shall  be  aliened 
away,  without  any  place,  either  of  pleasure  or  help  towards 
housekeeping,  excepting  one  meadow  with  a  small  piece  of 
ground.  This  parcel  of  the  demesne  thereof  is  but  one  small 
mile  distant  from  this  castle,  which  may  infer  it  to  be  a  thing 
not  to  be  contemned  by  the  Deputies,  where  they  must  have 
no  scope  of  ground  besides.  The  State  has  already  sustained 
an  irreparable  loss  of  between  1,500  and  2,000  barrels  of  tithe 
corn  yearly,  which  hitherto  belonged  to  the  Deputy's  house, 
until  this  last  Michaelmas.  And  now  if  this  little  commodity 
shall  be  transferred  away  too  from  a  public  use,  or  that  which 
is  not  much  disjoined  from  the  public,  he  fears  that  His 
Majesty  will  be  effectually  moved  either  to  acquire  these  things 
back  again,  or  to  make  a  larger  allowance  to  the  Deputies 
towards  their  housekeeping,  which  is  thus  greatly  impaired. 
Has  himself  incurred  the  displeasure  of  many,  and  some  of 
them  his  good  friends,  for  not  suffering  to  pass,  upon  books  of 
fee-farm,  some  things  which  are  yet  in  leases  for  many  years 
to  come.  This  is  the  second  time  that  he  has  thought  it  his 
duty  to  stay  this  other  part  of  the  demesnes  from  passing 
without  some  further  consideration.  Has  heard  so  well  of 
Mr.  Auditor  Sutton  that  he  wishes  him  a  better  thing,  and 
will  be  very  ready  to  expedite  him,  even  in  this  particular,  if 
they  signify  His  Majesty's  express  will  to  him  once  more  in 
that  behalf —Dublin  Castle,  29  December  1609. 
Pp.  2.     Signed.    Add.     Endd. 

Dec.  30.     550.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
vol!"l''p  373-  Warrant  to  grant  a  pension  of  Is.  a 'day  each,  Irish,  equal 

'   '  '      '  to  9d.  English,  to  Edmund  Morris  and  James  Ley,  in  regard  of 

their  service  done  in  Ireland  and  the  hurts  and  maims  by 
them  sustained. — Westminster,  30  December  1609. 

P.  1.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Enrol.  Endd.:  "Of  the 
30  of  December  1609.  From  the  Kinge's  Matie,  in  the  behalf 
of  Edmund  Morris  and  James  Ley,  for  a  pension  of  ix.  pence 
a  day  each.     Rec*!  the  1 1^^  of  Februarie  following." 


334 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1609. 
Dec.  31. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  227,  177. 


Dec.  31. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  227,  177  a. 


Dec. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  227,  178. 


551.  Sm  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Privy  Council. 
Advises  them  to  accept  of  Sir  James  Fullerton's  offer  for 

parting  with  the  lands  appertaining  to  the  fort  of  Mary- 
borough. Recommends  a  favourable  consideration  of  Sir 
Henry  Power,  governor  of  that  fort. — Dublin  Castle,  31  De- 
cember 1609. 

Pp.  2.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

552.  Captain  Lichfield  to  Salisbury. 

Having  been  employed  by  the  Lord  Deputy  in  the  service 
for  Sweden,  and,  contrary  to  expectation,  having  been  driven 
into  the  northern  parts,  holds  it  his  duty  to  make  known  a 
chief  cause  of  their  misfortunes.  These  most  wicked  and 
ungodly  creatures  who  are  the  occasion  of  their  now  troubling 
him  are  those  who  in  Carhngford  surprised  himself  on  ship- 
board, being  their  commander,  with  a  resolution  to  put  him 
and  those  few  English  sailors  that  were  with  him  to  the 
sword,  and  to  make  booty  of  the  goods  in  the  ship,  which  in 
some  sort  they  did.  But  it  pleased  God,  contrary  to  their 
determinations,  otherwise  to  determine,  in  which  business  he 
could  at  large  relate  all  accidents  ;  but  as  he  thinks  Sir 
Thomas  Phillipps,  who  was  at  the  same  time  present  in 
Carlingford,  has  made  them  known,  he  will  for  this  time 
only  touch  the  carriage  in  this  business  of  one  Hugh  Boy 
O'Neale,  a  branch  of  ,  an  ill  tree,  and  son  to  Sir  Turlogh 
M'Henry,  Knight,  for  some  occasion  at  this  time  joined  with 
Captain  Mastersonne  and  himself  (Lichfield)  ; — who  most  un- 
honestly  has  had  a  hand  from  the  first  to  the  last  in  all  their 
villianies,  and  has  been  a  chief  means  of  the  running  away 
of  those  that  are  gone,  who  for  the  most  part  are  such  as  have 
been  fostered  and  brought  up  in  rebellion  from  their  infancy, 
and  who,  in  his  opinion,  if  they  live  never  so  long,  will  be 
no  other  than  rebels,  which  they  have  not  stuck  publicly  to 
manifest  oftentimes  at  sea. — Newcastle,  last  of  December 
1609. 

The  same  Hugh  Boy  is  now  himself  run  from  them,  for 
whither  he  is  gone  or  about  what  business  they  know  not. 

Pp.  2.    Signed.     Add.    Endd. 

553.  Extraordinary  Charges. 

Extraordinary  charges  not  contained  in  the  Establishment 
are  either, — 

For  services  done  and  past ;  judges'  robes  for  their  circuits ; 
judges  and  other  councillors  at  their  first  coming,  for  tra- 
velling and  transportation  charges  ;  augmentation  of  fees 
to  judges ;  ofiicers  in  the  field  with  the  Lord  Deputy,  not 
contained  in  the  Establishment;  physicians'  fee  payable  to 
the  college ;  hai'binger,  commissaries  of  victuals,  paymasters, 
serjeants-at-arms ;  the  Lords  Presidents,  for  utensils  ;  im- 
post warrants ;  carriage  master ;  plantation  charges,  jurors, 
plotters,  mappers ;  reparation  of  boats ;  diet  and  charges  of 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  335 


1609. 


prisoners  in  the  Castle,  conduction  of  prisoners  into  England, 
head  money,  commissioners  of  accounts,  king-at-arms,  hire  of 
storehouses,  necessary  emptions  for  the  council  chamber,  &c. 
All  these  are  by  His  Majesty's  direction  or  by  long  con- 
tinuance, and  are  rather  in  the  nature  of  a  fee  than  a  gratuity 
(though  they  bear  that  name  in  the  concordatums  by  which 
they  are  paid),  and  are  paid  as  ordinary  payments  or  fees  are. 
In  which  nature  also  are  all  concordatums  and  wan-ants 
dormant.  Pursuivants,  gifts,  and  rewards,  riding  and  tra- 
velling charges  to  the  Lord  Deputy,  and  to  Councillors  of 
State  and  Commissioners  attending  him  in  journeys,  for  ser- 
vices done,  losses  sustained,  by  sea,  by  land  ;  these  neither 
can  nor  wiU  endure  patience  for  that  which  is  given  them  by 
concordatum. 

For  services  to  be  done  and  performed  : — warrants  of  im- 
prest ;  to  the  master  of  the  ordnance,  to  the  victualler,  to 
the  clerk  of  the  works,  to  the  overseer  of  fortifications  in 
Munster,  to  captains  of  forts  for  building  and  repairing  the 
forts,  for  the  better  securing  of  them,  for  levying  men  upon 
revolts.  All  these,  if  they  be  not  presently  satisfied  and 
furnished  with  money,  the  services  for  which  they  are  in- 
tended must  and  will  be  at  a  stand,  to  the  great  prejudice  and 
farther  charge  to  His  Majesty.  And  the  same  officers  do  also 
pass  a  particular  account  for  the  sums  received  on  such  war- 
rants. Carriage  of  letters,  messengers,  espials.  King's  ship 
and  galley  for  the  time,  unlocked  for  occasions,  as  this  of  late 
of  sending  forces  into  Sweatland  [Sweden],  &c.  Mem.  That  of 
all  these  heads  or  branches  of  extraordinaries  by  concordatum, 
that  which  is  disbursed  merely  for  reward  and  out  of  bounty  is 
far  the  least  (as  appears  in  the  last  ledger  book).  The  whole 
time  in  the  last  two  years,  under  the  title  of  gifts  and  re- 
wards, amounting  but  to  4,764?.  5s.  8d.  sterling  harps,  and  that 
also  most  commonly  to  save  a  greater  charge  duly  demanded 
by  them  from  His  Majesty,  with  incessant  importunity  and 
great  appearance  of  poverty. 

Of  these  general  heads  and  different  natures  of  extra- 
ordinaries,  those  for  gifts  and  rewards  (though  they  be  for  the 
support  and  encouragement  of  a  whole  kingdom)  are  not  the 
tenth  part.  And  yet  both  they  in  particular,  as  also  in  general 
all  the  other,  have  these  last  two  years  necessarily  been  in- 
creased, partly  by  the  flight  of  the  fugitive  earls  with  their 
followers,  partly  by  the  revolt  and  escape  of  the  Lord  of 
Delvin ;  but  more  especially  by  the  rebellion  of  O'Dogherty 
and  his  prosecution ;  and  by  that  and  the  former  occasions, 
the  two  last  summers'  surveying  journeys.  ' 

In  the  payment  of  all  which  extraordinaries  the  Treasurer  is 
merely  passive,  only  giving  satisfaction  of  them  by  direction, 
and  no  agent.  Howsoever,  he  is  not  ignorant  of,  or  absent 
at,  the  granting  of  most  of  them;  and  therefore  observes 
them  to  be  done  upon  good  consideration,  and  with  great 
deliberation. 


336 


lEELAND— JAMES  I. 


1609. 


His  Lordship  prays  that  the  allowance  of  l,000i.  English  a 
quarter,  besides  the  remain  of  the  revenue,  may  be  continued, 
which  is  also  the  desire  of  the  Lord  Deputy.  "Will  not  ex- 
ceed it  without  bleeding  occasion,  nor  without  notice  thereof 
given  to  his  Lordship. 

For  further  tie  thereunto,  humbly  desires  his  Lordship's 
peremptory  restraint  from  borrowing  of  money  there  to  be 
repaid  here  (except  1,000^.  or  2,000?.  sterling  at  most  for  the 
Lord  Deputy's  and  others  necessary  provisions),  that  both 
himself  and  his  agents  may  be  free  from  suspicion. 

Pp.  2.     Endd. :  "  The  beads  of  concordatums." 


[         1609.] 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  227,  180,181. 


Me.  Andrew's  Case. 
Statement  of  Mr.  Andrew's  case  relative  to  the  rights  and 
privileges  of  his  office  of  clerk  of  the  Crown, 
P.l.    Endd.     I^ot  dated,  but  probably  in  1609. 


[        1609  ?] 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  227,  182. 


[  1609  ?] 


Resteaint  of  Sale  of  Wine  and  Usquebagh. 
Memorial  of  the  causes  and  reasons  that  may  move  His 
Majesty  to  restrain  the  common  selling  of  wines  and  usque- 
bagh ;  stating  the  abuses  arising  from  their  unlimited  sale, 
and  soliciting  a  grant  for  31  years  of  the  sole  privilege  of 
selling  wines  and  usquebagh,  at  an  annual  rent. 

Pp.  3. 

Pensions. 

Memorandum  of  divers  persons  holding  pensions,  with 
notes  of  their  nature,  and  of  the  authority  by  which 
granted. 

James  Carroll,  deputy  clerk  of  the  check,  allowed  by  the 
last  establishment,  strengthened  by  Mr,  Fullerton's  patent, 
and  warranted  by  his  Lordship. 

Walter  Newton,  to  continue  during  pleasure. 

Gerrott  Birne.  Find  that  the  Lord  Deputy's  warrant 
makes  mention  of  the  Queen's  letter  to  grant  him  2s.  per 
diem  during  his  life  (the  copy  of  which  letters  so  testified 
under  Mr.  Winibank's  hand,  the  clerk  of  the  signet,  some  of 
them  have  seen),  but  the  warrant  bears  no  such  thing. 

Dermott  M'Morrice.  This  pension  was  granted  by  direc- 
tion out  of  England,  so  long  as  he  and  his  country  should 
continue  loyal. 

Richard  Langford.  This  pension  was  granted  to  Henry 
Roberts  by  direction  out  of  England,  and  resigned  to  Lang- 
ford,  which  he  holdeth  during  pleasure. 

Owen  ap  Hugh .     Sir  George  Greame,  he  holdeth 

this  pension  during  pleasure. 

Christopher  Wackley,  during  pleasure,  in  consideration  of 
loss  of  both  eyes  in  service. 


IRELAND — JAMES  T.  337 


1609. 


Murche  [Morogh]  M'Teige  Oge,  granted  by  the  Lord  Deputy 
for  a  special  good  service  in  discovering  and  apprehending 
the  traitor  Walter  Reawgh. 

Captain  Kelly,  during  pleasure. 

Martin  Lisley,  during  pleasure,  being  an  old  maimed  soldier 
and  a  good  servitor. 

Henry  Borrowes,  during  pleasure,  having  lost  his  arm  in 
service. 

James  Nott,  during  pleasure,  being  the  Earl  of  Tyrone's 
secretary,  and  came  from  him  bringing  with  him  letters  of 
importance  which  he  discovered  to  the  State. 

James  Delahide,  during  pleasure,  and  granted  in  respect  of 
his  maim  in  one  of  his  legs  in  service. 

John  Verdon,  during  pleasure,  and  a  very  old  man. 

John  Lenna,  during  pleasure,  and  granted  for  discovering 
Lapler's  treasure  (sic)  [treason  ?],  for  surprising  the  Castle  of 
Dublin. 

Nicholas  Crehall,  during  pleasure,  granted  in  recompense  of 
his  maim  in  service. 

Quintin  Routledge,  during  pleasure,  an  old  servitor  and  a 
horseman. 

WilUam  Hethrington,  during  pleasure,  and  granted  in 
recompense,  in  respect  of  divers  hurts  and  maims  in  service. 

Richard  Mapowther,  during  pleasure. 

Thomas  Parrott,  during  pleasure,  upon  resignment  of  Sir 
Henry  Warren,  upon  consideration,  the  said  Parrott  being 
also  a  servitor. 

Nicholas  Pine,  a  poor  man,  during  pleasure. 

John  M'Shery,  a  poor  lame  man,  during  pleasure. 

Francis  Gode,  during  pleasure,  in  respect  of  his  long  and 
dutiful  service. 

John  Gillett,  during  pleasure,  in  respect  of  service. 

Walter  Bradie,  during  pleasure,  by  direction  out  of  Eng- 
land. 

Garrott  M'Murtaugh  Cavanagh,  during  pleasure. 

Richard  Hudbanke,  during  pleasure,  resigned  by  Patrick 
Downey  for  consideration. 

John  Lj'e,  during  pleasure,  by  direction  out  of  England. 

Captain  Francis  Gameforth,  during  pleasure,  and  granted 
in  respect  of  his  maim  in  service,  being  one  of  the  corporals 
of  the  field. 

Rowland  Savage,  during  pleasure. 

Fargus  Greame,  during  pleasure,  a  servitor. 

Marcus  le  Strange,  during  pleasure,  by  direction  out  of 
England. 

Walter  White,  during  pleasure,  upon  resignation  of  Owen 
M'Mahon,  for  consideration. 

J  ohn  Cole,  during  pleasure,  and  granted  as  well  in  respect 
of  his  former  service  as  for  saving  the  prisoners  from  makino- 
escape  out  of  the  Castle  of  Dublin,  having  broken  prison, 
wherein  he  was  sore  hurt. 


338  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

William  Castie,  during  pleasure,  upon  resignation  of  Teige 
ne  Carricke,  for  consideration. 

Robert  Wliitelreade,  allowed  by  patent  as  porter  of  the 
storehouse  of  victuals  at  Dublin. 

Simon  Feilde,  during  pleasure. 

Hubert  Fox,  by  patent  during  life,  by  direction  out  of 
England. 

William  Bicknell,  supposed  to  be  dead,  during  pleasure, 
upon  surrender  of  Thomas  Osborne,  upon  consideration. 

Anthony  Huggins,  by  patent,  upon  direction  out  of  Eng- 
land. 

William  Rowles,  by  patent,  as  is  said. 

William  Brerton,  by  patent,  during  good  behaviour. 

Rory  M'Manus,  during  pleasure. 

Arthur  Brerton,  during  pleasure,  in  respect  of  service,  upon 
resignation  of  Robert  Bell,  for  consideration. 

Edmond  Birne,  during  pleasure,  by  direction  out  of  Eng- 
land, being  an  ancient  servitor,  and  a  very  old  man. 

The  Captain  of  the  King's  ship ,  Patrick  Hanlon,  bj' 

patent,  during  life,  by  direction  out  of  England. 

Thomas  Marshall,  during  pleasure. 

Christopher  Carless,  during  pleasure. 

Pensioners  by  letters  'patent. 

Donaugh  Earl  of  Thomond,  by  patent,  during  life. 

Lord  Bourke,  by  patent  for  life,  with  proviso  to  be  recalled 
either  by  the  King  or  six  of  the  Privy  Council,  whereof  the 
Lord  Treasurer,  our  principal  secretary,  to  be  one. 

Sir  Francis  Stafford, . 

Sir  WiUiam  Clarke, . 

Fp.  6. 

S.P.,  Ireland,    557.        JUDGES  and  LAW  OFFICERS,  with  their  Fees. 
^   ■      '      '  The  names  of  the  Judges  and  others  of  the  Long  Robe 

that  serve  His  Majesty  in  Ireland,  with  their  yearly  fees  and 
other  allowances. 

Lord  Chancellor,  his  fee,  200Z. ;  an  allowance  of  7s.  Qd.  per 
diem,  VMl.  I7s.  6c?. ;  allowance  for  impost  of  wines,  Vll. 

Master  of  the  Rolls,  his  fee,  37L  10s.  ;  an  increase, 
66L  13s.  4c?. ;  an  allowance  of  5s.  per  diem,  91?.  5s. ;  for 
house  rent,  20?. ;  for  beeves,  20?. ;  for  his  robes,  13?.  6s.  8c?. ; 
for  impost,  8?.  10s. 

Sir  Adam  Loftus,  Master  of  the  Chancery,  his  fee,  20?. 

Sir  Ambrose  Foorth,  one  other  of  the  Masters,  his  fee,  20?. 

Doctor  Dun,  one  of  the  Masters,  his  fee,  20?. 

Lord  Chief  Justice  of  the  Bench,  his  fee,  300?. ;  his  house 
rent,  20?. ;  beeves,  20?. ;  robes,  13?.  6s.  8d. ;  impost  of  wines, 
8?.  10s. 

Sir  Dominick  Sarsfield,  second  Justice  of  the  Bench,  his 
fee,  100?.  )  his  rbbes,  13?.  6s.  8c?. 

John  Sibthorpe,  another  Justice  there,  ditto. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  339 


1609. 

Sir  Nich.  Welsh,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas,  his 
fee,  521. 10s. ;  an  increase,  661.  13s.  id.  ;  an  allowance  of  6s. 
per  diem,  911.  5s. ;  his  robes,  131.  6s.  8d. ;  his  impost,  81.  10s. 

Sir  Charles  Calthrop,  Justice  in  the  Common  Pleas,  his  fee, 
200Z.  ;  his  robes,  13?.  6s.  8d. 

Peter  Palmer,  another  Justice  there,  his  fee,  100?.  ;  his 
robes,  13?.  6s.  8d. 

Lord  Chief  Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  his  fee,  52?.  10s. ;  in- 
crease, 66?.  13s.  4<d.  ;  5s.  per  diem,  91?.  5s. ;  house  rent,  20?. ; 
beeves,  20?.  ;  robes,  IS?.  6s.  8d. ;  impost,  8?.  10s. 

The  Chancellor  there,  his  fee,  10?.  10s. ;  for  his  sealing 
days,  13?.  6s.  8d. 

Sir  Robert  Oglesthorpe,  one  of  the  Barons,  his  fee,  100?. ; 
his  robes,  13?.  6s.  8d. 

John  Eliott,  one  of  the  Barons,  his  fee,  66?.  13s.  4<d.  ;  his 
robes,  13?.  6s.  8c?. 

Jeffray  Osbaldston,  Justice  in  Connaught,  his  fee,  100?. 

Sir  Dominick  Sarsfield,  Chief  Justice  in  Munster,  his  fee, 
100?. 

Henry  Gosnoll,  second  Justice  of  Munster,  his  fee, 
6G?.  13s.  4d 

The  Attorney  of  Munster,  his  fee,  13?.  6s.  Sc^. 

Attorney  of  Connaught,  his  fee,  20?. 

Attorney  of  Ulster,  his  fee,  20?. 

Pp.  4.  Endd. :  "  The  names  of  the  Judges  in  Ireland  and 
the  entertainments  they  have." 

^■?'i^r'^°'^'   558.        Distributions  of  Undertakeable  Lands. 

vol.  227,  185. 

A  note  of  the  several  proportions  of  the  undertakeable 
land  besides  the  Londoners,  &c. 

Ardmagh, 

)) 
Tyrone, 

j> 

33 

Donegall, 

;? 

Fermanagh, 

3> 

Cavan, 


Sum  of  acres  for  Britons   -  -  .       162,500. 

Proportions  for  Britons,   great  22,   middle   31,  small  70* 
123,  besides  Londoners,  &c, 

Y  2 


Great. 

Middle. 

Small. 

Acres. 

Britons 

3 

4 

12 

24,000 

Servitors 

1 

3 

2 

Natives 

0 

2 

5 

Britons 

6 

10 

23 

50,000 

Servitors 

1 

2 

7 

Natives 

1 

2 

7 

Britons 

6 

9 

17 

38,500 

Servitors 

3 

0 

6 

Natives 

0 

0 

12 

Britons 

3 

2 

6 

21,000 

Servitors 

1 

1 

4 

Natives 

2 

1 

4 

Britons 

4 

6 

12 

29,000 

Servitors 

1 

3 

5 

Natives 

2 

3 

10 

340  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

Sum  total  of  proportions,  great  34,  middle  48,  small 
132,  =  214. 

So  will  remain  for  servitors  and  natives  proportions  91, 
making  acres  113,500. 

The  total  of  all,  276,000  acres. 
P.  1.     Endd.     "Proportions." 

S  P.,  Ireland,      559,  COMMOBITIES   VENDIBLE  at  DeREY 

vol.  227,  185  A.  oj.    J.  J.      J-  T   . 

btatement  oi  commodities  most  vendible  at  the  Derry,  and 
of  the  productions  of  the  country  in  return. 

The  most  vendible  commodities  at  the  Derry  and  north 
parts  of  Ireland  are  all  manner  of  wines,  aqua  vita3,  strong 
.  waters,  salt,  kersies,  broadcloth,  starch,  grocery,  tobacco,  gun° 
powder,  hops,  fowling  pieces,  paper,  knives,  gloves,  needles, 
tape,  hard  and  soft  wax,  all  manner  of  felts  for  men  and 
children,  glasses,  earthenware,  all  manner  of  pewter,  pins, 
points,  laces,  ribbons,  combs,  stuffs,  nails  of  all  sorts,  drugs, 
holland,  cambric,  lawn,  lace,  thread,  madder,  indigo,  brass  and 
iron  pots,  brewing  vessels,  kettles,  playing  and  working  cards. 

The  commodities  of  the  country  ;  live  cattle,  beeves,  hides, 
and  tallow,  between  Michaelmas  and  Christmas,  salmon  and 
herrings  between  Midsummer  and  Michaelmas.  These  the 
merchants  of  Ireland  do  most  commonly  give  in  truck,  for 
there  are  little  monies  stirring. 

Pp.  1. 

S.P.,  Ireland,     500.  LOED   EoCHE  AND   FeEMOT'S  PETITION. 

Petition  of  Lord  Roche  and  Fermoy  to  the  Privy  Counoil, 
praying  for  a  grant  of  the  reversion  of  the  lease  of  Ballin- 
drett  aZms  Bridgetown,  in  fee  farm,  and  that  he  might  make 
surrender  of  all  his  lands,  to  be  re-granted  by  letters  patent 
from  the  King. 
Pp.  1. 

S.P.,  Ireland,      56I.  DAVID  LoED   RoCHE  AND  FeRMOT  to   SaLISBUEY. 

'      '  Humbly  craves  redress  of  the  great  wrong  which  was  lately 

done  him  by  Sir  Dominick  Sarsfield,  Chief  Justice  of  this 
province,  and  second  Justice  of  the  King's  Bench  in  this  realm, 
in  crossing  and  preventing  him  of  the  purchase  of  Carrig- 
leamleary,  being  of  his  proper  inheritance  and  within  his 
barony.  Intended  to  purchase  the  same  to  win  his  ease  and 
keep  him  from  being  troublesome  to  his  gracious  sovereign  (as 
he  has  been  for  fifteen  months)  concerning  the  said  lands  and 
other  parcels,  whereof  his  father  (as  he  takes  it)  was  unjustly 
dispossessed  ;  and  though  he  reposed  special  trust  in  the  said 
Sir  Dominick  touching  the  said  lands,  little  suspecting  of  his 
said  dealing,  yet  ho,  contrary  to  his  (Lord  Roche's)  expecta- 
tion, by  giving  of  fifty  pounds  more  than  he  (Lord  Roche) 
was  to  give,  purchased  the  same  for  himself ;  which  is  a  thing 
that  the  Lord  President,  Sir  Thomas  Norreys,  for  whom  that 
place   lay  most   convenient   next  himself,  and  the  late  Lord 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  341 


& 


1609. 

President,  refused  to  deal  with,  they  being  profferred  thereof 
at  a  far  easier  rate  than  now  it  was  sold  for,  regarding  his 
(Lord  Eoche's)  right  and  interest  therein.  And  now  this  new 
purchaser  (as  he  is  informed),  in  order  to  strengthen  his  title, 
goes  about  to  procure  His  Majesty's  letters  hither,  to  accept 
the  surrender  of  the  old  letters  patent  thereof,  and  to  take 
the  same  from  His  Highness,  with  an  abatement  of  part  of  the 
rent  thereof  Purposes  to  send  his  Lordship  a  brief  by  his 
son,  whom  he  means  to  send  to  Oxenford  the  next  summer. 
Beseeches  him  not  to  give  way  to  any  letter  against  him  from 
thence  till  then. 

Pp.  2.    Signed.    Sealed.    Add.    Endd. 

S.P.,  Ireland,     5g2.  CASE  aS  tO  LOED  ROCHE'S  TiTLE  to  CARRIGLEAMLEARY. 

vol  227    188 

'      '  The  state  of  the  title  of  Carrigleamleary,  His  Majesty's 

right  thereunto,  and  the  Lord  Eoche's  claim. 

Eepresents,  in  the  interest  of  Sir  Dominick  Sarsfield,  that 
Lord  Eoche's  claim  has  no  legal  foundation  ;  that  Sir  Dominick 
Sarsfield's  title  to  the  lands  is  by  Act  of  Parliament,  by  ofHce, 
by  letters  patent,  by  two  orders  of  the  commissioners,  and 
by  24  years'  quiet  possession. 

While  the  Lord  Eoche's  title  is  by  conveyance  from  a 
second  brother,  which  cannot  avail  him  unless  he  first  prove 
the  reputed  son  of  the  elder  brother  to  be  a  bastard,  which 
for  the  antiquity  thereof  cannot  be  proved  but  by  admittance 
of  perjury  (if  it  were  true,  as  it  is  not). 

Secondly,  he  must  prove  the  feoffment  made  by  the  second 
brother  to  have  been  duly  prosecuted ;  which  is  a  thing 
impossible,  inasmuch  as  the  same  feoffment  and  prosecution 
thereof  M^as  formerly  in  question  before  the  great  commis- 
sioners, and  then  could  not  be  proved,  as  appeared  by  the  said 
order,  &c. 

P.  1.    Endd. 

S.P.,  Ireland,     563^  WlLLIAM  AnGEIX'S  PETITION. 

vol.  227,  189.  T.     .   . 

Petition  of  William  Angell  to  Salisbury  for  a  grant  of  lands 
in  the  north  of  Ireland,  in  lieu  of  certain  sums  of  money  due 
to  him. 

P.  1. 

vor'227'^^i9o'  ^^^'  Petition  of  sundry  Merchants  of  Dublin  to  Salisbury, 
for  payment  of  the  following  sums  lent  by  them  to  the 
Treasurer  of  Ireland. 

Eichard  Barry,  1,144Z. ;  John  Cusack,  1,300Z. ;  Eobert 
Kenneday,  l,'7ni. ;  Thomas  Carroll,  1,3 20?. ;  Eichard  Brice, 
2,346Z. ;  Thomas  Bird,  600?. ;  John  Horesh,  234Z. ;  Nicholas 
Daniell,  120?.;  Nichola-s  Carmick,  1,000?.;  Mr.  Curtaine, 
403?. ;  Mr.  Banckes,  100?.  ;  John  Begg,  800?. ;  Georo-e 
Chambers,  500?.  ;  Philip  Moyle,  195?.  ;  Patrick  Conlev 
400?. ;  Mr.  Boothby,  100?.  ^' 

P.  1. 


342  lEELAND— JAMES   I. 


1609. 
Carte  Papers,     595,  C^SE   of  LORB   BOURKE,  of  CASTLE  CoNNELL. 

"The  state  of  the  petitioner's  cause  and  the  proceedings 
thereof  in  the  Exchequer  is  shortly  thus.  About  three  years 
and  a  half  since  the  Lord  Bourke,  of  Castle  Connell,  who  has 
married  the  Lady  Margaret  Bourke,  aunt  to  the  Earl  of  Clan- 
riekard  that  now  is,  and  widow  of  Richard  Bourke  of  Derry 
Maclaghlin,  in  the  county  of  Galway,  deceased,  came  unto  me 
and  informed  me  that,  upon  the  marriage  of  Richard  Bourke 
with  the  Lady  Margaret,  which  was  contracted  and  made 
with  the  consent  of  all  her  friends,  Richard  Bourke  conveyed 
a  good  portion  of  his  lands  to  the  use  of  the  said  lady  for 
her  jointure,  and  withal  conveyed  the  inheritance  of  all  his 
lands  in  Ireland  to  the  use  of  his  heirs  males  begotten  upon 
the  body  of  the  said  Margaret.  After  this  assurance  he  had 
issue  a  son  named  Thomas,  lawfully  begotten  upon  the  body 
of  the  said  lady,  and  died  seised  of  Derry  Maclaghlin  and 
other  lands  of  good  value,  not  long  before  the  end  of  the  late 
rebeUioD.  Immediately  after  Richard  died,  this  petitioner, 
John  Bourke,  being  the  reputed  son  of  Richard,  but  not 
legitimate,  taking  advantage  of  the  troublesome  time,  took 
possession  of  the  lands  whereof  Richard  died  seised,  and  held 
the  same  by  strong  hand ;  claiming  an  estate  therein  from 
Richard  by  a  feoffment  to  uses  supposed  to  be  made  divers 
years  before  by  Richard's  death,  of  aU  his  lands  in  Ireland 
without  any  exception,  yet  without  any  consideration  at  all. 

The  Lord  Bourke  informed  me  further,  that  the  lands  being 
holden  of  the  Crown  by  knight's  service,  the  said  Thomas,  his 
son-in-law,  ought  to  be  His  Majesty's  ward,  and  that  he  had 
endeavoured  to  find  an  office  to  entitle  His  Majesty  to  the 
wardship ;  but  that  John  Bourke  so  laboured  the  jurors  to 
find  the  said  forged  or  fraudulent  feoffment,  that  he  could  not 
obtain  from  them  any  certain  verdict  for  the  King.  There- 
upon the  Lord  Bourke  entreated  me  that  I  would  use  my  best 
endeavours  to  right  the  fatherless  infant,  being  His  Majesty's 
ward,  which  I  promised,  according  to  the  duty  of  my  place,  to 
perform. 

Shortly  after  this  I  was  sent  for  into  England ;  so  that  for 
one  whole  year  following  there  was  nothing  done  in  this 
business. 

The  second  term  after  my  return,  the  Lady  Bourke  solicited 
me,  by  her  letters,  to  take  some  course  in  this  cause.  _  John 
Bourke  being  then  in  town,  I  preferred  an  information  of 
intrusion  against  him,  to  the  end  that  I  might  know  whether 
he  claimed  the  lands  as  heir  or  as  a  purchaser ;  and  I  was  con- 
tent that  he  should  have  time  to  answer  the  next  term  following. 
At  which  time  he  made  answer,  and  entitled  himself  to  the 
lands  by  a  feoffment  from  Richard  Bourke  long  before  his  death, 
which  is  the  forged  or  fraudulent  feoffment  before  mentioned. 
Thereupon  I  preferred  an  English  bill  against  him,  setting 
forth  the  conveyance  made  by  Richard  Bourke  to  the  use  of 
himself  and  his  heirs  males  begotten  upon  the  body  of  the 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  343 


1609. 

Lady  Margaret ;  that  he  had  Thomas  Bourke  by  the  lady, 
and  afterwards  died  seised;  that  the  lands  descended  to 
Thomas,  who  is  now  His  Majesty's  ward ;  and  that  John, 
being  a"  reputed  son  of  Richard,  but  not  legitimate,  entered 
into  the  lands  in  the  time  of  rebellion,  claiming  it  by  colour  of 
a  feoffment  which  is  either  forged  or  fraudulent,  because  his 
father  still  held  the  possession  of  the  lands  and  took  the 
profits  until  his  death,  with  divers  other  arguments  of  forgery 
and  fraud.  To  this  bill  he  was  drawn  to  answer  with  diffi- 
culty ;  and  having  committed  contempts  to  the  court  he 
received  favours  in  that  behalf,  and  we  were  at  issue  on 
Trinity  Term  last ;  and  I  caused  the  witnesses  to  be  examined 
for  the  King  in  the  vacation,  with  a  full  purpose  to  bring 
the  matter  to  a  final  hearing  this  last  Michaelmas  Term,  which 
is  a  necessary  preparation  for  the  officer,  and  at  the  same  time 
to  find  the  office  at  the  Exchequer  bar.  All  which  had  been 
performed,  but  that   [  ^]  John  Bourke  was  deferred 

till  this  last  term,  because  his  witnesses  were  not  present ; 
^  and  now  again,  when  he  had  his  witnesses,  the  jury  did  not 

appear." 

Pp.  2.     Hoi.     Rough  draft.     Endd.  by  Sir  John  Davys  : 
"  Certificate,  &c.,  de  causa  de  Derry  Mclaghlin." 

July  1.       566.        Sir  Thomas  Eidgeway  to  Sir  Julius  C^sar.^ 
Lansdowne  ^SS.,  Represents  most  urgently  the  embarrassed  condition  of  the 

]3.M.      '  Treasury,  "  Never  was  the  needyest  landlord  more  watchful  of 

the  half  yere's  day." — Rathfernam  (Rathfarnham),  1  July  1609. 
Pp.  IJ.     Hoi.     Sealed.     Add. 

July  2.       567.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Privy  Council. 

t1  227^^92'^'  ^^^   ^^^'^   '-'^^^  *^®   pirate   Jennings.     Complains   of  the 

'     '  agents   of  Dublin   and    Waterford   for   cessing   of    soldiers. 

Informs  them  that  there  are  now  200  or  .300  men  in  readiness 
to  be  transported  into  Sweden  by  Captain  R.  Bingiey.  Repre- 
sents the  inexpediency  of  giving  such  commissions  to  English 
commanders  who  drain  the  country  of  English,  whereas  if 
Irish  commanders  were  appointed  a  great  benefit  would 
ensue.— Dublin  Castle,  2  July  1609. 

Pp.3.     Signed.     Add.     .E/^dci.  .•"  Reed,  the  25th." 

July  2.       568.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 

^^i'lTl^^s'  ^^^  ®®°*  *^*^  charge  of  the  Master  of  the  Ordnance  defal- 

cable  upon  the  apparel  from  the  1st  of  October  1603  to  the 
last  of  March  1605  (at  which  time  the  apparelling  of  the 
soldier  by  the  provost  masters  was  forbidden)  to  Sir  Julius 
Csesar,  according  to  his  Lordship's  direction.  Has  likewise 
caused  Mr.  Treasurer  to  transmit  a  brief  collection  of  the  re- 
ceipts and  issues  of  the  revenue  and  of  the  concordatums, 

'  Undecipherable. 

2  This  and  the  following  articles  have  been  accidentally  misplaced  from  chro- 
nological order. 


344  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

1609. 

upon  perusal  of  which  it  will  appear  that  he  has  not  been  so 
open-handed  as  it  seems  has  been  reported;  for,  albeit  the 
concordatums  are  more  and  greater  than  he  wishes  they  were, 
yet  they  are  either  directed  from  thence,  or  are  of  such  conse- 
quence that  the  service  cannot  be  performed  without  them. 

For  the  friar,  Owen  Grome  Magragh,  who  is  condemned  of 
high  treason,  the  jury  would  never  have  found  him  guilty, 
albeit  the  evidence  was  most  plain,  had  not  the  Baron  of 
Delvin  come,  into  the  court  and  justified  his  confession  of 
him,  which  he  was  very  loath  to  have  done ;  neither  would 
he  (Chichester)  have  pressed  him  thereto  as  he  did,  were  it 
not  to  countenance  the  course  of  their  proceedings  by  the 
law,  and  to  uphold  the  honour  thereof,  which  otherwise 
amongst  this  people  would  soon  grow  contemptible  and  of  no 
regard. 

For  the  man  himself,  he  is  very  old  and  no  way  able  to  do 
harm  or  contrive  a  mischief  Being  neither  active  nor  inge- 
nious, his  execution  will  rather  make  him  a  martyr  among 
this  people  than  beget  amendment  in  them  ;  for,  as  long  as 
there  is  a  traitor  or  a  rebel,  there  will  be  a  priest  to  keep  his 
counsel,  and  if  it  seem  good  to  his  Lordship  (in  respect  of  the 
Lord  of  Delvin)  to  have  him  pardoned,  he  (Chichester)  can  see 
no  inconvenience  that  can  come  thereof;  and  he  suggests  that 
he  may  rather  be  confined  to  some  place  or  county  in  Ulster 
than  banished  ;  inasmuch  as  the  Baron  promises  good  intel- 
ligence by  him,  which  he  (Chichester)  in  his  conscience  thinks 
he  truly  intends  if  occasion  be,  for  he  finds  him  to  acknowledge 
most  thankfully  the  favour  he  has  received,  and  to  leave  the 
acquaintance  of  his  ill  counsellors  ;  and  if  he  be  banished,  it 
will  be  thought  by  the  rest  of  his  profession  beyond  the  seas 
that  either  they  have  not  law  to  put  them  to  death,  or  that 
.  they  dare  not,  when  here  the  contrary  is  apparent,  two  or 
three  of  their  priests  having  been  executed  since  his  time. 
Has  made  bold  to  deliver  his  opinion,  and  submits  himself  to 
what  his  Lordship  shall  think  fit. 

Has  declared  in  the  letter  to  the  Lords  the  course  held  with 
Sir  Neyle  O'Donnell,  and  its  success.  Makes  bold  to  ask  to 
be  directed  to  send  him  and  Sir  Donnell  O'Cahane  thither, 
for  here  (besides  their  practices  to  escape)  their  friends  and 
followers  have  their  eyes  upon  them,  and  if  either  of  them 
should  break  prison  it  would  undoubtedly  hinder  the  planta- 
tion and  stir  a  rebellion  in  those  parts.  Both  countenances  and 
supports  the  Lord  of  Howththe  best  he  may,  according  to  Ms 
Lordship's  directions,  and  has  imparted  bis  care  and  provision 
made  in  the  behalf  of  the  Baron  of  Delvin  to  himself  and  his 
friends  ;  which  labour  he  might  have  spared,  for  Howth  had 
dispersed  sundry  copies  of  the  letters  before  he  came  over, 
but  all  he  (Chichester)  can  do  will  make  no  reconcilement 
betwixt  them,  which  in  his  opinion  is  not  much  to  be  wished. 
The  Lord  of  Howth  carries  himself  as  a  discontented  man. 
If  he  were  able  to  do  harm,  no  good  is  to  be  expected  from 
him. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  345 


1609. 


Sir  Garrett  Moore  is  greatly  bound  to  liis  Lordsiiip,  which 
he  will  ever  acknowledge  and  so  will  all  his  friends  ;  for,  albeit 
he  (Chichester)  was  satisfied  that  he  was  wrongfully  accused, 
yet,  the  accuser  and  sundry  examples  considered,  his  acquittal 
and  dispatch  were  more  than  ordinary. 

The  Viscount  Gormestowne  [Gormanstown]  takes  it  ill  at  the 
hands  of  his  brother-in-law,  the  Lord  of  Howth,  that  he  put  him 
into  his  pardon ;  and  came  to  him  (Chichester)  with  protesta- 
tions that  he  knew  no  cause  for  it,  only  he  remembers  that  the 
Lord  of  Howth  long  since  demanded  of  him  whether  he  would 
take  his  part  and  draw  his  sword  in  a  quarrel  he  had  in  hand ; 
his  answer  was,  that  Avere  it  not  against  a  friend  as  dear  unto 
him  as  himself,  he  would ;  at  which  time  it  was  far  from  his 
thought  that  he  intended  any  traitorous  courses,  albeit  he 
now  finds  that  he  had  at  that  time  entered  into  the  conspi- 
racy, out  of  which  Howth  thought  him  in  danger,  and  so  put 
him  into  the  pardon.  Other  cause  he  knows  none,  but  desires 
rather  to  quit  the  benefit  of  his  pardon  and  put  himself  to 
his  trial  than  to  stand  suspected.  The  like  did  Varden,  the 
priest,  who  came  and  offered  himself  to  the  trial  of  the  law 
for  any  criminal  cause,  to  which  purpose  he  has  given  good 
assurance  for  his  appearance  when  he  is  called  for.  This 
makes  it  apparent  that  Howth,  in  all  his  discoveries,  mixed 
falsehood  with  truth,  and  there  is  good  cause  to  believe  that 
he  dealt  falsely  on  both  sides.  Prays  that  God  may  forgive 
him,  and  that  he  (Chichester)  may  never  have  any  more  to  do 
with  him. 

His  Lordship  directed  long  since  that  he  (Chichester)  should 
call  unto  the  Lord  of  Gormestowne  and  Sir  Thomas  Fitz- 
williams  for  payment  of  the  500Z.  by  them  forfeited  to  the  King 
upon  the  revolt  of  Sir  Cayre  [Cahir]  O'Doghertie,  for  whom 
they  stood  bound,  which  money  His  Majesty  has  bestowed 
upon  Mr.  Florio.  Acquainted  them  with  his  Lordship's  noble 
care  of  them  and  that  he  had  authorised  him  to  abate  part  of 
the  principal,  so  they  would  make  speedy  payment  of  the 
rest,  and  had  upon  that  consideration  reduced  it  from  English 
to  Irish ;  which  favour  they  thankfully  acknowledged,  but 
pleaded  inability  and  want  of  money,  and  rather  sought  to 
have  all  forgiven  than  to  set  down  a  course  for  the  payment 
of  any  part  thereof  Whereupon  (after  many  sendings  and 
demands  of  payment),  he  required  the  Court  of  Exchequer  to 
proceed  against  them  ;  and  now  they  make  proffer  of  2001., 
which  he  refused,  having  no  authority  to  abate  so  much  of 
the  principal,  albeit  he  knows  they  are  not  well  able  to  spare 
so  much  ;  if  Mr.  Florio  will  accept  thereof  or  of  250^.  if  his 
Lordship  please  to  direct  him  payment  out  of  the  next  trea- 
sure, will  cause  them  to  repay  the  same  to  Mr.  Treasurer  here. 
This  will  be  a  great  favour  to  them,  and  it  is  as  much  as  they 
can  be  drawn  imto  without  force  of  law,  and  more  by  50^ 
than  they  promise  him  to  pay,— Dublin  Castle,  2  July  1609. ' 

Piy.  4.     Signed.    Uncloses, 


346  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 


1609. 
July  [2].     569.        Lord  Gormanston  and  Sir  Tho.  Fitzwilliams  to  Salis- 

S.P.,  Ireland,  bury. 

'      '  Offer  Mr.  Florio  200l.in  satisfaction  of  5001.,  forfeited  on 

their  recognizance,  as  sureties  for  Sir  Gahir  O'Dogherty, — 
Dublin,  [ — ]  July  1609. 

P.  1.    Signed.    Sealed.    Add.    Endd. 

July  11.     570.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

™^^-  -^jj  Eecommend  the  bearers,  Captain  Thomas  Mansell,  Captain 

^°  ■   '   '     '  William  Fisher,  Nicholas  Isaac,  and  Thomas  Pinder,  employed 

by  divers  gentlemen  and  merchants  of  good  worth,  that  are 
desirous  to  undertake  the  whole  county  of  Donegal,  and  pro- 
pose not  only  to  build  upon  the  several  proportions  according* 
to  the  rules  prescribed  in  the  printed  articles,  but  also  to 
erect  and  fortify  a  port  town  near  the  seaside  where  they 
shall  find  most  convenient.  The  gentlemen  employed  by 
them  are  to  take  view  of  the  place  and  report.  But  since  the 
captains  of  the  forts  thereabouts,  as  Sir  Henry  FoUiot  at 
Ballyshannon,  and  the  rest  at  Donegal,  Donnalong  and  Castle- 
ne-do,  out  of  doubt  of  their  own  hindrance  and  loss  of  enter- 
tainments, may  haply  use  some  secret  and  underhand  means 
to  dishearten  them  from  their  enterprise,  he  (Chichester)  is  to 
take  all  care  to  prevent  such  practices. — Whitehall,  11  July 
1609. 

Signed :  R.  Salisbury,  T.  Sufifolke,  E.  Worcester,  J.  Herbert, 
Jul.  Csesar,  H.  Bruce,  Edward  Parry. 

P.  1.  Add.  Endd.  in  Chichester's  hand:  "Of  the  10*  of 
July  1609.  From  the  Lis.  of  the  Council,  in  the  behalfe  of 
certaine  captaines  and  merchantes  for  lands  in  the  countie 
of  Donnagall.  Delyvered  by  Capfi  Mansell  and  Captain 
Fysher,  the  28  eodem." 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  347 


vol.  228,  2.1 


1610. 

1610. 

Jan.  9.        571.        The  first  Conference  with  the  Deputies  of  London  for 

S.P.,  Ireland,  the  PLANTATION  of  ULSTER. 

This  day  Sir  Roger  Wilbraham,  Sir  Anthony  St.  Leger,  Sir 
James  Ley,  Sir  James  Fullerton,  Knights,  commissioners  for 
Irish  causes,  assisted  by  Mr.  Corbett  and  Mr.  Edwards,  clerks  of 
the  Council,  met  with  the  London  Deputies  in  Mr.  Recorder's 
chambers  in  the  Temple,  and  there  commenced  the  business 
of  the  Plantation  of  Ulster.  The  course  held  in  the  consulta- 
tion was  to  consider  the  City's  demands,  and  accommodate 
the  same  in  such  manner  as  might  be  least  chargeable  to  the 
King  and  of  most  advantage  of  the  plantation  ;  wherein  the 
demand  of  4,000  acres  to  be  laid  to  the  Dyrrie  and  3,000  to 
Cokaine  came  first  in  question. 

Demand  of  4,000  acres  of  land  to  he  laid  to  the  Dyrrey. 

The  deputies  for  London  demanded  4,000  acres  to  be  laid 
out  for  the  use  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  Derry,  on  the  same 
side  of  the  river  as  the  town  stands,  excluding  aU.  and  every 
part  of  Adhortie's  [O'Dogherty's]  land,  and  also  the  castle 
of  Culmore  upon  the  mouth  of  the  river  ;  and  as  these  4,000 
acres  wiU  comprise  Lady  Paulett's  land  and  what  else  may 
haply  belong  to  the  Bishop  of  Derry,  which  is  not  yet  known, 
they  desire  that  all  those  titles  may  be  cleared  at  the  King's 
charge.  However,  they  intend  to  build  churches,  and  make 
endowments  of  competent  livings  for  the  maintenance  of  the 
ministry. 

Anstver. — It  was  thought  meet,  albeit  the  quantities  of  acres 
demanded  would  fall  out  to  be  a  very  large  extent,  being 
taken  all  on  the  same  side  of  the  river  and  clearing  the  Lady 
Pawlett's  title  chargeable  to  the  King,  yet  that,  for  furthering 
the  plantation,  their  demand  should  be  made  good  ;  excepting 
the  Bishop  of  Derry's  title,  especially  that  which  he  had  for  a 
seat  within  the  town  of  Derry,  either  for  a  house  for  himself 
or  for  a  dean  and  chapter,  which  they  leave  to  the  considera- 
tion of  the  Lords. 

Demand  of  3,000  acres  in  Golraine. 

The  City  deputies  who  were  sent  into  Ireland  observed, 
that  the  castle  of  Colraine  stood  on  the  west  side  of  the  Ban 
in  the  county  of  Colraine,  and  that  the  river  bank  rose  up  so 
steep  on  that  side  that  a  town  could  not  be  seated  there, 

'  The  volume  commences  -with  No.  2. 


348 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1610. 


Jan.  10. 

B.P.,  Ireland, 

vol.  228,  3. 


Jan.  10. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  228,  4. 


Jan.  12. 

3.r.,  Ireland, 

vol.  228,  fr. 


either  for  water  or  for  fishing.  Finding  the  other  side  of  the 
Ban,  where  the  town  of  Colraine  formerly  stood,  in  the  county 
of  Antrim,  more  fit  to  build  a  city,  they  desire  leave  to  build 
the  town  there,  and  to  have  3,000  acres  adjacent  to  it  on  the 
same  side,  in  the  county  of  Antrim. 

Answer. — The  demand  of  3,000  acres  to  100  houses  has  no 
proportion  to  the  other  of  4,000  acres  to  200  houses  ;  and  the 
King  has  no  ground  on  that  side  of  the  river  to  lay  to  the 
town,  the  whole  country  thereabouts  belonging  to  Sir  Eandall 
MacDonnel.  Move  that  they  would  take  1,000  acres  on  that 
side  and  2,000  on  the  other.  This  they  refused,  insisting  on 
the  first  demand,  which  was  left  to  their  Lordships. 

Demand  of  the  woods  of  ClancumJcen  [Glanconkeyne] 
and  Killeitragh. 
The  third  demand  in  regard  to  these  woods  was  respited, 
because  it  grew  late,  until  the  next  meeting  on  Friday ;  but 
by  the  conference  that  passed  it  was  observed  that  that  point 
would  take  up  some  time,  as  it  was  conceived  that  the  woods 
were  theirs  to  cut  down  and  sell,  wherein  it  were  meet  some 
directions  were  given. 
Pp.  2.     Eoidd. 

572.  The  King  to  the  Lord  Deputy. 

That  the  bearer,  Dudley  Carleton,  Esq.,  be  made  one  of  the 
secretaries  in  Ireland,  vacant  by  the  death  of  Sir  Jeffrey  Fenton, 
with  all  fees,  fee,  and  that  he  be  of  the  Council  of  Ireland. — 
Westminster,  10  January  1609. 

P.  1 .     Copy.     Endd. :  "  Mr.  Carleton,  Ireland." 

573.  Iron  Works  in  Munstee. 

Order  by  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Council,  in  the  case  be- 
tween William  Chissell  and  Sir  Richard  Boyle,  Kt.,  Thomas 
Ball,  and  others,  relative  to  certain  iron  works  in  Munster. 

Signed :  Tho.  Dublin,  Cane,  Geo.  Derriensis,  Thos.  Eidge- 
way,  Eich.  Wingfield,  Oli.  St.  John,  Ad.  Loftus,  Eich.  Cook. 

Pp.  3.     Copy,  large  paper.    Endd. 

574.  The  second  Con  ference  about  the  Plantation  of  Ulster. 
The  conference  beginning  with  a  repetition  of  that  which 

passed  at  the  former  meeting  ;  those  of  London  required, — 

Demand. — That  7,000  acres  of  pasture  ground  might  be 
laid  adjacent  to  the  town,  without  bogs,  mountains,  or  woods. 
Answer. — That  the  bogs  and  mountains  being  good  feeding 
grounds,  are  not  to  be  excepted  in  laying  out  commons,  unless 
they  would  suffer  all  such  bogs  and  hills  to  be  taken  by  other 
men,  which  would  be  inconvenient  to  the  towns,  or  keep  them 
as  part  of  the  adjacent  ground,  and  so  they  would  have  a  greater 
quantity  of  acres  than  they  demanded. — After  much  alterca- 
tion, left  undecided. 

Demand. — To  have  the  whole  county  of  Colraine,  whatso- 
ever quantity  more  or  less,  undertaken  at  the  rates  set  down 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.         •  349 


1610. 


■without  exception  of  any  part,  and  to  express  themselves 
better,  they  name  the  Abbey  of  Dungevin,  with  the  demesnes 
more  or  less,  the  castle  of  Limvady,  and  every  other  part  of 
the  said  county. 

Aiiswer. — That  it  might  be  the  said  abbey,  with  the  de- 
mesnes, was  ali-eady  granted  to  the  College  of  Dublin,  and 
would  be  hard  to  get  back  again.  Moreover  it  had  been  told 
them,  that  divers  of  the  Irish,  as  Manus  O'Kane  and  Manus 
Makanally  [M'Nally],  freeholders  in  that  county,  were  men 
of  merit,  and,  having  done  good  service  to  the  State,  could 
not  be  removed  without  inconvenience,  besides  the  discourage- 
ment to  men  of  desert. 

Reply. — The  Londoners  replied,  that  they  named  the  Abbey 
of  Dungevin,  because  they  understood  there  were  some  who 
went  about  to  turn  it  to  their  own  private  ends.  For  those 
freeholders  formerly  named,  they  wished  them  well,  but 
would  by  no  means  have  any  promiscuous  habitation  with  the 
Irish,  unless  they  were  contented  to  be  their  tenants. — Con- 
sideration left  to  the  Lords. 

Demand. —  They  demanded  the  woods  of  Clancumken  and 
Killetrowe,  with  the  soil  of  the  same  woods,  to  be  wholly  to 
their  use  and  possession. 

Answer. — That  the  woods  were  of  as  long  extent  as  the 
whole  county  of  Colraine,  and  more  than  would  serve  for 
that  plantation.  It  was  intended  they  should  have  as  much 
of  these  woods  as  would  serve  to  build  towns  and  plant  the 
country,  the  remainder  to  be  left  to  the  use  of  posterity,  or 
disposed  of  by  the  Sing. 

Reply. — The  Londoners  replied,  that  the  woods  in  the 
county  of  Tyrone  were  of  no  use,  but  either  to  be  spent  on  the 
ground  or  to  be  brought  down  the  Ban  to  those  places  they  had 
undertaken  ;  and  that  they  were  so  spoilt  by  the  people  of  the 
country  in  late  years,  that  the  best  part  was  cut  down  and 
purloined  away  ;  whereby  they  feared  there  would  be  want  of 
wood  within  a  short  time,  unless  some  order  was  taken  for 
their  preservation.  Their  purpose  was  not  to  make  any 
foreign  sale  of  the  wood,  or  turn  it  into  merchandise,  but 
having  settled  a  trade  in  those  parts,  their  care  was  to  have 
timber  for  shipping.  To  that  end  they  desired  the  conserva- 
tion of  those  woods  and  the  soil  as  lords  of  the  same. 

Difference. — Sir  James  Ley  and  the  rest  thought  fit  that 
the  controversy  should  be  continued  in  the  King,  and  left 
it,  as  a  difference  not  agreed  upon,  to  the  consideration  of  the 
Lords. 

Demand. — They  demand  the  patronage  of  all  the  churches 
to  be  built  in  any  part  of  their  plantation,  or  already  built 
and  having  no  incumbents,  which  the  commissioners  think  fit 
to  grant  them,  excepting  such  as  are  already  passed  to  the 
College  of  Dublin. 

The  demand  of  holding  the  county  of  Colraine  in  fee-farm 
at  the  rent  of  5?.  6s.  8cL  for  every  thousand  acres,  exceptino- 


350  •  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

woods,  mountains,  and  bogs  ;  of  holding  the  two  cities  and 
the  lands  laid  unto  them  in  free  burgage,  and  the  rest  of  the 
county  lands  in  common  soccage,  was  in  every  point  agreed 
unto. 

Being  moved  by  Sir  James  Ley,  to  fall  in  hand  with  such 
other  courses  as  were  fit  to  be  thought  on  for  the  furtherance 
of  the  plantation,  in  regard  to  the  spring  coming  on,  which 
should  not  be  lost,  the  Londoners  liked  his  motion,  but  ex- 
cused themselves,  as  not  knowing  how  to  proceed  to  levy  the 
money  before  these  things  were  cleared. 

Pp.  2.     Copy.     Endd. 


Jan.  1.5.     575.        Dermot    Carty    to    the   Jesuit    and    Franciscan 

S.P.,  Ireland,  FATHERS. 

'      '  Diermitius  Cartheus  [Dermot  Carty]  to  the  Fathers,  Jesuits 

and  Franciscans,  and  especially  to  Thomas  Edmunds,  Thadeus 
HwoUaghan,  and  Donates  Crapp,  informing  them  of  a  design 
of  two  with  whom  he  had  conversed,  to  light  up  a  flame  in 
England,  with  an  unextinguishable  torch,  to  excite  a  wonder- 
ful tumult  about  Michaelmas  next,  and  to  kill  the  King,  the 
Prince,  and  Lord  Salisbury  with  magic  instruments. 

Arrival  of  Dr.  Kearney,  Archbishop   of  Cashel,   at  Rome. 
The  Pope's  Nuncio,  Archer,  the  Jesuit,  and  many  others  shall 
arrive  in  Ireland  "  before  that  time." — Bourdeaux,  ^  January 
1610. 
P.  1 .    Latvti.    Endd. :  "  Copia  vera."    Encloses, 

Jan.  4.        576.        Dermot  Carty  [Bermitius  Cartheus]  to  Richard  O^Con- 
S.V.,  Ireland,  nell,  Priest. 

^°  ■  ^^  '    ^'  Similar  letter  to  the  above,  tvith  a  note  that  liJce  letters 

have  been  sent  to  Richard  O'Connell,  priest. — Bourdeaux, 
4>  January  1609. 

P.  1.  Copy.  Latin.  Endd. :  "  i  Jan.  1610,  Dermott  Carty 
to  Richard  O'Connell,  priest." 

S.P.,  Ireland,     577.  Third  CONFERENCE  concerning  the  PLANTATION  of  ULSTER, 

vol.  228, 6.  Privileges  demanded. — Custom  of  all  goods  exported   or 

imported,  poundage,  tonnage,  the  great  and  small  customs ; 
the  salmon  fishing  of  the  river  Ban  and  Loughfoile  ;  trans- 
port of  all  prohibited  wares  growing  on  their  own  lands. 

The  admiralty  of  the  coast  of  Tyrconnell  and  Colraine, 
liberty  of  fishing  at  sea  upon  the  coast,  and  peculiar  fishing  in 
all  the  rivers  within  their  country. 

Answer. — All  these  are  thought  fit  to  be  granted,  being 
formerly  ofiered  to  the  city  in  the  project. 

Demand. — That  no  flax,  hemp,  or  yarn,  unwoven,  be  trans- 
ported out  of  their  ports,  vrithout  license  of  the  oflacers  of  the 
Derry  and  Colraine. 

Answer. — It  may  be  yielded  to  as  concei-ns  flax  and  hemp, 
but  there  are  two  patents  already  granted  for  transporting 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  351 


1610. 

yarn,  one  to  the  late  Lady  Kich,  and  a  reversion  to  John 
West,  which  if  they  could  be  called  in,  or  otherwise  fitted, 
were  not  amiss. 

Demand. — That  no  hides  be  transported  raw. 

Answer. — This  restraint  may  be  yielded  unto  in  their  own 
ports,  but  no  farther,  for  the  greatest  trade  of  Ireland  is 
transporting  raw  hides. 

Demand. — That  as  well  the  cities  and  towns,  as  the  county 
of  Colraine,  be  freed  from  all  patents  of  privileges,  heretofore 
granted  to  any  person,  either  of  linseed  oil,  soap,  ashes,  or 
making  glasses,  or  any  other  whatsoever,  and  that  hereafter 
no  patent  of  privileges  be  granted  to  any  one  within  the  said 
towns. 

Answer. — If  by  course  of  law  these  patents  can  be  revoked, 
it  is  wished  that  they  were  freed  as  demanded,  and  that  in 
future  no  privilege  should  be  given  but  by  grant  from  hence, 
and  the  city  called  into  it  before  it  pass. 

Demand. — To  have  the  command  of  the  castle  of  Culmore, 
for  search  of  all  such  as  pass  outwards  with  commodities. 

Answer. — Yielded  unto,  for  they  pay  the  ofEcei's  and 
soldiers. 

Demand. — That  the  liberties  of  the  cities  of  Colraine  and 
the  Derry  may  be  extended  three  miles  every  way,  and  that 
they  may  have  such  further  liberties  as  upon  view  of  the 
charters  of  London,  the  Cinque  Ports,  or  the  City  of  Dublin, 
shall  be  found  fit. 

Answer. — Yielded  unto. 

Demand. — That  all  particular  men's  interest,  either  in  land 
or  otherwise,  be  ireed  to  the  city. 

Ansiuer. — Excepting  church  and  college  land. 

Demand. — To  have  forces  maintained  at  the  King's  chai'ge, 
during  the  plantation,  for  defence  of  those  employed. 

Answer. — Forces  are  fit  to  be  maintained  for  some  reason- 
able time. 

Demand. — To  have  an  Act  of  Parliament  for  settling  and 
confirming  all  these  things,  and  also  to  have  seven  years 
respite  to  consider  such  demands  as  shall  further  be  thought 
fit. 

Fp.  2.     Copy.     Endd. 

Jan.  19.      578.        Lord  Deputy  (Chichester)  to  Salisbury. 
^■^•'  •?|g^"3  Sir  Francis  Barkhefe  [Barkely]  purposely  makes  a  journey 

'   ■  to  him,  to  make  an  oS"er  to  build  a  wall  about  the  "town  of 

Askiston  [Askeaton],  upon  such  conditions  as  he  (Chichester) 
must  refer  to  his  consideration.     His  experience  and  good  be- 
haviour for  30  years  may  beget  some  belief  and  good  success. 
The  Lord  President  of  Munster  (who  is  now  there)  can  in- 
form him  concerning  the  necessity  of  the  work.     Has  written 

in  his  behalf  to  the  Lords,  and  will  trouble  him  no  further 

Dublin,  19  January  1609. 
P.  1.    Signed.    Sealed.    Add.    Endd. 


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IRELAND — JAMES  I. 


ICIO. 

Jan.  22.     579.        Lord  Viscount  Butler  to  Salisbury. 
voi.'228r9. '  Is  i'^  a-  better  state  with  his   father-in-law,  tlie  Earl  of 

Ormond.     Prays  him  to  forward  the  suits  of  the  Earl  and  hia 
own,  to  be  imparted  to  him  by  Henry  Sherwood,  their  agent. 
— Carrick,  22  January  1609. 
Pp.  2.     Signed.    Sealed.     Add.     Endd. 

sl'^'lJIk    ^^°"        ^^'^^  °^  Ormond  to  Lord  Salisbury. 
Yoi:  22'8r8.'  , .  Beseeclies  him  to  forward  his  suits,  imparted  to  the  bearer 

his  agent  Henry  Sherwood.— Carrick,  22  January  1609 
r.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd.    Encloses, 

/p"t  [    }      ^^^-        ^  Srief  Abstract  of  the  Earl  of  Ormond' s  requests 
Tol.  228,  9.  ^-  /."-«*  t*  surrender  may  be  accepted  of  all  his  manors 

Lordships  possessions,  lands,  and  tenements,  as  well  those  he 
holds  by  letters  patent  as  otherwise,  or  as  much  thereof  as  he 
shall  think  fit,  and  that  new  letters  patent  be  granted  to  him 
and  his  heirs. 

no'i^n'rL'Sto  ?^.^''*  ^^T  '^%  ^'  '^'^^^°'^'*y  *'  ^"^^  p^"'  f^'^  ^^^^"^"^ 

his  country  palatine,  nor  '^'''^^'^ons  not  exceeding  m  principal  or  damages  201.  current 
Irish  chiefry,  and  with  money  of  England,  for  matters  growing  within  the  precincts 
savmg  other  men's  rights.  o/Ais  manors  and  lands,  wherein  he  has  any  seigniory,  rent, 

com2Wsition,  or  interest,  in  as  ample  manner  as  lately  granted 

to  the  Earl  of  Glanricarde. 

2.  Whereas  he  holds  all  his  lands  and  tenements  within 
the  realm  of  Ireland  free  of  compositions  and  all  charges 

He  may  be  allowed  a  C*^^^^'^^^®  excepted)  during  the  King's  pleasure,  which  was 
court  baron  in  every  '^P^'''^  d^od  Consideration  granted  to  him  in  the  late  Queen's 
manor.  time,  that  the  same  may  now  be  passed  unto  him  and  his 

heirs  for  ever. 

3.  Whereas  his  father  and  himself  had  the  ofUce  of  Lord 
Treasurer  of  that  realm  for  their  better  countenance,  that  the 

This  is  unreasonable.  King  will  be  p>leased  on  the  death  of  the  Earl  to  grant  the 

office  unto  his  son-in-law,  the  Lord  Viscount  Butler,  in  such 

sort  as  the  Earl  and  his  father  held  the  same,  by  which  office 

not  more  than  40?.  per  annum  accrues  to  the  Earl,  and  that 

This  may  be.  y^^,  ^^^  present  the  King  luill  allow  the  Viscount  Butler  to  be 

one  of  his  Privy  Council  of  Ireland. 
This  doth  cross  the      lastly,  that  the  King  will  bestow  on  the  Earl  and  his  heirs 
composition  of  conceal-  0,  grant  of  the  vcduc  of  iOl.,  escheated  or  concealed  lands, 
ments.  within  that  realm,  whereof  there  is  no  office  found  in  par- 

ticular to  entitle  His  Majesty,  and  which  are  now  in  charge 
in  his  Court  of  Exchequer. 

P.  1.    Endd.    Noted  by  Salisbury. 


vol.  228,  10. 


Jan.  23.      582.        Lord  Deputy  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
^vn'rl-^s'^K)'  ^■'■'^  letters,  mentioning  his  dislike  of  the  grant  passed  of 

the  fishing  of  the  Ban,  came  to  him  on  the  20th  of  this  inst., 
as  they  have  not  had  a  [jassage  thence  these  nine  weeks. 

'  In  margin,  in  Salisbury's  hand. 


IRELAND — JAMES  I.  353 


Soon  after  he  came  here,  he  received  instructions  from  the 
Earl  of  Devonshire  to  pass  the  fishing  to  one  John  Wakeman,^ 
upon  a  took  of  fee  simple  given  him  by  the  King.  But  as  he 
understood  that  the  grant  would  discontent  the  Earl  of 
Tyrone,  who  pretended  title  to  a  moiety  thereof,  and  Sir 
Randall  M'Donnell,  who  demanded  a  quarter,  and  had  so 
provided  that  the  Earl  should  have  the  moiety  for  40  years 
purchase  by  assignment  from  Wakeman,  he  afterwards  gave 
no  opposition  to  the  grant,  which  was  then  in  lease  for  21 
years,  though  not  a  penny  of  the  rent  had  been  paid  into  the 
Exchequer  for  many  years  preceding.  But,  as  he  takes  it,  the 
Lord  Lieutenant  died  before  the  sealing  of  the  patent,  and 
Mr.  James  Hamilton  had  bought  the  remainder  of  the  book 
together  with  that  particular,  to  the  passing  whereof  he 
(Chichester)  would  not  condescend  until  he  promised  to  pass 
the  moiety  to  the  said  Earl  for  200^.  English ;  whereupon  it 
passed  the  seal.  Knows  not  whether  Mr.  Hamilton  passed  a 
conveyance  thereof  to  the  Earl  before  his  departure  hence,  but 
is  sure  the  Earl  had  it  in  his  possession  at  the  time  of  his 
departure ;  which  will  appear  by  the  case  which  was  drawn 
up  before  the  receipt  of  his  letters,  and  will  be  sent  by  Mr. 
Treasurer,  whose  dispatch  will  be  finished  in  seven  days  ;  and 
if  any  direction  shall  come  to  him  concerning  the  said  fishings, 
he  will  forbear  to  put  the  contents  thereof  in  execution  as  he 
requires.  Is  ill  thought  of  here  by  some  who  have  books,  for 
refusing  to  subscribe  to  such  particulars  as  they  bring,  if  he 
finds  them  prejudicial  to  the  King  or  the  church.  It  seems  he 
is  thought  by  some  too  open-handed,  for  he  conceives  by  his 
letters  that  some  ill  tale  has  been  told  concerning  this  par- 
ticular.— Castle  of  Dublin,  23  January  1609. 

Pp.  3.     Hoi. 

Jan.  23.     583.        Miler  Magrath,  Archbishop  of  Cashel,  to  Sir  Thomas 

S.P.,  Ireland,  KlDGEWAY. 

^°  —    '     ■  Prays  that  he  will  procure  for  him  the  bishoprics  of  Killaloe 

and  Achonry,  for   which  he  had  resigned  Waterford  and  Lis- 
more,  under  promise  of  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Council.     Sets 
forth  his  hard  case. — Cashel,  23  January  1609. 
P.  1.    Signed.    Sealed.    Add.    Endd. 

Jan.  26.      584.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Lords  of  the  Privy 

S.P.,  Ireland,  COUNCIL. 

•   -  '  -  After  waiting  eight  or  niae  weeks,  received  on  the  20th 

inst.  their  letters  of  the  12th  of  December,  with  an  attach- 
ment under  the  seal  of  the  Admiralty,  to  apprehend  the 
bodies  of  the  deputy  vice-admiral  of  Munster,  and  other 
persons  charged  with  piracy  or  abetting  and  consorting  with 
pirates.     Sent  down  four  horsemen  the  morning  after,  with 


'  Jolin  Wakeman  was  a  trustee  for  the  Earl  of  Devonshire. 
3. 


354  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

IGIO. 

directions  and  warrant  to  the  Earl  of  Thomond  and  the  Vice- 
President  of  Munster,  to  attach  them  wheresoever  they  shall 
be  found  in  those  parts,  and  to  send  them  hither  prisoners 
with  those  horsemen  and  a  greater  guard  out  of  that  province. 

Sent  their  letter,  which  he  received  at  the  same  time,  to  be 
conveyed  this  way  to  Sir  WiUiam  St.  John. — 26  January 
1609. 

P.  1.  Signed.  Sealed.  Add.  Endd.:  "Eec.  the  l^t 
Feb.  1609." 

Jan.  27.     585.        James  O'Fereal  to  Lord  Salisbury. 
S.P.,  Ireland,  Being  come  hither  for  causes  concerning  his  estate,  and  those  of 

vol   ^28    13.  o  ' 

'  "    '     '  the  rest  of  the  gentlemen  and  poor  inhabitants  of  the  county  of 

Longford,  against  Sir  Francis  Shaen  and  the  heirs  and  executors 
of  Sir  Nicholas  Malby,  lately  deceased,  and  having  been  im- 
peded in  his  proceedings  by  some  defect  in  the  letter  of  attorney 
given  him  by  those  gentlemen,  is  driven  to  insinuate  his  cause 
to  his  Lordship's  favour  ;  that  he  may  call  to  remembrance  the 
letters  of  the  Deputy  and  Council  in  behalf  of  the  said  poor 
county,  and  the  good  reports  of  his  father  and  himself  pre- 
sented by  the  Lord  Chancellor,  both  of  their  great  losses  and 
services,  for  which  he  begs  him  to  aiford  some  regard  of  his 
petition.  The  rather  that  he  wiU  give  sufficient  security  to 
the  said  Sir  Francis  for  the  40  marks  advanced  him  by  the 
commissioners  in  consideration  of  the  delay. — 27  January  1609. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Add.     Endd.    Encloses, 

S.P.,  Ireland,    586.         The  humUe  Petition  of  James  O'Farral. 

Toi.  228, 14.  Sheiueth  that  the  commissioners  for  Irish  causes  have  certi- 

fied to  the  Lords  of  the  Privy  Council,  in  the  controversy 
depending  betiveen  the  inhabitants  of  the  county  of  Longford 
and  Sir  Francis  Shane,  Knt,  concerning  120  rent-beeves 
challenged  to  be  due,  issuing  out  of  the  manor  of  Granard,  as 
may  appear  by  their  certificate,  xohereas  heretofore  the  inha- 
bitants never  paid  more  than  361.  Irish  per  annum. 

Petitioner  thinks  himself  and  the  inhabitants  rather  charged 
and  burthened  than  eased  and  relieved;  in  respect  they  have 
already  paid  400^.  sterling  for  arrearages,  and  yet  are  not 
acquitted  of  600i.,  being  the  rest  of  the  arrerages  by  him  chal- 
lenged, and  in  respect  that  beeves' are  overrated,  and  in  regard 
there  is  as  much  of  the  land  out  of  which  the  said  rent  was 
issuing,  come  to  the  Kings  hands  by  the  attainder  of  the 
tenants  thereof,  as  yields  2U.  sterling  per  annum,  and  that 
Sir  Francis  has  been  possessed,  during  the  last  rebellion,  and 
is  yet  x)ossessed,  of  the  demesnes  of  Granard,  which  heretofore 
have  been  in  the  possession  of  the  said  inhabitants,  and  out 
of  which  the  said  rent  was  principally  issuing.  _ 

Prays  that  the  King  may  be  pleased  to  discharge  the  in- 
habitants of  the  arrearages'  incurred  during  the  waste  and 
depopulation  of  the  county,  and  to  accept  from  them  as 
much  rent  out  of  the  said  manor  as  Sir  Francis  pays,  and 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  355 


1610. 

thereby  draw  the  dependancy  of  the  inhabitants  to  him  as 
it  has  formerly  been ;  the  rather  because  the  Deputy  and 
Council  of  Ireland  have  by  several  letters  certified  their 
opinions  to  be  accordingly,  and  because  the  King  may  give 
Sir  Francis  some  other  satisfaction  in  lieu  thereof. 

Prays  that  the  controversy  depending  between  the  inha- 
bitants and  the  heirs  and  executors  of  Sir  Nicholas  Malby, 
may  be  speedily  dispatched,  and  that  they  may  be  discharged 
of  the  arrearages  and  growing  rents,  yielding  to  the  King  as 
much  as  is  yielded  out  of  any  plough  land  of  like  survey 
chargeable  to  the  King  in  Ireland. 

P.  1. 

Jan.  27.      587.        Certain  Considerations  toucLing  the  Plantation  of 
S.P.,  Ireland,  the  ESCHEATED  LANDS  in  ULSTER,  delivered  to  Mr. 

'     ■  Treasurer  the  27tli  January  1609. 

Before  all  things  the  King's  title  to  be  cleared,  ■which  will 
be  done  now  upon  sight  of  the  cases  which  are  to  be  examined 
and  weighed  by  the  judges,  and  their  opinions  confirmed  in 
Parliament,  held  here  if  thought  requisite,  at  the  King's 
pleasure,  and  in  the  meantime  no  claim  or  plea  to  be  admitted 
in  any  coui't  for  any  lands  which  the  judges  shall  lay  down  to 
be  the  King's  upon  sight  of  the  cases. 

This  great  work  of  deducing  inhabitants  and  making  a 
plantation  in  such  a  barbarous  and  remote  country  cannot  be 
performed  by  men  of  mean  condition  and  ability,  for  they 
wUl  not  adventure  themselves  and  their  fortunes  unless  they 
are  encouraged  and  protected  by  some  powerful  man  in  chief 
TJiat  persons  of  rank  and  quality  must  be  those  who  are  to 
effect  this  work  is  manifest ;  for  that  it  is  a  matter  more  of 
honour  and  example  than  for  any  hope  of  gain  for  which  this 
plantation  must  be  undertaken,  and  few  men  will  engage  in 
such  actions  of  charge  and  damage,  except  they  are  associated 
with  such  followers,  friends,  and  neighbours,  as  can  give 
them  comfort  and  bring  them  strength  and  assistance.  There- 
fore wishes  that  the  Lord  Treasurer,  Lord  Privy  Seal,  and 
other  persons  of  honour  and  power,  would  each  of  them  under- 
take a  barony  in  different  countries,  and  that  they  would 
draw  unto  them  -  fit  men  for  the  plantation ;  seeing  that  the 
strangers  who  wiU  come  here  are  more  likely  to  consume  their 
substance  and  undo  themselves  than  to  effect  the  plantation,  if 
they  have  not  the  assistance  of  some  sufficient  gentlemen 
experienced  in  this  kingdom,  and  especially  in  Ulster. 

Would  have  one  or  two  admitted  by  the  chief  undertakers 
to  be  next  themselves  in  the  baronies  undertaken,  to  give 
countenance  and  assistance  to  strangers. 

Knows  some  who  are  willing  to  undertake  a  whole  barony, 
even  in  the  worst  part  of  Ulster;  and  unless  this  be  the 
manner  of  undertaking,  or  unless  the  subjects  of  England 
will  plant  upon  a  common  purse,  he  has  no  hope  that  the 
plantation  will  take  effect  as  it  ought. 

Z  2 


356  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

IGIO. 

In  the  division  of  each  country,  the  straights  and  places 
of  command  are  those  where  every  powerful  undertaker  must 
be  enjoined  to  make  his  dwelling ;  in  order  not  to  suffer  their 
freeholders  or  under-tenants  to  straggle  or  disperse  into  glins 
or  the  edges  of  mountains  and  woods,  as  they  did  in  Munster, 
but  to  have  their  dwellings  near  the  principal  undertaker. 

By  this  means  not  only  those  parts  of  the  country  will  be 
better  secured  and  they  themselves  freed  from  the  attempts  of 
weak  parties  of  rebels,  but  they  will,  by  their  cohabitation, 
breed  unity  and  civility,  and  yield  strength  and  comfort  to  one 
another,  and  secure  the  highways  and  passages  for  travellers. 
As  for  the  castles,  storehouses,  andbawns  projected  to  be  built, 
thinks  that  such  great  works  cannot  possibly  be  erected 
within  the  limited  time,  especially  in  the  inland  parts  of 
Ulster  ;  in  regard  that,  if  money  were  ever  so  plentifiil,  yet  the 
materials,  victuals,  tools,  artificers,  workmen,  and  carriages, 
cannot  possibly  be  supplied  within  so  short  a  time,  considering 
how  many  works  are  to  be  taken  in  hand  at  once ;  and  there- 
fore four  years  for  building  a  castle,  storehouse,  or  bawne,  is 
the  least  time  that  may  be  allowed  them ;  within  which  time 
it  is  necessary  that  they  be  enjoined  to  enclose  with  strong 
ditches  and  quickset  a  meet  proportion  of  their  land  after  the 
manner  of  England.  But  to  tie  men  of  quality  to  be  so  long 
resident  upon  the  place  may  rather  overthrow  than  further 
the  plantation,  for  no  wise  man  will  be  bound  to  perform  that 
article,  and  some  may  do  it  better  by  friends  or  substitutes 
than  by  themselves. 

It  wiU  be  worthy  of  consideration  whether  the  erecting  of 
horse  and  foot  to  answer  the  rising-out  be  not  more  to  be  pre- 
ferred, in  regard  of  dangerous  times,  than  raising  an  over-high 
yearly  rent. 

The  King's  greatest  advantage  wiU  be  the  power,  wealth, 
and  prosperity  of  the  new  undertakers.  Therefore  he  likes  not 
that  the  undertaker  should  be  bound  to  pay  so  present  a  rent 
as  is  projected ;  but  that  in  regard  of  his  building,  bringing 
over  his  people,  and  other  manifold  expenses,  he  should  have 
three  years'  absolute  freedom,  and  the  following  three  years 
to  pay  but  half  the  rent,  and  after  that,  the  whole. 

The  undertakers  of  Munster  had  this  benefit,  together  with 
certain  horsemen  in  pay  to  countenance  them  at  their  first 
beginning ;  but  all  was  too  little,  notwithstanding  the  nearness 
to  England,  the  supplies  and  suitors  they  had  from  the  port 
towns,  the  many  castles  they  found  built  to  their  hands  ;  all 
which  will  be  wanting  in  Ulster. 

It  will  avail  for  the  security  and  contentment  of  the  under- 
tenant, that  the  rent  out  of  the  lands  assigned  him  may  be 
distinguished  and  proportioned  in  the  rent  of  the  chief  under- 
taker, and  that  there  be  a  caveat  inserted  in  the  King's  grant, 
that  the  undertenant  shall  not  be  subject  to  pay  the  King 
more  rent  for  the  lands  he  holds,  than  His  Majesty  reserves 
for  that  proportion  from  the  undertaker ;  who  is  to  reserve 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  357 


1610. 


from  tlae  undertenant  a  distinct  rent  to  himself,  besides  that 
which  the  undertenant  is  also  to  pay  the  King. 

The  reason  is  this,  that  if  he  have  a  careless  or  unthrifty- 
landlord,  who  by  absence  or  otherwise  cannot  or  will  not  pay 
the  King's  rent  in  due  time,  the  undertenant  may  be  dis- 
trained for  remainder  of  his  landlord's  rent  due  to  the  King  ; 
which  is  an  inconvenience  and  danger  that  ought  to  be  care- 
fully foreseen  and  provided  for,  for  it  has  wasted  many 
seigniories  and  undone  many  private  men  in  Munster. 

The  manifold  charges  and  difficulties  of  the  undertaker 
being  considered,  it  will  be  very  hard  to  him  to  hold  his 
lands  either  in  capite  or  by  knight's  service,  since  the  under- 
taker in  Munster,  who  has  greater  proportion  of  lands,  and 
Jiolds  but  in  soccage,  finds  it  very  heavy  to  pay  a  heriot  and 
relief. 

Again,  the  profit  that  shall  be  drawn  from  the  undertaker 
of  Ulster  and  his  heirs,  by  that  tenure,  redounds  not  altogether 
to  the  King,  but,  for  the  most  part,  to  his  officers.  Instead  of 
which  tenure,  it  were  more  for  the  King's  avail,  and  more 
agreeable  with  the  meaning  and  equity  of  the  law,  upon  the 
first  creation  of  those  high  tenures,  that,  in  lieu  thereof,  some 
restraint  and  tie  might  be  laid  upon  the  undertakers,  that 
they  should  make  no  estates  for  less  than  21  years  or  three 
lives,  and  to  keep  them  from  alienating  any  their  possessions 
without  license,  and  from  marrying  and  fostering  with  the 
Irish ;  which  curbs  wiU  more  avail  the  King's  service,  and  be 
more  pleasing  and  safe  for  the  subject,  than  the  said  high 
tenures. 

This  course  is  a  good  preparation  to  link  the  undertakers 
and  their  issue  together  in  marriage  and  affection,  and  to 
strengthen  one  another  against  the  common  enemy. 

Upon  the  plantation  of  Munster  it  was  thought  good  policy 
to  scatter  and  divide  the  Irish  amongst  the  English  under- 
takers, hoping  that  by  observation  of  civility  and  good  hus- 
bandry of  their  neighbours  they  would  learn  to  fashion  and 
conform  themselves  to  the  like  qualities  and  ccmditions  with 
them.  But  experience  disproved  that  opinion,  for  they  were 
no  sooner  set  down  amongst  them,  than,  instead  of  imitating, 
they  scorned  their  courses,  envied  their  fortunes,  and  longed 
to  be  masters  of  what  they  possessed ;  and,  as  soon  as  the 
memory  of  their  former  rebellion  and  miseries  was  a  little 
forgotten,  and  their  estates  amended,  they  grew  to  contriving 
forged  titles  to  the  lands  whereon  the  English  had  built  and 
enclosed,  making  daily  stealths  of  their  goods  and  plots  against 
their  lives.  Moreover,  the  daily  conversation  and  dwelling 
of  the  Irish  amongst  the  English  gave  free  recourse  to  all 
their  base  followers  and  rogues  to  make  espial  and  free  pas- 
sage amongst  them,  out  of  which  late  example  he  is  bold  to 
say,  that,  as  it  is  a  matter  of  great  consequence  and  necessity 
to  make  meet  provision  for  the  natives,  so  is  it  very  difficult 
and  dangerous  to  remove  and  transplant  such  a  number  of 


358  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

1610. 

barbarous  and  warlike  people  into  any  parts  of  the  kingdom  • 
besides  that  the  other  provinces  are  too  well  acquainted  with 
their  lives  and  conditions,  and  will  be  as  unapt  to  receive 
them.  Therefore,  the  remedy  he  conceives  will  be  to  appoint 
them  some  one  part  of  the  plainest  land  of  their  own  country 
or  to  intermix  their  town  reeds  with  ours  in  plain  countries 
where  they  may  be  environed  with  seas,  strongholds  and 
powerful  men  to  overstay  them,  and  then  to  proportion 'those 
lands  indifferently  unto  them  upon  meet  rents  and  conditions 
to  keep  them  in  subjection,  and  that  with  such  equality  in 
the  partition,  that  the  contentment  of  the  greater  number  may 
overweigh  the  displeasure  and  dissatisfaction  of  the  smaller 
number  of  better  blood. 

They  are  likewise  to  be  restrained  from  having  any  chiefries, 
cuttings,  or  any  Irish  exaction  whatsoever  over  their  tenants! 
And  thinks  it  were  better  that  their  chiefries  and  rents  should 
be  made  certain  upon  their  undertenants,  and  levied  by  the 
King's  officers,  and  so  made  over  to  them,  than  that  they  should 
be  left  to  their  own  collection  ;  which,  as  long  as  they  shall  be 
suffered  to  do,  will  make  the  dependancy  of  those  from  whom 
it  is  levied,  follow  those  who  take  it  up.  Wherever  they  are 
placed,  they  must  be  forced  to  leave  their  creaghting  and  dwell 
together  in  town  reeds  as  other  the  King's  subjects. 

It  is  worthy  of  consideration  how  the  English  language  and 
customs  may  be  preserved,  pure  and  neat,  unto  posterity, 
without  which  he  accounts  it  no  good  plantation  nor  any 
great  honour  and  security  to  them  to  induce  people  thither. 

The  way  to  perform  that  is  to  separate  the  Irish  by  them- 
selves, to  forbear  marrying  and  fostering,  and  if  possible  to 
exceed  them  in  multitude ;  for  all  other  effectual  courses 
are  either  too  severe  or  too  difficult  to  attempt.  Consider 
how  the  old  English  language  was  first  brought  in  and 
continued  to  this  day,  both  in  the  English  Pale  and  in  some 
few  baronies  in  the  county  of  Wexford,  and  also  in  some  places 
in  South  Wales,  and  whether  the  same  happened  by  laws, 
or  extirpation  of  the  ancient  inhabitants.  For  the  bishops, 
wishes  the  King  would  confirm  to  them  all  the  lands  found 
for  them  in  demesne  and  chiefry,  where  the  said  lands  have 
come  to  him  by  attainder.  Act  of  Parliament,  or  other  lawful 
means  ;  for  he  holds  the  Termons,  Corbs,  and  Erenaghs  that 
claim  them  to  be  unfit  and  unworthy  of  them,  otherwise  than 
as  any  other  tenant  allowed  by  the  bishop  at  his  will  and 
pleasure  ;  out  of  which  lands  he  would  have  the  parson  or  vicar 
have  his  proportion,  be  it  60  or  100  acres,  to  be  laid  out  by  the 
commissioners,  together  with  a  site  for  house  and  garden,  &c., 
and  with  convenient  wood  and  turbary.  This  will  be  but  a 
small  deduction  out  of  the  bishops'  great  scopes;  for  the 
parishes  are  very  large  and  few,  and  without  this  provision 
the  parsons  and  vicars  cannot  for  the  most  part  have  any 
land  within  two  or  three  miles  of  the  church,  and  in  some 
places  farther  off ;  which  is  a  great  inconvenience. 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  359 


1610. 


The  bisbops,  no  doubt,  -will  not  gainsay  this ;  and  if  the 
King  be  inclined  to  grant  them  their  own  asking,  and  they 
to  depart  with  all  that  kind  of  land,  then  they  may  have  so 
much  land  of  the  King's,  lying  farther  off,  in  lieu  of  the  other 
deducted  for  the  use  of  the  parsons. 

The  Lord  Primate  and  Bishop  of  Derry  have  consented 
thereto,  and  he  knows  they  may  well  depart  with  so  much 
to  the  ministers  without  any  recompense ;  considering  it  is 
but  the  relics  of  the  King's  oblation  unto  the  church,  by  which 
the  bishops  are  likely  to  be  benefited  beyond  one  of  their 
predecessors. 

Wishes  the  bishops  may  be  enjoined  to  build  one  substantial 
strong  house  for  their  own  habitation  in  each  diocese  ;  and  that 
they  may  be  likewise  enjoined  to  bring  as  many  civil  men  out 
of  Great  Britain  or  this  kingdom  as  possible  to  inhabit  their 
lands,  and  to  cause  their  tenants  to  dwell  together  in  towns 
to  be  conveniently  seated  for  the  defence  of  the  country  and 
defence  of  passengers,  and  generally  to  abandon  creaghtiug  and 
removing  from  place  to  place. 

Suggests  for  consideration  whether  the  bishops  shall  not 
have  the  donation  of  benefices  generally  throughout  tlieir 
dioceses,  excepting  a  convenient  number  for  the  college  here, 
to  bestow  at  their  discretion,  and  some  principal  benefices  in 
each  diocese  for  the  Lord  Deputy  to  prefer  his  chaplains  unto, 
or  other  learned'men  at  his  discretion. 

Also  the  proportions  to  be  laid  out  for  corporate  towns,  the 
King's  forts  and  wards,  free  schools,  hospitals,  and  the  college 
near  Dublin  :  which  will  be  best  done  by  the  commissioners 
upon  the  plantation  ;  and  wishes  that  a  commissioner  or  two 
should  be  sent  to  see  what  can  be  done  in  that  service, 
and  to  make  a  report  thereof  to  the  King  upon  their  return. 

That  the  undertaker  may  have  the  like  benefit  of  exporting 
the  commodities  growing  and  to  be  made  of  his  land,  and  for 
bringing  in  necessaries  for  his  use  free  from  custom,  as  the 
undertakers  had  in  Munster. 

That  the  bishops  be  enjoined  to  set  their  lands  for  three 
lives  or  21  years,  and  not  under,  with  reservation  of  good 
rents. 

Pp.  6.  Signed  and  endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester : 
"  Certain  considerations  concerning  the  Plantation." 


■^tj 


Jan.  28.       588.        Articles  between  the  King  and  City  of  London  for 
S.P.,  Ireland,  the  Plantation  of  the  City  of  Derry  and  the  County 

vol.  228,14a.  ofColeraine.  ^ 

Articles  agreed  upon  the  28th  January,  between  the  Lords 
of  the  Privy  Council  on  the  King's  behalf  on  the  one  part, 
and  the  Committees  appointed  by  Act  of  Common  Council  on 
behalf  of  the  Mayor  and  Commonalty  of  the  City  of  London 
on  the  other  part,  concerning  a  plantation  in  part  of  the 
province  of  Ulster  ;  which  articles  were  signed  by  the  Lord 
Chancellor,  Lord  Treasurer,  Lord  Privy  Seal,  Lord  Cham- 
berlain, Earl  of  Worcester,  Earl  of  Dunbar,  Lord  Zouch,  Lord 


360 

IGIO. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


KnoUis,  Lord  Stanhope,  Sir  Jolm  Herbert,  and  Sir  Julius 
Cffisar,  and  on  behalf  of  the  City,  by  Sir  Henry  Montague,  Sir 
Thomas  Lowe,  Sir  John  Jewels,  Wm.  Cockane,  Wm.  Tower- 
son,  Nicholas  Leate,  Wm.  Deters,  Richard  Wright,  Martin 
Freeman,  John  Brand,  George  Smithes,  William  Dies,' William 
Greenwell,  John  Barrer,  William  Harrison,  William  Turner, 
and  James  Hodson. 

1.  Imprimis.  It  is  agreed  by  the  city  that  20,000i.  shall  be 
levied,  whereof  15,000^.  shall  be  expended  on  the  intended 
plantation,  and  the  other  5,000?.  for  clearing  private  men's 
interest  in  the  things  demanded. 

2.  That  200  houses  shall  be  built  at  the  Derry  and  room 
left  for  300  more,  and  that  4,000  acres  lying  on  the  Derry 
side  next  adjacent  to  the  city  shall  be  laid  thereunto,  bog  and 
barren  mountain  to  be  no  part  thereof,  but  to  go  as  waste  to 
the  city,  the  same  to  be  done  by  indifferent  commissioners. 

3.  That  the  Bishop  and  Dean  of  Derry  shall  have  convenient 
plots  for  the  site  of  three  houses  at  the  Derry. 

4.  That  Coleraine  shall  be  situated  on  the  abbey  side  and 
100  houses  built  and  room  left  for  200  more  ;  and  that  3,000 
acres  of  land  shall  be  laid  thereto,  viz.,  1,000  acres  to  be  taken 
on  the  abbey  side  next  adjacent  to  the  town,  and,  if  the  King 
be  pleased  to  erect  and  maintain  a  bridge  in  perpetuity  at  his 
charge,  for  a  common  passage  over  the  river,  between  the  town 
and  the  county  of  Coleraine,  then  the  other  2,000  acres  shall 
be  taken  on  the  other  side  of  the  river,  otherwise  the  whole 
3,000  are  agreed  to  be  taken  on  the  abbey  side,  adjacent  to 
the  town. 

5.  That  the  measure  and  account  of  lands  shall  be  after  the 
ballibees,  according  to  the  King's  last  survey. 

6.  That  the  rest  of  the  territory  and  entire  county  of 
Coleraine,  esteemed  at  10,000  acres,  more  or  less,  undertaken 
by  the  city,  be  cleared  from  all  particular  interests,  except  the 
inheritance  of  the  Bishop  and  Dean  of  Derry  and  certain 
portion  of  lands  to  be  assigned  to  three  or  four  Irish  gentle- 
men at  the  most,  now  dwelling  and  settled  in  the  county  of 
Coleraine,  who  are  to  be  freeholders  to  the  city  and  to  pay 
them  small  rent,  the  same  portions  and  rent  to  be  limited  by 
commissioners,  indifferently  chosen  between  the  King  and  the 
city. 

7.  That  the  woods,  grounds,  and  soil  of  Glanconkeyne  and 
Killetragh,  extending  from  the  county  of  Coleraine  to  Ballen- 
derry,  be  wholly  to  the  city  in  perpetuity,  the  timber  trees  of 
those  woods  to  be  converted  to  the  use  of  the  plantation,  and 
all  necessary  uses  in  Ireland,  and  not  to  be  made  merchandise. 

S.  That  the  soil,  in  and  amongst  those  said  woods,  which 
stands  charged  as  conserved  lands,  be  undertaken  in  the  like 
form  as  the  county  of  Coleraine. 

9.  That  tlie  city  shall  have  the  patronage  of  all  the  churches 
as  well  within  the  city  of  Derry  and  town  of  Coleraine  as  in 
all  lands  undertaken  by  them. 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  361 


1610. 


10.  That  the  4,000  acres  laid  to  the  city  of  Derry  and 
town  of  Coleraine  shall  be  in  fee-farm  at  the  yearly  rent  of 
5s.  4d 

11.  That  the  city  of  Derry  and  county  of  Coleraine  and 
7,000  acres  of  land  to  them,  shall  be  held  of  the  King  in  free 
burgage. 

12.  That  the  residue  of  all  the  county  lands  and  woods,  and 
all  such  lands  to  be  undertaken,  shall  be  held  of  the  King  in 
common  soccage. 

13.  That  the  customs  of  all  goods  imported  or  exported, 
poundage,  tonnage,  and  the  great  and  small  customs  shall  be 
enjoyed  by  the  city  for  the  term  of  9.9  years  within  the  city 
of  Derry  and  town  of  Coleraine  and  county,  and  all  ports  and 
creeks  thereof,  paying  yearly  66s.  8cl.  to  the  King  as  an 
acknowledgment,  and  to  have  the  like  for  the  port  of  Port- 
rush. 

14".  That  the  salmon  and  eel  fishing  of  the  rivers  Ban  and 
Loughfoile,  and  all  other  kinds  of  fishing  in  Loughfoile  as  far 
as  the  river  flows,  and  in  the  Ban  as  far  as  Loughneagh,  shall 
be  in  perpetuity  to  the  city. 

15.  That  the  city  shall  have  liberty  to  transport  all  pro- 
hibited wares  growing  upon  their  own  land. 

16.  That  the  city  shall  have  the  office  of  the  admiralty  of 
the  county  of  Tyrconnel  and  Coleraine,  and  all  the  royalties 
and  profits  thereto  belonging,  r.nd  shall  have  their  own  ships, 
and  goods  which  shall  happen  to  be  wrecked  at  sea  in  Balli- 
shannon  and  Olderfleet,  and  ir  all  the  coasts,  ports,  and  creeks 
along  it,  between  them,  saved  and  restored  to  themselves. 

17.  That  the  city  shall  have  the  liberty  of  fishing  and 
fowling  upon  all  the  coasts,  as  all  other  subjects  have,  and  that 
it  shall  be  lawful  for  them  to  draw  their  nets  and  pack  their 
fish  upon  any  part  of  the  coast  they  fish  upon,  and  carry  the 
same  away,  and  that  they  have  the  several  fishings  and  fowlings 
in  the  city  of  Derry  and  town  and  county  of  Coleraine,  and  all 
the  lands  to  be  undertaken  by  them,  and  the  river  of  Lough- 
foile as  far  as  it  flows,  and  the  Ban  as  far  as  Lough  Neagh. 

18.  That  no  flax,  hemp,  or  yarn,  unwoven,  be  carried  out  of 
the  Derry  and  Coleraine  without  license  of  the  cities'  officers, 
and  that  no  hides  be  transferred  without  like  license. 

19.  That  as  well  the  cities  and  towns  and  the  county  of 
Coleraine  be  freed  from  all  patents  of  privileges  heretofore 
granted  to  any  person,  and  that  hereafter  none  be  granted 
within  the  said  cities,  and  that  they  shall  be  freed  from  all 
compositions  and  taxes  no  way  to  be  taxed  or  imposed  by  the 
government  of  those  parts. 

20.  That  the  city  shall  have  the  castle  of  Culmore  and  the 
lands  thereto  belonging  in  fee  farm,  they  maintaining  a  suffi- 
cient ward  and  officer  therein. 

21.  That  the  liberties  of  Coleraine  and  the  Derry  shall 
extend  three  miles  every  way. 


362  IRELAND— nJAMES  I. 

1610. 

22.  That  the  city  shall  have  such  further  liberties  to  the 
Derry  and  Coleraine  as,  upon  view  of  the  charters  of  London, 
the  Cinque  Ports,  Newcastle-upon-Tyne,  or  Dublin,  shall  be 
found  fit. 

23.  That  all  particular  men's  interest  in  the  places  about 
the  Derry  and  Coleraine  and  county  of  Coleraine,  and  other 
the  undertakers'  lands  be  cleared  and  free  to  the  city  (except 
as  is  excepted  in  the  6th  article). 

24.  That  sufficient  forces  shall  be  maintained  at  the  King's 
charge  for  the  undertakers'  safety  for  a  certain  time. 

2.5.  That  for  settling  and  securing  all  things  touching  the 
plantation  aforesaid,  the  King  will  give  his  assent  to  Acts  of 
Parliament  here,  and  the  like  to  pass  in  Ireland. 

26.  That  the  city  shall  have  time  during  seven  years  to 
make  such  other  reasonable  demands  as  time  shall  show  to  be 
needful. 

27.  That  the  city  shall  with  all  speed  set  forward  the  plan- 
tation in  such  sort  that  there  may  be  60  houses  built  in  Derry 
and  40  in  Coleraine  by  the  1st  November  following,  with 
convenient  fortifications,  the  rest  of  the  houses  to  be  built 
and  perfected  by  1st  November  1611. 

Pp.  3.     Copy. 


Tol.  228,  16. 


[Jan.]      589.        Instructions  for  the  Teeasueer  (Sie  Thomas  Ridge- 

S.V.,  Ireland,  WAT). 

Remembrances  in  the  behalf  of  persons  of  quahty  to  be 
recommended  to  His  Majesty  and  the  Lords  of  the  Council  in 
such  suits  as  they  have  to  propound,  which  they  would  have 
done  in  person,  had  he  (Sir  Arthur  Chichester)  not  stayed  them 
from  troubling  His  Majesty  upon  promise  to  be  a  mediator  for 
them. 

First.  That  Sir  Dominick  Sarsfield,  now  second  Justice  of 
the  King's  Bench,  may  be  thought  of  to  succeed  Lord  Walsh, 
as  Chief  Justice  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  upon  the 
death  of  the  Lord  Walsh.  This  will  give  him  great  content- 
ment and  make  the  lawyers  of  this  nation  see  they  are  not 
disregarded,  as  they  now  suppose. 

That  Mr.  Patrick  Foxe  may  have  some  comfort  after  his 
long  service,  according  to  the  contents  of  his  brief  of  re- 
membrance herewith  forwarded. 

That  Mr.  Auditor  Ware  may  find  favour  in  his  reasonable 
demands  contained  in  his  letters,  which  will  be  a  great  benefit 
and  furtherance  to  the  King's  service. 

Sir  Gerrot  Moore  is  a  suitor  to  have  the  fee-farm  of  several 
parcels  of  land  and  titles  which  he  now  holds  from  the  King, 
in  which  he  has  a  lease  now  in  esse  for  three  score  and  twelve 
years,  and  in  all  but  that  one  parcel  above  four  score,  and  in 
some  above  a  hundred.  The  inducement  for  this  is  that  he 
pays  the  greatest  rent  to  the  King  of  any  man  in  the  king- 
dom, and  that  he  is  a  worthy  and  honest  servant ;  and  princi- 
pally that  the  King  will  hardly  enhance  the  rents,  albeit  he 


IRELAND — JAMES  I,  363 

1610. 

never  received  a  fine  upon  the  increase  of  years  or  renewing  the 
lease,  and  a  better  tenant  he  will  hardly  find  in  the  kingdom. 
That  such  men  of  quality  here  as  will  undertake  the  plant- 
ing a  barony  of  the  escheated  lands  in  Ulster  may  be  thereto 
admitted ;  for,  if  they  can  draw  friends  unto  them  out  of 
England  or  Scotland,  they  are  the  most  likely  men  to  perform 
the  conditions. 

Sir  Oliver  St.  John,  Sir  James  Perrott,  Sir  Thomas  Williams, 
and  others  that  they  will  draw  unto  them,  for  the  country  of 
Lower  Orier. 

Sir  Gerrott  Moore  for  Upper  Orier,  or  part  of  O'Nealan. 
Sir  Oliver  Lambert  for  the  barony  of  ^  in 

Fermanagh,  who  ofi'ers  good  conditions,  which  he  (Chichester) 
herewith  delivers  to  him.  For  a  strong  and  defensible  town, 
erected  in  a  fit  and  convenient  place  within  the  barony,  and 
two  or  three  castles  built  upon  straights  and  passages,  are 
more  available  for  the  service  and  defence  of  the  country  than 
twenty  placed  elsewhere  for  pleasure  or  profit. 

Sir  Raphe  (sic)  Bingley  and  his  friends  for  the  barony  of 
Killmacrenan  in  the  county  of  Donegal,  which  is  a  very  remote 
and  barren  country ;  he  offers  good  conditions  for  the  planta- 
tion thereof,  which  he  forwards ;  and  if  he  put  in  like  assurance 
to  perform  the  same,  thinks  the  King  cannot  give  it  better, 
and  few  others  will  undertake  it  upon  like  consideration,  for 
a  stranger  will  be  hardly  drawn  thither. 

Sir  Henry  Folliot,  having  lately  purchased  the  Abbey  of 
Asheroe  of  Mr.  Auditor  Gofton  and  Bellicke  [Belleek]  of  some 
other  patentee,  was  determined  to  build  at  those  places  for  his 
posterity  ;  but  he  dissuaded  him  from  it,  for  he  foresaw  that  the 
castle  and  house  of  Ballyshanan,  which  stands  most  fit  and 
commodious  for  the  King's  service,  might  thereby  be  neglected 
and  in  short  time  fall  to  ruin  and  decay,  and  therefore  he 
advised  him  to  bestow  his  money  on  Ballyshanan.     He  said  he 
Note  bi)  Salisbury.—  J^ad  but  his  life  therein,  and  knew  not  who  would  have  it  after 
?werfs°ZtThe'landand^is  "departure;  whereupon  he  promised  (if  he  would  bestow 
castle  is  yet  left  undis-  his  money  there  and  at  Bondroes  [Bundrowes],  and  keep  those 
posed,  and  therefore  the  castles  in  time  of  peace  without  charge  to  the  King,  and  have 
commend'iuo  Sieving  them  alwaj^s  fit  and  defensible  for  the  King's  service  if  troubles 
hereafter  for  Sir  Henry  and  rebellions  should  arise)  he  would  become  suitor  that  the 
Folliott.  sa,i(j  castles  and  lands  annexed  unto  them  (which  lies  for  the 

most  part  betwixt  the  two  castles,  and  is  now  in  his  possession) 
might  be  passed  unto  him  in  fee-farm  as  an  undertaker  of  so 
much  of  the  escheated  lands,  of  which  he  thinks  him  worthy, 
and  that  it  cannot  be  bestowed  better.  If  the  King  will 
reserve  it  in  his  own  hands,  some  cost  must  be  bestowed  on 
it ;  and  when  it  is  in  the  hands  of  any  but  a  captain  who  has  a 
standing  companj',  the  King  must  be  at  the  charge  of  a  con- 
stable and  a  ward,  whereas  by  this  it  may  be  saved  and  the 
place  kept  at  all  times  fit  for  the  King's  use  and  service. 

'  Blank  in  original. 


364i  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

Sir  Foulke  Conwaye  -will  undertake  Braslowe,  which  borders 
upon  his  lands  of  Ealultagh  ;  those  two  countries  are  a  strong 
fastness,  and  have  been  a  den  of  rebels  and  as  thievish  a  country 
as  any  in  Ulster. 

He  would  have  Sir  Toby  Caulfield  undertake  Clancan,  and 
Sir  Francis  Eoe,  Munterdevlin  and  such  other  lands  adjoin- 
ing to  their  forts  as  is  convenient  for  them.     These  gentlemen 
Thf  "gen/raf^a^*  er  Tf  ^^^  °^  ability,  and  can  give  good  furtherance  to  the  plantation 
the  commissioners  con-  if  they  may  be  encouraged  to  undertake  those  fast  countries 
ceraing  the  recommenda- upon  reasonable  conditions.     Captain  Henry  Skip  with  is  an 
ar?se'ttl?/y^lCsTe^°  humble  suitor  for  Cullmackatrean  and  the  18  quarters  of  land 
&c.,  and  not  partienlariy  thereto  belonging,  and  Sir  Parr  Lane  desires  to  be  his  neigh- 
of  servitors  mentioned  in  bour  there,  and  SO  does  Sir  Thomas  Chichester;  and  others 
vices  are  not'so  fe  to  be  ^eek  for  land  about  those  parts  because  it  joias  so  near  his 
preferred  in  the  planta-  (Chichester's)  land  of  Enishowen  more  than  for  the  goodness 
tion  as  those  of  servitors  Qf  ^jjg  gQ^      jjg  (Eidgeway)  has  the  names  of  most  men 
or  n^'i?"^"^  "  ^^"  fit  to  undertake,  together  with  the  portions  they  desire,  to 
which  for  brevity  he  must  refer  him. 

Sir  Tyrlow  [Tirlogh]  M'Henry  O'Neale  seeks  to  have  the 
quantity  of  his  kind  increased.  He  (Chichester)  wishes  they 
could  remove  him  from  the  Fewes  and  settle  him  upon  the 
plains,  to  which,  if  he  assent,  he  hopes  they  may  be  authorised 
to  give  him  some  reasonable  content,  and  otherwise  let  him 
be  hemmed  up  where  he  is. 

Connor  Roe  Maguire  expects  to  have  three  baronies  upon 
some  promise  made  to  him  when  the  traitors  Tyrone  and 
Tyrconnel  and  other  Irish  Lords  were  restored  to  their  grants ; 
but  a  more  prudent  course  being  now  in  hand,  sees  not  that 
the  King  is  bound  in  honour  to  make  so  barbarous  and  un- 
worthy a  man  greater  than  his  neighbours,  but  rather  in  true 
construction  of  State  to  suppress  him  ;  for  all  his  actions  de- 
clare an  ill  mind,  and  sure  he  will  do  much  harm  to  the 
plantation  if  he  be  m%de  so  great.  The  barony  of  Maheri- 
stephanagh  will  contain  him  and  all  his  followers  and  goods 
that  depend  upon  him,  and  that  quantity,  in  his  opinion,  is 
rather  too  much  than  too  little  for  him. 

That  none  of  the  islands  in  the  river  of  Loughearne  be 
passed  to  any  of  the  Irish,  but  that  the  commissioners  dispose 
^them  to  worthy  undertakers  ;  for  strengthening  them  will 
keep  the  whole  country  in  subjection,  however  evil  they  are 

*^^He  midc^eway)  knows  that  Art  M'Baron  O'Neale,  Tyrlowe 
rTirloghl  M'Art  O'Neale,  Henry  and  Con  M'Shane  O'Neale, 
Brian  Crossacrh  O'Neale,  and  others  of  that  surname,  expect 
greater  portions  of  lands  than  is  fitting  to  be  given  unto  them. 
Most  respect  is  to  be  bad  of  Tyrlowe  and  Henry,  and  yet  he 
wishes  neither  of  them  to  have  more  than  two  or  three  baUiboes. 
Ai-t  M'Baron  must  have  some  contentment  given  him 
durincv  his  life,  or  be  restrained,  for  he  has  three  or  four  sons 
beyond  the  seas,  stirring  men,  two  of  them  captams  with  the 
Archduke,  and  a  lusty  knave  at  home.     Touching  these  men. 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  365 


1610. 

there  must  he  some  particular  direction  which  must  satisfy 
themselves  or  free  them  (the  Deputy  and  Council)  from  blame 
if  they  play  the  knaves  upon  discontent  hereafter. 

He  (Ridgeway)  must  learn  what  the  Lords'  pleasure  is  con- 
cerning Sir  Cormick  M'Baron  and  his  lady  and  children  during 
his  restraint,  also  for  Bryan  Maguire,  brother  to  the  traitor 
Coconnagh,  and  his  other  brother,  the  three  M'Swynes,  Doe, 
Banagh,  and  Fawnett,  and  O'Boyle,  Manus  O'Cahaine,  and 
some  others  of  that  surname  in  Colraine,  who  all  claim  to  be 
principal  lords  and  gentlemen  in  the  several  counties  where 
they  dwell. 

He  (Ridgeway)  must  likewise  know  what  they  are  to  do 
with  the  wife  and  children  of  Sir  Donell  O'Cahaine,  Sir  Neale 
O'Donell,  and  others  as  he  remembers. 

Pp.  5.  Signed :  Arthur  Chichester.  Not  dated,  but  pro- 
bably in  January.     Encloses, 

[Before  590.         Recommendation  of  Patrick  Fox. 
Jan.  21.]  Brief  of  reviembrance  of  Mr.  Patrick  Fox,  for  a  pension 

^  r l^r'ie'''  '"^  fee-farm,  with  the  Lord  Dejputy's  recoTumendation. 

'       '  P.  1.     Endd. :  "A  note  for  Mr.  Treasurer^ 

Jan.  28.       591.         Articles  for  the  Plantation  of  the  City  of  Derry  and 
rhiiad.  p.,  County  of  Colraine,  between  the  King  and  the  City 

-°'-^'P-439.  of  London. 

Copy  of  No.  588. 

At  foot  is  the  following  :  "  Concordat  cum  Regestro.  Ed- 
mondes." 

Pp.  4.  Copy.  Not  signed.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur 
Chichester:  "28*11  of  Jaauarie  1609.  The  articles  of  agree- 
ment betwixt  the  Lis.  of  the  Councell  and  the  Londoners, 
concluded  as  above-sayd.  Re.  by  me  the  4<^'^  of  June  by 
Mr.  Rowley." 

There  folloivs  a  note  in  the  hand  of  Chichester's  secretary  : 
"  Sir  Donell  O'Cahane,  &c.,  were  sent  over  about  the  last  of 
October  (1 609)  before  the  date  hereof." 

Jan.  28.      592.        Articles  concerning  tlie  Plantation. 
fs^oa^^fo!.  Another  copy  of  the  same  articles. 

35,  28,  f.  324.  ^^^  ^^        ^^^^_ 

[Jan.  29  ?]    593.        Plantations. 

S.P.,  Ireland,  Servitors  of  Ireland  who  are  willing  or  may  be  induced 

^°  '      '      ''■  to  undertake  and  make  good  such  quantities  of  the  escheated 

lands  in  Ulster  as  will  be  most  available  for  His  Majesty's 

service,  &c. : 

The  Lord  Deputy  and  such  of  the  Council  who  are  willing 

to  undertake  such  quantity  as  shall  be  pleasing  to  the  King's 

Privy  Council,  viz. : — 

*  Lord  Deputy. 

*  Lord  Audley,  a  barony  in  Tyrone,  Clogher,  or  Omie 

[Omagh]. 


366  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

1610. 

*  Treasurer,  *  Marshal,  *  Master  of  the  Ordnance,  part  of 

Orrier  about  Tonraggee. 

*  Sir  Oliver  Lambert,  a  barony  in  Fermanagh. 

Sir  Gerrott  Moore,  part  of  a  barony  in  Armagh  or 
Fermanagh. 

Such  others  of  the  Council  of  Ireland,  who  may  be  invited 
and  brought  (if  there  be  cause  or  defect  in  the  number  or 
quality  of  the  English  undertakers)  to  undertake  such  pro- 
portions as  shall  be  fit  for  the  public  service  and  answerable 
to  their  several  places,  &c.,  viz. : — 

Lord  Chancellor,  Earl  of  Clanricard,  Earl  of  Thomond, 
Lord  President  of  Munster,  Sir  Henry  Harrington, 
Sir  Edward  Brabazon,  Sir  Henry  Docwra,  Sir  Henry 
Powre,  Sir  Richard  Morrison,  Sir  Francis  Stafford, 
Sir  John  Jephson,  Sir  James  FuUerton,  Sir  Adam 
Loftus,  Sir  John  King,  besides  the  judges  and  *  Mr. 
Attorney. 

Captains  of  companies  who  have  also  certain  houses  or 
places  of  the  King  in  Ulster,  which  they  affect  to  continue, 
and  by  whom  the  lands  adjoining  such  houses  are  most  fit  to 
be  undertaken,  viz. : — 

*  Sir  Foulke  Conwaye,  the  country  called  Braseloue. 

*  Sir  Henry  FoUiott,  Ballashanan,  &c. 

*  Sir  Edward  Blaney. 

*  Sir  Toby  Caulfield.  I  wish  him  Clancann,  but  he  rather 
afl'ects  lands  in  O'Nealan. 

*  Sir  Richard  Hansard,  something  near  the  Lifier  in 
Donegal. 

*  Sir  Francis  Roe,  lands  near  Mountjoye,  Mounterdelvm, 

&;c. 

*  Sir  Francis  Ruish,  about  Belturbet  in  Cavan. 

*  Sir  Thomas  Phillips,  in  the  county  of  Coleraine. 
Captain  John  Vaughan,  Dunalonge,  &c. 

Captains  of  companies  who  have  no  settled  house  or  place  of 
garrison,  and  yet  are  willing  to  undertake  in  or  near  the  place 
where  they  are  garrisoned : — 

Lord  of  Howth. 

Lord  Cromwell. 

*  Sir  James  Perrot,  in  Orrier. 

Sir  Thomas  Roper.     Captain  Newce. 

*  Captain  William  Stewart,  about  Strabane. 

*  Capt.  Patrick  Crauford,  in  the  county  of  Donegal  near 

Mr.  John  Hamilton  desires  to  join  with  Mr.  Crauford  for 
the  lands  he  takes. 

Constables  of  castles  and  captnins  of  boats  in  the  North,  by 
whom  some  land  next  adjoining  is  most  fit,  for  the  pubUc  ser- 


IRELAND — JAMES  I.  367 

1610. 

vice,  and  their  own  better  settlement  also,  to  be  undertaken 
viz.  : — 

Sir  Francis  Barkely,  Sir  Thomas  Chichester,  in  Donegal, 
as  near  Enishowen  as  he  may. 

*  Captain  Atherton,  about  Mount  Norris  in  Armagh. 
Captain  Fortescue,  Captain  TrevilliaD,  *  Captain  Hope, 

*  Captain  Clotworthie,  *  Captain  BasiU  Brook,  the 
castle  and  abbey  of  Donegal. 

*  Captain  Culme,  in  the  county  of  Cavan. 

*  Captain    Donnington,    Dungevin    in    the     county    of 

Colerayne. 

*  Captain  Cole,  in  Fermanagh. 

*  Captain  Illing,  about  Castle  Doe. 

*  Captain  Leigh,  about  the  Omie  [Omagh]. 

*  Captain  Anthony  Smith,  in  Upper  Orrier. 

*  Archye  Moore,  *  Captain   Henry  Skipwith,   Culmake- 

trenan,  and  18  quarters  of  land  in  Donegal. 

Other  knights,  servitors,  and  pensioners  in  pay,  who  may 
and  will  undertake  of  themselves  with  some  helps  and 
encouragements,  and  some  of  them  without  helps,  viz. : — 

Sir  Charles  Wilmot,  Sir  Josias  Bodley,  *  Sir  George 
Greame,  *  Sir  Rich.  Greame,  Sir  William  Usher,  Sir 
Rich.  Percye,  Sir  Ed.  Harbert,  Sir  Ralphe  Constable, 
Sir  Robert  Newcomen,  Sir  Ferdinando  Frecleton,  Sir 
Edw.    Fisher,   Sir   James   Carroll,    Sir   Allen    Apsley, 

*  Captain  Bourchier,  Captain  Bassett,  Auditor  Peyton, 
Mr.  Parsons,  surveyor,  Mr.  George  Ridgeway,  *  Captain 
Lyons,  Mr.  Birchensba,  Auditor  Ware,  Mr.  Leuton, 
Mr.  Bowen,  *  Captain  Trevor,  Captain  Atkinson,  Cap- 
tain   Fleming,    Captain     Moyle,     Samuel    Molineux, 

*  Captain  Baker,  Moyses  B  ill,  Mr.  Dalway,  Captain 
Meares,  *  Captain  Pykeman,  Captain  Gainsford,  Cap- 
tain Tyrell,  Mr.  Sowthworth,  Captain  Humfry  Norton, 
Mr.  Thomas  Smyth,  Mr.  Hibbotts,  Mr.  WiU.  Longe, 
Mr.  Henry  Peiie,  Mr.  George  Sexten,  Mr.  Francis 
Annesley,  Mr.  Cottle,  Mr.  Kenny,  Mr.  Edgeworth, 
Wm.  Browne,  Roger  Downton,  Christopher  Bysse, 
Nicholas  Bradye,  Nicholas  Howard,  James  Longe, 
Sydrack  Davenport,  Rich.  Lynch,  John  Hoy,  Deane 
Wheeler,  Eusebius  Andros  [Andrews],  Wm.  Crowe, 
Charles  Hewet,  John  Ashe,  Anthony  Stougbton,  Ed- 
ward Brooks,  Mr.  Calvert,  Henry ,  Barnaby  Rych, 

Walter  Talbot,  Thomas  Chetham,  Mr.  Whaler,  Job. 
Gillet,  Francis  Loftus,  Walter  Whyte,  Baptist  Jones, 
Henry  Maynard,  Anthony  Reignolds,  John  Stoughton, 
Mr.  Warren. 

Servitors  not  in  pay  and  willing  to  undertake,  viz. : — 

*  Sir  Tho.  Williams,  part  of  Orrier  or  of  O'Nealan. 

*  Sir  Edw.  Fetyplace,  *  Sir  Thomas  Coach,  *  Sir  Ealphe 
Bingley,  the  barony  of  Kilmacrenan. 


368  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

IGIO. 

Sir  Eoger  Jones,  Sir  Nicholas  Wyte,  Sir  The.  Ashe,  Sir 
William  TaafFe,  in  Armagh. 

*  Captain  Sackford,  *  Captain  Pynner,  Captain  Jo.  Ridg- 

way,  Mr.  John  Chichester,  Captain  Ellis,  *  Captain 
Henry  Vaughan,  and  *  Captain  Gore,  in  Boylagh  and 
Banagh  in  the  county  of  Donegal. 

*  Captain  Hart,  Mr.  Langford,  Mr.  John  Dobb. 

Servitors  and  pensioners  in  pay  who  will  be  content  to 
undertake  with  some  principal  undertakers  their  friends,  but 
not  build  castles,  &c.  themselves,  unless  by  extraordinary 
helps  and  encouragement,  viz. : — 

*  Captain  Cooke,  *  Captain    Larkin,    Captain    Neilson, 

*  Captain    Edney,    Lieutenant    Cowell,    Sir    George 
Greame's  sons,  John  Meeke,  Mr.  Marwood,  Mr.  John 
Stroude,  Adrian  Fitzsymons,  Mr.  Wm.  Handes,  *  Cap- 
tain Harrison,  Edm.  Lead  beater,  Robert  Whitehead, 
Captain  Owen   Ap  Hugh,  *  Captain   Arthur  Hugon, 
Lieutenant  Brian,  Lieutenant  West,  Lieutenant  Acland, 
Lieutenant  Browne,   Lieutenant   Perkins,  Lieutenant 
Atkinson,  and  so  of  all  the  lieutenants,  ensigns,  Ser- 
jeants of  most  of  the  northern  companies,  besides  some 
more  of  other  parts  of  Ireland  now  or  formerly  in  pay. 
The   Lord  Cursie   [Courcy]   and  Lord    Delvin   have  been 
requested  to  be  set  down  for  undertakers. 
P.  1.     Large  paper.     Endd. 

Jan.  29.       594.        Remembrances  concerning  the  Public,  given  to  Mr. 
S.P.,  Ireland,  Treasurer  29  th  January  1609. 

vol    2*^8    17 

'   "  '     '  His   chief    employment   being  for   the  plantation  of  the 

escheated  countries,  he  is  to  apply  himself  especially  to  that 
subject,  and  to  put  the  Lords  in  mind  that  the  season  of  the 
year  requires  timely  dispatch. 

In  managing  this  affair  he  must  acquaint  the  Lords  how 
difEcult  it  will  be  for  the  commissioners  to  distribute  the 
lands  by  single,  middle,  or  double  proportions,  to  such  as  shall 
come  from  Great  Britain  in  the  name  of  undertakers,  and 
what  a  long  time  that  course  of  distribution  will  take  up,  to 
the  hindrance  of  the  new  commissioners  and  the  King. 

Besides  which,  contention  will  arise,  and  perhaps  a  farther 
mischief,  who  shall  be  placed  first,  and  for  the  place  itself, 
which  will  weary  the  commissioners  and  displease  the  under- 
takers. Consideration  thereof  has  made  him  wish  that  the 
division  may  be  made  by  baronies. 

He  must  remember  the  ministers  that  they  be  provided  for 
next  to  the  churches,  and  that  it  will  be  a  hard  matter  to  erect 
new  parishes  before  the  country  is  better  peopled  and  settled, 
for  he  fears  they  shall  not  get  the  old  churches  rebuilt  in  any 
convenient  time,  where  they  are  altogether  ruined,  and  those 
repaired  where  part  of  the  walls  are  standing. 

He  is  to  make  known  the  state  and  condition  of  the  Erenagh 
lands,  and  when  the  King  and  Council  are  informed  therein, 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  369 


1010. 


they  have  done  their  duty,  and  it  rests  with  the    King  to 
dispose. 

It  is  a  matter  worthy  of  consideration  when  the  commis- 
sioners begin  their  journey  into  Ulster,  and  which  county  they 
first  take  in  hand,  that  the  undertakers  in  each  county  may  so 
sort  their  journeys  as  to  repair  unto  them  in  fit  time,  when 
the  business  of  that  county  is  in  hand,  otherwise  their  journeys 
will  be  unpleasant  if  they  find  no  inns  or  houses  to  receive 
them,  and  more  so  if  they  (Chichester  and  the  other  commis- 
sioners) have  not  warning  and  means  to  provide  for  them  and 
the  army,  for  which  he  must  procure  money  beforehand. 

They  (the  commissioners)  must  begin  either  with  the  Cavan 
or  Armagh  ;  if  with  the  Cavan,  must  from  thence  go  to  Fer- 
managh, and  so  to  Donegal,  from  thence  to  Coleraine,  Tyrone, 
and  lastly,  to  Armagh.  If  they  begin  at  Armagh,  they  must 
end  with  the  Cavan,  which  must  be  set  down  in  certainty  for 
the  aforesaid  reasons,  but  the  time  of  their  stay  in  each  county 
will  be  as  the  business  requires,  and  in  that  point  uncertain, 
for  three  or  four  days  must  not  be  stood  upon. 

If  the  King  purpose  to  place  a  president  or  other  govern- 
ment in  Ulster,  Dungannon  must  be  his  seat,  it  being  the 
centre  of  the  province,  where  the  King  must  build  a  house 
and  erect  a  town  with  2,000  or  3,000  acres  of  land  laid  to  it, 
adjoining  the  town  on  each  side. 

To  declare  the  general  quiet  of  the  kingdom,  and  that  they 
are  hopeful  that  it  would  continue  so,  if  they  could  keep  out 
the  Jesuits  and  seditious  priests  who  misguide  the  people. 
Some  present  course  must  be  put  in  execution  for  banishing 
and  restraining  them. 

To  declare  that  the  works  of  Halebolinge,  Duncannon, 
Castleparke,  Limerick,  and  Gallawaye  are  almost  finished,  and 
that  Sir  Josias  Bodley's  accounts  for  the  5,0001.  English,  already 
received,  are  in  hand,  and  shaU  be  transmitted  as  soon  as 
possible. 

To  move  the  Lords  for  money  to  finish  the  small  forts  and 
castles  in  decay,  and  to  be  erected  according  to  their  letters  of 
the  12th  April  1G08; — all  which  will  be  done  to  make  them 
defensible  against  the  incursion  of  rebels  for  5,0001.  English, 
and,  when  they  are  once  perfected,  they  are  to  be  kept  in  repair 
by  the  constables  of  the  several  places.  Some  money  he  has 
already  disbursed,  as  the  places  required  it,  of  which  he 
(Ridge way)  must  crave  allowance. 

To  move  the  Lords  for  a  standing  allowance  over  and  above 
that  which  is  now  contained  in  the  Establishment,  towards  the 
extraordinary  payments  by  Concordatum  ;  otherwise  the  pay- 
ments made  that  way  will  keep  the  poor  soldier  without  his 
money,  the  sum  being  of  equal  importance  and  sometimes 
more  necessary  than  that  contained  in  the  establishment. 

To  understand  the  King's  pleasure  concerning  the  customs 
of  the  port,  of  which  he  has  long  since  written,  but  having 
received  no  answer,  the  matter  stands  to  his  disprofit. 

A  A 


370  IRELAND—JAMES  I. 

1610. 

That  the  green- wax  money  be  let  to  farm  for  some  years^ 
until  the  annual  profit  thereof  is  known,  for  albeit  the  people 
pay  nearly  all  the  green-wax  money  to  the  sheriffs  and  other 
officers,  they  are  such  iU  accountants  that  little  or  no  profit 
returns  to  the  King,  especially  out  of  Munster  and  Connaught. 
That  the  judges  may  advise  a  coui'se  to  reduce  the  chauntry 
lands  within  that  kingdom  to  the  Crown,  by  the  rules  of  the 
common  law  ;  because  they  have  not  (in  Ireland)  the  statute 
1  Edw.  VI.,  which  gives  all  the  chauntry  lands  in  England  to 
the  Crown,  of  which  there  is  good  store  here  in  the  hands  of 
private  men,  who  have  no  title  thereto. 

That  a  proclamation  be  made  for  the  pardoning  of  all  intru- 
sions for  a  small  fine  to  the  King,  otherwise  the  benefit  of  his 
intrusion  to  be  disposed  by  the  King  at  his  pleasure. 

That  the  like  course  may  be  taken  here  as  in  England  for 
defective  titles  ;  to  wit,  that  some  one  may  be  allowed  by  the 
State  to  discover  the  defects,  and  thereupon  the  owner  of  the 
land  to  be  sent  for  by  the  Deputy  and  Council,  whereupon,  if 
he  will  compound,  he  may  pay  a  reasonable  composition,  and 
take  a  grant  from  the  King.  If  he  refuse  to  compound,  the 
Lord  Deputy,  &c.  to  grant  a  lease  of  his  lands. 

That  directions  may  be  given  for  a  certain  rate  for  imposing 
fines  upon  gTants  for  strengthening  defective  titles,  and  what 
caution  shall  be  taken  for  the  lessees  and  such  as  claim  under 
the  defective  titles. 

To  make  known  the  scarcity  of  corn  in  this  land,  and  the 
want  of  small  monies. 

Knows  how  he  is  pressed  to  grant  monopolies  under  colour 
of  introducing  arts  and  mysteries,  by  one  for  making  salt, 
another  for  sowing  seed  to  make  oil  and  woad,  burning  ashes 
for  soap,  making  glass,  saltpetre,  cables  and  ropes,  measuring 
corn  and  salt,  with  other  such  devices,  for  which  they  profiler 
some  small  rent  to  the  King. 

Has  been  moved,  with  permission  of  the  King  and  Council, 
for  the  license  for  drawing  wine  and  selling  tobacco,  or  that 
a  custom  may  be  put  upon  tobacco,  and  that  they  may  farm 
it.  In  these  he  desires  His  Majesty's  and  his  Lordship's 
directions. 

That  the  Lord  Treasurer  will  be  pleased  to  appoint  a  skilful 
and  honest  man  to  view  all  the  timber  woods  in  the  kingdom, 
and  to  give  notice  of  those  which,  by  their  nearness  to  the 
sea  or  portable  rivers,  are  fit  to  be  reserved  to  the  King's  use ; 
for  he  finds  the  King  has  none  of  his  own  worth  speaking  of 
in  any  part  of  the  kingdom  but  those  in  Ulster,  which  he 
conceives  will  be  spent  in  the  plantation,  if  it  take  the  effect 
they  wish  and  expect ;  but  they  only  lie  fit  for  transportation 
to  Scotland,  and  therefore  if  some  reservation  be  not  made  in 
time,  all  the  timbers  will  be  suddenly  consumed,  especially 
in  Munster  and  other  parts  near  the  sea  ;  for  the  owners  have 
found  so  good  vent  for  them  in  pipe  boards  and  other  cloven 
ware,  besides  planks  and  other  timbers,  that  no  proclamation 


IRELAND— JAMES  T.  371 


1610. 


will  restrain  them  ;  the  case  is  so  general 'and  so  few  good 
and  powerful  subjects  to  be  found  near  the  places  where  the 
woods  lie  to  put  their  directions  in  execution. 

That  the  men  lately  sent  hence  to  the  service  of  the  King 
of  Sweden  be  employed  in  the  service  of  Russia  rather  than, 
that  of  Sweden. 

To  free  his  (Ridgeway's)  accounts  from  the  charge  of  the 
galley. 

(Signed)        Arthur  Chichester, 

That  he  acquaint  the  Lords  with  the  form  of  their  grant  of 
intinision,  and  with  his  warrant  for  building  and  repairing 
decayed  churches  in  the  Pale. 

To  understand  the  Lord  Treasurer's  pleasure  touching  the 
victualling  of  the  forts. 

To  declare  the  charge  of  sending  the  men  to  Sweden,  which 
came  but  to  30s.  a  man,  all  extraordinary  disbursements 
included. 

To  acquaint  the  Lords  with  Mr.  Attorney's  proclamation 
for  recalling  the  sons  of  noblemen,  &c.  from  the  seminaries 
beyond  the  seas,  and  for  restraining  their  resort  thither. 

By  the  King's  letters  of  the  29th  of  March  last,  he  (Chi- 
chester) is  requested  to  send  an  estimate  of  the  charge  of 
some  works  he  requires  to  have  done,  which  he  sent  with  his 
letters  of  the  13th  July.  To  learn  his  further  pleasure,  and 
if  the  works  may  proceed,  to  procure  money  for  that  purpose. 

To  declare  that  the  mayors  of  cities  and  towns  for  the  most 
part  refuse  to  take  the  oath  of  supremacy ;  so  do  the  sheriffs, 
bailiffs,  &c.  They  (Chichester  and  the  Council)  desire  to 
^mderstand  whether  they  shall  deprive  those  of  their  offices 
who  refuse  to  take  the  oath,  or  may  permit  them  to  exercise 
their  offices  if  they  take  the  oath  of  allegiance  alone. 

They  (Chichester  and  the  Council)  desire  to  be  directed  in 
this,  for  they  say  that  they  are  prosecuted  for  their  consci'ince 
when  they  proceed  against  them  for  their  obstinacy. 

To  declare  that  it  is  more  useful  and  necessary  for  the 
King's  service  to  have  his  shipping  on  this  coast  in  summer 
than  in  winter,  for  most  of  the  strong  pirates  winter  in  the 
straits,  because  the  galleys  cannot  keep  the  seas  in  that 
season,  but  fly  hither  in  the  summer.  In  the  winter  there 
are  only  those  who  rob  upon  the  coasts  of  England  and 
France,  of  whom  Sir  William  St.  John  has  lately  taken  one, 
It  were  to  good  purpose  if  some  of  those  ships  appointed  to 
keep  the  narrow  seas,  did  once  or  twice  in  the  winter  search 
the  harbours  for  pirates  upon  this  coast,  and  if  they  lost  their 
labour  by  such  a  journey,  the  same  often  happens  to  them  in 
the  narrow  seas. 

To  procure  them  direction  to  pass  in  fee-farm  unto  the 
inhabitants  of  Athlone,  their  houses,  cottages,  mills,  backsides, 
gardens,  orchards,  and  such  small  quantities  of  ground  as  they 
have  now  lying  to  their  houses,  for  such  a  sum  as  they  can 

A  A  2 


372  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

1610. 

draw  thereunto  with  reservation  of  rents.  In  this  he  (Ridge- 
way)  is  to  advise  with  my  Lord  of  Clanricard,  and  between 
them  to  procure  a  warrant,  if  he  thinks  fit. 

That  the  commission  of  surrenders  and  defective  titles  be 
renewed,  by  reason  the  Lord  Chief  Baron  and  the  Master  of 
the  Rolls  are  omitted  in  the  commission. 

Patrick  Crosby e  tells  him  (Chichester)  that  the  Lord  Trea- 
surer had  some  speech  with  him  about  Ely  O'Carroll  alias 
O'Carroll's  country,  which  he  (Chichester)  has  since  his  time 
made  shire  ground  and  laid  to  the  King's  county.  It  is 
a  pretty  piece  of  land,  and  Crosby  says  he  can  bring  it  into 
the  King's  hands  by  overthrowing  the  patent  thereof  made  to 
Sir  William  O'Carroll.  The  pretending  heir  is  an  infant, 
whose  wardship  was  given  to  Sir  Thomas  Ashe  before  his 
(Chichester's)  time.  He  has  stayed  the  proceedings  in  this 
matter  until  he  (Ridgeway)  has  conferred  with  the  Lord  Trea- 
surer therein. 

There  has  ever  been  strife  and  contention  between  the 
house  of  Ormond  and  the  Lords  of  that  country  touching  the 
bounds  and  mears,  and  much  blood  spilt  on  either  side,  and 
now  he  is  told  that  Sir  Thomas  Ashe  has  sold  over  the  ward 
to  the  Lord  Viscount  Butler,  notwithstanding  his  advice  to 
him  not  to  deal  therewith,  and  to  Sir  Thomas  Ashe  not  to 
sell  it  unto  him ;  for  he  doubted  the  sequel  as  he  still  does,  but 
still  he  wishes  well  to  the  Viscount  who  is  an  honest  gentle- 
man. "Would  not  have  his  power  and  liberty  increased  upon 
that  side  of  the  country  bordering  Tipperary,  and  part  of  it 
claimed  to  be  within  the  liberty,  to  which  by  this  course  aU 
will  be  brought  in  time ;  and  therefore  if  Crosby  can  bring 
the  country  to  the  Crown,  thinks  he  deserves  a  good  recom- 
pense. For  this  service  he  demands  one-half  of  the  country 
in  fee-farm  at  50^.  Eng.  The  rent  now  received  upon  the 
whole  country  is  100?.  Ir. 

Has  told  him  that  he  will  be  a  means  to  the  King  for  a 
competent  reward  for  this  service,  but  if  it  be  at  any  time 
recovered,  it  is  to  be  thought  the  King  will  be  gracious  to 
the  young  gentleman,  and  make  divers  freeholders  of  honest 
and  substantial  men  who  would  advance  his  service.  For  now 
that  the  Moores  are  removed  and  dispersed  and  the  Connors 
suppressed,  if  that  country  were  well  planted,  there  would  be 
hope  of  reformation  in  that  part  where  the  first  fire  of  the 
rebellion  in  Leinster  has  so  often  been  kindled.  He  says  like- 
wise that  my  Lord  had  some  speech  with  him  about  the 
Greames,  that  they  might  be  removed  to  Ulster.  They  are 
now  dispersed,  and  when  they  are  placed  together  upon  any 
land,  the  next  country  will  find  them  ill  neighbours,  for  they 
are  a  factious  people. — Arthur  Chichester. 

Pp.  7.     Signed.    Endcl. 

Jan.  29  ?      595.         Extract  from  the  above  paper. 
^rool^'iT'!'  P-  1-     Endd.     "  To  be  moved  to  the  Lords." 

yol.  228,  17  A. 


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IGIO. 
Jan.  29.     596.        Sir  Francis  Blundell  to  Mr.  Secretary  Carleton. 
^vol  m™8'  Compliments    him  on  his    appointment.      Has  spoken  of 

'     '  him  to  his  uncle,  Sir  Richard  Cook,  (also  one  of  the  Secre- 

taries).— Dublin,  29  January  1609. 

P.  1.  Signed.  Add.  Endd. :  "To  my  honorable  friend 
Mr.  Dudley  Carleton,  Esq.,  one  of  his  Ma*'  Secretaries,  &c., 
&c.,  or  to  Mr.  Augustine  Browen  in  the  Strande,  to  be 
delivered  as  before  directed." 

Jan.  29.      597.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Earl  of  Northampton. 

Tit.*!?  X  12 '  ^^®  Treasurer  when  last  in  London  was  so  occupied  by 

p.  203.,  B.m!  public  business  that  he  left  his  own  undone,  and  now,  having 

leisure  from  public  duties  in  Ireland,  has  petitioned  the  King 

for  license  to  repair  to  England.     Hecommends  that  his  suit 

may  be  granted. 

Thanks  his  Lordship  for  representing  to  the  King  his 
(Chichester's)  service  in  extirpating  pirates.  This  and  the 
King's  gracious  acceptance  are  "spurres  to  well-doinge." 
Few  of  that  trade  have  been  on  the  coast  this  winter  past. 
Now  when  the  galleys  are  abroad  is  the  time  of  their  i-epair 
thither ;  and  he  learns  that  emissaries,  with  authority  from 
the  Spanish  ambassador  in  London,  are  gone  into  Munster  to 
wait  the  arrival  of  the  pirates  to  treat  with  them  about  their 
submission  to  the  King.  Has  acquainted  the  Lord  Admiral, 
and  suggests  that  he  himself,  the  presidents,  and  the  vice- 
presidents,  of  the  provinces,  should  be  authorised  to  deal 
with  them. 

Expresses  admiration  of  the  infinite  pains  his  Lordship  has 
taken  to  discover  the  deceipts  of  the  minister  of  the  navy, 
which  he  has  brought  to  pass  beyond  expectation. — Castle 
of  Dublin,  29  January  1610. 

Pp.  2.     Hoi.    Sealed.    Add. 

Jan.  29.     598.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
vol  s"'^!  ^'e  ^^   ™^y  perceive   by  the    petition  and   schedule   thereto 

annexed  [of  William  Shelton],  what  wrongs  he  alleges  he  lias 
suffered  from  John  Cusack  and  Sir  Henry  Warren,  the  ex- 
ecutors of  Robert  N  ugent. 

He  is  not  to  suffer  him  [Shelton]  to  be  overborne  to  the 
power  and  alliance  of  his  adversaries,  but  to  appoint  such 
four  of  His  Majesty's  counsel  and  judges  as  are  not  interested, 
nor  of  alliance  to  the  defendants,  to  hear  and  determine  the 
suit.— Whitehall,  29  January  1609. 

Signed :  R.  Cant.,  T.  EUesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  T. 
Suffolke,  E.  Worcester,  W.  Knollys,  E.  Wotton,  L.  Stanhope. 

P.  1.  Add.  Endd.  in  Sir  Arthur  Chichester's  hand: 
"  Of  the  29tii  of  January  1609.  From  the  Lis.  of  the  Councell 
in  the  behalfe  of  Wylliam  Shelton,  complayninge  against  John 
Cusack,  of  Dublin,  and  S"^  Henrie  Warren,  Re.  the  Qth  of 
Aprill  1610." 


374 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1610. 
Jan.  30.      599.        Mr.  Auditor  Ware  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
yor228f  19*!'  ^^'^y^  ^^^^   ^^^  reversion  of  his  office  ("auditor  of  all  the 

foreign  affairs")  may  be  granted  to  his  second  son,  12  years 
old.— 30  January  1609. 

P.  1.     Hoi.    Sealed.    Add.     Endd. 


Jan.  30. 

Add.  Papers, 
Ireland,  P.E.O. 


600.        Captain  Bourchier's  Petition. 

Captain  Bourchier  (son  of  Sir  George  Bourchier,  late  Master 
of    the  Ordnance  in  Ireland),    prays  for  settlement   of  his 
father's  accounts  (1,369/.),  with  directions  thereon. 
Pp.  2.     Endd. 

Jan.  31.     601.        The  KiNG  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
^°Jan!  rr'''  Warrant  for  grant  of  the  body  and  -lands  of  David  Barry, 

infant,  gi-andchild  to  the  Lord  Barry,  Viscount  Buttevant,  to 
be  made  to  Ellen,  Countess  of  Ormond,  or  to  her  assigns,  to 
the  use  of  the  said  infant. 


Jan.  31. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  228,  20. 


602.  Petition  of  Samuel  Molyneux,  Clerk  of  the  Works, 
to  the  LoRB  Deputy. 

Complains  of  the  infringement  of  his  office  by  the 
appointment  of  Sir  Josias  Bodley,  (notwithstanding  his  letters 
patent)  to  finish  the  forts  of  Hayleboyling,  Castleparke,  and 
Galway,  and  the  bulwarks  of  the  Castle  of  Limerick,  &c. 
Prays  that  he  may  be  appointed  to  finish  the  works  yet  in 
hand. 

(Note  by  Sir  A.  Chichester).— The  last  of  January  1 609. 

If  you  will  undertake  the  works  at  the  same  rate  as  other 
men,  and  bring  them  to  a  finish  in  the  same  time,  I  think  no 
man  so  fit  to  be  employed  as  yourself,  and  I  pray  Mr.  Trea- 
surer (Eidgeway)  to  acquaint  the  Lord  Treasurer  that  the 
business  may  be  committed  to  none  other,  at  any  time  when 
the  works  are  taken  in  hand  hereafter. 

Pp.  2.    Signed  by  Sw  Arthur  Chichester.    Endd. 

603.  HowTH. 

Principal  notes  and  observations  out  of  the  Lord  of  Howth's 
letter  to  the  King,  wherein  it  is  fit  he  shotdd  interpret  himself. 

It  is  meet  that  he  He  says  that  some  of  highest  estate  here,  and  their  allies, 
should  express  who  he  J, a ve  given  impediment  to  his  well-meaning  resolutions,  re- 
means  by  some  of  the  ,  •  °  , i  ,  i  ■'^-  ^  i  ,  °  ■,,  ^  ,  . 
highest  estate  here  and  porting  that  he  IS  a  dangerous  man,  and  have  withdrawn  his 
their  allies,  what  impedi-  fnends  and  kinsmen  from  him,  by  whose  means  he  might  do 
ment  he  has  received,  , ,  -^-  „„„„;„„ 
and  prove  to  whom  they  ^'^^  -^^"s  service. 

have  said  he  is  a  dangerous  man,  and  what  kinsmen  and  friends  they  have 
withdrawn  from  him. 

These  words  seem  to  That  others  of  no  less  estate  have  threatened  to  hunt  him 
note  two  great  pevsons  out  of  the  kingdom,  which,  if  they  might  do,  they  would 
only  :  declare  who  they  ^^^^^  ^^j.  ^^^  ^^^,^  faithful  to  the  King  than  either  of  them. 

are,  and  whom  you  mean  o 

by  that  one  "  more  faithful  to  the  King  than  either  of  them,  &c.,  &c." 

Declare    whom    you      He  says  that  some  of  their  allies  have  ranked  him  by  speech 

°'*^°'  n,mongst  the  unworthy  sort  of  cowards,  and  craves  pardon  if 


Jan.  31. 
S.P.  Ireland, 
vol.  228,  21. 


IRELAND— JAMES   I.  375 


1610. 

he  should  seek  his  own  right  before  his  letter  comes  to  the 
King's  hand. 

Explain  who  has  dis-  He  says  he  is  so  far  from  having  the  benefit  of  the  King's 
graced  you,  and  what  former  letters  in  his  behalf  to  the  Deputy,  that  the  same  are 
cdTed'stnS"lhe7ece;pt  ^'^^'^^'^  construed  disgraceful,  than  of  favour  or  protection  to 
of  the  King's  letters.        him. 

Express  whom  you  He  says,  it  stands  ill  with  him  when  his  professed  enemies 
m^s,":nV  whaftre::::  sliaU  be  his  judges.  Only  for  doing  His  Majesty's  service. 

vices  done  by  you  for  His  Majesty  are,  for  which  they  are  your  enemies. 

Express  wherein  the      He  says  that  he  left  his  honour  in  the  Deputy's  hands,  but 

Deputy   has    not    dealt  ^         ^     ^      ^^      -y^  ^^^  ^     j  ^.^  q^^ 

well  with  you. 

Make  this  clear  and  He  says  that  the  Deputy  would  not  look  at  him,  and  re- 
declare  what  former  dis-  fj^gg(j  j^jg  company  and  service  into  Ulster,  that  thereby  the 

(Ti'npi'g    wci'G    Q.0I1G    unto  X  •/  '  •/ 

you  by  the  Deputy.  world  might  take  more  notice  of  his  former  disgraces  done  to 
him,  which  he  forbore  to  acquaint  the  King  with  at  his  last 
being  in  England. 

Explain  whom  you  Lastly,  he  craves  letters,  comiaanding  them  to  cease  these 
mean  by  the  word  them,  go^rggs  q^  license  to  quit  his  Unfortunate  country  and  to  live 

and  what  are  the  courses  .  '  ■J-  •' 

that  trouble  you.  m  lliUgland. 

Observations  out  of  the  Lord  of  HowtKs  letters  to  the 
Lords. 

Prove  that  they  have  He  says  that  the  Lord  Chancellor  and  Sir  Garrett  Moore 
wrought  the  Caroiaus  (notwithstanding  the  charge  given  to  Sir  Garrett  Moore  in 
iTke^Wse^The  mainer™;?  England)  have  Wrought  the  Deputy  to  accept  the  O'Carrolans, 
the  murder,  and  that  the  in  spite  of  the  foul  murder  done  upon  his  man. 

man  slain  was  your  man. 

Show  by  whom,  and      Hg  says  he  could  not  foUow  the  law  against  them  till  he 
motet:d  if  y^ur  ilgai  Procured  the  Lord  Treasurer's  to  that  effect, 
course  against  the  malefactors. 

Showhowyoubrought      He  says  that  when  he  brought  them  so  that  they  could 
SeTwhaTnumber'^of  ^1°*  ^scape  their  deserts,  the  Deputy  protected  them,  and  now 
horse  and  foot  they  are,  they  are  both  horse  and  foot, 
or  if  they  be  in  any  companies. 

Declare  of  whom  you      He  says,  he  dare  not  go  otherwise  provided  than  in  the 
Sto  Jo'opJovMed!  last  war,  and  this  is  the  life  he  leads  since  his  coming  over 
out  of  England. 

"  My  Lord  of  Howthe,  the  last  abstract  of  the  points  of  your 
letters  to  His  Majesty  and  the  Lords,  which  I  delivered  you, 
being  done  in  haste,  and  not  so  perfect  as  it  might  have  been, 
I  have  drawn  this  abstract,  which  the  Deputy  and  Council 
desire  you  to  explain  with  all  speed. — This  last  of  January. 

Siqned:  M.  Uscher." 

P'p,    ,     Endd. 

[Jan.  81.]    604.        Bond  for   repaieing  the   Chukch  of  Kathgaetie  in 
S.P.,  Ireland,  Westmeath. 

vol  '*"^H    22 

Copy  of  a  bond  between  Garrett  Fitz  Symons,  of  Kin- 
timke.  Garret  Deasse,  Ballycowmoyle,  and  Edward  Nugent, 


376  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

IGIO. 

of  Millcastle,  in  the  county  of  Wefstmeath,  and  the  Kino',  for 
building  and  repairing  the  body,  belfry  or  steeple,  of  the 
parish  church  of  Eathgartie,  in  the  county  of  Westmeath  and 
diocese  of  Meath  ;  and  for  glazing  the  windows  and  covering 
the  roof  thereof  with  slates,  &c.  — Sealed  and  delivered  to 
Edward  Hatton,  vicar  of  Castleton.  Delvent  [Delvin]. 
P.  1.     Copy.     Endd. 

Jan.  605.        The  King  to  the  Lord  Deputy.  ' 

ireJaud'p.R'o.  Appoints  George   Montgomery,  Bishop   of  Derry,    to  the 

Bishopric  of  Meath,  vacant  by  the  death  of  Roger  Dod. 

Pp.  3.  Co23y.  Endd.  by  Salisbury  :  "  Dod  made  a  lease 
to  his  wife." 

[Jan.]        606.        John  Baxter  to  the  Earl  op  Salisbury. 

irehmd'p'K 6  ^^*^  ^^^^  ^  petitioner  to  the  King  for  compensation  for 

25  years  long  sorvice  in  Ireland.  A  fee-farm  of  20  marks 
per  annum  of  lands  in  Connaught  excluded  in  the  last 
rebellion  has  been  granted  him :  requests  that  his  grant  may 
pass  the  privy  seal. 

P.  1.  Signed.  Add.  Endd. :  "  Jan.  1609.  John  Baxter 
to  my  Lord." 

Feb.  1.      607.        Order  in  the  Suit  of  the  Countess  of  Kildare  and 

S.r.,  Ireland,  SiR   ROBERT   DiGBY. 

'  '"  '   "  Copy  of  an  order  taken  between  the  Lady  Mabel,  Countess 

dowager  of  Kildare,  and  Sir  Ro.  Digby,  Knt.,  as  to  arrears  of 
rent  of  the  manors  of  Woodstock  and  Athy,  claimed  by  Sir 
Robt.  Digby.  The  Lady  Mabel  to  receive  801.  per  annum 
until  some  further  order  be  given  in  that  behalf  from  the  bjard. 

Signed :  Arthur  Chichester,  Tho.  Dublin,  Cane,  Geo.  Der- 
riensis,  Tho.  Ridgway,  R.  Wingfield,  H.  Winche,  Nic.  Walshe, 
Jo.  Denham,  Era.  Aungier,  01.  St.  John,  H.  Power,  R.  Cooke, 
Garrett  Moore,  Ad.  Loftus,  Jo.  King. 

P.  1.     Copy,  large  Paper.     Endd. 

[Feb.]       608.        Case  of  Countess  of  Kildare  and  Sir  Robert  Digby. 
S.P.,  Ireland,  Copy  of  the  case  between  the  Countess  of  Kildare  and  Sir 

vol.  228,  23  A.  Robert  Digbie  in  the  Court  of  King's  Bench  in  Ireland,  sent 

into  England. 

P.  1.     Endd  :  "  For  Mr.  Treasurer." 

Feb  3.      609.        Answer  of  the  Lord  of  Howth  to  the  notes  out  of  his 
S.P.,  Ii-eland,  '  letters  to  the  King,  required  to  be  by  him  explained 

Tol.'228, 24.  for  the  Lord  Deputy. 

"  To  the  first  article,  I  explain  it  as  I  meant  when  I  wrote 
to  the  King.  The  one  to  be  the  Lord  Chancellor,  whose  great- 
ness my  friends  fear  to  offend,  by  "  anearing "  to  me  (not 
contented  with  having  sown  discord  between  the  Lord  of 
Killeen  and  myself  in  a  matter  between  the  Lord  of  Delvin 
and  Mr.  Plunkett,  the  said  Lord's  son),  but  has  of  late  signi- 
fied his  dislike  with  the  said  Mr.  Plunket  (to  his  father)  for 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  377 


IGIO. 


having  kept  company  with  me.     How  the  Lord  Chancellor 
has  used  my  counsel  at  law,  I  leave  to  the  world. 

The  second  is  Sir  Gerrald  Moore,  who  after  coming  out  of 
England,  taxed  me  with  promising  upon  my  honour  to  the 
Lords  of  the  Council,  that  I  would  not  nominate  to  be 
pardoned  any  person  but  such  as  were  in  the  conspiracy 
with  the  Earl  of  Tyrone  ;  contrary  to  which.  Sir  Garrett 
affirmed  I  named  certain  persons,  and  put  them  into  my 
pardon,  which  imported  that  the  said  persons  were  in  the 
conspiracy ;  and  if  they  were,  then  Sir  Garret  insinuated  to 
them  that  I  was  dangerous  ;  and  so  all  of  them  conceived 
it,  by  whose  means  I  intended  to  have  done  good  service 
upon  the  bordei's  where  they  live  ;  but  perceiving  they  were 
jealously  conceited  by  Sir  Garrett's  suggestion,?,  I  forbore  to 
acquaint  them  therewith,  lest  my  purpose  should  not  take 
effect,  as  without  this  "  buze  "  I  expected,  which  was  an  im- 
pediment. If  this  exposition  dees  not  give  satisfaction,  I  am 
ready  to  prove  it  more  at  large  when  occasion  requires.  I 
appeal  to  this  honourable  table  whether  Sir  Garrett  Moore 
endeavours  the  protection  of  notorious  malefactors,  upon 
whom  I  bent  my  industry  to  do  such  service,  so  that  the 
quiet  of  all  that  part  of  the  country  would  ensue. 

As  for  the  friends  mentioned  in  the  note,  estranged  from 
me,  I  means  divers  fit  persons  for  espials  and  executioners  to 
effect  that  service,  who  answered  me,  upon  conference  with 
them,  that  they  feared  the  greatness  of  Sir  Garrett  dwelling  in 
that  part  of  the  country,  being  also  apt  to  revenge,  and  chiefly 
that  he  was  in  great  favour  with  the  Deputy  and  Lord  Chan-  ' 
cellor,  and  so  deemed  it  dangerous  for  them  in  time  to  come ; 
by  reason  whereof  I  would  not  draw  them  to  accomplish  my 
desires. 

2.  I  answer  that  Sir  Garrett,  after  His  Majesty's  favourable 
dispatch  to  return  into  Ireland  to  settle  an  opinion  of  his  credit 
and  reputation  with  his  friends  and  allies,  said  "  that  seeing 
the  Lord  of  Howtli  ended  with  me,  he  would  begin  with  the 
Lord  of  Howth,"  meaning  me  ;  which  I  conceive  to  be  a  pro- 
secution of  me,  which  might  be  termed  "  a  hunting  me  out  of 
the  kingdom,"  who,  if  they  might,  they  would  chase  out  (I  mean 
Sir  Garret  and  his  friends)  ;  one  more  faithful  than  myself  I 
affirm  they  would  not  "  store  "  in  my  place,  which  I  will 
prove  with  my  life,  lands,  honour,  &c.,  where  and  when  it 
pleases  the  King  to  command,  against  Sir  Garrett  or  any  of 
his  allies  who  say  the  contrary. 

3.  I  mean  Sir  Roger  Johnes,  son  of  the  Lord  Chancellor, 
and  Edward  Moore,  son  and  heir  to  the  said  Sir  Garret,  whose 
speeches  and  carriage  being  manifest,  I  have  inserted  in  my 
letters,  and  will  prove  if  further  occasion  require. 

4.  That  where  the  King  recommended  my  employment  upon 
all  occasions,  the  Lord  Deputy  making  a  journey  into  the 
North  for  his  service,  accompanied  by  the  army,  I  offered 
my  attendance  to  him,  who  answered  me,  "  That  he  might 


378  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

spare  me  for  that  time,"  having  notwithstanding,  carried 
other  with  him  no  more  service  than  myself,  whereof  the 
world  took  notice,  as  of  a  matter  done  to  my  disgrace. 

5.  I  answer,  that  it  stands  ill  with  me,  when  upon  all  occa- 
sions wherein  I  am  driven  to  complain  to  the  Council,  the  Lord 
Chancellor  and  Sir  Garret  Moore  must,  as  councillors,  be  ray 
judges.  The  Lord  Chancellor,  being  my  good  friend  before, 
and  now  become  my  capital  enemy  ; — only  for  charging  Sir 
Garret  Moore  to  the  King,  with  matter ;  wherein  I  hold  him 
deeply  guilty. 

6.  I  answer,  that  I  imparted  to  the  Deputy  some  things 
concerning  the  state  of  that  cause  of  Sir  Garret  Moore,  who 
promised  to  keep  the  same  secret ;  yet  he  discovered  the  same 
to  the  Lord  Chancellor,  whereby  the  said  Sir  Garret  had 
better  means  to  deliberate  how  to  shade  his  offences  with 
some  colourable  "  shoves "  of  excuse ;  and  likewise  Shane 
Granoe  O'Harrolan,  indicted  and  arraigned  of  treason,  having 
made  an  escape,  covered  with  a  slight  "  shove "  or  means,  I 
proffered  his  prosecution,  which  his  Lordship  refused. 

7.  That  the  Lord  Deputy,  having  made  me  challenge  upon 
the  instigation  of  the  Lord  Chancellor  and  Sir  Garret 
Moore,  that  my  last  going  into  England  was  to  have  charged 
his  Lordship  with  treason  (notwithstanding  all  the  protesta- 
tions I  could  use  to  purge  myself  from  ever  having  such 
intention),  yet  his  Lordship  grew  into  such  choler  that  he 
spared  not  to  use  me  with  reproachful  speeches  (as  traitor, 
&c.,  and  the  like),  which  I  forbore  to  signify  to  the  King  at 
my  being  in  England. 

Signed:  Howthe. 

Pp.  5.  Endd.  by  Si7'  Arthur  Chichester :  "  2.  The  Lord  of 
Howthe  answer  to  several  notes  and  observations  collected  and 
drawn  out  of  his  letters  to  the  King's  Majesty,  &c.,  which  his 
Lordship  delivered  unto  me  the  14tii  Februarie  1609." 

Feb.  4.      610.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

'"'I'^s^'''  '438  ■""^^  noble  and  worthy  work  of  the  plantation  in  Ulster 

''^  ■   '^-      ■  undertaken  by  the  City  is  now  concluded,  and  the  articles 

signed.  The  City  have  chosen  a  particular  governor  and  a 
council  of  assistants,  for  the  more  orderly  disposition  of  their 
affairs.  They  have  also  elected  a  suiBcient  person,  John 
Rowley,  well  known  to  his  Lordship  (Sir  Arthur),  to  be  their 
resident  agent,  and  other  inferior  ministers  to  be  dispatched 
thither  immediately  ;  their  agent  to  follow  shortly.  They  are 
recommended  to  his  care,  but  more  especially  the  work  itself. 
There  is  nothing  the  King  has  more  at  heart.  They  have 
observed  his  (Sir  Arthur's)  alacrity,  as  the  principal  person  to 
make  way  for  this  good  work  by  the  sword,  and  his  subsequent 
endeavours,  which  have  made  matters  more  apt  for  the  im- 
pressions now  intended  towards  it.  He  is  to  assist  and  coun- 
tenance them  in  all  their  reasonable  addresses,  and  particularly 
to  send  his  directions  to  the  commanders,  sheriffs,  and  other 


IRELAND— JAMES  1.  379 


1610. 

officers  in  Tyrone,  Coleraine,  Donegal,  and  Antrim,  to  furnish 
a  competent  number  of  country  people  to  be  employed  for 
felling  of  timber,  digging  of  stone,  burning  of  lime,  and  such 
like  work.  Also  to  take  order  for  the  taking  up  of  victuals 
at  the  usual  rate,  for  the  use  of  the  workmen,  for  all  which 
the  agent  hath  order  to  make  due  satisfaction  in  money. — 
Whitehall,  4  February  1609. 

Signed :  R.  Cant.,  T.  EUesmere,  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northamp- 
ton, Lenox,  Notingham,  T.  Suffolke,  E.  Zouche,  W.  Knollys, 
J.  Herbert,  L.  Stanhope,  E.  Worcester,  Julius  Caesar. 

P.  1.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester:  "  Of  the 
4*11  of  Februarie  1609.  From  the  Lis.  of  the  Counsell,  de- 
claringe  the  agreement  with  the  Londoners  for  erecting  the 
buildings  and  plantation  of  Den-ie  and  Colrayne,  by  w^t  I 
am  required  to  give  them  and  their  agents  all  needful!  and 
necessarie  helps  and  assistance,  &c.     Ee.  the  21^*  of  [  ] 

1610." 

Feb.  5.       611.        Captain  Tobin  to  Salisbury. 

vol  '298^^5^'  ^^®  Lordship's  disposition  in  taking  notice  of  the  deserts  of 

well  merited  sevitors  emboldens  him  to  relate  some  of  his 
own  travels  and  service. 

Having,  amongst  others  (with  the  allowance  of  her  late 
Majesty)  performed  many  services  for  the  French  King  against 
the  Spaniards,  His  Majesty  gave  him  a  pension  of  4s.  Qd.  per 
diem,  and  Sir  Arthur  Savage,  then  General  of  Her  Highness's 
forces  there,  promised  him  in  her  name  5s.  per  diem  on  100 
men  in  her  pay  during  his  life. 

Then  Sir  Henry  Power,  Sir  Frances  Russh,  and  Sir  Lawrence 
Esmond  (being  required  to  withdraw  themselves  hence  and 
come  to  the  service  in  Ireland)  finding  his  removal  to  the 
Irish  wars  might  be  more  available,  persuaded  Sir  Thomas 
Edmonds,  then  leader  in  France,  to  solicit  the  French  King  to 
license  his  return,  but  could  not  procure  his  leave  to  depart. 
The  said  three  knights  arriving  in  Ireland,  made  Icnown  to 
the  Earl  of  Ormond  (then  Lieutenant  of  Her  Highness's 
forces)  what  services  they  had  seen  him  do  in  France  ;  whereon 
the  Earl  wrote  several  letters  entreating  him  to  come  to  Ire- 
land, and  promising  (in  Her  Majesty's  name)  to  make  means 
better  than  the  pension  he  had  in  France  ;  presuming  thereon 
he  forsook  his  pension,  and  after  much  trouble  obtained  the 
King's  leave  to  come  from  him. 

Consequently,  arriving  in  Ireland,  his  Lordship  made  him 
one  of  the  four  corporals  of  the  field,  where  he  did  such  service 
as  procured  for  him  a  recommendation  to  him  (Salisbury). 
He  was  also  taken  prisoner  when  the  Earl  was  treacherously 
taken  by  the  rebel  Ohny  O'Mory,  and  received,  further,  many 
wounds,  whose  marks  he  now  bears  about  him.  The  letters 
patent  for  his  pension  in  France,  and  other  letters  and 
warrants,  that  notified  his  employment  and  merits,  were 
burned  at  the  siege  of  Cahir  Castle. 


380  IRELAND— JAMES  T. 

1610. 

Lastly,  Sir  Lawrence  Edmond  (being  sent  hither  out  of 
France),  acquainted  him  (the  Earl),  as  he  told  him,  with  his 
services,  having  advertised  him  from  France  that  peace  was  to 
be  concluded  between  the  Spaniards  and  the  French  King, 
which  fell  out  to  be  true. 

Has  given  a  full  account  of  his  services  to  the  State  to 
Sir  James  Ley,  Knight,  who  has  promised  to  lay  them  before 
his  Lordship.  And  now,  having  forsaken  his  pension  and  a 
King  who  favoured  him  much,  and  having  spent  the  little 
patrimony  left  him,  and  receiving  nothing  but  the  promises  of 
two  Generals,  he  beseeches  his  Lordship  to  further  his  suit 
with  the  King  for  a  competent  pension,  or  his  grant  of  a 
certa-in  rent-charge  of  221.  10s.  per  annum,  issuing  out  of  a 
parcel  of  land  called  Ballinacky  in  Ireland. — 5  February  1609. 

Signed:  James  Tobin. 

P.  1.     Sealed.     Add.     Endd. 


vol.  228,  26. 


Feb.  8.        612.         Examinations  taken  on  behalf  of  the  Lord  of  Howth 
S.P.,  Ireland,  before  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Council. 

1.  Question. — Did  you  hear,  or  did  Sir  Gerrot  Moore  send 
you  message,  that  the  Lord  of  Howth  had  done  you  and  other 
gentlemen  great  wrong  by  putting  you  and  them  into  his 
pardon,  contrary  to  his  promise  to  the  Lords  of  the  Council  of 
England  ? 

Ansiuer. — Genico,  Lord  Viscount  Gormanston,  saith,  on  his 
oath,  that  Christofer  Darcy  told  him  that  he  heard  Sir  Garret 
say,  that  the  Lord  of  Howth  had  done  the  examinate  and 
others  much  harm  in  putting  them  into  his  pardon,  and  that 
the  Lord  of  Howth  took  it  upon  his  honour  to  the  Lords  of 
the  Council  that  we  (sic)  [he?]  would  put  no  one  in  his 
pardon,  but  such  as  were  guilty  of  the  conspiracy  with  the 
said  Lord  of  Howth,  which  Christofer  Darcy  sent  likewise  in 
a  message  to  this  examinate,  or  words  to  like  effect. 
-  2.  Question.  —  Is  Patrick  Carrolan,  who  escaped  out  of 
Trimme,  protected,  and  did  you  make  means  for  the  said 
protection  ? 

AiLswer. — Tliat  at  the  request  of  Shane  Grane  he  was  a 
suitor  to  the  Lord  Deputy  to  have  Patrick  Carrolan  pardoned, 
but  the  Deputy  denied  his  request,  and  he  knows  not  whether 
the  said  Patrick  Carrolan  is  protected  now. 

3.  Question. — Did  you  see  Shane  Grane  O'Carrolan  the  day 
the  Lord- Deputy  came  from  Gormanston  to  Dublin  or  no ; 
what  coloured  horse  had  he,  and  did  you  ever  know  or  see  the 
horse  before  that  day  ? 

Answer. — That  he  saw  Shane  Grane  the  aforesaid  day,  and 
that  he  rode  upon  a  little  bay  or  sorrel  nag,  and  had  a  whitish 
grey  horse  led  by  him,  which  he  thinks  to  be  the  horse  which 
Sir  Garret  Moore  gave  Shane  Grane,  and  that  Patrick  O'Car- 
rolan told  him  it  was  the  same. 

4.  Question. — Did  you  see  Shane  Grane  O'Carrolan  the  day 
the  Deputy  came  from  Gormanston  to  Dublin,  what  coloured 


IRELAND— JAMES   I.  381 


LGIO. 


horse  had  he,  and  did  you  ever  know  or  see  that  horse  before 
that  day  ? 

Answer. — Eobert  Preston,  brother  to  the  said  Lord  Viscount, 
answers  upon  his  oath,  that  he  saw  Shane  Grane  the  day  afore- 
said, and  that  he  rode  upon  a  bay  nag,  having  a  led  horse  with 
him,  and  he  thinks  it  was  the  same  horse  he  saw  with  him 
two  years  before,  and  was  a  running  horse. 

1.  Question. — Did  you  ever  make  the  Lord  of  Howth  a  chal- 
lenge for  speaking  of  the  Lord  Chancellor  in  a  matter  concern- 
ing Luke  Plunkett  and  the  Lord  of  Delvin  ?  And  did  you  ever 
in  that  challenge  tell  the  Lord  of  Howth  that  the  Lord  Chan- 
cellor had  acquitted  himself  to  the  Lord  of  Killeen,  in  which 
he  aiSrmed  that  it  was  a  report  of  the  Lord  of  Howth's,  and 
that  the  said  Lord  should  tell  the  Chancellor  that  it  was  the 
Earl  of  Clanrickard  told  him,  and  not  the  Earl  of  Salisbury  ? 

Answer. — Bartholomewe  Dillon,  of  Riverston,  upon  his  oath 
answers  affirmatively,  saying  that  those  speeches  passed  be- 
tween the  Lord  of  Howth  and  himself  in  June  or  July  1608. 

2.  Question. — Did  you  write  or  send  to  the  Lord  of  Howth 
into  England,  that  the  Lord  Chancellor  was  directed  by  the 
Lord  Deputy  to  bring  you  to  him  to  yield  an  account  of 
matters  of  importance  ? 

Aoiswer. — He  says  that  the  Lord  Chancellor  meeting  him 
in  the  Chancery,  willed  him  to  come  home  to  his  house,  where 
lie  told  him  he  must  be  examined  before  the  Lord  Deputy  on 
some  matters  concerning  Sir  Garret  Moore  and  the  Lord 
Delvin,  to  which  he  answered,  that  when  he  came  before  the 
Deputy  he  would  speak  the  truth,  and  after  coming  into  the 
drawing  chamber  the  Lord  Deputy  asked  him  if  he  heard 
Lord  Delvin  say  that  he^would  break  Sir  Garret  Moore's  neck  ; 
to  which  examinate  answered,  that  both  he  and  Walter  Bane 
Nugent  heard  the  Lord  of  Delvin  use  those  speeches  in  private, 
and  thus  much  he  told  the  Deputy  at  that  time,  being  the 
3rd  February  1608. 

Question. — Did  you  ever  hear,  or  did  the  Lord  Chancellor 
tell  at  any  time,  that  the  Lord  of  Howth  would  be  the  over- 
throw of  many  gentlemen  of  this  country  ? 

Answer. — Edmunde  Archebald,  farmer,  upon  his  oath,  said 
that  he  heard   the  Chancellor  say  that  the  Lord   of  Howth 
went  about  to  overthrow  many  of  this  country,  saying  withal, 
.    "  God  amend  him." 

Question. — Did  the  Lord  of  Howth  tell  you  that  the  same 
was  the  horse  Sir  Garret  gave  to  Shane  Grane  ;  what  colour 
was  he  ? 

Aiiswer. — Patrick  Barnewall,  of  Krickston,  upon  his  oath, 
said,  that  being  in  company  with  the  Lord  of  Howth  as  they 
rode  by  the  way,  and  seeing  a  horse  led  by  Shane  Grane, 
which  was  white  or  whitish  grey  with  a  mane,  the  Lord  of 
Howth  then  told  him  that  Sir  Garret  Moore  gave  that  horse 
to  Shane  Grane,  but  whether  it  was  a  horse  or  a  gelding  he 
knows  not. 


382  TEELAND — JAMES  I. 

1610. 

Question. — Is  Patrick  Carrolan,  who  escaped;  protected,  and 
whether  the  Lord  Gormanston  made  means  for  the  same  pro- 
tection ? 

Aiistuer.—  FsA.rick  Barnewall,  of  Killeen,  upon  his  oath, 
says,  that  he  saw  a  protection  given  to  Shane  Grane  0' Car- 
rolan, a  copy  whereof  he  has  and  will  bring  to  the  Lord 
Deputy. 

10th  February  ]  609. 

Question.— Did  you  hear  that  the  Lord  Chancellor  had 
written  to  the  Lord  of  Killeen,  or  sent  to  him,  signifying  that 
he  was  not  well  pleased  that  his  son  kept  company  with  the 
Lord  of  Howth  ?  Who  told  you  so  ?  How  did  he  tell  you, 
and  when  ? 

Answer. — Christopher  Barnewall,  of  Pelletston,  says,  on  his 
oath,  that  meeting  with  Oliver  Plunkett,  son  of  Thomas 
Plunkett,  Cloanston,  he  told  him,  in  the  presence  of  his  father, 
that  he  heard  the  Lord  Chancellor  had  written  a  letter  to 
the  Lord  of  Killeen,  upon  receipt  whereof  the  Lord  of  Killeen 
reproved  his  son  Luke  for  keeping  company  with  the  Lord  of 
Howth  ;  whereuuto  Luke  answered,  that  if  the  Lord  of  Howth 
was  pulled  down,  he  (meaning  his  father)  would  be  the  next. 
And  this  examinate,  being  shortly  before  at  Howth,  the  said 
Oliver  Plunkett  asked  him  what  news ;  he  answered  none,  but 
that  he  heard  there  was  a  subpoena  served  upon  the  Lord  of 
Howth  to  answer  some  matter  in  the  Star  Chamber  touching 
the  Lord  Chancellor  ;  to  which  Plunkett  replied,  "  That  will  go 
hard,  and  it  were  pity  but  it  should  go  well,  for  my  Lord  of 
Howth  hath  an  excellent  spirit,  and  pity  that  the  country 
hath  not  many  such."  These  speeches  this  examinate  told 
to  the  Lord  of  Howth  within  this  fortnight  or  three  weeks. 

February  10. — Examinations  of  Oliver  Plunket  and  of  Luke 
Plunket,  son  of  the  Lord  Killeen.  Oliver  Plunket,  son  to 
Thomas  Plunket  of  ^Clowanston,  deposes  that  the  Chancellor, 
never  to  his  knowledge,  had  written  about  Lord  ^o'wth,  as 
alleged. 

Pp.  3.     E7icld. 

Feb.  12.      613.        Sir  John  Denham  to  Salisbury. 

^  T  '>28'^^27'^'  Relates  the  course  he  has  pursued  on  taking  his  seat  in  the 

'  "    '     '  Exchequer  for  reformation  and  reducing  it  to  the  order  of  the 

Exchequer  in  England. — Dublin,  12  February  1609. 

P.  1.  Signed.  Add.  Endd. :  "  Sir  John  Denham,  Lord 
Chief  Baron  of  Ireland,  to  my  Lord." 

Feb.  12.     614.        Sir  Robert  Newcomen  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

^J]''2^2g'™8'  -^^^  perused  the  articles  of  agreement  made  by  the  Lords 

with  Marniaduke  Darrel,  Esq.,  for  victualling  the  King's 
ships  in  harbour  and  at  sea.  As  there  are  no  store-houses 
here,  nor  offices  for  brewing  or  baking,  neither  are  there  any 
offices  to  be  hired  in  the  places  whence  the  ships  are  to  be 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  383 


1610. 

furnished.  He  finds  the  service  more  difficult  and  chargeable 
in  this  kingdom  than  at  Tower  Hill  or  Rochester.  But,  if 
the  King  continues  next  summer  two  or  three  ships  on  the 
coast  of  Munster,  containing  three  or  four  hundred  men,  will 
take  upon  himself  from  May  next  to  victual  them  for  sis 
months  at  the  price  of  7^cl.  sterling  a  man  per  diem,  he  having 
two  parts  of  the  money  paid  him  beforehand,  and  the  third 
part  paid  him  here. — 12  February  1609. 

Signed:  Rob.  Newcomen. 

Note  in  Lord  Deputy's  hand :  "  This  is  a  contract  made 
for  victualling  the  King's  ships,  and  I  pray  you  Sir  Robert 
Newcomen  to  consider  thereof,  and  certifj''  whether  you  will 
undertake  to  victual  two  or  three  ships  at  the  same  rate,  if 
the  King  have  cause  to  send  them  hither.  It  is  thought  you 
may  do  it  cheaper. — Arthur  Chichester."     Encloses, 

S. P.,  Ireland,     615.         Victualling  of  Ships. 

'      '  Copy  of  the  agreement  made  hettveen  the  Right  Honourable 

Thomas  Lord  Buckhurst,  Lord  Treasurer  of  England,  Charles 
Earl  of  Nottingham,  Lo7xl  High  Admiral  of  England,  and 
Sir  John  Fortescue,  Knight,  Chancellor  and  Under  Secretary 
of  the  GouH  of  the  Exchequer,  on  the  one  part,  and  Marma- 
duJce  Darrell  on  the  other,  for  victualling  ships,  &c.  at  the 
rate  of  *l\d.  a  man  per  diem. 
Pp.  3.     Large  paper. 

Feb.  12.      616.        Sir  Akthtje  Chichester  to  the  Attorney  General. 
^Carterapers,  Warrant  to  make  out  a  fiant  of  grant  of  the  office  of  Chief 

'   '      '  Remembrancer  of  the  Exchequer,  to  Dudley  Norton,  on  the 

avoidance  of  now  patentee,  according  to  the  King's  letter  of 
June  19.— Dublin  Castle,  12  February  1609-10. 

P.  1.  Orig.  Endd. :  "  W  Dudley  Norton  his  revercou  of 
the  Office  of  Remembrancer." 

Feb.  1 5.     617.        Edward  Soutoum  to  Sir  Parr  Lane. 

^vl\'22a''29.'  ^^  *^®  absence  of  the  Vice-President,  informs  him   that, 

' "  '  being  in  Dunkerke  in  the  Low  Countries,  about  the  29th  of 

September  last,  he  found  there  14  sail  of  good  ships  of  war, 
some  of  them  120  and  some  180  tons  burthen,  well  provided 
and  victualled,  bound  to  the  Groyne  [Corunna]  to  meet  28 
more  ships  there,  as  one  Captain  Governor  and  Captain  Clay- 
son  informed  him,  to  transport  the  King  of  Morocco  into 
Barberry  the  following  spring.  But  upon  private  conference 
with  the  said  captains  and  other  gentlemen  found  that  this 
fleet  carried  the  name  of  the  Pope's  Holiness,  and  that  its 
private  intent  was  to  transport  the  Earl  of  Tyrone  into  Ireland 
about  March  next,  &c. — Corke,  15  February  1609. 

P.  1.  Signed.  Add. :  "  To  the  Right  Worshipful  Sir  Parr 
Lane,  Kt.  of  the  Council  for  the  province  of  Mounster,  these/' 
Endd. 


384  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


vol.  1,  p.  374. 


1610. 

Feb.  16.      618.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Phiiad.  p..  Encloses  the  petition  of  Moriertagh  M'Brien  Arra,  Bishop 

vol.  1.  T).  .374.  _  T^.,,     T  I'll  n      •  «■».■!.■« 

01  Killalo,  which  he  grants  as  well  m  respect  of  his  birth, 
as  for  the  good  example  to  others  of  his  rank,  to  persist  in 
their  loyal  service  to  him.  He  (Sir  Arthur)  is  therefore  to 
make  a  grant  to  Thomas  Comerford  of  Callan,  of  the  ward- 
ship of  Turlough  O'Brien,  his  son,  to  the  use  of  the  said  Tur- 
lough,  and  for  his  benefit,  if  by  the  petitioner's  death  he  fall 
to  be  the  King's  ward. — Westminster,  16  February,  in  the  7th 
year  of  the  King's  reign. 

P.  |.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Enrol.  Endd.  hy  Sir 
Arthur  Chichester:  "Of  the  16tii  of  Februarie  1609.  From 
the  Kinge's  Mati%  to  pass  the  wardship  of  the  Byshop  of 
of  Killalowe's  son  to  Thomas  Comerforde,  &c.  Re.  the  IS*'' 
of  June  1610." 


vol.  228,  30. 


Feb.  16.      619.        Patrick  Crosbie  to  Lord  Salisbury. 

^^n\  99!s'^"n'  '^^^   Knight  of  the  Valley  has  secretly  repaired  thither 

without  license  or  letters  from  the  Deputy,  and  is  a  suitor  for 
the  Castle  of  the  Glin,  which  is  granted  to  him  (Crosby),  and 
which  my  Lord  Carew  (being  Lord  President  of  Munster)  was 
forced  to  win  with  the  army.  The  castle  was  exempted  from 
the  Knight  when  he  was  pardoned,  and  he  himself  bound  in 
1,000Z.  before  Sir  Edmond  Pelham  (then  Chief  Baron  here), 
never  to  challenge  it  or  enter  into  it,  as  Sir  Francis  Barkely, 
who  is  now  here,  can  testify.  He  delivered  his  son  as  a 
pledge  for  his  loyalty,  and  Lord  Carew  sent  for  him  upon  pro- 
tection and  willed  him  to  submit  himself  or  else  his  son  should 
be  executed.  But  his  Lordship  knows  what  a  barbarous  answer 
he  made,  and  refused  to  submit  himself  or  deliver  the  castle. 
His  father  and  grandfather  were  attainted  by  Act  of  Parlia- 
ment, and  his  son  is  now  in  Spain  with  Tyrone.  Whether  it 
is  fit  that  the  castle  be  restored  to  one  who  kept  it  against 
the  King,  he  leaves  to  his  Lordship's  consideration,  and  the 
opinions  of  all  martial  men,  except  Sir  Charles  Wilmot,  who 
received  200Z.  of  the  Knight  for  his  pardon,  and  is  an  open 
adversary  of  his  (Crosby). — 16  February  1609. 
P.  1.     Signed.     Sealed.     Add.     Endd. 


vol.  228,  31. 


Feb.  17.  620.  Answer  of  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Charges 
S.P.,  Ireland,  made  against  him  by  the  Lord  of  Howth. 

One  of  Lord  Howth 's  charges  against  him  (Sir  Arthur)  is  as 
follows  : — 

"  I  say  the  Lord  Deputy  will  not  deny  that  the  Carrolans 
were  protected  by  him,  by  which  means  they  were  freed  from 
answering  the  law  until  I  procured  the  Lord  Treasurer's 
letters,  iipon  which  the  protection  was  removed,  and  Sir  Garrett 
Moore  forced  to  bring  them  in,  who  contrary  to  justice  had 
bailed  them,  they  being  indicted  of  wilful  murder.  And 
further  I  say  that  on  one  of  the  malefactors  being  sent  to  the 
shire  gaol,  made  his  escape  and  is  now  upon  protection." 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  385 


1610. 


He  charges  him  also  with  disrespect  and  ill-usage  towards 
him,  and  that  his  friends  feared  to  offend  Sir  Garrett  Moore 
on  account  of  his  greatness  with  him. 

To  this  he  (Chichester)  says  that  Sir  Garrett  Moore's  great- 
ness with  him  never  harmed  any  man,  neither  is  he  greater 
with  him  than  any  other  noblemen  and  gentlemen  of  the  king- 
dom. But  perhaps  his  Lordship  would  have  him  estrange 
himself  from  all  those  he  loves  not. 

He  charges  him  with  not  taking  him  to  the  North.  Ac- 
knowledges that  the  Lord  of  Howth  told  him  that  he  would 
go  with  him  on  his  journey  to  the  North,  which  he  accepted, 
and  gave  him  notice  by  letters  of  his  departure,  of  which  he 
denies  the  receipt ;  but  whether  he  received  them  or  not  does 
not  matter,  for  he  (Chichester)  sent  out  patents  to  the  captains 
of  the  horse  and  foot  to  march  to  Dundalke,  of  which  his 
Lordship  was  one  ;  besides  he  consigned  him  a  quantity  of 
garrans  to  carry  his  necessaries,  and  sent  message  by  his  lieu- 
tenant to  tell  him  he  should  be  at  Dundalke  on  such  and  such 
a  day.  He  stayed  at  Mele]:)hant  [Mellifont]  seven  or  eight 
days  after  he  sent  him  the  message,  during  which  time  he 
came  not  to  him,  nor  did  he  Iiear  from  him. 

He  charges  him  with  having  discovered  to  the  Chancellor 
some  things  which  he  (Howth)  had  imparted  to  him  concern- 
ing Sir  GaiTett  Moore.  Remembers  nothing  that  he  told  him 
of  Sir  Garrett  Moore  that  he  revealed  to  any  one,  except  that 
he  could  charge  him  with  treason,  to  which  he  (Chichester) 
made  him  subscribe,  and  that  he  told  soon  after  to  the  Council, 
the  Lord  Chancellor  being  present ;  but  when  he  (Chichester) 
told  him  it  was  a  foul  accusation  if  he  could  not  prove  it,  he 
said  he  would  make  it  good  out  of  Sir  Garrett's  own  mouth, 
and  that  there  was  a  gentleman  who  had  overheard  him  and 
would  justify  what  he  had  said.  He  would  not  reveal  the 
party  to  him  (Chichester),  but  soon  after  he  told  the  same  tale 
to  one  Laurence  Moore,  a  merchant  of  Tredagh,  and  named 
him  as  Christofer  Eustace,  by  which  Sir  Garrett  knew  the 
man  before  he  did,  and  was  the  first  that  told  him  his  name  ; 
he  sent  for  the  said  Eustace  to  examine  him,  but  the  Lord  of 
Howth  met  his  messenger  and  took  his  letters  from  him,  and 
sent  Eustace  to  England.  By  which  it  is  apparent  that  his 
secrets  came  to  be  discovered  by  his  own  tong-ue,  and  not  by 
his  (Chichester's)  imparting  them  to  the  Lord  Chancellor  or 
others. 

To  the  charge  about  the  Carrolans,  he  does  not  deny  that  he 
(Howth)  demanded  a  warrant  from  him  to  prosecute  Shane 
Grane  Carrolan  with  his  company,  but  he  well  knew  that  his 
end  was  to  cesse  his  company  upon  the  country  rather  than  to 
catch  the  offender,  for  he  (Chichester)  knows  as  well  as  the 
Lord  of  Howth  what  it  is  to  catch  a  kern  with  a  company  ; 
yet  to  declare  his  well-wishing  to  his  prosecution  he  allowed 
him  20  or  30  of  his  company  to  attend  him  upon  the  borders, 
3.  B  B 


"d86  IRELAND— JAMES  I, 

1610. 

until  he  found  cause  to  recall  thena  upon  sundry  complaints 
made  to  him  by  the  country. 

To  another  of  his  charges,  of  his  having  used  reproachful 
language  to  him,  and  with  having  called  him  traitor,  he  says 
that  the  Lord  Chancellor  told  him  that  he  heard  that  the  Lord 
of  Howth  had  reported  that  if  he  were  not  Deputy  he  would 
charge  him  (the  Chancellor)  as  deeply  as  he  had  Sir  Garrett 
Moore,  and  when  he  (Chichester)  was  out  of  office,  he  would 
call  him  into  question  ;  "  for,"  said  he,  "  I  acquainted  him  with 
Delvin's  purpose  to  escape  out  of  the  Castle,  and  he  permitted 
him  to  break  prison;"  at  which  he  (Chichester)  was  much 
grieved,  and  at  their  next  meeting  charged  him  with  those 
reports,  when  he  protested  that  he  had  not  said  that  he  ever 
told  of  Delvin's  purpose  to  break  prison,  to  any  but  the 
King  and  the  Lord  Treasurer,  "  and  therefore,"  said  he,  "  if 
it  is  spoken  of,  it  comes  out  by  one  of  you." 

To  this  he  (Chichester)  replied,  "  he  is  a  babbler  and  cannot 
keep  his  own  counsel ;"  and  said  further  that  it  ill  became^him 
to  tell  such  tales,  when  he  knew  well  the  care  he  had  taken  to 
prevent  his  escape,  and  the  charge  he  gave  the  constable ;  and 
that  he  took  custody  of  him  at  the  peril  of  his  life  ;  all  which 
he  had  confessed  before  this  time  before  the  Council.  Besides 
which,  he  (Chichester)  never  took  it  upon  him  to  be  his  keeper, 
and  therefore  was  not  to  be  taxed  by  him  in  this  manner  with 
his  escape  ;  but  the  fault  is  rather  to  be  laid  on  him,  who  advised 
him  to  attempt  his  escape  and  taught  him  how  to  do  it,  which 
the  Lord  of  Delvin  has  said  to  his  (Howth's)  face  many  times  ; 
and  therefore  it  was  that  he  said  he  gave  his  tongue  too  great 
a  liberty,  and  asked  him  (Howth)  to  procure  his  pardon,  and 
then  came  and  charged  him  as  a  subject  and  not  as  a  traitor, 
and  then  he  would  make  him  ashamed  of  his  folly. — Written 
17  February  1609. 

(Signed)        Arthur  Chichester. 

To  his  charge  against  him  of  protecting  the  Carrolans,  he 
answers  that  he  has  given  protection  several  times  to  10  or  12 
of  them  upon  good  consideration ;  seeing  that  the  King  has 
trusted  him  with  greater  matters  than  protecting  a  kern  for 
killing  a  thief,  the  party  slain  being  a  well-known  one, 
although  his  Lordship  shames  not  to  entitle  him  his  man,  but 
to  wipe  off  his  aspersion  as  quickly  as  he  may.  He  directed 
Sir  Garrett  to  protect  such  of  them  as  were  fled  into  the 
woods  upon  the  killing  of  the  kern,  if  they  would  enter 
into  bonds  to  appear  at  the  next  assizes  held  in  the  county 
where  the  offence  was  committed,  which  they  performed  ac- 
cordingly. But  for  Shane  Grane  Carrolan,  their  chief,  and  the 
only  man  whom  the  Lord  of  Howth  desires  to  prosecute,  he 
(Chichester)  took  Sir  Garrett's  word,  who  brought  him  to  him 
when  he  desired  him.  He  sent  him  to  Sir  James  Ley,  then 
Chief  Justice  of  the  King's  Bench,  who  finding  nothing  laid  to 
his  charge,  released  him  upon  bonds  ;  and  when  Sir  Cayre 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  387 


1610. 

[Cahir]  O'Doughei-tie  was  in  the  rebellion  he  was  a  horseman  in 
Sir  Garrett's  troop  and  did  good  service,  and  then  he  protected 
the  rest  of  those  charged  with  the  killing,  a  second  time,  to  keep 
them  from  joining  the  rebels ;  but  why  the  Lord  of  Howth 
is  so  against  him  he  knows  not,  for  he  is  sure  that  Shane 
Grane  Carrolan  lay  ill  in  his  house  when  the  kern  that  hurt 
him  was  killed  by  his  men  a  quarter  of  a  mile  off. 

The  audacity  of  the  Lord  of  Howth  in  daring  to  incense  the 
King  against  his  faithful  servants  is  beyond  comparison. — 
17  February  1609. 

(Signed)        Arthur  Chichester. 

Fp.  9.     Hoi.    Endd. 

Feb.         621.        Answer  of  the  Archbishop  of  Dublin.' 
fohlnfafl  '^^^  answer  of  the  Archbishop  of  Dublin,  Chancellor,  to  the 

Lord  of  Howth's  objections  contained  in  his  letter  to  the 
King,  dated  August  last  past,  according  to  his  own  explana- 
tions of  the  same,  presented  to  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Council, 
the  14th  of  February. 

Pp.  5.     Hoi.     Signed :  Tho.  Dublin,  Cane.     Endd. 


Feb.         622.        Answers  of  Sir  Garrett  Moore,  Knight.^ 
^^rr  Jjs'^-fJ^'  The  answers  of  Sir  Garrett  Moore,  Knight,  to  the  objections 

of  the  Lord  of  Howth's  articles  in  his  letters  written  to  the 
King,  as  by  himself  explained. 
Pp.  2.     Signed.    Endd. 


vol.  228,  32. 


Feb.        623.        Answer  of  Sir  Garrett  Moore  to  the  Lords  of  the 

S.P.,  Ireland,  COUNCIL.^ 

vol    998    ^2  A 

'       '  The  answer  of  Sir  Garrett  Moore  to  the  note  and  objections 

of  the  Lord  of  Howth  in  his  letters  to  the  Lords  of  the  Council, 
explained  by  himself. 
Pp.  2.    Signed.    Endd. 

Feb.  17.      624.        Sir  Garrett  Moore  to  Salisbury. 
^'^{'llf^^t'  Has  restrained  himself,  according  to  the  King's  commaud 

(since  his  coming  from  England)  from  saying  or  doing  any- 
thing to  bring  up  new  matter  of  offence  to  the  Lord  of 
Howth ;  but  he  (Howth)  has  not  spared  to  inform  him  (Salis- 
bury) and  the  Council,  that  since  his  coming  over  he  has 
given  horses  to  some  of  the  Carrolans,  in  order  to  take  his 
life,  especially  to  Shane  Grane  O'Carrolan,  his  man.  Confesses 
that  Shane,  during  the  last  wars,  depended  on  him,  being 
a  spu-ited  fellow  dwelling  on  the  borders  of  Meath,  when  he 
performed  good  service  to  the  Crown. — Dublin,  17  Febmaiy 
1609. 
Pp.  2.    Signed.    Sealed.    Add.    Endd. 

'  Similar  to  the  previous  letter. 

B  B  2 


388  IRELAND— JAMES  1. 


1610. 
Feb.  17.      625.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Lords  of  the  Privv 

S.P.,  Ireland,  COUNCIL. 

''°  •  '  '     ■  jjf^g  not  yet  received  the  King's  letter  dated  24  July  last, 

with  direction,  as  is  said,  that  he  should  pass  the  castle  of 
Glynne,  in  the  county  of  Limerick,  to  Patrick  Crosbie  and  his 
heirs,  upon  his  information  that  the  castle,  having  been  taken 
by  force  in  the  last  rebellion  from  Edmund  FitzGerald,  com- 
monly called  the  Knight  of  the  Valley,  has  ever  since  been 
restrained  from  him  as  a  tie  to  keep  him  from  revolt,  and 
that  the  custody  thereof  granted  to  Crosbie  might  be  charge- 
able  to    the    King.      Crosbie  says  he  left  the  King's  letter 
behind  him  at  Bristol,  but  expects  it  shortly.     Crosbie  still 
assures  him  that  the    castle    of   Carrigefoyle  was  exempted 
from  one  John  O'Connor,  and  the  castle  of  the  Glin  from 
Edmund  FitzGerald,  when  they  were  both  taken  in  and  par- 
doned at  the  end   of  the  last  rebellion.     He  further  says  that 
a  recognizance  of  1,000?.  was  taken  before  Sir  Edmund  Pelham, 
(]hief  Baron,  that  neither  of  them  should  ever  enter  into  these 
castles  or  challenge  them.     That  Sir  Francis  Barkley,  who  was 
about  that  time  put  into  the  castle  of  Carrigefoyle,  was  present 
with  divers  others  at  the  taking  of  the  said  recognizances. 
Lastly,  he  avouched  that  the  castle  of  Glyn  was  posseseed  by 
one  Anthony  Arthur,  a  poor  man  of  Limerick,  who  sold  wines 
therein,  it  being  claimed  by  no  one  else.     Crosbie  related  all 
this  to  him ;  whereupon  he  assigned  the  custody  of  it  to  him. 
Now  perceives  that  Mr.  FitzGerald  is  there  urging  his  right 
and  title  thereto,  and  has  procured  their  letters  to  him  to 
stay  Crosbie's  grant  until  their  further  pleasure  be  known,  but 
with  this  reservation,  that  Crosbie  should  have  the  benefit  of 
tlie  King's  letters  in  that  behalf,  if  he  should  produce  an 
attainder  to  entitle  the  King  to  the  castle.     As  Mr.  FitzGerald 
is  now  urging  his  suit,  has  thought  fit  to  advertise  what  he 
has  heard  of  him,  and  how  unfit  it  would  be  to  grant  the 
castle  to  him.     It  is  a  fair  building,  standing  upon  the  river 
Shannon,  and  of  such  strength  and  importance  that  he  ad- 
ventured to  defend  it  many  days  against  the    late  Queen's 
forces  and  cannon.     His  father  and  grandfather  were  attainted 
by  Act  of  Parliament;  he  himself  was  always  obstinate  and 
iU-affected,   especially  in  defending  the  castle.     They  say  he 
exposed  his  own  son  (being  then  in  pledge  for  him)  to  the 
danger  of  execution  rather  than  yield  it  up,  and  was  the  last 
man  in  the  province  to  submit  himself.     His  eldest  son  and 
heir  has  been  a  long  time  beyond  seas,  where  he  still  abides, 
to  the  terror  of  some  of  the  better  sort  even  of  his  own  kin- 
dred, whose  minds  and  liberties  are  therewith  in  doubt  upon 
any  fit  occasion  of  ill. 

My  Lord   Clapham   [Clephane  ?],   the   Lord   President   of 
Munster,  and  Sir  Francis  Barkley  are  now  there,  and  know 
more  concerning  the  demeanour  of  that  gentleman  than  he 
does. — Dublin  Castle,  17  February  1609. 
Pp.  3.     Signed.     Sealed.     Add.     Endd, 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  389 


1610. 
Feb.  18.      626.        SiE  Humpheey  Winch  to  Salisjbuet. 

^v^'.'228'''35'  ^^^  '^^^^  ^  ^*^Py  °^  ^^^"^  declaration  drawn  out  concerning 

the  King's  titles  to  the  esclieated  lands  in  Ulster.  Has  set 
down  some  exceptions  to  Wakeman's  patent  of  the  fishing  of 
the  Ban,  which  was  not  set  down  at  first,  but  has  since  been 
added.  Mr.  Attorney  brings  the  true  copy  of  Wakeman's 
grant,  and  the  letter  which  should  warrant  the  patent.  Has 
inserted  the  names  of  all  the  natives  who  were  summoned  to 
appear  in  those  counties  last  summer  at  the  end  of  the  book, 
in  order  to  show  the  number  of  those  of  any  account  in  those 
shires.  Certifies  that  the  county  of  Monahan  is  likely  to  be 
the  worst  settled  county  in  the  North,  if  the  freeholders 
be  not  freed  from  the  distresses  and  dependency  of  the 
M'Mahownes,  who  are  the  Lords  of  that  shire. 

At  the  assizes  last  summer,  Sir  Patrick  Art  M'Moyle, 
M'Mahowne,  and  Ever  M'Cowley's  eldest  son,  were  accused 
before  him  (Winch)  of  relieving  and  receiving  some  of  their 
fosterers  and  followers  who  were  in  rebellion  with  O'Dog- 
hertye,  but  he  found  none  in  the  country  fit  to  be  trusted 
with  their  trial.  Hopes  some  good  course  may  be  taken  to 
settle  some  men  in  that  country  who  are  free  from  the  dis- 
tresses of  the  M'Mahownes. 

Has  been  certified  by  Mr.  Baron  Hassett  that  his  Lordship 
did  not  expect  him  to  have  applied  for  leave  to  return  into 
England  next  spring. — Dublin,  IS  Februaiy  1609. 

P.  1.    Signed.    Sealed.    Add.    Endd. 


vol.  228,  36. 


Feb.  19.      627.        Sm  Aethuk  Chichester  and  Council  to  the   Lords 

S.P.,  Ireland,  qF   THE   PrIVY   COUNCIL. 

The  Bishop  of  Derry  being  now  returning  thither  to  give 
the  King  and  their  Lordships  an  account  of  what  has  been 
done  concerning  the  church  lands  in  Ulster,  they  thought  fit  to 
let  their  Lordships  know  by  him  that,  as  a  commissioner,  he 
has  left  nothing  undone  to  forward  the  business  committed  to 
his  care.  They  have  concurred  with  him  so  far  as  they  might 
in  justice,  yet  finding  him  not  thoroughly  satisfied,  they  here 
certify  what  they  have  done  in  concordance  with  His  Majesty's 
directions. 

All  the  demesne  and  mensal  lands  belonging  to  their  several 
sees,  and  all  the  rents  and  duties  reserved,  found  in  any  of 
the  oflices  for  the  bishops  of  that  province,  they  caused  to  be 
restored  to  them.  But  the  Erenagh  and  Termon  lands  being 
found  rather  to  belong  to  the  King  than  the  bishops,  by  such 
juries  as  best  knew  to  whom  the  right  appertained,  they  did 
not  deem  it  their  duty  to  let  the  bishops  have  those  lands 
(considering  the  large  quantities  of  them  in  the  several 
counties  to  be  planted  and  how  they  lie  dispersed,  which  would 
hinder  the  plantation,  and  the  settlement  of  particular  parish 
churches,)  until  the  King  and  their  Lordships  shall  consider 
the  matter.     The  Lord  Bishop  of  Derry  and  the  Treasurer 


390  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

1610. 

will  deliver  what  may  be  said  on  either  side  touching  the 
whole  business. — Dublin  Castle,  19  February  1609. 

P.S. — The  Bishop  of  Derry  reminds  them  at  the  signing  of 
this  letter,  that  some  of  the  juries  in  the  finding  of  these 
Termon  lands,  professed  to  give  no  credit  to  the  bishops' 
register  books,  but  to  do  as  they  were  led  by  their  own  know- 
ledge, notes,  observation,  and  tradition,  and  that  they  (the 
Deputy  and  Council)  promised  to  certify  as  much  to  them 
(the  Lords). 

Signed  :  Arthur  Chichester,  Tho.  Dublin,  Cane.  Thomond, 
Humfrey  Winche,  01.  St.  John,  Ry.  Cooke,  J.  Kinge. 

P.  1.     Add.     Endd. 


Feb.  ]9.      628.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 

vol  '2^2^8'T7'^'  Eecommends  to  his  Lordship  Sir  John  Davys,  who  is  about 

to  travel  to  England  with  the  Treasurer.  The  Bishop  of 
Derry  has  preferred  a  petition  in  the  Lord  Primate's  name  and 
his  own,  for  an  addition  or  alteration  of  what  was  hitherto 
done  in  the  matter  of  survey  of  ecclesiastical  lands,  and  in 
the  point  of  Termon  and  Erenagh  lands.  He  (Chichester) 
writes  this  because  he  might  complain  that  he  was  not  heard 
by  them  (the  Council)  and  righted  in  what  he  propounded ; 
but  the  Treasurer  can  assure  him  that  the  petition  was  not 
presented  until  yesternight. — Dublin  Castle,  19  February 
1609. 
Pp.  2.    Hoi.    Sealed.    Add.    Endd. 

Feb.  20.      629.        Sm  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Attorney  General. 
Carte  Papers,  Warrant  to  make  out  a  fiant  of  grant  of  incorporation  of 

'   '       '  the    town  of  Cavan   by  the  name  of  sovereign,  portrieves, 

burgesses,  and  freemen  of  Cavan. — Dublin  Castle,  20  February 
1609-10. 
P.  I.     Orig.     Endd.:  " Cavan  charter." 

Feb.  20.      630.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
^^r^M^ss'  The  Bishop  of  Ossory  being  dead,  the  Deputy  recommends 

'     '  the  bearer,  Mr.  Barlowe,  who  has  been  his  chaplain  for  two 

years,  for  the  preferment.     Has  also  written   to  the  Arch- 
bishop of  Canterbury  for  him,  and  "  hopes  to  see  him  return 
a  cheerful  man." — Dublin,  20  February  ]  609. 
P.  1.    Signed.    Sealed.    Add.    Endd. 

Feb.  20.      631.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
S.P.,  Ireland,  Fears  they  have  long  deceived  his  expectation  in  sending 

'     ■  Mr.  Treasurer  hence  with  the  return  of  their  labours  in  the 

new  survey  of  the  escheated  lands,  but  when  he  shall  have 
seen  and  perused  what  is  done,  hopes  he  will  excuse  them,  for 
they  have  so  prepared  the  work,  that  his  labours  wiU  be 
greatly  eased. 

Has  sent  some  remembrances  of  his  own  to  guide  him  in 
the  distribution  of  those  lands,  and  for  the  more  effectual 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  391 


1610. 

settlement  of  the  plantation  ;  besides  which  the  Treasurer  has 
seen  most  part  of  the  escheated  lands  in  each  county,  and 
will  give  him  good  satisfaction  touching  this  work  of  planta- 
tion. Hopes  that  his  long  stay  there  may  not  hinder  the 
beginning  of  the  plantation  this  summer. 

It  is  said,  that  he  (Salisbury)  intends  to  be  an  undertaker 
in  the  plantation,  which  made  him  (Sir  Arthur)  presume  to 
name  him  in  his  notes  delivered  to  Mr.  Treasurer,  where  he 
advises  the  work  to  be  undertaken  by  baronies,  and  to  his 
(Salisbury's)  noble  designs  his  best  furtherance  shall  not  be 
wanting. 

Has  refused  heence  to  many  to  repair  to  England,  because 
of  the  trouble  their  importunity  would  cause  the  King  and 
Salisbury,  but  has  taken  it  upon  himself  to  recommend  their 
suits,  in  a  paper  by  itself  given  to  Mr.  Treasurer. 

Recommends  Sir  Josias  Bodley  and  Mr.  Personnes  (Parsons), 
the  King's  surveyor. — Dublin,  20  February  1609. 

Pp.  2.  Hoi.  Sealed.  Add.  Endd. :  "  Eec.  the  5*^ 
March." 

Feb.  632.        John  Tod,  Bishop  of  Down,  to  Me.  Norton. 

^i''22^8'^3TA  Desires  him  to  intercede  with  Salisbury  that   he  may  not 

lose  his  right  to  the  mastership  of  the  Savoy. 

P.].     Signed.    Sealed.     Add.    .E'wdd;  "  23'-'i  Feb.  1609." 


vol.  228,  40. 


Feb .  24     633.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  and  Council  to  the   Lords 

S.P.,IreIand,  oF   THE   PrIVY   COUNCIL. 

According  to  their  directions,  received  with  copies  of  Lord 
Howth's  letters  to  the  King  containing  his  charges,  they  had 
called  Lord  Howth  before  them,  and  desired  him  to  explain 
fully  in  what  he  alleged  himself,  by  his  letters,  to  be  aggrieved. 
Told  him  they  were  required  to  grant  him  a  favourable 
hearing.  At  first  he  declined  to  produce  his  witnesses  before 
so  hostile  a  board,  as  he  alleged  them  (the  Deputy  and 
Council)  to  be  ;  but  being  requested  to  name  such  as  he  ex- 
cepted to,  and  they  should  be  put  aside,  he  answered  that  he 
would  except  none  but  the  Chancellor  and  Sir  Garret  Moore. 
His  witnesses  having  been  sworn  and  examined  before  them, 
upon  the  questions  he  tendered,  and  what  they  had  deposed 
reported  to  him,  and  having  heard  the  viv4  voce  answers  of 
those  it  concerned  delivered  at  the  table,  he  said  plainly, 
that  if  it  were  to  do  again,  he  would  neither  give  in  any  ex- 
planation of  his  meaning,  nor  suffer  any  one  of  his  witnesses 
to  be  examined,  and  so  left  us,  having  no  more  to  say,  but  in 
such  a  displeased  fashion  as  if  he  had  been  wronged  by  us  all, 
and  meant  to  right  himself  by  some  other  course. 

One  Bartholomew  Dillon,  a  gentlemen  of  good  fashion  here 
who  was  called  for  as  a  witness  by  Lord  Howth,  maintained' 
that  a  message  which  he  carried  from  the  Lord  Howth  to 
Lord  Delvin  was  to  this  effect ;  "  That  ail  the  treasons  were 
discovered,  and  therefore  the  Lord  Delvin  should  do  safely  and 


392  IRELAND— JAMES  I, 

1610. 

wisely  for  himself  simply  to  confess  all  that  he  knew  thereof ; 
which  the  Deputy  told  him  was  more  than  ever  the  Lord 
Delvin  would  confess  to  him,  but  that  the  message  brought 
him  was,  "that  he  should  conceal  the  Lord  of  Howth  and 
nothing  else."  But  Mr.  Dillon  still  maintained  his  first  speech, 
and  that  in  the  presence  of  Lord  Howth,  who  confirmed  him. 
The  Lord  Delvin  was  called  before  them,  he  being  then  in  the 
presence  chamber  ;  and  answered,  with  much  earnestness,  that 
the  message  brought  him  by  Mr.  Dillon  was  the  same  which 
he  had  formerly  told  the  Deputy,  and  that  with  his  life  and 
honour  he  would  maintain  ;  protesting  further,  that  the  mes- 
sage was  the  only  cause  that  he  never  confessed  to  the 
Deputy,  that  Lord  Howth  was  a  party  in  that  treason,  and 
that  if  by  accident  he  had  not  had  some  notice  in  England 
before  his  coming,  that  Lord  Howth  was  known  to  have 
been  in  that  plot,  he  had  still  concealed  him,  as  he  had  done 
here  to  the  Deputy,  and  so  by  not  dealing  plainly  as  he  pro- 
fessed to  do,  overthrown  his  life  and  house.  Which  he  took 
so  to  heart  as  to  utter  these  speeches  :  that  the  Lord  of 
Howth  then  present,  was  the  most  arrant  traitor  living,  and 
the  most  dangerous  man ;  that  he  was  engaged  in  another 
treason  never  yet  revealed,  before  that  which  he  had  con^ 
fessed,  and  it  behoved  them  to  look  narrowly  after  him  lest  he 
were  hatching  treasons  at  that  instant;"  afiirming  further,  that 
he  dealt  with  the  Lady  Delvin,  his  mother,  to  dissuade  him 
from  coming  in  to  submit  himself,  which  she  would  justify. 
Although  they  seemed  to  take  no  notice  before  Lord  Howth 
as  of  words  spoken  in  heat,  yet  think  it  their  duty  to  make 
them  known  to  him,  who  best  knows  how  to  make  use  there- 
of, and  what  course  to  take  with  the  Lord  of  Howth,  who  in 
writing  these  letters  to  the  King  and  their  Lordships  aimed 
only  at  a  licence  to  live  in  England,  where  he  might  hope  by 
some  gift  of  the  King's  to  better  his  estate,  which  is  very 
weak,  or  that  the  King  would  bear  his  charge,  as  he  gives 
out  he  did  at  his  last  being  there,  &c. — Dublin,  24  February 
1609. 

Signed :  Arthur  Chichester,  Geo.  Derriensis,  &c.,  Thomond, 
Th.  Eidgeway,  K.  Wingfelde,  Humfrey  Winche,  Jo.  Darham, 
Era.  Aungier,  Edward  Brabazon,  01.  St.  John,  Ky.  Cooke, 
Ad.  Loftus,  J.  Kinge,  Then  follows  various  notes,  with 
answers  out  of  the  Lord  of  Howth's  letters  to  the  King,  &c. 

Pp.  8.     Sealed.     Add.     Endd. 

Feb.  24.      634.        Sm  JosiAs  Bodley  to  Salisbury. 
S.r.,  Ireland,  Having  been  employed  the  last  six  months  in  the  crono- 

'     ■  graphical  descriptions   of  the   Northern  parts  of  Ireland  as 

preparations  to  the  intended  plantations,  thinks  it  his  duty 
to  give  him  an  account  thereof  It  was  required  that  those 
escheated  countries  should  be  so  plotted  that  the  known 
bounds  of  every  country  might  be  discerned  by  the  eye, 
the  church  land  distinguished  from  the  temporal,  and  land 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  393 


1610. 

already  granted  from  that  which  is  yet  to  be  disposed  of ;  the 
shares  for  the  undertakers  to  be  laid  out  with  their  apparent 
limits  according  to  certain  conceived  proportions  of  different 
quantities,  the  goodness  or  badness  of  the  soil ;  and  the  woods, 
rivers,  or  mountains,  bogs  and  lochs,  to  be  specified  in  their 
several  places.  It  was  late  in  the  year  when  this  service  was 
put  on  foot,  and  the  shortest  course  for  dispatch  that  might 
be  was  to  be  taken.  They  thought  it  their  readiest  course 
that,  while  the  Deputy  and  commissioners  in  their  inquisition 
concerning  the  bishops'  claim  occupied  their  time  in  those 
counties,  they  should  call  such  persons  unto  them  out  of 
every  barony,  as  by  their  experience  in  the  country  could 
give  them  the  name  and  quantity  of  every  ballibo,  quarter, 
tathe,  or  any  other  common  measure  in  any  precincts  of  the 
same,  with  special  notices  how  they  butted  or  meared  the  one 
on  the  other ;  by  which  means  they  contrived  those  maps 
which  are  now  sent  to  him.  The  method  they  observed  was 
such  as  might  easily  waiTant  them  from  any  fraudulent  dealing 
of  their  informers,  while  their  least  error,  by  examination 
and  conferring  the  several  parts,  might  presently  be  dis- 
covered. They  have  found  many  thousand  more  acres  for 
the  King  than  have  come  to  light  by  any  past  survey,  and 
albeit  they  could  not  deliver  the  precise  number  of  acres  in 
every  parcel,  except  as  they  went  in  ordinary  computation  in 
the  country  ; — by  which  they  exceed  the  number  of  acres  in 
the  jDrinted  book  of  articles  by  more  than  a  half,  by  reason 
of  the  difference  of  the  perch  here  used  and  the  statute 
perch  therein  named ;  yet  it  can  little  disadvantage  the 
King  in  contracting  with  the  undertaker,  that  some  clause 
be  inserted  of  reservation  to  a  more  exact  survey  hereafter, 
which,  when  it  takes  effect,  the  King's  revenues  will  be 
augmented  by  a  third. 

Describes   the   progress   of  the  works  upon  the  different 
forts.— Dublin,  24  February  ]  609. 
Pf.  8.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

Feb.  24.       635.        William  Duffe's  Examination. 

vo1:'^228'4r4'3.  Examination  of  William  Duffe  of  Leith  in  Scotland,  master 

'     '     "  of  the  William,  of  LeJth,  taken  before  Sir  Dominic  Sarsfeld, 

at  Cork,  24  February  1609.  Says  that  being  at  Cales  (Cadiz) 
in  a  merchant  voyage  about  six  weeks  past,  they  heard  of  a 
great  meeting  of  ships  and  galleys  at  the  Groyen  (Coruxma). 
That  the  Archduke  sent  thither  to  the  King  of  Spain  12 
great  ships  carrying  in  them  the  Irish  regiment.  That 
eight  of  these  put  into  Cales  by  reason  of  the  weather,  where 
they  landed  200  Irish  soldiers  under  the  command  of  Captain 
Stanyhurst.  That  these  soldiers  marched  unto  the  Groyen  by 
land.  That  the  general  report  of  this  confluence  of  shippino- 
Avas  for  the  transplanting  of  the  Mares  (Moors  ?).  That  some 
Scotchmen  of  his  acquaintance,  masters  of  two  of  the  ships 
sent  by  the  Archduke,  confidently  affirmed  him,  that  this 


394i 


IRELAND— JAMES   L 


1610. 


Feb.  25. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  228,  44. 


preparation  was  meant  for  Ireland,  but  where  to  land,  under 
whose  conduction,  or  when  it  would  be,  they  would  not  tell 
him.     That  the   Irishmen   were   young  and  jocund,  and  in 
appearance  were  intended  for  some  wished-for  voyage. 
P.  1.     Signed  :  Dom.  Sarsfelde.     Endd. 

636.        Lord  of  Howth  to  the  King. 

Complains  that  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Council  in  their  ex- 
amination selected  notes  and  observations  from  his  letters  and 
called  upon  him,  as  well  to  explain  his  meaning  as  to  prove 
them.  He  did  so  in  writing,  with  the  names  of  his  witnesses 
to  be  examined.  The  matters  chiefly  touched  the  Deputy, 
the  Chancellor,  and  Sir  Garrett  Moore.  One  Dillon,  a  gentle- 
man of  good  repute,  being  deposed  upon  an  article  endeavour- 
ing to  put  the  Lord  Deputy  in  mind  by  certain  discourses 
passed  between  them  tAvo,  of  that  which  his  Lordship  had  for- 
gotten, the  Deputy  digressing  from  that  matter,  moved  with 
choler,  demanded  this  gentleman  if  he  would  disclaim  in  his 
pardon  ;  which  if  he  would  do,  he  was  a  traitor,  and  he  would 
prove  him  to  be  one  ;  the  cause  being  that  he  (Howth)  em- 
ployed him,  having  his  (the  King's)  authority  to  Lord  Delvin, 
when  it  pleased  his  Lordship  at  this  time  (that  he,  Lord  Del- 
vin) should  be  present,  on  purpose,  as  he  (Howth)  supposes,  to 
contest  with  him,  and  to  raise  some  further  matter  by  reviving 
the  memory  of  their  former  oversights,  which  hard  usage  of 
his  Lordship  towards  this  gentleman  deterred  others  from 
proving  some  points  of  his  expositions.  And  further,  his 
Lordship  did  not  stick  to  deliver  publicly  at  the  Council  table 
that  he  (Howth)  had  made  known  the  intention  of  Lord 
Delvin  to  escape  out  of  Dublin  Castle,  affirming  that  the  Lord 
Chancellor  assured  him  that  he  intended  to  accuse  his  Lord- 
ship (Chichester)  therewith.  It  is  true  he  acquainted  him 
with  that  pretence,  but  he,  having  engaged  his  honour  and 
word,  has  thus  published  this  matter  on  purpose  to  bring  him 
in  distrust  and  disesteem.  Prays  His  Majesty  to  protect  him 
and  limit  him  somewhere  out  of  this  kingdom. — Howth, 
25  February  1609. 

Pp.  2.    Signed.    Sealed.     Add.     Endd. 


Feb.  25. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  228,  45. 


637.        Lord  of  Howth  to  Salisburv. 

Same  as  the  above. — Howth,  25  February  1609. 
Pp.  2.     Signed.     Seeded.     Add.     Endd.    Encloses, 


Feb.  23. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  228,  45  I. 


638.        Billon  to  the  Lord  of  Howth. 

Has  received  his  letters  wherein  he  states  that  the  Deputy, 
on  the  information  of  the  Chancellor,  said  that  Dillon  told 
the  Chancellor  that  Howth  went  into  England  to  accuse  the 
Deputy  of  the  escape  of  Delvin.  Protests  that  Howth  never 
spoke  to  him  on  the  subject. — Riverston,  23  February  1609. 

P.  1.     No  signature.    Add.     Endd. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  395 


1610. 
Feb.  28.      639.        LoEDS  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
vol'^s^'^  446  Kecommend  to  his  consideration  the  claim   of  Sir  Ealph 

Sidley,  to  levy  2001.  arrears  of  rent  since  the  King's  acces- 
sion, due  to  him  in  right  of  his  wife  for  her  jointure  from 
her  husband,  Captain  Malby,  deceased,  and  payable  by  the 
O'Ferralls  of  the  county  of  Longford,  by  virtue  of  a  grant 
from  the  late  Queen  to  Sir  Nicholas  Malby,  Knight,  deceased, 
grounded  upon  their  own  voluntary  grant  and  composition  to 
Her  late  Majesty  and  her  successors  for  ever. 

This  rent  is  the  chiefest  part  of  their  means  to  maintain 
themselves  and  their  many  children. — Whitehall,  the  last  of 
February  1609. 

Signed :  R.  Cant.,  R.  Salisbury,  Lenox,  Gilb.  Shrewsbury, 
E.  Worcester,  Notingham,  T.  Suffolke,  Marr,  Dunbar,  E. 
Zouche,  E.  Wotton,  Jul.  Ccesar,  Thos.  Parry. 

P.  |.  Signed.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester: 
"  Of  the  28th  of  Februarie  1609.  From  the  Lis.  of  the 
CounceU,  directing  me  to  determine  the  difference  for  the 
composition  of  Longforde,  in  the  behalfe  of  the  heires  of  Mr. 
Malbye,  &c.     Re.  the  20th  of  [  ]." 

Feb.  28.     640.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Phiiad.  p.,  Enclose  the  petition  of  Sir  Awla  M'Awla,  of  Ardingraple, 

vol.  d,  p.  440.  •       o      xl        J  o      1      ; 

m  bcotland. 

It  is  His  Majesty's  desire  that  Sir  Randal  M'DoneU  shall 
be  informed  of  the  purport  of  SirAwla's  petition,  and  that 
nothing  further  be  done  till  Sir  Randal  shall  have  come  over 
at  Easter  term  next,  and  made  answer  to  this  demand. — 
WhitehaU,  last  of  February  1609. 

Signed :  T.  EUesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton, 
Gilb.  Shrewsbury,  E.  Worcester,  L.  Stanhope,  J.  Herbert. 

P.  ^.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester:  "  Of  the 
last  of  Februarie  1609.  From  the  Lis.  of  the  Councell,  in  the 
behalfe  of  Sir  Awla  M'Awla,  for  Glenarme  and  two  toughs 
of  land  belonginge  to  Sir  Randall  M'Donell,  &c.  Re.  the  oth 
of  Aprill  1610."     Encloses, 

The  Petition  of  Sir  Awla  M'Atvla,  of  Ardingccqole,  in 
Scotland,  Knight. 

That  by  agreement  between  Sir  Randcdl  M'Donell  and 
Neice  M'Donell  his  brother,  of  the  one  part,  and  Angus 
M'Donell  and  Sir  James  his  son,  of  the  other  j^art,  that  the 
said  Angus  and  Sir  James  and  their  heirs  should  have  ttvo 
toughs  of  land  within  the  Glyns  in  Ulster,  viz.,  the  tough  of 
the  Park,  and  the  tough  of  Laharne  \_Larne'],  together  with 
the  castle  of  Glanarme,  and  so  much  land  as  belonged  thereto 
%vith  all  customs  and  privileges  appertaining  to  said  castle, 
as  by  certain  writings  under  the  hand  of  the  said  Sir 
Randall  M'Donell  and  Niece  M'Donell  may  appear. 

And  afterwards,  for  good  considerations,  the  said  Sir 
Jamies  M'Donell  transferred  his  interest  in  the  premises  to 


396  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

petitioner  and  his  heirs  male  for  ever,  as  by  writings  under 
the  hand  of  the  said  Sir  Jaones  may  appear. 

Prays  the  King  to  confirm  the  same  to  petitioner  and  his 
heirs  for  ever,  by  letters  patent  under  the  great  seal  of  Eng- 
land, and  to  grant  him  all  such  rights  as  His  Majesty  can 
claim  to  the  premises. 

P.  1 .     Not  signed  or  endd. 


vol.  228,  46. 


March  3.     641.        Eael  of  Thomond  to  Salisbuey. 

^n'r  99'R'*^4fi'  Amongst  other  kindnesses  he  (Salisbury)  procured  for  him 

a  grant  in  fee  simple  of  100?.  per  aim.  in  this  kingdom  (in 
exchange  for  so  much  of  his  own  inheritance  here),  among 
which  parcels  by  special  warrant  he  has  passed  the  town  and 
lands  of  Catherlogh,  thinking  by  good  endeavours  to  have 
settled  a  strong  plantation  of  English  there,  and  upon  that 
plantation  to  put  up  his  rest,  whatever  charges  it  would 
drive  him  to,  only  to  crush  and  bridle  the  rebels  on  either 
side  bordering  those  lands,  namely,  the  Kavanaghs,  Moores, 
and  Connors,  who  have  always  been  evil  neighbours  to 
that  town.  Has  been  much  disappointed  and  his  courses 
diverted,  by  reason  of  a  long  lease  which  Sir  WiUiam 
Harpole  has  in  being  of  the  premises,  and  by  the  cross  deal- 
ings of  Sir  Adam  Loftus.  And  although  he  might  have 
had  advantages  at  law,  the  lease  having  been  passed  con- 
trary to  orders  of  the  late  Queen,  inhibiting  the  passing  of 
any  long  estate  of  Catherlogh  to  any  without  special  orders, 
yet  he  thought  it  more  convenient  to  compound  with  Sir 
William  Harpole  for  his  interest,  and  having  agreed  to  pay 
about  1,500?.,  Sir  Adam  Loftus  came  to  him  and  declared 
that  there  was  a  debt  due  to  him  by  Sir  WiUiam  Harpole, 
and  what  inconvenience  it  was,  and  besought  him  to  stay  the 
bargain  until  he  had  settled  with  Sir  WilHam,  or  if  he  (Tho- 
mond) would  let  him  deal  in  the  bargain  for  him,  he  wonld 
husband  it  to  his  profit,  and  repass  it  to  him  without  any 
profit  or  advantage  to  himself;  whereupon,  assuring  himself 
that  a  gentleman  of  his  rank  would  keep  his  word,*he  put 
his  business  into  his  hands,  thereby  to  recover  him  (Loftus) 
his  moneys.  Shortly  afterwards  he  was  sent  into  England 
by  the  Deputy  and  Council,  where  he  stayed  some  six  weeks, 
and  upon  his  return  tendered  Sir  Adam  Loftus  his  moneys 
laid  out  upon  that  business  according  to  their  agreement,  but 
he  refused,  and  pleaded  possession.  Sir  Adam  has  not  only 
so  used  him,  but  carries  himself  very  disrespectfully  before 
him,  as  the  Deputy  and  Chancellor  can  testify.  Assures  him 
that  he  has  never  received  like  words  at  any  man's  hands 
before,  but  he  is  a  councillor  and  a  gownsman,  and  he  will 
observe  him  accordingly.  His  suit  is,  that  his  Lordship  will 
write  a  letter  to  the  Loi'd  Deputy  and  Chancellor,  requiring 
them  to  publish  their  order  therein,  and  to  certify  the  words 
uttered  by  Sir  Adam  Loftus,  in  their  presence,  which  no  man 
can  deliver  better  than  he  himself  (Thomond),  with  their 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  397 

IGIO. 

certificate,  and  therefore  he  wishes  him  to  write  that  he  may 
come  over. — Dublin,  3  March  ICO 9. 
Pp.  3|.     Signed.     Endd. 

March  4.     642.         Connaught  Chiefkies  and  Connaught  Concealments. 

v'oi.'228  T?.'  Extract  of  a  letter  of  the  20th  February  1609. 

Wishes  the  composition  for  Connaught  to  be  maintained, 
because  one  M'Nemara  has  brought  some  letters  about  these 
old  chiefries,  which  the  composition  abolished,  and  Lord  Clan- 
ricard  upon  a  letter  of  surrenders  has  found  divers  of  them 
due  to  him  in  the  counties  of  Galway,  Eoscommon,  and  Mayo, 
which  the  composition  abolished,  albeit  they  are  now  raised 
by  my  Lord's  greatness,  and  the  unworthy  dealing  of  the 
unworthy  justice  there,  who  will  countenance  anything  that 
concerns  the  Earl ;  aud  although  these  things  were  never 
taken  up  by  any  Earl  of  Clanricard,  yet  they  are  passing  them 
as  a  rentcharge  to  tie  aU  the  siibjects  of  Connaught  to  him. 

The  Vice-President  of  Connaught,  contrary  to  the  tenor  of 
the  composition,  send  out  their  warrants  to  take  up  "  beefes, 
muttons,  and  porckes,"  for  their  provisions  at  the  King's  rate, 
and  when  they  have  done,  sell  the  same,  for  they  are  poor 
housekeepers,  and  yet  the  King  gives  good  allowance  for  a 
table. 

Extract  of  a  letter  of  the  ith  of  March  1609. 

Prays  his  help  to  ease  them  of  this  racking  for  conceal- 
ments, for  these  people  begin  to  think  that  little  by  little  they 
mean  to  root  them  out  utterly.  Sir  Oliver  Lambert  is  now  in 
Connaught  attending  the  escheator  there  for  the  same  purpose, 
having  got  notice  of  some  escheated  and  attainted  lands,  which 
lie  fit  for  his  manor  of  Clann-I-Banne.  If  he  have  forgotten 
how  he  (Sir  Oliver)  came  by  that  land,  it  was  thus :  Hugh  M'Tir- 
laugh  Roe  O'Chonner  [O'Connor]  (yet  living),  being  at  an  open 
session  at  Roscommon,  condemned  of  treason,  had  his  judgment 
accordingly,  and  they,  with  many  more,  saw  him  on  the  car  on 
his  way  to  execution,  but  by  mediation  of  friends  he  was  re- 
prieved, _and  afterwards  pardoned ;  after  which  his  lands  were 
surveyed  at  above  20Z.  per  ann.,  and  so  passed  to  himself  for 
21  years  ;  and  afterwards  Sir  Richard  Boyle  passed  a  reversion 
thereof  upon  a  book  of  Sir  William  TaafFe's  ;  but  Sir  Oliver  in 
this  Lord  Deputy's  time,  under  pretence  of  commiseration  to 
Hugh  M'Tirlaugh  Roe,  found  means  that  his  attainder  was 
judged  nothing,  because  the  clerk  had  forgotten  to  enter  judg- 
ment, and  when  he  had  once  gone  so  far,  he  got  the  land  from 
Sir  Hugh  for  himself,  and  enjoys  it  to  this  day.  In  his  opinion 
another  man  were  fitter  to  have  done  this  than  a  councillor. 

P.  1.  Eiulorsed  by  Carew  :  "Commission  for  concealments 
determined." 

March  4.     643.        Sir  Richard  Morison  to  Salisbury. 
S.P.,  Ireland,  Pursuant  to  orders  from  the  Deputy,  has  apprehended  the 

vo  .  29.8,  48.  deputy  vice-admiral  of  the  province.  Captain  Hull,  Masselyne 


398  lEELAND— JAMES  1. 

1610. 

Lanen  a  butcher,  and  Cade  a  mariner,  and  has  delivered  them 
to  the  care  of  Sir  William  St.  John,  who  is  now  leaving  this 
coast  for  England  with  24  prisoners  more.  Captain  Hull  was  in 
England  when  the  direction  for  apprehending  him  came  to  his 
hands  ;  but  he  hears  now  he  is  returned  a  commissioner  in  the 
inquu-y  after  others,  and  has  authority  to  parley  and  go  aboard 
any  pirates,  the  better  to  enable  him  to  give  accounts  of  their 
proceedings.  If  it  be  so,  it  cannot  be  but  hurtful  to  the 
service,  for  they  will  never  be  able  to  constrain  this  misunder- 
standing people  to  think  commerce  a  fault  with  them,  when 
they  shall  see  any  by  authority  converse  with  them. 

The  time  of  year  promises  their  continual  resort  to  this 
coast,  some  are  already  arrived  and  keep  aloof,  waiting  the 
departure  of  Sir  William  St.  John,  &c. — Waterford,  4  March 
1609. 

Pp.  2.  Signed.  Add.  Endd. :  "  Sir  Richard  Morrison  by 
Sir  William  Seint  John." 

March.        644.         Pirates  apprehended  in  Munster. 

^ flslr'ls'^'  "^  ^°^®  °^  ^^^^    pirates  now  apprehended    in  Mounster, 

'       '  with  a  brief  with  whom  they  were  at  sea. 

P.  1.  Endd.  by  Chichester  :  "A  list  of  pii'ates  lately  taken 
at  Mimster." 

March  7.     645.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Phiiad.  p  Warrant  to  make  Richard  Deaue,  now  Dean  of  the  Cathe- 

^°  ■   '  ^'       ■  dral  Church  of  Kilkenny,  Bishop  of  Ossory. — Westminster, 

7  March,  in  the  8th  year  of  the  King's  reigu. 

P.  4-  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur 
Chichester:  "  Of  the  7  of  March  1609.  From  the  Kinge's 
Matie^  signifieing  his  pleasure  for  Mr.  Deane  to  be  Bishop  of 
Ossory.     Re.  12tt  of  April  1610." 

March  8.    646.        The  Examination  of  James  White  and  Bennett  White, 

S.P.,  Ireland,  of  Clonmell,  merchants,  taken  before  Theobald  Buttler, 

^"1- 228' ■*^-  Lord   Viscount   of  Tulloe,   and   others,   at   Clonmell, 

8th  March  1609. 

At  Cales  [Cadiz]  they  met  with  Captain  Stainhurst  [Stani- 

hurst],  a  gentleman  of  the  county  of  Dublin,  who  had  charge 

of  150  Irish  soldiers  who  were  shipped  in  four  Dunkercke 

ships  of  war  belonging  to  the  Archduke,  which  arrived  here 

about  two  months  and  a  half  ago,  with  stores  of  munition  and 

other  warlike  furniture  for  12,000  or  15,000  men.     That  three 

weeks  before,    18   other  Dunkercke  men-of-war   arrived  at 

Cales,  having  another  150  Irish   soldiers   on   board,   whose 

captain  they  heard  say  was  a  Spaniard,  which  eight  ships 

were  fitting  and  preparing  to  go  to  St.  Luker's,  and  they  saw 

them  fall  down  from  Pointall  [Portugal  ?]  to  the  bay  of  Cales. 

Heard  there  that  the  munition  was  to  furnish  the  King  of 

Morocoe's  brother,  who  had  obtained  several  millions  of  trea- 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  399 


vol.  228,  50. 


1610. 

sure  with  some  thousands  of  men  from  the  King  of  Spain  to 
fight  against  the  King  of  Marocoes  (sic).  Being  examined 
what  they  heard  of  Tyrone,  they  said  that  his  eldest  son  was 
dead,  and  it  is  reported  that  ever  since  he  himself  is  sickly  and 
languishing,  and  that  without  doubt  O'Swillevan's  son,  who 
was  one  of  the  King  of  Spain's  pages,  among  other  his  fellows, 
pushing  an  iron  bar  lighted  .  .  .  .■'by  which  he  received 
such  a  mortal  wound  that  within  a  month  after  he  died ; 
there  died  also  (as  it  was  reported)  three  other  Irish  gentle- 
men, lately  about  Tyrone,  whose  names  they  know  not.  They 
heard  that  Tyrone's  second  son  was  in  the  Court  of  Spain,  but 
they  know  nothing  further  of  him. 

(Signed)        Nicholas  White, 

Mayor  of  Clonmell. 
James  Goeghe. 
John  Whyte. 
Pp.  2.    Encld. 

March  10.    647.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 

^vol' 228''5'o '  "'■^  informed  that  Brian  Kearny,  the  titular  Archbishop  of 

Cashel,  left  this  kingdom  some  time  ago  to  find  out  the  traitor 
Tyrone.  His  sister's  son,  one  Father  Wall,  a  Jesuit,  has 
returned  here  from  foreign  parts  and  landed  in  Ulster.  He 
(the  Archbishop)  sent  direction  by  him  to  ^his  brother,  Paul 
Kearney,  a  merchant  of  Cashel,  to  collect  as  much  money  as 
he  could  from  the  priests  in  his  diocese  of  Cashel,  and  with 
the  same  to  make  his  repair  to  London,  where  the  Archbishop 
has  promised  to  meet  him,  and  to  come  in  the  train  of  some 
ambassador  sent  from  Spain.  Paul  Kearney  has  received  the 
money  and  has  departed  to  London.  Tlie  Archbishop  might 
be  arrested  upon  his  arrival,  for  his  brother  is  well  known  to 
most  Munster  men,  and  a  watch  upon  him  will  discover  the 
bishop. 

Sends  him  some  other  information ;  and  though  he  only 
takes  it  to  be  the  seed  sown  by  the  Jesuits  and  seminaries  to 
prepare  and  misguide  this  people,  yet  he  finds  it  works  strange 
effects  in  this  nation,  who  affect  nothing  more  than  change 
and  alteration,  and  these  mmours  are  no  sooner  spread  than 
believed.  It  is  the  custom  of  the  priests  and  Jesuits  to  flock 
hither  at  this  time  of  the  year,  and  in  order  to  prepare  their 
welcome,  they  make  these  reports  their  forerunners,  and  when 
they  come,  by  their  indulgences,  pardons,  and  other  trumperies, 
they  gather  the  wealth  of  the  land,  and  depart  with  it  at  their 
pleasure.  They  have  been  giving  out  that  it  is  the  King's 
pleasure  they  shall  exercise  their  religion,  but  not  publicly  in 
the  churches ;  and  when  an  officer  or  a  soldier  lays  hold  of  a 
priest  within  their  garrison,  the  young  men  and  women  of  the 
city  make  a  rescue  with  ill  usage  and  blows. 

1  Illegible  in  MS. 


400  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

The  renewing  of  their  charters  there  and  increasing  their 
liberties  without  the  recommendation  of  the  State  has  in- 
creased their  pride,  and  made  tlie  Government  of  less  respect 
with  them,  for  they  are  a  people  who  seldom  make  other  use 
of  favours  done  them. 

If  any  such  storm  as  those  papers  speak  of  is  intended  they 
are  ill  provided  to  encounter  it,  many  forts  being  weak  and 
unfinished,  none  victualled,  and  not  a  pound  in  the  Treasurer's 
hands.  Hopes  the  proposition  which  he  has  always  made  to 
have  the  forts  built  and  victualled,  and  money  to  lie  here  in 
readiness,  will  take  effect  upon  Mr.  Treasurer's  return. — 
Dublin  Castle,  10  March  1609. 

Pp.  2.     Hoi.     Add.     Endd.     ' 


vol.  228,  31. 


March  10.     648.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 

^ni'a^s^.??'  Encloses  a  paper  with  the  matter  in  difference  between  the 

Earl  of  Thomond  and  Sir  Adam  Loftus,  and  prays  direction 
Avhat  course  to  hold  for  settling  it. 

Suggests  that  he  (Salisbury)  should  direct  the  London 
undertakers  to  go  more  roundly  on  with  what  they  have 
undertaken,  and  to  send  all  things  needful,  for  they  are  great 
gainers  by  the  King's  grant  to  them.  They  are  to  have  some 
things  of  his,  with  whicli,  seeing  it  is  the  King's  pleasure,  he 
willingly  departs,  and  for  the  recompense  to  be  made  him  he 
has  directed  his  servants  to  submit  to  his  pleasure. — Dublin 
Castle,  10  March  1609. 

Pp.  2.    Hoi.    Sealed.     Add.    Endd. 


March  12.    649.         Earl  op  Thomond  to  Mr.  Dudley  Norton. 

^ T  228'*' 52*^'  -^^^  ^^'^^  ^  letter  to  the  Lord  Treasurer,  acquainting  him 

with  the  wrongs  done  him  by  Sir  Adam  Loftus,  and  has  sent 
him  (Norton)  a  petition  to  be  referred  to  the  Lords  of  the 
Council,  if  the  Lord  Ti-easurer  thinks  fit.  The  Lord  Deputy 
and  Lord  Chancellor  should  be  required  to  declare  publicly 
what  order  they  have  made  between  them  touching  the  manor 
of  Catherlpgh,  and  to  certify  to  England  Sir  Adam  Loftus's 
usage  and  insolent  language  towards  him.  And  whereas 
Sir  William  Harpole  has  the  constableship  of  Catherlogh  but 
upon  his  good  behaviour,  that  upon  proof  of  his  misbehaviour 
before  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Council,  he  (Thomond)  may  be 
settled  in  the  constableship  according  to  the  King's  grant  passed 
to  him  in  reversion.  The  treasons  of  Sir  William  Harpole 
are  as  follows.— 12  March  1609. 

Pp.  2.     Signed.    Seeded.     Add.    Endd.    Encloses, 

March.      650.         Earl  of  Thomond' s  Petition. 

I'oi'iitT^^  Petition  of  the  Earl   of  Thomond  to  the  Lords   of  the 

Privy  Council,  in   regard   to  Sir  Adam   Loftus    and  Sir 
William  Harpole,  &c. 
Pp.  2. 


IRELAND— JAMES  1.  401 


1610. 

March.  651.  The  Misdemeanors  and  Treasons  of  Sir  William  Harpole 
^^22^^52'^'  ^^^  ^'^^  Constableship  at  Gatherlogk. 

First,  he  Jcept  within  the  castle  of  Catherlogh  the  traitor 
Feagh  M'Hughes'  wife,  named  Rose  O'Towell  {O^TooU),  in 
the  heat  of  the  rebellion,  when  Sir  William  Russell,  then  Lord 
Deputy,  persecuted  Feagh  M'Hugh  and  his  wife,  and  offered 
great  sums  of  m.oney  for  their  heads. 

That  he  delivered  up  the  castle  of  Blachfoord  in  Queen's 
County,  to  Owheny  M'Rory  (an  archtraitor)  being  a  strong 
place  and  of  great  importance,  fit  for  relieving  and  securing 
the  King's  garrisons  and  servitors  there,  and  a  place  of 
restraint  upon  all  occasions  relieving  and  victualling  the 
King's  fort  of  Leise.  The  yielding  up  of  the  castle  has  lost 
many  soldiers  to  the  King. 

At  the  same  time  Harpole  promised  to  inarry  the  said 
traitor's  sister,  noiv  wife  to  Captain  Tirrell,  and  thereupon 
to  betray  the  tuhole  garrison  of  Catherlogh,  and  to  yield  up 
the  King's  castle  into  the  hands  of  the  said  traitor. 

That  he  has  divers  times  furnished  the  traitors  with  armour 
and  munition  out  of  the  King's  stores  at  Catherlough,  as 
evidently  will  be  proved. 

P.]. 

March  13.    652.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sie  Arthur  Chichester. 
PhUad.  p ,  Qj^  ^Yie  intercession  of  Lord  Danvers,  President  of  Mun- 

'   '    '       '  ster,   with  the   King,  representing  the  good  carriage  of  the 

inhabitants  of  Cork  towards  him,  and  their  good  affection  to 
His  Majesty's  service,  the  King  remits  the  rest  of  the  fines, 
amounting  to  about  42?.,  imj^osed  upon  them  for  matter  of 
recusancy. — Whitehall,  13  March  1609. 

Signed :  R.  Salisbury,  Notingham,  T.  Suffolke,  Gilb. 
Shrewsbuiy,  E.  Worcester,  W.  KnoUys. 

P.  i.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester :  "  Of  the  13*1' 
of  March  1609.  From  the  Lis.  of  the  Councell,  requiringe 
the  remittal  of  the  remayns  of  the  fynes  of  the  recusants  of 
Cork,  to  wit,  42L  &e.     Re.  the  S^'^  of  May  1610." 


March  14.     653.        Memoranda  on  the  Plantation. 

^^  'aM^^^'^'  Remembrances  given  by  the  Lord  Deputy  to  the  Treasurer 

-     ■      '     '-  on  th&  27th  January  1609,  concerning  the  plantation. 

Duplicate  of  Art.  587,  p.  355. 

"  This  is  a  true  copy  of  the  Deputy's  remaining  advices  or 
remembrances  concerning  the  plantation  of  Ulster. 

"  Signed        Th.  Ridgeway." 
Pp.  5.     Eiidd. 

March  15.    654.        Sir  Thomas  Ridgeway  to  Salisbury. 
^'^{'Jlf^Ff'  The  maps  of  the  six  escheated  countries  being  now  newly 

'     ■  bound  in  six  several  books,  he  sends  them  to  his  Lordship, 

with  desire  to  receive  some  advice  from  him,  by  Mr.  Norton 
3.  c  c 


402  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

whetlier  lie  sliall  set  down  in  tlie  plain  leaf  at  the  fore-front 
of  each  book,  the  contents  of  the  same  shire  in  the  very  form 
of  the  inclosed  summary  note  of  calculation,  or  leave  it 
unwritten,  to  be  filled  up  as  any  alteration  of  the  course  now 
in  hand  may  produce. 

Presents  him  also  for  his  own  use  six  like  books  of  his  own 
which  he  extracted  at  the  camp  and  at  his  own  house.  Also 
sends  him  the  Irish-conceived  pedigrees  of  their  great  lords. — 
From  my  lodging  in  the  Strand,  15  March  1609  (99). 

P.  1.    Hoi.    Add.    Sealed.     Endd.     Encloses, 

S.P.,  Ireland,    655.        Summary  of  the  Contents  and  the  County  of  Armagh, 
"^  ■*■  and  Explanation  of    Conventional    Signs  on    the 

Map. 


Baronies. 

Balliboes. 

Fewes 

-     80-1 

Ardmagh 

-     63 

Orrier 

-      7 

Loghrany 

-     64 

O'Nealan 

-     16 

±iov,  uvu'bs'bon  oj  trie  county  oj  jiramagn. 

The  whole  county  of  Ardmagh  consists  of  835  balliboes  of 
we7'al  contents,  maJcing  in  all  81,160  acres,  whereof 

Ecclesiastical  land,  coloured  green  in  the  maps. 

Acres. 

of  100  acres  the  ballibo    3,050 

6,300 

440 

6,400 

1,600 

Abbey  lands  distinguished  with  this  X  mark,  and 
coloured  green. 

Fewes  -     13       of  \0Q  acres  the  ballibo     1,330 

Orrier         -     10       o/120  „  1,200 

ONealan    -     10    3  o/ 60  acres  amZ  7  o/ 100     880 

Temporal  land  already  granted,  left  white  in  the  maps  and 

marked  +• 

Fewes  -    35     of  100    acres    to    Tur. 

M'Henry        -  -     3,500 

Ardmagh    -      2    o/  100  acres  to  Charle- 

mount  -  -       200 

Orrier         -     31     o/  120  acres  to  Newry 

Mountnorris  -  -     3,720 

Loghrany    -    49     of  100  acres  to  Sir  Henry 

Oge  O'Neale   -  -    4,900 


Bcdliboes,  in  all   330^  Acres,  in  all    -  33,890 

Which  sum  of  330^  balliboes,  making  33,890  acres,  being 
deducted  out  of  the  whole  content  of  the  county,  there  remains 


IRELAND— JAMES  L  403 


1610. 


504|  halliboes,  making  47,280   acres,  to  be  disposed  of  in 
several  proportions,  and  other  allotmonts,  as  follows  : — 

Balliboes.  Acres.  Acres. 

O'Nealan  UOi  of  6ii  acres  the  ball   ^^  ^.  J  ^Middle  3  4  770 
84^/100  „        r^'''\TJan,'l\m 

{Great,    0  0,000 
Ardmagh    62fo/100  „  Q,21q\  Middle,!  l,5m 

\_Small,   3  3,180 

For  the  College  at  Dublin        -        1,500 

[Great,     1  2,120 

Fewes     -     63io/100  „  6,B60-{  Middle,  0  0,000 

ISmall,    4  4,240 

[Great,     2  4,240 

Orrier    -  143    of  120  „  ^  Middle,  3  4,470 

ISmall,    7  7,420 
For  a  freehold       -         730 


Acres  in  all        -    47,280 

Every  proportiooi  circumscribed  on  the  maps  ivith  red 
lines. 

Great  in  yellotv  colour  marked  ® 
Middle  in  violet  „  Q 

Small  in  carnation      „  © 

The  land  laid  out  in  the  onaps  for  corporate  towns,  free- 
holds. 

College  of  Dublin,  and  such  like,  remain  white,  unmarked. 

1  large  sheet.    Endd. 

^■J-t^eXtoii.,    656.        A  Summary  of  the  Contents  of  the  Six  Counties. 
Counties,  7  ;  baronies,  32  ;  parishes,  159. 
Irish  countries,      ^;  persons  presentative,  139. 
Vicars  presentative,  138;  curates,  12. 
Errenagh  land. — Ardmagh,  27,120  ;  DeTry,Rapho 

aogher,  30,142  ;  Kilmore,  3,228.     In  all       -    60,490 
Demesnes. — Kilmore,    120;     Bapho    and  Derry, 

4,148  ;    Clogher,  320  ;    Ardmagh,  3,390.     In  coll      7,978 


Ecclesiastical  land. — Bishops'  demesnes,  7,978  ;"]  ^n  . -,„ 

Errenagh  and  Termon,  60,490         -            -J  ^'^'^^^ 

Abbey  land           .            .            -            -            .  20,786 
Temporal  land  granted  with  that  added  to  Oastlre 

(sic)       - 38,214 

Proportions  with  glebe  Z«^^c^/SU  SLlS      284,829 
ly^ng  together,  v^z.   -         -\small,n^} 


Blank  in  MS. 

cc  2 


404 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1610. 

Corporate  towns,  freeholds  and  college  lands         -    10,682 
Odd  remains  to  he  added  to  proportions    -  -      1,664 

In  all,  424,643,  which  exceeds  the  former  survey  38,345 
acres. 
P.  1.     Endd.     1609  (101). 

S.P.,  Ireland,    657,        The  DISTRIBUTION  of  Prkcincts  to  the  various  under- 

English. 

Proportions.  Acres, 

f  Great  2"] 

.\  Middle  3  Us      16,500 

t  Small  8  J 

f  Great  2^ 

-\  Middle  1  V  7       9,500 

[_  Small  4  J 

f  Great  1I 

-■l  Middle  3  Ul      13,500 

L  Small  7  J 

fGreat  2^ 

-■{  Middle  4  Vll      15,000 

[Small  5  J 

fGreat  0I 

J  Middle  2^4        5,000 

LSmall  .2j 

fGreat  0I 

Fermanagh     -  Cootmakenna         -|  Middle  2  i-  8        9,000 

[Small  6  J 

fGreat  0I 

Cavan  -  Loughtee-  -J.  Middle  3  Ul       12,500 

LSmall  8j  _    

Total    -  -  65      82,000 


Counties. 

Precincts. 

Ardmagh 

-  Oneylan  - 

Tyrone 

-  Mouutjoy 

Tyrone 

-  Strabane  - 

Donegall 

-  LiflFer       - 

Fermanagh     -  Glancally 


Scottish. 


Ardmagh 

-  Fewes 

Tyrone 

-  Clogher   - 

Tyrone 

-  Omey 

Donegal 

-  Portlogh- 

Donegal 

-  Boylogh  - 

fGreat  11 
-J.  Middle    0  W  5        6,000 

[SmaU      4  J 

fGreat  2"^ 
-■{  Middle    1  ^10      12,500 

[Small      7  J 

fGreat  l5 
-J.  Middle    2^9      11,000 

[Small      6  J 

fGreat  0I 
J  Middle    0  ^2      12,000 

[SmaU    I2J 

fGreat  1I 
-■i  Middle    2^8        1,000  > 

[SmaU      5] 


Sic  in  MS. ;  probably  a  mistake  for  10,000, 


IRELAND— JAJMES  1. 


405 


IGIO. 


Counties. 

Precincts. 

Proportions. 

Acres. 

r  Great 

21 

Fermanagh 

-  Knockinny 

■■{  Middle 
[  Small 
'Great 

I 

21 

>■  6 

9,000 

Fermanagh 

-  Marghriboy 

-   Middle 
^Small 
'  Great 

0" 

>■  6 

9,000 

Cavan 

-  Tollochonco 

-   Middle 
[_  Small 
'  Great 

0 
6 
2' 

y  6 

6,000 

Cavan 

-  Clanchy   - 

-  Middle 

0 

>■  4 

6,000 

Servitors  ane 

L  Small 
Total    - 

1  Natives. 

2. 

66 

80,500 

r  Great 

2"] 

Ardraagh 

-  OiTier 

-■{  Middle 
LSmall 
"Great 

3 

7 
2^ 

.12 

15,.500 

Tyrone 

-  Donganon 

-  Middle 
^Small 
r  Great 

4 
6 

2' 

■  12 

16,000 

Donegal 

-  Doe 

-^  Middle 
[Small 
fGreat 

1   . 

7 
2^ 

l\ 

•10 

12,500 

Donegal 

-  Fawnett  - 

-<  Middle 

■10 

13,000 

Small 

r  Great 

2T 

Fermanagh 

-  Clonawly 

-<  Middle 
^  Small 

0  . 
2 

■   4 

6,000 

Fermanagh 

-  Coote    and 
Canada 

Tir-  r^^^^* 
^'^  ■{  Middle 

■  LSmaU    ; 

"Great 

0^ 
0  - 

loj 

10 

10,000 

Cavan 

-  Towlagha 

--  Middle 
Small 
TGreat 

2  . 

2^ 

8 

9,000 

Cavan 

-  Eastlerahin 

-■l  Middle 
[Small 
fGreat 

01 

6 

9,000 

Cavan 

-  Clonmaho-vvn 

-■{  Middle 
[SmaU 
fGreat 

21 

6 

7,000 

Cavan 

-  Tollogarvy 

-■{  Middle 

l[ 

7 

7,500 

L  Small 
Total  of  proportions    - 

4j 

85 

103,500 

406 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1610. 


It  is  to  be  observed  that  whereas  the  inequality  of  the 
precincts  wiU  not  admit  an  equality  of  division  among  the 
Britons  (Britaines),  and  that  the  precincts  cannot  be  broken  ; 
what  is  wanting  in  one  county  shall  be  added  to  another. 

Corporate  Towns  and  Free  Schools. 


Counties. 

Acres. 

Donegal 

Cavan 

Fermanagh 

Tyrone 

Ardmagh 

Total       - 

-  1,121 

-  1,536 

-  2,160 

-  2,735 

730 

-    8,282 

Colleges. 

Counties. 

Precincts. 

Acres. 

Ardmagh 
Donegal  - 

-  Ardmagh 

-  Tirhugh  - 

Total 

-  6,000 

-  4,000 

-     10,000 

Total :  Precincts,  28.     Proportions,  221.     Acres,  284,282. 

The  Britaines'  portion  is  one  and  a  half  to  the  proportion 
jointly  allotted  to  the  servitors  and  natives,  and  7,500  acres 
more,  which  is  allowed,  to  avoid  breaking  the  precincts  and 
the  portion  of  the  natives  being  severed  from  the  servitors 
is  one  and  a  half  to  the  portion  of  the  servitors. 

P.  1,  large  sheet.  Endd.  :  "Division  of  the  precincts, 
1609." 


S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  228,  54  D. 


658.        Division  of  the  Precincts  for  English,  Scottish,  and 
Servitors,  Natives,  &c. 
This  document  is  the  same  as  No.  54  c,  with  this  addition. 


viz. 


Places  of  intercourse  and  meeting  of  the  English  and 
Scotch  in  the  several  counties  aforesaid. 

County  Ardmagh : — 

At  the  markets  of — 1 .  Ardmagh  ;  2.  Mountnorris  ; 
3.  Charlemont ;  at  the  quarter  sessions  and  assizes 
held  at  Ardmagh. 

County  Tyrone  : — 

At  the  markets  of — 1.  Dunganon;  2.  Mountjoy ; 
3.  Clogher ;  4.  Omey  ;  at  the  quarter  sessions  held 
at  Dunganon,  where  they  shall  be  joined  in  juries 
and  other  public  services,  and  the  like  in  all  other 
counties. 

P.  1 ,  larcje  sheet.     No  date. 


IRELAND — JAMES  I. 


40  7 


1610. 
S.P.,  Ireland,     QQQ 
Tol.  228,  54  E. 


A  Brief  View  of  the  County  of  Aedmagh,  according 
to  surveys  taken  in  Ulster,  which  county  contains  five 
baronies. 


Baronies. 

k 

11 

If 
MP 

Lands 

paying 

Chief- 

ries. 

Eents 

and 

Chiefries 

to 
Bishops. 

1" 

Number  of 
Parishes. 

Parsons 
pre- 
senta- 
tive. 

Vicars 
pre- 

senta- 
tive. 

1 

Glebes. 

1.  Orrier 

190 

176 

7 

7 

None 

£    s.   d. 
None 

None 

LoughglUie,  KD- 
lerie. 

Uncer- 
tain. 

Uncer- 
tain. 

None 

None 

2.  Fues 

U2 

1061 

12i 

None 

21 

6    0    0 

40  white 

groats. 

None 

Creggan,  Mulla- 
hraclje,     Kil- 
clonan. 

Uncer- 
tain. 

One 

None 

H 

3.  Onelan 

2601 

2371 

2 

None 

21 

3  19  10 

None 

Kilmore,  Derri- 
brochus,  Aghi- 
kiltarman, 
Dromcree, 
Sligoo. 

One, 
the  rest 
uncer- 
tain. 

One 

None 

lacre 

i.  Ardmagh  - 

127 

73i 
3  acres 

16i 

n 

37i 
3  acres 

U  13    6 

None 

Ardmagh 

None 

None 

None 

None 

5.  Toughrany 

113 

70J 

1 

24i 

38 

8 19  m 

None 

Tynan,   Dirren- 
owes. 

None 

None 

None 

2  tates 

Within      the 
whole  county 
of  Ardmagh. 

832f 

661 

28 

3Si 

3  acres 

32  13    24 
with  40 
white 
groats. 

None 

13 

One 

Two 

None 

It 

1  acre 

2  tates 

P.  1,  large  sheet.    No  date. 


March  19. 

Philad.  p., 
Tol.  3,  p.  454. 


March. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
TOl.  228,  55,  56. 


660.  Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
To   make   stay   of    any  presentation   to   the   vicarage   of 

Granard,  the  vicarage  being  now  vacant  by  the  death  of  the 
incumbent,  until  the  grant  of  the  abbey  of  Granard  is  per- 
fected to  Sir  Francis  Shane,  notwithstanding  some  question 
raised  by  the  O'Ferralls  against  Sir  Francis  Shane. — Whitehall, 
19  March  1609. 

Signed:  R.  Salisbury,  Gilb.  Shrewsbury,  W.  KnoUys,  L. 
Stanhope,  J.  Herbert. 

P.  i.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester :  "Of  the 
19*11  of  March  1609.  From  the  Lis.  of  the  Councell,  in  the 
behalfe  of  S^^  Francis  Shane,  for  that  nothing  given  unto  him 
by  the  Kinge  should  be  passed  to  his  prejudice  in  w"^  there 
is  mention  made  of  the  advowson  of  the  vicarage  of  Granard. 
Re.  the  9tli  of  ApriU." 

661.  Sir  Edward  Brabazon  to  Salisbury. 

By  the  Lord  Deputy's  project  he  is  possessed  of  the  last 
northern  proceedings,  the  captains  purposing  to  become  under- 
takers in  the  best  parts  of  the  north,  but  in  such  a  large 
measure  that  their  expectations  must  be  countermanded  or 
no  secure  plantation  can  be  settled,  for  estates  depending  on 
pay  work  uncertainty  to  the  plantation;  for  the  captains 
wishing  for  war  to  supply  them,  and  the  undertakers  for  peace, 
are  two  contrarieties  which  can  hardly  be  brought  into  fashion 
unless  the  martial  men  maybe  placed  by  themselves,  albeit  the 
proportion  were  very  large  to  allow  them,  so  they  might  be 


408  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

contained  in  any  one  part  of  the  province.  The  Irish  in  Ulster 
are  the  caterpillars  of  this  kingdom,  and  it  is  hoped  they  may 
be  removed  by  his  Lordship's  noble  plot  for  the  service  of  Den- 
mark, which  in  substance  works  peace.  If  the  captains  procure 
those  abbey  lands  in  Ulster  by  lease  before  the  division,  then 
they  shall  be  possessed  of  the  best  and  most  fraitful  places  in 
the  province,  and  will  be  dispersed  without  contradiction. 

For  albeit  the  King's  laws  must  prevail,  yet  as  long  as  the 
martial  discipline  bears  sway,  they  will  still  find  means  to 
maintain  their  pay,  and  will  overrule  the  rest  of  their  neigh- 
bours, except  some  of  the  English  nobility  will  join  in  the 
plantation,  where  by  their  directions  all  factions  may  be 
suppressed. 

But  if  the  raising  of  the  cities  take  efi"ect,  that  noble  work 
will  suppress  all  other  constructions,  the  more  divisions  the 
securer  plantation,  and  if  it  pleases  him  to  give  direction  that 
no  lands  belonging  to  the  King's  forts  be  granted  in  lease  or 
in  fee-farm,  it  will  be  the  means  to  ease  the  King's  charge  ;  for 
not  long  since  the  ruins  of  the  fort  called  Jtfaryborrow,  in  lease, 
cost  900^.  to  repair,  and  the  lands  belonging  to  the  same  let 
for  lOOZ.  per  annum,  and  the  fort  called  Phillipstown  stands 
in  the  same  sort.  The  under  ministers  of  all  forts  strive  who 
shall  gain  fastest,  especially  the  victuallers,  which  has  raised 
one  of  them  that  he  (Brabazon)  knows,  of  no  estate,^  to  pur- 
chase lands  in  England  in  fee  simple  to  the  value  of  near  400Z. 
per  annum,  and  in  Ireland  2,300?.  due  from  the  King,  if  it  be 
not  already  paid,  besides  he  receives  for  his  deceitful  service 
a  pension  of  lOs.  per  diem. 

The  general  surveyor  now  in  England  with  the  treasurer, 
has  raised  his  fortunes  from  nothing  to  great  estate ;  he  is 
sometimes  the  escheator's  deputy,  and  thereby  "  cheateth  "  well 
for  himself  and  his  friends.  About  three  years  past  he  pro- 
cured his  pardon,  and  at  this  moment  has  his  "  fyant "  signed 
for  another  pardon. 

There  is  one  passed  over  with  the  Treasurer  to  become  a 
suitor  for  recompense  of  service.  He  is  of  small  desert, 
though  he  has  followed  the  Deputy  in  some  services ;  he  has 
granted  him  a  pension  of  5s.  per  diem  ;  and  in  the  time  of 
Sir  George  Carey's  government,  he  had  bestowed  upon  him 
one  intrusion  granted  forth  of  the  lands  of  Mr.  Lutterel's  for 
which  Lutterel  was  forced  to  give  SOOl.,  and  since  he  has  got 
140Z.  from  Mr.  Saesewell  (sio),  and  now  he  has  Mr.  Dillon  in 
suit  expecting  greater  benefit  from  him  concerning  the  same 
suit. — No  date. 

Pp.  2.     Hoi.     Add.     Endd. :  "  Rec.  21  March." 

March  16.    662.        Henry  O'Neill,  son  of  Shane  O'Neill,  to  Salisbury. 

%^{'22f^5^'  -H^^  long  been  a  suitor.     Desires  to  become  tenant  to  his 

Lordship  if  he  shall  have  lands  in  Ulster. — London,  16  March 
1609. 

P.  ].     Signed.    Add.     Endd. 

'  In  margin  Sir  E.  Newcomen. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  409. 


1610. 
March  18.    663.        SiR  ARTHUR  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
vT'228^^58^'  -"-^  favour  of  the  bearer,  Sir  Thomas  Coates,  who  served  well 

'     ■  in  the  wars  of  Ireland.     That  he  be  remembered  for  some 

parcel  of  land  in  the  northern  plantation. — Dublin,  18  March 
lfi09. 

P.  1.    Signed.    Sealed.    Add.    Endd. 

March  19.     664.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Privy  Council. 

P^^o'^'''"^  For  want  of  money  to  complete  the  works  of  the  fort  of 

CastlepaT'ke  has  obtained  two  shillings  out  of  every  plough- 
land  from  the  gentry  of  co.  Cork.  Kecommends  the  bearer, 
Captain  Skipwith,  the  commander  of  the  said  fort.  The  in- 
habitants of  CO.  Limerick  have  made  a  like  concession  for 
finishing  the  Castle  of  Limerick. — Dublin  Castle,  19  March 
1609. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Sealed.     Add. 

March  19.    665.        A  Brief  of  the  Proceedings  of  the  Commissioners  for 
S.P.,  Ireland,  the  plantation  in  Ulster  since  July  last,  as  well  in  Ire- 

^°^-  22*'  ^9-  land  as  in  England. 

In  Ireland. — About  the  end  of  July  last  thej'  began  their 
journey  into  Ulster,  where  they  lay  in  camp  nine  weeks,  and 
during  that  time  performed  two  principal  things. 

1.  They  took  inquisitions  in  every  county  whereby  they 
distinguished  the  crown  lands  from  the  ecclesiastical  lands 
consisting  of  the  bishop's  demesne  and  mensal  lands,  and  of 
termon  and  errenagh  lands,  and  therein  supplied  divers 
omissions  in  the  former  surveys  touching  the  quantity  of 
lands  belonging  to  the  King  and  to  the  Church,  but  touching 
the  title,  the  termon  and  errenagh  lands  were  found  for  His 
Majesty,  and  that  the  bishops  had  only  rent  and  pensions  out 
of  the  same. 

2.  The  counties  being  divided  into  baronies,  they  made  a 
description  of  every  barony  in  a  several  map  and  card  as  well 
by  view  as  by  the  information  of  the  inhabitants,  which  is  so 
exactly  and  particularly  done,  that  the  name  and  situation  of 
every  ballibo,  tate,  and  poll  is  expressed,  besides  every  castle, 
fort,  mountain,  lake,  river,  brook,  wood,  bog,  and  all  other 
notorious  landmarks  and  distinctions,  so  as  the  most  obscure 
part  of  the  King's  dominions  is  now  as  well  knovsm  and  more 
particularly  described  than  any  part  of  England.  These  two 
services  they  performed  in  their  journey,  besides  the  sessions 
of  justice  which  were  held  in  every  county,  wherein  pretended 
titles  were  examined,  possessions  quieted,  and  many  causes 
heard  and  ended,  and  withal  1,000  loose  and  idle  swordsmen 
were  sent  away  into  Swethen  (Sweden),  which  tended  very 
much  to  the  preparation  of  the  plantation. 

After  their  return,  they  finished  their  former  work  in  three 
piincipal  points. 

1.  An  abstract  was  made  out  of  many  records  as  well  of  the 


410  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

King's  titles  as  of  his  subjects'  titles  to  all  the  lands  within 
the  escheated  counties,  which  are  reduced  into  a  book  of  cases 
signed  by  the  chief  judges  and  the  Attorney-General,  wherein 
appear  what  lands  the  King  may  dispose  to  undertakers  by  a 
good  and  just  title. 

2.  The  inquisitions  were  drawn  into  form  of  law,  examined 
by  the  bishops,  engrossed  and  returned,  and  lastly  exemplified 
under  the  great  seal  of  England. 

8.  The  maps  were  finished,  and  therein  as  well  the  propor- 
tions for  undertakers  of  all  sorts  as  the  church  lands  and 
lands  already  granted  and  assigned  to  forts,  corporate  towns, 
free  schools,  &c.,  are  distinguished  by  sundry  marks  and 
colours. 

All  which,  viz.,  1.  The  book  of  cases ;  2.  The  inquisitions 
exemplified ;  3.  The  maps,  together  with  sundry  advices  fi-om 
the  Lord  Deputy  touching  the  plantation,  are  transmitted  by 
the  hands  of  the  commissioners  now  sent  out  of  Ireland. 

Since  the  coming  over  of  the  commissioners,  business  has 
proceeded  in  this  order  : 

The  commissioners  for  Irish  causes  residing  here,  with  those 
sent  over,  were  called  before  the  Lords  to  consider  of  the 
Church  lands,  which  are  of  two  kinds,  demesne  and  mensal 
lands,  and  term  on  and  errenagh  lands. 

1.  For  the  demesne  and  mensal  lands  there  arose  no  doubt ; 
the  bishops  are  possessed  of  them  without  controversy. 

2.  For  the  termon  and  errenagh  lands  it  was  resolved  (albeit, 
they  were  not  found  to  be  the  bishops'  lands  but  the  King's), 
that  the  bishops  should  have  those  lands  entirely,  as  of  His 
Majesty's  free  donation,  whom  they  are  to  acknowledge  not 
only  as  a  patron,  but  a  founder  in  regard  to  this  endowment. 
But  because  it  was  conceived  by  the  Lords  that  a  great  in- 
convenience would  arise  to  the  plantation,  if  so  great  a  scope 
of  land  (60,000  acres)  should  be  possessed  only  by  the  Irish 
without  any  other  civil  plantation,  the  Bishop  of  Derry  was 
moved  to  confer  with  the  commissioners  and  to  propound 
how  much  of  those  lands  he  would  plant  with  Britons,  and 
upon  what  conditions. 

Upon  conference  the  bishops  consented  to  plant  one-third 
of  the  errenagh  lands  with  Britons,  according  to  the  project ; 
and,  if  the  septs  of  the  errenaghs  were  not  sufficient  to  manure 
the  other  two  parts,  they  would  also  plant  the  surplusage 
with  Britons,  so  as  His  Majesty  would  give  liberty  to  the 
bishops  to  grant  leases  of  those  lands  for  60  years,  but  after- 
wards they  are  to  be  restrained  from  granting  any  larger 
estates  than  leases  for  three  lives  or  21  years. 

Touching  the  temporal  lands  which  are  to  be  distributed  to 
Britons,  servitors,  and  natives,  they  have  proceeded  thus  far — 

1.  They  have  divided  those  lands  into  28  great  precincts 
which  have  several  names  and  quantities.     Of  these  28,  it  is 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  411 


1610. 

thought  convenient  to  allot  to  the  Britons  16,  viz.,  eight  to  the 
English  and  eight  to  the  Scottish  undertakers. 

2.  That  the  other  12  be  allotted  to  the  servitors  and  natives 
who  are  to  be  planted  together  in  every  precinct,  for  three 
reasons  : — 

1.  Because  the  servitor  knows  the  disposition  of  the  native 
and  can  carry  a  better  hand  and  eye  over  him  than  the 
Briton. 

2.  The  servitor  has  been  so  used  to  command  in  Ulster  that, 
if  he  be  placed  with  the  new  undertaker,  he  will  seek  to  pre- 
dominate over  him,  whereupon  dissensions  will  arise  and 
hinder  the  plantation. 

3.  The  plantation  of  the  Britons  is  to  be  without  Irish,  but 
the  servitor  will  plant  with  Irish. 

Thus  far  have  the  commissioners  proceeded,  so  that  now 
there  only  remain  two  things  to  be  done  for  the  conclusion 
of  the  business  here  in  England. 

1.  A  particular  distinction  is  to  be  made  what  great  pre- 
cincts by  name  are  to  be  allotted  to  the  English  and  to  the 
Scottish  severally ;  to  the  servitors  and  to  the  natives  jointly. 
When  this  is  done, 

2.  The  King  maybe  pleased  to  name  eight  principal  under- 
takers of  the  English  precincts  and  eight  more  of  the  Scottish, 
who  are  to  draw  other  undertakers  to  plant  with  them,  which 
inferior  undertakers  are,  notwithstanding,  to  hold  directly 
from  His  Majesty ;  of  whose  estates  and  sufficiency  the  com- 
missioners may  consider  ;  and  touching  the  servitors,  because 
all  that  are  named  in  the  list  neither  can  nor  will  undertake, 
the  King  may  be  pleased  upon  perusal  of  the  list  to  make 
choice  of  such  as  are  of  best  merit  and  ability,  and  for  the 
natives  to  refer  their  choice  to  the  Lord  Deputy  and  the 
commissioners. 

This  is  as  much  as  is  needful  to  be  done  here  in  England, 
the  rest  is  to  be  performed  in  Ireland. 
Pf.  4.     Written  by  8ir  John  Davys. 

March  19.     666.        Plantation  Commissioners'  Proceedings. 

vol'228^60'  ^  Brief  of  the  Proceedings  of  the  Commissioners  for  the 

plantation  in  Ulster  since  July  last,  as  well  in  England  as  in 
Ireland. 

Pp.  4.     Copy  of  the  above.    Endd. 

March.       667.     A  copy   of    the   above,    commencing    at   "Touching    the 
S.P.,  Ireland,  temporal  lands  which  are  to  be  distributed,"  &c. 

vol.  228,  61.  pj_2.      Endd. 

March  26.     668.        Salisbury  to  the  Lord  Deputy. 

S.P.,  Ireland,  Touching  the  dispute  between  the  Earl  of  Thomond  and 

vol.  228,  62.  gj^^.  ^(jg^jjj  Loftus,  couceming  the  Earl's  manor  of  Catherloughe 


412 


lEELAND— JAMES  I. 


16  LO. 


March  26. 
Carew  Papers, 
vol.  630,  18  a. 


[Carlow].  If  Sir  Adam  Loftus  does  not  retract  the  expressions 
he  made  use  of  towards  lais  Lordship,  he  is  to  be  sent  over  to 
England  to  answer,  "  as  well  his  undutifulness  to  you  as  the 
indignity  he  hath  offered  my  Lord  of  Thomond."- — From  the 
Court  at  Whitehall,  26  March  1610. 
Pp.  2.     Copia  vera.     Endd. 

669.  Advices  how  the  titles  of  the  Bishop  and  Dean,  &c., 
inhabitants  of  the  Island  and  City  of  Derry,  may  be 
cleared. 

The  Bishop  to  have  a  fit  site  for  a  residence  within  the 
island,  and  in  or  near  Derry,  to  be  set  out  by  the  Lord  Deputy 
and  Commissioners. 

The  Dean  the  same.  The  residue  of  the  Bishop's  and 
Dean's  lands  to  be  disposed  of  to  the  Londoners  in  per- 
formance of  the  Bang's  word.  The  inhabitants  dwelling  as 
commoners  on  their  lands  to  be  settled  elsewhere  and  made 
citizens.  But  others  of  the  better  sort  to  be  preferred  to  the 
country  plantation  as  servitors. 

Satisfaction  to  be  made  to  any  of  the  inhabitants  that  have 
paid  fines  for  any  estate  not  expired  in  any  houses  or  lands 
within  the  city ;  and  200?.  is  to  be  paid  to  the  meaner  sort, 
having  respect  to  their  charges  in  building  since  the  burning 
of  the  city,  and  of  their  continual  and  present  abode,  out  of 
the  5,000?.  allowed  to  the  city  of  London  for  redemption  of 
titles. 

Signed:  Sir  Roger  Wilbraham,  Sir  Thos.  Ridgeway,  Sir 
Anthony  St.  Leger,  Sir  James  Ley,  Sir  James  FuUerton. 

P.  1.     Copy. 


[March.] 
Carew  Papers, 
■vol.  630,  19. 


March  80. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  228,  63. 


670.  Conditions  to  be  observed  by  the  Servitors  and  Natives 

of  the  Escheated  Lands  in  Ulster. 
Three  principal  points,  viz. : — 

1 .  What  they  shall  have  of  the  King's  gift. 

2.  What  they  shall  of  their  parts  perform. 

3.  In  what  manner  their  performance  shall  be. 

4.  Condition  of  the  servitors. 
Pp.  3.     Copy. 

671.  The  Humble  Petition  of  Sir  Donell  O'Cahan  to  the 

LoEDS  of  the  Privy  Council. 
Shows  that  he  has  been  held  prisoner  in  Dublin  these 
two  years  ;  he  knows  not  wherefore.  He  has  only  heard  of 
many  secret  practices  to  indict  him,  and  a  show  made  to 
arraign  him  at  the  bar,  but  neither  would  they  suffer  him  to 
have  his  trial  or  hear  his  justification.  In  the  meantime  he 
has  been  deprived  of  the  profits  of  his  lands  without  any 
grounds  of  law  that  he  knows  of,  therefore  he  has  appealed  to 
the  King  and  Privy  Council  that  he  may  have  justice.     He 


IRELAND— JAMES   I.  413 


1610. 

prays'  their  Lordships  to  be  truly  informed  of  his  behaviour, 
and  to  consider  how  he  withdrew  himself  from  dependence 
upon  Tyrone,  surrendering  the  land  (which  his  ancestors  had 
held  for  40  descents  in  a  direct  line)  to  hold  it  from  the 
Crown,  and  to  that  end  delivering  a  custodiani  that  he  had 
from  the  Queen,  and  Tyrone's  grant,  which  afterwards  he 
was  forced  to  take  up  to  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Council  that, 
according  to  their  promises  (having  assured  him  they  would 
be  his  friends)  they  might  take  them  to  the  King,  to  whom  he 
would  have  come  in  person,  but  could  not  get  leave.  Where- 
upon by  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Council  of  Ireland, 
he  sent  one  Rice  Gilmore  to  follow  his  business,  but  Gilmore 
never  mentioned,  but  disgracefully  got  one  of  the  best  pieces 
of  his  land  for  himself  and  returned  without  doing  any- 
thing for  him,  and  still  refuses  to  restore  the  money  he  gave 
him  to  effect  his  business,  in  which  wrongs  he  was  not  only 
backed,  but  had  the  "  shrifery  "  of  the  county  bestowed  on 
him,  whereupon  he  came  and  broke  open  his  castle,  and 
drove  out  his  lady  and  children,  one  of  whom  was  almost 
drowned  in  a  ditch.  All  which  Gilmore  did  notwithstanding 
the  Lord  Deputy's  warrant,  which  he  (Sir  Donell)  had  for 
his  lands,  houses,  and  moveables,  and  which  was  shown  to 
Gilmore  as  he  was  breaking  open  the  door.  Now  for  the 
conditions  which  he  made  with  Sir  Henry  Docwra  at  his  first 
submitting,  viz.,  never  to  have  any  dependence  of  Tyrone, 
and  for  the  above  said  surrender  Tyrone  became  his  enemy. 

He  prays  them  to  consider  how  little  likelihood  there  is 
that  he  should  partake  with  him  now,  or  be  ignorant  how 
unable  he  is  to  stand  against  the  King's  power.  "  But  the 
truth  is,  they  that  gape  after  poor  Irishmen's  lands,  do  what 
they  can  to  have  a  colour  to  beg  them."  He  beseeches  them 
to  be  good  to  that  poor  country,  and  to  let  him  know  what  he 
is  accused  of,  and  he  will  answer  for  it. 

P.  1.     No  date.    Endd. 

30  March.    672.        Sir  Donell  O'Cahan  to  Salisbury. 

^^''^as'^i*'  Coming  to  Dublin  to  complain  of  great  injuries  and  oppres- 

'  "    '     '  sions  offered  to  him  and  his  tenants   two  years  since,  and  to 

take  a  grant  of  his  land  from  the  King,  wherein  Tyrone  pre- 
tended a  title  of  chiefry,  he  was  suddenly  taken  prisoner,  to 
this  day  he  knows  not  why.  Was  threatened  to  be  arraigned 
of  treason  and  brought  to  the  bar,  but  in  the  meanwhile  his 
wife  and  children  are  thrust  out  of  his  house  and  go  begging 
for  anything  he  knows  ;  he  has  appealed  to  the  King  and  his 
Council  in  England,  hoping  to  have  been  heard  long  before  this. 
Beseeches  him  that  he  may  plead  his  innocence  before  him, 
being  ready  and  willing  to  satisfy  the  King  and  State  with 
his  conformity  in  matter  or  course  concerning  his  country  as 
he  thinks  requisite. — Tower  of  London,  30  March  1610. 
P.  1.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 


414 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1610. 

March. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 

vol.  228,  65. 


March. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
Yol.  228,  66. 


673.  Petition  of  Sir  Donell  O'Cahan,  prisoner  in  the  Tower 

of  London,  to  the  Lords  of  the  Privy  Council. 
Containing  same  statements  as  in  the  previous  petitions. 
P.  1.     Endd. 

674.  Petition  of  Sir  Neal  O'Donell  and  Sir  Donell  O'Cahan, 
Knights,  to  the  King. 

P.  1.     Endd. 


March.       675.    Petition  of  Sir  Neal  O'Donell,  prisoner  in  the  Tower  of 
S.P.,  Ireland,  London,  to  the  Lords  of  the  Privy  Council. 

vol.  228, 66  A.  p_i^       ^,^^^_ 


March. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  228,  67. 

March. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  228,  67  A. 


March  31.    678. 

Add.  P.  Ireland. 
P.B,0. 


March  31. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  228,  68. 


676.  Petition  of  Sir  Neal  O'Donell,  Knight,  to  the  Lords  of 
THE  Privy  Council. 

Pp.  2.    Endd. 

677.  Notes  out  of  a  Letter  from  the  King  to  the  Lord 
Deputy  of  Ireland,  in  behalf  of  a  suit  touching  wines 
and  usquebagh. 

The  Lady  Arabella  for  the  space  of  21  years  to  have  the 
benefit  of  all  such  penal  laws  as  shall  be  made  by  the  Deputy 
and  Councirs  authority  in  that  kingdom  touching  the  rating 
of  wines  as  given  in  11  EHz.,  respect  being  had  to  the  statute 
31  Ed.  1,  and  all  the  forfeitures  and  penalties  for  breach  of 
any  statutes  made  or  to  be  made  in  that  kingdom  touching 
the  premises. 

That  she  have  the  licensing  of  all  taverns  for  the  sale  of 
wines  and  usquebagh. 

That  this  letter  shall  have  all  liberal  construction  for  the 
Lady  Arabella's  good,  and  that  these  her  affairs  shall  be 
settled  and  dispatched  with  expedition,  and  that  a  special 
agent  of  hers  be  protected  for  following  her  affairs,  and  the  rest 
countenanced  and  helped. 

Pp.  2.     No  date. 

Petition  of  Margaret,  widow  of  Edw.  Corbett,  to 
the  Council. 

Her  husband  being  slain,  and  she  barbarously  ill-treated, 
and  her  estate  ruined  by  the  rebel  Sir  Cahir  O'Doghertie  at 
the  siege  of  Lough  Foyle,  she  begs  for  relief  and  money  to 
carry  her  back  to  Ireland. 

With  a  reference  to  the  King,  13  March  1609  ;  a  renewed 
appeal  from  the  petitioner  to  His  Majesty ;  a  reference  thereon 
to  the  Lord  Treasurer,  22  March  1609  ;  and  a  final  order 
to  the  Lord  Treasurer  of  Ireland  to  pay  ber  a  pension  of  8d 
per  diem. 

Pf.  2. 

679.        Privy  Council  of  England  to  the  Lord  Deputy. 

Although  the  licence  to  Sir  George  St.  Paule  and  Hemy 
Yelverton,  Esq.  to  appoint  any  two  whom  they  may  think  fit 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  415 


1610. 

during  their  lives  successively  two  by  two,  for  the  space  of 
21  years,  to  sell  wines  and  usquebagh  in  Ireland,  was  passed 
under  the  name  of  the  said  Sir  George  St.  Paule  and  Mr.  Yel- 
verton,  yet  he  (Chichester)  may  conceive  that  a  suit  of  this 
nature  would  not  have  been  procured  from  the  King  but  by  a 
personage  of  extraordinary  rank  and  estimation,  as  is  the 
Lady  Arabella  Stuarte,  near  in  blood,  and  in  special  grace 
and  favour  with  His  Highness,  and  to  whose  use  and  benefit 
it  is  wholly  intended.  And  because  they  know  it  to  be  his 
pleasure  that  this  gift  should  be  extended  to  as  much  benefit 
for  this  noble  lady  as  may  be,  they  thought  fit  to  recommend 
the  same  and  those  she  may  employ  to  his  (Chichester's) 
especial  favour. — Last  of  March  1610. 

Signed  by  the  Lord  Treasurer,  Lord  Privy  Seal,  Lord 
Chamberlain,  Earl  of  Shrewsbury,  Lord  Wotton,  and  Lord 
Stanhope. 

P.  1.     Endd. 

[March.]      680.       Pabticular  Questions  concerning  the  Plantation. 
^■^■'Jjo^^J'f'  Considerations  for  the  Church. 

vol.  228,  69.  ■' 

1.  Whether  the  termon  lands  are  only  to  be  conferred 
upon  the  bishops,  or  upon  them  and  the  members  of  their 
cathedrals  ? 

2.  If  only  upon  them,  whether  there  shall  be  a  dean  and 
chapter,  and  what  shall  be  their  maintenance,  or  no  dean  and 
chapter,  but  as  it  is  [at]  Meath,  where  the  archdeacon  and 
clergy  at  a  meeting  each  half  year,  supply  the  place  of  the 
dean  and  chapter  ? 

3.  If  it  shall  not  be  found  fit  to  erect  so  many  parishes  as 
the  project  intends,  how  shall  the  glebes  allotted  out  of  the 
King's  land  for  such  parishes  be  bestowed  ? 

For  Corporate  Towns. 

If  tradesmen  be  not  pressed  out  of  England,  shall  there  be 
any  corporation  directed  or  not  ?  If  not,  how  shall  the  land 
be  bestowed,  which  is  allotted  to  them,  which  in  [all]  the 
counties  will  extend  to  9,600  acres  ? 

For  Transplantation. 

Whether  it  were  not  convenient  to  write  to  the  Lord 
Deputy  to  deal  with  such  noblemen  in  Munster  and  Con- 
naught,  as  he  shall  think  good,  to  receive  some  of  these  men 
that  a  preparation  may  be  made  for  the  plantation?  Whether 
it  were  not  requisite  to  send  500  or  1,000  of  them  into 
Sweden  with  those  captains  who  have  commissions  to  levy 
some  men  for  that  service,  and  for  that  purpose  to  write  to 
the  Lord  Deputy  that  men  of  best  credit  amongst  them  may 
effect  their  voluntary  removal  ? 


416  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

Answers.' — 1.  Touddng  the  Church  of  Berry. 

Though  the  Bishop  of  Deny  appropriate  all  to  himself,  and 
that  the  termoa  lands  are  allotted  in  general  terms  to  the 
bishops,  yet  because  the  Bishop  of  Derry  claims  the  same  only 
as  given  at  first  to  the  church,  and  that  by  the  name  of  the 
church,  the  cathedral  church  is  intended,  which  consists  not 
only  of  a  bishop,  but  of  a  dean  and  chapter,  viz.,  dignitaries 
and  prebends,  which  make  the  ecclesiastical  council,  according 
to  the  first  institution  of  bishoprics,  it  were  fit  that  some 
part  of  that  great  scope  of  land  which  is  allotted  to  the 
bishops  should  be  distributed  to  deans  and  chapters  to  be 
newly  erected,  the  rather  because  the  King  makes  a  new 
foundation  and  purposes  to  set  up  cathedral  churches  acccord- 
ing  to  the  form  of  the  churches  of  England.  It  is  fit  that  a 
special  commission  be  awarded  to  assign  the  portions  of  the 
deans  and  chapters,  and  that  the  commissioners  be  part  of  the 
clergy  and  part  of  the  laity,  of  special  place  and  credit ;  and 
this  course  of  allotment  is  no  new  thing,  for  we  find  it  in  the 
book  of  our  law,  that  upon  the  first  endowments  of  cathedral 
churches,  the  possessions  of  the  bishops,  deans,  and  chapters 
were  entire  and  undivided,  and  that  afterwards,  by  consent, 
the  bishops  had  their  portions  assigned  by  themselves,  the 
deans  by  themselves,  and  the  prebendaries  each  by  himself, 
whereupon  the  reason  of  the  law  is  grounded  that  none  of 
these  can  alien  their  lands  without  the  consent  and  confirma- 
tion of  the  other. 

If  it  be  thought  fit  to  uqiite  divers  parishes,  yet  it  is  not 
amiss  that  the  glebes  should  be  also  united  to  make  the  livings 
more  competent  for  sufiicient  ministers. 

2,  For  the  Corporate  Towns. 

Though  tradesmen  are  not  pressed  out  of  England  to 
inhabit  the  towns,  yet,  it  is  fit  they  should  be  erected  and  en- 
dowed with  reasonable  liberties,  for  that  will  draw  the  trades- 
men who  will  come  over  with  the  undertakers  and  others. 
Besides,  the  new  corporate  towns  are  to  be  made  boroughs 
and  to  send  burgesses  to  Parliament,  which  upon  the  new 
plantation  will  consist  of  Protestants,  and  strengthen  the 
lower  House  very  much. 

3.  Touching  the  Plantation. 

1.  It  were  convenient  not  only  to  write  to  the  Lord  Deputy, 
but  also  to  the  Earls  of  Ormond,  Thomond,  and  Clanrickard 
and  some  other  lords  of  Munster,  to  receive  the  transplanted 
natives. 

2.  It  is  to  be  wished  that  the  swordmen,  not  only  of  Ulster 
but  of  Connaught,  were  transmitted  upon  this  occasion  to 
Swethen  or  Virginia. 

Pp.  3,     Endd. 

^  These  answers  are  in  the  handwriting  of  Sir  John  Davys. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  417 


1610. 
S.P.,  Ireland,    081.        A  NoTE  of  the  NUMBER  of  AcRES  allotted  to  the  Bishops 
■  ^^^'  ^°-  and  Incumbents  in  the  Escheated  Counties  of  Ulster. 

In  Tirone. 

Acres. 
The  bishops  have  -  -     18,275 

The  incumbents   have  after  the 

number  of  60  for  each  1,000    -       5,880 

In  Coleraine. 
The  bishops         -  -  -       6,890 

Incumbents         ...       2,040 

In  Tirconnell, 

The  bishops        -  -  -     12,752 

Incumbents         .  .  -       0,600 

In  Fermanagh. 

The  bishops         -  -  -       3,022 

Incumbents         .  .  .       1,920 

In  Cavan. 

The  bishops         -  -  -       3,366 

Incumbents         -  -  -       2,340 

In  Armagh. 

The  bishops         -  -  -       2,480 

Incumbents         ...       4,650 

In  all.— Bishops,  5  -  -  -     45,905 

Incumbents,  310  -  -     23,940 

j- Britons     -  -  150,000 

Undertakers  ■<  Servitors  -  -     47,500 

(Natives    -  -     58,500 

In  the  former  project  there  were  227  proportions,  whereof 
there  is  deducted  15  proportions,  viz.,  of  the  greatest,  2  ;  of 
the  middle,  2 ;  of  the  least,  11  ;  for  glebe  land. 

P.  1.     Endd. 

s. P.,  Ireland,    682.        The  NUMBER,  NAMES,  and  Quantities  of   the  Great 
TO. 228, 71.  Precincts  in  the  Escheated  Counties,  which  may  be 

clearly  disposed  to  Undertakers. 

In  Armagh,  4,  viz.  : 


1.  Orrier 

2.  Oneilan 

3.  Fewes 

4.  Ardmagh 

Acres. 

-  15,500 

-  16,500 

-  6,000 

-  4,500 

In  Tirone,  5,  viz. : 

1.  Dungannon     - 

2.  Mountjoy 

-  16,000 

-  9,500 

D  D 

418 

IfilO. 


lEELAND— JABIES  I. 

3.  Omagh 

11,000 

4.  Strabane         -              -              . 

13,500 

5.  Ologher            .             -             . 

12,500 

In  Tirconnell,  6,  viz. : 

1.  Porfclogh 

12,000 

2.  Liffor .             -             -             . 

14,000 

3.  Doe    - 

125,000 

4.  Faynaght        -             .             _ 

13,000 

5.  Boylagh  and  Banagh  - 

10,000 

6.  Tirhugh 

4,000 

In  Fermanagh,  6,  viz.  : 

1.  Knockniny     -             -             . 

9,000 

2.  Clancally 

5,000 

3.  Clinawly         .             -             _ 

6,000 

4.  Coote  and  Tyrcanada  - 

8,000 

5.  Maghery  Boy 

9,000 

6.  Coote  M'Kernan  and  Large     - 

9,000 

In  the  Cavan,  7,  viz.  : 

. 

1.  Loghty            -             .             - 

12,500 

2.  TuUaghgarvey 

9,500 

3.  Clanchy          -             .             . 

6,000 

4.  Castleralien     -             -             - 

9,000 

5.  TuUaghagh     - 

9,000 

6.  Clanmahon 

7,000 

7.  Tullaghtoe 

6,000 

Endd.    No  date. 

P.  1. 

March  31.  683.  A  Book  of  the  Chaeges  of  His  Majesty's  army  and 
S.P.,  Ireland,  garrisons  in  pay,  with  the  checks  imposed  on  them  in  the  said 

vol.  228, 73  c.  realm  for  half  a  year,  containing  182   days,  beginning  1st 

October  1609  and  ending  last  of  March  next  following.     In 

Annis  1610.     8°  Jas.  I. 

S.P.,  Ireland,     684.  A  BoOK   of  ENTERTAINMENTS. 

'        '  A  book  of  such  entertainments  as  have  grown  due  to  all  the 

officers  general  and  provincial,  warders  in  several  forts  and 
castles,  bands  and  companies  of  horsemen  and  footmen,  pen- 
sioners, almsmen,  and  others  appointed  to  serve  His  Majesty 
in  the  said  realm  according  to  his  establishment  1st  Oct.  1608, 
and  ending  ultimo  Martii  following.  In  Annis  1610.  R. 
Jacob  Primi  8°.^ 
Pp.  37. 


'  A  similar  list  for  the  half-year  from  4th  April  to  30th  September  1610  in  a 
very  condensed  form,  will  be  found  at  30th  Septemher. 


lEELAND— JAMES  I. 


419 


1610. 

[March.] 

S.P.,  Ireland, 

vol.  228,  72,  73. 


685. 


A  Pedigree  of  John  O'Reily. 


Johanes  O'Reily, 
married. 


Cayer,  a  bastard 
was  first  Tanist, 
and  yet  put  from 
the ''  Captenry." 


Molmore 


The  daughter  of 
O'Donell. 


Farrol  died  with- 
oxit  issue. 


The  daughter  of    =  Hugh  O'Ryly 
Thomas  Nugent,     I 
second  wife. 

Molmore. 


Jennet,  the 
daughter  of 
Betagh  of 
Moynaltie. 


Edmond 
the  Tanist. 


Shane. 


Owen.       Phillippe.      Donell. 


-  .  .  .  . 

John  O'Reily,  Phillippe.  Owen,  Prima  fl»,  2"  fl», 

having  the  con-  Annable,  nupta        Rice,  nupta 

troversy  with  Hugons  Connor  M'Quire, 

Edmund.  M'Gennis. 


Joane,  nupta 
Parol  O'Reily. 


S«fl», 
Ondie,  nupta 
Flunket  of 
Clonbrene. 


March. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  228, 73  B. 

[March.] 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  228,  73  D. 


[March.] 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  228,  74. 


P.  1.     Endd. 


[March.]      686. 


S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  228,  73  A. 


Me.  Tokefield's  project  for  erecting  Ieonwoeks  in  the 
Province  of  MuNSTER. 
Showing  what  may  be  gained  yearly  by  the  disbursement 
of  IjOOOL,  how  the  great  woods  may  be  destroyed,  many  Eng- 
lishmen planted  there,  all  well  armed,  without  charge  to  the 
King  and  be  in  readiness  to  do  his  service. 
Pp.  2.    Endd.     No  date. 

687.  SiE   Thomas  Ridgeway   in   favour  of  the  project  for 

establishing  Ieonwoeks  in  Munstee.^ 
Pp.  3.    Endd. 

688.  Petition  of  John  Ceowe  to  the  Eael  of  Salisbtjey. 
For  the  reversion  of  the  place  of  the  Second  Remembrancer 

of  the  Exchequer  of  Ireland  after  Christopher  Bisse. 
P.  1. 

689.  The  Commissionees  Peoceedings  in  the  Plantations 

since  their  last  being  before  the  Loeds. 

The  conditions  to  be  performed  by  the  British  undertakers 
set  down  and  published  in  print. 

The  conditions  to  be  observed  by  the  servitors  and  natives 
set  down  in  writing. 

They  have  chosen  out  of  the  list  of  servitors  brought  over 
by  the  Treasurer  and  commended  by  the  Deputy,  the  fittest 
men,  in  their  opinion,  for  the  plantation,  and  have  added 
certain  rules  and  observations. 

Advices  for  the  proportions  and  places  to  be  assigned  to 
certain  principal  natives  which  the  Lord  Deputy  desires  to  be 
done  here  (in  England). 

'  Blank  in  MS. 

2  There  are  no  dates  to  this  and  the  preceding  paper,  but  as  the  latter  was 
evidently  written  while  Ridgeway  was  in  London  and  before  the  25th  April 
when  the  Government  issued  warrants  for  the  furtherance  of  the  ironworks  the 
date  may  be  assigned  with  some  certainty  to  March  1610. 

D  B  2 


420  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

ICIO. 

Have  set  down  the  form  of  assignation  of  precincts  from 
the  lords.  Warrant  to  the  surveyor  for  particulars.  Warrant 
to  Mr.  Attorney  for  the  patents. 

Condition  of  the  undertakers'  bonds. 

The  order  of  proceeding  in  passing  the  letters  patent. 

Have  set  down  orders,  and  made  compositions  for  divers 
pretended  titles,  namely,  with  the  Lord  Deputy,  City  of 
Derry,  Lord  Bishop  of  Derry,  Sir  Tho.  Phillipps,  Lady  Pawlett, 
Mr.  Rowley,  Mr.  Whyte,  Nicholas  Weston,  Patricke  Conley. 

P.  1.     Endd. 

[April  1.]     690.        Lord   Deputy's  Advices  to  Sib  Thomas  Ridgewat, 
S.  p.,  Ireland,  besides  others  already  imparted. 

vol   228    74a 

To  move  the  Lords  for  money  to  finish  the  small  forts  and 
castles  in  decay,  which  can  be  done  for  4,000Z.  or  5,000^. 
English. 

Also  for  a  standing  allowance  over  and  above  that  now 
contained  in  the  establishment  towards  extraordinary  pay- 
ments by  concordatum. 

To  acquaint  the  Lords  with  the  proclamation  drawn  by 
Mr.  Attorney  for  recalling  the  sons  of  noblemen,  &c.  from  the 
seminaries  beyond  the  seas,  and  for  restraining  their  resort 
thither. 

To  learn  the  King's  pleasure  concerning  works  ordered  in 
his  (the  King's)  letter  of  29th  March  last,  and  whether  they 
are  to  proceed  and  procure  money  for  that  service  of  which  he 
gave  him  (Ridgeway)  an  estimate. 

To  declare  that  the  mayors,  sheriffs,  and  bailiffs  of  cities 
and  towns,  for  the  most  part,  refuse  to  take  the  oath  of  sup- 
remacy, the  Deputy  and  Council  desire  to  understand  whether 
they  should  deprive  them  of  their  offices  or  admit  them  if 
they  will  take  the  oath  of  allegiance  only. 

They  desire  a  direction  because  the  mayors,  &c.  cry  out  that 
they  are  prosecuted  for  their  consciences  when  they  proceed 
with  them  for  their  obstinacy. 

Also  to  have  the  King's  ships  upon  this  coast  in  summer 
rather  than  in  winter,  for  most  of  the  strong  pirates  winter 
in  the  straits,  because  the  galleys  cannot  keep  the  seas  in  that 
season,  but  fly  hither  in  the  summer. 

To  procure  directions  to  pass  unto  the  inhabitants  of  Ath- 
lone,  their  houses,  mills,  curtilages,  &c.  in  fee  farm  for  such  a 
fine  as  they  can  draw  them  unto,  with  reservation  of  rent. 
In  this  he  (Ridgeway)  is  to  advise  with  the  Lord  Clanriekard. 

To  get  the  commission  of  surrenders  and  defective  titles 
renewed  by  reason  the  Lord  Chief  Baron  and  the  Master  of 
the  Rolls  are  omitted  in  the  commission  as  also  the  Master  of 
the  Ordnance,  who  was  formerly  in. 

Patrick  Crosbie  informs  him  that  the  Lord  Treasurer  had 
some  speech  with  him  about  O'Carroll's  Country,  which 
country  he  (Chichester)  has  made  since  his  time  shire  ground, 
and  laid  to  the  King's  County.     It  is   a  pretty  piece  of  land, 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  421 


IGIO. 


and  Crosbie  says  that  he  can  bring  it  into  the  King's  hands  by 
overthrowing  the  patents  made  thereof  to  Sir  "William  O'Car- 
roll.  The  pretending  heir  is  an  infant,  whose  wardship  was 
given  to  Sir  Thomas  Ash  before  his  (Chichester's)  time,  there- 
fore he  has  stayed  the  proceedings  in  this  matter  until  he 
(Ridgeway)  shall  have  conferred  with  my  Lord  Treasurer 
therein .  There  has  ever  been  strife  and  contention  between  the 
House  of  Ormond  and  the  Lords  of  that  country,  touching  the 
bounds  and  meares  of  the  country,  and  much  blood  has  been 
spilt  on  eacb  side,  and  now  he  is  told  that  Sir  Thomas  Ash 
has  sold  over  the  ward  to  the  Lord  Viscount  Butler,  notwith- 
standing his  advice  to  him  (Lord  Butler)  not  to  deal  therewitb, 
and  to  Sir  Thomas  Ash  not  to  sell  it  to  him,  for  he  doubted 
the  sequel,  as  he  still  does.  For  he  would  not  have  the  Lord 
Butler's  power  increased  on  that  side  of  the  country  bordering 
upon  Tipperary,  and  part  of  it  claimed  to  be  within  the 
liberty ;  and  therefore  if  Crosbie  can  bring  the  country  to  the 
Crown  he  (Chichester)  thinks  he  deserves  good  recompense. 
For  the  King  might  then  make  divers  freeholders  of  honest  and 
substantial  men,  which  would  greatly  advance  his  service  ;  for 
now  that  the  Moores  are  dispersed  and  the  Connors  suppressed, 
if  that  country  were  well  planted,  there  is  hope  of  reformation 
in  that  part,  where  the  first  fire  of  rebellion  in  Leinster  has 
often  been  kindled. 

He  says,  likewise,  that  my  Lord  had  some  speech  with  him 
about  the  Greams,  that  they  might  be  removed  into  Ulster. 
They  are  now  dispersed,  and  when  they  shall  be  placed  upon 
any  land  together,  the  next  country  will  find  them  ill  neigh- 
bours, for  they  are  a  factious  and  naughty  people.  Writes 
about  these  two  particulars  because  Crosbie  told  him  his  Lord- 
ship willed  him  to  confer  with  him  therein. 

That  a  proclamation  be  made  for  pardoning  all  intrusions 
for  a  small  fine  to  the  King. 

That  directions  may  be  given  for  a  certain  rate  for  fines 
upon  grants  for  strengthening  defective  titles. 

To  make  known  the  scarcity  of  coin  in  this  land  and  the 
want  of  small  moneys. 

He  (Ridgeway)  knows  how  he  (Chichester)  is  pressed  for 
granting  monopolies  under  colour  of  bringing  in  arts  and 
mysteries — by  one,  for  making  salt,  by  another,  for  sowing 
seeds  for  making  oils,  and  woad,  burning  ashes  for  soap, 
making  glass,  saltpetre,  cables  and  ropes,  measuring  corn  and 
salt,  and  other  such  devices  for  which  they  profifer  some  small 
rent  to  the  King. 

Has  been  moved  by  such  as  he  (Chichester)  desires  to 
gratify  as  far  as  he  may,  for  the  license  of  drawing  of  wine 
and  selling  tobacco.     Craves  their  Lordships'  directions  herein. 

Desires  a  skilful  surveyor  to  inspect  all  the  timber  woods  in 
the  kingdom,  and  to  give  notice  of  such  as  by  reason  of  their 
lying  near  the  sea  or  portable  rivers,  are  fit  to  be  reserved  for 
the  King's  use;  for  the  King  has   none  of  his  own  worth 


422  IRELAND—JAMES  I. 

IGIO. 

speaking  of  but  those  ia  Ulster,  which  he  conceives  will  be 
spent  in  the  plantation  if  it  take  the  effect  they  all  desire ; 
but  however  it  be,  tliey  are  not  fit  for  transportation  to  any 
part  but  Scotland.  If  some  timely  reservation  be  not  made, 
all  the  timber  will  be  suddenly  cousumed,  especially  in 
Mounster  and  other  parts  near  the  sea  ;  for  the  owners  have 
found  such  good  rent  for  them  in  pipeboards  and  other  cloven 
ware,  besides  planks  and  other  timbers,  that  no  proclamation 
will  restrain  them,  the  case  is  so  general,  and  so  few  good  and 
powerful  subjects  are  to  be  found  near  the  places  where  the 
woods  lie,  to  put  their  directions  in  execution. 

That  the  men  lately  sent  hence  for  the  service  of  the  King 
of  Sweden  may  be  employed  in  the  service  of  Eussia  rather 
than  that  of  Sweden. 

To  acquaint  the  Lords  with  the  form  of  their  grant  of  in- 
trusions, and  with  his  (Chichester's)  warrant  for  repairing  and 
rebuilding  decayed  churches  in  the  Pale. 

To  understand  the  Treasurer's  pleasure  concerning  the 
victualling  of  the  forts. 

To  declare  the  cost  of  sending  the  men  to  Sweden,  which 
came  to  30s.  per  man,  all  extraordinary  disbursements  in- 
cluded. 

Among  the  notes  he  gave  him  there  is  one  that  makes 
mention  of  0' Carrol's  Country,  an  estate  of  the  same  is  de- 
manded by  Patrick  Crosbie,  if  he  regain  it  to  the  Crown  at 
his  own  cost  and  charges.  He  writes  that  the  Viscount 
Butler  has  got  the  wardship  of  the  pretended  Lord  from  Sir 
Thomas  Ash,  and  thereby  the  possession  of  the  principal 
castles  in  the  country.  Wishes  to  understand  what  is  to  be 
done,  that  he  may  answer  Mr.  Crosbie. 

The  King's  charge  being  increased  last  summer  by  having 
with  them  some  of  the  Privy  Council  that  meddled  not  much 
with  business,  he  wishes  that  the  Lords,  to  prevent  the  like 
on  their  next  journey,  would  name  the  commissioners,  and  set 
down  their  allowance  by  the  day  for  the  time  they  shall  lie 
abroad.  This  will  take  away  all  offence  and  the  precedent  for 
giving  like  allowance  hereafter. 

Prays  that  Sir  Dominick  Sarsfeild,  now  Second  Justice  of 
the  King's  Bench,  may  be  thought  of  to  succeed  the  Lord 
Welch  in  the  place  of  Chief  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas, 
upon  the  death  of  the  Lord  Welsh,  for  which  he  is  a  very 
fit  man  and  of  good  desert.  It  will  give  him  great  content- 
ment and  make  the  lawyers  of  this  nation  see  they  are  not 
disregarded,  as  they  now  suppose. 

That  Mr.  Patrick  Fox  may  have  some  comfort  after  his 
long  service  according  to  the  contents  of  his  brief  of  remem- 
brance herewith  delivered. 

That  Mr.  Ware  may  find  favour  for  the  reasonable  demand 
contained  in  his  letter,  which  will  be  a  great  furtherance  to 
the  King's  service. 

Sir  Garrett  Moore  is  a  suitor  to  have  the  fee-farm  of  several 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  423 


1610. 


portions  of  land  and  tithes,  which  he  now  holds  from  the 
King,  in  which  he  has  a  lease  now  "in  esse"  for  three-score 
and  twelve  years  ;  in  that  which  is  nearest  expired  and  in  all 
but  that  one  parcel  above  fore-score,  and  in  some  above  a 
hundred. 

The  inducement  to  grant  this  suit  is,  that  he  pays  the 
greatest  rent  to  the  King  of  any  man  in  this  kingdom,  and 
that  he  is  a  worthy  and  honest  servant  to  the  King,  and 
principally  that  the  King  will  hardly  enhance  the  rents,  albeit, 
he  never  received  fine  upon  the  increase  of  years  or  the 
renewing  of  the  lease,  and  a  better  tenant  the  King  will 
hardly  find  in  this  kingdom. 

The  season  of  fishing  the  rivers  Bann  and  Loughfoile  will 
begin  next  month.  Would  understand  whether  the  Londoners 
are  to  have  the  benefit  of  this  season's  fishing  ;  for  those  who 
have  formerly  fished  in  it  have  sent  unto  him  to  be  informed 
therein ;  but  however  the  fishing  is  disposed,  he  (Ridgeway) 
must  interpose  then  for  the  Easter  rent  of  the  county  of 
Coleraine. 

To  procure  allowance  to  pass  the  fee-farm  of  the  poor 
abbeys  to  the  servitors  upon  some  book,  before  they  gripe  all, 
by  which  the  King  will  be  benefited  in  his  revenue  and  in  his 
service  ;  they  will  be  otherwise  stripped  away  by  particular 
men  in  some  books.  They  are  not  above  four  or  five  quarters 
of  land  apiece. 

Perceives  by  some  of  the  Aimesleye's  letters  that  my  Lord 
Treasurer  resolves  to  rebuild  Kilmainham  and  some  works  to 
be  done  in  the  Castle.  Thinks  the  use  will  not  answer  the 
costs ;  for  when  they  are  both  built,  they  stand  so  near  to- 
gether that  they  are,  as  it  were,  one  house  ;  he  means  for  use  : 
for  if,  by  infection  of  the  plague,  the  Deputy  be  forced  to  go 
from  this  house,  his  danger  will  rather  be  increased  than 
abated ;  besides  which  he  cannot  be  there  in  the  term  or  when 
business  is  in  hand.  Therefore,  seeing  that  the  house  is  in  such 
decay  that  it  were  as  cheap  to  build  another  as  to  repair  it, 
he  could  wish  that  the  best  were  made  of  the  materials  re- 
maining towards  the  building  and  beautifying  this  castle,  and 
that  no  more  rooms  were  left  at  Kilmainham,  but  the  stable  and 
garners,  and  that  the  money  intended  for  that  work  might  be 
converted  to  the  erecting  of  a  house  at  Tredagh  (Drogheda), 
which  will  be  a  commodious  and  wholesome  place  of  retreat 
for  the  Deputy.  Prays  further  the  particulars  of  Sir  Henry 
Folliot,  Sir  Dominick  Sarsfeild  and  Sir  Henry  Power.  So 
also  for  Sir  Garrett  Aylmer,  for  whom  there  is  a  letter  written 
to  the  Lords  of  the  Council  from  this  table. 

He  (Ridgeway)  knows  there  are  many  in  this  kingdom  who 
are  interested  by  lease  or  otherwise,  especially  about  the  Derry 
intended  to  the  Londoners,  who  expect  a  composition,  for 
which  a  commission  and  money  will  be  required.  Finally,  he 
humbly  desires  that  he  may  be  made  so  happy  as  to  be  admitted 
to  repair  into  the  presence  of  his  sovereign. 


424  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

^Also  he  (Kidgeway)  delivers  herewith  four  several  papers 
of  the  proceedings  in  the  case  between  the  Earl  of  Kildare  and 
Sir  Kobert  Digbie,  besides  the  Lord  Chancellor's  declaration. 

A  draft  of  a  proclamation  by  Mr.  Attorney  of  Ireland,  above 
mentioned. 

Derrick  Hubbert's  proposition  for  salt,  &c. 

A  note  for  trial  of  pirates  in  Ireland,  delivered  unto  him  by 
Dr.  Forth  with  the  list  of  pirates  from  the  Lord  Deputy. 

Sir  Eobert  Neweomen's  answer  touching  the  victualling  the 
King's  ships  upon  the  coast  of  Ireland. 

Pf.  7.    EnU. 
[April.]      691.        Brief  Considerations  upon  the  Advices  sent  from  the 

S.P.,  Ireland,  DEPUTY,  by  Mr.  TREASURER, 

vol.  228,  75.  p^_3_    f  April  1st?] 

[April.]      692.        Answers  to  some  of  the  Lord  Deputy's  Advices. 

^TOl.' 228^^6.'  ^^^^  °^  Supremacy.— They  may  be  only  essayed  with  the 

oath  of  allegiance,  which,  if  they  refuse,  they  may  be  deprived, 
for  whoever  refuses  to  take  that  oath  is  unworthy  to  serve  the 
King  in  any  office. 

Monopolies. — If  they  be  intended  for  sole  sale  of  commodities 
it  is  injurious  to  the  commonwealth  and  the  liberty  of  the 
subject,  except  it  be  to  bring  into  the  kingdom  the  making  of 
those  things  which  are  not  now  made  there,  but  depend  only 
upon  foreign  parts ;  and  yet  in  that  case,  though  the  sole  making 
may  be  granted,  there  ought  to  be  no  inhibition  annexed,  for 
that  is  the  way  to  have  the  price  raised  upon  the  subject.  For 
any  other  matter  of  privilege  to  encourage  industry  there  may 
be  some  restraint  of  a  new  invention  for  some  reasonable 
number  of  years. 

Green- wax  Money.,-^  trial  may  be  made  by  such  a  course 
for  some  £gE„;?s;'w^3herein  it  is  expected  that  the  Lord 
Deputy  iflp.  TrMpasurer  do  their  best  for  the  King's 
advantagew^   ^^ 

NominsK^of,^?^ Commissioners  for  the  Plantation. — The 
Deputy  hafl*t>est  nominate  them,  for  he  knows  who  are  most 
proper  foiphat  service  ;  only  it  was  observed  here  that  last 
time  tlj^LKing  was  charged  with  more  commissioners  than 
were  needed.  The  Lord  Chancellor  need  not  go  in  person, 
and  if  any  of  the  Council  go  for  his  own  interest,  there  is 
no  reason  the  King  should  give  him  entertainment. 

Sir  Dominick  Sarsfeild. — The  Lord  Deputy,  the  Lord  Dan- 
vers,  and  Mr.  Treasurer  have  yielded  such  testimony  of  this 
gentleman's  conformity  in  religion,  &c.,  that  the  King  is 
pleased  that  he  may  succeed  Justice  Welshe. 

Pi3.  4. 


This  is  in  Sir  Thomas  Eidgeway's  hand. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  425 


IGIO. 
[April.]       693.        Notes  upon  Me.  Teeasueer's  Papers. 

voi^228'l6'Bl  ^-  Montgarret. 

'         "  Kewards  and  allowances  for  riding  charges  are  beyond  pro- 

portion, and  therefore  to  be  reduced. 

There  is  no  reason  for  the  continuance  of  allowance  of 
utensils  to  the  Presidents. 

Allowances  to  commissioners  in  civil  causes  are  to  be 
ordinary,  and  for  the  commissioners  for  the  revenue,  whosoever 
is  weary  of  the  credit,  let  it  be  made  known  and  he  shall  be 
forborne. 

Archers  to  be  cut  off  for  Dublin  and  divers  other  superfluous 
persons,  that  do  not  attend. 

Green  wax  to  be  better  collected. 

Fines  to  be  imposed  upon  pardons. 

Reformation  of  the  abuse  in  the  officer  of  the  first  fruits. 

Bishoprics  and  other  spiritual  livings  in  Ulster  to  be  rated 
for  first  fruits. 

P.  1.     Endd. 

April  3.     694.        Loed  Sat  to  Salisbury. 
^f'all^^jR^'  Being  solicited  by  divers  undertakers  to  make  suit  for  land 

'       '  in  O'Neal-lande,  a  barony  in  Armathe  (Armagh),  understanding 

that  Salisbury  intends  taking  one  for  himself,  beseeches  him 
to  take  the  title  of  the  barony  of  O'Neal-lande  to  his  name  and 
to  let  them  live  under  his  protection.  They  resolve  to  build 
a  town  or  city  called  Sarum  or  Cranborne,  and  a  fort  therein 
called  Cicilles  [Cecil's]  Fort,  for  which  they  will  be  devoted  to 
Salisbury's  service,  and  if  he  will  have  any  servant  of  his 
own  amongst  them,  Say  will  give  him  1,000  acres  out  of  his 
own  4,000,  and  500  acres  more  for  "  gleab,"  which  the  com- 
missioners have  before  provided  for. — 3  April  1609. 
Signed :  Richarde  Say  and  Seal. 

P.l.    Hoi.    Add.    Endd.:   "8°  Apr.  1610." 

April  3.    695.         The  King  to  Sie  Arthue  Chichester. 

^]^^^-  ^■>  At  the  suit  of  Lord  Barry,  Viscount  Buttevant,  and  of  his 

■   '  '  daughter  Elinor,  Countess  of  Ormonde,  and  in  consideration 

of  Lord  Barry's  good  service  done  to  the  Crown  in  the  late 
Queen's  time,  he  (the  King)  grants  to  the  said  Elinor, 
Countess  of  Ormonde,  the  wardship  of  the  body  and  lands  of 
David  Barry,  infant  grandchild  to  the  said  Lord  Barry,  and 
the  benefit  of  the  marriage  of  the  said  ward,  if  now  in 
his  (the  King's)  disposition,  or  as  soon  as  the  same  shall  be 
in  his  gift  by  the  death  of  the  same  infant's  father,  David 
Barry,  deceased,  or  of  his  grandfather,  the  Lord  Barry,  now 
living. 

Pp.  2.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Endd.  hy  Sir  Arthur 
Chichester :  "  Of  the  third  of  Aprill  1610.  From  the  Kinge's 
Ma*w  to  passe  the  wardshipe  of  the  ].  Barry's  grandchild,  &c.  to 
the  Countesse  of  Ormonde,  &c.    Re.  the  19tl»  of  July."   Enrol. 


426  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1610. 
April  3.     696.        Wardship  of  David  Baery. 

^^  April  3.°°'''  ^^**^®^"  *°  *^^®  ^°^"*^  Deputy  to  pass  a  gi-ant  to  Ellen,  Countess 

of  Ormond,  or  to  any  other  person  whom  she  and  the  Lord 
Barry  shall  jointly  nominate,  of  the  wardship  of  David  Barry, 
infant  grandchild  to  the  said  Lord  Barry. 

April  3.     697.        Family  Settlement  of  the  Ormond  Estates. 

°°  Aprill""'"'  ^'^**®^  *°  *^^  ^o^'*^  Deputy  to  accept  a  surrender  of  Thomas 

Earl  of  Ormond,  of  the  Castle  of  Kilkenny,  together  with  all 
such  castles  and  lands  as  he  has  in  Ireland,  excepting  the 
liberty  of  the  county  of  Tipperary,  and  to  make  a  grant  of 
the  same  to  the  said  Earl  and  Theobald  Lord  Viscount  Butler, 
their  heirs  and  assigns. 

April  3.      698.        Transport  of  Treasure  to  Ulster  by  City  of  London. 

Tr™' lei^'  Warrant  for  permission  for  such   as  the  city  of  London 

shall  appoint  to  transport  4,000?.  for  the  plantation  of  Ulster. 

[April  4.]     699.        John  Davis  to  Salisbury. 

^T  sas'^'?'^'  Thanks  him  for  his   bill  of  restitution.     Prays  to  be  an 

undertaker  under  him  in  Ireland,  or,  if  the  places  are  already 
promised,  under  Lord  Suffolk  or  elsewhere,  as  Salisbury 
thinks  fit. 

Pp.2.      Signed.    Sealed.    Add.     Endd. :"  4<°  Apr.  UIO. 
S^  John  Davis,!  that  he  may  undertake  in  Clougher." 

April  7.      700.        Lord  Chancellor  oe  Ireland  to  Salisbury. 
^^  '228^^78''  Hears  that  Captain Tirrell  has  suddenly  departed  for  England, 

'     '  and  that  he  has  gone  there  purposely  to  be  suitor  for  some  of 

the  O'Eelies,  amongst  whom  he  has  lived  and  over  whom  he 
desires  to  bear  sway,  being  encouraged  by  some  of  them  to 
become  a  petty  chieftain  over  them.  The  county  of  Cavan, 
which  the  Kelies  inhabit,  has  in  it  but  few  persons  of  worthi- 
ness, but  they  are  a  manly  and  valiant  sept,  easily  led  to  be 
partakers  of  evil  actions.  In  the  late  garboils  this  captain's 
graceless  company  was  chiefly  composed  of  them,  and  he  has 
ever  since  dwelt  in  places  of  strength  amongst  them.  His  (the 
Chancellor's)  experience  of  22  years,  when  he  dwelt  upon  the 
borders  of  Meath  adjoining  the  Brenie  (county  of  Cavan),  and 
his  particular  knowledge  of  that  people,  and  the  doubt  he  con- 
ceives.of  the  affection  of  Capt.  Tirrell  to  this  State,  induce  him 
to  wish  that  he  be  not  permitted  to  dwell  in  that  county  any 
longer,  but  be  confined  to  live  upon  his  portion  in  England  or 
in  the  province  of  Munster  far  from  those  O'Relies,  so  that  he 
may  have  nothing  to  do  with  them,  or  they  with  him.  What 
may  be  the  sequel  from  continuing  so  doubtful  a  person  as  that 
captain  amongst  them,  he  leaves  to  his  consideration.  What 
reasons  moved  the  Lord  Lieutenant  to  procure  him  such  a 

'  This  must  be  John  Davis,  the  collector  for  Connaught,  and  not  Sir  John 
Davis. 


IRELAND — JAMES  I.  427 


vol.  4,  p.  3. 


]610. 

large  pension,  is  a  thing  beyond  his  reach  ;  he  has  not  shown 
good  affection  to  serve  the  King,  and  it  is  certain  that  if  the 
fugitive  arch-rebel  have  confidence  with  any  man  in  this 
kingdom,  he  has  it  in  Captain  Tirrell.  Hopes  they  wiU  not  be 
troubled  any  more  with  that  capital  rebel,  but  it  is  not  amiss 
that  all  means  for  prevention  of  future  dangers  may  receive 
consideration. — St.  Sepulchre's,  7  April  1610. 

Tho.  Dublin,  Cane. 
Pp.  2.     Signed.     Sealed.     Add.    Endd. 

April  9.      701.        Lords   of  the  Council   to   the   Lord   Deputy   and 
Phiiad.  p.,  Council. 

Have  received  their  letters  of  the  14th  February,  with  an 
abridgment  of  the  answers  of  Lord  Howth  touching  the 
imputations  he  had  cast  on  the  Lord  Deputy,  the  Lord  Chan- 
cellor, with  Sir  Garrett  Moore,  and  some  others.  They  find 
that  his  exceptions  are  such  as  savour  merely  of  particular 
humour  and  discontent  against  the  persons  of  men,  and  not 
against  their  proceedings  as  magistrates  in  case  of  justice ; 
and  they  think  that  the  State  there  (in  Ireland)  has  sufiered 
more  than  is  fitting  by  submitting  themselves  to  that  course 
of  examination.  His  Majesty  desires  them  to  be  informed 
that  he  approves  of  the  temper  and  moderation  they  showed 
in  their  proceedings  with  Lord  Howth,  and  wishes  them  to 
call  Lord  Howth  before  them,  and  to  let  him  understand  that 
he  finds  nothing  in  all  his  accusations  and  answers  thereto  of 
so  great  weight  as  was  worth  the  challenging,  much  less  his 
censuring  them,  or  men  far  meaner  in  place.  He  finds  that 
most  of  Lord  Howth's  charges  arose  out  of  unkind  speeches 
behind  backs,  and  were  grounded  sometimes  upon  looks  and 
sometimes  on  loose  observations  that  men  do  not  much  love 
liim,  to  whom  he  knows  he  has  given  cause  to  the  contrary. 
And  therefore  seeing  that  he  is  so  much  subject  to  his  own 
passion,  and  has  so  restless  a  spirit,  His  Majesty's  pleasure  is, 
that  they  command  him  to  retire  himself  to  his  own  house  and 
the  parts  adjoining,  that  the  world  may  take  notice  that  His 
Majesty  disliketh  his  proud  carriage  towards  the  supreme 
ofiicers  of  the  kingdom.  Tlie  Lord  Deputy  is  also  to  command 
him  upon  his  duty  to  forbear  to  repair  into  England,  as  he  is 
desirous  to  do.  His  subjects  of  that  kingdom  are  not,  upon 
slight  accusations,  to  decline  the  justice  of  that  kingdom,  nor 
can  His  Majesty  be  troubled,  vipon  his  progresses,  with  any  other 
private  suits  than  such  as  are  necessary  or  acceptable  to  him; 
which  may  be  sufficient  reason  to  him  to  forbear,  considering 
how  many  other  noblemen  of  that  kingdom  of  extraordinary 
desert,  dispose  themselves  to  remain  civilly  and  orderly  in  that 
State,  according  to  their  birth  and  interest  in  the  same,  without 
seeking  to  come  over  thither,  except  it  be  for  some  cause  con- 
cerning His  Majesty's  service,  or  otherwise  after  long  absence, 
to  have  the  honour  to  kiss  his  hand.  He  is  to  assure  Sir  Garrett 


428  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

Moore  that  he  does  not  question  his  loyalty ;  nevertheless,  he 
will  expect  that  he  shall  neither  willingly  nor  wittingly  give 
him  or  any  of  his  any  just  cause  of  grievance,  but  rather 
address  himself  (in  case  Lord  Howth  shall  not  do  the  like  to 
him)  to  him,  the  Lord  Deputy  or  to  the  Council. — Whitehall, 
9  April  1610. 

Sig7ied :  K.  Cant.,  T.  Ellesmere,  R.  Salisbury,  H.  North- 
ampton, Nottingham,  T.  Suffolke,  W.  Knollys,  E.  Wotton, 
L.  Stanhope,  J.  Herbert,  Tho.  Parry. 

Pp.  3|.     Signed.    Address  and  endorsement  lost. 

April  5.      702.        A  List   of   Servitors  thought  meet    to  be  Under- 

Carew  Papers,  TAKERS. 

Calendar,  p.  53!  The  Lord  Deputy,  Lord  Audley,  Mr.  Treasurer,  Mr.  Marshal, 

Master  of  the  Ordnance,  Sir  Oliver  Lambert,  Mr.  Attorney- 
General  of  Ireland,  Sir  Foulk  Conway,  Sir  Henry  Foliot,  Sir 
Edward  Blaney,  Sir  Toby  Caulfeild,  Sir  Richard  Hansard,  Sir 
Francis  Roe,  Sir  Francis  Rushe,  Sir  Thomas  Philips,  Sir  James 
Perrett,  Sir  Thomas  Chichester,  Sir  Josias  Bodly,  Sir  Richard 
Graham,  Sir  Thomas  Coath,  Sir  Thomas  Williams,  Sir  Edward 
Fettiplace,  Sir  Robert  Bingley,  Sir  William  TaafFe,  Sir  George 
Graham's  sons,  Mr.  Surveyor  of  Ireland,  Captains  Bourchier, 
Cooke,  Steward,  Crawford,  Hope,  Atherton,  John  Vaughan, 
Trevilian,  Brook,  Dodington,  Richard  Bingley,  Gabriel  Throg- 
morton,  Francis  Annesley,  Coall,  John  Ridgeway,  Elise  Leigh 
and  his  brother  Daniel  Leigh,  Antony  Smyth,  Trevor,  Attgin- 
son,  Flanning,  Meeres,  Pikeman,  Southworth,  Sackford,  Baker, 
Henry  Vaughan,  Hart,  Gore,  Larken,  Neilson,  Edney,  Harrison, 
Huggins,  Henry  Moy,  Hugh  Culme,  Archie  Moore ;  Lieutenants 
Co  well,  Brian,  Ackland,  Devereux,  BagnaU,  son  to  Sir  Samuel 
Bagnall,  Browne,  Parkins,  Atkins,  Nicholas  Doubbeny. 

2.  "  Rules  to  be  observed  in  the  choice  of  Servitors  to  be 
Undertakers." 

None  to  be  admitted  but  a  martial  man,  saving  Mr.  Attorney- 
General,  who  may  have  a  middle  proportion  in  Climanty  near 
Lisgoole,  and  Mr.  Surveyor  of  Ireland. 

No  servitor  settled  in  a  martial  charge,  viz.,  as  constable 
or  keeper  of  a  castle  or  fort,  or  having  a  ward  out  of  the 
escheated  counties,  to  be  an  undertaker  in  this  plantation 
except  councillors  of  estate. 

The  Lord  Deputy  to  have  not  above  3,000  acres,  councillors 
2,000  acres  and  not  above. 

For  six  of  the  best  servitors  six  middle  proportions.  None 
others  to  have  above  1,000  acres.  And  of  those  unable  singly 
to  plant  1,000  acres,  two,  three,  or  four  to  be  joined  in  the 
proportion  of  1,000  acres. 

The  Deputy  to  omit  out  of  the  list  suggested  for  under- 
takers such  as  he  may  deem  unfit ;  and  he  and  the  commis- 
sioners may  limit  out  to  the  rest  such  proportions,  and  in  such 
places  as  shall  be  most  fit,  according  to  the  directions  aforesaid. 


IRELAND— JAMES  1,  429 

IGIO. 

And  they  may  allow  to  two  or  three  of  the  principal  servitors 
above-named  2,000  acres  apiece,  to  be  taken  out  of  the  middle 
proportions  appointed  for  the  better  sort  of  servitors. 
Ff.  5.     Copy.  . 

April  5.     703.        Propoktions  of  Peincipal  Natives. 

^^reTo^^^aff'  Advices  touching  the  proportions  and  places  to  be  assigned 

to  certain  principal  natives  which  was  desired  by  the  Lord 
Deputy  to  be  done  here. 

Art.  M'Baron  to  have  one  great  proportion  in  Orier  during 
his  life  only  ;  Conor  Roe  M'Guire  to  have  one  barony  called 
Mageny  Steffana  ;  Henry  M'Shane  O'Neale  one  proportion  in 
the  precinct  of  Orier  ;  and  Con  O'Neale's  brother  a  small  pro- 
portion in  the  precinct  of  Coole  and  Tircanada,  in  Fermanagh  ; 
Tirlagh  M'Art  O'Neale  two  middle  proportions  in  the  precinct 
of  Dungannon,  in  Tyrone ;  as  also  Neal  O'Neal,  Con  O'Neal, 
and  Brian  O'Neal,  his  brethren,  one  middle  proportion  to  be 
divided  amongst  them  in  the  same ;  the  widows  of  O'Boyle 
and  Manus  O'DonneU  to  be  removed  from  their  present  abode 
unto  the  precinct  appointed  for  the  natives  in  the  said  coun- 
ties, there  to  enjoy  their  portions  during  life,  without  rent ; 
as  also  Sir  Cormock  O'Neall's  wife  and  Sir  DonneU  O'Caen's 
wife,  in  what  county  the  Lord  Deputy  shall  please.  Brian 
M'Guire  to  have  a  great  proportion  in  the  precinct  of  Coole 
and  Tircanada,  in  Fermanagh,  and  half  a  small  portion  for  his 
brother  Tirlagh  ;  M'Swine  Banagh,  O'Boyle,  M'Swine  Faynet, 
M'Swine  O'Doe  in  the  precincts  of  Faynet  or  Do ;  Brian  Cros- 
sach  where  the  Lord  Deputy  shall  appoint ;  the  children  of 
Captain  Dioniss  [Denis]  O'MuUen  and  Shane  O'Mullen,  bis 
brother,  to  be  provided  for  as  one  person,  and  to  be  one  of  the 
four  admitted  by  the  Londoners  in  the  county  of  Coleraine  ; 
Manus  O'Cavan,  Manus  M'O'Nally,  and  Coy  Ballagh  M'Richard 
to  be  the  other  three. 

Pp.  3.     Gofy. 

April  9.     704.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
S.!*.,  Ireland,  Assures   himself  notice    has   been   taken   of    Sir  Edward 

'     ■  Brabazon's  long  service  as   a  privy  councillor.       This    is    to 

acquaint  him  (Salisbury)  that  he  is  experienced  in  setting 
land,  and  of  good  experience  and  judgment  in  laying  out  sites 
for  houses  and  villages  to  be  built  and  erected,  and  in  the 
manner  and  form  of  building  ;  that  he  would  fain  have  stayed 
here  until  the  work  of  the  plantation  was  finished,  but  he 
tells  him  that  his  private  occasions  need  his  presence,  and  that 
he  will  return  if  he  (Salisbury)  can  dispatch  them  quickly ; 
therefore  prays  him  to  further  him  if  he.  have  cause  to  seek  his 
good  favour  towards  the  same. — Dublin  Castle,  9  April  1610. 
P.  1.     Hoi.     Sealed.    Add.     Endd. 

April  9.      705.        Robert  Wingfield  to  Salisbury. 

^'f  29r'8o'^'  Prays  his  Lordship  to  make  him  an  undertaker  of  some 

^°  ■   "  '     ■  of  the  lands  in  Ireland,  with  such  of  his  friends  and  followers 


430  lEELAND—JAMES  I. 

1610. 

as  will  be  content  to  take  their  fortunes  with  him. — 9  April 
1610. 
P.  1.     EnM.    Hoi 

April  17.    706.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Phiiad.  F,^  jjiq  pg^^g  ^^  g^j.  Prancis  Barkley,  in  fee-farm,  the  castle  of 

Asketton,  in  the  county  of  Limerick,  and  40  acres  of  land  con- 
tiguous which  he  holds  by  lease  for  an  unexpired  term  of 
35  years  at  the  rent  of  40s.,  made  by  the  late  Queen,  he  the 
said  Sir  Francis  Barkley  having  offered  to  fortify  the  said 
castle  to  serve  as  a  refuge  to  the  English  inhabiting  those 
parts. 

He  grants  him  all  wreck  within, the  premises,  courts  leet, 
&e.,  and  in  any  other  of  the  said  Sir  Francis's  lands,  a  seignory 
of  Rock  Barkely,  in  the  county  of  Limerick,  and  within  the 
town  of  Asketton,  with  yearly  fair  and  weekly  markets. — 
Westminster,  17  April,  in  the  eighth  year  of  the  King's  reign. 

Pp.  1\.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur 
Chichester :  "  Of  the  17^"^  of  ApriU  1 610.  From  the  Kinge's 
Matie^  to  passe  unto  Sir  Francis  Barkeley  the  fee-farm  of 
Asketton,  &c.     Re.  the  23^  of  Maye."     Enrol. 

April  19.    707.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester, 
Phiiad.  p.,  WaiTant  to  grant  to  Captain  Denys  Dale  [Daly],  by  patent 

^° '  '  ^'      '  under  the  gi-eat  seal,  to  hold  to  him  for  his  life,  a  pension  of 

SOL  per  annum  out  of  the  moneys  bestowed  upon  Irish  servitors, 
now  held  by  him  during  pleasure,  as  also,  for  like  term  of  his 
life,  a  ward  of  six  men  at  8d.  per  day  per  man  and  2s.  8d.  per 
day  for  himself  as  constable  of  a  fort  by  him  built  upon  the 
conjSnes  of  the  counties  of  Wicklow,  Wexford,  and  Carlow, 
commodious  to  impeach  the  evil-affected  subjects  of  those 
parts.  And  this  in  consideration  of  bis  good  services  done 
as  well  to  the  late  Queen  as  unto  him  (the  King),  and  of  his 
having  shown  himself  conformable  in  religion  (a  rare  thing  in 
a  man  of  his  birth  and  breeding) ;  which  his  conformity  is  right 
acceptable  to  His  Majesty. 

Pp.  IJ.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur 
Chichester :  "  Of  the  19']^  of  Aprill  1610.  From  the  Kinge's 
Matie,  in  the  behalfe  of  Capt"  Denys  Dayle,  for  the  confir- 
mation of  his  pension,  ward,  &c.      Re.  the  13*^  of  Maye." 

Enrol. 

April  23.    708.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Phiiad.  p.,  jjg  ^g  ^Q  accept  a  surrender  from  Captain  Robert  CuUum  of 

^°  ■  '^-      •  a  pension  of  4s.  a  day  Irish,  and  thereupon  to  grant  one  of 

like  amount  in  English  money,  equal  to  5s.  isd.  harps,  to  his 
son  William  Cullum  for  life,  in  consideration  of  the  informa- 
tion the  King  has  received  of  the  extraordinary  services  done 
by  the  said  William  Cullum  in  Ireland  in  the  time  of  the  late 
Queen,  but  more  particularly  in  a  cruel  fight  against  the  rebels 


lEELAND— JAMES   I.  431 


1610. 

in  Munster,  -wherein  he  received  twelve  grievous  wounds  in 
his  body,  one  being  in  the  head,  besides  the  loss  of  his  right 
hand.— Westminster,  23  April,  in  the  eighth  year  of  the  King's 
reign. 

P.  I.  Signed  at  head.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester: 
"  Of  the  23<i  of  Aprill  1610.  From  the  Kinge's  Mati«,  to  passe 
a  pension  of  Kobt.  Culme's  of  4/  a  day  to  his  sonne  William 
Culme  during  his  life,  upon  the  father's  surrender.  Ee.  the 
28tli  of  Maye."     Unrol. 

April  23..   709.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichestee. 

Philad.  p..  Warrant  to  make  a  grant  to  John  Carpenter  of  the  ofBcc 

^°  ■   '  ^'      ■  or   offices   of  Clerk  of  the   Crown,  Assize,   and   Nisi   Prius, 

and  of  Gustos  Rotolorum  and  Clerk  of  the  Peace  within  the 
several  counties  of  the  province  of  Munster,  as  soon  as  the 
same  shall  become  void  by  the  death  or  other  avoidance  of 
Lawrence  Parsons,  gentleman. — Westminster,  23  April,  in  the 
eighth  year  of  the  King's  reign. 

Pp.  2.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur 
Chichester:  "Of  the  23<i  of  April  1610.  From  the  Kioge's 
Matii^,  to  passe  unto  John  Carpenter  the  reversion  of  the 
Clarke  of  the  Crowne  in  Mounster.     Re.  in  August."     Enrol. 

April  23.      710.        Commission  to  survey  Lands  in  Ireland. 

^^  'sa^s'Tf '  Commission  from  the  King  to  Thomas  Lord  EUesmere,  Lord 

'     ■  Chancellor  of  England,  Robert  Earl  of  Salisbury,  Lord  High 

Treasurer,  Henry.  Earl  of  Northampton,  Lord  Keeper  of  the 
Privy  Seal,  Lodowick  Duke  of  Lennox,  Charles  Earl  of  Not- 
tingham, Lord  Admiral  of  England,  Thomas  Earl  of  Suffolk, 
Lord  Chamberlain  of  the  Household,  Gilbert  Earl  of  Shrews- 
bury, John  Earl  of  Marr,  George  Earl  of  Dunbarr,  Treasurer 
of  Scotland,  and  Edward  Lord  Bruce,  Master  of  the  Rolls,  to 
survey  lands,  &c.  lying  in  the  counties  of  Armagh,  Tyrone, 
Colerane,  Donegall,  the  county  of  the  city  of  Derry,  Ferma- 
nagh, and  Cavan,  &c. 

"  Mr.  Attorney,  let  this  commission  be  ingrossed  ready  for 
His  Majesty's  signature.    23°  Aprilis  1 61 0." 

Signed :  R.  Salisbuiy.'^ 
Pp.  15.     Endd. 

April  24.      711.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

^of'f '  ^5  -^^^y  ^^"^   *^*^  Henry  and   Con   O'Neale,  sons  of  Shane 

'       '  O'Neale,  who  underwent  much   trouble    (as   he   knows),   as 

well  by  imprisonment  as  otherwise,  in  the  time  of  Tyrone's 

rebellion,  may  have  each  an  allotment  of  the  escheated  lands 

designed  for  natives  in  Ulster;  Henry  MacShane  O'Neale  to 

'  Note  in  Calendar  by  Mr.  Lemon  :  "  I  have  not  been  able  to  find  whether  this 
actually  passed  the  Great  Seal  or  not.    It  is  not  inroUed  at  the  Rolls  Chapel." 


432 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1610. 


AprH  25. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  228,  84  a. 


April  25. 

Warrant  Book, 

p.  140. 


have  one  great  proportion,  or  after  that  rate,  in  the  county  of 
Armagh,  and  Con  O'Neale  his  brother,  one  small  proportion 
in  the  precinct  of  Coole  and  Tircanada  in  the  county  of 
Fermanagh,  both  which  precincts  in  the  distribution  of  es- 
cheated lands  are  allotted  to  natives  and  servitors. — White- 
hall, 24  April  1610. 

Signed :  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northamp- 
ton, Nottingham,  T.  Suffolke,  E.  Zouche,  W.  Knollys,  E.  Wot- 
ton,  J.  Herbert,  Julius  Caesar. 

P.  i.  Signed.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  : 
"  Of  the  24tt  of  AprUe  1610.  From  the  LI.  of  the  Councell  in 
the  behalfe  of  Henrie  and  Con  M'Shane  O'Neale,  &c.  for 
matter  of  land  in  the  plantation.     Ee.  the  2#1»  of  Maye." 

712.  Ieon  Woeks. 

Warrant  from  the  King  to  the  Exchequer,  to  pay  3,000?. 
for  purchase  of  woods  and  grounds,  for  erecting  certain  iron- 
works in  Ireland. 

Copia  vera,  Jo.  Bourcke. 

P.  1.     Copy.    Endd. 

713.  Copy  of  the  above. 


April  25.     714.         The  King  to  Sie  Aethur  Chichester, 
^^'^p'e  o^''""^'  Directs  him  to  give  fiant  for  a  warrant  granting  the  office 

of  Scoutmaster-General  in  Ireland,  to  Sir  Thomas  Button. 
P.  1.     Add.     Endd.  by  Chichester :  "Rec.  the  23'^-i  May." 


April  25. 

Docquet  Book, 
April  25. 

April  25. 

Philad.  P., 

vol.  1,  p.  391. 


715.     Docquet  of  the  above. 


716.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Warrant  to  accept  a  surrender  from  Thomas  Fitz-Morrish 
Gerald,  Baron  of  Lixnaw,  of  all  such  lands  as  he  or  his  father 
Patrick  late  Baron  Lixnaw,  were  any  ways  possessed  of  or  so 
much  thereof  as  he  shall  desire  to  surrender,  and  to  re-grant 
the  same.  To  hold  the  castle  and  manor  of  Lixnaw,  of  the 
King  in  capite,  by  knight  service,  but  all  the  rest  of  the  lands 
in  free  and  common  soccage  of  the  castle  of  Limerick. 

And  whereas  by  the  King's  letter  under  his  signet,  dated  at 
Wilton  on  20th  of  October  1603,  a  similar  warrant  was  here- 
tofore given  for  the  acceptance  of  a  surrender  from  the  said 
Baron  of  Lixnaw  of  all  his  said  lands,  and  a  re-grant  to  him 
and  his  heirs,  yet  he  now  shows  that  the  letter  took  not  effect, 
by  reason  that  the  most  of  his  lands  were  formerly  granted  by 
patent  to  one  Patrick  Crosby,  under  the  representation  that 
they  were  forfeited  to  the  crown  by  the  death,  in  rebellion,  of 
the  said  Patrick  Baron  of  Lixnaw.      But  because  the  said 


IRELAND— JAMES  T.  433 


1610. 

Patrick  Lord  Lixnaw  "was  not  slain  in  rebellion  or  otherwise 
attainted,  but  died  a  natural  death,  and  his  possessions  are 
not  forfeited  to  the  crown,  as  by  said  Crosby  imagined,  the  said 
Patrick  Crosby  is  to  be  called  before  the  Council,  and  advised  to 
surrender  the  said  patent,  unless  he  can  show  good  cause  to 
the  contrary.  The  lands  are  also  to  be  re-granted  free  and 
discharged  of  a  rent  of  160?.  and  120  cows  imposed  upon  the 
said  lands  by  the  Earl  of  Desmond  about  27  years  since,  when 
the  said  Earl  was  in  his  strength,  inasmuch  as  the  said  lands 
are  now  charged  with  composition  and  the  said  rent  is  extinct 
by  law,  by  unity  of  possession  of  the  lands  and  rent,  the 
same  having  since  come  to  the  crown. 

The  said  Thomas  Baron  of  Lixnaw,  therefore,  and  the  free- 
holders of  Clanmorish,  whose  lands  were  liable  to  the  said  rent, 
are  to  be  henceforth  exonerated  from  that  imposition,  and  the 
freeholders  are  to  be  ordered  to  yield  some  reasonable  contri- 
bution to  the  said  Baron  of  Lixnaw,  towards  his  charges  in 
attending  and  following  his  suit  from  the  beginning. — Under 
the  King's  signet.  Westminster,  25th  of  April,  in  the  eighth 
year  of  his  reign. 

Pf.  3.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Enrol.  Endd.  hy  Sir 
Arthur  Chichester :  "  Of  the  25th  of  Aprill  1610.  From  the 
Kinge's  Ma^'e  to  accept  of  the  surrender  of  the  L.  of  Lyx- 
nowe  ;  the  abolishinge  of  a  chief  rent  founde  by  office  for  the 
late  Earle  of  Desmonde,  &c.     Re.  the  26th  of  June." 

April  25.      717.         The  King  to  Sir  Aethits  Chichester. 

vol  'i^p  389  Warrant  to  make  a  grant  in  reversion  after  the  death  of 

Sir  Francis  Berkeley,  who  now  holds  the  same,  of  the  office 
of  Constable  of  the  Castle  of  Limerick,  to  Morrice  Berkeley, 
Esq.  his  son,  for  life,  George  Blundel,  Esq.  who  had  a  grant  in 
reversion,  having  surrendered  the  same  before  one  of  the 
King's  Masters  in  Chancery. —  Westminster,  25th  April  in 
the  eighth  year  of  the  King's  reign. 

Fp.  1^.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Enrol.  Endd.  by  Sir 
Arthur  Chichester :  "  Of  the  25th  of  Aprill  1610.  From  the 
Kinge's  Ma^i^  to  passe  the  reversion  of  the  office  of  Constable 
of  Castle  of  Lymbricke  to  Morrice  Berkeley,  &c.  Re.  the  23rd 
of  Maye." 


April  25.      718.         The  King  to  the  Lord  Chancellor  and  others. 
^°A^iai°°^'  Commission  to  the  Lord  Chancellor,  Lord  Treasurer,  and 

others,  for  granting  and  passing  unto  such  of  His  Majesty's 
subjects  of  England  and  Scotland  as  shall  be  willing  to  under- 
take the  same,  all  such  castles,  manors,  and  lands  in  Ireland 
as  are  now  in  his  hands. 

April  25.      719.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 

Tof  228^^85'  Thinks  it  his  duty  to  impart   the  troubled   state  of  the 

'     '  county  Longford  and  his  opinion  towards  the  settlement  there- 

3.  E  E 


434  IRELAND —JAMES   I. 

1610. 

of.  Has  likewise  declared  Captain  Richard  Tyrrell's  discrepancy 
and  undutiful  departure  without  license. 

Has  imparted  in  his  letters  to  the  Treasurer  what  he  thought 
worthy  towards  the  settlement  of  the  plantation  of  Ulster, 
and  has  requested  him  to  make  known  those  opinions  to  him 
at  some  convenient  time. 

Perceives  hy  letters  from  the  Treasurer  that  the  barony 
of  Clogher  is  fallen  to  him  (Salisbury)  by  lot,  and  although 
he  would  have  wished  that  some  other  precinct  of  those  as- 
signed to  the  English  had  happened  to  him,  yet  he  assures 
him  it  is  very  good  soil,  and  many  commodious  seats  are  to 
be  found  there  and  as  profitable  as  any  inland  country  within 
this  kingdom ;  and  it  is  most  assured  it  was  God's  wiU  to 
place  so  noble  and  powerful  an  undertaker  in  that  corner, 
bordering  upon  the  unreformed  neighbours  of  Monaghan  and 
Fermanagh,  besides  which  there  are  some  headstrong  natives 
whose  removal  will  require  force  as  well  as  persuasion.  He 
(Salisbmy)  knows  that  in  this  labour  they  will  need  the  as- 
sistance and  labour  of  honest  and  discreet  men.  Prays  him 
to  give  dispatch  to  such  as  are  now  there,  of  whom  they  are 
likely  to  make  use,  and  among  others  of  Sir  Francis  Rush  ; 
he  is  a  worthy  gentleman,  and  has  lands  lying  between  the 
counties  of  Cavan,  Monaghan,  and  Fermanagh,  named  Clownie 
(Clones),  which  he  (Chichester)  thinks  a  convenient  place  to 
lodge  some  men  in,  if  they  are  forced  to  leave  more  to  winter 
in  Ulster,  and  he  is  a  fit  man  to  have  care  of  the  business  of 
that  part. — Dublin  Castle,  25  April  1610. 

Pp.  3.     Hoi.    Sealed.    Add.     Endd. 

[April.]      720.        The  Petition  of  Donel  O'Cahan,  prisoner  in  the  Tower 
S.P.,  Ireland,  of  London,  to  the  Peivy  Council. 

'       '  Complains  of  his  treatment  in  Ireland ;  has  been  five  months 

in  prison.     (A  verbatim  copy  of  his  petition  in  March.) 
P.  1.    Add.    Endd. 

April.        721.        A  Memorial  concerning  Ieeland. 
^•^■'^^^I'Te^'  -^  method  for  despatch  of  the  plantations. 

A  form  of  a  book.  Moderation  of  fees,  and  a  warrant  dor- 
mant for  passing  patents  without  troubling  His  Majesty  for 
every  book. 

The  form  of  the  bonds  and  the  condition. 

Dublin. — Poundage  for  all  strangers,  and  of  all  inhabitants 
not  freed  by  marriage,  birth. 

Great  customs.     Petty  customs. 

Waterford. —  Poundage  as  Dublin.  The  petty  customs  to 
the  King,  the  great  customs  to  the  subsidy. 

Tredagh. — Poundage  as  Dublin,  great  and  petty  customs  to 
the  King  ;  these  are  in  fee-farm. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  435 


1610. 

Cork. — Yoghall,    Lymmerick,    Kinsall,    Wexford,   Knock- 
fergus,  Ross.     All  pay  poundage,  freemen  and  others. 
Galway. — Pay  no  poundage.     Great  customs. 

P.  1.     Endd.     In  Carew's  hand. 

S.P.,  Ireland,      722.  MEMORIAL  for   IRELAND. 

'     "  '  The  judges  not  to  spend  so  much  time  in  hearing  matters 

between  party  and  party  at  the  King's  charge.  Officers  of 
the  Casualties  and  of  the  Imposts  to  leave,  if  they  have  not 
patents. 

The  reasons  of  the  decay  of  the  compositions  of  Connaught 
to  be  certified,  and  a  better  course  to  be  taken  than  to  suifer 
so  great  a  decrease  under  colour  of  waste.  To  know  the 
reason  why  the  rent  of  the  abbey  of  Galbally  in  Munster, 
being  lOOl.  per  annum,  has  been  unpaid  for  two  years,  con- 
sidering that  it  was  turned  over  to  the  King  in  lieu  of  Cather- 
lough  by  the  Earl  of  Thomond,  and  that  Sir  Richard  Boyle 
stands  bound  for  payment  of  the  rent. 

To  speak  witli  Mr.  Attorney- General  of  Ireland  about 
Mr.  Blaney  and  Sir  Edw.  Fitzgarret. 

Also  concerning  the  miU  near  the  Castle  of  Dublin  which 
Sir  Richard  Boyle  is  to  pass. 

Also  concerning  the  commission  for  the  defective  titles, 
Earl  of  Ormond  and  Walter  Lawrence.  Earl  of  Thomond  and 
Sir  Richard  Boyle. 

P.  1.    Endd. 

S.P.,  Ireland,    723.  ATTORNEY  of  IRELAND'S  notes  for  the  EARL  OF    ClAN- 

^°'-''«'«^-  RiCARD's  letter." 

Advises  that  the  re-grant  iipon  his  Lordship's  surrender  be 
made  without  delay,  because  of  the  danger  of  certain  parts 
of  his  land  being  passed  to  others  in  books  without  the 
knowledge  of  the  King's  officers,  and  that  every  parcel  of  land 
found  by  the  inquisition  to  be  his  inheritance  be  expressed  in 
the  grant  by  special  name,  with  a  saving  of  all  [  ]  rights 

and  of  His  Majesty's  composition  rent,  and  that  all  the  points 
of  His  Majesty's  said  letter  touching  the  accepting  of  his 
surrender  dated  8  April  1608  be  observed. 

P.  1.     Endd.:  "Apr.  1610." 

April.       724.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
S.P.,  Ireland,  Richard,  Earl  of  Clanricard,  President  of  the  province  of 

Connaught,  and  one  of  our  Privy  Council  in  Ireland  having 
made  surrender  of  all  his  castles,  lordships,  &c.,  in  that  realm 
a  re-grant  by  letters  patent,  bearing  date  the  8  th  day  of 
April  1608,  was   to   be  made  of  the  same  which  is  hereby 

'  A  draft  of  a  letter  for  the  Deputy  and  Council,  in  Sir  John  Davy's  hand- 
writing. 

E  E   2 


vol.  228,  82. 


436  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

ordered  to  be  expedited,  save  only  that  the  courts  which  are 
to  be  granted  unto  tlie  said  Earl  and  his  heirs,  shall  have  ju- 
lisdiction  to  hold  plea  before  his  seneschal  in  personal  actions 
amounting  to  101.  only,  current  money  of  England,  arising  or 
happening  within  aU  and  every  of  the  castles,  lordships,  &c., 
wherein  the  said  Earl  hath  any  seignory,  rent,  composition, 
or  interest  within  our  county  of  Galway.  And  that  in  all 
the  rest  of  his  lands,  hereditaments  wheresoever,  the  said 
Earl  and  his  heirs  shall  have  power  to  hold  plea  in  personal 
actions  before  his  seneschals  to  the  value  of  five  pounds. 

Pp.2.  ^7ic?c? ;"  Clanricarde,  April  1610.  Copy  of  a  letter 
to  the  Lord  Deputy  of  Ireland  for  the  Earl  of  Clanrikard." 

April  17.    725.        From  the  Lords  of  the  Peivy  Council  to  the  Loeb 

S.P.  Ireland,  DEPUTY 

vol.    228,    81.  A  •         1  •  1  ,.  T  T.-      T  T     I-.-  T 

A  suit  having  been  preferred  to  them  by  Richard  Bmgley 
to  be  Muster  Master  of  the  province  of  Leinster,  they  refer 
it  to  him  for  his  consideration  and  report. — 17  April  1600. 

P.  1.     Copy.    Endd. 

April  17.    726.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Lords  of  the  Privy 

SP-.Ireland,  COUNCIL. 

Captain  Tyrrell  (as  he  hears)  came  into  this  city  some  days 
since  and  passed  through  this  gate  to  take  shipping  for  Eng- 
land without  having  taken  leave  of  him  or  informed  him  of 
his  intentions.  He  and  Chichester  were  on  good  terms  with 
each  other,  and  Tyrrell  had  free  access  to  him.  He  holds 
a  pension  of  200Z.  sterling  from  the  King,  though  not  pay- 
able here  but  out  of  the  Exchequer  of  England.  This  alone 
ought  to  have  caused  him  to  wait  on  him,  or  at  least  to  have 
sent  to  him  before  his  going.  The  man  is  so  notoriously 
known  to  them  that  it  were  tedious  to  detain  them  with 
repetition  of  his  former  demeanour,  but  he  must  not  omit 
to  give  them  the  reason  of  his  going  away  so  secretly,  as  he 
is  credibly  informed.  In  the  rebellion  time,  though  he  was 
then  stirring  in  all  the  four  provinces  of  this  realm,  he  made 
thoice  for  his  chief  retreat  and  residence  the  borders  of  the 
Queen's  county  and  Westmeath,  whither  he  drew  many  loose 
kern  out  of  the  Breny,  otherwise  county  Cavan,  who  became 
his  bonaghes  or  mercenary  soldiers,  by  whose  association  he 
purchased  the  fame  he  had,  and  some  good  opinion  and  love 
amongst  those  of  that  county.  At  the  end  of  the  rebellion 
he  withdrew  and  seated  himself  among  them,  in  the  greatest 
fastness  of  that  count3r  towards  Fermanagh  and  O'Rourk's 
Country,  where  he  has  ever  since  continued  a  very  popular 
man  with  most  of  the  inhabitants  of  those  parts  round 
about  him.  Now  they  give  out  that  he  has  undertaken  in 
behalf  of  the  county  of  Cavan,  either  to  overthrow  the 
offices  there  taken  for  the  King's  title  to  those  lands,  or 
else  to  procure  them  to  be  given  again  by  the  King  unto 
the  O'Reillies  and  those  other  septs,  on  condition  that  he  may 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  437 


1010. 

have  Eis  share  among  them,  whereof  they  had  secured  him 
if  he  prevail  in  the  cause.  He  is  married  to  the  sister  of 
Owny  M'Roorie  O'Moore,  reputed  chief  of  that  name,  late 
of  the  Queen's  county,  and  for  the  time  he  lived  in  these  last 
wars  one  that  was  as  weU  known  in  those  parts  as  any  other 
rebel  within  the  whole  realm.  She  is  a  woman  that  is  not 
otherwise  affected  than  her  husband  or  brother  were  wont 
to  be,  for  whether  it  belonged  to  her  or  him,  or  both  of 
them,  he  knows  not,  but  there  are  still  some  of  the  lewdest 
of  all  the  O'Moores  kept  with  them  in  the  Breny.  The 
bards  or  rhymers  of  the  country  make  idle  songs  in  his  praise, 
for  undertaking  such  great  matters  for  them  saying,  "  He  is 
worthy  to  have  been  born  the  son  of  a  king,  &c."  Wherefore 
considering  his  former  life  and  these  late  pranks  of  his,  he 
wishes  that  he  were  upon  some  fair  pretext  dislodged  out  of 
the  Breny,  and  either  confined  in  Munster,  or  else  required  to 
live  in  England  upon  his  pension. — Dublin  Castle,  17  April 
1610. 
Pp.  2.    Signed.    Sealed.    Add.    Endd. 

April.        727.        Petition    of  Neale    O'Donell,    Knight,  and  his  son 

S.P.,  Ireland,  NaCHTAIN   O'DONELL     to     the   LOEDS     OF     THE   PbIVY 

vol.  223, 90  A.  Council. 

Showeth,  that  by  their  Lordship's  favour  they  hav6  formerly 
enjoyed  the  liberty  to  walk  in  any  place  in  the  Tower, 
assigned  to  prisoners  there.  For  denying  to  take  their  diet 
at  the  Lieutenant's  table  they  are  now  close  prisoners,  and 
pray  to  have  their  former  liberty  of  walking  in  the  compass 
of  the  Tower,  and  having  their  friends  admitted  to  see  them, 
regr  anted. 

P.  1. 

April  21.     728.        Sir  Oliver  St.  John  to  Salisbury. 
^™i'  ^"ts'is  Considering  the  King's  disposition  for  the  plantation  of 

'     '  Ulster,  and  the  many  worthy  persons  engaged  in  that  business, 

thinks  it  right  to  inform  his  Lordship  what  he  hears  of  the 
proceedings  of  the  Londoners  in  their  plantation.  After 
the  arrival  of  Gaye,  who  came  over  first,  there  arrived  six  or 
seven  score  at  Derry,  with  some  overseers  ;  more  have  followed 
since.  Men,  for  the  most  part,  ill-chosen  for  workmen,  and  such 
as  were  engaged  at  low  rates  before  leaving  London,  upon 
presumption  of  extraordinary  plenty  of  all  things  in  that 
place.  Many  of  them  refuse  to  work,  and  the  rest  demand 
greater  wages.  Besides  the  overseers  are  without  money  to 
l^ay  them,  which  causes  their  works  to  stay,  and  the  reputation 
of  their  action  is  much  impaired  in  opinion,  especially  amoncr 
tlie  natives,  who  give  out  that  the  Londoners  are  not  men 
that  will  make  continual  habitation  among  them.  The  terri- 
tories the  King  has  bestowed  upon  them  are  so  larwe,  and 
his  gift  of  beneficial  privileges  so  bountiful,  that  it  ou^ht 
to   encourage  them  to  go  on  with   their   undertakings  Iby 


438  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

1(J10. 

furnishing  their  works  and  workmen  liberally,  and  in  time 
with  money,  tools,  materials,  and  chiefly  victuals.  For 
the  new  plantation  wiU  cause  a  general  scarcity  of  victuals 
and  other  necessaries  in  these  places,  far  beyond  that  which 
was  heretofore,  when  those  countries  were  rarely  inhabited 
and  had  not  such  great  use  for  them.  This  consideration 
ought  to  incite  that  rich  and  able  corporation  to  prosecute 
their  design  with  such  plenty  and  magnificence  that  they  may 
be  imitable  examples,  and  not  discouragements  to  those  who 
are  to  begin  after  them,  &c. — Dublin,  21  April  1610. 
Pp.  2.     Hoi.    Add.    Endd. 

April  22.     729.       The  King  to  Sir  Arthcjr  Chichester. 
^"tekind '^'  Warrant  for  the  composition  of  a  debt  of  thu-teen  hundred 

p.  R.  o!  three  score  and  nine  pounds,  due  to  Sir  George  Bourchier, 

Knt.,  late  Master  of  Ordnance,  with  his  son,  Capt.  John 
Bourchier,  on  the  following  terms  : — 

The  said  John  Bourchier  to  enter  on  receipt  of  the  pension 
of  5s.  by  the  day,  lately  held  by  Sir  Francis  Stafibrd,  with 
other  5s.  added  thereto,  to  make  a  sum  of  10s.  a  day  until 
such  time  as  a  company  shall  fall  void  in  Ireland,  which  if 
John  Bourchier  accept  the  said  pension  shall  cease  ;  otherwise 
it  shall  continue.  Further,  a  debt  due  to  the  King  by  the 
late  Sir  Geo.  Bourchier  and  his  son  John  (being  arrears  of 
rent  due  to  the  King  for  lands  held  by  them),  amounting  to 
424?.  or  thereabouts  to  be  remitted. — Dated,  Weston  22  April 
1610. 

Endd. :  "  Copy  of  letter  to  the  L.  Deputy  for  pension  for 
John  Bourchier." 

April  22.    730.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
'*'l?;S''''  Duplicate  of  Art.  729.— Westminster,  22  April  1610. 

P.  R.  O.  Pp.  If.     Endd. :  "  True  copy :  Ex.  GaU." 

April.        731.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

'*'''new'''  Grants'  to  Sir  Francis  Barkley   the  Castle    of   Asketten 

p.  E.  0.  [Askeaton]  in  co.  Limerick. 

P.  1.  Endd. :  "  April  1610.  Copy  of  a  letter  to  the  Lord 
Deputy  in  the  behalf  of  Sir  Francis  Barkely. 

April.        732.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

^'irefaX''  "^^'^^^^^^   °^  ^^half  Captain  Skipwith,  on  account   of  his 

p.  E.  o!  furtherance  of  the  works  at  Castlepark, 

P.  1.     Endd. 

April  30.    733.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Yollf■^^\  Recommend    the    bearer,  Tyrlogh  O'Neale,  eldest    son  of 

Sir  Arthur  O'Neale,  Knt.,  for  two  middle  proportions  in  the 
precinct  of  Dungannon  in  Tyi'one.  He  besought  them  (the 
Lords)  for  all  the  lands  in  Ulster,  called  Slew  Sheese,  which 
formerly  belonged  to  Neale  Conelaugh  O'Neale,  his  grand- 


IRELAND — JAMES  I.  439 


J  610. 

father,  and  were  intended  to  be  conveyed  in  Her  late  Majesty's 
grant  in  the  29th  of  her  reign  to  Tyrlogh  O'Neale  and  to 
Arthur  O'Neale,  petitioner's  father.  Of  these  lands  he  only 
has  a  custody  grant  from  him  (Sir  Arthur  Chichester)  of  the 
Castles  of  Strabane  and  Newton,  with  some  ballibetoes  of  land 
belonging  to  them.  But  this  the  plantation  would  not  admit 
of  He  now  prays  that  he  may  have,  in  addition  to  the  two 
proportions  they  have  recommended  for  him,  the  Castles  of 
Benburb  and  Knockicligh,  in  the  barony  of  Dungannon  ;  but 
this  they  leave  altogether  to  his  (Sir  Arthur's)  judgment,  as 
to  him  is  left  the  placing  of  the  natives. 

Considering  his  acceptable  services,  and  that  he  has  humbly 
submitted  to  His  Majesty's  pleasure  for  his  transplantation, 
they  hope  he  may  be  extraordinarily  respected  in  the-  great- 
ness of  his  proportion  and  in  the  choice  of  a  good  seat  for  his 
greater  comfort.  One  other  middle  proportion  in  the  barony 
of  Dungannon  should  be  divided  among  the  three  other  sons 
of  Sir  Aj-thur  O'Neale,  viz.,  Neale  O'Neale,  Con  O'Neale  and 
Bryan  O'Neale. 

And  finally  as  Donell  O'Neale,  McEowrie  Ny-Fynen,  Neale 
Moder  Magunchynan,  Shaen  O'Neale,  Hugh  O'Neale,  and 
Henry  O'Neale  are  to  be  removed  from  lands  which  they  hold 
under  Tyrlogh  O'Neale,  whose  proportion,  as  they  (the  Lords) 
are  informed,  is  not  large  enough  to  allow  of  their  being  placed 
there,  he  (Sir  Arthur)  is  requested  to  assign  them  lands  among 
the  other  natives,  as  they  have  done  good  service  both  in  the 
late  Queen's  time  and  against  O'Doherty. — Whitehall,  last  of 
April  1610. 

Signed :  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton,  Notingham,  T.  Suf- 
folke,  Gilb.  Shrewsbury,  E.  Worcester,  MaiT,  W.  Knollys, 
E.  Wotton,  Jul.  Csesar,  Tho.  Parry. 

P'p.  2^.  Add.  Endd.  hy  Sir  Arthur  Chichester:  "Of  the 
last  of  April  1610.  From  the  LLs.  of  the  Councell  in  the 
behalfe  of  Tyrlowe  M'Art,  O'Neale  for  lands  for  him  and  his 
brethren  within  the  precinct  of  Dungannon.  Re.  the  23d  of 
Maye." 

April  30.      734.        Lords    of    the  Coukcil  to  the    Lord  Deputy  and 
Phiiad.  p..  Council. 

'  '   '   "  The  Bishop  of  Waterford  and  Lismore  has  represented  to 

His  Majesty  "  the  minuted  estate  "  of  that  bishoprick,  that  all 
the  dweUing-houses  and  temporalities  and  all  other  the  reve- 
nues and  liberties  belonging  either  to  cathedral  churches  or 
the  prelates  and  members  of  the  same  are  either  granted  in 
fee  farm  or  for  long  leases.  Secondly,  that  many  of  the 
vicarages  (besides  all  the  parsonages)  are  either  made  appro- 
priations or  leased  out  for  many  years  to  come.  Thirdly, 
that  the  cathedral  church  of  Lismore  with  all  the  parish 
churches  and  dwelling-houses  for  the  clergy  are  ruined  and 
lie  waste,  except  some  few  in  cities  and  market  towns.  It  is 
the  King's  command,  therefore,  that  he  (Sir  Arthur)  should 


440  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

1610. 

after  due  examination,  prepare  a  bill  of  resumption  against 
the  next  Parliament  for  resuming  such  of  the  fee  farms  and 
leases  as  he  shall  think  fit,  and  he  is  to  consider  how  far  back 
the  said  Act  shall  reach.  In  the  meantime,  the  Bishop  is  to  be 
allowed  to  have  searches  and  copies  made,  and  the  assistance  of 
the  King's  learned  counsel  in  his  suits,  without  payment  of  any 
fees  to  counsellors  or  ofiicers.  Consideration  must  be  also  had 
touching  the  rebuilding  of  the  cathedral  of  Lismore,  and  the 
ability  of  people  of  that  diocese  to  bear  an  assessment  for  that 
purpose. 

And  for  providing  some  fit  maintenance  for  the  ministry, 
he  is  to  issue  a  commission  to  inquire  what  impropriations 
are  in  His  Majesty's  hands  in  the  dioceses  of  Waterford  and 
Lismore,  what  vicarages  are  endowed,  and  what  allowance 
there  is  for  the  maintenance  of  the  service  of  such  cure,  and 
what  estates  are  in  being  of  the  said  impropriations  and  for 
what  rents.  And  the  Bishop  is  to  have  the  full  benefit  of 
His  Majesty's  letters  and  commission  heretofore  granted  him 
without  further  delay,  they  (the  Lords)  marvelling  that  His 
Majesty's  letters  should  be  so  little  respected. — Whitehall,  last 
of  April  1610. 

Signed :  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  E.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton, 
Notingham,  T.  Suff'olke,  Gilb.  Shrewsbury,  E.  Worcester,  E. 
Wotton. 

Pp.  1^.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester:  "Of  the 
last  of  Aprill  1610.  From  the  LLs.  of  the  Councell  in  behalfe 
of  the  Bishop  of  Waterford.  Ke.  the  8th  of  October  by  his 
Sonne." 

April  SO.     735.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Lord  Deputy  and  Council. 
Philad.  P.,  Recommend  the  bearers,  John  Reylly,  and  Connor  M'Cahir 

'         ■  O'Reylley,  chiefs,  as  they  are  informed,  of  the  third  part  of  the 

barony  of  Clonmahon,  and  seized  in  fee  of  20  poles  of  land 
in  the  county  of  Cavan,  that  they  may  have  such  quantity  of 
land  as  they  (the  Deputy  and  Council)  shall  think  expedient 
to  be  passed  to  them  by  letters  patent,  as  other  natives  ;  as 
they  are  now  to  be  removed  into  some  other  part  for  the  con- 
venience of  the  plantation.  Bequest  that  they  may  be 
presently  settled  in  such  other  part  as  shall  be  appointed  for 
them,  without  any  such  delay  as  may  be  prejudicial  to  the  poor 
men. — Whitehall,  the  last  of  April  1610. 

Signed :  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northamp- 
ton, Notingham,  T.  Suffblke,  Gilb.  Shrewsbury,  E.  Worcester, 
E.  Wotton. 

P.  1  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester:  "Of  the 
last  of  Aprill  1610.  From  the  LLs.  of  the  Councell  in  the 
behalfe  of  John  Reyley  and  Connor  M'Cayre  O'Realey  for  land 
in  the  baronye  of  Clonmahon  in  the  countie  of  Cavan.  Re. 
the28thof  July  1610." 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  441 


1610. 

April  30.     736.        LoRDS^  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

vca''4'^p'''i3  Though  they  cannot  yield  to  the  demand  of  the  bearer, 

Bryan  Maguire,  for  four  baronies  in  the  county  of  Fermanagh, 
which  he  claims  as  parcel  of  the  possessions  of  his  father  and 
ancestors,  granted  to  him  by  way  of  custody  by  his  Lordship 
(Sir  Arthur)  in  consideration  of  his  services  in  the  late  war, 
yet  they  suggest  that  he  be  assigned  one  great  proportion  in 
the  precinct  of  Coole  and  Tircannada,  and  if  that  be  thought 
too  little  to  give  him  maintenance  according  to  his  quality, 
it  may  be  enlarged. 

Concerniag  his  brother,  Tirlogh  M'Guire,  he  is  to  have  the 
half  of  one  small  proportion  in  the  same  precinct  of  Coole 
and  Tircannada. — Whitehall,  the  last  of  April  1610. 

Signed  :  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton,  Notingham,  T.  Suf- 
folke,  Gilb.  Shrewsbury,  E.  Worcester,  Mar,  W.  Knollys, 
E.  Wotton,  Jul.  Cfesar,  Tho.  Parry. 

P.  \.  Add.  Endd.:  "Last  of  ApriU  1610.  From  the 
LLs.  of  His  Matie  Privy  Council  of  England  on  the  behalfe  of 
Bryan  Maguyre  &  his  brother,  for  one  great  proportion  of 
lande  and  halfe  a  small  proportion  in  the  precinct  of  Coole 
and  Tyrcannada.     Received  the  23rd  of  the  same." 

April  30.     737.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Phiiad.  p.,  gjj.  liaiph  Bingley  represents  that  he  sold  the  abbey  of 

'^'   "  Kilmacrenan  to  the  late  Earl  of  Tyrconnell,  and  lost  bOOl. 

part  of  the  purchase  money  by  the  said  Earl's  failure  to  pay 
the  same  ;  and  the  lands  having  again  come  to  the  King's 
hands,  he  seeks  to  have  the  abbey  granted  to  him  in  perpetuity 
at  the  rate  of  other  servitors.  But  the  abbey  being  already 
granted  to  Trinity  College,  they  cannot  accede  to  his  request 
without  great  alteration  of  the  allotments  ;  nevertheless,  in 
regard  of  his  losses,  they  recommend  him  for  an  extraordinary 
proportion  of  land,  as  a  servitor,  in  some  other  place  as  may 
best  suit  the  convenience  of  the  plantation  and  the  occasions 
of  Sir  Ralph  Bingley.— Whitehall,  the  last  of  April  1610. 

Signed :  T.  EJlesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northamp- 
ton, Notingham,  T.  Suffolke,  E.  Zouche,  W.  Knollys,  E.  Wot- 
ton,  J.  Herbert,  Jul.  Ctesar. 

P.  ^.  Add.  Eoidd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  :  "  Of  the  last 
of  ApriU.  From  the  LLs.  of  the  Councell  in  the  behalfe  of  Sir 
Ralfe  Bingley  concerning  his  demand  of  the  abbie  of  Kyllme- 
crenan,  and  of  lands  to  be  disposed  of  upon  the  plantation. 
Re.  the  24th  of  Maye." 

April  80.    738.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
^i"'!*^'  ''iV  Recommend  to  his  favourable  consideration  in  the  settle- 

^°  ■   '  ^'     ■  ment  of  the  natives,  the  bearer,  Owen  Carnan,  who  sued  for 

800  acres  of  land  lying  in  the  county  of  Cavan,  which  have 
belonged  (as  he  informs  them)  to  his  father,  uncle,  and  others 
his  predecessors,  time  out  of  mind,  without  any  attainder 
for  matter  of  disloyalty. — Whitehall,  the  last  of  April  1610. 


442 


lEELAND — JAMES  I. 


1610. 


Signed :  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  K.  Salisbury,  T.  SufFolke, 
Gilb.  Shrewsbury,  E.  Worcester,  E.  Zoucbe,  E.  Wotton, 
H.  Bruce. 


P.h 


Add.    Endd. 


A  May. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  229,  88. 


739.       Bernaedinus  Miaghe  to  Rev.  Egbert  Miaghe  (his  uncle). 

Eeceived  on  the  11th  of  April  1610,  his  letter  of  26  Jan- 
uary 1609.  Apologises  for  his  delay  in  writing.  Speaks  in 
high  terms  of  the  piety  and  learning  of  his  college  associates. 
Entered  upon  his  philosophical  studies  a  few  months  since,  and 
could  not  pursue  them  anywhere  with  greater  advantage. 
Cannot  complain  of  the  health  which  he  enjoys.  In  reply  to  a 
complaint  as  to  the  infrequency  of  his  letters,  feels  himself  on 
the  contrary  entitled  to  complain  of  his  correspondent,  since, 
while  he  has  written  four  or  six  letters,  he  has  received  but 
one  in  reply. — Louvain,  12  May  1610. 

Pp.  li  Hot.  Latin.  Add.:  "'Bao^"  Dmo.  D.  Roberto 
Myaghe,  Dioecesis  Corcagiensis  vicario  generali  apostolico,  op- 
time  merito,  Corcagia."  Endd  :  "  Intercepted  letter  of  Barnard 
Miache,  written  to  Robert  Myagh,  from  Lovaine." 


^  May.     740, 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  229,  89. 


Donagh  Mooney  to  Father  MAURICE  Ultan. 

Refers  to  the  Father  Provincial,  concerning  certain  arrange- 
ments proposed  in  the  order  (Franciscan),  of  no  historical 
interest. — Antwerp,  13  May  1610. 

Pp.  2.  Signed.  In  the  Irish  character.  Add. :  "  Reve- 
rendo  ad  modu  patri,  patri  nostro  Mauritio  Ultano  ordini 
minorii  de  observantia  provineise  Hibernise,  ministro  pro- 
vincial! optime  merito."  Endd. :  "  Intercepted  letter  written 
in  Irish,  but  of  no  great  importance." 


^May. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  229,  90. 


741.        Donagh  Mooney  to  the  Superior  of  the  Convent  of 
St.  Francis. 
On  the  same  subject  as  No.  740. — Antwerp,  -^  May  1610. 
P.  1.     Signed.     Also  in  Irish.     Add.:  "  Reverendo  patri 
guardiano  convent^s  Sancti  Francisci  Montis  Fernandi  [Mul- 
tifarnam]." 


May  6. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  229,  90  A. 


742.        Fees  of  Captains  and  Soldiers. 

Memorandum  respecting  the  fees  of  captains  and  soldiers, 
casting  and  disposing  of  some,  and  especially  the  making  up 
of  Captain  Bourchier's  pension  of  10s. 
P.  1. 


May  6. 

Docquet  Book. 
May  6. 


743.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

An  annuity  of  100^.  by  the  year  for  Andrew  Knox,  Bishop 
of  the  Isles  of  Scotland  and  now  elected  Bishop  of  Raflb 
[Raphoe]  in  Ireland. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  443 


1610. 
May  6.      744.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

^"Xy  1°°^'  Warrant  to  accept  of  surrender   of  George   Bagnall   and 

Garret  FitzGerald  of  the  castles,  &c.  of  Ballimone  and  Kil- 
mage,  and  to  re-grant  the  same  to  them  and  their  heirs  for 
ever. 


May  6.       745.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

PMad.  p.,  ijiq  accept  surrender  from  and  to  re-grant  in  fee  to  George 

Bagnal  of  Ballymone  in  the  Barony  of  Idrone,  in  the  county  of 
Carlow,  in  consideration  of  his  good  service  and  that  of  his 
father,  Dudley  Bag-nal  (brother  to  Sir  Henry  Bagnal,  late  Mar- 
shal, deceased)  who  was  slain  by  the  rebels  in  the  late  Queen's 
service,  and  to  Garret  Fitzgerald,  of  Kilmage  in  the  county  of 
Kildare,  the  father-in-law  of  the  said  George  Bagnal,  in  con- 
sideration of  his  service  and  the  burning  and  spoiling  of  his 
lands  by  the  rebels  in  the  late  wars,  all  such  lands  of  inherit- 
ance as  they  or  either  of  them  hold. — Westminster,  6th  of 
May  in  the  eighth  year  of  the  King's  reign. 

P.  ] .  Signed  at  the  head.  Add.  Enrol.  Endd.  by  Sir 
Arthur  Chichester:  "Of  the  siste  of  Maye  1610.  From  the 
Kinge's  Ma^i^  warrantinge  me  to  accept  a  surrender  of  George 
Bagnall  of  the  Lop.  of  Idroine,  &c.,  and  of  Garrett  Fitzgerald 
of  Killmage,  &c.  and  to  re-grant  the  same.  Re.  the  30th  of 
Maye  1612." 

May  6.      746.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

^^^^^^-  P-'  To  the  same  effect  with  the  Royal  Warrant  dated  April 

vol.1,  p.  393.  22,  No.  729. 

Pp.  1|-.  Copy.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester :  "Of  the 
sixth  of  Maye  1610.  The  copie  of  the  Enge's  letters  written 
for  Capt.  John  Bourchier's  pension  and  a  companie,  &c." 

May  6.       747.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

mw'^n^i'g  Refer  to  him  the  petition  of  Hugh  O'Neil,  gentleman,  third 

son  of  Sir  Tirlough  O'Neil,  who  states  that  he  had  at  great 
charges  taken  up  certain  soldiers  in  Ulster,  intending  to  have 
gone  with  them  in  His  Majesty's  service  into  Sweethland 
[Sweden]  which,  though  it  took  not  effect,  is  proof  in  their 
estimation  of  his  willingness  to  do  His  Majesty  a  service. 
This,  too,  has  caused  him  to  incur  the  iU-wiU  of  his  friends,  who 
would  have  otherwise  yielded  him  maintenance.  He  sues  for 
some  of  the  escheated  lands  in  Ulster.  They  leave  the  ad- 
mitting of  him  and  the  placing  of  him  as  a  native  to  his  (Sir 
Arthur's)  judgment,  who  best  knows  the  truth  of  his  statements. 
— WhitehaU,  6th  of  May  1610. 

Signed :  R.  Cant.,  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton,  T.  Suffolke, 
Gilb.  Shrewsbury,  _E.  Worcester,  Mar,  E.  Zouche,  W.  Knollys, 
E.  Wotton,  Jul.  Csesar,  Thos.  Parry. 

P.  i    Add.    Endd. 


vol.  4,  p.  19 


4i4i4  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1610. 

May  7.       748.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Phiiad.  p.,  Havinar  heretofore  had  gfood   trial  of  the  understanding, 

vol       1       Tl      tH/  ^ 

"  ■  industry,  and  sufficiency  and  trust  of  Andrew  Knox,  Bishop 

of  the  Isles  of  Scotland,  and  in  respect  of  the  intercourse  that 
in  former  times  has  been  between  the  Isles  and  that  part  of 
the  country  where  the  bishopric  of  Rapho  lies,  and  the  ser- 
vice he  has  done  in  the  Isles  by  reducing  those  troublesome 
places  and  people  to  a  due  acknowledgment  of  his  authority, 
he  (the  King)  has  selected  him  for  the  bishopric  of  Rapho,  to 
hold  the  same  during  his  life,  together  with  the  bishopric 
of  the  Isles.  And  he  (Chichester)  is  to  press  the  Bishop  of 
Derry,  Rapho,  and  Clogher  to  invest  himself  in  the  bishopric 
of  Meath  with  all  diligence,  and  he  is  to  hold  the  bishopric 
and  lands  discharged  of  all  leases  made  by  the  late  Bishop  of 
Meath  since  the  last  survey. — Thetford,  7th  of  May  in  the 
eighth  year  of  the  King's  reign. 

Pp.  1\.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur 
Chichester:  "Of  the  7th  of  Maye  1610.  From  the  Kinge's 
Ma*'"  to  passe  unto  the  Lord  Bishope  of  the  Isles  of  Scotlande 
the  bishopric  of  Rapho,  &c.     Re.  the  30th  of  August." 

May  8.      749.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Phiiad.  p ,  jj^  favour  of  Captain  Craford,  who  is  repairing  to  Ireland  as 

'   '  ^'      '  an  undertaker  of  lands  there,  that  he  may  have  his  part  as  a 

servitor  there  and  be  favourably  used,  and  may  hold  his  com- 
pany till  further  order. — Thetford,  8th  of  May  in  the  eighth 
year  of  the  King's  reign. 

P.  1.  Add.  Signed  at  head.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chi- 
chester :  "  Of  the  8th  of  Maye  1610.  From  the  Kinge's  Ma*'" 
in  the  behalfe  of  Capt.  Craforde  for  land  as  a  servitore,  and  for 
the  continuance  of  his  companie,  &c.     Re.  the  4th  of  August." 

May  11.     750.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
^■^•'  qg^n'^o'^'  Mr.  Treasurer's  presence  on  that  side  is  some  ease  to  him  in 

"  "    '     '  reading  of  his  letter.     The  Attorney  of  Ulster  is  not  dead,  as 

reported  to  him  (Salisbury)  and  therefore  the  place  is  not 
open  for  Mr.  Peck,  his  nominee. 

Has  nothing  of  moment  to  certify  fi-om  hence,  but  that  the 
Romish  priests  are  come  hither  this  spring  in  greater  abun- 
dance than  in  any  year  since  his  time  ;  and,  albeit  he  imputes 
it  to  no  other  cause  but  that  they  are  over  burthensome  to 
their  masters  beyond  the  seas,  and  so  sent  hither  to  be  eased 
of  them,  yet  are  they  so  cunning  in  forging  and  spreading 
false  tales  and  reports,  and  the  people  so  apt  to  believe  them, 
that  they  do  much  mischief  sundry  ways,  and  have  so  em- 
boldened them  that  the  Romish  service  and  masses  are  said 
(as  he  is  informed)  even  openly  in  the  churches  where  they 
are  not  overlooked  and  overmastered  by  the  King's  better 
subjects,  which  is  but  in  few  towns  and  plAces  in  this  kingdom. 
He  hears  they  are  in  hand  to  draw  as  many  of  the  younger 
sons  of  the  nobility  and  principal  gentlemen  as  possibly  they 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  445 


1610. 

can  to  their  seminaries  beyond  the  seas,  to  which  their  parents 
are  easily  won,  for  that  they  promise  their  education  without 
charge.  There  may  be  some  hidden  mischief  in  this  practice, 
which  lie  humbly  recommends  to  his  better  consideration. 
The  bringing  in  and  carrying  away  of  these  messengers  of 
mischief  must  be  restrained  by  confiscation  of  ship  and  goods 
of  the  parties  that  transport  them,  or  some  severer  course, 
which  must  be  done  by  proclamation  (if  it  be  thought  fitting), 
and  so  put  roundly  in  execution,  otherwise  all  the  good  sub- 
jects here  will  shortly  rue  it,  whose  hearts  are  already  sad  and 
heavy  at  the  abuse  and  liberty  of  these  priests  and  people 
in  the  exercise  of  their  religion,  from  which  they  cannot  re- 
strain them  without  slaughter  or  the  gallows,  for  which  they 
have  neither  law  nor  warrant. 

A  priest  and  a  friar  were  the  late  traitor  O'Dougherty's 
chief  counsellors  and  actors  in  betraying  the  Derry,  Culmore, 
and  Doe  Castle,  in  search  of  whom  he  has  employed  certain 
men  ever  since  the  traitor's  death.  One  of  them  they  lately 
apprehended  by  disguising  themselves,  as  he  was  saying  a 
mass  at  Multefarnam  in  Westmeath  ;  and  as  they  were  carry- 
ing of  him  before  a  justice  of  the  peace,  the  country  rose  upon 
them  and  rescued  him  from  the  parties  employed,  and  hurt, 
them  in  sundry  places,  notwithstanding  they  showed  them 
his  (Chichester's)  warrant  and  told  them  he  was  a  proclaimed 
traitor.  By  this  his  Lordship  may  perceive  their  boldness,  and 
what  hope  they  have  to  restrain  them  by  other  than  the  sword  ; 
for  put  all  those  offenders  and,  he  thinks,  the  friar  himself  (if 
they  had  him)  to  be  tried  by  a  jury,  they  will  acquit  them  ; 
and  if  he  should  use  the  sword  in  these  times  of  peace,  it  would 
be  accounted  too  severe  a  course,  in  which  he  had  rather  do 
too  little  than  too  much,  without  better  warrant  for  his  support. 

They  now  expect  the  return  of  Mr.  Treasurer  with  the  full 
dispatch  of  the  matter  of  plantation,  and  with  a  good  portion 
of  money,  for  it  is  very  scarce  and  wanting  at  this  time. — 
Dublin  Castle,  11  May  1610. 

Pp.  2.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

May  13.     751.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Ireiand*"^^'  Directs  that  he  give  fiat  for  a  warrant  appointing  John 

P.  K.  O.  Denham  to  the  office  of  Lord  Chief  Baron  of  Ireland,  vacant 

by  the  preferment  of  Sir  Humphrey  Winch. — Westminster, 

13  May  1610. 
P.  1.     Add. 


vol.  229,  92. 


May  14.     752.        Lord  Deputy  and  Council  to  Salisbury. 
^^^r^.^'^QQ^'  I^  behalf  of  the  bearer,  Mr.  Auditor  Ware,  that  the  rever- 

sion of  his  office  may  be  granted  to  his  son. — Dublin,  14  May 
1610. 

Signed :  Arthur  Chichester,  Tho.  Dublin,  Cane,  Humphrey 
Winche,  Ja.  Denham. 
P.  1.    Add.    Endd. 


M6  IRELAND— JAMES  I, 


1610. 
May  14.     753.       SiR  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Privy  Council. 

^'T'''>2?^9^'''  ■^^^  acquainted  Sir  Eandle  M'Donnell  with  the  petition 

^  ■"    '     ■  of  Sir  Awla  M'Awla  to  the  King  against  him,  concerning  the 

castle  of  Glanarme,  and  two  toaghes  of  land  thereunto 
belonging  in  the  Gljois  in  the  county  of  Antrim.  This  only 
will  he  certify  of  his  own  knowledge  in  that  matter,  that  Sir 
Randle  and  his  ancestors  had  no  such  right  in  any  lands  in 
Ireland  whereby  he  could  convey  a  lawful  estate  to  any  man, 
though  he  were  a  denizen  aud  a  subject,  until  the  first  year  of 
His  Majesty's  reign,  when  he,  knowing  that  the  territories  of 
the  Rowte  and  Glyns  were  among  many  other  lands  then 
invested  in  the  Crown,  by  force  of  the  statute  of  the  11th  of 
the  late  Queen,  and  suggesting  the  same  to  be  his  own  true 
and  lawful  inheritance.  His  Majesty,  upon  Sir  Randle's  humble 
and  earnest  suit  in  that  behalf,  granted  the  said  countries  to 
him  and  his  heirs  for  ever,  by  letters  patent,  whereas  indeed 
both  he  and  his  ancestors  before  him  had  been  but  intruders 
upon  the  King's  possessions,  and  kept  the  same  by  strong 
hand  to  the  day  of  the  date  of  His  Majesty's  grant. 

There  is  a  nephew  of  his,  the  reputed  son  of  Sir  James 
M'Donnell,  who  is  come  over  thither,  to  complain  against  Sir 
Randle,  as  it  is  thought.  What  his  cause  of  complaint  is,  he 
does  not  well  know ;  sure  he  is  that  he  might  have  had  any 
reasonable  contentment  here,  before  his  going ;  but  the  dis- 
position of  this  people  is  to  address  themselves  rather  to  him 
(Salisbury)  than  to  the  State  here,  where  their  causes  and 
themselves  are  best  known.  But  if  Sir  Randle  should  be 
called  over  thither  for  every  occasion  of  complaint  framed,  as 
now  he  is  at  Sir  Awla's  suit,  he  may  spend  more  in  one  year 
than  his  lands  will  yield  again  in  three  or  four,  without  that 
the  tenants  shall  smart  for  it,  as  the  manner  hath  been  in  all 
like  cases.  Wherefore  it  would  be  better  to  refer  matters 
hither  to  be  heard  and  determined  in  their  due  place,  either 
of  justice  or  equity. — Dublin,  14  May  1610. 

P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

May  14.     754.        Sir  Richard  Mortson  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
S.P.,  Ireland,  Defends  himself  against  a  complaint  by  the  townsmen  of 

vol.  229, 94.  Waterford,  of  his  lodging  some  of  the  Lord  President's  troop 

upon  that  county  for  a  month,  and  a  command  to  forbear 
hereafter  the  placing  any  there.  Necessity  enforced  him, 
being  the  first  he  ever  cessed  there.  He  had  no  means  for 
them,  no  part  of  the  rents  being  ever  paid  until  near  mid- 
summer, so  that  their  horses  must  have  perished,  if  he  had  not 
taken'this  course.  So  careful  has  he  been  in  this  point,  that 
since  his  coming  to  this  Government  he  never  cessed  any  of 
the  foot  companies  ten  days,  unless  fifty  he  sent  into  the  West 
to  prosecute  the  pirates.  His  own  company  for  seven  years 
in  this  province  never  had  one  month's  cesse,  which,  with  the 
authority  he  has  twice  had  here,  he  might  easily  have  given 
them. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  447 


1610. 


For  the  Mayor  of  Limerick,  according  to  his  command  he 
has  enlarged  him  upon  bonds,  and  would  have  done  this  sooner, 
if  he  had  been  desired  in  a  decent  manner,  befitting  the  honour 
of  the  State.  Assures  himself  to  give  him,  at  his  coming  to 
Dublin,  so  good  an  account  of  it,  that  he  shall  stand  clear  in  his 
judgment  of  any  omission.  That  which  now  stands  "  triable  " 
between  the  mayor  and  this  State  is,  whether,  without  ex- 
amining the  intent  of  the  President's  warrant  they  ought  to 
obey  it,  and  whether  they  have  authority  upon  any  such  de- 
fection to  punish  it ;  for  the  first,  if  way  be  given  unto  it,  it 
might  occasion  at  some  times  much  inconvenience  to  His 
Majesty's  service,  when  the  faihng  of  an  hour  might  prevent 
the  loss  of  a  town  :  for  their  authority  by  some  there  is  con- 
troverted. Their  instructions  require  it,  and  custom  in  all  his 
predecessors  has  confirmed  it.  My  Lord  Carey  [Carew],  in  the 
time  of  his  government,  directed  his  warrant  to  the  mayor  of 
the  same  town  to  enlarge  a  prisoner  arrested  for  debt,  being  in 
pay  in  one  of  the  companies ;  and  the  mayor  refusing,  he  was 
called  to  Killmallock,  and  fined  400^.  and  imprisoned  half  a 
year.  And  notwithstanding  their  complaints  both  at  Dublin  and 
England,  he  paid  SOQl.,  and  could  not  be.  enlarged  until  he  had 
made  his  submission  to  the  same  authority  he  had  ofi'ended.  Sir 
Henry  Brouncker  fined  many,  and  my  Lord  President  that  now 
is,  fined  the  last  mayor  of  the  same  town,  upon  refusing  to  assist 
a  private  man  to  apprehend  a  priest,  which  fine  he  (Chichester) 
disposed  of  at  his  Lordship's  request.  So  that  he  sees  no  reason 
they  have  to  scorn  the  authority  more  in  his  hands  than  any 
others,  being  the  same  still ;  unless  it  be  the  disease  of  Water- 
ford,  who  think  it  more  proper  to  withdraw  their  obedience 
from  this  government  in  his  time  than  in  that  of  his  predeces- 
sors. For  the  reasons  that  induced  him  to  give  the  warrant, 
his  account  must  be  to  his  Lordship,  where  he  owes  it ;  but  if 
they  had  obeyed  it  and  then  repaired  to  him,  acquainting  him 
with  their  grievance,  he  should  have  given  them  good  satisfac- 
tion. Thanks  him  for  the  noble  favour  aflTorded  him  in 
giving  him  the  choice  of  compounding  this  business  under  hand 
or  standing  to  a  public  examination  and  hearing ;  but  the 
sincerity  of  his  well  meaning  in  this  sentence  for  His  Majesty's 
service  emboldens  him  to  desire  from  him  and  that  table  a 
censure  for  his  error  or  approbation,  if  he  deserves  it.  For 
his  own  part  it  shall  be  very  indifferent  to  him  if  the  Lord 
President  should  place  some  other  here,  who  shall  be  more 
"  judicial "  than  himself,  to  manage  this  place  and  govern  so 
many  minds  ill  aff'ected  to  this  authority.  For  his  principal  end 
in  undertaking  it  was  rather  to  deserve  acceptance  and  reward 
than  to  be  in  danger  of  losing  all  his  former  services  by  any  his 
omissions  in  this  place.  In  this  he  is  accompanied  with 
many  worthy  assistants,  himself  being  the  last  that  gave  his 
opinion  on  it.  Will  hasten  his  journey  purposely  to  attend 
his  pleasure. — Muggelie  [Mogeely],  14  May  1610. 

Pp.  4.     Signed.     Endd. :  "  Sir  Rich.  Morrison  to  my  Lord." 


448  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1610. 
May  14.      755.        Quit  Eents  of  cos.  Down  and  Antrim. 
^Tmo^'p'^'''  Priory  of  Moyluske,  James  Hamilton.     Priory  of  Muck- 

'     '  maye,  Hercules  Langford.     Dezart,  alias  Kells,  Arthur  Chi- 

chester. Priory  of  Holliwood,  James  Hamilton,  Abbey  of 
Bangor,  James  Hamilton.  Abbey  of  Blackabbey,  James 
Hamilton.  Abbey  of  Moyville,  James  Hamilton  and  Hugh 
Muugumery  [Montgomery].  Priory  of  Newton,  James 
Hamilton.  Abbey  of  Jugo  Dei  in  Ardes,  James  Hamilton. 
Priory  of  Colrane,  Tho.  Phillips.  Abbey  of  Cumber,  James 
Hamilton.  Monastery  of  St.  Patrick  of  Down,  James  Hamilton. 
Priory  of  Inche  in  LecaeH  [Lecale],  James  Hamilton.  Kectory 
of  Graunge,  alias  Colegraunge,  and  the  town  and  water  of 
Strangforde,  James  Hamilton.  Rectories  of  BaUirickarde  and 
Kilcole,  belonging  to  the  Abbey  of  St.  Thomas  and  John  in 
Downe,  James  Hamilton.  House  of  the  Monks  of  Downe, 
James  Hamilton.  House  of  the  Order  of  St.  Francis,  James 
Hamilton.  Divers  Rectories  in  co.  Kildare,  viz.,  Rectory  of 
Lease,  Rectories  belonging  to  the  Monasteries  of  St.  Patrick, 
Inche,  Sawle,  and  Downe.  Rectory  of  Arde,  Rathmullen, 
part  of  the  possession  of  St.  John  of  Jerusalem,  Francis 
Dowdall.  Church  of  BaUimoneskreagh,  James  Hamilton. — 
14  May  1610.  Ex.  per  Chr.  Peyton,  auditor. 
Pp.  3.     Latin.    Endd.  by  Chichester. 

May  1 5.      756.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

^'^^^'^'  ^''  In  favovu-  of  Captain  William  Steward  that  he  ha^'e  his 

'         '  part  as  a  servitor,  and  be  favourably  used,  and  to  have  his 

company  continued  until  further  order. — Westminster,  15  of 
Maj'  in  the  eighth  of  the  reign. 

P.  ^.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur 
Chichester:  "  Of  the  15*-  of  Maye  1610.  From  the  Kinge's 
Ma*i<'  in  the  behalf e  of  Capt.  Stewart  for  a  portion  of  the 
escheated  lands  and  for  the  standing  of  his  companie.  Re. 
the  second  of  June." 

May  15.      757.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

^°  m""' fs'"'"'  Letter  to   the  Lord  Deputy  to   issue   all  wits  usual  for 

"^     ■  election,  consecration,  and  restitution  of  temporalities  of  the 

bishopric  of  Derry,  which  His  Majesty  has  bestowed  upon 
Brute  Babington,  D.D. 

May  15.     758.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 

^'T  aaq^'qfi*^'  ^^^  received  his  letter  for  licence  to  the  bearer,  Sir  Randle 

'     '  M'Donnell,  to  make  his  repair  thither,  to  answer  the  expecta- 

tions of  some  of  his  fi'iends  who  wished  to  have  him  there  at 
this  time  to  make  his  own  agreement  the  better  with  the 
Londoners  for  a  great  scope  of  his  lands  which  they  require 
to  be  laid  on  that  side  of  the  river,  to  the  town  of  Coleraine. 
Their  demand  is  very  great,  and  it  is  for  the  best  and  most 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  449 


1610. 

useful  land  he  has,  considering  the  site  thereof  and  nearness 
to  the  new  town,  wherefore  it  concerns  him  very  much  to 
have  his  (Salisbury's)  favour  therein,  both  for  the  reasonable 
quantity  of  land  to  be  assigned  and  for  the  consideration 
which  is  to  be  given  him  for  it.  It  may  much  import  the 
furtherance  of  this  summer  s  intended  plantation  in  that  part, 
to  have  him  returned  back  again  with  expedition  and  with  all 
lawful  favoin-. — Dublin,  15  May  1610. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

May  15.      759.        The  Chiefs  of  the  Septs  of  the  O'Ferrals  to  Salis- 

S.P.,  Ireland,  BURY, 

vol.  229    97. 

Cannot  but  with  grief  of  mind  bemoan  themselves  to  him, 
by  whose  means,  under  God  and  His  Majesty,  they  hope  to  be 
relieved,  in  that  their  agent  has  remained  at  Court  these 
seven  months  past,  and  is  not  yet,  for  anything  they  can 
learn,  dispatched.  He  has  had  two  letters  of  attorney  from 
them  and  the  rest  of  the  poor  inhabitants  of  the  county  of 
Longford ;  the  first  he  carried  himself,  and  the  otlier  was 
sent  him  in  April  last,  the  first  having  been  thought  insufli- 
cient  to  tie  them  to  such  order  as  should  be  taken  there.  The 
last  also,  as  they  understand,  is  thought  to  be  insufficient ;  so 
that  they  are  at  their  wit's  end,  and  so  distracted,  that  they 
know  not  what  to  do,  but  humbly  submit  themselves  to  him, 
who  they  doubt  not  will  pity  their  cause,  being  very  lament- 
able, between  Sir  Francis  Shane  and  the  heirs  of  Malby. 
Hope  for  favourable  dispatch,  and  if  there  be  any  defect  in 
the  authority  sent  to  their  agent  to  tie  them,  he  may  send 
order  to  tlie  Lord  Deputy,  that  what  he  (Salisbury)  shall  lay 
down  between  them  and  their  adversaries  shall  not  be  made 
known  to  them  (the  Ferrals)  till  they  be  sufficiently  tied  to 
perform  it.  Pray  him  to  be  mindful  that  their  agent  may 
be  driven  to  stay  no  longer  there,  they  being  very  unable  to 
supply  his  wants,  for  which  favour  they  and  all  the  rest  of 
the  poor  county  of  Longford  will  ever  pray. — Dublin,  15  May 
1610. 

Signed  :  Bryan  O'Fearall,  Gerratt  Ferrall,  Conell  O'FearaiU, 
Leyssagh  O'Fearall's  mark,  Jo.  O'Fearall,  Conell  O'FearaiU, 
William  Feraill. 

P.  1.  Add.  Endd. :  "  The  O'FarroUs,  for  the  dispatch  of 
their  agent." 

May  20.    760.        Countess  oe  Desmond  to  Salisbury. 

vol '229^^98'  -"-^  ^^  ^^^  from  any  forgetfulness  of  his  many  favours  nor 

from  want  of  many  urgent  occasions,  that  she  has  not  this  long 
time  visited  him ;  but  fearing  to  be  troublesome,  and  by  reason 
of  sundry  unlawful  suits  her  husband  was  vexed  with,  by  Sir 
William  Taeffe,  Sir  Leynall  [Lionel]  Geste,  and  Captain  John 
Baxter,  which,  in  regard  of  their  injuriousness  therein,  her  hus- 
band hoped  always  to  be  rid  of,  and  then  to  have  waited  on 
him  with  the  whole  circumstances  of  the  same ;  and  though 
the  Lord  Deputy  favoured  him,  yet  the  tediousness  in  with- 

3.  F  F 


450  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

IGIO.  ' 

standing  the  said  causes  did  so  weary  and  wear  him  out  that 
in  the  end  the  grief  finished  his  life ;  and  so  by  reason  of  the 
natural  aifection  she  owed  him,  being  left  alone  desolate  and 
far  from  her  kindred  and  friends,  having  no  other  dwelling 
but  that  he  conveyed  to  her,  she  has  been  led  to  match  one  of 
her  daughters  with  his  heir  and  brother,  and  another  with  Sir 
Nicholas  Browne's  son  and  heir ;  and  as  none  of  her  friends 
helped  her  thereto,  and  as  she  as  no  other  portion  or  pre- 
ferment to  bestow  on  them,  but  only  her  pension  for  certain 
years,  which  she  could  hardly  spare,  she  therefore  prays  him 
to  cause  the  same  pension  to  be  quarterly  paid,  both'in  England 
and  Ireland,  according  to  her  patent. — Sligo,  20  May  1610. 
P.  1.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

May  20.     761.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Phikd.  P^.j  Recommend  to   him  Captain  WiUiam  Cole,  whose   name 

^^  '   '  ^'     '  already  appears  in  a  list  of  those  fit  to  be  undertakers,  fur- 

nished by  Sir  Arthur.  They  are  satisfied  of  his  sufficiency  to 
maintain  a  reasonable  proportion,  and  are  aware  of  his  merits. 
And  as  he  has  a  commission  for  the  charge  of  His  Majesty's 
boats  in  Lough  Yearne  (Lough  Erne),  and  for  the  keeping  of  the 
Castle  of  EnniskiUen,  they  suggest  that  he  should  be  assigned  a 
servitor's  portion  as  near  as  may  be  to  the  said  castle,  which 
otherwise  wiU  be  very  destitute  of  demesne,  as  the  lands  next 
adjacent  to  the  castle  have  fallen  to  the  lot  of  some  Scottish 
gentlemen  in  the  distribution  of  the  precincts,  and  cannot  be 
altered.— Whitehall,  20  May  1610. 

Signed:  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton,  E.  Worcester,  E. 
Zouche,  W.  KnoUys,  E.  Wotton,  J.  Herbert. 

P.  i.      Add.     Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester :    "  Of  the 
20tii  May  1610.      From  the  Lis.  of  the  CounceU,  in  the  be- 
halfe  of  Capt.  Cole  for  lands  in  Fermanagh  as  an'under taker. 
Re.  the  IS*!'  of  June." 

May  [2.5.]    762.        Remembrances  from  the  Council  to  the  Treasurer  at 

S.P.,  Ireland,  WARS,   for  the   LORD   DEPUTY. 

vol.  229,  98a.  These  advices  sent  over  from  the  Lord  Deputy  by   Mr. 

Treasurer  being  thus  answered,  it  is  thought  fit  to  recommend 
to  Mr.  Treasurer's  remembrances  some  further  particulars  that 
are  fallen  into  consideration  here,  to  be  by  him  imparted  to 
the  Lord  Deputy. 

1.  Rewards  and  allowances  for  riding  charges  beyond  pro- 
portion. Time  spent  by  the  judges  in  their  circuits  increased 
by  their  standing  allowance  by  the  day. 

Allowances  to  commissioners  in  civil  causes  to  cease,  they 
having  other  entertainments. 

Allowances  of  utensils  to  presidents  of  provinces,  a  needless 
charge. 

Abuse  in  the  office  of  First  Fruits.  No  means  to  charge 
the  clerk  with  his  receipt,  who  takes  the  bonds,  receives  the 
money,  and  accounts  for  it  at  his  own  pleasure. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  451 


1610. 

Decrease  of  rents  upon  pretence  of  wastes.  The  great 
resort  thither  of  English  has  so  replenished  the  land  that 
aU  tlie  parts  of  Leinster,  Munster,  and  Connaught  are  well 
peopled  and  inhabited. 

The  fee  of  iOl.  per  annum  to  the  officer  of  the  Casualties  to 
be  abolished  (if  the  Lord  Deputy  think  fit,  and  there  be  no 
pi-esent  patent  thereof),  or  upon  the  avoidance  of  such,  if  any. 

Ofiices  of  comptroller  and  collector  of  imposts  of  no  use 
whilst  customs  are  in  farm. 

Offices  of  Fletcher  and  Archers  now  obsolete  and  to  be 
abolished. 

Pp.  3. 

May  25.     763.        Memorials  for  the  Dispatch  of  Mr.  Treasurer  and 

S.P.,  Ireland,  Mr.    ATTORNEY  OP   IRELAND. 

The  heads  of  a  letter  to  be  addressed  by  the  King  to  the 
Lord  Deputy,  containing  instructions  and  warrants  regarding 
the  plantation.     See  infra,  No.  777. 

Pp.  2.     EncU. 


vol.  229,  99. 


[May.]      764.        Motives  of  Importance  for  the  holding  of  a  Parlia- 

S.P.,  Ireland,  MENT   in   IRELAND, 

vol.  229    99  A. 

'       '  Duplicate,  apparently  word  for  word,  of  that  contained  in 

Carew  MSS.,  vol.  629,  p.  23,  but  there  placed  in  November 
1611,  Carew  Calendar,  p.  164. 

Marginal  notes  in  this  copy :  P.  1.  The  number  of  Parlia- 
ments holden  in  Ireland  since  the  Conquest.  P.  2.  What  cause 
there  was  of  calling  Parliaments  in  former  ages.  P.  3.  That 
there  are  more  important  causes  of  holding  Parliaments  in  this 
age  and  at  this  time ;  that  the  English  laws  did  not  intend 
to  bind  the  persons  or  possessions  of  the  Irish  who  are 
now  brought  under  subjection.  P.  4.  Matters  of  importance 
which  require  a  speedy  establishment  by  Act  of  Parliament. 
P.  7-  Whether  it  wiU  be  a  difficult  matter  to  pass  good  laws 
in  the  next  Parliament.  P.  8.  What  persons  are  like  to  be 
members  of  the  Parliament  in  both  houses.  The  Lower 
House.     P.  12.  The  Higher  House. 

Pp.  14. 

[May  ?]    .  765.        Sir  John  Davys  to  Salisbury. 
vol  22r  99  B.  -^^^  ^^'^  served  a  'prenticeship  of  seven  years  in  Ireland, 

and  His  Majesty  has  said  that  Ireland  should  be  but  a  place  of 
probation  to  servitors  of  their  robe,  so  that,  after  a  competent 
time  of  trial,  they  should  be  recalled  to  serve  His  Majesty 
here. 

Therefore,  though  perhaps  at  this  time  he  should  think  it 
fit  to  send  him  back  again  for  the  finishing  of  the  work  of 
this  plantation,  yet  he  trusts  to  receive  from  him  some  hope 
and  comfort  touching  his  recall,  the  rather  because  the  public 
businesses  wherein  his  poor  labour  and  experience  may  be 

F  F  2 


452  IRELAND— JAMES  I, 

1610. 

thought  of  some  use,  are  now,  for  the  most  part,  well  reduced  . 
and  settled  in  that  kingdom,  namely  : 

1.  His  Majesty's  revenues,  both  certain  and  casual,  are 
answered  in  a  due  course. 

2.  His  Majesty's  compositions  in  Leinster,  Connaught,  and 
Munster,  are  aU  revived  and  re-established. 

3.  The  escheated  lands  of  Ulster  are  settled  in  the  Crown, 
the  pretended  titles  cleared,  the  records  entitling  His  Majesty 
thereunto  made  perfect  and  returned,  and  put  into  a  place  of 
safety. 

4.  The  customs  in  all  the  port  towns  of  that  kingdom, 
which  for  many  years  past  have  been  subtracted,  are  now 
reduced,  and  may  be  collected  when  it  shall  please  His 
Majesty. 

5.  The  courts  of  justice,  with  the  subordinate  offices,  and 
all  the  legal  proceedings  therein,  are  better  established  than 
ever  they  were,  and  the  justices  of  assize  make  their  half- 
yearly  circuits  in  all  the  shires  of  the  kingdom,  which  was  never 
seen  since  the  Conquest  until  the  beginning  of  His  Majesty's 
reign. 

6.  All  the  Irish  lords  and  degenerated  English,  except  very 
few  of  the  meaner  sort,  have  made  surrenders  of  their  lands, 
and  taken  back  estates  thereof,  to  hold  the  same  according  to 
the  course  of  the  laws  of  England. 

7.  All  the  old  corporations  have  renewed  their  charters  and 
divers  new  corporations  are  erected  for  the  increase  of  trade 
and  handicrafts  within  that  kingdom. 

These  things  being  thus  reduced  and  settled,  according  to 
the  course  of  England,  any  other  who  hath  had  practice  and 
exjDcrience  in  the  courts  here  may  supply  the  place  he  holds 
as  well  or  better  than  himself  if  His  Majesty  shall  be  pleased 
to  license  him  to  leave  the  same. 

Pp.  2.  Endd. :  "  Sir  John  Davys,  attorney.  A  memorial 
for  myself     Ireland,  state  of,  1610." 

May  25.     766.        Memorials  for  Mr.  Treasurer  and  the  King's  Attorney 

Carew  Papers,  for   IRELAND. 

w.629,p.6G.  Duplicate  of  No.  763. 

Directing  that  authority  be  given  for  the  several  commis- 
sions necessary  for  carrying  the  plantation  into  execution, 
especially  in  respect  of  the  British  undertakers  and  of  the 
servitors  and  the  natives ;  also  empowering  the  Lord  De- 
puty to  draw  togetlier  such  companies  and  forces  to  attend 
him  and  the  commissioners  in  his  journey  for  settling  the 
plantation,  and  to  leave  so  many  of  the  companies  in  such 
several  places  for  securing  the  undertakers,  as  he  shall  think 
expedient. 

P'p.  2.     Co]3y. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


453 


1610. 

[May  ?] 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  229,  99c. 


May  26. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  229,  100. 


767.  Receipt  and  Expenditure  in  Ireland  for  1608, 
"With  a  statement  of  the  manner  in  which  the  Treasurer's 

ofSce  is  conducted  (by  Sir  T.  Ridgeway).     Imperfect. 
Pp.  2. 

768.  Mr.  Fox  to  Salisbury. 

News  of  the  murder  of  the  French  King  makes  idle  people 
as  have  little  to  take  to  in  this  kingdom  conceive  that  the 
same  will  breed  much  trouble,  and  get  them  employed 
abroad  if  they  fail  at  home. 

The  young  prince  has  been  of  late  much  wronged  by  one 
Weston  of  this  city  and  others,  in  spreading  abroad  that  his 
Highness  kept  a  daughter  of  the  late  Earl  of  Essex  and  got 
her  with  child  ;  which  being  made  known  to  the  Lord  Deputy, 
he  sent  for  the  said  Weston  and  one  Brady  of  the  Cavan,  and 
one  Duffe  of  Drogheda,  and  upon  appearance  of  such  of  them  as 
could  be  found,  namely,  Brady,  his  Lordship  committed  him 
to  prison,  and  Duffe  having  been  before  committed  upon  some 
other  occasion,  it  was  commanded  he  should  be  kept  in  until 
examined  touching  this  cause ;  and  Weston,  being  the  principal 
party,  cannot  as  yet  be  foiind.  Doubts  not  but  he  and  the 
rest  will  repent  meddling  with  this  matter,  such  will  be  the 
punishment  that  is  like  to  be  inflicted  upon  them. 

Mentions  the  stay  of  a  small  bark  with  three  mariners  and 
a  boy  and  six  or  seven  tall  fellows  of  decayed  gentlemen  bred 
in  North  Wales,  by  the  mayor  of  Drogheda,  who  not  only 
made  stay  of  their  said  bark,  but  apjDrehended  themselves  and 
sent  them  hither  to  the  Lord  Deputy  to  be  examined. 

They  have  report  here  of  the  killing  of  Capt.  John  Vaughan, 
the  sheriff  of  the  county  of  Dunnagall  [Donegal],  by  a  Scotch- 
man, upon  a  sudden  falling  out  between  them. 

It  is  reported  by  gentlemen  of  the  Queen's  County  that 
many  of  the  septs  of  the  Moores  and  their  followers  that  have 
been  lately  sent  away  out  of  that  country  are  flocking  hither 
again,  and  some  are  of  opinion  that  they  will  rather  die  there 
than  live  elsewhere ;  howsoever,  in  the  beginning  Mr.  Crosby 
undertook  the  contrary. 

Promises  there  shall  be  nothing  done  here  wherein  His 
Majesty  shall  be  deceived  in  his  profit  or  the  service  hindered, 
but  he  will  make  the  same  known  to  him  if  he  shall  think  it 
meet,  without  which  he  will  not  undertake  such  a  business, 
lest  he  should  breed  many  enemies  to  himself.  —  Dublin, 
26  May  1610. 

Pp.  2.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 


May  30. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  229,  101. 


769.        Sir  Neil  O'Donnell  to  Salisbury, 

Addresses  himself  to  him  because  of  his  promise  above  the 
rest,  in  the  good  late  Queen's  time,  and  also  since,  to  favour  and 
father  him,  and  because  he  best  and  only  knows  how  accept- 
able his  poor  services  were  to  the  late  Queen,  and  her  prince- 


454  IRELAND—JAMES  I. 

1610. 

like  resolution,  to  have  I'ewarded  the  same  with  restitution 
of  his  inheritance,  for  recovery  whereof  out  of  the  rebels' 
hands  he  ventured  his  life,  spent  some  of  his  blood  and  a  great 
number  of  his  kindred  and  followers ;  which,  notwithstanding, 
after  the  King's  coming  to  the  Crown,  was  not  regarded  in 
Ireland,  by  means  of  such  as  being  bribed  by  Rory,  late  Earl 
of  Tyrconnel,  procured  him  to  be  recommended  to  the  State, 
whereby  he  (Rory)  obtained  that  land  whereto  he  (Sir  Neale) 
was  right  heir  by  grant  of  that  Queen  made  to  his  grandfather, 
who  first  surrendered  it  to  be  holden  of  the  Crown,  after  their 
ancestors  had  held  it  according  to  the  manner  of  the  country 
many  hundred  years.  Not  content  herewith,  his  adversaries 
in  Ireland  have  laboured  since  to  cut  him  off  under  colour  of 
justice,  putting  upon  him  a  most  absurd  imputation,  of  being 
partaker  with  so  base  a  rebel  as  O'Dogherty,  whereas  he  could 
not  be  drawn  by  Tyrone  and  O'Donnell  themselves,  when  the 
Spaniards  were  in  Ireland,  to  back  them  to  be  false  to  the 
Crown.  He  was  cleared  by  course  of  law,  being  brought  to 
his  trial,  though  they  had  assured  themselves  of  his  convic- 
tion by  a  jury  of  those  that  were  at  deadly  suit  with  him. 
For  all  that  he  could  not  have  the  benefit  of  the  law,  his 
liberty.  He  appealed  therefore  into  England,  where  he  now 
has  been  prisoner  these  five  months,  and  has  not  been 
heard  speak  for  himself;  which  bethinks  long,  because  his 
enemies  (he  is  sure)  will  omit  no  tricks  to  colour  their  un- 
just proceedings,  and  to  keep  him  from  being  heard.  For 
they  know  he  is  able  to  say  something  which  he  (Salisbury) 
will  not  like  of  in  them.  He  therefore  beseeches  his  Lordship 
not  to  be  prepossessed  or  forestalled  with  any  their  informa- 
tions, but  as  soon  as  his  leisure  will  permit,  to  let  him  justify 
himself  face  to  face  with  them  before  the  King  and  his  honour. 
For  they  doubt  not  to  make  it  appear  that  their  poor  nation 
is  otherwise  oppressed  than  he  thinks  for  ;  and  for  his  part 
he  beseeches  him  to  consider  how  unlikely  it  was  that  he 
who  first  discovered  Tyrone's  and  O'Donnell's  treasonous 
courses  to  the  State  there,  when  it  was  in  their  power  to 
have  laid  hold  of  them  both,  when  they  first  purposed 
their  rebellion  in  Sir  William  Fitzwilliam's  time,  when  Ty- 
rone procured  O'Donnell's  escape  out  of  Dublin  Castle,  and 
now  finally  before  Tyrconnell  and  he  ran  away,  should  have 
any  hand  with  such  a  beggarly  rebel  as  O'Dogherty  was. 
Tyi'one  knew  he  did  both  times  reveal  his  plots,  and  "  malices  " 
him  for  it ;  and  the  hatred  of  such  as  thought  that  they  them- 
selves might  be  touched  with  it,  and  were  the  Earl's  secret 
friends,  is  the  cause  of  all  this  trouble  of  his.  Beseeches  his 
Lordship  to  look  into  the  matter,  and  permit  him  who  has 
proved  himself  so  good  a  subject  for  the  service  of  the  King, 
lay  open  to  him  only  in  private,  if  he  pleases,  his  own  and 
his  poor  country's  just  grievances  against  such  as  abuse  the 
authority  they  have  there. — Tower  of  London,  30  May  1610. 
P.  1.     Add.    Endd. 


IRELAND — JAMES   I.  455 


1610. 

May  30.     770.        LoEDs  OF  the  Council  to  Sm  Aethuk  Chichester. 

PhUad.  p.,  Recommend  the  bearer,  Marcell  Rivers,  for  a  great  or  middle 

vol.  4,  p.  23.  proportion  of  land  among  servitors,  he  having  made  known  to 

them  that  he  is  married  to  the  heir  of  Captain  Thomas  Chad- 
derton  (Chatterton),  vs^ho  in  the  15th  year  of  the  late  Queen 
had  a  grant  of  land  to  him  and  his  heirs  in  Ulster,  and  v?ho,  m 
order  to  suppress  the  rebels  and  people  the  same  with  Enghsh 
subjects,  sold  his  estate  in  England  to  the  value  of  7,000Z., 
and  with  100  serviceable  men,  many  being  his  near  alliance, 
and  five  captains  of  his  own  name,  went  into  Ireland  and 
planted  there  and  built  u  fort ;  and  maintained  the  same  many 
years  with  great  expense  and  loss  of  blood,  and  at  last  of 
life,  both  of  himself  and  those  that  went  with  him,  by  the 
violence  of  the  rebels.  If  he  cannot  be  placed  in  the  barony 
of  Orier,  according  to  his  desire,  that  barony  being  disposed 
of,  he  is  to  be  set  down  among  servitors  where  it  shall  seem 
best  to  him  (Sir  Arthur).— Whitehall,  30  May  1610. 

Signed  :  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton,  T.  Suffolke,  Gilb. 
Shrewsbury,  E.  Worcester,  E.  Wotton,  L.  Stanhope. 

P.  |.  Add.  Endd.by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester :  "Of  the 
30th  of  Maye  1610.  From  the  Lis.  of  the  Councell  in  the  be- 
halfe  of  Marcell  Rivers,  for  a  portion  of  land  in  Orier.  Re. 
the  5th  of  August." 

May  31.      771.        Loeds  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

yol'^i\^2s  John  O'Connor  has  petitioned  the  King  to  be  restored  to 

the  Castle  of  Carrigfoyle  in  the  county  of  Kerry,  as  his  ancient 
inheritance  in  fee-farm,  by  grant  from  the  provost  and  fellows 
of  Trinity  College  near  Dublin,  the  same  having  been  the 
ancient  inheritance  of  him  and  his  ancestors  time  out  of  mind. 
He  states  that  on  the  suppression  of  the  late  rebellion  in 
Munster,  the  castle  was  kept  from  him  and  committed  to  the 
custody  of  Sir  Francis  Barkley,  to  whom  the  petitioner  leased 
it  with  eight  plough-lands  adjacent,  and  that  the  lease  being  to 
^  expire  in  three  years,  Sir  Francis  Barkley,  unknown  to  peti- 
tioner, got  a  grant  of  it  from  the  King  to  him  and  his  heirs. 
They  (the  Lords)  were  thereupon  of  opinion  that  if  the  title 
to  the  said  castle  were  in  the  King's  disposal,  it  should  be 
reserved  in  His  Majesty's  hands  as  fit  for  his  service,  and  not 
be  granted  to  any  subject,  unless  to  a  servitor  in  custodiam, 
or  to  the  college  (upon  the  commission  of  Defective  Titles),  to 
whom  it  formerly  was  granted.  But  if  it  be  the  inheritance 
of  the  said  John  O'Connor,  according  to  the  statement  in  his 
petition  (which  they  enclose  and  refer  for  his  consideration), 
they  direct  him  (Sir  Arthur)  to  give  him  such  relief  as  he 
may  deem  fit,  taking  bonds  from  him,  according  to  his  ofier, 
to  deliver  it  up  on  being  required  by  the  State,  upon  all 
occasions  of  service.— Whitehall,  the  last  of  May  1610. 

Signed :  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton,  Notingham,  T.  Suf- 
folke, Gilb.  Shrewsbury,  E.  Worcester. 


456  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

P.  1.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester :  "Of  the 
last  of  Maye  1610.  From  the  Lords  of  the  Councell,  to 
delyver  over  the  Castle  of  Carrigfoyle  to  John  O'Connor,  if  it 
be  not  inconvenient,  upon  good  bonds,  &c.  Ee.  the  16th  of 
November."     Encloses, 

The  petition  of  John  O'Connor,  of  Carrigfoyle  in  the  county 
of  Kerry,  to  the  Lords  of  the  Privy  Council. 

On  his  former  petition  desiring  restitution  of  the  castle  of 
Carrigfoyle  detained  from  him  by  Sir  Francis  BarUey,  their 
Lordships  tue7V  of  opinion  it  should  not  be  granted  to  any 
subject  being  a  servitor,  by  way  of  custodiam,  'if  it  ivere  in  His 
Majesty's  disp>oscd.  As  the  castle  is  petitioner's  inheritance, 
and  it  is  not  in  His  Majesty's  disposal,  prays  that  the  Lord 
Deputy  be  directed  to  call  Sir  Francis  Barldey  before  him, 
^vho  only  ojyposes  petitioner's  title,  and  if  he  finds  that  he 
detains  it  without  right,  then  to  give  order  for  petitioner's  re- 
possession on  the  expiration  of  Sir  Francis's  estate  therein, 
petitioner  giving  bonds  that  the  castle  shall  be  again  yielded 
up  by  him,  on  the  demand  of  the  state  of  England  or  Ireland, 
up>on  cdl  occasions  of  service. 

P  J- 

1609. 
May  13.      772.        SiR  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Attorney-General. 

vo^'eifp^'soi  ^^  pursuance  of  letters  from  the  Lords  of  the  Privy  Council 

of  20  January  1609,  and  from  the  King,  dated  at  Westminster, 
3  March  1609,  in  the  sixth  of  the  reign,  for  a  confirmation  of 
the  ancient  liberties  of  the  corporation  of  Waterford,  with  an 
addition  of  some  franchises,  the  Lord  Deputy  gives  warrant 
to  prepare  a  fiant  for  the  confirmation  of  the  ancient  privi- 
leges of  the  city  of  Waterford,  and  an  enlargement  of  their 
franchises,  following,  viz.  :  First,  that  they  shall  be  free  of 
poundage  pursuant  to  tlie  Act  of  15  Hen.  VII.  Secondly, 
that  they  shall  have  the  great  customs,  but  are  not  to  meddle 
with  the  petty  customs  payable  by  merchants  strangers,  as 
being  reserved  to  His  Majesty's  proper  use.  Thirdly,  that 
they  shall  have  a  jail  delivery  as  largely  as  was  granted  them 
by  Hen.  VII. ;  that  the  recorder  shall  be  added  in  commis- 
sion of  jail  delivery  with  the  mayor  and  sheriffs,  and  that  the 
mayor,  recorder,  sherifis,  and  two  of  the  most  ancient  alder- 
men shall  be  justices  of  the  peace  within  the  city  and  county 
of  Waterford,  the  mayor  to  be  of  the  quorum,  and  the  recorder 
to  take  the  oath  [of  allegiance  and  supremacy  to  His  Majesty].^ 
And  lastly,  that  the  bounds  of  the  county  of  the  city  of  Water- 
ford, and  the  jurisdiction  of  the  corporation,  shall  be  enlarged 
with  the  addition  as  well  of  the  towns  and  lands  of  the  Grange, 
Balletrokell,  and  the  Newtown  adjoining  to  Waterford  upon 
the  south,  containing  100  acres,  as  by  the  ambit,  precinct,  and 

'  These  words  have  been  scored  out. 


IKELAND — JAMES  I.  457 


1609. 

demesne  lands  of  the  late  dissolved  abbey  of  Kilkellan,  near 
the  said  city  on  the  north  side,  pursuant  to  another  letter  from 
the  Lords  of  the  Privy  Council  in  England,  of  8  April  last. — 
Dublin,  13  May  1609. 

Pp.11.    Orig.    Add.    A'7i^d  .•  "Civitas  Waterforde,  1609." 

1610. 
June  4.       773.        Lord  Deputy  Chichester  to  the  Lord  Admiral. 
Carew  Papers,  ^  branch  of  the  Lord  Deputy's  letter  to  the  Lord  Admiral, 

'^'       '  in  favour  of  a  pirate,  named   Bishop,    and  other  particular 

occurrents,  with  remarks  concerning  certain  pirates  infesting 
Munster. 

Pp.  2.     Copy.    Extract. 

June  6.       774.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
S.P.,  Ireland,  Pravs  to  have  the  King's  letters  for  confirmation  of  the 

vol   229    104  T 

'       '  settlement  of  a  coimtry  named  Ivagh  [Iveagh],  aMasMagennis's 

Countrj^,  lying  in  the  county  of  Downe,  which  he  has  long 
laboured  in  and  just  efiected.  It  is  a  work  that  will  keep  Sir 
Arthur  Magnesse  [Magennis]  and  his  dependants  within  the 
rule  of  justice  and  obedience  hereafter.  The  rent  reserved  upon 
the  former  patent  was  seldom  or  never  paid  before  his  (Chi- 
chester's) time.  By  these  new  grants  it  will  be  increased,  and 
the  payments  from  the  freeholders  made  more  certain  than 
they  were  from  the  libertine  lord  of  the  country. 

Sends  a  draft  for  His  Majesty's  letters.  Sir  Kobert  Jacob, 
His  Majesty's  Solicitor,  has  been  a  principal  actor  in  this 
work,  to  his  hindrance  other  ways ;  he  has  been  in  the 
country  to  his  great  travel  and  expenses,  and  has  painfully 
laboured  the  bringing  of  the  business  to  an  end,  as  he  does 
in  all  things  else  that  appertains  to  the  furtherance  of  His 
Majesty's  profit  and  service.  Prays  him  to  take  notice  of  his 
good  service  for  his  encouragement. 

Finding  that  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  was  displeased 
at  the  proceedings  of  the  Bishop  of  Do"svn  concerning  certain 
commendams  which  he  had  procured  from  His  Majesty  con- 
trary to  the  intent  of  them,  he  called  for  the  Bishop,  and  had 
conference  with  him.  By  his  letters  (which  he  sends  with 
these)  it  will  appear  to  what  he  has  brought  him,  and  what 
he  hath  surrendered  will  likewise  appear  by  his  deed  in  writincp 
which  he  (Chichester)  has  sent  to  my  Lord  of  Canterbury, 
that  it  may  be  returned  into  the  Chancery  there  as  here  it  is, 
and  if  any  more  be  required  from  him,  upon  notice  of  what 
it  is  is,  he  will  cause  him  to  perfect  it,  and  will  transmit  it 
with  expedition. 

The  treasure  is  safely  arrived  when  they  had  most  need  of 
it ;  to  what  time  it  will  stretch  for  our  necessities  Mr.  Treasurer 

is  best  able  to  inform  him,  since  he  has  gone  thither. Dublin 

Castle,  6  June  1610. 

Pp.  2.    Signed.    Add.     Endd.    Encloses, 


458  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1610. 
June  2.      775.        John,  Bishop  of  Down,  to  Salisbury. 

^i'^29'^fo"'^3  -^^'^  Lord  Deputy  acquaints  him  that  it  is  conceived  he 

'     "'  '  has  kept  in  his  hands  sundry  comniendams,  contrary  to  His 

Majesty's  intent  and  his  {Salisbury's)  expectation ;  who  con- 
ceived that  in  lieu  of  the  late  commendam,  which  through  his 
favoitr  he  obtained  (bearing  date  the  13th  day  of  February 
last  past),  he  should  have  relinquished  all  his  interest  and 
ben^t  in  any  former  commendam,  and  that  his  sudden  de- 
paHure  into  Ireland  gave  some  strength  to  that  suspicion. 
Explains  first,  that  at  Ms  departure  from  London  he  had  no 
purpose  to  go  into  Ireland,  till  he  was  possessed  of  such  livings 
in  England,  as  by  his  forementioned  commendam  were 
granted  him  frmn  His  Majesty,  only  he  purposed  to  journey 
to  Graystocke  in  Cur)iberland,  to  possess  himself  of  that  par- 
sonage as  part  of  his  said  commendam  {upon  advertisement 
that  the  same  was  void  and  granted  to  him),  but  finding  it  a 
very  doubtful  and  litigious  title,  and  that  my  Lord  of  Carlisle 
had  obtained  it  in  commendam,  he  resolved  to  expect  some 
other  or  some  clearer  title  than  that ;  and  lodging  at  Carlisle, 
and  by  ivant  of  money  bei/ng  hindered  from  returning  to 
London,  and  uoulerstanding  that  in  his  diocese  those  small 
means  due  to  him  were  detained  from  his  agent,  and  cdso 
having  remained  two  years  in  England,  he  was  by  this  exi- 
gent, being  very  near  home,  compelled  to  go  for  Ireland,  as 
formerly  he  acquainted  nny  Lord  of  Canterbury.  Explains 
that  he  obtained  three  commendams  from,  His  Majesty,  one 
for  146L  6s.  8c?.,  the  second  a,  commendam  which  his  Grace 
of  Canterbury  made  stay  of ;  the  third  that  which  he  now  has 
through  his  {Salisbury's)  favour,  for  which,  as  expected,  he 
relinquished  his  former  commendams  before  the  latter,  which 
he  now  enjoys,  was  delivered  to  him.  And  further,  upon 
notice  from  the  Lord  Deputy  of  the  former  suspicion  had  of 
him  that  he  retained  still  with  him  the  foresaid  commendams 
with  intent  to  onake  use  and  benefit  of  them,  he  has  here  in 
the  Chancery  surrendered  all  other  commendams  except  that 
last,  bearing  date  the  13th  day  of  February  last  past,  which 
by  his  favour  he  obtained — Dublin,  2  June  1610. 
Pp.  2.     Signed.     Add.    Endd. 


vol.  4,  p.  29. 


June  8.      776.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

PMad.  p..  Although  His  Majesty  might  be  diverted  from  a  renewal  of 

his  design  to  send  companies  of  Irish  out  of  Ireland  into 
Sweden,  in  consequence  of  the  ill  carriage  of  the  transporta- 
tion attempted  last  year,  when  by  the  negligence  of  the 
conductors  and  the  contrary  winds,  the  Irish  were  brought 
back  again  and  landed  in  several  places  and  counties  of  this 
kingdom,  yet,  considering  how  much  the  venting  of  the  Irish 
swordmen  out  of  Ulster  concerns  the  peace  of  that  province 
and  the  furtherance  of  the  plantation,  he  is  resolved  to  make 
another  trial  and  to  send  600  to  Sweden,  under  the  command 
of  Captain  Kichard  Bingley,  the  bearer  of  this  letter.     In 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  459 


1610. 


order  to  regulate  the  cost,  Captain  Bingley  has  entered  into 
articles  with  His  Majesty,  regulating  the  charge  of  victualling, 
clothing,  and  transporting,  of  these  companies  from  the  time 
they  shall  be  delivered  at  the  sea-side  till  they  come  to  be 
landed  in  Sweden.     A  copy  whereof  they  enclose. 

They  have  two  things  particularly  to  call  his  Lordship's 
attention  to  : — First,  that  the  men  sent  shall  be  mere  Irish 
(except  some  of  the  commanders)  and  especially  active  Irish  ; 
and  what  shaU  be  wanting  of  the  number  in  Ulster  may  be 
taken  from  the  other  provinces.  Secondly,  that  dispatch  be 
used  before  the  time  of  the  year  be  spent,  to  avoid  what 
unfortunately  happened  last  year.  They  have  only  to  add, 
touching  the  port  of  departure,  that  though  Derry  may  be 
thought  most  convenient,  as  well  for  the  men  that  shall  be 
taken  out  of  Ulster,  as  for  the  course  they  are  to  run  about 
the  north  of  Scotland  in  this  voyage  for  Sweden ;  yet,  they 
would  be  glad  to  avoid  all  occasion  that  might  any  way 
trouble  the  work  in  hand  there,  either  by  raisiug  the  price  of 
victuals  or  giving  any  just  cause  of  distaste  to  such  as  are 
now  employed  by  the  City  of  London  in  those  parts  about 
the  plantation. — Whitehall,  8  June  1610. 

Signed :  T.  EUesmere,  Cane,  E.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton, 
Notingham,  T.  SufFolke,  Gilb.  Shrewsbury,  E.  Worcester, 
W.  Knollys,  E.  Wotton,  Jul.  Csesar. 

Pp.  2|.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  :  "  Of  the 
eighth  of  June  1610.  From  the  Lordes  of  the  Councell,  de- 
claring that  it  is  the  Kinges  pleasure  that  Capt.  Bingley  shall 
have  600  men  out  of  this  kingdom  for  Sweden,  &c.  Ke. 
the  .4th  of  July."     Encloses, 

Articles  of  Agreement  hetiveen  the  Lords  of  the  Privy 
Council  on  His  Majesty's  behcdf  of  the  one  part,  and 
Captain  Richard  Bingley  on  the  other  part,  concern- 
ing the  transportation  of  600  men  to  he  sent  out  of 
Ireland  into  Stueden. 

Gaptcdn  Bingley  is  to  troAisport  600  men,  to  he  delivered 
to  him  at  such  i^orts  as  the  Lord  Deputy  shall  appoint.  He 
is  to  he  allmved  for  the  apparelling  of  the  said  men  20s. 
apiece.     Amount,  6001. 

He  is  to  he  at  no  charge  of  victucdling  the  600  men  till 
their  arrival  at  the  pfort  of  embctrkation.  For  their  victual- 
ling until  they  are  landed  in  Siueden,  he  shall  receive  at  the 
rate  of  5d.  per  day  per  man  for  ^\  days,  and  no  longer. 
Amount,  387i.  10s. 

He  is  also  to  have  10s.  for  the  transportation  of  every 
man  into  Sweden.     Amount,  3001. 

All  tvhich  sums  amount  ta  1,287^.  10s. 

He  is  to  have  300L  by  way  of  imprest,  and  rateably  ac- 
cording to  the  number  of  men  shipped,  to  he  certified  by  the 
Lord  Deputy,  not  exceeding  QOOl. 


460  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610, 

Captain  Richard  Bingley  promises  to  defray  all  other 
charges,  and  not  to  suffer  any  of  them  to  he  landed  in  any 
2Jart  of  His  Majesty's  dominions  after  they  are  shipped. 

In  witness  whereof  the  said  Captain  Richard  Bingley  has 
subscribed  his  name  the  8th  day  of  June,  and  in  the  eighth 
year  of  His  Majesty's  reign. 

Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester :  "  The  Lordes  agreement 
■wt^  Capt.  Bingley  for  transportation  of  600  men  into 
Sweden." 

June  9.       777.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

vol  ^1  D  403  "^^®  heard  and  considered  the  particulars  concerning  the 

plantation  entrusted  for  delivery  to  Sir  Thomas  Kidgeway, 
"whose  sufficiency  he  highly  approves.  Sir  Arthur  is  now  to 
put  in  execution  the  following  particulars,  for  which  he  gives 
him  this  warrant  and  instruction  under  his  own  hand  : — 

That  he  renew  the  commission  touching  the  plantation  in 
such  points  as  he  and  the  Council  shall  think  fit. 

That  the  commission  be  to  himself  (Sir  Arthur  Chichester), 
the  Lord  Chancellor,  the  Treasurer,  Chief  Justice,  Chief  Baron, 
Master  of  the  Rolls,  Sir  Richard  Cooke,  Principal  Secretary, 
and  such  others  as  they  shall  think  fit,  or  to  any  five  of  them, 
whereof  the  Lord  Deputy  to  be  always  one,  and  two  of  those 
above-named  to  be  other  two,  for  the  passing  the  several 
portions  of  escheated  lands  to  the  British  undertakers  and 
their  heirs  according  to  their  several  assignations ;  the  true 
copies  whereof  are  transmitted  to  him  and  the  commissioners 
under  the  hands  of  the  Privy  Council. 

That  like  authority  be  given  by  the"  same  commissioners  to 
pass  their  proportions  to  the  servitors  in  such  quantities  as  he 
and  the  commissioners  shall  think  fit,  in  the  precincts  assigned 
to  servitors  and  natives. 

That  like  authority  be  thereby  given  to  pass  their  propor- 
tions to  natives  in  the  precincts  assigned  to  servitors  and 
natives,  in  such  quantities  as  the  commissioners  shall  think 
fit. 

That  the  present  letters  shall  be  his  warrant  to  put  in 
execution  such  further  instructions  as  he  shall  receive  under 
the  hands  of  the  King  and  Privy  Council  concerning  the 
plantation. 

That  he  draw  together  such  companies  and  forces  to  attend 
him  and  the  commissioners  in  this  summer's  journey  for 
settling  the  plantation,  and  to  leave  so  many  of  the  said  com- 
panies in  such  several  places  for  securing  the  undertakers,  as 
he  shall  think  fit. 

And  that  he  begin  his  journey  at  such  time  as  shall  best 
serve  for  the  expedition  of  the  plantation  this  season. — 
Westminster,  9  June,  in  the  eighth  year  of  the  reign. 

Pp.  1^.  Signed  at  head.  Endorsed  by  Sir  Arthur  Chi- 
chester:  "Of    the   9*^1   of    June    1610.      From    the   Kinge's 


IRELAND— JAMES  1.  461 


1610. 

Ma*'**,  writinge  me  tutchinge  the  commissioners,  the  commis- 
sion itselfe,  and  distribution  of  the  escheated  lands  in  Ulster 
to  the  servitors  and  natives,  &c.     Ke.  the  4*^  of  July."   Enrol. 

June  10.     778.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

voi'^'i'*'^  ^3  '^^®  bearer,  Captain  Richard  Bingley,  lately  returned  from 

Sweden,  and  now  to  repair  to  Ireland  to  levy  more  men  for 
that  service,  prays  that  he  may  be  thought  of  for  a  portion  of 
those  lands  to  be  allotted  to  servitors.  The  like  request  has 
been  made  by  the  friends  of  Captain  John  Maisterson,  who 
is  himself  absent  in  those  foreign  parts.  Though  their  names 
are  not  in  the  list  sent  over,  yet  they  deem  it  very 
reasonable  that  servitors  of  such  great  merit  and  of  such 
long  continuance  in  the  wars  of  Ireland  should  be  re- 
membered for  fit  portions  among  the  rest,  and  not  omitted 
for  their  absence  ;  since  even  therein  they  deserv  increase  of 
favour  from  the  State ;  and  wiU  (it  is  alleged)  perform  by 
their  friends  what  shall  belong  to  their  plantation  till  their 
own  return,  which  they  intend  shall  be  when  they  have 
spent  a  little  longer  time  in  those  wars  under  the  Swethen 
[Sweden]  King.— Whitehall,  10  June  1610. 

Signed:  T.  EUesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northamp- 
ton, Notingham,  Gilb.  Shrewsbury,  E.  Worcester,  E.  Zouclie, 
W.  KnoUys.  E.  Wotton,  L.  Stanhope,  J.  Herbert. 

P.J.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester:  "Of  the 
10th  of  June  1610.  From  the  Lords  of  the  Councell,  for 
Capt.  Bingley." 

June  10.      779.        Privy  Council  to  the  Lord  Deputy. 
^■^■'■'"o'^^^'^K  '^°  ^^^®  order  for  preservation  of  the  woods  in   Ireland. 

^°  ■   -  '      ■  Signed :  R.  Salisbury,  T.  EUesmere,  Cane,  H.  Northamp- 

ton, Notingham,  Gilb.  Shrewsbury,  E.  Worcester,  E.  Zouche, 
W.  Knollys,  E.  Wotton,  L.  Stanhope,  J.  Herbert,  T.  Edmondes. 
.P.  1.     Add.    Endd. 

June  13.      780.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
S.P.,  Ireland,  jjg  lately  received  the  enclosed  from  the  Bishop  of  Limerick 

^°  ■       '       ■  by  which  he  is  occasioned  to  acquaint  him  with  the  access  of 

bishops,  priests,  Jesuits,  and  friars  into  this  land,  from  Rome 
and  other  parts  since  Christmas  last,  in  far  greater  numbers 
than  at  any  time  heretofore,  who  have  so  wrought  with  the 
people  by  false  tales  and  reports,  that  many  of  them  have  an 
assured  expectation  of  Tyrone's  return  this  summer,  and  that 
before  the  end  of  August  next.  If  Florence  O'Mulchonner 
be  come  (as  the  Bishop  of  Limerick  is  informed)  it  will 
strengthen  the  opinion  of  the  Irish  and  awaken  them  (the 
English)  from  being  secure  of  the  contrary,  for  he  is  well 
known  to  be  a  man  in  favour  in  the  Courts  of  Spain  and 
Rome  beyond  all  others  of  his  profession  of  this  nation,  and 
is  lately  made  Archbishop  of  Tuam. 


462  IRELAND— JAMES   I. 

1610. 

Believes  that  the  information  in  the  Bishop's  letters  is 
wrong  concerning  the  parties  to  whom  Tyrone's  letters  should 
be  directed,  for  Tyrone  works  more  by  messages  than  letters  ; 
neither  does  he  trust  some  of  the  parties  named  to  the 
Bishop  ;  and  howsoever  others  of  them  be  linked  unto  him 
.  by  marriage  of  his  daughters,  yet  if  there  were  any  letters 
brought  imto  them,  thinks  they  would  discover  the  contents 
of  them,  but  of  messages  they  will  not,  for  their  messengers 
are  so  trusty  that  death  itself  wiU  not  make  them  reveal 
what  they  carry,  but  of  the  writers  and  readers  of  their  letters 
they  are  often  mistrustful.  The  reports  current  all  this  spring 
so  concur  that  they  give  them  some  cause  of  doubt,  for  if 
Tyrone  be  come  into  Spain  (as  it  is  here  said  and  believed), 
he  may  soon  slip  hither  with  two  or  three  ships,  laden  with 
arms  and  munition,  which  will  be  sufficient  to  set  aU  awork  ; 
for  the  priests  and  spreaders  of  falsehood  wiU  make  them  by 
their  reports  to  be  forty,  and  the  men  thousands,  though  he 
come  but  with  six  servants,  and  his  treasure  millions  if  it 
be  but  a  handful,  which  is  no  sooner  spoken  by  them  than 
believed,  and  so  all  loose  men  will  run  unto  him,  which 
he  (Chichester)  can  better  foresee  than  prevent.  Has  given 
warning  to  all  the  garrisons,  forts,  and  wards  to  look  carefully 
about  them.  The  Earl  of  Thomond  and  the  Vice-President  of 
Munster  are  here  with  him.  He  is  dispatching  them  to  their 
charges,  and  nothing  shall  be  left  undone  that  is  fitting  and 
necessary  ;  but  the  hearts  of  the  people  are  to  him  unknown. 
Has  long  expected  the  return  of  the  Earl  of  Clanricarde  ;  if 
he  come  not  this  summer  he  must  appoint  some  worthy  and 
sufficient  man  to  be  his  vice-president,  for  that  province  is 
very  tottering  and  unassured. 

The  King  and  their  Lordships  were  once  determined  that 
20,OOOZ.  or  30,000?.  should  have  lain  here  under  locks  to 
answer  all  sudden  occasions  :  a  most  prudent  resolution. 
Wishes  it  might  take  effect  at  this  time ;  the  reasons  are  so 
manifest  that  he  need  say  no  more  than  he  has  already  said 
in  former  letters  ;  only  this  for  a  truth,  that  they  should  not 
be  able  to  borrow  and  take  up  5,000?.  in  this  city  nor  in  the 
towns  and  country  adjoining  in  20  days,  if  the  kingdom  stood 
in  hazard  without  it. — Dublin  Castle,  13  June  1610. 
Pp.  2.     Signed.     Add.     Endd.    Encloses, 

June  y.       781.        Bishop  of  Limerick  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Toi^229"^i06'^i  ^^^  ^^^  °f  J^'^'^'^'^  '^'^^'''^  '"^^'^®  brought  to  him  hy  Mr.  Arthur 

Sexton,  high  sheriff  of  the  county  of  Crosse  [Tipperary],  to  be 
examined,  a  young  man  about  the  age  of  23  years,  named 
Donnogh  O'Towell,  a  follower  of  the  now  Archpractizing  priests. 
This  young  man  discoursed,  unto  him  hy  an  interpreter,  of  the 
company  and  quality  of  divers  Romish  traitors  that  have  em- 
ployment in  Ulster  and  Munster  from  beyond  the  seas,  and 
are  now  assembled  tinder  colour  of  a  visitation,  to  accomplish 
their  purpose,  and  to  make  ready  against  the  date  of  their 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  463 


1610. 


conclusions.  The  names  of  the  principal  commanders  and 
high  commissioners  from  his  Holiness,  are :  Morris  Ultough, 
a  doctor  [of  such  Jcind  of  divinity  as  it  is,  who  came  from 
Rome  tiuo  years  since,  and  for  the  most  part  hath  resided  in 
the  diocese  of  Meath  at  the  Abbey  of  Boyletefarnan  [Multi- 
farnam']  in  the  Lord  of  Delvin's  country,  withwhmnis  joined 
in  authority,  if  not  superior  to  him,  Thomas  FitzEdmund, 
the  fair-spoken  friar  (a  man  too  well  known  everyiohere). 
They  have  in  association  with  them,  one  Teig  O'Holahan,  a 
doctor  also  of  the  same  stamp  and  of  St.  Francis's  order,  who 
came  out  of  Spain  a  year  past ;  cdl  these,  with  other  of  their 
consorts,  are  now  in  Limerick.  Friar  Thomas  came  to  town 
the  29  th  of  May,  beioig  Tuesday,  the  rest  upon  Whitsun-eve, 
the  28th  of  May.  They  needed  not  their  company  here  (in 
Limerick),  for  they  have  cdways  Father  Arthur,  the  Jesuit, 
and  too  many  of  his  rabble  here.  They  go  from  hence  the  4<th 
of  June  towards  Killmallock,  and  from  thence  to  Cork,  where 
they  are  to  otay  a  fortnight  or  three  weeks ;  so  they  m,ind  to 
circuit  the  whole  province,  and  at  Kilkenny  they  have  resolved 
to  part.  Morris  Ultough  goes  to  Meath  to  misgovern  and  do 
little  good  there,  with  Thomas  M'Gannah  \_M'Kenna'],  a  Fran- 
ciscan and  guardian  of  the  Abbey  of  Boyletefarnan,  and 
Thomas  Fitz-Fdmund  comes  back  to  domineer  in  Munster. 
The  informer  being  asked  tvhether  he  kneiv  any  secret  designs 
or  intended  plots  of  theirs,  said,  "No,"  otheriuise  than  that 
he  is  sure  they  vjent  about  to  trouble  the  kingdom  and  to 
raise  tuars  if  they  could.  His  reason  is  that  they  pray  day 
and  night  for  Tyrone,  that  God  luill  strengthen  him;  of 
ivhom,  they  confidently  give  forth  that  he  is  po^eparing,  if 
not  prepared,  for  Ireland ;  for  proof  hereof  he  saith  there 
is  a  young  friar  called  John  Gonley,  allied  to  Patrick 
Conly,  dwelling  in  Bred  street  at  Dublin,  tvhich  friar  is 
a  merchant's  son  of  Tradas  [Drogheda],  and  landed  there 
the  10th  of  May  last,  who  came  from  Tyrone,  and  brought 
this  news:  that  Tyrone  had  an  ccrmy  froon  the  Pope  and 
the  King  of  Spain,  and  that  he  tuoidd  be  in  Ireland  by 
Michaelmas.  He  desired  Mr.  Sexton  to  entertain  him  kindly, 
and  to  assure  him  of  a  reivard  if  he  made  all  this  good. 
So  he  departed  from  hiin  for  the  present,  but  piromised  to 
come  privately  to  him  the  oiext  morning,  the  2nd  of  June, 
which  he  did  accordingly ;  at  which  time  he  opened  to  him 
particularly  as  follorus :  First,  that  he  has  heard  Teig 
O'Holahan  tell  Friar  Thomas  that  there  were  three  great 
armies  preparing  in  Italy  and  Spain,  one  whereof  is  for 
England,  another  for  Scotland,  and  the  third  for  Ireland. 
After  this  he  delivered  the  name  of  one  David  Crafford, 
Scottishman,  whose  father,  Oiuen  Crafforde,  and  his  mother 
likevjise,  divell  both  in  Downygall.  This  Crafford  was  ser- 
vant and  butler  to  the  late  Earl  of  Tirconnell  when  he  left 
Ireland  and  went  over  into  France,  and  so  forward ;  which 
said  David  Crafford  landed  awhile  since,  about  the  29th  of 


464.  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

]G10, 

April  last,  at  Killibeg,  in  the  north,  and  the  same  night  he 
landed  he  lay  in  the  house  of  one  Owen  M'Gettihan,  in  the 
county  of  Doiunygall.  Fronn  thence  they  passed  to  Fare- 
manah,  in  Maguire^s  Country ;  and  the  morning  after  came 
to  Brian  APMahonagh,  alias  Brian  M'Hugh  Oge's  house,  who 
married  one  of  Tyrone's  daughters ;  and  then  to  Brian  Arthroe 
M'Enys's  [_Magennis']  house,  tuho  likewise  married  another  of 
Tyrone's  daughters.  Sure  he  is  that  he  came  from  Tyrone 
to  luarn  all  noblemen,  gentlemen,  and  others  that  tvish 
well  to  Tyrone,  and  would  hold  and  stand  for  the  Catholic 
religion,  to  he  in  readiness.  His  knowledge  of  all  this 
came  by  a  sister's  son  of  David  CraffoixVs,  luho  is  a  friar  in 
this  company.  This  confession  being  thus  made,  he  took  a 
hook  and  protested  of  himself  that  it  was  true  in  every  point, 
or  else  tvished  he  might  be  hanged  if  it  proved  not  so ;  where- 
upon he  took  order  for  his  relief  and  safety,  whereof  he  doubted; 
and  left  him  hi  the  high  sheriff  of  Cross's  custody  [county 
of  Cross-Tipperary'],  to  go  ivith  him  into  his  county  as  an 
attendant  (being  distnissed  before  from  the  friar,  so  that 
there  coidd  groiv  no  suspicion  of  him) ;  to  the  end  he  onight 
he  forthcoming  and  at  hand.  Hcos  provided  for  his  main- 
tenance, the  better  to  encourage  him.  —  Limerick,  3  June 
1610. 
Fp.  2.    Signed.     Add.     Endd. 

June  4.      782.         Bishop  of  Limerick  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

rni'^99q"i'n(;'^T'T  -^^^  '^''^  "/  June,  at  night,  which  was  Sunday,  the  informet 

came  to  him  again  and  brought  him  more  intelligence, 
newly  come  to  town,  namely,  that  one  Flane  O'Molchonor 
[Florence  0' Midconryl,  noiv  Archbishop  of  Tuam,  who  went 
into  Spiain  with  O'Donnell  cct  the  breaking  up  of  the  camp 
of  Kinsale,  and  is  the  agent  for  cdl  Irish  inatters  that  the 
Pope's  cretv  tvould  have  brought  to  pctss  there,  is  landed  at 
Cork  upon  Thursday  last,  being  the  31si  of  May,  and  hath 
brought  with  him  a  great  packet  of  letters  fro''m,  Spain  and 
Rome  to  the  nobility  and  chief  gentlemen  of  Ireland,  about 
Tyrone's  present  coming  into  this  kingdom  with  armies  ready 
prepared.  This  he  knows  to  be  so  by  two  letters  that  came  from 
the  said  Flaren  O'Mulchonor  to  Thomas  Fitz-Edmund.  And 
Morris  Ultough's  compassing  the  country,  in  this  manner  of 
visiting,  is  to  no  other  end  but  to  solicit  and  make  sure  as 
many  as  they  can  to  assist  Tyrone.  Has  written  to  the  Lord 
Bishop  of  Cork  and  Sir  Par  Lane  of  Flaren' s  landing,  and 
such  letters  as  he  was  informed  he  brought  over  with  him, 
that  they  tnay  make  search  for  thetn  before  they  he  dispersed. 
This  Flaren  O'Mtdchonor  was  accompanied,  as  he  says,  but 
by  one  hoy ;  and  this  Uh  of  June,  Friars  Thomas  and 
Morris  Ultough,  with  the  rest,  are  gone  towards  Cork  to  him. 
— Limerick,  4  June  1610. 

Pp.  2.     Signed.    Add.     Endd. 


vol.  229,  106  II, 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  465 


1610. 
June  4.       783.        Bishop  of  Limerick  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
^/'^^oQ^'^n?^'  Keeping  this  Bonnoqh  M'Towell  O'Galahar   {as  now  he 

vol.  229,  106  III.  ,,     ,^,>^.  ^  ^,  ,,  ,7,7  ^^i.' 

addeth  to  his  name)  upon  hand,  to  wrest  what  he  can  out  oj  h,%m, 
he'  has  this  Uh  of  June,  after  the  holy  company's  departure 
towards  Cork,  been  with  him  again,  and  given  him  the  names 
from  his  tmcle  the  friar,  whom  he  calleth  Towell  O'Murlough, 
of  all  such  as  Flaren  O'Mulchonor,  the  supposed  Archbishop 
of  Tuam,  has  brotight  letters  unto  from  Tyrone  oid  of  Spain, 
who  are  these  : — 

To  Brian  M'Mahonah,  alias  Brian  M'Hugh  Oge. 

To  Brian  Arthroe  M'Ennis. 

To  Donnogh-o  M'Swine,  alias  M'Swine  O'Banah. 

To  Raynall  M'Sourlah  M'Connell,  Lord  of  Doiunelis,  who, 
as  he  sctys,  married  a  third  daughter  of  Tyrone's,  as  the 
two  first. 

To  Connor  O'Reagh  M'Guire  of  Fermanctgh. 

To  Donnell  O'Knohor  or  Conohor,  Lord  of  Sligo,  who  mar- 
ried one  of  the  Earl  of  Desmond's  daughters. 

To  Sir  Tihalde  Burck,  alias  Longe}  in  Connaghte. 

To  Mr.  Patrick  Conley,  in  Dublin,  with  this  privy  remem- 
brance from  Tyrone,  that  whatsoever  Patrick  promised 
him  he  should  have  it  ready. 

To  Thmnas  Burcke,  Raimunde  Scoube,  his  son. 

To  Captain  Terrill. 

To  Donnell  [Kavanagh]  Spainah. 

To  Raiviond  M'Feaghe  M'Kem. 

To  Phelim  M'Feaghe  M'Kem. 

To  the  Knight  of  the  Glin. 

To  Donnell  M'Carrah  [M'Carthy']  of  Caslanlough  in  Kerry. 

To  a  priest  in  Lisimore  or  Lease  {for  so  he  understands 
him)  having  no  interpreter  he  might  trust,  hut  a  bad  one  in 
his  house,  but  he  {Sir  Arthur)  shall  know  it  by  this,  that  Sir 
Oliver  Lambert  has  that  land.  To  that  priest  it  is  written 
to  warn  cdl  in  Lisimore  to  be  quiet  until — or — 

Reserves  tvhatsoever  else  shall  be  gathered,  until  he  hears 
from  him  what  his  pleasure  is  about  the  five  young  men  who 
are  here  in  durance,  and  this  together. — Limerick,  4  Ju,ne 
1610. 

Pp.  2.    Signed.     Add.     Endd. 


TOl.  1,  p.  405. 


June  17.     784.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Phiiad.  p.,  Warrant  to  accept  a  sm-render  from  Sir  James  Ware  of  the 

patent  appointing  him  Auditor  oi  r  oreign  Accompts  or  Prests, 
in  order  to   re-grant  the  office   to  him   and  his   son,  John 
Ware,  for  their  joint  lives  and  that  of  the  survivor. — West- 
minster, 17  June,  in  the  8th  year  of  the  reign. 
P.  \.    Signed  at  head.    Add.    Endd.     Enrol. 

'  Cenoicr  i)A  loi)5,  "  Theobald  of  the  Ships."     Annals  of  the  Four  Masters, 
A.D.  1599  J  also  1600  and  1601. 

3-  G  Q 


466 


IRELAND— JAMES  I, 


1610. 
June  20.     785.        The  King  to  Sm  Arthur  Chichester. 
PMad.  p.,  Warrant  to  appoint  George  Trevillian,  Provost-martial  of 

™  ■   '  ^'      ■  Munster,  for  life,  as  soon  as  the   office  shall  be  vacant  by  the 

death  or  surrender  of  Sir  Richard  AldVorth. — Westminster, 
20  June,  in  the  8th  year  of  the  reign. 

P.  1.     Signed  at  head.    Add.     Endd.    Enrol. 

June  21.     786.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Philad.  p.,  Warrant  to  pass  a  pension  of  10s.  per  day  to  Sir  Thomas 

^°  ■   '^-      •  Roper,  if  at  any  time  the  company  he  now  holds  should  be 

cast  or  discharged. — Westminster,  21  June,  in  the  8th  year 
of  the  reign. 

P.  1.     Signed  at  head.     Add,    Endd.    Enrol. 


June  21. 

Philad.  P., 
vol.  l,p.  411. 


787.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Warrant  to  appoint  Sir  Dominic  Sarsfield,  Lord  Chief 
Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas,  in  succession  to  Sir  Nicholas 
Walsh,  as  soon  as  the  place  shall  become  vacant,  in  considera- 
tion of  his  pains  and  services,  and  of  his  conformity  in 
religion. — Westminster,  21  June,  in  the  8th  year  of  the  reign. 

P.  |.     Copy.     Add.     Endd.     Enrol. 


June  21.     788, 

Philad.  P., 
vol.  1,  p.  413. 


The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Warrant  to  make  a  grant  or  grant  and  confirmation  to  the 
provost,  fellows,  and  scholars  of  the  College  of  the  Holy  and 
Undivided  Trinity  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  near  Dublin,  of  all 
such  lands  as  they  purchased  of  George  Isham,  being  passed 
to  him  and  his  heirs  in  fee-farm  by  the  late  Queen,  at  6^.  per 
annum;  in  order  that  they  may  hold  them  immediately  of  the 
King,  to  hold  at  the  former  rent  and  services,  in  regard  they 
hold  theii-  foundation  from  the  Crown. — Westminster,  21  June, 
in  the  8th  year  of  the  reign. 

P.  1.     Signed  at  head.     Add.     Endd.     Enrol. 


June  22.     789.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Philad.  p..  They  praise  Sir  John  Davys  (now  on  his  return  to  Ireland) 

^°'   '   '     '  for  his  sufficiency  in  handling  the  business  of  the  Plantation 

of  Ulster,  before  the  Council,  and  generally  for  his  careful 

proceedings  in    all   His   Majesty's  concerns. — AVhitehall,  22 

June. 

Signed :  T.  EUesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton, 
Notingham,  Gilb.,  Shrewsbury,  E.  Worcester,  E.  Zouche,  W. 
Knollys,  E.  Wotton,  L.  Stanhope,  J.  Herbert. 

P.  ^.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester :  "  Of  the 
tenth  of  June  1610.  From  the  Lords  of  Councell,  in  the 
behalfe  of  S^  John  Davis,  the  Kinge's  Attornie.  Re.  the  18* 
of  July." 


IRELAND— JAMES  1.  467 


vol.  229,  107. 


1610. 
June  22.    790.        SiR  Aethue  Chichestee  to  Salisbuey. 
v^^'p^'a^Tn?  Sir  Richard  Morison,  the  Vice-President  of  Munster,  now 

at  his  coming  unto  him,  has  caused  John  Drea,  the  priest  that 
had  confessed  to  him,  to  be  brought  hither,  and  he  (Sir 
Arthur)  findLog  him  to  justify  what  he  had  formerly  said  in 
the  letter  written  from  Dermond  Cartie  to  Richard  O'Connell, 
sends  his  answer,  together  with  what  he  has  likewise  declared, 
though  he  conceives  his  Lordship  is  akeady  acquainted  with 
the  substance  thereof;  and  he  believes  that  some  damned 
villains  are  entertained  and  set  on  work  to  act  something 
in  England,  either  upon  His  Majesty's  person,  the  noble 
princes,  or  their  Lordships,  or  upon  all  three  together,  as  that 
wicked  wretch  was  for  the  butchery  of  that  late  famous  King, 
their  neighbour ;  wherefore  it  behoves  his  Lordship  to  be 
watchful  over  His  Majesty  and  themselves,  and  not  to  suffer 
any  unknown  man  to  approach  his  petson  ; — for  what  is  it  in 
such  a  case  that  a  desperate  resolved  villain  will  not  attempt, 
though  his  own  death  and  destruction  be  most  assured  ? 

Is  advertised  from  such  as  he  trusts  in  causes  of  that  nature, 
that  Florence  O'Mulchonnor  (of  whom  he  lately  wrote  to  him 
upon  the  informations  received  from  the  Bishop  of  Limerick)  is 
not  come  into  this  kingdom,  but  that  one  Flarie,i  an  ordinary 
priest,  was  landed  about  that  time  not  far  from  Cork  ;  which 
(as  he  conceives)  was  the  cause  of  that  report,  and  was  bruited 
by  the  priests,  the  better  to  work  their  own  ends  amongst  this 
wavering  people,  who  are  apt  to  catch  at  anything  tending  to 
trouble  and  alteration.  The  Vice-President  is  now  upon  his 
return  for  Munster.  His  Lordship  should  let  him  understand 
that  his  services  and  good  deserts  are  well  accepted  of,  which 
will  be  a  great  encouragement  unto  him,  as  it  is  to  all  men 
that  serve  His  Majesty  in  this  kingdom,  where  little  other 
felicity  is  afforded  than  such  as  comes  from  thence  unto  them. 
—Dublin  Castle,  22  June  1610. 

Pp.  2.     Signed.     Add.    Endd,. 


vol.  4,  p.  37. 


June  22.      791.        Loeds  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

v^i'^^r'^D^sV  Lord  Audley  having  heretofore  offered  himself  as  an  under- 

taker of  a  large  quantity  of  the  escheated  lands  in  Ulster,  is 
now  content  to  rank  himself  imder  such  conditions  as  have 
been  since  arranged  for  the  planting  of  that  whole  province, 
and  to  receive  his  allotment  as  among  servitors. 

And  considering  the  encouragement  his  readiness  to  em- 
bark in  that  project  gave  to  others,  they  request  he  may  be 
accommodated  with  as  large  a  proportion  of  land,  and  in  as 
commodious  a  place,  as  may  be  consistent  with  the  orders  for 
setting  down  servitors. — Whitehall,  22  June  1610. 

Signed :  R.  Cantuar.,  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury, 
H.  Northampton,  T.  Suffolke,  Gilb,  Shrewsbury,  E.  Worcester, 
W.  Knollys,  L.  Stanhope. 

1  PUiciu,  "Florence." 

G  G   2 


468  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

P.  i.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester :  "  Of  the 
22  of  June  1610.  From  the  Lordes  of  the  Councell,  in  the 
behalfe  of  the  Lorde  Audley  for  a  portion  of  landes  as  a  servitor. 
Ee.  the  24th  of  August." 

June  28.       792.        Lords  op  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
■^j^''^^*^-  -?_'  Eefer  to  him  the  enclosed 'petition  of  Murtoughe  O'Dougau, 

^  ■   '  ^ '  '  to  enable  them  to  give  him  an  answer. — Whitehall,  23  June 

1610. 

Signed :  K.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton,  T.  Suffolke,  Gilb. 
Shrewsbury,  E.  Worcester,  W.  Knollys,  J.  Herbert,  L.  Stan- 
hope. 

F.  J.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  •  "  Of  the 
2.3<i  of  June  1610.  From  the  Lords  of  the  Councell,  in  the 
behalfe  of  Murtoagh  O'Dougan,  of  Fygott,  for  lande.  Re.  the 
21  of  August."     Encloses, 

The  humble  i^etition  of  Murtaghe  O'Dougan,  of  Fegott, 
in  the  county  of  Bonegcdl,  in  the  province  of  Ulster. 
Most  humbly  shoiving  unto  your  honours. 

Where  your  suppliant  and  his  ancestors  have  been  seized, 
as  of  their  proper  inheritance,  of  the  said  Fegott  and  of  other 
lands  called  Maghree  Riagh  and  Clough  Fanne,  containing 
about  1,000  acres  English.  The  petitioner  therefore  beseecheth 
your  Lordships  to  direct  your  honourable  letters  to  the  Lord 
Depiuty  and  Council  of  Ireland,  requiring  them  not  to  pass  the 
petitioner's  lands  to  any  other,  but  that  your  suppliant  may 
hcove  the  said  lands  by  letters  patent,  paying  unto  His  Ma- 
jesty such  reasonable  rent  as  to  your  honours  shcdl  be.  thought 
fit,  otherivise  the  petitioner,  his  tvife,  and  family  shall  be 
utterly  undone.     This  granted  he  shall  ever  pray,  &c. 

P.  I. 


vol.  4,  p.  43. 


June  25.      793.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

vnf 'li"^n  ^ik  ^^^  bearer,  Captain  Richard  Tyrrell,  having,  as  he  informs, 

purchased  from  Bryan  O'Reely  and  Cormoc  M'Gauran,  and  other 
gentlemen  of  the  county  of  Cavan,  who  are  yet  living  and  were 
never  attainted  of  any  disloyalty,  40  poles  of  land,  amount- 
ing to  2,000  acres  or  thereabouts,  in  the  baronies  of  TuUagh- 
garvie,  Loughtee,  Tullaghonco,  and  TuUaghagh,  in  the  county 
of  Cavan  ;  and  having  also,  to  his  great  charge,  inhabited  the 
same  with  dutiful  and  loyal  subjects,  being  formerly  wasted 
and  depopulated  ;  prays  that  he  may  be  continued  in  posses- 
sion, and  that  he  may  surrender  and  have  a  re-grant  of  same ; 
and  that  he  also  may  have  such  a  proportion  of  the  escheated 
lands  as  is  allotted  to  servitors  in  the  county  of  Cavan.  His 
Majesty,  having  considered  his  petition,  directs  that  he  shall 
enjoy  20  poles  of  land  where  he  now  dwells  in  the  barony  of 
Tullaghgarvie  ;  and  that,  upon  examination  and  allowance  of 
the  right  of  the  petitioner  and  his  brother  in  such  lands  as 
they  are  to  give  up  to  His  Mnjesty  in  the  baronies  of  Loughtee 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  469 


1610. 

and  Tullaghonco,  they  may  have  as  much  laid  out  unto  them 
in  one  of  the  next  baronies  appointed  for  natives,  for  their  por- 
tion of  land,  to  be  allotted  to  them  as  servitors.  The  place  to 
be  such  as  he  (Sir  Arthur)  may  think  fittest  for  the  under- 
talcers,  saving  to  petitioner  and  his  brother  all  such  right  as 
they  may  claim  in  the  barony  of  Tullaghagh.  —  Whitehall, 
25  June  1610. 

Signed :  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton, 
T.  Suffolke,  E.  Worcester,  W.  Knollys,  L.  Stanhope.  J.  Herbert, 

P|3.  1^.     Add.     Encloses, 

Phiiad.  p.,      794^         y/jg  petition  of  Gaptain  Richard  Terrell  to  the  Lords  of 
^°  ■   '  ^'     ■  the  Privy  Council. 

That  his  petition  to  the  Lords  for  certain  lands  he  pur- 
chased in  the  county  of  Cavan  ivas  referred  to  the  commis- 
sioners for  Irish  cctuses,  luho  certified  that  petitioner  might, 
in  their  opinions,  have  20  poles  of  land  %vhere  he  divells  in 
Tullaghgarvie,  and  as  much  as  he  should  give  up  into  His 
Majesty's  hands  in  other  baronies,  to  be  alloiued  him  in  one 
of  the  baronies  nearest  to  petitioner's  dwelling  appointed  for 
natives,  tuhere  it  might  seem  to  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Council 
to  he  most  convenient  for  the  undertakers.  He  accordingly 
prays  that  such  may  be  cdlotted  to  him ;  and  that  he  may 
further  have  an  cdlotment,  as  a  servitor,  in  one  of  the  baronies 
assigned  for  natives  and  servitors. 

Annexed  to  the  petition  are  four  schedules  : — 
Ibid.,  p.  45.  \    y/jg   names   of  ceHain  poles   in   Bcdle   Clynlough 

which  are  not  in  Gaptain  Terrell's  possession. 
Ibid.,  p.  46.  2.  A  note  of  such  lands  as  Captain  Terrell  has  in  the 

barony  of  Loughty. 
Ibid.,  p.  47.  3,  2.  note  of  such  lands  as  William  Terrell  purchased 

and  enjoys  in  the  baronies  of  Loughty  and    Ttdlagh- 
garvie. 
Ibid.,  p.  48.  4^  _^  ^j^Q^g  Qj^  g^Q]^  lands  cts  Cccptain  Tyrrell  purchased 

and  has  in  his  quiet  possession,  containing  three  balle- 
betoes  apiece  of  the  barony  of  Tullaghgarvie. 
[There  is  under  each  schedule  a  reference  in  Sir  Arthur 
Chichester's  hand,  directing  the  Judges  of  Assize  to  inquire 
and  report  the  truth  of  the  statement  in  the  heading  of  the 
schedule.] 
Pp.  4:. 

June  26.       795.        The  King  to  Sir  Aethur  Chichester. 

Tol.  1^417.  Warrant  to  pass  to  Sir  Arthm- Magennis  all  such  lands  in 

Iveagh  as  vi^ere  meant  to  be  passed  to  him  by  Sir  Arthur  and 
the  Council,  in  order  to  enlarging  the  lands  left  to  him  in 
demesne  on  a  settlement  of  Iveagh  or  Magennis's  Country 
made  about  three  years  since  at  Newry,  whereby  Sir  Hugh 
Magennis  was  to  hold  the  said  country  for  life,  with  remainder 
to  said  Sir  Arthur  Magennis  in  tail,  with  divers  remainders 


470  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

over  ;  with  a  proviso,  that  if  any  had  rights  of  inheritance  in 
any  part  of  the  said  country  at  the  time  it  was  given  up  to  the 
late  Qtieen  by  11  Elizabeth,  the  said  Sir  Arthur  Magennis 
sliould  grant  to  all  such  freeholders  such  estate  as  they  for- 
merly held  in  their  said  freeholds.  By  the  ofiice  taken  at 
Newry  on  that  occasion,  the  lands  of  the  several  freeholders 
were  found,  leaving  a  very  small  portion  in  demesne  to  said 
Sir  Arthur  Magennis  ;  whereupon  an  order  was  made  by  the 
Lord  Deputy  and  Council  in  favour  of  the  said  Sir  Arthur 
Magennis,  that  a  surrender  should  be  accepted  from  him  and 
a  new  grant  should  be  made  to  the  several  freeholders  of  a 
great  part  of  their  freeholds  ;  some  to  be  held  of  Sir  Arthur 
Magennis,  and  the  rest  of  the  Lord  Bishop  of  Dromore,  leaving 
a  large  portion  to  Sir  Ai'thur  Magennis,  of  which  he  was  to 
take  a  grant  from  the  King  by  new  letters  patent  to  his 
heirs  for  ever. 

A  new  grant,  therefore,  is  to  be  made  to  Sir  Arthur  Ma- 
gennis and  his  heirs  for  ever,  of  all  such  lands  in  the  country 
of  Iveagh  as  were  meant  to  be  passed  to  him  by  the  said 
order,  to  be  held  of  the  King  in  capite  by  knight's  service,  at 
the  yearly  rent  of  10^. ;  and  also  to  pass  to  Bryan  Oge 
M'Rory  Magennis  and  his  heirs  the  country  of  Kilwarlin,  at 
the  rent  of  121.  5s. ;  and  to  aU  the  rest  of  the  freeholders  such 
lands  as  were  intended  by  said  order  to  -be  passed  to  them,  at 
the  rent  of  15s.  per  townland. 

And  as  this  settlement  cannot  well  be  effected  without  the 
assent  of  the  Lord  Bishop  of  Dromore  and  his  several  deans 
and  chapters,  and  without  their  joining  in  a  surrender  of  their 
possessions  in  right  of  their  churches,  they  are,  by  these  letters, 
warranted  and  empowered  to  surrender  their  title  in  all  the 
lands  they  hold  which  are  by  the  said  order  intended  to  be 
conveyed  to  Sir  Arthur  Magennis,  the  residue  to  be  restored  by 
letters  patent  to  the  said  Bishop,  dean,  and  chapters. — West- 
minster, 26  June,  in  the  eighth  year  of  the  reign. 

Pp.  2.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur 
Chichester :  "  Of  the  26  of  June  1610.  From  the  Kinge's 
Mat^e^  authorisinge  me  to  passe  the  country  of  Evagh,  &c." 
Enrol. 

June  26.     796.        Commission  to  demise  Crown  Lands. 

Commission  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  and  Thomas  Arch- 
bishop of  Dublin,  to  demise  Crown  lands  in  Ireland. 
Grant  Book,  f.  67- 

June  26.     797.        Commission  to  collect  Crown  Debts. 

Commission  to  Sir  Thomas  Ridgeway  and  Sir  Humphry 
Winch  to  collect  Crown  debts  in  Ireland. 
Grant  Booh,  p.  67. 

June  27.     798.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
vol.  229^  ^08.  -^y  letters  to  the  Lords  has  made  known  his  proceedings  in 

the  business  of  Evagh,  alias  Magennis's  Country,  and  in  others 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  471 


1610. 


has  declared  his  opinion  and  advice  for  the  reformation  and 
settlement  of  the  county  of  Longford.  In  the  first  he  awaits 
directions  and  authority  to  enable  him  to  perform  what  he 
has  promised  towards  the  Bishop  of  Dromore,  Sir  Arthur  Ma- 
gennis,  and  the  freeholders  of  that  country  ;  and  he  has  pre- 
pared the  minds  of  some  of  the  chief  gentlemen  of  the  latter 
to  submit  themselves  to  His  Majesty's  goodwill ;  but  doubts 
not  but  his  good  endeavours  will  find  opposition  there,  if  such 
as  attend  their  privates  only  may  be  heard.  As  he  has  hitherto 
waded  through  all  matters  committed  to  him  with  a  clear 
heart  and  clean  fingers,  aiming  at  nothing  but  the  furtherance 
of  his  master's  service,  so  does  he  intend  to  end ;  in  which  he 
prays  his  Lordship  to  hear  and  believe  him,  for  he  takes  so 
little  care  or  pleasure  in  matters  tending  to  his  profit  that  he 
neglects  the  making  benefit  of  that  which  His  Majesty  has 
freely  given  him. 

These  works  of  breaking  the  factions  of  great  men  in  this 
kingdom,  and  the  withdrawing  of  the  people's  dependance 
from  them  by  allotting  competent  proportions  of  land  to  fit 
freeholders  in  every  country  where  the  means  is  offered,  is,  in 
his  opinion  (next  to  religion,  in  which  they  prevail  not)  the 
most  sure  foundation  for  reformation  and  a  settled  peace ; 
which  makes  him  studious  to  find  out  the  means  and  apt 
to  lay  hold  on  every  occasion  that  presents  itself  for  that 
service. 

The  county  of  Wexford  is  an  ancient  county,  and  has  here- 
tofore been  possessed  by  civil  and  industrious  people,  it  being 
one  of  the  first  conquered  countries  of  this  kingdom  ;  but 
when  the  chief  of  the  English  retired  themselves  from  hence 
upon  the  discord  of  the  houses  of  Lancaster  and  York,  the 
Irish  crept  into  the  woody  and  strong  parts  of  the  same, 
and  so  prevailed  that  they  extirpated  the  remainder  of  the 
English  and  possessed  themselves  of  that  part,  which  they 
have  held  ever  since. 

Those  Irish  countries  (for  so  they  term  them)  known  by 
the  names  of  the  Kinselaghes,  Murroes,  Macdamore,  and 
Macvadocke,  have  been  charged  with  sundry  exactions  and 
impositions; — some  under  colour  of  letters  patent  got  from 
the  late  Queen  upon  unjust  pretensions  ;  others  laid  upon  the 
inferiors  by  their  powerful  neighbours  ; — and  finding  the  poor 
people  miserably  oppressed,  he  sought  their  ease,  and  where 
they  perceived  that  they  had  a  feeling  of  their  misery  they 
made  profier  to  surrender  their  interests  in  those  lands  to 
His  Majesty,  and  take  new  estates  upon  the  commission 
of  defective  titles  and  surrenders ;  but  now  upon  search  and 
better  looking  into  the  matter,  there  appears  a  better  title  for 
the  King  than  those  intruders,  by  such  as  have  books  to  fill, 
to  pass  part  of  it  to  one  and  part  to  another  ;  and  he  is  told 
that  some  persons  (that  watch  for  nothing  else)  are  lately  gone 
thithei-  to  put  some  nobleman  or  gentleman  about  the  King  to 
beg  it,  and  others  to  entitle  one  Sir  Thomas  Bewemount  (Beau- 


472  lEELAND — JAMES  I. 

1610. 

mont)  of  Colehorton,  thereto,  in  respect  that  the  Viscount 
Beuemount  held  it  long  since  from  the  Crown. 

Those  countries  are  the  dens  of  the  Cavenaghes  and  other 
lewd  persons  in  time  of  rebellion  ;  the  people  that  possess 
them  now  for  the  most  part  have  been  their  Bonnaghts  or 
hired  soldiers,  and  in  such  times  are  still  their  followers, 
fosterers,  and  relievers.  If  the  countries  be  disposed  to  such 
as  will  take  no  other  care  but  to  make  profit  of  it,  more  harm 
than  good  will  come  thereof  Therefore  he  prays  that  stay  may 
be  made  of  granting  it,  or  any  part  thereof,  until  they.  His 
Majesty's  Commissioners  here,  have  handled  the  business  and 
brought  it  to  the  King's  hands,  if  it  may  be  without  grudge 
or  disturbance  of  the  people.  And  the  better  to  bring  this  to 
pass  (if  his  Lordship  thinks  well  of  it),  he  will  pass  a  lease  for 
21  years  to  Sir  Richard  Masterson,  and  some  other  gentlemen 
near  neighbours  to  the  place,  in  trust  only ;  the  same  to  be 
surrendered  when  the  title  is  made  clear,  at  His  Majesty's 
goodwill  and  pleasure,  upon  such  consideration  and  recompense 
as  shall  be  thought  fitting,  which  must  be  answerable  to  the 
charge  they  shall  be  at  in  the  prosecution  of  the  business,  and 
the  loss  they  shall  sustain  by  the  alteration,  which,  to  Sir 
Richard,  will  be  great  if  he  be  not  relieved,  for  he  has  now 
out  of  those  coimtries  90^.  sterling  yearly  by  grant  from  the 
late  Queen. 

Makes  choice  of  Sir  Richard  Masterson  especially  before 
others,  since  he  has  very  nobly  and  honestly  discovered  what 
he  has  long  searched  after  and  found  out,  to  clear  the  King's 
title,  and  is  a  near  neighbour  to  those  countries,  and  knows 
best  how  to  deal  with  them  without  noise  or  disturbance. 
If  those  lands  be  brought  to  the  Crown  by  these  means, 
himself  and  the  heir  of  Sir  WiUiam  Ginnett  may  have 
portions  of  them  in  lieu  of  the  chief  rents  they  now  receive, 
and  the  King  may  dispose  the  rest  to  freeholders  of  both 
nations,  having  care  to  give  reasonable  content  to  the  principal 
men  who  now  pretend  right  unto  it. 

Has  not  heard  from  thence  of  long  time,  and  therefore  is 
ignorant  in  what  is  resolved  touching  the  plantation  of  the 
escheated  lands  in  Ulster.  The  season  of  the  year  is  far  spent ; 
winter  in  that  province  is  at  hand,  and  no  undertakers  are  yet 
arrived  here. 

The  charge  of  a  journey  hither  wiU  be  exceeding  great,  where 
makiug  but  a  short  stay  little  will  be  effected,  and  the  very 
motion  wiU  disquiet  the  people  as  much  as  the  thing  itself ;  and 
how  they  stand  affected  his  Lordship  may  perceive  by  what 
Sir  Toby  Calefeelde  [Caulfield]  has  written,  which  herewith  he 
sends  as  it  came  even  now  to  his  hands.  He  was  ever  and  is  still 
of  opinion,  that  those  people  will  not  be  removed  from  one  place 
to  another,  though  it  be  from  the  worse  to  the  better,  without 
trouble  and  disturbance ;  and  therefore  they  must  go  provided 
to  withstand  and  suppress  them,  if  they  wiU  not  otherwise  be 
brought  to  reason.     Has  prepared  the  small  army  to  be  in 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  473 


1610. 

readiness  upon  a  short  warning,  and  has  a  reasonable  quantity 
of  bread  and  other  provisions  in  store  ;  yet  if  the  undertakers 
were  come,  and  if  he  were  directed  to  set  forward  this  day 
itself,  he  can  hardly  be  prepared  to  remove  from  hence  for  such 
a  journey  as  is  fitting  and  convenient  for  honour  and  safety, 
within  20  days :  which  he  has  thought  fit  to  recommend  to 
his  consideration,  with  this  further  addition,  that  he  shall  be 
ready,  as  well  in  winter  as  summer,  to  proceed  as  he  shall  be 
directed,  for  the  furtherance  of  so  good  a  service ;  but  he  knows 
that  some  that  must  be  of  the  commission  will  hardly  endure 
the  winter  tempests  in  those  parts  in  the  open  field,  where  no 
houses  nor  other  shelter  is  to  be  had,  but  such  tents  as  they 
carry  with  them. 

Encloses  a  confirmation  of  the  confession  of  one  John  Drea, 
a  priest,  which  he  intended  to  send  in  his  last  of  22d  instant, 
but  in  his  haste  overlooked. 

The  pirates  upon  this  coast  are  so  many  and  are  become  so 
bold  that  now  they  are  come  into  this  channel,  and  have  lately 
robbed  divers  barks,  both  English  and  Scotch,  and  have  killed 
some  that  have  made  resistance  ;  they  lay  for  the  Londoners' 
money  sent  for  the  works  at  Coleraine,  but  missed  it ;  they 
have  bred  a  great  terror  to  all  passengers,  and  he  thinks  will 
not  spare  the  King's  treasure  if  they  may  light  upon  it. 

Has  ordered  up  the  King's  pinnace  from  Munster,  and  has 
sent  out  a  small  bark  well  manned  and  furnished  to  search  for 
that  pilferer,  and  to  take  and  kill  them  if  they  may  ;  with 
which  he  has  acquainted  ray  Lord  Admiral. 

Is  this  day  advertised  that  the  pirates  Cowarde  and  Barrett 
are  taken  by  one  Lenan  de  Rosse,  a  Dutcliman,  and  others 
that  lay  a  fishing  near  the  Blackerocke,  upon  the  coast  of 
Connaught,  and  that  they  have  taken  with  them  two  small 
pieces,  in  which  are  some  sugar  and  salt,  but  the  ship  that  was 
their  man-of-war  is  escaped. 

Wishes  they  had  a  commission  for  the  adjudging  and 
executing  of  pirates  and  priests  here,  who  vex  and  disturb 
the  kingdom  more  than  can  be  understood  by  others  but  them 
that  feel  it.— Dublin  Castle,  27  June  1610. 

Pp.  6.     Signed.     Add.     Endd.     Encloses, 

S.P.,  Ireland,      799,         John  Drea,  priest,  to  \ 1  his  honour. 

vol.  229,  108  A.  /     .  ■-  ,  .  -^       , 

In  token  that  he  %s  a  true  subject,  hcts  already  proved  his 
zeal  in  revealing  unto  one  Mr.  Crosbye  some  secrets  that  he 
has  heard  touching  the  state  of  this  kingdom,  and  wished 
him  to  reveal  it  unto  the  Council.  Professes  to  know  much 
of  tuhat  is  doing  hy  the  disloyal  abroad  and  at  home,  and  to 
disclose  it  he  tuill  bring  him  before  himself. 

Pp.  2.     Signed.     Endd :  "  John  Drea,  priest." 

S.P.,  Ireland,    800.         John  Drea,  priest,  to — . 

'^°-  '  '       ^-  Hakes genercd  p>'rofessions  of  loyalty,  and  is  instructed  to 

discover  cdl  he  knows  or  may  hear  of  practised  against  the 
State. 


474  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

As  for  Tliomas  M'Edmond  and  the  rest  of  his  rank  that 
came  over  of  late,  undertakes  that  they  shall  be  apprehended ; 
and  tuill  use  all  means  possible  that  the  merchants  of  Cork. 
Limerick,  and  Waterford,  bringing  over  dangerous  men 
against  the  Grown,  may  be  known  from  time  to  time,  and 
such  other  of  them  that  bi'ing  letters  from  Spain,  Italy,  and 
other  such  places;  and  will  be  ivith  his  friends  in  those 
cities,  a  fortnight  in  a  city  and  another  fortnight  in  another 
city ;  and  further  undertakes  to  repair  to  the  toest  parts  of 
Desmond  and  Carbery,  vjhere  there  are  good  harbours  and 
access  of  ^navigation,  and  will  appoint  one  in  every  city  of 
those  that  shall  from  time  to  time  acquaint  him  (the  in- 
formant) of  all  such  neivs,  and  the  merchants  that  will  come 
over  and  land  in  those  west  parts  of  Ireland.  As  for  the 
clergy  of  Ireland,  knows  as  many  of  them  that  are  dan- 
gerous, and  will  give  a  note  of  all  their  names. 

Pp.  2.     Signed.    Endd. 

June  27.     801.        Sir  Toby  Caulfield  to  the  Lord  Deputy. 
yT'^9^wt\  Reports  his  ill  success  in  the  prosecution  of  tlie  woodkerne. 

'        '  There  is  no  hope  for  the  people  since  the  news  of  the  planta- 

tion dividged  by  Sir  Turlogh  M'Henry  and  the  rest  lately 
arrived  from  England,  that  it  will  shortly  be  many  of  their 
cases  to  be  woodkerne  out  of  necessity,  no  other  means  being 
left  them  to  keep  a  being  in  this  ivorld,  than  to  live  as  long  as 
they  can  by  scramblinxj. 

They  have  a  report  that  an  ambassador,  newly  arrived  in 
England  from  Spain,  is  treating  for  the  pardoning  of  the 
Earl  and  restoration  to  his  hands,  which  being  refused,  a  war 
will  ensue.  They  also  hope,  that  the  summer  being  spent, 
before  the  commissioners  come  down,  so  great  cruelty  ivill  not 
be  offered  as  to  remove  them  from  their  houses  upon  the  edge 
of  luinter,  and  in  the  very  season  when  they  are  to  supply 
themselves  in  making  their  harvest.  And  they  think  that  by 
the  next  spring,  if  ever  Tyrone  can  or  will  come,  he  tvill  wait 
for  no  longer  time,  since  delays  and  further  deferring  cannot 
be  less  prejudice  to  him  than  the  utter  ruin  and  extirpation 
of  his  dearest  friends.  They  hold  discourse  among  them- 
selves that  if  this  course  had,  been  taken  with  them  in  war 
time,  it  had  had  some  colour  of  justice ;  but  they  having  been 
pardoned  and  their  lands  given  them,  and  having  lived  under 
law  ever  since,  and  being  ready  to  submit  themselves  io  mercy 
for  any  offence  they  can  be  charged  tvith  since  their  pardon- 
ing, they  conclude  it  to  be  the  greatest  cruelty  that  was  ever 
inflicted  upon  any  people.  TaJces  leave  to  assure  hiin  there 
is  not  a  more  discontented  people  in  Christendom,  and  ac- 
cordingly he  must  provide  for  them  to  serve  the  new  planters. 
B.  G.  assures  him  that  neither  Ever  M'Gollogh's  son  nor  the 
provincial  friar,  who  as  he  heareth  is  made  Archbishop  of 
Toome  [Tuam],  is  in  Ireland,  but  that  .they  lately  went 
from  Rome  to  Spain,  where  they  now  are.     0.  S.  is  of  that 


IRELAND—JAMES  I.  475 


1610. 

mind ;  both  confessing  that  they  have  had  conference  tuith  the 
chief  priests  of  the  Pale,  noiu  very  lately  meddling  in  state 
affairs,  from  whom  they  make  no  doubt  but  they  should  have 
heard  it  if  any  such  thing  had  been.  He  lays  out  to  know 
by  sundry  other  luays,  and  is  persuaded,  that,  if  they  be  ar- 
rived, it  is  not  yet  knoiun  to  his  neighbours.  B.  0.  tells  him 
that  three  other  priests  are  lately  arrived.  Their  names  are, 
one  Bath,  son  to  Bath  of  Saundestowne  ;  one  Brada  {Bradyl, 
and  one  Whyte,  their  Christian  names  he  knows  not.  They 
came  from  Italy  to  Brosell  [Brussels],  and  from  thence  to 
Ireland.  They  had  in  their  company  one  of  the  women  whom 
Tyrone  carried  awa,y  %mth  him,  whom  they  left  at  Brosell  to 
avoid  suspicion. 

Pp.  2.     Endd :  "  From  Sir  Toby  Calefeelde,  received  the 
27  June  1610." 

S.P.,  Ireland,    802.        Intelligences.  , 

^°  '      '         ■  Thomas  Geraldine  is  Tyrone's  agent  in  Ireland ;  Riccard 

O'Connell  is  Mr.  Daniel  O'SwoUyvane's  agent;  O'Sivollyvane 
cdias  Teig  M'Daniel  O'Sivollyvane  is  Connor  O'Drisccdl's 
agent ;  Teig  Ohivollaghan  \0  Hoolagham'],  Franciscan  friar, 
is  Morris  FitzJohn  Desmond's  agent  in  Irelctnd.  They  write 
as  often  as  they  may  conveniently  unto  them  cdl  things  that 
they  hear  in  this  kingdom  from  time  to  time. 

The  Archbishop  of  Cashel  is  gone  to  Rome,  and  a  Jesuit, 
Walter  Vale,  tvent  purposely  with  neivs  and  for  news.  There 
is  no  doubt  but  every  one  of  the  clergy  in  Ireland  and  of  the 
birth  of  Ireland  in  foreign  parts  is  daily  luorking  cdl  pos- 
sible means  to  have  wcors  in  Ireland.  They  send  daily  precur- 
sors over  to  persuade  the  common  people  in  their  confessions ; 
and  the  covimon  people  cannot  dAscover,  because  it  is  m,oved 
unto  them  in  foro  confessionis ;  tvherefore  he  beseeches  his 
honour  that  some  coiorse  may  be  taken  that  these  people  be  not 
so  tempted.  They  have  appointed  that  every  man  shall  bless 
himself  as  often  c^s  he  sees  any  Protestant,  or  member  of  any 
other  sect  whatsoever.  They  have  also  appointed  thai  no 
Catholic  shall  be  in  company  tuith  any  Protestant  to  be  buried, 
sub  poena  excomrtiunicationis.  They  have  apipointed  in  every 
bishopric  in  Ireland  a  genercd  vicar,  who  must  appoint  co 
curate  in  every  parish  throughout  all  the  diocese.  They  have 
archdeacons,  cleans,  officers,  as  they  were  in  times  past.  There 
is  neither  child  christened  nor  matrimony  or  contract  onade 
now  in  Ireland,  but  by  Catholic  priests.  They  can  dispense 
with  any  couple  as  nigh  by  degrees  but  in  one  and  two.  They 
have  set  and  ordained  that  no  piriest  or  friar  shall  make 
conversation  with  any  Protestant.  They  have  appointed 
guardian  abbots  in  every  abbey  in  Ireland.  They  have  viewed 
the  cities  and  the  situation  of  the  forts  and  the  strength  of  all 
Ireland. 

Beseeches  him  not  to  let  this  be  known  publicly  aivhile  to 
any  of  the  Council  that  are  of  the  birth  of  Ireland,  except 


476  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

Sir  Dominick  Sarafield.  Hopes  his  Lordship  ivill  let  him 
know  before  his  departure  from  home  xuhat  he  shall  do  if  he 
brings  him  aivay  from  Jience,  so  that  he  may  send  for  things,  as 
his  boots,  boot-hose,  and  such  other  things  against  the  journey. 
Beseeches  him  that  he  r)iay  not  be  left  here,  the  rather  because 
egrotat  cnomena.  They  pray  to  God  both  day  and  night  for 
the  confusion  and  overthrow  of  Sir  Robert  Cecil,  thinJcing 
him  to  be  the  only  fount  of  cdl  the  misery  and  error,  and  not 
only  that,  but  to  be  inspired  by  a  spirit  that  fortells  him  of 
all  things.  They  further  charge  Scotland  to  he  full  of  the 
black  art,  and  think  it  to  be  the  wickedest  nation  in  Chns- 
tendom. 

Warns  him  of  the  danger  to  the  King's  castle  of  Limerick, 
by  reason  of  a  cellar  underneath  it  that  can  be  entered  un- 
observed from  the  toivn. 

Has  sent  to  inquire  of  this  cellar,  tvhich  a  mason  in 
Limerick  can  discover  with  little  luork. 

Pp.  2. 

June  30.     803.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Crichester. 

PhUad.  P.,  Warrant  to  make  a  grant  in  fee-farm  to  Thomas  Cantwell, 

'   '    '       '  of  Bally  M'Keady,  in  the  county  of  Tipperary,  in  considera- 

tion of  his  wounds  and  losses  sustained  in  the  service  of  the 
Crown,  of  the  castle  and  lands  of  Galbally  or  Galballyaherlagh, 
in  the  counties  of  Tipperary  and  Limerick,  or  either  of  them, 
late  the  inheritance  of  Donogh  M'Creagh,  Morogh  O'Bryen, 
Ulich  M'William  Bourke,  and  others  attainted  of  treason,  or 
which  came  to  the  King  by  bargain  or  sale  from  the  Earl  of 
Thomond  or  Sir  Richard  Boyle,  and  are  now  in  the  possession 
of  John  Burgot  and  Miles  Roche,  to  be  held  in  common  soccage 
at  a  rent  of  90?.  during  the  continuance  of  the  lease  to  said 
John  Burgot  and  Miles  Roche  ;  and  on  the  expiration  thereof 
at  80?.  only. 

And  as  the  said  Thomas  Cantwell  has  covenanted  to  build  a 
castle,  to  keep  the  neighbourhood  in  order,  and  to  plant  with 
civil  people,  he  is  to  have  a  court  baron,  fair  and  weekly 
markets. — Westminster,  30  June,  in  the  eighth  year  of  the 
reign. 

Pp.  2.     Signed  at  head.     Add.    Endd. 

[June.]       804.        Fishing  of  the  Bann. 

vol  ^29*^^09  and  Refers  to  the  purchase  by  the  King  from  Sir  James  Hamil- 

109  A.  ton  of  the  fishing  of  the   Bann.     Adds  a  note  of  the  monies 

disbursed  by  Sir  James  Hamilton  and  his-  partners  in  the 

fishings  of  the  rivers  of  Loughfoyle  and  the  Bann,  which  are 

now  to  be  conveyed  to  His  Majesty. 

P.  1.  Signed  by  Hamilton.  Endd.:  "A  note  of  Mr, 
Hamilton's  bargain  for  the  fishing." 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


477 


1010. 

June  30. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 

229,  109  b. 


vol 


805.        Purchase  of  the  Fishing  of  the  Bann. 

Warrant  to  the  Exchequer  to  pay  Sir  James  Hamilton 
1,000?.,  in  addition  to  other  monies  before  paid  to  him,  for  his 
title  and  interest  in  the  fishings  of  Loughfoyle  and  the  Bann. 

P.  1.  Pavchinent.  This  is  attested  by  E.  Reynoldes,  and 
stated  to  be  inrolled  in  the  office  of  Clerk  of  the  Pells,  20  July 
1610. 


July  5. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  229,  109  c. 


806.        Petition  of  Richard  Waldrom  to  the  Privy  Council. 

Prays  to  be  excused  from  a  personal  residence  of  five  years 
on  his  proportion  of  lands  in  Ulster.  Recommends  George 
Sharpe  and  Clement  Gotterill  as  his  deputies. 

A  reference  is  added  to  commissioners  for  Irish  causes. 
Noted,  Rec.  5  July  1610. 

P.  1.  Mem.  signed  by  Salisbury  :  "  The  Lords  do  refer 
this  petition  to  the  commissioners  for  Irish  suits  to  certify 
their  opinion  thereupon." 

P.  1. 


July  5. 

Carew  Papers, 
vol.  619,  p.  212. 


July  7. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 

vol.  229,  109  D. 


July  7. 

Philad.  P., 
vol.  l,p.  421. 


807.  John  Redlake's  Deposition. 

The  deposition  of  John  Redlake,  born  in  Devonshire  in 
England,  and  one  of  the  company  apprehended  in  the  prize 
lately  taken  in  Orkney  and  incarcerated  within  the  Tolbooth  of 
Edinburgh,  and  examined  in  the  presence  of  Sir  William  Hairt, 
Justice  Depute,  and  Robert  Bannatyne,  one  of  the  baillies  of 
the  said  burgh. 

Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester:  "  Certain  examinations  of 
pirates  taken  in  Scotland  by  the  Lords  of  the  Council  there, 
and  by  them  sent  unto  the  Lord  Treasurer  and  Lord  Privy 
Sea],  and  by  their  Lordships  sent  over  unto  me,  which  I 
received  the  2  November  1610. 

"  I  sent  these  to  the  Vice-President  of  Mounster,  the  7th  of 
the  same.  I  received  them  back  with  the  examinations  of 
the  parties  on  the  25tli  of  Jan." 

P.  1.     Copy. 

808.  Sir  Humfrey  Winche  to  Salisbury. 

Sends  a  brace  of  Irish  greyhounds. — Dublin,  7  July  1610. 
P.  1.     Signed.     Add.     Endd. 

809.  The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

The  charge  of  His  Majesty's  fort,  called  Mountjoy  Fort,  or 
Fort  Mountjoy,  is  at  present  held  by  Sir  Francis  Roe,  Knight. 
His  Majesty  directs  that,  at  the  next  avoidance,  the  same  shall 
be  passed  to  Sir  Thomas  Coach,  with  the  same  entertainment 
and  emoluments  enjoyed  by  Sir  Francis  Roe.— Westminster, 
7  July,  m  the  8th  year  of  the  reign. 

P.  1.  Orig.  Signed.  Sealed.  Add.  Endd. :  "  From 
the  Kinge's,  Matie  to  passe  the  fort  of  Mountjoye  unto  Sir 
Thomas  Coach,  &c.,  to  which  there  doth  belong  neither  fee 


478 


IRELAND —JAMES  I. 


1610. 


Oct.  22.     810, 

Philad.  P., 
vol.  1,  p.  422. 


July  14. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  229,  110. 


811 


■ward,  nor  anye  manner  of  other  entertaynement,  ■w^'^out 
which  to  passe  the  caslle  and  fort  unto  him  were  dangerous, 
his  owne  abilytie  being  insufficient  to  maintayne  and  defend 
it,  besides  which  it  is  graunted  to  me  by  letters  patente 
duringe  my  life.     Rec.  the  18*'^  of  Sept."     Encloses, 

Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to   the  Attorney  and   Solicitor- 
Oeneral. 
Directs  that  fiant  may  be  prepared  of  the  grant  of  the 
above  ordered  coTnonand  of  the  fort  of  Mountjoy  in  favour 
of  Sir  Thomas  Coach. — Dublin,  22  October  1610. 
P.J.     Orig. 

Sir  Robert  Jacob  to  Salisbury. 

Prays,  that  as  he  is  now  going  the  Ulster  journey  with  the 
Lord  Deputy,  he  may  be  sent  for  at  the  conclusion  to  come  to 
England,  to  report  the  proceedings.  Submits  a  project  for 
the  increase  of  the  revenue. — Dublin,  14  July  1610. 

P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Eiuld. 


July  14. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  229,  111. 


812.        Lord  Deputy  to  Salisbury. 

Recommends  the  bearer.  Sir  Christopher  Plunket.- 
14  July  1610. 
P.  1.     Signed.     Add.    Endd. 


-Dublin, 


Carte  Papers, 
vol.  61,  p.  323. 


July  17.     813.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Attorney  or  Solicitor- 
General. 
Warrant  by  the  Lord  Deputy,  Sir  Arthur  Chichester,  to 
the  Attorney  or  Solicitor-General,  to  make  out  a  fiant  of  the 
office  of  auditor  of  foreign  accounts,  in  favour  of  James  Ware 
and  John  Ware,  his  son. — Merrion,  17  July  1610. 
P.  1.     Orig.     Endd. :  "  M.^  Ware  and  his  sonne." 


July  18. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  229,  112. 


July  18. 
S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  229,  113. 


814.  Thomas  Earl    of  Ormonde    and    Ossory    to   Salis- 

bury. 

Has  had  ill  fortune  for  hawks  this  year ;  yet  such  few  as 
come  to  his  hands  he  sends  to  him,  praying  him  to  do  him  the 
favour  to  present  them  to  His  Majesty  from  him,  for  which 
he  will  rest  very  thankful  to  him.— Carrick,  18  July  1610. 

P.  1;     Signed.     Add.     Endd. 

815.  Thomas    Earl  of  Ormonde  and    Ossory  to    Salis- 

bury. 
Thanks  him  for  procuring  His  Majesty's  letters  to  the  Lord 
Deputy  of  some  suits  of  his,  and  prays  him  to  continue  his 
friendship ;  that  by  his  means  His  Majesty  may  signify  his 
pleasure  to  the  Lord  Deputy,  as  well  for  the  continuance  of 
the  freedom  of  his  lands  and  possessions  to  him  and  any  his 
posterity  by  letters  patent,  as  for  passing  the  rest  of  such 
small  suits  of  his  as  he  appointed  his  servant,  Hemy  Sher- 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  479 


1610. 

wood,  to  move  to  him.    Makes  bold  to  send  him  two  nags,  with 
two  brace  of  such  greyhounds  as  he  had,  which  he  prays  him 
to  accept  of  for  want  of  better. — Carrick,  18  July  1610. 
F.  1.     Signed.     Add.     Endd. 

July  19.     816.        The  Loeds    of   Council   to   the   Lobd   Deputy   and 
Phiiad.  p.,  Council. 

The  poor  man,  Patrick  Foxe,  alleged  in  his  petition  that  in 
the  time  of  her  late  Majesty  the  Privy  Council  granted  him, 
by  letters  of  22nd  December  1589,  a  pension  of  12cZ.  a  day, 
which,  not  having  been  paid  since  the  accession  of  his  present 
Majesty,  is  now  in  arrear  two  hundred  and  odd  pounds.  For 
this  arrear  no  relief  can  be  granted  ;  but  they  direct  that  the 
first  pension  of  12d  English  a  day,  which  shall  fall  void,  may 
be  granted  to  him,  and  that  meanwhile  that  sum  may  be  paid 
to  him  out  of  the  revenues  of  the  realm  of  Ireland. — White- 
hall, 19  July  1610. 

Signed:  R.  Salisbury,  E.  Northampton,  T.  Suffolke,  Gilb. 
Shrewsbury,  E.  Worcester,  Lenox. 

P.  1.     Orig.    Sealed.    Add.    Endd. 

Phiiad.  P.,        817.  NiNIAN   WATSON'S   PETITION. 

'   '  "     '  To  the  Governors  of  Ulster. 

Prays  that  the  inquiry  touching  the  robbery  of  his   mare, 
found  in  the  possession  of  Robert  Gibbson,  may  not  be  further 
postponed. 
.  P.  i.     Orig. 

July  19.      818.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 

voi!'229!'n4.  ^^^  Thomas  Ridgeway,  their  Treasurer,  came  to  Dublin  on 

the  5th  of  this  inst.,  when  they  expected  him  not,  the  wind 
being  contrary.  But  the  dispatch  which  he  returned  with 
made  him  careless  of  his  own  safety ;  for  he  put  over  in  a  small 
boat  of  seven  or  eight  tons,  a  vessel  unfit  for  him  to  adventure 
in  had  not  the  consideration  of  His  Majesty's  service  carried 
him  beyond  what  was  fitting.  For  had  he  stayed  but  ten  days 
longer  they  should  hardly  have  proceeded  in  the  work  of  the 
plantation  this  summer  by  reason  of  the  separation  of  the 
Council, — the  Judges  to  their  circuits,  and  most  others  to  em- 
ployments peculiar  to  themselves.  But  now  upon  receipt  of 
His  Majesty's  directions,  and  those  from  him  and  the  Council, 
he  intends  (by  God's  permission)  to  be  at  the  Cavan  on  St! 
James's  day,  the  25th  inst.,  there  to  begin  that  great  work  on 
the  day  of  that  blessed  saint  in  Heaven  and  great  monarch 
upon  earth ;  to  which  he  prays  God  to  give  good  and  prosperous 
success,  for  they  shall  find  many  stubborn  and  stiflTnecked 
people  to  oppose  themselves  against  it,  and  to  hinder  the  free 
passage  thereof;  the  word  of  removing  and  transplanting 
being  to  the  natives  as  welcome  as  the  sentence  of  death. 


480  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

1610. 

Begins  with  the  Cavan  because  the  people  there  are  more 
understanding  and  pliable  to  reason  than  in  the  remoter  parts; 
and  because  there  is  more  land  to  dispose  towards  the  content- 
ment of  the  natives  in  that  county  than  in  any  of  the  rest ;  and 
next  to  that  is  Fermanagh,  which  shall  be  the  second  county 
they  will  deal  Avith. 

Most  of  the  commissioners  named  in  the  King's  letters  have 
prayed  to  be  excused  from  personal  attendance  in  the  journey, 
as  well  by  reason  of  age  and  impotency  of  body,  as  of  the  diffi- 
culty of  the  ways,  the  foulness  of  the  weather,  and  the  ill  lodging 
they  shall  find  in  Ulster.  So  that  of  them  he  shall  have  the  com- 
pany of  Mr.  Treasurer  and  the  Master  of  the  Rolls  only ;  but 
he  takes  with  him  the  Marshal  of  the  Army  and  some  others 
of  the  Council,  who,  together  with  Mr.  Treasurer,  he  is  sure 
will  never  refuse  any  travel,  hazard,  or  danger,  which  is  fit  for 
them  to  undergo  for  the  furtherance  of  His  Majesty's  service 
and  directions. 

By  this  passage  intends  to  send  over  Cowarde,  the  pirate, 
with  his  companion  Barratt.  Has  employed  a  gentleman  welt 
trusted  by  Bishop,  the  pirate,  to  deal  with  him  to  perform 
some  acceptable  service  upon  the  rest  of  the  pirates,  according 
to  the  contents  of  his  Lordship's  and  the  Lord  Admiral's  letters. 
Wrote  in  his  last  that  that  petty  rebel  Sackewell  [Salkeld]  was 
slain,  and  so  was  it  delivered  to  him  for  truth  ;  but  whether 
it  be  so  is  yet  uncertain,  for  he  was  carried  aboard  sore 
wounded,  and,  putting  to  sea  soon  after,  no  other  news  is  yet 
come  of  him. 

Cowarde  says  that  the  pirates  intend  to  fire  the  fleet  of 
fishermen  upon  the  coast  of  Newfoundland  the  next  spring,  if 
they  be  not  taken  in  this  winter ;  his  advice  is  to  receive 
them  to  mercy,  otherwise  they  are  resolved  to  prey  upon  the 
subject  as  well  as  the  stranger. 

Has  sent  for  Sir  AUen  Apsley,  and  will  contract  with  him  for 
victualling  the  King's  ships,  as  he  has  directed.  The  principal 
matter  to  be  considered  of  wiU  be  the  number  for  which  he 
shall  contract.  Now  there  is  no  other  ship  or  pinnace  of  His 
Majesty  upon  the  coast  but  the  Lion's  Whelp,  whose  allowance 
is  but  three  score  men.  Sir  Richard  Morison  is  of  opinion 
that  good  profit  may  be  made  of  the  ironworks  of  which  be 
(Salisbury)  makes  mention.  When  Mr.  Tokefeeld  comes  over 
he  (Chichester)  will  confer  with  him,  and  advise  and  further 
him  in  all  he  may. 

Has  in  readiness  some  dogs  and  mewed  hawks  to  send  his 
Lordship,  which  shall  come  to  him  as  soon  as  they  are  fit  to  be 
carried  so  far ;  the  soar -hawks  are  for  the  most  part  so  rotten 
that  he  thinks  it  the  better  course  to  send  him  such  as  are 
tried  and  mewed  henceforth,  though  they  be  the  fewer;  they 
are  poor  presents  for  so  rich  a  benefactor,  for  which  he  prays 
to  be  excused. — Merrion,  near  Dublin,  19  July  1610. 

Pp.  3.     Signed.    Add.     Endd. 


IRELAND — JAMES  I,  481 


1610. 
July  20.      819.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
vd'^'^p  409  Warrant  to  make  a  grant  or  grant  and  confirmation  to  the 

portrieve,  burgesses,  and  commons  of  tlie  town  of  Athboy, 
of  their  charter  and  liberties,  with  weekly  markets,  yearly 
fair,  tolls  and  customs ;  and  that  all  strangers  be  prohibited 
from  selling  wines  or  aquavitse  by  retail  in  said  markets  and 
fairs ;  in  regard  that  part  of  their  town  was  burned  in  the 
time  of  the  rebellion  of  the  traitor  Tyrone,  and  the  then 
portrieve,  with  many  of  the  townsmen,  were  slain  in  the 
defence  thereof  for  the  service  of  the  Crown,  and  to  enable 
them  to  rebuild  the  said  town  and  the  walls  thereof — West- 
minster, 20  July,  in  the  8th  year  of  the  reign. 
P.  1.     Signed  at  head.     Add.    Endd.    Enrol. 

July  20.  820.  Lords  of  Council  to  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Council. 
v^l^p  55  '^^^  bearer,  Anthony  Furres,  having  24  years  ago  mortgaged 

his  pension  of  20d.  a  day  to  John  Corbett  for  501.,  and  Corbett 
now  going  about  to  surrender  and  get  the  same  in  his  own 
name,  their  Lordships,  as  the  man  is  now  in  years,  and  has 
done  good  services  to  the  State,  direct  the  Deputy  to  call 
Corbett  before  him,  and  to  effect  some  suitable  composition  of 
the  claim,  Furres  being  willing  to  repay  the  501  with  reason- 
able interest.— Whitehall,  20  July  1610. 

Signed :  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton,  Lenox,  T.  Suffolke, 
Gilb.  Shrewsbury,  H.  Worcester. 

P.  1.     Orig.     Sealed.     Add.     Endd. 


July  21.     821.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to   His  Majesty's  Counsel 
Carte  Papers,  or  either  of  them. 

In  the  absence  of  the  Earl  of  Clanricard,  Lord  President  of 
Connaught,  Sir  Oliver  St.  John,  Knight,  is  nominated  Vice- 
President  of  that  province.  Warrant  for  the  preparation  of 
commissions  to  be  engrossed  and  passed  under  the  seal. — 
Merryon,  10  July  1610. 

P.  1.  Orig.  Endd. :  "  Sir  Oliver  St.  John,  his  commis- 
sions." 

July  21.     822.        Sir  Allen  Apsley  to  Mr.  Dudley  Norton. 

vol  '229™m '  -^^^  come  up  from  Cork  to  Dublin  concerning  the  victual- 

ling of  the  King's  ships. — Dublin,  21  July  1610. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Add.     Endd. 

July  22.     823.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Mr.  Dudley  Norton. 

YoT  229^' lie'  -^^^  conferred  with  Sir  Allen  Apsley  about  the  victualling 

of  the  King's  ships,  and  after  some  debating  they  concluded 
the  effect  laid  down  in  his  own  letters,  which  he  sends.  If 
the  King  keep  300  men  or  upward  upon  this  coast,  thinks  his 
offers  reasonable,  but  for  fewer  numbers  he  cannot  contract 
and  save  by  them,  for  his  bake-houses  and  brew-houses  will 
3.  h  h 


4<82  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

IGIO. 

serve  him  for  little  other  use  ;  all  the  people  here,  especially 
in  Waterford  and  Cork,  being  bakers  and  brewers  for  their 
own  household.  For  the  present  has  appointed  the  "  Lyon's 
Wlielp  "  to  victual  at  Chester,  and  if  they  conclude  with  him, 
they  must  be  enabled  to  imprest  him  money  beforehand,  as 
he  may  perceive  by  his  demand  in  his  letters. 

Has  often  put  the  Earl  of  Kildare  in  mind  to  make  his 
repair  thither,  according  to  former  directions,  but  his  Lordship 
says  that  he  cannot  begin  his  journey  for  want  of  money, 
much  less  continue  there  any  long  time  ;  believes  his  excuse, 
for  he  is  sure  his  (Lord  Kildare 's)  wants  (his  calling  considered) 
are  very  great.  Prays  him  to  acquaint  Lord  Digby  with  the 
occasion,  and  that  he  intends  to  take  his  journey  as  soon  as 
he  can  provide  himself  in  any  convenient  manner  (which  he 
takes  to  be  the  King's  and  Lords'  meaning)  and  not  to  go 
rmlike  himself;  when  that  will  be,  he  is  uncertain. — Meriou, 
near  Dublin,  22  July  1610. 

Pjj.  2.     Signed.     Add.    Endd.     Encloses, 

July  22.      824.         Sir  Allen  Apsley  to  the  Lord  Deputy, 
^'f'^^a'^nt'  Pro^JOsitions  for  victucdling  4>00  or  500  men;  three  months 

'        '  ivarning  to  be  given ;  ivill  not  %LndertaIce  it  if  the  proposal 

he  for  less  than  for  300  men. — Dublin,  22  July. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

July  23.     825.        Lady  Ellen  M'Caetie  to  Salisbury. 
^■F'^Jr^?'?^  Thanks   him  for  his  former  kindness,  and  trusts  he  will 

vol  229   1  !?• 

'       '  take  no  offence  in  that  she  now  again  troubles  him.     But  so 

it  is  that  His  Majesty's  gracious  letters  which  he  (Salisbury) 
obtained,  at  her  last  being  in  England,  for  a  small  remnant  of 
her  father's  lands  brought  her  a  great  deal  of  trouble  in  law 
with  sundry  men,  who,  amongst  other  things,  were  interested 
therein  by  former  grants  ;  and  in  the  end  she  lost  them,  with 
all  her  charges  in  England,  and  thereto  her  utter  undoing.  Is 
now  in  great  want  and  no  way  able  to  keep  herself  without 
his  wonted  favour ;  and  makes  no  doubt  that  he,  considering  her 
long  suit  and  knowing  that  His  Majesty  has  all  her  father's 
lands,  herself  being  the  last  of  that  house  that  ever  shall  be 
troublesome  to  His  Majesty,  would  willingly  relieve  her  in 
this  miserable  estate,  were  it  not  for  charging  of  the  King. 
Therefore  she  will  omit  to  crave  any  thing  that  shall  be 
chargeable  to  His  Majesty,  for  it  is  nothing  but  license  for  the 
transporting  of  certain  tuns  of  beer  into  the  Low  Countries ; 
and  that  shall  be  no  charge  to  His  Highness,  und  it  will  yield 
her  satisfaction  ;  and  ever  after  she  will  seek  to  be  no  further 
ti-oublesome  to  His  Majesty. 

P.].     Signed.    Add.     Endd. :"  25  July  IQIO." 

July  24.     826.        Advices  set  down  by  the  Commissioners. 
^T'gI^^^^og'a  Consisting  of  17  articles  regarding  concealed  lands,  proceed- 

ings in  prejudice  of  the  plantation,  details  of  the  erection  of 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  483 


1610. 

towns,  churches,  churchyards,  schools,  highways,  corporations, 
advowsons,  impropriations,  and  other  particulars  of  the  planta- 
tion. 

Pp.  3.     Copy. 

July  24.      827.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

^l^'J'*'^'  429  Understanding  that  the  bishoprick  of  Meath  is  now  void  by 

'   '    '     "'  the  death  of  the  late  Bishop,  and  having  good  testimony  as  to 

the  merits  of  the  now  Bishop  of  Derry,  Raphoe,  and  Clogher, 
His  Majesty  desires  to  bestow  upon  him  the  bishoprick  of 
Meath,  to  be  held  conjointly  with  Clogher,  which  he  now 
possesses,  and  which  is  endowed  with  the  Termon  and  Eirenagh 
lands,  in  the  county  of  Monaghan,  and  the  lands  and  heredita- 
ments of  Muckna.  He  therefore  directs  that  a  grant  thereof 
be  made  to  him  of  those  bishopricks  in  as  ample  a  manner 
as  any  of  his  predecessors ;  with  a  clause  against  alienation 
by  him  for  any  longer  time  than  60  years,  to  Britons  only,  and 
by  his  successors  for  their  lives  or  21  years,  at  4?.  per  quarter 
of  land,  and  against  alienation  of  all  mensal  lands  other  than 
during  his  own  continuance  or  from  year  to  year. — West- 
minster, 24  July,  8th  year  of  the  reign. 

Pp.  2^.     Signed  at  head.     Add.     Endd.     Enrol. 

July  25.     828.        Lords  of  Council  to  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Council. 

vol'^l^'p^ST  Lysaghe  O'Connor,  a  gentleman  of  Ireland,  has  made  suit 

for  some  of  the  escheated  lands  of  the  county  of  Cavan. 
They  recommend  his  suit  to  the  Lord  Deputy,  to  be  remem- 
bered with  some  good  proportion  of  land,  as  he  shall  think 
fittest.— Whitehall,  25  July  1610. 

Signed :  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton,  T,  Suffolke,  Gilb. 
Shrewsbury,  H.  Worcester. 

P.  1.     Orig.    Sealed.    Add.     Endd. 

July  25.      829.        Depositions. 

ToT6i9,''ii4.'  .    "^^^  depositions  of  Aschton  Courtnay,  bom  at  Woultoun, 

in  Devonshire,  Sanderis  Fleming  of  Campheir  in  Ireland, 
George  Nicole  of  Piltoun  in  Devonshire,  Robert  Hereis  in 
Bristo,  Roger  Cogin  Cannonier,  born  at  Lyme  in  Dorset,  taken 
in  the  prize  lately  apprehended  and  examined  in  presence  of 
the  Lords  of  the  Privy  Council,  viz.,  the  Earl  of  Dumfermling, 
the  Lord  Chancellor  of  Scotland,  Geo.  Earl  of  Dumbar,  the' 
High  Treasurer  of  Scotland,  John  Earl  of  Perth,  Ja.  Earl  of 
Abircorne,  Rob.  Lord  Roxburgh,  Walter  Lord  Blantyx,  Sir 
Alex.  Hay,  Secretary,  and  Sir  Robert  Melvill  of  BruiiteiU 
Knight.— At  Edinburgh,  25  July  1610. 
P.  3. 

July  25.     830.        Earl  of  Thomond  to  Salisbury. 
y^llT^ut'  Thanks  his  Lordship  for  his  letters  concerning  the  arbitra- 

'      ■  tration  of  his  ditference  with  Sir  Adam  Loftus  about  Catber- 

H  H  2 


484 


lEELAND— JAMES  I. 


1610. 


July  26. 

Philad.  P., 
vol.  4,  p.  59. 


July  26. 

Philad.  P., 
vol.  4,  p.  61. 


Philad.  P., 
vol.  4,  p.  62. 


July  27. 
Philad.  P., 
vol.  4,  p.  64. 


lagh.      Reports  great  flocking   of  Jesuits  into  Ireland,  who 
■were  never  in  greater  numbers,  and  for  the  most  part  are 
received  and  relieved  in  the  cities  and  port  towns. — Bunratty, 
25  July  1610. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

831.  The  Lords  of  Council  to  Lord  Deputy  and  Council. 
They  have  been  informed  by  Geo.  Courtney,  Esq.,  one  of 

the  Munster  undertakers,  that  Sir  John  Dowdall,  who  has 
lately  bought  the  seignorie  of  Sir  Henry  Billingsley,  seeks  to 
disturb  his  possession  of  two  ploughlands,  which  were  ex- 
pressly granted  to  Mr.  Strowde  and  conveyed  to  his  father. 
Considering  aU  the  allegations,  they  direct  the  Deputy  and 
CouncU  to  take  order  that  he  be  not  disturbed  in  possession 
till  the  case  be  decided  by  course  of  law.  And,  as  the  peti- 
tioner further  alleges  a  similar  aggression  on  his  rights  by  Sir 
William  Power,  they  desire  that  the  Barons  of  the  Exchequer 
shall  examine  into  the  cause. — Whitehall,  26  July  1610. 

Signed :  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton,  T.  Suffolke,  Gilb. 
Shrewsbury,  H.  Worcester,  Jul.  Caesar. 

P.  1.     07'ig.     Sealed.     Add.    Endd. 

832.  Lords  of  Council  to  Deputy  and  Council. 

John  White,  of  Duffern,  alleges  that  the  college  near 
Dublin,  has  in  his  absence  made  a  grant  to  Sir  Heury  Power 
of  three  or  four  bowes  of  land  and  three  cottages,  which  he 
(White)  held  of  the  church  of  Chapel  Izold,  and  of  which, 
when  questioned  by  the  college,  as  concealed  lands,  it  was 
agreed  that  he  should  be  farmer  at  the  rent  of  10s.  to  the 
Queen  and  2s.  6d.  to  the  college.  As  it  never  was  intended 
that  the  tenants  in  possession,  while  paying  rent,  should  be 
put  out,  they  direct  that  the  provost  be  called  before  the 
Deputy  and  Council,  and  required  to  carry  out  the  promise 
for  his  continuance  as  farmer  of  the  lands. — Whitehall,  26 
July  1610. 

Signed :  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton,  T.  Suffolke,  Gilb. 
Shrewsbury,  H.  Worcester,  Jul.  Caesar. 

P.  1     Orig.    Sealed.    Add.      Endd.    Encloses, 

833.  Joh7i  White's  petition  to  the  Lords  of  His  Majesty's 

Council. 

Recites  in  detail  the  grievances  referred  to  in  the  above 
letter,  together  with  the  particulars  of  his  own  dealing  with 
the  tenements  in  question,  and  prays  for  the  fulfilment  of  the 
terms  of  his  agreement. 

P.  1.     Oriq.    Endd. 

834.  Lords  of  Council  to  Lord  Deputy  and  Council. 
Recommend   John   Cottle,   gentleman,  to  be  employed  as 

clerk  to  keep  the  boolis  and  remembrances  of  the  plantation, 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  486 


1610. 

he  having  been  for  some  years  clerk  to  the  Commissioners  of 
Arrears  and  Surrenders,  and  having  given  good  satisfaction. 
—Whitehall,  27  July  1610. 

Signed:  E.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton,  T.  Suffolke,  Jul. 
Csesar,  Thos.  Parry. 

P.  J.     Orig.    Sealed.     Add.     Endd. 

July  28.      835.        Sir  Oliver  St.  John  to  Salisbury. 

voT'229^^119'  Sends  a  certificate  of  his  accounts  of  the  office  of  Ordnance. 

'       '  A  want  of  g-unners  is  felt  in  the  harbour  forts  ;  and  some  8  or 

10  small  pieces  of  brass,  which  maybe  bought  cheap  in  Ireland, 

are   needed   for  the  small   forts.      There   is   also   a  lack   of 

armourers. — Dublin,  28  July  1610. 

As  an  excellent  summary  of  this  letter,  see  p.  486,  No.  838. 
Pp.  4.     Encloses, 

S.P.,  Ireland,   836.        Munitions  of  War  in  the  Foists  of  Ireland. 

Abstract  of  the  remain  of  artillery,  munition,  tveapons, 
imrking  tools,  and  provisions  for  war  in  the  several 
forts  in  Ireland. 
Dublin,  Duncannon,  Gorke,  Haleboling,  Castlepark,  Lir)%e- 
rick,  Castlemaigne,  Waterforde,  Gallaway,  Athlone,  Sligoe, 
Newry,    Monahan,    Mountnorris,    Charlemount,   Mountjoy, 
Garigfergus,    Massareene,     Castle-toome,    Derrie,     Guhnore, 
Ballashannon. 
Pp.  16. 

^1^0^''^'^'^'^'     837.     Account  of  all  the  munition  and  stores  remaining  in 
"    '        '  Ireland,  showing  the  several  forts  in  tvhich  they  are 

distributed. 

Gannons  of  brass,  demi-cannons  of  brass,  culverin  of  brass, 
culverin  of  iron,  demi-culverin  of  brass,  demi-oulverin  of 
iron  ;  sakers  of  brass,  sakers  of  iron ;  minions  of  brass, 
minions  of  iron ;  faucons  of  brass,  faucons  of  iron ;  fauko- 
nett  of  brass,  faukonett  of  iron  ;  rabonett  of  brass ;  fowler 
of  brass ;  morter  pieces  of  brass ;  murtherer  of  iron ;  cannon 
shot,  demi-cannon  shot,  culverin  shot,  demi-culverin  shot,  saker 
shot,  minion  shot,  faukon  shot,  faukonett,  base  and  rabonett 
shot,  base  and  burn  shot,  stone  shot ;  ginnes  furnished,  smiths' 
forges,  carpenters'  and  wheelers'  tools;  corn  powder,  with 
match  and  lead  proportionable ;  muskets  furnished,  callivers 
furnished,  curatts  complete;  pikes,  siuords,  horsemen-staves, 
holberds,  brown  bills,  targets,  Spanish  morrions,  cressets, 
cresset  lightes,  shovels  and  spades,  crowes  of  iron,  felling 
axes,  pickaxes,  hedging  bills,  reaphooks,  scythes,  wheelbarroivs, 
handbarrows,  nails  of  all  sorts,  hand  baskets,  horse  collars, 
iron,  steel,  canvas,  sowtage,  copper  plate,  ginne  rope,  draught 
rope,  elm  planks,  fir  poles. 

Pp.  13. 


486 


IRELAND — JAMES  I. 


1610. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
Tol.  229,119  a. 


July  31. 

Philad.  P., 
vol.  4,  p.  06. 


July  29. 

Philad.  P., 
vol.  4,  p.  G7. 


July  31. 

Philad.  P., 
vol.  4,  p.  70. 


838.  Extract  of  the  last  letter  of  Sir  Oliver  St.  John's. 

That  there  is  want  of  gunners  in  the  forts  that  are  to 
guard  the  harbours  of  the  sea,  where  there  is  more  need  of 
gunners  to  keej:)  their  artillery  in  fight  together  than  of  wards 
for  defence  of  the  place. 

That  there  is  need  of  smcdl  pieces  of  brass  for  the  small 
forts,  whereof  some  8  or  10  is  desired,  wherein  the  soldiers 
rvill  be  easily  taught  to  shoot  tvithout  any  addition  of 
gunners. 

There  are  pieces  of  artillery,  both  brass  and  iron,  to  be 
bought  at  easy  rates  in  Ireland. 

The  store  there  is  altogether  unprovided  of  armourers, 
tvhereby  the  armours,  muskets,  calivers,  and  siuords  {which 
noiu  lie  unused)  are  in  danger  to  be  spoiled. 

P.  1. 

839.  Lords  of  Council  to  Loed  Deputy  and  Council. 
The  matters  long  in  controversy  between  Sir  Francis  Shane 

and  the  O'Ferralls  being  now  ordered,  they  have  thought  fit 
to  give  notice  thereof  to  the  Deputy  and  Council,  with  a  copy 
of  the  order,  that  it  may  be  carried  into  execution  ;  and  as 
they  (the  O'FeiTalls)  have  made  suit  to  His  Majesty  for  the 
remission  of  a  yearly  rent  of  231.  and  of  certain  arrearages 
claimed  by  the  heirs  and  executors  of  Sir  Nicholas  Malby, 
His  Majesty  is  graciously  pleased  to  direct  that  the  same  may 
be  remitted ;  and,  moreover,  that  some  further  consideration 
may  be  had  of  tlie  case  of  the  inhabitants. — Whitehall,  31 
July  1610. 

Signed :  T.  EUesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton, 
E.  Wotton,  L.  Stanhope,  Jul.  Ctesar. 

P.  1.     Orig.     Seeded.     Add.     Endd.     Encloses, 

840.  Order  in  the  cause  of  the  inhabitants  of  Longford  and 

Sir  Francis  Shccne. 

Order  onade  by  the  Lords  of  His  Majesty's  Privy  Council 
upon  the  petition  presented  by  Donell  O'Ferrall,  in  his  own 
oiaioie,  and  that  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  county  of  Longford, 
against  Sir  Francis  Shane,  in  July  1609,  and  a  similar 
petition  presented  for  himself  and  the  inhabitants  of  Long- 
ford against  the  same  Sir  Francis  on  the  10th  of  March 
1609;  luhich  petitions  are  inferred  to  the  Commissioners  of 
Irish  Causes,  and  by  than  reported  on  the  IQth  June  1610. — 
Whitehall,  29  July  1610. 

Signed  by  the  Lord  Archbishopi  of  Canterbury,  Lord  Chan- 
cello^',  Lord  Treasibrer,  Lord  Privy  Seal,  Lord  Wotton,  Lord 
Stanhope,  Sir  Julius  Ctvsar,  Sir  Thomas  Parry. 

Pp.  3.     Copy.     Ex.  by  John  Corbett.     Endd. 

841.  LoEDs  OF  Council  to  Loed  Deputy  and  Council. 
Having  heard  with  much   gratification   that  the   pirates, 

Coward  and  Barrett,  have  been  apprehended  on  the  coast  of 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  487 


1610. 

Connauglit,  by  Levan  de  Rosse,  a  Dutchman,  they  direct  that 
they  be  sent  over  to  be  tried  according  to  the  course  of 
iustice,  and  that  they  be  delivered  unto  the  custody  of  the 
Mayor  of  Chester.— Whitehall,  31  July  1610. 

Signed:  E.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton,  E.  Wotton,  L. 
Stanhope,  Jul.  Csesar,  Thos.  Parry. 

P.  |.     Sealed.     Add.     Endd. 

July  31.     842.        Lords  of  Council  to  Deputy  and  Council. 

Phiiad.  p.,  rjijjg    Deputy    and    Council    received    directions  _  by   His 

^°  ■   '  ^"     ■  Majesty's  letters  of  the  26th  of  June  last  for  the'  settling 

freeholdings  in  Ivagh  [Iveagh],  and  for  the  surrender  of  the 
lands  of  the  bishopric  of  Drumore  [Dromore],  and  of  Sir 
Arthur  Maghenishe  [Magennis].  Forasmuch  as  Sir  Arthur 
Magennis  and  the  Bishop  of  Dromore  both  consider  them- 
selves aggrieved  by  these  proceedings,  their  Lordships  direct 
that  all  proceedings  be  stayed,  and  that  meanwhile  they  shall 
be  supplied  with  all  particulars  of  the  parties,  names,  and 
quantities  of  lands  to  be  assigned  in  that  plantation,  in  order 
that  further  consideration  may  be  had  thereof — Whitehall, 
31  July  1610. 

Signed :    R.   Salisbury,  H.    Northampton,    E.    Wotton,  L. 
Stanhope,  Jul.  Caesar,  Thos.  Parry. 
P.  1.     Orig.     Sealed.     Add.    Endd. 


July  31.     843.        Lords  of  Council  to  Deputy  and  Council. 

Phiiad.  P.,  Thomas  Thornton,  an  infant,  son  of  the  late  Sir  George 

vol.  4   p,  74.  ...  .  ^ 

'  '  Thornton,  Knt.,  alleges  by  his  petition  that  his   father  was 

seised  partly  as  undertaker,  partly  by  purchase,  of  certain 
lands  in  Munster,  and  that  on  his  said  father's  decease  the 
custody  of  the  said  infant  was  granted  to  his  brother-in-law, 
James  Casie  ;  that  now  advantage  is  taken  of  his  infancy  by 
one  James  Ware  and  others,  pleading  the  benefit  of  the  College 
of  Dublin,  to  withhold  from  him  part  of  the  rents  of  the  said 
lands.  Their  Lordships  direct  that  the  infant  shall  be  kept 
in  possession  of  all  his  rents  and  other  advantages. — White- 
hall, 31  July  1610. 

Signed:  R.  Salisbury,  H,  Northampton,  E.  Wotton,  L. 
Stanhope,  Jul.  Csesar. 

P.  1.     Orig.     Sealed.     Add.    Endd. 

July.        844.        Sir  Allen  Apsley's  Propositions  fur  Victualling. 
^i''^c;'n?'i'?c'i'r  Particulars   of  the   propositions   of  Sir   Allen   Apslev  for 

vol.  229,  116  n.  .  ,,.  .  rr\r\  r        j.1  i         ./ 

victualling  400  or  500  men  lor  the  navy. 
P.  1.     Endd. 

[July.]      845.        Governor   and    Assistants  of   the  Plantation   to 

S.P.,  Ireland,  SALISBURY. 

'      '  Having  been  entreated  by  Mr.  Doctor  Babington  and  Dean 

Webb  for  their  letters  of  commendation  unto  him  for  pre- 


488  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

lUlO. 

ferment  to  the  bishopric  of  the  Derry,  and  having  at  an 
assembly  for  the  affairs  of  the  plantation  considered  of  the 
worthiness  and  convenientness  of  both  parties,  yet,  in  respect 
of  the  knowledge  they  have  taken  from  the  Lord  Deputy  of 
Ireland  (and  divers  other  gentlemen  of  worth  in  those  parts), 
of  the  long  time  spent  by  the  Dean  there,  as  also  of  his  con- 
tinual pains  in  preaching,  with  their  further  assurance  of  his 
present  repair  to  his  charge  and  continual  residence,  they 
entreat  his  Lordship  to  be  a  mean  unto  His  Majesty  for  his 
confirmation  into  the  said  bishopric. 

Signed :  William  Cokayne,  governor,  W.  Fowerson,  deputy, 
John  JoUes,  Will.  Grenewell,  Will.  Dale,  Geo.  Smithes,  James 
Hodgson,  John  Barton,  John  Garener,  Eichard  Fox,  Nicholas 
Leatt,  John  Mair,  Robert  Treswell,  N.  Harrison,  Guy  Dyos, 
John  Brodey. 

P.  1.     Add.     Endd. 

Aug,  1.      846.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Deputy  and  Council. 
"'^i"!?'''  "^'fi  Some  inconveniences  which  have  happened  on  former  occa- 

^°  ■   '  ^'     '  sions  have  suggested  to   their  Lordships  sundry  particulars 

which  they  think  fit  to  be  considered  for  the  present  planta- 
tion. 

First,  in  order  to  avoid  controversies  arising  about  con- 
cealed lands  not  passed  in  letters  patent,  if  any  such  omission 
fall  out  in  the  several  proportions,  they  think  it  fit  that  they 
be  passed  to  the  undertaker  in  whose  proportion  they  may 
lie.  If  not  within  any  particular  proportion,  the  concealed 
land  is  to  be  placed  with  the  reserved  land  of  the  precinct. 
Should  any  such  have  been  promised  or  granted  away  by  the 
Deputy,  their  Lordships  desire  that  further  proceedings  be 
stayed  till  directions  shall  be  sent  thencefrom.  Care  is  to  be 
taken  in  selecting  convenient  places  for  market  towns ;  the 
towns  to  be  enclosed  at  the  common  expense ;  the  enclosed 
land,  except  the  common  street,  to  be  reserved  for  commonage 
of  cattle.  A  plot  to  be  assigned  for  the  erection  of  a  suitable 
church  or  chapel,  and  also  for  a  market  house.  When  the 
towns  are  grown  to  forty  houses,  they  may  be  incorporated, 
with  a  charter  containing  reasonable  liberties,  among  which 
shall  be  the  right  to  send  two  burgesses  to  Parliament. 

Having  given  certain  further  minute  directions  as  to  the 
public  economy  of  the  towns,  they  add,  that,  as  the  old  inha- 
bitants of  the  Derry  deserve  special  consideration,  his  Lordship 
is  to  send  the  names  and  trades  of  such  among  them  as  desire 
to  continue  to  reside  there,  in  order  that  the  Londoners  may  be 
dealt  with  to  admit  them  to  the  corporation ;  and  to  set  aside 
240?.,  the  residue  of  the  5,000?.  to  be  paid  by  the  Londoners 
to  the  King,  together  with  a  further  100?.  English  for  the  use 
of  those  who  may  desire  so  to  dwell  in  Derry.  After  some 
instructions  as  to  livings  and  advowsons,  and  as  to  a  return  of 


IRELAND— JAMES  1.  489 


1610. 

the  impropriations  belonging  to  the  Archbishop  and  dignitaries 
of  Armagh,  they  direct  that  for  the  first  three  years  no  one  but 
a  Briton  shall  be  elected  as  sheriff,  provided  there  be  found 
fit  men  amongst  the  Britons.  That  as  Sir  Tirlagh  M'Henry 
seems  willing  to  he  removed  out  of  the  Fews,  a  convenient 
place  be  provided  for  him  at  the  Cavan  or  elsewhere.  Send 
a  list  of  the  undertakers,  distinguishing  those  who  have  en- 
tered into  bonds  and  those  who  have  not,  for  the  permanence 
of  the  settlement,  in  order  that  the  latter  may  complete  the 
required  bonds.  Recommend  Stephen  Butler,  who  proposes 
to  settle  at  Belturbet.— London,  1  August  1610. 

Signed:  R.  Cant.,  T.  EUesmere,  Cane.,  R.  Salisbury,  Jul. 
Csesar,  Thos.  Parry. 

Pp.  3.     07%.    Add.    Sealed.     Endd. 

Aug.  3.      847.        Mr.  Dudley  Norton  to  Sir  Tho.  Lake. 
^  f  MQ^'m'  Sends  a  draft  of  a  letter  to  the  Lord  Deputy  for  accepting 

'      '  surrenders  of  certain  lands  in  Munster,  and  re-granting  the 

same. — 3  August  1610. 

P.  1.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

Aug.  5.       848.         Articles  agreed  on  28th  of  January  between  the  Lords 
S.P.,  Ireland,  of  the  Privy  Council,  on  behalf  of  the  King,  and  the 

vol.  229, 122.  Committees,  by  act  of  common  council,  on  behalf  of  the 

mayor  and  commonalty  of  London  concerning  a  plan- 
tation id  Ulster. 
Duplicate  of  No.  588. 

An  order  follows,  signed  by  Salisbury,  and  addressed  to 
Mr.  Attorney,  "  to  draw  a  book  fit  for  His  Majesty's  signature, 
containing  a  grant  from  His  Majesty  to  the  committees,  to  be 
named  by  the  city  of  London,  of  all  the  lands,  &c.  mentioned 
in  the  aforesaid  particular." 
Pp.  4.     Endd. 

Aug.  6.      849.        The  Lords  of  Council  to  Lord  Deputy  and  Council. 
Phiiad.  p.,  jjjg  Lordship  had  formerly  recommended  the  purchase  of 

^  '  '  the  composition  rent  of  Annaly  as  a  fit  and  politic  measure. 

They  have  resolved  to  act  accordingly,  and  have  set  apart 
the  barony  of  Tolagarvie  [Tullygarvey],  for  the  purpose. 
Direct  him  therefore  not  to  pass  the  same  to  any  servitor,  or, 
if  that  should  have  been  already  done,  to  consider  and  advise 
some  other  means. — Whitehall,  6  August  1610. 

Signed :   R.  Cant.,  -T.  EUesmere,  Can.,  R.  Salisbury,  Jul. 
Cffisar,  Thos.  Parry. 
P.  I.     Sealed.    Add    Endd. 


Aug.  6.      850.       The  Lords  of  Council  to  Lord  Deputy  and  Council, 

Phjlad.  P^  Direct  that  the  return  of  impropriations  belonging  to  the 

^°  ■   "  "■     ■  Archbishop  and  dignitaries  of  Armagh,  ordered  in  a  former 


vol.  4,  p.  79. 


490  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

IGIO. 

letter,  shall  be  expedited,  and  that  the  Deputy  shall  deal  with 
the  Ai'chbishop  for  the  surrender  of  them,  in  order  that  the 
King  may  provide  for  the  endowment  of  churches  in  that  dio- 
cese, signifying  his  estimate  of  the  amount  of  recompense  to  be 
given  for  the  surrender.  Direct  him  also  to  compound  with 
the  Treasury  of  the  see  of  Conorth  [Connor]  for  the  rectory 
of  Colerane,  which  belongs  thereto,  that  that  rectory  may  be 
given  to  the  Londoners. — Whitehall,  6  August  1610. 

Signed :  K.  Cant.,  T.  Ellesmere,   Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  Jul. 
Ccesar,  Thos.  Parrj^. 

P.  \.     Orig.     Sealed.    Add.    Endd. 

Aucr  11.     851.        The  King  to  Lord  Deputy  and  Council. 

Phiiad.  P^,  ipj^jQ  ggg  Qf  j)erry  being  now  void  by  translation  of  George 

''^'   '  '  Montgomery,  late  bishop,  His  Majesty  is  pleased  to  bestow 

the  same  on  Braithe  Babington,  Doctor  in  Divinity ;  and  in 
consideration  of  the  charges  he  has  had,  and  the  pains  he  has 
endured  in  the  service  of  the  plantation.  His  Majesty  is 
further  pleased  to  grant  him  all  the  emoluments  of  the  see  of 
whatever  kind  from  the  2nd  of  May  last  past,  and  to  remit 
to  him  the  first  fruits  of  the  see. — Holdenby,  11  August,  in 
the  8th  year  of  the  reign. 

Pp.  1^.    Signed  at  head.     Sealed.     Add.     Endd.     Enrol. 


vol.  630,  p.  73. 


Aug.  20.     852.        Proclamation    by  the  Lord    Deputy    and    Commis- 

Carew  Papers,  SIGNERS. 

Regarding  the  plantation  of  the  escheated  lands  in  Ulster. 
Its  chief  provisions  are, — that  both  servitors  and  natives  shall 
have  freedom  from  payment  of  any  rent  for  the  space  of  four 
years,  and  after  which  the  natives  shall  yield  the  yearly  rent 
of  101.  18s.  4<d.  English,  for  every  proportion  of  land  contain- 
ing 1,000  acres  ;  and  the  servitors  for  the  like  proportion 
shall  yield  the  yearly  rent  of  8^.,  English,  if  they  shall  plant 
with  Irish  tenants,  but  if  they  plant  with  English  and  Scot- 
tisli  they  shall  pay  only  51.  6s.  8d.  for  every  1,000  acres,  as 
the  English  and  Scottish  undertakers,  and  so  rateably  ;  that 
servitors  and  natives  shall  hold  their  lands  in  free  and  com- 
mon socage ;  servitors  and  natives  shall,  within  three  years 
next  ensuing,  erect  certain  buildings  upon  every  proportion  of 
1,500  acres ;  that  servitors  shall  take  the  oath  of  supremacy, 
and  conform  themselves  in  religion ;  that  they  shall  not  alien 
to  the  mere  Irish,  neither  shall  they  alien  their  whole  propor- 
tion to  any  person  whatsoever  for  five  years  ensuing ;  that 
they  shall  covenant  to  make  certain  estates  to  their  under- 
tenants, -with  reservations  of  certain  rents  ;  that  they  shall 
hereafter  take  no  Irish  exactions ;  and  that  they  shall  use 
tillage  and  husbandry  after  the  English  manner  now  used  in 
the  Pale. — Camp,  near  Lyffer,  20  August  1610. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  491 


1610. 

Subscribed  by  the  Lord  Deputy,  Mr.  Treasurer,  Mr.  Marshal, 
Master  of  the  Rolls,  Sir  Oliver  Lambert,  Sir  Garrett  Moore, 
Sir  John  Davys,  Sir  Robert  Jacob. 

Pp.  4.     Copy. 

Aug.  20.     853.        The  King  to  Lord  Deputy  and  Council. 

vofi'^p^  4^8  "^^^  bearer,  James  Clapham,  goes  to  Ireland  as  an  under- 

taker. Inasmuch  as  he  is  an  old  servant,  whom  the  King 
desires  to  favour.  His  Majesty  has  bestowed  on  him  the 
castle  of  Newton,  in  Tyrone,  and  commands  him  to  be  kindly 
used  and  furthered  in  his  settling. — Grafton,  20  August,  in  the 
8th  year  of  the  reign. 
P.  \.    Signed  at  head.    Sealed.    Add.    Endd. 

Aug.  27.     854.        The  King  to  Lokd  Deputy  and  Council. 

PMatl.  p.,  Edward  Johnson  has  taken  a  portion  of  land  in  Ulster  as 

undertaker.  His  Majesty  recommends  him,  and  desires  that 
all  furtherance  be  given  him  in  settling  his  land. — Woodstock, 
27  August,  in  the  8th  year  of  the  reign. 

P.  -J.     Signed  at  head.    Sealed.    Add.     Endd. 

Aug.  28.     855.        Form  of  Warrant  for  Comynes.^ 

*" Y'f^n'''^'^7q'  ^y  ^^^  Lord  Deputy  and  Commissioners  of  the  Plantation. 

'        '  Giving  authority   to    hear   and  determine  all  causes   and 

complaints  which  shall  from  henceforth  arise,  considering  that 
the  best  part  of  the  states  and  livelihoods  of  many  poor 
gentlemen,  who  have  hitherto  been  owners  of  lands  or  heads 
of  creats,  must  henceforth  consist  of  their  own  proper  goods  ; 
and  that  their  undertenants  and  followers  have  by  their 
customs  of  comynes  gotten  into  their  hands  the  greatest  part 
of  those  goods  and  chattels,  and  are,  therefore,  in  far  better 
estate  than  their  landlords,  except  there  be  restitution  made 
of  some  just  portion  thereof  to  him  or  them  from  whom  the 
same  have  been  received  by  way  of  comynes. — Camp,  near 
Limavady,  28  August  1610. 
Pp.  2.     Copy.    Encloses, 

Carew  Papers,    856.         Instructions  for  Commissioners  of  Comiins. 

vol.  G30,  p.  8.  T      ,  , .  /.        ,7       ^,  •      .  .  ,  ,      , 

Instructions  jor  the  Comimssioners  appointed  to  deal  %n 
matters  of  comyns. 
P.  1.     Copy. 


vol.  4,  p.  83. 


Aug.  31.  857.   The  Lords  of  Council  to  Lord  Deputy  and  Council. 

Phiiad.  p.,  Direct  them  to  accept  surrender  from  William  Cullum,  son 

and  heir  of  Captain  Robert  Cullum,  of  all  the  lands  and  tene- 
ments held  in  the  counties  of  Cork  and  Kerry  by  his  father, 
by  letters  patent  from  the  late  Queen  Elizabeth,  and  to  re- 
grant  the  same  at  the  rents  reserved  in  those  letters,  with 


'  Customarj'  gifts. 


492  IRELAND— JAMES  1. 

1610. 

such  additional  liberties,  fairs,  and  markets  as  are  usual  in 
such  grants. — The  last  of  August  1610. 

Signed :  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  R,  Salisbury,  H.  Northamp- 
ton, Jul.  Cfesar.     [Defaced.] 

P.  1.     Sealed.    Add.    JEndd.   No  place. 

Sept.  3.      858.        Foem  of  Warrant  of  Possession. 

'^T^eso'^'^Te'  ■^y  ^^^  Lord  Deputy  and  Commissioners  for  the  Plantation 

'  '     '  of  the  escheated  lands  in  Ulster. 

Recites  the  grant  by  patent  to  the  undertaker,  and  autho- 
rises the  sheriff  to  remove  or  cause  to  be  removed  out  of 
the  premises  tenants,  possessors,  and  occupiers  of  the  same, 
and  to  deliver  livery  and  seisin  of  the  premises  unto  the 
patentee  or  his  assigns,  and  also  to  require  and  command  the 
natives  and  all  others  now  dwelling  upon  the  same,  or  any 
part  thereof,  to  depart  with  their  families,  goods,  and  chattels, 
from  time  to  time,  unto  such  baronies  and  precincts  as  have 
been  or  shall  be  assigned  unto  them,  or  elsewhere  at  their  own 
wills  and  pleasures,  where  they  may  have  best  conditions  of 
living. — Camp,  near  Dungannon,  3  September  1610. 

Subscribed  as  before. 

"  To  the  sheriff  of  the  county  of ■ ."  ^ 

P.  1.     Copy. 

Sept.  3.      859.        Form  of  Warrant  for  Timber. 
'^T^R-io^^^r!  ^y  *^^  Lord  Deputy  and  Commissioners  of  the  Plantation. 

'        '  Authorising  delivery  to  undertakers  of  good  oaks  of  several 

sizes,  and  of  growth  sufficient  to  make  timber  for  buildings 
upon  the  proportion,  growing  either  within  the  county  or  else 
upon  any  the  escheated  lands  in  the  province  of  Ulster. — 
Camp,  near  Dungannon,  3  September  1610. 
Subscribed  as  before. 

Add. :  To  the  commissioners  generally  appointed  for  the 
assignation  of  timber  to   the  undertakers  of  the  escheated 
lands  in  Ulster. 
P.  1.     Copy. 

Sept.  5.      860.        Form  of  Warrant  of  Deputation. 
^TT'if^^^T^s'  -^y  *^^  Lord  Deputy  and  Commissioners  of  the  Plantation. 

'  ^'     ■  Authorising  the  undertaker  to  present  a  trusty  and  suffi- 

cient person  to  be  his  substitute  for  the  space  of  five  months, 
within  which  time  he  is  to  do  his  best  for  the  performance  of 
his  part  of  the  plantation. — Dungannon,  5  September  1610. 

P.  1.     Copy. 

Sept.  9.      861.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
^Phiiad.  p..  They  signify  the  King's  assent  to  Sir  Humphrey  Wynch's 

'  '  ^'     '  retirement  from  the  post  of  Chief  Justice,  from  which  he  has 

1  Blank  in  MS. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  493 


1610. 

been  long  absent  on  account  of  ill-healtb,  by  reason  that  the 
air  of  that  country  seems  disagreeable  to  him ;  though  His 
Majesty  is  unwiUing  to  withdraw  so  necessary  a  servant  from 
that  country,  where  there  is  need  of  many  such. 

His  Majesty  leaves  the  time  to  himself,  either  before  the 
hardness  of  the  winter  comes  or  the  next  spring ;  only  he 
wishes  to  have  his  speediest  resolution,  in  order  to  have  the 
utmost  time  to  make  choice  of  a  successor. —9  September 
1610. 

Signed :  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northamp- 
ton, Lenox,  Notingham,  T.  Suffolk,  Gilb.  Shrewsbury,  E. 
Worcester,  T.  Bruce,  Jul.  Csesar,  Thos.  Parry. 

P.  ^.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester :  "  Of  the 
9*1^  of  Sept.  1610.  From  the  Lordes  of  the  Councell,  lycensing 
the  retourne  of  the  Chiefe  Justice,  S^^  Humphrie  Wynche  into 
England.     Re.  the  1^*  October." 

Sept.  9.      862.        Loeds  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
^w'^  ^7  Recommend  to  his  care,  for  a  speedy  and  favourable   de- 

'  '   '     "  termination  of  her  long  suits,  the  poor  lady,  the  bearer  (the 

Lady  Sidley),  being  now  at  length  to  remove  from  hence,  and 
to  settle  herself  with  her  children  in  Ireland.  Request  that 
their  former  letters  in  her  behalf  may  not  be  the  less  respected 
for  their  date,  which  is  ancient,  and  that  he  will  accept  them 
(in  regard  of  the  occasions  which  kept  her  here  longer  than 
she  expected)  as  if  written  at  this  present. — Hampton  Court, 
9  September  1610. 

Signed :  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  Notingham,  T. 
Suffolke,  Gilb.  Shrewsbury,  E.  Worcester,  Jul.  Csesar. 

P.  1.  Add.  Endd.  hy  Sir  Arthur  Chichester :  "Of  the  Qtli 
of  September  1610.  From  the  Lordes  of  the  Councell  in  the 
behalfe  of  the  Ladie  Sydley  for  a  speedy  hearinge  and  des- 
patch in  her  business  recommended  by  their  Lordships  in 
letters  of  former  dates.     Re.  the  20*^1  of  October." 

Sept.  9.     863.        The  King  to  the  Lord  Deputy. 
^"S.^?"'''  Directs  him  to  pass  a  grant  to  Thomas  Thornton,  James 

Casie,  Edmund  PurceU,  John  M'Enery,  Gerald  M'Enery,  and 
Shane  M'Thomas  M'Enery. 


'  Sept.  9.     864.        The  King  to  the  Lord  Deputy. 

^°°Sept.'^?'''^'  Directs  him  to  cause  a  survey  to  be  taken  of  the  lands  of 

Henry  Lynch,  and  to  charge  and  tax  every  six  score  acres  of 
his  arable  land  lying  vidthin  Galway  and  Mayo  with  the  rent 
of  10s.  by  the  year  only. 


Sept.  9.     865.        The  King  to  the  Lord  Deputy. 
^""sept  9°°'''  Directs  a  survey  and  tax  of  10s.  per  acre  on  the  lands  of 

Henry  Smith  of  Galway  and  Mayo,  according  to  a  composition 
made  with  the  late  Queen  and  confirmed  by  the  King. 


494  IRELAND— JAMES   1. 


1610. 
Sept.  9.      866.        Privy  Council  to  [the  Lord  Deputy]. 
^•^•'^"jf'™/'  Grant  leave     to    Sir    Humphrey   Wynch    to    return   to 

vol.  229,  1— Ot  -I-,       -,         1 

England. 

Signed :  Lo.  Chancellor,  Lo.  Treasurer,  Lo.  Privy  Seal, 
Duke  of  Lenox,  Lo.  Admiral,  Lo.  Chamberlain,  E.  of  Shrews- 
bury, E.  of  Worcester. 

Fp.  2.     Endd. :  "  9  Sept.  1610,  Sir  H.  Winch. 

Sept.  9.      867.        The  King  to  the  Loed  Deputy  and  Council. 

^'^j''^'^- J-'  At  the   suit   of  Thomas    Trenton,   of  Ballygrenan,    Esq., 

■  '  James  Casey,  of  Rathcanon,  Esq.,  Edmund  PurceJl,  of  Croagh, 

gent.,  John  M'Enery,  alias  M'Endrie,  of  Castletowne,  Gerald 
M'Endrie,  of  Ballysallagh,  Esq.,  and  Mr.  Thomas  M'Ea,  of 
Kilnorie,  in  the  county  of  Limerick,  and  in  consideration 
of  their  and  their  father's  good  service,  His  Majesty  di- 
rects surrender  and  re-grant  of  one  farm  of  land,  with  all 
rights  and  appurtenances  thereof,  in  the  counties  of  Cork 
and  Limerick,  to  be  made  to  them  with  advice  of  the  Council, 
to  be  held  at  free  and  common  soccage,  at  a  reserved  yearly 
rent  of  6cL  for  every  ploiighland  not  granted  by  former  letters 
patent,  with  right  to  hold  court  leet  and  court  baron  at  Croagh 
and  Gari'amoe  and  a  weekly  market  at  Ballymacleshan  and 
Castletowne. —  Hampton  Court,  9  September  in  the  eighth 
year  of  the  reign. 

Pp.  11.    Signed  at  head.    Sealed.    Add.    Endd.     Enrol. 

Sept.  10.    868.        Grant  to  Lord  Audley. 

^r'fii^^^sS  Patent  by  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Commissioners  of  the  plan- 

'   '       '  tations  of  allotment  of  500  acres  in  the  barony  of  Oryer,  in 

Ai-dmagh,  to  Lord  Audley,  with  the  reversion  of  2,000  acres 

now  allotted  to  Arte  M'Barron  for  his  life. — The  camp,  near 

Ardmagh,  10  September  1610. 

Signed  :  Th.  Ridgeway,  R.  Wingfelde,   Era.  Aungier,    01. 
Lambert,  Garrett  Moore,  Jo.  Davys,  Rob.  Jacob. 
P.  1.     Orig.     .S'ncZd  .•"  Lord  Awdley." 

Sept.  13.     869.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester, 
^"i^  b^d"^"^^'  Grant  of  annuity  or  yearly  pension  of  6s.  ^d.  sterling  a  day 

r.li.O.'  to  Sir  Thomas  Phillipps,  Knight,  and  Dudley,  his  eldest  son, 

in  reversion  for  life,  for  services  in  war  in  Ireland  as  Avell  as  in 
the  new  plantation  of  Ulster,  and  to  the  said  Sir  Thomas,  his 
heirs  and  assigns  in  fee-farm,  the  castle  of  Thome  [Toome],  in 
CO.  Antrim,  with  30  acres  of  land,  &c.,  now  enjoyed  by  Sir 
Thomas,  yielding  10s.  or  a  pair  of  gilt  spurs  for  all  manner  of 
rents,  when  the  Lieutenant,  Deputy,  or  other  chief  Governor 
shall  come  in  person  to  the  said  castle  of  Thome  [Toome],  in 
free  and  common  soccage,  and  not  in  capite  nor  by  knight's  ser- 
vice, with  a  weekly  market  at  tlie  said  castle,  and  a  fair  once 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  495 


IGIO. 

or  twice  in  the  year  ;  the  10  men  at  the  service  of  Sir  Thomas, 
now  at  Colraine,  to  be  joined  in  ward  under  his  command  at 
Thome,  making  22  footmen,  with  entertainment  for  himself 
and  footmen. 
Pp.  1\.     Endclj  "  13  Sept.  1610." 

Sept.  1.3.    870.        The  King  to  the  Lord  Deputy. 
^°  sTt'  ?r^'  Directs  him  to  grant  to  Walter  White  the  of35ce  of  general 

^^  ■     ■  escheator  in  the  province  of  Leinster,  together  with  the  office 

of  feodary. 

Sept.  21.     871.        LoEB  Deputy  to  Salisbuey  and  Nottingham. 

voT '229^'i "i'  Conceives  that  they  have  already  heard  of  the  death  of 

'   "  ■  Saukewell,  that  petty  rebel  and  pirate,  and  that  Easton,  who 

threw  him  overboard,  has  made  offer  to  submit  liimself. 
Sends  them  Easton's  own  letters  written  to  the  Chief  Justice 
and  Chief  Baron  of  this  kingdom,  who  were  at  that  time 
judges  of  the  assizes  in  the  province  of  Mounster,  and  to  Sir 
Richard  Boyle  and  Sir  Thomas  Kooper,  who  were  by  them 
directed  to  confer  with  him,  together  with  Sir  Richard  Boyle's 
letters  to  him  (Chichester),  by  which  they  Avill  perceive  what 
hath  hitherto  passesd  between  them. 

Temporises  with  the  pirates,  considering  their  power  to  do 
harm  and  his  own  weakness  in  shipping,  the  "  Lyon's  Whelp  " 
being  too  weak  to  grapple  with  them.  Has  signed  a  protec- 
tion for  them  for  the  space  of  40  days,  in  which  he  has 
restrained  them  from  coming  ashore,  other  than  two  or  three 
at  once,  and  those  to  be  only  such  as  the  Vice-President  shall 
allow  of,  to  make  provision  for  their  money  for  fresh  acates  for 
their  eating  from  day  to  clay.  Is  this  day  advertised  that  the 
Vice-President,  perceiving  that  the  pirates  made  their  access 
to  the  shore  more  securely  and  without  fear  than  they  had 
been  accustomed,  and  in  greater  number  than  allowed  by  their 
protection,  had  sent  some  forces  to  intercept  them ;  but  being 
discovered  upon  their  first  approach  the  pirates  made  to  their 
ships  and  so  escaped,  all  but  one.  Captain  Gabriel),  Avho  is  a 
consort  of  Easton's,  and  is  now  prisoner,  ready  to  be  sent 
to  their  Lordships  if  that  be  their  pleasure. — Meryon,  near 
Dublin,  21  September  1610. 

Pp.  2.  Signed.  A  dd.  Endd., :  "  With  certain  letters 
concerning  the  manner  of  Salkeild  the  pirate's  death.  All  the 
letters  concerning  the  pirates  are  returned  upon  the  Lord 
Deputy's  own  request." 

Sept.  22.     872.        Loeds  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Aethur  Chichester. 

voh'i'fp.^s'g.  ^^  favour  of  Nicholas  Maisterson,  of  Ardcromman,  in  the 

county  of  Wexford,  to  aid  him  in  his  suit  (as  far  as  equity  will 
allow)  for  the  recovery  of  liis  castle  of  New  Castle  and  26 
ploughlands,  which  he  acquired,  together  with  the  castle  of 
Ai-dcromman,  by  his  marriage  with  Alison  Roche,  the  daughter 


496  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

of  Robert  Roche.  It  happened  that  in  the  time  of  the  late 
rebellion  he  intrusted  one  John  Roche,  his  servant,  to  keep 
possession  of  New  Castle  and  1 3  ploughlands  belonging  thereto ; 
but  he  treacherously  gave  them  up  to  one  John  Roche,  who 
pretended  himself  to  be  next  heir  to  the  said  Robert  Roche ; 
and  in  the  time  of  that  rebellion  the  said  John  Roche  died, 
leaving  issue  Walter  Roche,  who  continuing  the  possession 
of  the  said  castles  and  lands  (the  petitioner  making  continual 
claim),  was  found  ward  unto  Her  late  Majesty,  and  afterwards 
became  allied  by  marriage  to  some  men  of  great  wealth  and 
countenance  in  that  county,  and  thereby  is  likely  to  overlay 
the  petitioner  in  the  prosecution  of  his  right.  Prays  Sir 
Arthur  to  aid  him,  in  consideration  of  his  good  deserts  in  Her 
late  Majesty's  service. — 22  September  1610. 

Signed  :  T.  EllesmerCj  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton, 
Jul.  Caesar. 

P.  1.     Add.    Endd. 

Sept.  23.     873.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Privy  Council. 
^  r'22r'i25'  According  to  directions  from  them  of  2nd  of  June,  brought 

'       '       ■  hither  by  this  bearer.    Captain    Richard    Bingley,   has  sent 

away  about  600  of  this  nation  in  two  ships  for  Sweden.  The 
continual  fear  of  constraint  into  that  employment  does  no 
less  discontent  and  perplex  the  people  of  Ulster  than  this  late 
distribution  of  escheated  lands  and  new  population  of  the 
country.  They  are  a  people  that  understand  no  truth  of  the 
affairs  of  the  world,  specially  that  way ;  besides,  the  priests 
and  other  ill  spirits  which  govern  them,  spread  false  tales  and 
incredible  defamations  of  the  usage  of  this  nation.  This  with 
some  other  conceits,  have  caused  idle  and  able  men  to  run 
into  the  woods  or  to  stand  upon  their  keeping  for  the  time. 
Notwithstanding  these  dilEculties,  they  got  some  200  out  of 
the  province,  of  the  worst  sort,  and  most  of  them  appearing 
at  sessions  of  necessity,  upon  bonds  which  had  formerly  been 
taken  for  their  loyalty  and  forthcoming  at  any  time.  If  any 
more  are  to  be  weeded  out,  the  officers  selected  for  this  service 
ought  to  be  allowed  imprest  money,  with  warrant  of  process 
also,  and  authority  to  punish  the  offenders  with  death,  as  the 
manner  is  elsewhere,  in  case  they  shaU.  afterwards  run  away. 
The  rest  who  made  up  this  whole  number  were  voluntaries, 
most  of  them  out  of  Munster  and  some  out  of  Connaught.  It 
may  appear  by  the  catalogue  of  then'  names  which  he  sends, 
that  some  were  Englishmen  ;  but  many  of  those  were  pirates 
or  of  other  desperate  courses,  who  embraced  this  other  service. 
Understands  Captain  Bingley  has  imprested  180Z.  to  the 
captains,  and  did  every  thing  requisite  for  his  part,  which  he 
recommends  to  their  consideration,  for  this  and  other  ex- 
perience had  of  him.  He  was  recommended  hither  by  letters 
from  them  for  the  office  of  muster-master-general  of  the  risings 
out  of  all  the  English  undertakers  and  inhabitants  of  Man- 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  497 


1610. 

ster  and  the  Pale,  whicli  had  been  from  the  beginning  much 
neglected  ; — an  appointment  which  would  have  been  profitable 
for  the  King's  service  and  prosperity  of  the  plantation,  but  in 
regard  of  his  going  into  Sweden,  he  did  not  press  it.  Now 
the  like  use  may  be  made  of  the  same  officer  in  Ulster  as 
weU  as  in  the  other  places,  that  he  may  see  and  certify 
whether  they  have  observed  or  shall  observe  the  articles  of 
the  plantation.  He  has  presented  reasons  to  him  to  induce  the 
erecting  such  an  officer  general  to  muster  all  the  people,  as 
well  natives  as  others,  throughout  the  realm.  He  (Chichester) 
is  advertised  since  his  return  out  of  Ulster,  that  the  ship 
which  was  freighted  at  Carlingford  for  Sweden  was,  after  her 
departure  thence,  cast  upon  the  Isle  of  Man,  in  extreme 
danger  of  drowning  there,  after  she  had  spent  her  masts,  with 
all  her  sails  she  had ;  but  in  the  end,  she  was,  by  good  for- 
tune, relieved  by  a  Scottishman,  who  espied  her  in  that  dis- 
tress and  guided  her  into  a  port  of  Scotland,  where  the 
captain  hired  another  ship  and  is  departed  in  good  trim. — 
Merrion,  near  Dublin,  23  September  1610. 

Pp.  3.     Signed.    Add.     Endd. 

Sept.  24.      874.        Sir  John  Davys  to  Salisbukv. 
voi^229^l25'A  Though  the  contrary  winds  stayed  him  some  time  at  the 

water  side,  yet  he  arrived  early  enough  to  attend  my  Lord 
Deputy  this  journey  into  Ulstei-,  where  he  and  the  rest  of 
the  Commissioners  for  the  plantation  have  performed  four 
principal  services. 

1.  They  have  made  choice  of  such  natives  as  they  found  fit 
to  be  made  freeholders  in  every  of  the  escheated  counties,  and 
have  distributed  several  portions  of  land  unto  them,  having 
respect  to  the  quality  of  the  persons  and  the  quantity  of  the 
lands  assigned  to  the  natives. 

2.  They  have  made  the  like  choice  of  servitors,  and  made 
the  like  distribution  of  the  lands  allotted  to  them  by  the 
project. 

3.  They  have  published  by  proclamation  in  every  county, 
what  precincts  of  land  are  given  to  the  British  undertakers, 
what  to  servitors,  and  what  to  natives,  giving  warning  to  the 
natives  to  remove  from  the  lands  assigned  to  the  other  under- 
takers presently,  if  they  shall  come  and  require  the  present 
possession  ;  otherwise,  in  regard  the  undertakers  are  not  pre- 
pared to  manure  and  till  the  land  against  the  next  year ;  (so 
that,  if  the  Irish  tenants  be  presently  removed,  a  general  dearth 
is  like  to  follow  in  those  parts,  to  the  "prejudice  of  the  plan- 
tation), the  Irish  who  now  possess  the  land  may  hold  the 
same  till  May  next,  paying  rent  for  that  time  to  the  under- 
takers, who,  on  the  other  side,  are  to  pay  the  Irish  for  their 
com  and  fallowes  when  they  shall  leave  their  possessions  unto 
them. 

3.  II 


498  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

4.  For  such  undertakers,  both  English  and  Scottish,  as  have 
presented  themselves  to  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Commissioners 
in  this  journey,  they  have  made  several  warrants  to  the 
sheriffs  of  the  several  counties  to  give  them  possession  and 
seisin  of  their  portions  ;  and  have  assigned  them  timber  in  the 
great  woods  for  the  erection  of  their  several  buildings. 

They  began  at  the  Cavan,  where  (as  it  falleth  out  in  all 
matters  of  importance)  they  found  the  first  access  and  entry 
into  the  business  the  most  diiScult :  for  the  inhabitants  of  this 
county  bordering  upon  Meath,  and  having  many  acquaintances 
and  alliances  with  the  gentlemen  of  the  English  Pale,  called 
themselves  freeholders,  and  pretended  they  had  estates  of  in- 
heritance in  their  lands,  which  their  chief  lords  could  not 
forfeit  by  their  attainder  ;  whereas  in  truth,  they  never  had 
any  estates,  according  to  the  rules  of  common  law,  but  only  a 
scambling  and  transitory  possession,  as  all  other  Irish  natives 
within  this  kingdom. 

When  the  proclamation  was  published  touching  their 
removal  (which  was  done  in  the  public  session  house,  the  Lord 
Deputy  and  Commissioners  being  present),  a  lawyer  of  the 
Pale,  retained  by  the  inhabitants,  endeavoured  to  maintain 
that  they  had  estates  of  inheritance,  and  in  their  name, 
desired  two  things :  first,  that  they  might  be  admitted  to 
traverse  the  offices  which  had  been  taken  of  those  lands ; 
secondly,  that  they  might  have  the  benefit  of  a  proclamation 
made  about  five  years  since,  whereby  their  persons,  lands,  and 
goods  were  aU  received  into  His  Majesty's  protection.  To  this 
(by  my  Lord  Deputy's  commandment)  he  (Sir  J.  Davys)  made 
answer,  that  it  was  manifest  that  they  had  no  estate  of  inhe- 
ritance either  in  their  chiefries  or  in  their  tenancies  ;  for  the 
chiefry  never  descended  to  the  eldest  son  of  the  chieftain, 
but  the  strongest  of  the  sept  ever  intruded  into  it ;  neither 
had  they  any  certain  estate  in  their  tenancies,  though  they 
seemed  to  run  in  a  course  of  Gavelkind,  for  the  chief  of  the 
sept,  once  in  two  or  three  years,  shuffled  and  changed  their 
possessions,  by  making  a  new  partition  or  division  amongst 
them,  wherein  the  bastards  had  always  their  portions  as  weU 
as  the  legitimate ;  and  therefore,  this  custom  hath  been  ad- 
judged void  in  law  by  the  opinion  of  aU  the  judges  in  this 
kingdom.  Hereunto  two  other  arguments  were  added  to 
prove  that  they  had  no  estates  of  inheritance ;  one,  that  they 
never  esteemed  lawful  matrimony  to  the  end  they  might  have 
lawful  heirs;  next,  that  they  never  built  any  houses  nor 
planted  any  orchards  or  gardens,  nor  took  any  care  of  their 
posterities,  both  which  they  would  have  done  if  they  had 
had  estates  descendible  to  their  lawful  heirs.  These  reasons 
answered  both  their  petitions,  for  if  they  had  no  estate  in  law, 
then  could  they  show  no  title,  and,  without  showing  a  title,  no 
man  may  be  admitted   to  traverse  an  office ;  and,  again,  if 


IRELAND— JAMES  1.  499 


1610. 


they  had  no  estate  in  the  land  which  they  possessed,  the  pro- 
clamation which  receives  their  lands  into  His  Majesty's  pro- 
tection does  not  give  them  any  better  estate  than  they  had 
before;  Other  arguments  were  used  to  prove  that  His  Majesty 
might  justly  dispose  of  those  lands  as  he  has  now  done,  in 
law,  in  conscience,  and  in  honour,  wherewith  they  seemed  not 
unsatisfied  in  reason,  though  in  passion  they  remained  iU  con- 
tented, being  grieved  to  leave  their  possessions  to  strangers, 
which  their  septs  had  so  long,  after  the  Irish  manner,  enjoyed. 
Howbeit,  my  Lord  Deputy  so  mixed  threats  with  entreaty, 
precibusque  minas  regaliter  addit,  as  that  they  promised  to 
give  way  to  the  undertakers  if  the  sheriff,  by  warrant  from 
the  Commissioners,  put  them  in  possession.  Whereupon 
his  Lordship  and  the  Commissioners  signed  a  warrant  to  the 
sheriff  to  give  possession  to  one  Taylor,  an  English  undertaker, 
who  was  then  arrived  and  present  in  the  camp,  which  warrant 
was  executed  without  resistance ;  and  thereupon  distribution 
being  made  to  the  better  sort  of  natives  of  several  portions 
of  land  in  the  baronies  assigned  unto  them,  they  not  un- 
willingly accepted  of  several  tickets  containing  the  quantities 
of  land  allotted  to  every 'particular  person. 

The  eyes  of  all  the  inhabitants  of  Ulster  were  turned 
upon  this  county  of  Cavan,  and  therefore  when  they  saw  the 
difficulty  of  the  business  overcome  here,  their  minds  were  the 
better  prepared  to  submit  themselves  to  the  course  prescribed 
by  His  Majesty,  for  the  plantation.  So  that  in  the  next  two 
counties  of  Fermanagh  and  Tyrconnell  (though  the  countries 
were  never  entirely  resumed  nor  vested  in  the  Crown  as  Tyrone 
was,  but  only  surrendered  and  re-granted  to  the  chief  lords, 
who  forfeited  their  estates  by  their  several  attainders),  there 
was  no  man  that  pretended  any  title  against  the  Crown,  and 
there  were  very  few  who  seemed  unsatisfied  with  their  por- 
tions assigned  unto  them.  Only  Connor  Eo  M'Guyre,  who 
has  an  entire  barony,  and  the  best  barony  in  Fermanagh, 
allotted  unto  him  (because  in  the  first  year  of  His  Majesty's 
reign,  when  the  settling  of  that  province  was  not  so  verily 
intended  as  now  it  is,  the  State  made  him  a  promise  of  three 
baronies  in  that  county,)  seemed  ill  contented  with  his  allot- 
ment ;  yet  he  did  not  oppose  the  sheriff,  when  he  gave  pos- 
session to  the  undertakers  of  lands  whereof  himself  was  then 
possessed  ;  but  affirmed  he  would  forthwith  pass  into  England, 
and  there  become  a  suitor  for  better  conditions.  But  when 
we  came  to  Tyrone  and  Ardmagh,  where  we  expected  least 
contradiction,  because  the  best  of  the  natives  there  had  not 
any  colour  or  shadow  of  title  to  any  land  in  those  countries, 
the  same  being  clearly  and  wholly  come  to  the  Crown  by  the 
attainder  of  Tyrone  and  others  ;  yet  divers  of  Tyrone's  horse- 
men, namely,  the  0' Quins  and  Hagans,  to  whom,  because  they 
had  good  stock  of  cattle,  the  Commissioners  distributed  por- 

II  2 


500  IREI>AND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

tions  of  land,  such  'as  the  scope   assigned  to  the  natives  of 
that  county  afforded,  refused  to  accept  the  same  from  His 
Majesty  ;  yielding  this  reason  of  their  refusal,  that  thej'  would 
rather  choose  to  be  tenants  at  will'  to  the  servitors  or  others 
who  had  competent  quantities  of  land  to  receive  them,  than 
to  be  freeholders  to  His  Majesty  of  such  small  parcels,  for 
which  they  should  be  compelled  to  serve  in  juries,  and  spend 
double  the  yearly  value  thereof  at  assizes  and  sessions  ;  where- 
in he,  for  his  part,  easily  believes  them,  for  all  the  Irish  (the 
chief  lords  excepted),  desire  naturally  to  be  followers,   and 
cannot  live  without  a  master,  and  for  the  most  part  they  love 
every  master  alike,  so  he  be  present  to  protect  and  defend 
them.     And  therefore  he  is  of  opinion  that,  if  they  were  once 
settled  under  the  servitors,  the  Bishops,  or  others  who  may 
receive  Irish  tenants,  they  would  follow  them  as  willingly, 
and   rest   as   well    contented  under   their  wings,  as  young 
pheasants  do  under  the  wings  of  a  home-hen,  though  she  be 
not  their  natural  mother ;  and  though  their  transplantation 
be  distasteful  to  them  (as  all  changes  and  innovations  are  at 
first  unpleasant),  yet  they  (the  Commissioners)  hope  that  when 
they  are  once  seated  in  their  new  habitations,  they  wiU  like 
the  new  soil  as  weU  and  prove  better  themselves,  like  some 
trees  which  bear  but  harsh  and  sour  fruit  in  the  place  where 
they  naturally  grow,   but,  being  transplanted  and  removed, 
like  the  ground  better,  and  yield  pleasanter  and  sweeter  fruit 
than  they  did  before.      Thus  much  concerning  the  natives. 
Touching  the  servitors ;  though  the  last  year,  none  but  my 
Lord  Audelay  would  undertake  any  land  according  to  the  ar- 
ticles published  in  print,  yet  now  there  were  so  many  competi- 
tors for  the  land  a,ssigned  to  servitors,  that  it  was  not  possible 
for  the  Commissioners  to  give  contentment  to  all ;  and  there- 
fore many  of  them  returned  home  unsatisfied.     Such  as  have 
portions  allotted  to  them  are  men  of  merit  and  ability,  and 
for  the  most  part  such  as  have  set  up  their  rests  in  Ulster. 
For  the  rest,  who  returned  without  portions,  my  Lord  De- 
puty has  given  them  some  hope  that  they  may  be  provided 
for,  either  by  placing  them  upon  the  lands  granted  to  the  city 
of  London,  in  the  Glinnes  of  Tyrone,  or  upon  the  Bishop's 
lands  at  easy  rents,  or  by  some  other  means  which  may  arise 
before  the  plantation  be  accomplished. 

Touching  the  British  undertakers,  the  greatest  number  of 
them  are  come  over,  and  have  presented  themselves  to  the 
Commissioners,  and  have  received  warrants  for  their  posses- 
sions and  for  timber,  and  are  now  providing  materials  for  their 
buildings  against  the  next  spring. 

Lastly,  the  agents  of  London  have  made  far  better  pre- 
paration for  the  erection  of  their  new  town  at  Colrane  than 
they  (the  Commissioners)  expected  ;  for  they  found  there  such 
store  of  timber  and  other  materials  brought  in  place,  so  many 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  501 


1610. 

workmen  so  busy  in  several  places  about  their  several  tasks, 
"  as  methought  I  saw  Didoe's  colony  building  of  Carthage  in 
"  Virgil. 

"  Instant  ardentes  Tyrii ;  pars  ducere  muros, 

"  Molirique  arcem,  et  manibus  subsolvere  saxa ; 

"  Pars  aptare  locum  tecto  et  concludere  sulco,  &c. 

"  Fervet  opus ; 
"  so  as  we  returned  with  an  assured  hope  that  the  plantation 
"  will  go  on  roundly  and  prosperably,   and   that  God  will 
"  bless  it."— Dublin,  24  September  1610. 
Pp.  5.     Signed.    Add.     Endd. 

[This  letter  will  be  recognised  as  in  many  parts  a  tran- 
script of  the  well-known  letter  to  Lord  Salisbury,  dated  8  Nov. 
1610,  and  printed  in  Sir  John  Davys's  Historical  Tracts ;  but 
as  there  are  many  discrepancies,  some  of  them  very  charac- 
teristic, it  seems  desirable  to  print  it  without  alteration.] 

Sept.  25.     875.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

TY^'^  «4  Warrant  for  the  appointment  of  William  Knight,  an  ancient 

'   '  '      '  Master  of  Art,  to  be  coadjutor  to  the  Archbishop  of  Cashel, 

in  consequence  of  the  information  received  from  Lord  Danvers, 
President  of  Munster,  that,  as  well  on  account  of  the  Arch- 
bishop's great  age  as  because  he  is  seldom  resident  upon  his 
see,  but  absent  in  the  north  upon  his  own  temporal  lands,  it 
were  very  convenient  for  the  better  government  of  that 
province  of  Munster  that  a  coadjutor  were  assigned  him. 

Sir  Arthur  shall  also  allot  to  the  said  William  Knight 
all  the  profits  arising  from  the  jurisdiction  which  the  Arch- 
bishop's son  DOW  enjoys,  who  (as  the  King  fears),  is  a  re- 
cusant. And  when  the  see  shall  be  next  vacant  by  the  death 
of  the  Archbishop  incumbent,  the  said  William  Knight  shall 
be  Archbishop. — Hampton,  25  September,  eighth  year  of  the 
King's  reign. 

P.  1.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Endd.  Inrol.  Endd. 
hy  Sir  Arthur  Chichester:  "Of  the  25th  of  September 
1610.  From  the  Kinge's  Majesty,  to  make  out  warrants, 
&c.  for  Wylliam  Knight  to  be  coadjutor  to  the  Archbishop 
of  Cashell,  and  to  succeed  him  in  the  Archbishopricke.  Re 
the  15th  of  July  1611." 

There  is  a  further  note  endorsed  as  follows,  in  Sir  Arthur's 
hand : — 

"  I  praye  you  the  Lo.  Chancellor  to  call  unto  you  the 
Kinge's  attorney,  and  to  certifie  me  what  you  thinke  to  be  the 
fittest  course  wherby  to  establish  Mr.  Knight  in  the  place  for 
which  he  comes  recommended  by  His  Matie." 

Sept.  27.    876.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury, 
yZ'klltut'  Postpones  a  true  and  ample  discourse  of  their  travels,  actions, 

and  observations  in  Ulster  for  the  present,  as  many  of  the 


502  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

British  undertakers  are  not  yet  come,  and  because  some  of  the 
Commissioners  who  were  with  him  the  whole  journey  are 
now  absent,  and  the  matter  itself  is  not  yet  digested^into  a  form 
and  method  fit  to  be  presented  to  him.  Begs,  however,  that 
he  wiU  accept  of  some  particular  notes  and  advertiseraents  of 
his  own,  not  so  weU  known,  perhaps,  to  the  rest,  nor  so  fit  to 
be  imparted  in  general  letters.  First,  he  thinks  he  shall  not 
live  to  see  the  plantation  performed  according  to  the  project 
laid  down,  of  which  opinion  he  was  when  he  first  beheld  it, 
and  began  to  be  informed  of  the  quality  and  condition  of  the 
undertakers,  and  would  gladly  have  stayed  his  journey  thither 
this  summer  had  he  not  doubted  the  same  would  have  dis- 
pleased His  Majesty ;  for,  how  well  soever  he  wished  to  the 
business,  he  never  thought  it  a  work  so  easy  and  feasible  as  it 
seems  it  is  conceived.  For  to  plant  almost  five  whole  coimties 
in  so  barren  and  remote  a  place  with  new  comers  is  not  a 
work  for  such  undertakers  as  those  that  for  the  most  part 
are  come  unto  them.  Such  of  them  as  are  of  best  judgment 
and  understanding  now  conceive  the  hardness  of  it,  and  will 
undoubtedly  become  suitors,  (if  already  they  be  not)  to  His 
Majesty,  for  license  to  retain  the  natives,  and  with  them  to 
plant  the  most  part  (if  not  aU)  their  proportions,  especially 
the  Scottish,  who  have  already  given  hopes  thereof  to  the 
people ;  if  this  be  yielded  unto,  the  main  business  were  over- 
thrown, and  the  few  servitors  that  have  land  assigned  to  them 
should  therein  receive  hard  measure.  They  have  now  made 
an  entrance  into  the  business,  and  have  prepared  the  natives 
to  bethink  themselves  of  a  new  course  of  Hfe  and  of  the 
plantation ;  and  therefore  to  alter  or  go  back  fi:om  what  is 
resolved  on  were  dishonourable  and  scandalous  :  which  makes 
him  wish  that  they  (the  undertakers)  may  be  held  to  their  con- 
ditions, by  which  something  will  be  done,  and  the  rest  time 
may  bring  to  perfection,  if  God  bless  the  land  with  peace  and 
quietness.  But  to  hinder  the  same  the  natives  of  those  countries 
AviU  do  what  in  them  shall  lie,  for  they  are  generally  discon- 
tented, and  repine  greatly  at  their  fortunes  and  the  small 
quantity  of  land  left  to  them  upon  the  division ;  especially 
those  of  the  counties  of  Tyrone,  Ardmagh,  and  Colerayne, 
who,  having  reformed  themselves  in  their  habit  and  course  of 
life  beyond  others  and  the  common  expectation  held  of  them, 
(for  all  that  were  able  had  put  on  English  apparel,  and  pro- 
mise to  live  in  townreeds,  and  to  leave  their  creating,)  had 
assured  themselves  of  better  conditions  from  the  King  than 
those  they  lived  in  under  their  former  landlords :  but  now 
they  say  they  have  not  land  given  them,  nor  can  they  be  ad- 
mitted tenants,  which  is  very  grievous  unto  them. 

Has  both  studied  and  laboured  the  reformation  of  that 
people,  and  could  have  prevailed  with  them  in  any  reasonable 
matter,  though  it  were  new  unto  them  ;  but  now  he  is  dis- 
credited among  them,  for  they  have  far  less  quantities  assigned 


IRELAND — JAMES  I.  503 


1610. 


to  them  in  those  counties  than  in  the  other  three.  In  which 
the  Commissioners  (to  whom  the  care  of  the  distribution  was 
committed)  were,  in  his  opinion,  greatly  overseen,  or  went  not 
well,  as  it  seemed  unto  him ;  for  to  thrust  the  servitors  with 
all  the  natives  of  a  whole  country  which  paid  the  King  near 
2,000?.  rent  yearly  into  little  more  than  half  a  barony  (as  in 
Tyrone)  was  a  great  oversight,  if  not  out  of  the  meaning.  If 
he  speaks  somewhat  feelingly  in  this  particular,  it  is  his  Lord- 
ship to  whom  he  must  and  will  appeal  when  he  conceives  he 
suffers  wrong,  in  which  he  beseeches  his  Lordship  to  excuse 
him,  for  he  has  some  reason  to  doubt  the  affection  of  some  of 
those  Commissioners  towards  him,  though  he  never  deserved 
ill  at  their  hands  ;  and  he  prays  that  he  may  not  be  guided 
by  any  directions  of  theirs,  for  they  know  not  Ireland  so 
well  as  he  does,  especially  Ulster ;  nor  do  they  wish  better 
to  the  good  and  prosperity  thereof,  nor  to  the  advancement 
of  the  King's  profit  and  service. 

The  people  of  these  three  counties  (with  the  fuU  agreement 
no  doubt,  and  consent  of  the  rest)  have  (as  he  is  informed) 
dispatched  a  priest  to  the  traitor  Tyrone,  to  hasten  his  return 
or  to  send  his  son  Henry  (who  is  now  said  to  be  dead  in 
Spain),  or  to  send  them  arms  and  munition  wherewith  to  arm 
themselves  against  the  plantation :  for  they  wUl  rather  die 
than  be  removed  to  the  small  proportions  assigned  to  them, 
or  seek  a  new  dwelling  in  other  counties ;  and  what  fire- 
brands of  dissension  are  sent  among  them  from  other  parts, 
this  enclosed  from  Sir  Donnell  O'Cahan,  out  of  the  Tower  of 
London,  to  his  brother  Manus,  may  assure  them,  which  Manus 
himself  caused  to  be  delivered  to  him. 

The  priests  now  preach  little  other  doctrine  to  them, 
but  that  they  are  a  despised  people,  and  worse  dealt  with 
than  any  nation  that  hath  been  heard  or  read  of;  for  being 
received  to  mercy  upon  their  humble  submission,  their  bodies, 
goods,  and  lands  were  taken  into  the  King's  protection,  but 
now  they  are  injuriously  thrust  out  of  their  houses  and  places 
of  habitation,  and  be  compelled,  like  vagabonds,  to  go  they 
know  not  whither,  all  which,  as  lessons  taught  them  by  the 
heUish  fathers,  some  of  them  (the  ancientest  and  of  most 
credit  among  them)  in  effect  delivered  unto  him  at  his  being- 
there. 

Writes  not  this  as  wishing  to  have  any  alteration  made  of 
what  is  resolved  to  be  done,  but  to  advertise  his  Lordship  of 
their  minds  and  affections  towards  them  and  the  plantation  in 
hand ;  for  how  ill  soever  they  be  disposed,  he  sees  not  how 
they  can  rebel  in  any  great  numbers  unless  they  have  assistance 
of  arms  and  munition  from  foreign  parts.  But  suggests  that, 
if  any  convenient  relief  may  be  found  out  for  the  best  of  them, 
upon  other  men's  inability  to  perform  the  conditions  of  the 
plantation  or  be  otherwise  weary  of  his  bargain,  they  may  be 


504  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

thought  on  (if  they  carry  themselves  accordingly)  before  the 
lands  they  shall  so  leave  or  give  over  be  other  ways  disposed. 

He  was  so  scantled  by  the  division  and  found  so  many 
servitors  of  good  desert  and  quality  competitors  for  land, 
especially  in  the  counties  of  Tyrone  and  Ardmagh,  that  he 
could  not  help  himself  to  the  three  thousand  acres  assigned 
unto  him,  but  was  driven  to  forego  it  towards  their  satisfac- 
tion, and  likewise  to  strike  out  the  names  of  his  nearest  kins- 
men, that  he  might  have  wherewith  to  pleasure  strangers  (as 
it  were)  :  whereby  it  may  appear  that  he  affects  the  general 
far  before  his  private  commodity  in  this  work  of -plantation; 
for  he  assures  him  that  he  has  forgone  therein  more  acres  of 
good  land  than  he  has  in  all  the  barony  of  Einshowen  [Inish- 
owen],  which  His  Majesty  bestowed  upon  him,  and  would  have 
yielded  him  profit  accordingly. 

Urges  their  great  want  of  money.  This  bearer,  Captain 
Dodington,  came  with  recommendations  from  his  Lordship. 
Has  performed  towards  him  what  he  could,  as  himself  can 
best  deliver,  upon  the  grant  made  to  the  Londoners  of  the 
entire  county  of  Coleraine.  Recommends  him  to  his  Lord- 
ship's notice  and  that  of  the  Lords  in  general. — Merrion,  near 
Dublin,  27  September  1610. 

Pp.  5.    Add.    Endd.    Signed.    Encloses, 
^■f-ill^^?^^'    877.        Sir  Donnel  O'Cahan  to  his  brother  Manus. 

vol.  229,  126 1.  T)        T 

Brother  Manus,  I  commend  me  unto  you,  and  let  you 
understand  that,  if  I  had  friends  to  follow  my  business  since 
I  came  hither,  my  impriso7iment  would  be  shorter  by  the  half. 
For  my  innocency  hath  (God  be  praised)  been  known  and 
heard.  Wherefore,  if  ever  you  look,  or  rather  desire  my 
release,  which  you  both  should,  and  I  think  do,  or  if  you  be 
not  as  deep  in  false  accusing  me  as  others  have  been  liars  in 
the  matter,  and  therefore  wish  rather  m/y  death  than  m,y 
relief ;  if  these  things,  I  say,  hinder  you  not,  then  perform  a 
brotherly  part  to  gain  yourself  a  loving  brother ;  and  gather 
both  from  yourself  and  from  others  your  best  help,  that  either 
yourself  or  some  others  inight  come  ivith  my  wife  hither  to 
sue  for  my  liberty,  if  by  that  time  I  have  it  not.  Nor  let 
covetous  hope  of  lands  debar  you  from,  this,  for  look  on  Tor- 
lagh  M'Art  Oge,  who  had  a  patent  for  the  whole  land,  and 
whose  company  slew  Sir  Gahir  O^Bogherty,  with  what  hath  he 
to  any  purpose  ?  or  wJmt  hath  Cuconnaght  M'Guire's  son, 
Brian  I  mean  ?  Less  (I  say  no  more)  than  ever  I  offered  you. 
But  if  villainous  (which  is  not  to  be  feared  in  any  human 
creature)  or  dunghill  cogitations  should  (by  the  devil's  motion) 
hinder  you  from  this  good  office,  then  I  contest  and  call  to 
witness  Ood,  his  holy  angels,  the  ivhole  world,  and  that 
country  especially,  that  Manus  O'Gahan  hath  served  Donell 
Ballagh  so.    Nor  blame  me  for  being  thus  earnest  other- 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  505 


1610. 

tulse.  Thus  in  haste  I  bid  you  farewell,  resting  aliDays  your 
assured  loving  brother. — Tower,  1  June  1610. 

P.  1.  Signed.  Add.  Undd. :"  Came  to  my  hcmds  the  22 
of  Aug.  1610." 

Sept.  27.    878.        SiE  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Privy  Council. 
voT  22'9'm'  Defers  the  detailed  report  of  their  proceedings  as    Com- 

missioners in  Ulster,  and  has  thought  it  sufficient  for  this 
time  to  give  them  this  general  notice  of  it ;  that  they  have 
executed  their  commission  everywhere  as  far  as  time  and 
occasions  would  permit,  all  which  shall  be  shortly  specified  by 
letters  more  at  large  and  the  relation  of  some  person  of 
observation  and  trust  who  was  always  present. 

Marking  the  general  discontent  and  hearts  grief  of  all  the 
natives  specially  (for  which  their  least  threatening  is  to  appeal 
and  complain  to  His  Majesty),  they  did  at  their  departure  out 
of  the  province  double  the  garrisons  of  Coleraine,  Mountjoie, 
and  Charlemont,  and  left  other  convenient  succours  upon  the 
borders,  Prays  them,  if  there  be  any  more  letters  patent  for 
lands  or  charters  of  franchises  in  Ulster  offered  to  be  passed 
there,  they  will  be  pleased  to  make  stay  of  them  until  they 
have  considered  of  their  reports,  when  some  errors  in  the 
former  shall  be  showed. 

By  their  letter  of  the  6  th  of  August,  received  13th  inst., 
was  required  to  make  stay  of  the  barony  of  Tullochgarvie, 
that  it  might  be  bestowed  in  recompense  of  the  composition 
rent  of  the  county  of  Longford  (a  matter  worthy  of  their 
regard).  But  they  should  know  that  the  same,  in  the  beginning 
of  their  afl'airs  and  about  the  last  of  July,  was  divided  among 
the  servitors  and  natives,  as  they  were  authorised  and  re- 
quired ;  neither  does  he  yet  know  any  means  here  wherewith 
to  compound  for  the  same,  as  he  desires,  in  order  that  the 
same,  or  so  much  thereof  as  shall  be  thought  fit  to  be  reserved, 
may  again  revert  to  the  Crown  :  only  there  hath  been  of  late 
a  commission  granted  forth  to  inquire  of  the  King's  title  to 
certain  lands  in  the  said  countj',  and  if  the  title  can  be  found, 
holds  it  best  to  be  bestowed  that  way,  that  it  may  work  some 
reformation  there  by  the  access  of  more  civil  people  among 
them. — Merrion,  near  Dublin,  27  September  1610. 

Pp.  2.     Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

Sept.  28.    879.        Petition  of  Wm.  Hill,  Gent. 

vor'229^'^28!  ^^'^y^  ^°''  compensation  for  the  tithe  fishing  of  the  Ban, 

'      '  unjustly  taken  from  him  by  the  Londoners. 

Note   by  Salisbury.— Because  it  seemeth  by  this  petition 
that  Mr.  Eecorder  is  acquainted  with  the  state  of  this  matter, 
and  that  I  hear  it  is  also  well  known  to  Sir  James  Fullerton 
I  desire  that  they  will  join  in  certifying  their  knowledge  and 
opinion  unto  me. — 28  September  1610. 
Signed. 


506  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1610. 

Sept.  29.    880.        The  King  to  Sm  Arthur  Chichester. 
Docquet.  Letter  to  the  Lord  Deputy  in  favour  of  Sir  James  Semple 

for  a  grant  to  Sir  James  Fullerton  and  Eusebius  Andre-wes,  of 
lands  in  the  county  of  Carbery. 

Sept.  29.     '881.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester, 

voT1.^''p  436  Warrant  to  pass  to  John  Wakeman,  his  heirs  and  assigns, 

'   '   '       '  St.  Mary's  Abbey,  near  Dublin,  with  all  lands,  tenements, 

rents,  services,  tithes,  and  hereditaments  thereto  belonging, 
excepting  only  and  reserving  to  the  Crown  such  lands,  &c.,  as 
have  been  granted  in  fee  simple  or  fee  farm  by  the  late  Queen 
before  the  28th  August,  in  the  l7th  year  of  her  reign ;  and 
excepting  also  the  several  tithes  of  BallybaughiU,  Portmernock, 
E.obbuckwales,^Dubber,  and  village  of  SanctrifFe,  and  excepting 
such  lands  as  have  been  passed  for  years  by  the  late  Queen  to 
Thomas  Earl  of  Ormond,  the  said  28th  day  of  August,  in  the 
said  17th  year  of  her  reign ;  to  be  held  by  said  Thomas 
Wakeman,  his  heirs  and  assigns,  in  free  and  common  soccage, 
as  of  the  Castle  of  Dublin  and  not  in  capite. — Hampton  Court, 
29  September,  in  the  eighth  year  of  the  King's  reign. 

P.  |.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur 
Chichester:  "  Of  the  29th  of  Sept.  1610.  From  the  Kinge's 
Ma^e^  to  passe  imto  John  Wakeman,  &c.  the  lands,  &c.  of 
St.  Mary's  Abbey.     Ee.  the  14  of  Feb."    Inrol. 

Sept.  29.     882.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Docquet.  Letter  for  grant  to  Pierce  Tumolton  of  Portaferry,  in  co. 

Down,  on  surrender  of  certain  lands. 

Sept.  29.     883.       The  King  to  Sir  Arthctr  Chichester. 
Docquet.  jjjjjg  letter  to  confirm  to  the  assigns  of  John  Manwood, 

deceased,  a  former  warrant  for  the  sum  of  200?.,  escheated  to 

the  King  by  some  of  the  late  fugitives. 

Sept.  29.    884.       The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Docquet.  jr^^Q  letter  for  grant  to  Thos.  Cole,  of  the  office  of  clerk  of 

the  Crown  and  Common  Pleas,  and  of  keeping  the  rolls  and 

records  in  the  King's  Bench  Office. 

Sept.  29.    885.       The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Add.  Papers,  gjgn  manual  for  granting  the  office  of  Clerk  of  the  Crown, 

Ireland,  P.E.O.  ^^^  .^^  ^.^^  counties  of  Dublin,  Kildare,  Catherlogh,  Queen's 

County,  &c.,  to  Thomas  Cole,    in  reversion  after  Eusebius 
Andrews,  who  holds  the  reversion  after  Garrett  Dillon. 

Pp.  2.    Add.    Endd.  by  the  Lord  Deputy:,  "Rec.  22nd 
Dec." 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  507 


IGIO. 
Sept,  30.     886.        Chaege  of  His  Majesty's  Aejvty  and  Gaeeisons  m  Pay 
S.P.,  Ireland,  for  Half  a  Year  from  1st  April  to  SOth  Sept.  1610. 

vol.  229, 128  A.  ^j^^  j^^^^  Deputy  and  other  oflacers  of  the  army,  with  their 

retinues,  viz. : — 

Sir  Arthur  Chichester,  Lord  Deputy  General  of  Ireland, 
50  horsemen,  50  footmen. 

Sir  Thomas  Ridgeway,  Knight,  Treasurer  at  Wars,  20 
horsemen,  20  footmen. 

Sir  Eichard  Wingfield,  Knight,  Marshall,  30  horsemen. 

Sir  Oliver  St.  John,  Knight,  Master  of  the  Ordnance,  for 
the  ministers  belonging  to  the  office,  viz.,  attending  the  master 
at  all  services  :  1  clerk,  7  gunners,  a  bowier,  5  artificers ; 
placed  in  sundry  forts,  "wards,  and  castles,  5  gunners,  1  at 
Maryborough,  1  at  Carriekfergus,  1  at  Athlone,  1  at  Phillips- 
towne,  1  at  Waterford  ;  6  clerks  of  munition,  viz.,  1  at  Newry,' 
1  at  Carriekfergus,  1  at  Athlone,  1  at  Cork,  1  at  Waterford, 
1  at  Limerick ;  Engineer-ministers  of  the  Ordnance  entered 
by  His  Highness's  establishment,  1  Oct.  1607,  master  gunner, 
his  mate,  3  gunners  at  Derry,  Galway,  and  Cork  ;  3  clerks  of 
munition,  1  at  Derry,  1  at  Galway,  1  at  Castlepark  and 
Halbowling. 

Sir  John  Kinge,  Knight,  Muster-master-General  and  Clerk 
of  the  Cheque  for  Ireland,  10  horsemen. 

Thomas  Smith,  Commissary  of  the  Victual  in  Connaught. 

Sir  Allen  Apsley,  Knight,  Commissary  of  the  Victuals  in 
Munster. 

Edw.  Lenton,  Provost  Marshal  of  the  army,  4  horsemen. 

Sir  Josias  Bodley,  Knight,  for  directing  and  overseeing  the 
fortifications  to  be  made. 

Dr.  Metcalfe,  physician  to  the  State. 

Edmond  CuUon,  surgeon  ditto. 

Joice  Everard,  engineer. 

Sir  Thomas  Dutton,  Knight,  Scout-master,  6  horsemen. 

Governors  and  other  officers,  with  their  retinues,  in  the  pro- 
vinces of  Connaught,  Munster,  Ulster,  and  Leinster. 

The  Earl  of  Clanricard,  Lord  President  of  Connaught,  viz., 
for  his  diet  and  the  Council's  there,  30  horsemen,  20  footmen. 

Capt.  Charles  Coote,  provost  marshal  there. 

The  Lord  Danvers,  Lord  President  of  Munster,  his  diet  and 
the  Council's,  30  horsemen,  20  footmen. 

Eichard  Aldworth,  provost  marshal  of  Munster. 

Sir  Henry  Docwra,  Knight,  Governor  of  Loughfoyle. 

Capt.  Edmund  Ellis,'provost  marshal  there,  succeeds  Beverly 
Nucomen  [Newcomen]. 

Sir  Henry  Folyot,  Knight,  Governor  of  Ballyshannon. 

Sir  Arthur  Chichester,  Knight,  Governor  of  Carriekfergus. 

The  Earl  of  Thomond,  Commander  of  the  forces  in  Tho- 
mond. 

Sir  Edward  Blaney,  Knight,  Seneschall  of  Monaghan. 

Robert  Bowen,  provost  marshal  of  Leinster,  6  horsemen. 


508  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610, 

Warders  in  several  Provinces. 
Leinster. 

Henry  Pierce,  constable  of  Dublin  Castle,  14  warders. 

Sir  Henry  Power,  Knight,  constable  of  Maryborough,  16 
warders. 

Francis  Hison,  porter  there. 

Sir  Gerrott  Moore,  Knight,  constable  of  Phillipstoune,  12 
warders. 

Henry  Fisher,  constable  of  Laughlinbridge,  10  warders. 

Sir  Lawrence  Esmond,  Knight,  constable  of  Duncannon,  a 
lieutenant,  a  gunner,  and  30  warders. 

Capt.  Dennis  Dale,  constable  of  a  fort  in  Kinselaugh,  6 
warders. 

Sir  William  Usher,  Knight,  constable  of  Wicklow  Castle,  a 
porter. 

Kichard  Milten,  constable  of  a  ward  at  Oarnowe,  in  co. 
Wicklow,  12  warders. 

Sir  Richard  Masterson,  Knight,  constable  of  Wexford  Castle, 
10  warders. 

Munster, 

Sir  George  Carey,  Knight,  constable  of  Dungarven,  a  porter 
and  12  warders. 

Sir  Thomas  Roper,  Knight,  constable  of  Castlemaine,  4 
horsemen  and  12  footmen. 

Sir  Francis  Barkley,  Knight,  constable  of  Limerick  Castle, 
a  porter,  a  cannoner,  and  20  warders. 

Capt.  Henry  Skipwith,  constable  of  Castle  Park,  a  lieutenant 
a  cannoner,  and  20  warders. 

Sir  Francis  Slingsby,  Knight,  constable  of  Halbowling,  a 
lieutenant  and  20  warders. 

William  Smith,  gunner. 

Connaught. 

The  Earl  of  Clanricard,  constable  of  Athlone,  20  warders. 

Sir  James  Fullerton,  Knight,  for  the  ward  of  Sligo,  10 
warders. 

Sir  John  Kinge,  Knight,  for  the  ward  of  the  abbey  of  Boyle, 
10  warders. 

Jesper  Harbert,  constable  of  Burrishowle,  10  warders. 

Capt.  John  St.  Barbe,  constable  of  a  castle  on  the  Curlewes, 
10  warders. 

Capt.  Maurice  Griffith,  constable  of  Drumruske,  9  warders. 

Sir  Richard  Greame,  Knight,  constable  of  Fort  of  Old 
Court,  9  warders. 

Ulster. 

Sir  Thomas  Phillips,  Knight,  for  ward  of  Coleraine,  a  con- 
stable and  10  warders. 

Capt.  Faithful  Fortescue,  constable  of  castle  of  Carrigfergus, 
20  warders. 

John  Dallwaye,  constable  of  palace  of  Carrigfergus, 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  509 


1610. 


Capt.  Anthony  Smith,  constable  of  castle  of  Newry,  a 
porter  and  12  warders. 

Archie  Moore,  constable  of  Ballinecargie,  6  warders. 

Capt.  Henry  Athertone,  constable  of  Monntnorris,  10 
warders. 

George  Trevillian,  constable  of  Masseryn,  10  warders. 

Sir  Thomas  Phillips,  Knight,  constable  of  Toome,  12  warders. 
,  John  Liegh  [Leigh],  constable  of  Thomey  [the  Omey],  6 
horsemen  and  14<  footmen. 

Sir  Arthur  Chichester,  Knight,  for  the  ward  of  CuUmore,  a 
constable,  a  gunner,  10  warders  (increase  of  entertainment 
granted  by  letters  patent  upon  letters  of  the  13th  June  1609). 

John  Meeke,  ward  of  Dunganon,  a  constable  and  12 
warders. 

Thomas  Ledsame,  porter  there. 

Capt.  William  Elling,  constable  of  Doe  Castle,  discharged 
ult.  July  1610,  12  warders. 

Capt.  Richard  Bingley,  constable  of  Doe  Castle,  succeeded 
him  1  Aug.  1610,  12  warders. 

Capt.  Bassill  Brook,  constable  of  Donegal,  15  warders. 

Capt.  William  Cole,  constable  of  EnniskUlin,  10  warders. 

Capt.  Hugh  Culme,  constable  of  Cloughoughter,  10  warders. 

Marmaduke  Whitchurch,  constable  of  castle  of  Carlingford, 
6  warders. 

Arthur  Bagnall,  Esq.,  constable  of  Greene  Castle,  10 
warders. 

Capt.  Edward  Doddington,  constable  of  Dungevan,  15 
warders. 

Sir  Foulke  Conway,  Knight,  for  the  ward  of  Enishlaughlin, 
constable  and  14  warders. 

Horsemen. 

Sir  Arthur  Chichester,  Lord  Deputy,  in  list  for  50,  a  captain, 
lieutenant,  cornet,  and  60  horsemen. 

The  Lord  Danvers,  Lord  President  of  Munster,  in  list  50, 
like  officers,  &c. 

The  Earl  of  Clanriccard,  Lord  President  of  Cormaught,  in 
list  50,  like  officers  and  company. 

Capt.  John  Kingsmell,  in  list  50,  the  like. 

Sir  Richard  Wingfield,  Knight,  Marshal,  in  list  20,  a  lieu- 
tenant, a  cornet,  and  20  horsemen. 

Sir  Oliver  Lambert,  Knight,  in  list  25,  a  lieutenant,  a  cornet, 
aud  25. 

Sir  Gerrott  Moore,  Knight,  in  list  25,  like  officers  and 
company. 

Sir  Henry  Folyot,  Knight,  in  list  10  -     10  horsemen. 

Capt.   Charles   Coote,    provost  marshal    of 
Connaught,  in  list  12  -  -  -     12 

Captain  Richard  Aldworth,  provost  marshal 
of  Munster,  in  list  12-  -  -  -     12 

Sir  Edward  Harberfc,  Knight,  in  list  12       -     12 


510  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

Footmen. 

Sir  Arthur  Chicliester,  Lord  Deputy,  in  list  150,  a  captain, 
lieutenant,  ensign,  3  Serjeants,  2  drums,  a  surgeon,  and  142 
soldiers. 

Earl  of  Clanriccard,  Lord  President  of  Connaught,  in  list 
100,  a  lieutenant,  an  ensign,  2  Serjeants,  a  drum,  a  surgeon, 
and  94  footmen. 

Lord  Danvers,  Lord  President  of  Munster,  in  list  100,  like 
officers  and  company. 

Sir  Thomas  Eidgewav,  Knight,  Treasurer  at  War,  in  Ust 
100,  like  ditto. 

Sir  Richard  Wingfielde,  Knight,  Marshal,  in  list  100,  like 
ditto. 

Sir  Oliver  St.  John,  Kiiight,  Master  of  the  Ordnance,  iii 
list  100,  like  ditto. 

Earl  of  Thomond,  in  list  100,  like  ditto. 

Lord  of  Howth,  in  list  100,  like  ditto. 

Sir  Hemy  Power,  Knight,  in  list  100,  like  ditto. 

Sir  Richard  Morrison,  Knight,  in  list  100,  like  ditto. 

Sir  Henry  Folyot,  Knight,  in  list  100,  like  ditto. ' 

The  Mayor,  SheriflFs,  and  commonalty  of  Carrigfergus,  100 
footmen,  a  captain,  and  like  officers. 

Sir  Francis  Russhe,  Knight,  in  list  50,  a  lieutenant,  an 
ensign,  1  serjeant,  a  drum,  a  surgeon,  and  45  footmen. 

Sir  Oliver  Lambert,  Knight,  in  list  50,  like  officers  and 
company. 

Sir  Foulke  Conway,  Knight,  in  list  50,  like  ditto. 

Sir  Thomas  Roper,  Knight,  in  list  50,  like  ditto. 

Sir  Richard  Hansard,  Knight,  in  list  50,  like  ditto. 

Sir  Thomas  Rotheram,  Knight,  in  list  50,  like  ditto. 

Capt.  William  Nuce,  in  list  50,  like  ditto. 

Sir  Edward  Blaney,  Knight,  in  list  50,  like  ditto. 

Sir  Francis  Rooe,  Knight,  in  list  50,  like  ditto. 

Sir  Tobias  Cawlfield,  Knight,  in  list  50,  like  ditto. 

Sir  Thomas  Phillips,  Knight,  in  list  50,  like  ditto. 

Capt.  Hercules  Francis  Cooke,  in  list  50,  like  ditto. 

Capt.  John  Vaughan,  in  list  50,  like  ditto. 

Capt,  WUliam  Stuart,  in  list  50,  like  ditto. 

Captain  Patrick  Craforde,  in  list  50,  like  ditto. 

Lord  Crumwell,  in  list  50,  like  ditto. 

Capt.  Arthur  Bassett,  succeeded  by  Sir  James  Parratt,  in 
list  50,  like  ditto. 

Pensioners  of  the  list,  at  il.  19s.  2d.  per  diem. 

George  Ridgeway,  Richard  Bingley,  Thomas  Hibbotts,  at 
5s.  each  per  diem ;  Edward  Southworth,  at  4s.  lOd. ;  Capt 
John  St.  Barhe,  Wm.  Longe,  at  4s. ;  Francis  Gainsforde,  at 
3s.  9d. ;  Sir  George  Greame,  at  3s.  6d. ;  John  Strowde,  at 
3s.  M. ;  Dermot  M'Morrice,  Martyn  Lysley,  Adrian  FitzSymon, 
at  3s. ;    Christopher  Wackley,  William  Hamden,  at  2s.  8d. ; 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  511 


1610. 


Walter  Whyfce,  James  Delahoyde,  John  Lye,  at  2s.  6d. ;  Capt. 
Samuel  Harrison,  at  2s.  4td.  ;  Gerrott  Boine,  John  Kelly, 
William  Story,  Michael  Pinnock,  at  2s. ;  Fergus  Greame, 
Jonas  Liliard,  at  Is.  8d. ;  Morough  M'Teige  Oge,  Hen.  Bor- 
rowes,  John  Gillett,  Walter  Brady,  William  Putt,  at  Is.  6d. ; 
John  Frith,  Richard  Mapouther,  at  Is.  id. ;  Daniel  Burne,  at 
Is.  Bd. ;  Robert  Moore,  at  Is.  2d. ;  Nicholas  Crehall,  John 
NeUson,  Edmund  Leadbeter,  WiUiam  Hitherington,  Robert 
Whitheade,  John  Norton,  Thomas  Marshall,  Robert  Dixon,  at 
Is. ;  Capt.  Mar.  Nelson,  John  Birckett,  at  lOd!.  ;  Quintyne 
Rutledge,  at  9d. ;  William  Carie,  at  8d. ;  John  M'Sheary,  at 
7d. ;  Simeon  Field,  Cahier  O'Reilye,  at  6d. 

Pensioners  by  letters  patent,  at  I7s.  l^d.  per  diem. 

Christopher  Payton,  Esq.,  assignee  to  Thomas  Fleming,  at 
20c?.  per  diem  ;  Capt.  Mar.  Nelson,  at  SOI.  per  annum  ;  Owen  Ap 
Hugh,  at  4s.  per  diem  ;  Manus  M'Shehee,  Anthony  Farrs,  at 
20d. ;  Dowly  M'Brian,  at  2s.  6d. ;  Anthony  Huggins,  at  2s. ; 
GUduflf  Smith,  WiUam  Brereton,  at  12d. 

Almosemen. 

Edmund  Booy,  John  CasweU,  Richard  M'Sett,  John  Fitz- 
Gerrald,  Dennis  Brady,  John  Brenon,  Henry  Hawe,  Patrick 
Martyn,  John  Donnell,  William  Trevor,  Edmund  Kelly,  Tur- 
laugh  O'Galchor,  at  4<^d.  each  per  diem ;  John  Beaghan, 
deceased,  at  4d  ;  William  Gallway,  succeeding  him,  at  4c?. 

Pensioners  lately  erected. 

Lawrence  Mastersone,  Richard  Owen,  Rory  M'Quilye, 
Gregory  Norton,  Henry  O'Neale,  Con  O'Neale,  Lesaugh 
O'Connor,  at  4s.  each  per  diem  ;  Donell  Cavenagh  at  10s.  per 
diem ;  Jane,  Ellyn,  and  Elizabeth  FitzGerald,  at  51.  each  per 
annum  ;  John  Wogan,  at  2s.  per  diem. 

Pensioners  newly  increased. 
Walter  Edney,  Bryan  M'Donagh,  at  4s.  each  per  diem. 

Pensioners  entered  by  establishment,  1  April  1605. 

Sir  Charles  Wilmott,  at  200?.  English  per  annum;  Robert 
Cowell,  at  8s.  per  diem  ;  Patrick  Cullen,  deceased,  at  4s.  per 
diem,  beginning  1  April  1610,  and  ending  Srd  of  the  same, 
which  day  he  died. 

Eighteen  maimed  soldiers. 

Bryan  CDollane,  Thomas  O'Mullchane,  William  Birte 
Philip  Brady,  Laughlin  O'Harraghan,  William  O'Connor 
Dennis  Kelly,  William  O'Lorkan,  Thomas  Purcell,  Henry  Till' 


512  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

Daniel  Enose,  Richard  Taafe,  Walter  Nugent,  Dennis  Purcell, 
Edmund  Bowen,  Laughlin  Colman,  John  M'Can,  Bryan  Gill, 
at  3s.  each  weekly. 

Pensioners  entered  by  establishment,  1  April  1606. 

Sir  John  Jepson,  Sir  Ralph  Constable,  Sir  Richard  Piercy, 
Knt.,  at  100?.  each  per  annum  ;  Sir  Richard  Trevor,  at  50?. ; 
Capt.  William  Meares,  Capfc,  John  Pikeman,  at  6s.  8d.  each 
per  diem. 

Pensioners  entered  by  establishment,  1  Oct.  1607. 

Robert  Savage  at  2s.  8c?.  per  diem  ;  Capt.  Henry  Moyle,  at 
5s.  id. ;  Sir  Oliver  Lambert,  Knt.,  at  4s. 

Pensioners  entered  by  establishment,  1  Oct.  1608. 
Donnaugh  Kelly  at  12cZ. ;  Daniel  O'CarroU  at  18c?. 

Officers  of  the  Musters. 

John  Corbett,  Esq.,  overseer  of  the  Musters,  at  3s.  4c?.  per 
diem ;  Ralph  Birchensha,  Esq.,  comptroller,  at  20s. ;  John 
Mayuard,  John  Staughton,  commissaries,  at  3s.  4c?. ;  Anthony 
Reynolds,  commissary,  deceased,  1  to  7  April  1610,  John  Cary 
succeeding  ;  Baptist  Johns,  commissary,  discharged  1  April  to 
15  June  1610,  William  Holland  succeeding. 

Entertainments  allowed  for  keeping  of  boats. 

Capt.  John  Vaughan,  for  boats  of  Loughfoile,  and  10  men ; 
Capt.  William  Cole,  for  boats  of  Balleshanon,  and  10  men ; 
Capt.  Hugh  Clottwoi-thy,  for  bark  and  boats  of  Masseryn  and 
Loughsidney,  and  16  men ;  James  Williamsone,  overseer  of 
boats  at  Athlone. 

Entertainments  allowed  to  provost  marshals  and  servitors 
of  Irish  birth. 

Moyses  Hill,  provost  marshal,  cos.  Downe  and  Antrim ; 
Hugh  Culme,  provost  marshal,  co.  Cavan  and  parts  adjoining ; 
William  Lyons,  provost  marshal,  co.  Wexford  and  parts 
adjoining. 

Servitors  of  Irish  birth. 

Tirlaugh  M'Arte  O'Neale,  Bryan  Modder  O'Neale,  and 
three  others,  Dennis  Dae,  Owen  M'Hugh,  Edmund  Groome 
O'Hanlone,  Shane  M'Bryan  O'Neale,  Turlaugh  O'Gormley, 
Rory  O'Cane,  Tady  O'Farrall,  Rory  O'Doghertye. 


IRELAND— JAIIES  I. 


513 


1G10. 


Sum  of  the  entertainments  grown  due  to  the  Lord  Deputy  and  other 
oiScers,  with  their  retinues,  bands,  and  companies  of  horsemen  and 
footmen,  warders,  pensioners,  and  others,  contained  and  allowed 
in  His  Majesty's  establishment  dated  1  Oct.  1608  doth  amount  for 
183  days,  beginning  1  April  1610  and  ending  30  Sept.  same  year, 
to  the  sum  of,  viz.,  to — 
OiBcers,  general :  £     s.     cl.  £     s.    d. 

The  Lord  Deputy  and  other 
officers  of  the  army,  with 
their  retinues  -  -  -    3,760  11     2 

Officers,  provincial : 

Governors  and  other  officers,  witli 
their  retinues,  in  the  provinces 
of  Munster,  Con  naught,  Ulster, 
and  Leinster  -  -  -    1,987     2     5i 

Warders  in  the   several  provinces  of 
Leinster,  Munster,  Connaught,  and 


Ulster 

- 

- 

4,296     5 

9 

Horsemen     - 

- 

- 

4,363     0 

6 

Footmen 

- 

- 

16,289     5 

9 

Pensioners  : 

At  4<l.    19s.   2d.  per 

diem 

907    7 

6 

By  letters  patent  at 

17s.  l^d.  per  diem 

156  16 

6 

Lately  erected 

441     0 

0 

Newly  entered 

73     4 

0 

Entered  by  the  esta- 

blishment      dated 

1  April  1605 

311     1 

0^ 

Entered  by  an   esta- 

blishment     which 

begun  1  April  1606 

297     0 

0 

Entered  by  the  esta- 

blishment begun  1 

Oct.  1607 

109  16 

0 

Entered  by  the  esta- 

blishment     begun 

1  Oct.  1608 

22  17 

6 

In  all 

2,319     2 

H 

Almosemen   - 

- 

- 

44  12 

H 

Officers  of  the  Musters 

- 

. 

335  10 

0 

Entertainments  allowed 

for  keeping 

of  the    boats    of    Loughfoile, 

the 

boats  of  Balleshanon,  the  bark  and 

boats    of    Masseryn    and   Lough- 

sidney,    and   the    overseer  of  the 

boats  at  Athlone    -  -  -     379  13     6 

Entertainments   allowed    to   provost 

marshals  and  servitors  of  Irish  birth  277  17  0 
In  all,  amounting  to  the  sum  of • 


84,053 
K  K 


H 


514 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1610. 


Sept.  30. 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  229,  129. 


Memorandum. —  There  is  allowed  to  Capt.  Robert  £       s.     d. 

Culme  for  his  pension  at  4s.  per  diem  payable 
out  the  cheques,  by  warrant  of  the  Lords  of  His 
Majesty's  Privy  Council  in  England,  dated  80 
Aug.  1610  and  ending  30  Sept.  same  year         -  36  12     0 

And  so  His  Majesty's  clear  charge  for  the  said 
time  of  183  days  for  his  army,  as  before  is  par- 
ticularly laid  down,  amounteth  to  the  sum  of  -    34,089  13     9^ 
Pp.  29. 

887.        Victualling  of  Ships. 

Declaration  of  the  charge  for  victualling  the  ships  on  the 
coast  of  Ireland  for  two  years  and  three  quarters. 
P.  1.     E7idd. 


[Sept.] 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.22;i,  129  a. 


888.        Petition  of  Randall  Ince  to  the  Earl  of  Salisbury, 
Lord  High  Treasurer  of  England. 
Prays  for  a  grant  in  reversion  of  the  ofBce  of  usher  and 
marshal  of  His  Majesty's  Exchequer  in  Ireland,  with  all  such 
yearly  wages,  &c.,  wherewith  Richard  Dutton  now  enjoys  the 
same. 
P.  1. 


[Sept.] 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.  229,  129  b. 


889.        Petition  of  Mr.  William  Parsons,  Surveyor  of  Ire- 
land, to  Salisbury. 
Solicits  a  lease  in  reversion  of  the  rectories  of  Clonaghles 
and  Palmerston  and  other  lands  to  the  value  of  100  marks 
per  annum. 

P.  1. 


[Sept.] 

S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.229, 129  c. 


Oct.  1. 

Carte  Papers, 
vol.  61,  p.  325. 


Oct.  6. 

Carte  Papers, 

vol.  61,  p.  327. 


890.  Petition  of  James  Duffe  to  Salisbury. 

Prays  for  immediate  payment  of  sums  lent  to  Sir  Thos. 
Ridgeway,  who  had  induced  him  to  come  to  London  for  that 
purpose. 

P.  1.     Add.  pasted  on. 

891.  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Sir  John  Davys. 
Warrant  to  draw  a  fiant  of  a  new  corporation  for  the  town 

of  Cavan,  and  to  pass  to  the  said  town  500  acres  of  land. — 
Merrion,  1  October  1610, 

P.  1.  Orig.  Endd. :  "  A  warrant  for  the  corporation  of 
the  Cavan." 

892.  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Sir  John  Davys. 
Warrant  to  make  out  a  fiant  of  a  grant  to  George  Tre- 

villian  of  the  ofiice  of  provost  marshal  of  the  province  of 
Munster,  in  pursuance  of  the  King's  letters  of  20  June  1610. 
—Dublin,  6  October  1610. 

P.  1.     Orig.     Endd.:  "Capt«.  TreviUian,  1610." 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  515 


1610, 

Oct.  8.      893.        Sm  Arthur  Chichester  to  Sir  John  Davys. 
y^g^^^^^27  Warrant   to  draw   a  fiant  containing   a  grant  from   the 

'  ^'      '  King  of  the  office  of  His  Highness's  escheator  and  feodary 

in  the  comities  of  Dublin,  Wicklow,  Wexford,  Kilkenny, 
Catherlaugh,  Kildare,  King's  and  Queen's  Counties,  Louth, 
Meath,  Westmeath,  and  Longford,  to  Walter  White,  hereto- 
fore enjoyed  by  Nicholas  Kenny,  on  the  death  or  other  avoid- 
ance of  the  office  by  the  said  Nicholas  Kenny,  according  to 
the  tenor  of  His  Highness's  letters  written  in  behalf  of 
Walter  White,  dated  Hampton  Court,  13  Sept.  1610. — 
Dublin  Castle,  8  October  1610. 

P.  1.     Orig.     Endd. :  "  Mr.  Walter  White,  1610.' 

Oct.  10.      894.        Sir  Humphrey  Winche  to  Salisbury. 

¥0^229^130'  '^^®   ItOxA.   Deputy  has   committed  to  him  the  charge   of 

'      '  business  to  be  propounded  in  the  intended  Parliament  here, 

and  he,  with  some  of  the  judges,  barons,  and  King's  learned 
counsel,  have  made  some  entrance,  but  the  propositions  being 
many  and  of  great  moment,  it  cannot  weU  be  before  Candlemas, 
in  regard  their  proceedings  will  receive  some  stay  by  the  term 
causes,  the  taking  of  the  accounts,  and  other  services  which 
daily  interpose ;  but  by  the  midst  of  February  he  hopes  to  pre- 
sent them  to  his  Lordship  and  the  rest  of  His  Highness's  most 
honourable  Privy  Council.  Complains  of  the  great  defects  he 
found  in  trials  dming  his  last  circuit  in  Munster,  for  want  of 
indifferent  jurors,  which  would  be  amended  if  the  undertakers 
of  that  province  performed  their  covenants  in  making  free- 
holders and  planting  of  English,  who  might  be  indifferent  be- 
tween His  Majesty  and  his  subjects,  and  his  subjects  of  English 
and  Irish  birth  (which  those  of  this  country's  birth  are  not). 
Suggests  that  the  undertakers  be  iirged  to  settle  freeholders 
and  English  upon  their  seignories  according  to  their  covenants, 
or  else  that  they  be  punished  for  the  breach.  —  Dublin,  10 
October  1610. 

P.  1.  Signed.  Add.  Endd.:  "  To  remember  that  a  letter 
be  written  from  the  Lords  that  the  undertakers  of  Mounster 
may  be  urged  to  create  and  settle  freeholders." 

Oct.  12.      895.        Sir  Thomas  Ridge  way  to  Salisbury. 

■rof  22r'i3f'  Learns  by  a  letter  of  Henry  Eeynolds  that  an  information 

has  been  made  against  him  for  defects  of  payment.  Is  deeply 
distressed  by  this,  and  is  prepared,  when  he  learns  particulars 
of  the  charge,  to  refute  it.  Prays  to  be  judged  by  his  books, 
by  which  he  wUl  stand  or  fall.  Appeals  to  the  Lord  Deputy 
and  to  aU  in  the  public  service  for  the  punctuality  of  his  pay- 
ments. Enters  into  particulars  as  to  payments  for  the  public 
service  in  the  presidency  of  Munster,  and  cessing  on  the 
country  in  that  government,  in  which  he  declares  that  he 
will  fully  establish  his  promptness  and  accuracy  of  his  pay- 
ments.    Repeats  his  confident  assertion  that  never  was  there 

K  K    2 


516  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

IGIO. 

under  any  treasviver,  a  more  provident  care  had  of  the  resources 
and  service  of  the  kingdom,  and  begs  of  Salisbury  to  send 
forward  witliout  delay  the  balance  still  unpaid  of  the  supply 
for  last  quarter,  which  he  will  expect  in  a  month  at  furthest. 
— Eathfarnham,  12  October  1610. 

Pp.  2.     Signed.     Seeded.    Add.    Endd. 

Oct.  14.      896.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
V  T  229^' 132*  Expects  to  Send  their  general  dispatch  concerning  their  pro- 

'      '  ceedings  in  the  matter  of  the  Ulster  plantation,  signed  by  all 

the  commissioners  who  attended  that  service,  in  eight  or  ten 
days.  Sir  Humphrey  Winche,  the  Chief  Justice,  intending  to 
return  to  England  at  Candlemas  next,  he  (Chichester)  is  to 
advertise  Salisbury  in  the  meantime  to  think  of  a  person  to 
be  his  successor. 

As  the  judges  of  late  have  all  come  from  Lincoln's  Inn, 
which  grew  (as  he  conceives)  from  the  recommendation  which 
the  predecessor  gave  to  his  friend  whom  he  wished  to  succeed 
him,  suggests  for  his  Lordship's  consideration  whether  some 
selections  should  be  made  from  the  other  inns.  Such  has 
been  the  scarcity  of  money,  that  the  army  whilst  they 
were  this  summer  in  the  field  was  supplied  with  borrowed 
money  and  beeves  taken  up  upon  credit,  and  he  doubts  not 
but  Mr.  Treasurer  has  given  bills  for  the  money  payable  in 
England,  and  that  they  are  satisfied  accordiDgly. 

To  these  matters  of  Treasury  he  is  almost  a  stranger,  for 
since  his  (Salisbury's)  time  they  have  been  so  well  paid  that 
no  complaints  have  been  made  to  him  by  captains,  officers,  or 
soldiers  until  now,  when  (as  they  say)  it  is  hard  with  them, 
for  the  scarcity  and  want  of  money  is  so  general  that  little  is 
to  be  taken  up  in  town  or  country. 

At  this  time  of  the  year  the  wealth  of  this  city  is  in  wares 
and  commodities,  and  not  in  money,  for  the  merchants  bring 
from  thence  in  summer  what  is  to  serve  the  best  part  of  the 
kingdom  for  all  the  winter  following.  Besides  which  he 
conceives  that  the  London  undertakers  of  the  plantation  deal 
with  the  merchants  here  to  make  over  their  payments  to  their 
agents  in  the  north  ;  which  he  would  gladly  prevent,  that  their 
purse  might  walk  among  us  as  well  as  their  commodities,  for  by 
this  they  are  disabled  to  borrow  as  they  have  been  accustomed, 
with  which  he  finds  Mr.  Treasurer  very  much  gi'ieved  and  dis- 
contented. Urges,  therefore,  a  speedy  supply  of  treasure. — 
Dublin  Castle,  14  October  1610. 

Pp.  3.     Signed.    Add.    Endd.. 

Oct.  16.      897.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Pbilad.  p..  Warrant  to  accept  a  surrender  of,  and  make  a  re-grant  of 

voj.  1,  p.  4JS.  ^^  j^.^  manor,  castle,  and  lands  of  Keantwirck,  held  under  the 

Crown  to  Dermond  M'Owen  M'Carthye,  of  Keantwirck  [Kan- 

turk],  in  the  county  of  Cork,  to  be  held  of  the  King  in  free 

and  common  soccage  as  of  the  Castle  of  Dublin,  with  liberty 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  517 


1610. 

to  impark  and  have  free  warren  in  150  Irish  acres  of  the 
lands,  together  with  courts  leet  and  courts  baron,  two  fairs 
yearly,  and  one  weekly  market,  to  be  kept  at  and  within 
the  said  manor  of  Keantwirck ;  a  proviso  to  be  inserted  in 
the  grant  that  the  same  prejudice  not  the  payment  of  com- 
positions of  Leinster,  Connaught,  and  Munster.— Westminster, 
16  October,  in  the  eighth  year  of  the  King's  reign. 

P.  1.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Enrol.  Endd.by  Sir  Arilmr 
Chichester :  "  Of  the  16*1^  of  October  1610.  From  the  Kinge's 
Ma''",  to  accept  of  the  surrender  of  the  castle,  lands,  .fee,  of 
Dermond  M'Owen  M'Cartie,  of  Keantwicke,  &c.,  and  re-grant 
the  same.     Re.  the  20*^  of  March." 

Oct.  16.      898.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
^'"'^'^-  -^•'  Warrant  to  accept  the  surrender  of,  and  re-grant  to  David 

°  ■  ■  Roche,  Lord  Viscount  Fermoy,  of  the  manors,  castle,  land,  &c., 

of  Castletown,  Glenor,  and  Bealaghaghie,  in  the  county  of 
Cork,  and  to  re-grant  the  same  to  the  said  David,  Lord  Viscount 
Fermoy,  the  said  manor  of  Castletown  only  to  be  held  of  the 
King  by  knight's  service  in  capite,  and  to  hold  all  the  rest 
in  free  and  common  soccage  as  of  the  Castle  of  Dublin. — 
Westminster,  16  October,  in  the  eighth  year  of  the  King's 
reign. 

Pp.  11.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Enrol.  Endd.  by  Sir 
Arthur  Chichester:  "In  the  behalf  of  the  Lord  Roche,  &c. 
Of  the  16  of  October  1610.  From  the  Kinge's  Ma^'e^  to  accept 
a  surrender  of  the  lands  of  Lord  Roche,  and  to  re-grant  the 
same.     Re.  the  19*11  of  March." 


Oct.  17.     899.        Earl  of  Kildare  to  Salisbury. 
^'?'^^!^'^'?I!lJ'  The  death  of  his  old  aunt  has  given  him  new  occasion  to  de- 

vol    22Q    133 

'       '  sire  his  Lordship's  indifferent  favour.    The  letter  he  has  written 

to  the  Lords  of  the  Council  expresses  the  cause.  His  adver- 
sary challenges  all  the  lands  belonging  to  his  title,  and  has  cun- 
ningly crept  in  to  be  a  tenant  for  certain  of  his  lands,  which, 
possessing  as  a  lessee,  he  holds  as  his  inheritance.  He  has  used 
peaceable  means  to  come  by  his  possession,  and  has  been 
forcibly  resisted  by  Sir  Robert  Digbie's  men.  His  Lordship 
may  judge  whether  a  few  of  Sir  Robert's  men  could  keep  pos- 
session of  his  inheritance,  but  he  has  forborne  to  use  violence, 
hoping  by  his  favour  and  by  the  information  he  has  sent  to 
the  rest  of  the  Lords,  to  be,  according  to  His  Majesty's  letters 
and  their  Lordships',  established  in  his  possession.  Desirino- 
the  continuance  of  his  favour,  &c. — Maynooth,  17  October  1610. 
P.  1.    Signed.    Add.     Endd. 

Oct.  19.     900.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Tol"4'^p^i  Requests  on  behalf  of  one  John  Carpenter,  gentleman,  that 

Sir  Arthur  may  expedite  the  passing  of  his  patent  for  the 
reversion  of  some  preferment  in  Ireland,  as  promised  by  His 
Majesty,  and  according  to  the  King's  owji  letter  already  sent 


518  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

to  Sir  Arthur  ;  the  rather  as  he  (Mr.  Carpenter)  is  obliged  to 
employ  a  friend  in  the  business,  being  himself  unable  to  ^o 
over,  having  departed  in  the  train  of  His  Majesty's  ambas- 
sador to  the  State  of  Venice. — Whitehall,  19  October  1610 

Sigiiecl:  T.- EUesmere,  Cane,  E,  Salisbury,  H.  Northamp- 
ton, T.  Suffolke,  Gilb.  Shrewsbury,  E.  Worcester. 

P.  i.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  ■  "  Of  the 
19^  of  October  1610.  From  the  Lis.  of  the  CounceU,  in  the 
behalfe  of  one  Carpenter,  to  passe  a  graunte  of  what  it  hath 
pleased  the  King's  Matie  to  bestow  upon  him.  Ee.  the  lOti^of 
Februarie." 

Oct.  25.      901.        The  KiKG  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
ToT^'^p'  U2  Warrant  to  accept  of  Sir  Christopher  Plunket,  of  Dunsoghly 

m  the  county  of  Dubhn,  in  consideration  of  the  good  services 
as  well  of  the  said  Sir  Christopher  as  of  his  grandfather  and 
ancestors,  who  of  long  time  have  served  the  King's  noble  pro- 
genitors, a  surrender  of  Laragours  and  Plemington,  in  the 
county  of  Meath,  and  also  of  the  late  dissolved  monastery  of 
St.  John  the  Baptist  of  Newton  by  Trim,  in  the  said  county  of 
Meath,  which  he  holds  by  lease  for  years;  part  of  which  premises 
is  passed  to  others  in  fee-simple  and  fee-farm,  and  by  leases  in 
reversion,  and  to  grant  to  him  so  much  as  are  held  by  leases 
for  years  as  are  not  as  yet  passed  to  others,  in  fee-simple  and 
fee-farm,  and  also  to  accept  his  surrender  of  Dunsoghly  and 
Harristown,  in  the  county  of  Dublin,  to  be  held  at  their  former 
rents  and  services. — Westminster,  25  October,  in  the  eighth 
year  of  the  King's  reign. 

Fp.  4.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Enrol.  Endd.  by  Sir 
Arthur  Chichester :  "  Of  the  25^^  of  October  1610.  From  the 
Kinge's  Ma*'^,  in  the  behalfe  of  Sir  Christopher  Plunkett,  to 
re-passe  his  landes  upon  a  surrender,  &c.  Ee.  the  17*'^  of 
December." 

Oct.  25.      902.        Patrick  Tirry  to  Salisbury. 

S.P.,  Ireland,  jg  ^-^  alderman  of  the  city  of  Cork,  wliere  he  was  mayor 

^°  ■      '      ■  four  years  since,  and  was  the  first  that  both  repaired  to  church 

and  swore  the  oath  of  His  Majesty's  supremacy  since  His 
Highness's  reign  or  many  years  before  ;  for  proof  of  which  he 
refers  to  the  late  Lord  President's  letters  to  him,  sent  here- 
with, signifying  his  thankfulness  to  him  for  the  same.  For 
this  he  is  maligned  and  hated  of  aU  his  kinsmen,  neighbours, 
and  citizens,  as  weE.  within  the  said  city  as  elsewhere  ;  whereby 
he  is  not  able  to  inhabit  or  dwell  amongst  them  without  the 
countenance  of  his  Honour  and  this  State. 

Beseeches  his  Lordship  therefore  that,  for  the  many  good 
offices  he  has  done  during  the  time  of  his  mayoralty,  and_  espe- 
cially in  procuring  sundry  the  inhabitants  of  the  said  city  to 
come  as  then  to  the  church,  according  to  the  trust  reposed 
in  him  by  the  said  late  Lord  President,  as  may  be  testified  by 
sundry, — that  he  will  accept  him  into  his  service  and  attend- 


IKELAND— JAMES  I.  519 


1610. 

ance,  and  he  will  not  fail  to  do  the  uttermost  of  his  faithful 
service  to  him  during  his  life. 

Note  signed  by  SaUshury. — "  I  have  more  servants  than  I 
need  to  keep,  and  therefore  must  require  the  petitioner  to  seek 
some  other  master. — 25  October  1610." 

P.  1.     Orig. 

Oct.  27.      903.        LoEDS  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Aethur  Chiohestee. 
Phiiad.  p ,  They  send  over  the  form  of  a  surrender  of  certain  escheated 

'   '   '   ' '  lands  granted  to  the  Lady  Mary  Nugent,  Lady  Dowager  of 

Delvin,  and  Richard,  Lord  Delvin,  her  son,  by  two  several 
patents,  the  one  dated  14th  of  June,  in  the  second  year  of  His 
Majesty's  reign,  the  other  the  7th  of  December,  in  the  thii-d  of 
his  reign,  which  they  have  previously  purported  to  surrender 
to  the  King  in  order  to  restore  the  lands  to  the  O'Farrells,  the 
former  owners,  but  the  surrender  failed  of  effect  for  some 
imperfection  in  the  instrument  of  surrender. 

The  present  form  has  been  signed  by  the  Attorney-General 
of  England,  and  when  executed  (if  the  said  Lady  Nugent  be 
still  alive)  by  the  said  Lady  and  Lord  Delvin,  is  to  be  there 
enrolled,  and  then  sent  over  to  England  in  order  to  the  King's 
granting  the  said  surrendered  lands,  as  to  his  wisdom  shall 
seem  meet. — Whitehall,  27  October  1610. 

Signed :  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton, 
Notingham,  T.  Suffolke,  Gilb.  Shrewsbury,  E.  Worcester,  E. 
Wotton. 

P.  1.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester:  "  Of  the 
27  of  October  1610.  From  the  Lis.  of  the  Councell  to  cause 
the  L.  of  Delvin  to  make  a  newe  surrender  of  the  lands  he 
past  formerly  within  the  countie  of  Longforde,  &c.  Re.  the 
21st  of  Januarie." 

Oct,  31.      904.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  King. 

vol,  '229^134  A  "  ^ost  gracious  Sovereign, — It  is  now  almost  six  years  since 

it  pleased  your  Majesty  to  advance  me  to  this  kingdom's 
government,  in  which  I  have  carefully  followed  your  princely 
directions  and  the  advices  and  directions  of  the  Lords  of  your 
Council,  and  have  of  myself  taken  hold  of  every  occasion 
offered  for  the  advancement  of  your  Majesty's  service  and 
profit,  or  for  the  reformation  of  what  time's  neglect  or 
countries'  troubles  had  brought  into  error  and  confusion, 
whereby  your  kingdom  and  people  are  somewhat  amended  and 
greater  hopes  of  reformation  and  quiet  appearing  than  in  former 
times  hath  been  conceived. 

"  My  carriage  and  success  therein  is  not  fit  to  be  rehearsed 
by  particulars  in  my  letters  to  your  Majesty,  seeing  your 
gracious  acceptance  of  my  labours  (of  which  sundry  of  your 
Highness's  letters  do  make  ample  declaration)  doth  assure  me 
that  the  same  are  otherways  sufficiently  made  known  unto 
you,  but  I  may  say  I  hope  (without  being  thought  a  praiser  of 
mine  own  actions)  that  what  I  have  undertaken  upon  your 


520  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610, 

Majesty's  directions,  or  of  myself  for  the  good  of  the  common- 
wealth and  the  advancement  of  your  service,  it  hath  prospered 
and  taken  good  success,  which  I  do  wholly  attribute  to  God's 
blessings  poured  upon  your  Majesty's  happy  government. 

"  And  for  this  great  work  of  the  plantation  of  the  escheated 
lands  in  the  province  of  Ulster  now  in  hand,  though  it  be  a 
matter  of  difficulty  and  wiJl  be  infinitely  opposed  by  the 
natives,  who  are  many  in  number,  and  not  sufficiently  pro- 
vided for  by  the  distribution  of  the  precincts  made  there, 
yet  am  I  confident  of  the  success  in  some  good  measure,  if 
the  purses  and  resolution  of  the  British  undertakers  be 
answerable  to  the  work  they  have  in  hand,  and  that  we,  by 
your  Majesty's  power  and  providence,  secured  from  open  in- 
vasion and  all  underhand  aid  and  assistance  to  be  given  to 
the  discontented  here  from  foreign  parts. 

"  For  the  first,  albeit  some  of  those  that  have  repaired  hither 
are  noblemen  and  gentlemen  of  good  spirits  and  sufficiency, 
yet  do  they  not  promise  in  the  general  so  much  as  is  to  be 
done  in  a  work  of  so  great  moment  and  consequence,  for  to 
remove  and  displant  the  natives  (who  are  a  warlike  people) 
but  of  the  greatest  part  of  six  whole  counties,  and  to  bring  in 
strangers  to  replant  the  same,  is  not  a  work  for  private  men, 
who  expect  a  present  profit,  or  to  be  performed  without  blows 
or  opposition. 

"  For  the  latter,  I  have  reason  to  believe  that  the  natives  of 
those  counties,  and  not  they  only,  but  many  others  as  ill 
afiected  towards  the  good  settlement  of  that  part  of  the  king- 
dom as  themselves,  together  with  the  priests,  friars,  and 
Jesuits  here,  do  labour  to  draw  over  the  fugitives  to  their  aid 
and  assistance,  or  to  furnish  them  witli  arms  and  munition, 
thereby  to  enable  them  to  give  opposition  to  your  Highness's 
intentions  ;  for  albeit  they  have  plentifully  tasted  of  your 
Majesty's  clemency  and  happy  government  to  their  great 
profit  and  comfort,  yet  to  alter  their  rude  and  uncivil  customs 
and  to  bring  them  to  live  by  their  labours,  or  on  small  por- 
tions of  land  by  manuring  and  stocking  of  it  with  goods  of 
their  own,  is  as  grievous  unto  them  as  to  be  made  bondslaves. 

"  And  therefore,  that  the  work  should  receive  some  oppo- 
sition is  not  strange  or  to  be  repined  at  by  those  that  are  to 
undertake  it ;  for  it  is  one  of  the  greatest  that  hath  been 
taken  in  hand  by  any  your  Majesty's  predecessors  in  many 
ages. 

"  Great  things  move  slowly,  and  if  this  be  not  brought  to 
pass  within  two  or  three  years,  yet  if  it  be  fully  effected  in 
your  Majesty's  time  it  will  be  a  great  happiness  to  all  your 
dominions  and  memorable  to  all  posterity. 

"  If  my  poor  endeavours  may  give  any  help  and  furtherance 
to  so  glorious  and  worthy  a  design,  besides  my  obedience  and 
duty  to  your  Majesty,  my  heart  is  so  well  aflfected  unto  it, 
that  I  had  rather  labour  with  my  hands  in  the  plantation  of 
Ulster,  than  dance  or  play  in  that  of  Virginia. 


IRELAND— JAMES   I.  521 


IGIO. 

"  I  have  endeavoured  ia  one  thing  since  I  came  to  the 
government  in  which  I  know  the  success  hath  not  answered 
your  Majesty's  expectation,  nor  hath  it  given  unto  me  and 
many  other  of  your  good  subjects  here  the  comfort  which  we 
promised  to  ourselves,  which  is  the  extirpation  of  Popery  and 
the  reformation  of  your  people  in  matter  of  religion  and  the 
true  service  of  God ;  but  in  this  we  have  failed,  not  through 
any  default  of  ours,  but  of  the  times,  the  divine  and  almighty 
providence  having  reserved  it  to  be  the  work  of  some  other, 
to  whom  God  grant  better  success  and  that  speedily,  for  His 
glory  and  j'our  Majesty's  better  security,  for  until  the  hearts 
of  your  subjects  be  clarified  from  the  dross  and  poison  of  the 
Church  of  Rome,  you  shall  never  be  free  from  the  practices 
of  rebels  and  traitors  in.  this  land,  nor  in  the  rest  of  your 
dominions. 

"  I  know  it  becomes  me  not  to  write  long  letters  to  your 
Majesty,  but  my  zeal  to  your  service  and  of  your  safety  hath 
carried  me  beyond  my  wonted  manner.  I  am  unknown  to 
your  Majesty  other  than  bj'  my  employment  here,  and  I 
doubt  not  my  advancement  to  this  place  is  attended  with 
envy  and  perhaps  with  malice,  but  your  Highness  hath  pro- 
mised to  support  me  in  my  actions,  and  in  my  old  age,  in 
which  I  rest  so  assured  that  I  spend  my  time  next  in  the  ser- 
vice of  my  God  wholly  in  that  of  your  Majesty,  and  desire  no 
longer  to  live  than  that  I  am  your  Majesty's  humble  subject 
and  faithful  servant. — Dublin  Castle,  last  of  October  1610." 

Pp.  3.     Signed.     Add.    Endd. 

Oct.  31.     905.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Earl  of  Northampton. 
Cotton  MSS.,  ^g  there  is  little  in  the  condition  of  affairs  of  importance 

f.  195.  except  what  concerns  the  plantation  of  the  escheated  lands  in 

B.M.  Ulster,  and  as  he  has  entered  largely  into  the  subject  in  his 

general  letter,  he  will  not  trouble  him  with  more.  His  Lord- 
ship has  made  a  good  choice  in  the  persons  he  has  sent  "  to 
undertake  his  precynct,"  and  if  "  their  resolution  be  as  good 
to  abide  a  storme  when  it  happens,  there  is  no  doubt  but  they 
will  doe  well  and  will  finde  commoditie  by  it."  But  when  he 
considers  the  greatness  and  difficulty  of  the  work,  and  the 
condition  and  qualities  of  the  parties  that  have  undertaken, 
that  is,  such  as  have  yet  come  in  person,  he  conceives  that 
these  are  not  the  men  who  must  perform  the  business;  for 
"  to  displant  the  natives,  who  are  a  warlike  people,  out  of  the 
greatest  part  of  six  whole  counties,  is  not  a  work  for  private 
men  who  seeke  a  present  profitt." 

In  the  distribution  of  "  precyncts,"  cannot  but  think  that 
the  natives  and  servitors  were  greatly  neglected,  except  in  the 
Cavan.  Conceived  that  one  half,  at  least,  of  each  county  would 
have  been  left  assigned  for  them ;  but  now  they  have  but  one 
barony  in  a  county,  and  in  some  .counties  less,  this  has  discon- 
tented the  natives  and  servitors,  and  has  caused  tliem  to  embar- 
rass the  work  in  every  way;  and,  had  he  not  disarmed  them  in 


522  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

the  first  and  second  year  after  he  came  to  the  government,  many 
of  them  had  by  this  time  declared  themselves  "  reables ;"  and 
even  now,  if  he  be  not  furnished  with  money  and  munitions 
to  encounter  them  at  the  first  symptom  of  a  rising,  their 
strength  will  be  formidable. 

Has  already  recommended  the  laying  by  of  20,000Z.  or 
30,000?.  for  the  purpose,  which  may  save  many  a  thousand  at 
one  time  or  other. 

Sir  Oliver  Lambert  is  well  acquainted  with  all  occurrences 
there,  and  with  his  (Chichester's)  views.  Professes  his  grati- 
tude and  entire  devotedness. — Castle  of  Dublin,  the  last  of 
October  1610. 

Pp.  2.     Hoi.     Sealed.    Endd. 


vol.  619,  p.  119. 


Nov.  9.     906.        Roger  Worth's  Deposition. 

Yor6T9^D?'n9.  '^^^  Examination  of  Roger  Worth  of  Donderry,  in  the  county 

of  Cork,  yeoman,  sworn  and  deposed  thereunto  before 
Sir  Richard  Morison,  Knight,  Vice-President  of  the  Pro- 
vince of  Munster. 
•  Confesseth  that,  being  Marshal,  he  went  on  board  of  Baughe's 
ship,  according  to  the  accusation.     When  there,  he  received 
certain  trifles  only.     Averreth  that  he  was  never  aboard  any 
other  pirate  before  or  since. 
P.  1.     Copy. 


vol.  229,  135  A. 


Nov.  10.    907.        Viscount  Butler  to  Salisbury. 
^■.^ui?**'^"^'  It  has  been  given  out  in  this  kingdom  that  projects  were 

vc\\     99Q      la*^   A_  flit  1  -TT-'  i        -Ayr      •  1  ^        .*' 

preferred  lately  to  the  Kings  Majesty  that  now  is,  tending 
to  the  overthrow  of  all  the  noble  houses  of  this  realm,  and 
plotting  the  weakening  and  suppressing  of  them  by  many 
ways  and  means.  Henry  Sheath  (Shea),  now  Mayor  of  Kil- 
kenny, and  formerly  steward  to  his  (Viscount  Butler's)  father- 
in-law,  the  Earl  of  Ormond,  acquainted  him  with  this,  with 
whom  he  dealt  earnestly  for  sight  of  the  copy,  which  (he  said) 
was  brought  out  of  England,  together  with  his  name  that 
brought  it,  which  Sheath  promised  him,  but  performed  not, 
howsoever  it  happened.  At  first  imagined  it  was  a  device  of 
some  ill-disposed  people  to  see  what  impression  it  would 
take  in  the  hearts  of  the  subject  here ;  and  he  is  the  more 
induced  so  to  believe  this,  that  he  could  never  since  attain  to 
the  knowledge  of  the  one  nor  other.  Leaves  it  to  his  Lord- 
ship's consideration  whether  inquiries  should  be  made  by  the 
Lord  Deputy  and  Council  about  this  matter ;  at  all  events, 
requests  that  his  name  may  not  be  brought  in  question  here 
about  this  business  more  than  shaU  need,  or  he  may  chance 
not  be  told  of  news  another  time.— Carrick,  10  November 
1610. 

Pp.  2.  Signed.  Add.  Endd. :  "  Concerning  a  report  in 
Ireland  of  some  course  to  be  taken  here  against  the  Irish 
nobility." 


IRELAND — JAMES   I.  523 


1610. 
Nov.  16.    908.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Attorney  or  Solicitor- 

Carte  Papers,  GENERAL. 

^   '     '  ^'      ■  Warrant  to    draw   forth    a  fiant    of   a    grant  by   letters 

patent  to  Sir  Francis  Eush,  Knight,  his  heirs  and  assigns, 
of  the  rectories,  tithes^  allteradges,  and  other  spiritual  pos- 
sessions of  the  late  dissolved  abbey  or  monastery  of  Balli- 
boggan,  COS.  Meath,  Westmeath,  and  King's  County,  in  pur- 
suance of  the  King's  letters  of  31  July  1610.  Such  posses- 
sions being  contained  in  a  lease  of  the  premises  formerly 
granted  under  the  great  seal  to  Edward  Loftus  and  Eichard 
Gifford.— Dublin  Castle,  16  November  1610. 

P.  1.     Orig.     Endd. :  "  Sir  Francis  Eush,  Ballyboggan." 

Nov.  19.     909.        Sir  Authur  Chichester  to  Sir  John  Davys. 
Carte  Papers,  Warrant  to   make  out    a    fiant   of  the   renewing    of  the 

'    '      "  charter  of  the  town  of  Kinsale,  with  a  confirmation  of  their 

privileges,    and    an   enlargement  of  other   reasonable   fran- 
chises;   according   to   the  tenor  of  the   letter   of  the  Privy 
Council  of  19  January  1608. — Dublin,  19  November  1610. 
P.  1.  Orig.   Endd.:  "  Kinsale  charter  to  be  renewed,  1610." 

Nov.  22.     910.        Sir  John  Davys  to  Salisbury. 

voT  229^'^36'  They  have   here   this   term  the  greatest  appearance  and 

'      "  confluence  of  people  in  this  town  that  he  has  seen  during  liis 

seven  years'  service  in  this  kingdom  ;  for  all  the  natives  and 
servitors  of  Ulster  are  come  up,  and  earnestly  solicit  the 
passing  of  their  letters  patent,  as  well  for  the  small  as  the 
greater  proportions; — insomuch  that  they  now  conceive  a  hope 
that  he  will  be  troubled  with  few  complaints  of  the  Irishry, 
who  do  not  seem  to  value  their  allotments  and  think  them 
worth  the  taking. 

This  very  afternoon  my  Lord  Deputy  called  into  the  Council 
Chamber  as  many  Lords  of  Parliament  as  are  now  in  town, 
and  divers  principal  knights  and  gentlemen  of  every  pro- 
vince, and  acquainted  them  with  His  Majesty's  purpose  of 
summoning  and  holding  a  Parliament  this  next  year,  advising 
them  to  consider  among  themselves  what  acts  they  would 
have  propounded  for  the  general  good  of  the  Commonwealth  ; 
since  his  Lordship  and  the  Council  have  a  desire  to  recom- 
mend to  His  Majesty  and  their  Lordships  such  propositions  as 
they  shall  make  for  the  good  of  the  realm,  together  with 
the  bills  or  forms  of  acts  which  the  State  here  has  a  purpose 
to  transmit.  This  motion  they  all  took  in  very  good  part,  and 
seemed  exceedingly  well  satisfied  therewith  and  promised  to 
return  their  propositions  before  the  beginning  of  the  next 
term. — 22  November. 

P.  1.    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

Nov.  25,     911.       Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
^I'Tp ^7  ^®^®^  *°  ^^^^^  former  letters  concerning  the  suit  depending 

between  Sir  Eobert-Digby  and  the  Earl  of  Kildare,  whereby 


524  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

16]  0. 

the  King,  in  order  to  end  so  chargeable  a  suit,  undertook  to 
hear  tlie  cause  himself,  and  directed  both  parties  with  their 
own  consent  to  repair  to  court  for  that  purpose,  and  that  all 
proceedings  at  law  should  be  stayed.  But  Sir  Robert  Digby 
has  informed  them  that,  since  his  coming  over  to  England  and 
in  his  absence,  the  Earl,  upon  the  death  of  the  old  Countess, 
intruded  himself  into  most  of  the  lands  of  the  Earldom,  and 
at  other  times,  contrary  to  the  express  orders  made  at  the  Coun- 
cil Table  there,  has  sought  forcibly  to  evict  the  possession  of 
certain  lands  from  his  tenants,  who  were  established  therein 
by  the  said  order ;  that  he  went  himself  in  person  to  some 
of  the  lands,  and  first  by  threats  forced  the  Irish  to  attorn  ten- 
ants to  him,  and  left  a  guard  of  loose  people  to  hinder  Sir 
Robert  from  taking  lawful  distress  for  his  rents,  and  also  at 
another  time  took  away  his  corn  violently ;  and  when  he  (Sir 
Robert)  complained  of  these  and  other  oppressions,  the  Eail 
then  pretended  that  he  would  come  over  and  answer  these 
complaints  here  in  England.  Whereupon  Sir  Robert  Digby 
making  his  repair  hither,  the  Earl  laid  an  ambush  about  his 
(Sir  Robert  Digby 's)  own  castle,  where  he  left  his  family,  with 
tlie  purpose  to  enter  by  force  and  to  dispossess  him.  On  the 
other  part,  the  Earl,  by  his  late  letters,  pretends  that  he  lacks 
means  to  come  over,  and  claims  to  have  the  suit  determined 
in  Ireland.  His  Majesty  accordingly  remits  the  cause  to  the 
tribunals  in  Ireland,  with  a  strict  charge,  that,  if  any  pre- 
judice has  been  sustained  by  Sir  Robert  Digby  by  occasion 
of  his  absence,  he  shall  be  restored  to  the  state  he  was  in 
before  his  departure  ;  and  that  he  (Sir  Arthur  Chichester) 
shall  take  order  to  have  an  impartial  jury,  as  he  must  have 
experience  of  the  inclination  of  the  common  sort  of  folk  to 
incline  to  the  greatness  and  continuance  of  the  males  of 
noble  families  in  Ireland.  Thej'  also  transmit  tl)e  papers  in 
the  cause. — Whitehall,  2-5  November  J  610. 

Signed  :  T.  EUesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton, 
Lenox,  T.  Suffolk,  Gilb.  Shrewsbury,  E.  Worcester,  Exeter, 
W.  Knollys,  E.  Wotton,  L.  Stanhope,  H.  Bruce,  J.  Herbert, 
Jul.  Csesar,  Thos.  Parry. 

Pp.  3.  Add.  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Cldchester :  "  Of  the 
25th  of  November  1610.  From  the  Lords  of  the  Councell,  in 
the  cause  in  difference  betwyxt  the  Earle  of  Kyldare  and  Sir 
Robert  Digby.  Re.  the  17*^  of  December  (at  night,  by  the 
poast  barque)." 

Nov.  25.     912.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

Pliilad  p..  Request  him  to  see  that  Lord  Roche  be  not  further  pre- 

judiced  in  his  suit  against  one  John  rower,  m  whose  favour 
they  (the  Lords)  had  written  a  recommendatory  letter,  but 
never  intended  that  it  should  prejudice  Lord  Roche. — White- 
hall, 25  November  1610. 


vol.  4,  p.  95. 


IRELAND— JAMES  T.  525 


1610. 

Signed :  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton,  T.  Suffolke,  Gilb. 
Shrewsbury,  J.  Herbert,  Jul.  Caesar. 

P.  i  Add.  Endd.  hy  Sir  Arthur  Chichester :  "  Of  the  25th 
of  November  1610.  From  the  Lords  of  the  Councell,  to  give 
waye  to  the  Lord  Roche  to  proceed  in  a  cause  dependinge  in 
the  Exchequer  betwixt  bis  Lop.  and  John  Power,  &c.,  stayed 
by  former  letters  from  their  Lops.     Re.  the  18th  of  March." 

Nov.  20.     913.        Sm  Arthur  Chichester  to  Richard  Coleman  and 

Carte  Papers,  Qjr   JamES   CARROLL. 

Warrant  by  the  Lord  Deputy,  Sir  Ai'thur  Chichester,  to 
Richard  Coleman  and  Sir  James  Carroll,  Kt.,  Chief  Remem- 
brancers, to  draw  forth  a  fiant  unto  David  Tirrey,  Gent,,  of 
the  wardship,  body,  lands,  and  marriage  of  Robert  Meighe, 
son  and  heir  of  David  Meighe,  of  KiUmallock,  co.  Limerick, 
gent.— Dublin  Castle,  26  November  1610. 

P.  1.    07'ig.     Endd.:  "  Meigh's  wardship  to  David  Tirrey." 

Nov.  30.      914.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
y^'J'T^si'  Recommends  the  suit  of  Sir  Garrett  Moore  for  the  fee-farm 

of  several  parcels  of  land  and  tithes  he  holds  in  this  kingdom 
from  His  Majesty,  for  an  estate  of  more  than  70  years  in  that 
Avhich  is  nearest  expired,  in  other  80,  and  in  some  above  a 
hundred.  He  is  already  known  to  him  (Salisbury)  and  is 
able  to  give  furtherance  to  His  Majesty's  designs  on  the 
borders  of  Ulster  as  much  as  any  man  in  this  kingdom,  and 
thereof  has  given  good  testimony  in  the  days  of  Tyrone's 
rebellion.  Prays  his  Lordship  to  make  the  settlement  of  his 
mind  and  fortunes  a  work  of  his  own  time,  that  he  and  his 
posterity  may  be  bound  to  serve  and  honour  him  and  his  in 
all  ages. — Dublin  Castle,  30  November  1610. 
Pp.  2.     Signed.    Add.     Endd. 

Nov.  [    ].    915.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  [Salisbury]. 

voL'229fr35.'  ^^^  Written  so  largely  of  the  subject  of  the  plantation  in 

other  letters  that  he  might  well  spare  him  at  this  time,  seeino- 
the  kingdom  affords  no  other  matter  of  substance  to  be  ini^ 
parted ;  but  he  is  so  intently  bound  to  his  Lordship  for  fa- 
vours, that  he  should  condemn  himself  for  neglect  of  duty 
if  he  should  leave  any  occurrant  here  either  in  the  o-eneral 
or  particular  unrevealed  unto  him. 

For  the  instruments  of  the  plantation,  viz.,  the  Britisli 
undertakers  :  those  from  England  are,  for  the  most  part 
plain  country  gentlemen,  who  may  promise  much,  but  ^ive 
small  assurance  or  hope  of  performing  wliat  appertains  to 
a  work  of  such  moment.  If  they  have  money,  they  kecD 
it  close;  for  hitherto  they  have  disbursed  but  little  and 
if  -he  may  judge  by  the  outward  appeai'ance,  the'  least 
trouble  or  alteration  of  the  times  here  will  scare  most  of 
them  away.     It  is  said  by  themselves  that  since  the  denomi 


526  •    IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

nation  of  the  parties  at  first  by  the  Lords  that  were  un- 
dertakers, some  have  exchanged  their  portions  and  others 
sold  them  outright ;  in  one  precinct  of  those  that  have  ap- 
peared, two  are  churchmen  and  one  a  youth  of  some  18  or  19 
years  old,  whose  names  he  has  noted  in  the  schedule  sent  by 
Sir  Oliver  Lambert. 

The  Scottish  come  with  greater  port  and  better  accom- 
panied and  attended,  but  it  may  be  with  less  money  in  their 
purses ;  for  some  of  the  principal  of  them,  upon  their  first 
entrance  into  their  precincts,  were  forthwith  in  hand  with  the 
natives  to  supply  their  wants,  or  at  least  their  expenses, 
and  in  recompense  thereof  promise  to  get  license  from  His 
Majesty  that  they  may  remain  upon  their  lands  as  tenants 
unto  them  ;  which  is  so  pleasing  to  that  people  that  they  wiU 
strain  themselves  to  the  uttermost  to  gratify  them,  for  they 
are  content  to  become  tenants  to  any  man  rather  than  be  re- 
moved from  the  place  of  their  birth  and  education,  hoping,  as 
he  conceives,  at  one  time  or  other  to  find  an  opportunity  to 
cut  their  landlord's  throats;  for  sure  he  is  they  hate  the 
Scottish  deadly,  and  out  of  their  malice  towards  them  they 
begin  to  afi"ect  the  English  better  than  they  have  been 
accustomed. 

They  seU  away  both  corn  and  cattle,  and  when  they  are 
demanded  why  they  do  so,  their  answer  is  that  they  know 
not  what  else  to  do  with  them  nor  to  what  place  to  carry 
them,  the  portion  of  land  assigned  to  each  of  them  being  too 
little  to  receive  and  feed  the  goods  he  has  for  his  own  par- 
ticular. They  seek  by  aU  means  to  arm  themselves,  and  have 
imdoubtedly  some  pieces  in  store,  and  more  pikes,  and  there- 
of can  make  more  daily ;  but  powder  and  lead  is  scarce  with 
them.  WiU  do  his  best  to  prevent  their  revolt,  but  greatly 
doubts  it,  for  they  are  infinitely  discontented.  Has  lately  re- 
ceived some  letters  from  the  King  in  behalf  of  some  Scottish 
gentlemen.  One  of  them  he  conceives  was  gotten  upon  his 
misinformation,  for  the  gentleman  whom  they  concern,  named 
Meldrome,  told  him  that  he  was  never  in  this  kingdom  until 
now  that  he  brought  those  letters,  but  had  served  in  the  Low 
Countries,  where  he  (Sir  Axther)  hears  he  was  an  ensign. 

Has  delivered  the  letters  to  Sir  Oliver  Lambert  to  present 
to  his  Lordship,  if  he  pleases  to  peruse  them.  Is  not  against 
the  gentlemen's  advancements  or  any  good  it  shall  please  His 
Majesty  to  do  them ;  but  if  this  course  be  continued,  the 
ancienter  captains  and  of  far  better  worth  and  desert  here, 
will  be  disappointed  and  discouraged  many  ways,  to  the  hurt 
and  hindrance  of  His  Majesty's  service,  and  the  Deputy  wiU 
be  disabled  to  reward  any  man  for  his  deserts  and  ser- 
vices, which  may  in  time  prove  an  inconvenience  not  to  be 
helped ;  for  it  is  but  of  late  years  that  men  of  understanding 
and  knowledge  in  the  wars  put  themselves  into  the  service 
of  this  kingdom,  and  being  forced  to  withdraw  themselves 
wiU  hardly  be  brought  hither  again,  wherewith  he  thinks  it 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


527 


1610. 


S.P.,  Ireland, 
vol.229,  1351. 


Nov. 

Carte  Papers, 
vol.  61,  p.  65. 


not  unfit  to  acquaint  his-  Lordship,  albeit  he  conceives  he 
can  hardly  prevent  it. 

Sends  his  Lordship  the  copy  of  his  letters  to  His  Majesty. 
If  he  allows  of  the  contents,  he  has  requested  Sir  Oliver  Lam- 
bert to  deliver  them,  otherwise  to  detain  them  as  his  Lord- 
ship shall  dii'ect  him.  Has  likewise  committed  him  some  few 
notes  of  remembrance,  and  to  such  of  them  as  he  thinks  fit, 
humbly  craves  his  answer  and  directions. 

Makes  choice  to  send  by  him  at  this  time,  albeit  he  knows 
he  is  not  the  best  orator  ;  but  he  is  well  acquainted  with  the 
country  and  the  condition  of  the  people,  having  long  travelled 
and  bled  in  the  business  here  when  it  was  at  the  worst,  and 
has  seen  many  alterations  since  he  came  first  into  the  land. 
They  are  now  all  of  them  become  builders  and  planters  here, 
and  not  wasters  and  destroyers,  as  in  their  younger  years,  and 
would  gladly  rest  in  quiet  if  their  ill  neighbours  will  permit 
them ;  aud  that  makes  them  the  more  studious  to  prevent 
their  revolt,  and  to  settle  peace  and  quietness  among  them. 
He  (Sir  Oliver  Lambert)  has  made  a  fair  and  strong  building 
upon  as  thievish  and  disordered  a  border  as  any  in  Leinster, 
which  is  a  great  comfort  to  the  good  aad  a  great  disheartening 
to  the  bad  neighbours  of  those  parts,  and  is  many  other  ways 
industrious  and  able  to  do  the  King  good  service. — Dublin 
Castle,  [     ]  November  1610. 

Pp.  4.     Signed,.    Encloses, 

916.  Lord  Deputy  to  the  King. 

Copy  of  No.  QQ^.— Dublin,  31  Odoher  1610. 
Pp.  2.     Endd. 

917.  The  Case  of  the  Fishing  of  the  Bann. 

Sir  John  Davys's  notes  for  his  argument  in  the  case  of  the 
royal  fishery  of  the  Eiver  Ban.  Michaelmas  term,  8°  Jac. 
[A,D.  1610],  Sir  John  Davys's  Reports,  p.  55} 


Dec.  1. 

Carte  Papers, 
vol.  61,  p.  331. 


918.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Attorney  or  Soli- 
citor-General, 

Warrant  to  make  out  a  fiant  of  a  grant  to  Sir  John 
M'Coghlan  to  keep  one  fair  yearly  at  Banagher  on  September 
8,  the  same  not  being  Sunday,  to  continue  for  two  days, 
and  one  market  weekly  on  Thursday  at  Cloghan,  with  all 
fees,  perquisites,  and  commodities,  in  compliance  with  the 
petition  of  the  said  Sir  John  Coghlan.  —  Dublin  Castle,  1 
December  1610. 

P.  1.  Orig.  Endd. :  "  Sir  John  M'Coghlan  for  a  fair  and 
market,  1610." 


'  Le  Primer  Report  des  Cases  et  Matters  en  Ley  resolues  et  adjudges  en  les 
Courts  del  Roy  en  Ireland.  Collect  et  digest  per  S'  John  Davys,  chivaler  At 
turny-General  del  Roy  on  cest  Realme.  Liber  librum  aperit.  Polio.  London 
1628. 


528  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 


IGIO. 
Dec.  2.       919.        Deputy  Vice-Admiral  Grice's  Answer. 

S^'fiTi^'^isR  Answer  loy  Eichard   Grice,  Deputy  Vice-Admiral,  deputed 

^   '       '    '       ■  by  Mr.  John  Kempe,  General,  by  virtue  of  his  letters  patent 

granted  him  by  the  Lord  of  Effingham,  unto  such  interrogatives 

as   were  ministered  by  Sir  Richard  Morison,  Vice-President 

of  Munster. 

Signed:  Ric.  Grice. 

P^x  3.     Copy. 

Dec.  4.      920.        Liberties  of  the  Corporation  of  New  Rosse. 
"^T'ef '^^'^ET  "  -^  scedule  conteyninge  an  abstracte  of  the  liberties  and 

immunities  humbly  craved  by  the  corporation  of  the  towne  of 
New  Rosse  in  Ireland." 

Eighteen  paragraphs,  apostilled  by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester, 
granting  or  refusing  the  particular  requests,  to  which  is  ap- 
pended the  following  note  :  "  The  demands  are  verie  large,  and, 
being  granted,  I  conceive  they  will  prejudice  the  neighbour 
towns  and  lykwis  especially  Waterfoord,  which  ought  to  be 
looked  unto  and  prevented,  themselves  being  but  a  poor  cor- 
poration and  uncapable  of  so  great  priviledges  and  immunities  ; 
and  therefore  I  praye  the  Lo.  Chiefe  Justice,  Lord  Chiefe  Baron, 
and  Mj^  of  the  Rolls,  or  some  of  them,  to  consider  of  what  is 
fitting  to  be  granted,  and  therein  to  give  me  their  opinions." 
— Dublin,  4  December  1610. 

Also  a  note  signed  by  H.  Winch,  and  a  letter  to  "  our  very 
good  Lord,"  expressing  the  writer's  readiness  to  confer  with 
the  King's  counsel,  signed  by  H.  Winch,  Jo.  Denham,  Era. 
Aungier. 

P,  1.     Large  paper.     Orig. 

Dec.  4.       921.        Wm.  Parsons  (Surveyor  of  Ireland)  to  Salisbury. 
^f  9  ^r'ns'  Sends  letters  of  Lord  Burleigh  and  himself,  found  among  the 

'       '  papers  of  Sir  Geffrey  Fenton.     Solicits  a  lease  in  reversion  of 

some  lands,  as  a  reward  for  past  services.  According  to  his 
Lordship's  command  by  Mr.  Norton,  his  servant,  has  herewith 
sent  unto  him  certain  letters  and  writings  of  his  and  his  ho- 
nourable father's,  found  amongst  Sir  Geffrey  Fenton's  papers, 
for  which  he  will  truly  engage  his  credit  and  life  that  they 
were  never  seen  of  any  since  his  death,  save  only  Sir  Richard 
Boyle  and  himself.  At  his  death  it  was  much  pressed  by  some 
statesmen  here  to' ransack  all  his  papers ;  but,  in  that  they  were 
sworn  officers  of  State  here,  himself  being  nearest  of  blood  to 
the  deceased  and  privy  to  most  of  his  proceedings  for  14  years 
together,  and  Sir  Richard  having  married  his  only  daughter, 
it  was  at  last  permitted  that  they  only  should  view  all,  and 
deliver  to  the  Lord  Deputy  so  many  papers  as  might  concern 
His  Majesty's  present  or  future  service,  which  they  did  sin- 
cerely.— Dublin,  4  December  1610. 

Pp.  2.     Signed.     Add.     Endd. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  529 


1610. 
Dec.  5.      922.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  the  Attorney  or  Soli- 

Carte  Papers,  CITOR-GeN  ERAL. 

Warrant  to  the  Attorney  or  Solicitor-General  to  make  out 
a  fiant  of  a  grant  to  Sir  Thomas  Roper,  Knt.,  of  a  pension  of 
10s.  a  day,  after  the  company  of  foot  that  he  now  holds  is 
discharged,  according  to  the  King's  letter  of  21  June  1610. — 
Dublin  Castle,  5  December  1610. 

P.  1.     Orig.     Endd. :  "  Sir  Thomas  Roper,  1610." 

Dec.  6.       923.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
toT.'227'T39  Received  on  the  14th  of  September  his  Lordship's  and  the 

Council's  letters  to  enlarge  the  Lord  of  Howth  from  his  re- 
straint, which  was  to  his  own  house  and  three  miles  about  it ; 
and  being  now  free  from  most  of  his  suits  and  troubles  here, 
he  (Howth)  has  moved  him  to  license  his  repair  thither. 
Acquaints  his  Lordship  with  his  motion,  in  order  to  learn 
the  King's  pleasure  therein.  He  desires  to  be  there  before  the 
end  of  the  Christmas  holidays. — Dublin  Castle,  6  December 
1610. 

P.  1.     Signed.     Add.    Endd. 

Dec.  8.      924.        Lord  Howth  to  Salisbury. 

vo^;'229'T4o,  "  Having  endured  the  brunt  and  full  extremity  of  the  law," 

prays  for  leave  to  come  into  England  solely  on  his  private 
affairs.. — 8  December  1610. 
P.  ].    Signed.    Add.    Endd. 

Dec.  9.       925.        Lords  of  the  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
vol  'i^^p  ^9  Have  been  informed  by  Sir  Oliver  Lambert,  that,  if  the 

2,000  acres  in  Orier  ordered  to  Art  M'Baron  for  life,  were 
to  be  granted  to  him  and  his  wife  and  the  longest  liver  of 
them,  he  might  be  brought  to  remove  with  good-will  out  of 
O'Neilan,  and  that  this  example  would  be  a  great  furtherance 
towards  the  removal  of  the  rest  of  the  natives ;  they  (the 
Lords)  accordingly  authorise  his  Lordship  to  grant  the  said 
2,000  acres  in  the  manner  suggested. — Whitehall,  9  December 
1610. 

Signed :  T.  Ellesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton, 
Gilb.  Shrewsbury,  Exeter,  E.  Worcester,  E.  Wotton,  L.  Stan- 
hope, Jul.  Ccesar. 

P.  1  Endd.  by  Sir  Arthur  Cfdchester:  "Of  the  9th  of 
December  1610.  From  the  Lords  of  the  Councell,  to  passe 
2,000  acres  of  land  to  Art.  M'Baron  and  his  weife  duringe 
their  lives.     Re.  the  13th  of  Januarie." 

Dec.  10.     926.        Sir  Thos.  Ridgeway  to  Salisbury. 
\^ lilT^ui'  Requests  license  for  his  three  sons  to  travel  for  three  years 

'      '  in  France,  Italy,  and   other  places. — Rathfernaham  [Rath- 

farnham],  10  December  1610. 
P.  1.     Signed.    Add.     Endd. 

3-  L  L 


530  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


1610. 
Dec.  10.      927.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  H.  M.  Counsel. 
Carte  Papers,  Warrant  to  the  King's  counsel,  or  any  of  them,  to  draw 

^  ■     '   '      '  forth  a  fiant  of  the  office  of  second  Chamberlain  of  the  King's 

Court  of  Exchequer  of  Ireland  to  Robert  Kennedy  of  the  city 
of  Dublin,  as  was  granted  to  Nicholas  Howard,  or  any  other. 
—Dublin  Castle,  10  December  1610. 

P.  1.  Orig.  Endd. :  "  Robert  Kennedy,  second  Chamber- 
lain, 1610." 

Dec.  12.     928.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 

Trf  229^  ul',  '^^®  bearer,  Mr.  Tockefeyld,  can  give  a  good  account  of  his 

travels  and  observations  in  the  matter  of  the  iron  works  to  be 
erected  in  Munster,  where  he  has  spent  his  time  since  his 
coming  over.  He  has  had  heretofore  a  work  of  his  own  upon 
the  river  Shenan  [Shannon],  so  that  this  can  be  no  new  thing 
unto  him  ;  besides  which,  Sir  Rich.  Morison  has,  by  conference 
with  the  officers  and  workmen  of  the  iron  work  now  upon  the 
river  of  Youghall,  learnt  what  will  be  the  charge  of  erecting 
the  like  and  the  proiit  to  be  expected,  Sir  Rich.  Boyle  being 
the  best  skilled  and  enabled  to  carry  such  a  business  of  any 
man  in  this  kingdom. 

The  East  Indian  mer-      Soon  after  the  report  of  his  fSalisbury's)  purposes  came  into 

chants  hare   much  pre-  ,,     ,  .  ,■,      "^  ,.,'•.  .    •  ■       />  ,■, 

Tented  this    work  by  that  province,  there  came  likewise  certain  agents  irom  the 

baying  of  woods  and  West  Indian  merchants,  who  have  dealt  with  the  proprietors 

lands  proper  for    this  ^f  certain  woods  and  lands  lying  upon  harbours  and  rivers 

purpose.  commodious  for  that  purpose,  an    hindrance,  if  he  intends 

many  works.     Gave  Mr.  Tockefeyld  charge  to  prevent  this, 

but  he  came  too  late  to  put  it  in  practice  generally,  but  has 

dealt  for  some  places  fit  and  convenient. 

Suggests  that  he  should  foUow  Sir  Rich.  Morrison's  advice 
in  setting  up  a  furnace  or  two  in  the  forest  of  Dean,  and  a 
forge  or  two  in  Munster  to  work  the  stone  iron  that  shall  come 
from  thence  into  bars  ;  and  could  wish  that  trial  were  made  of 
the  ore  of  that  country  by  a  furnace  and  a  forge  to  be  erected 
in  some  place  in  Munster. 

The  gentlemen  of  the  North  (since  they  understood  of  the 
death  of  Henry  O'Neale  and  Tyrone's  blindness,  which  he  has 
not  spared  to  spread  amongst  them)  flock  hither  from  all  parts 
to  accept  of  that  little  land  which  heretofore  they  so  much 
scorned.  Art  M'Baron's  example  in  accepting  of  his  portion, 
and  his  free  removing  from  the  place  of  his  long  continued 
habitation  by  promise  at  May  next,  has  prevailed  with  the 
multitude  according  to  his  expectation,  so  that  he  thinks  they 
will  sooner  remove  most  of  the  natives  than  bring  others 
with  goods  and  stocks  sufficient  to  sit  down  in  their  places  ; 
for  when  they  are  once  dispatched  with  their  goods  into  other 
countries  or  to  the  portions  allotted  to  them,  sees  not  how  the 
Britons  will  be  supplied  with  victuals  and  necessaries  for  their 
money,  how  plenty  soever  it  be  with  them  ;  and  to  fetch  it 
from  markets  20  miles  from  them  (as  many  must  upon  the 
remove  of  the  natives)  will  weary  the  undertaker.     And  out 


IRELAND — JAMES  I.  531 


vol.  229,  143. 


1610. 

of  this  consideration  the  natives,  as  he  conceives,  will  the 
more  willingly  remove  at  the  time  appointed,  hoping  thereby 
to  overthrow  the  work  even  in  the  foundation.  How  to 
remedy  this  as  yet  he  knows  not ;  for  to  compel  them  to  stay 
were  contrary  to  the  project  of  the  plantation  and  the  pro- 
clamation published,  and  to  suffer  them  to  depart  wiU  be  the 
ruin  of  the  undertakers  that  are  to  plant,  unless  they  be  other- 
wise supplied  with  victuals,  towards  which  his  care  shall  not 
be  wanting ;  but  he  fears  the  want  in  that  kind  will  be  com- 
plained of,  for  the  agents  of  London  have  already  felt  it,  and 
sent  unto  him  to  redress  it. — Dublin  Castle,  12  December 
1610. 

Pp.  3.  Signed.  Endd. :  "  Ld.  Deputy,  by  Mr.  Tokefeld, 
concerning  the  project  for  iron  works.  That  the  natives  of 
Ulster  do  now  accept  of  their  portions.  That  the  remove  of 
the  natives  will  disappoint  the  undertakers  and  their  pro- 
visions." 

Dec.  13.      929.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Salisbury. 
^(I  kM^i^'  -^^^  Lordship's  approval  of  his  discovery  made  of  the  Irish 

countries  of  Wexford,  by  his  letters  of  the  27th  of  July  last, 
gave  him  encouragement  to  labour  further  in  that  affair,  and 
he  has  now,  by  the  assistance  of  Sir  Lawrence  Esmond  and 
this  bearer.  Sir  Edw.  Fysher,  brought  the  chief  pretenders  and 
inhabitants  of  those  lands,  upon  reasonable  terms,  to  be  ordered 
and  disposed  of  as  the  King  shall  please  to  direct ;  and  for  the 
title,  it  will  be  clear  on  His  Majesty's  behalf;  the  work  will 
feel  some  opposition,  which  is  the  fruit  we  must  expect  from 
so  unsound  members,  whose  foundations  were  so  long  since  laid 
upon  the  blood  and  bodies  of  honest  subjects  killed  and  de- 
stroyed by  their  forefathers  to  make  them  passage  to  their 
intrusion  upon  the  King's  ancient  inheritance. 

Some  gentlemen  of  English  birth,  and  others  of  this  country, 
have  large  scopes  of  those  lands  in  their  possession  by  purchase 
from  the  intruders,  or  by  bargains  with  those  that  have  com- 
bined to  detain  it  from  the  Crown,  who  expect  to  be  favoured 
upon  this  division  and  new  plantation  :  and  so  do  some  of  the 
natives,  which  must  be  performed  in  some  reasonable  measure 
towards  such  especially  as  are  of  honest  and  civil  behaviour, 
and  likewise  towards  the  natives,  such  of  them,  he  means,  as 
are  powerful  to  do  harm,  if  they  be  thereto  incensed  through 
neglect  and  discontent. 

His  looking  into  this  matter  is  repined  at  by  some  here  who 
are  bound  to  give  furtherance  to  it  for  His  Majesty's-  profit 
and  the  good  of  the  commonwealth.  They  have  now  made 
the  title  so  apparent  that  it  is  high  time  for  him  once  more  to 
put  his  Lordship  in  mind  thereof,  in  order  to  prevent  the 
purposes  of  such  as  seek  to  pass  part  of  it  upon  the  commission 
of  defective  titles,  others  by  letters  suireptitiously  obtained, 
for  which  purpose  certain  agents  from  the  natives  are  pre- 

L  L  2 


532  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

paring  to  repair  thither.  Prays  him  to  move  the  King  for 
direction  and  warrant  to  pass  the  same  according  to  form  of 
letter  (drauglit  sent  by  Sir  Edw.  Fysher)  or  as  he  shall 
think  fit. 

If  His  Majesty  and  he  think  it  fit  to  employ  him  in  this 
affair,  prays  that  the  grant  may  pass  in  the  name  of.  Sir  Law- 
rence Esmond  and  Sir  Edw.  Fysher,  or  either  of  them.  And 
so  shall  he  be  able  to  go  through  with  the  business  for  His 
Majesty's  profit  and  the  country's  settlement  without  noise  or 
clamour. 

Submits  himself  to  his  Lordship's  consideration,  as  to  the 
soundest  patriot  and  profoundest  co\msellor  of  the  King  and 
of  the  commonwealth. — Dublin  Castle,  13  December  1610. 

Pf.  2.     Signed.     Add.     Eiidd. 

Dec.  14.      930.        Thomas  Barloe's  Deposition. 

vof^Brg^^^'iS  '^^^  examination  of  Thomas  Barloe  of  Baltymoore,  in  the 

county  of  Coi-k,  mariner,  taken  by  Sir  Kichard  Morison, 
Knight,  Vice-President  of  the  province  of  Munster. 

Signed :  Thomas  Barlow. 

Pp.  3.     Gojpy. 

Dec.  18.       931.        The  Collection  of  Tyrone's  Rents  from  his  flight  in 
Carte  i-apers,  ]  607   till   1   November    1610,  when   the   lands  were 

TO  .  61,  r-  22.  given  out  to  Undertakers.^ 

The  account  of  Sir  Tobias  Caulfield  for  three  and  a  half 
years'  rents  of  the  Earl  of  Tyrone's  forfeited  lands  in  the 
counties  of  Tyrone,  Armagh,  and  Coleraine. 

The  account  of  Sir  Toby  Caulfield,  Knight,  for  all  such  sums 
of  money  as  have  come  to  his  hands  for  all  manner  of  rents 
payable  in  money,  corn,  and  other  provisions  and  victuals  in  the 
counties  of  Tyrone,  Ardmagh,  and  Coleraine,  for  the  escheated 
lands  fallen  to  His  Majesty  by  the  attainder  of  the  traitor  the 
Earl  of  Tyrone,  as  also  for  the  growing  rents  of  the  said  lands 
for  the  half-year  ended  at  Hallowtide  1607,  left  untaken  up  by 
the  said  traitor  at  the  time  of  his  flight ;  as  also  for  the  growing 
rents  of  the  said  lands  for  three  whole  years,  beginning  at 
Hallowtide  aforesaid,  1607,  and  ending  at  the  same  feast  1610 
(from  which  time  the  said  Sir  Toby  hath  given  up  his  charge 
of  receipt,  in  regard  the  said  escheated  lands  are  granted 
away  from  His  Majesty  from  paying  any  rent  for  four  years 
then  next  ensuing),  as  likewise  for  the  goods  of  the  said  traitor 
and  other  fugitives  that  went  with  him,  and  for  a  fine 
imposed  on  the  said  counties  of  Tyrone  and  Ardmagh,  for 
relieving  of  traitors  after  the  revolt  of  O'Doherty,  which 
was  levied  by  this  accountant,  together  with  the  issue  and 
payment  of  part  thereof,  and  the  remain  resting  in  this  ac- 

'  The  copy  of  this  curious  account  in  the  Carte  MSS.  being  imperfect,  we 
have  completed  it  from  the  Exchequer  Remembrance  KoU  of  Hilary  Term, 
8  Jao.  I.,  Art.  10. 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  533 


1610. 


countant's  hands  on  this  account  to-be  paid  to  His  Majesty's 
use,  the  particulars  whereof  hereafter  ensue  : 

Before  the  charge  of  this  account  be  examined  consideration 
is  to  be  had  of  the  manner  of  the  charge  of  those  Irish  rents 
and  duties  which  are  as  follows  : — 

First.  There  was  no  certain  portion  of  lands  let  by  the 
traitor  Tyrone  to  any  of  his  tenants  that  paid  him  rent. 

Secondly.  Such  rents  as  he  reserved  were  paid  to  him  partly 
in  money  and  partly  in  provisions  of  victuals,  as  oats,  oatmeal, 
butter,  hogs,  and  mutton. 

Thirdlj'.  The  money  rents  that  were  so  reserved  were  charge- 
able on  all  the  cows  that  were  milch  or  in-calf  which  grazed 
on  his  lands,  after  the  rate  of  1 2d.  a  quarter  the  year,  which 
cows  were  to  be  numbered  but  twice  in  the  year  by  Tyrone's 
ofScerSj  viz.,  at  May  and  Hallowtide,  and  so  the  rents  were 
levied  and  taken  up  at  the  said  rate  for  all  the  cows  that  were 
so  numbered,  except  only  the  heads  and  principal  men  of  the 
creats,  who,  in  regard  of  their  enabling  to  live  better  than  the 
common  multitude  under  them,  whom  they  caused  willingly 
to  pay  the  said  rents,  were  usually  allowed  a  fourth  part  of 
the  whole  rents,  which  rise  to  SOOl.  Irish  the  year,  or  there- 
abouts, which  they  detained  on  their  own  hands  by  direction 
from  the  Lord  Deputy,  and  so  was  never  received  ;  and  for 
the  butter  and  other  victualling  provisions  they  were  only 
paid  by  such  as  they  termed  horsemen,  called  the  Quynnes, 
Haugans,  Conelands,  and  Devlins,  which  were  rather  at  the 
discretion  of  the  givers,  who  strove  who  should  give  most  to 
gain  Tyrone's  favour,  than  for  any  due  claim  he  had  to  demand 
the  same. 

Fourthly.  All  the  cows  for  which  those  rents  are  to  be  levied 
must  be  counted  at  one  day  in  the  whole  country,  which  re- 
quired much  travel  and  labour  and  many  men  to  be  put  in 
trust  with  that  account,  so  as  that  country,  which  is  re- 
plenished with  woods,  do  greatly  advantage  the  tenants  that 
are  to  pay  their  rents  to  rid  away  their  cows  from  that  reckon- 
ing ;  and  also  to  such  overseers  to  be  corrupted  bj-  the  tenants 
to  mitigate  their  rents  by  lessening  the  true  number  of  their 
cattle,  which  must  needs  be  conceived  they  will  all  endeavour 
to  the  uttermost,  being  men,  as  it  were,  without  conscience 
and  of  poor  estate,  apt  to  be  corrupted  for  small  bribes,  which 
they  may  the  more  easily  do  in  regard  that  the  bordering 
lords  adjoining  are  ready  to  shelter  their  cows  that  should  pay 
those  rents,  whereby  they  may  procure  those  tenants  to  live 
under  them. 

Fifthly.  The  said  rent  is  uncertain,  because  by  the  custom 
of  the  country  the  tenants  may  remove  from  one  lord  to 
another  every  half  year,  as  usually  they  do,  which  custom  is 
allowed  by  authority  from  the  State. 

In  consideration  of  which  premises,  being  desirous  to  under- 
stand what  course  he  should  hold  in  levying  the  said  rents  and 
duties,  acquainted  the  Right  Hon.  the  Lord  Deputy  therewith. 


534  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

who  wished  him  not  to  innovate  any  manner  of  collecting  or 
gathering  the  said  rents,  or  to  lay  any  heavier  burdens  on  the 
tenants  than  were  imposed  on  them  formerly  by  Tyrone,  but 
that  he  should  make  it  appear  to  them  that  His  Majesty  would 
be  a  better  and  more  gracious  landlord  to  them  in  aU  respects 
than  Tyrone  was  or  could  be,  and  directed  this  accountant  to 
proceed  in  his  charge  of  collecting  the  said  rents  till  His 
Majesty  did  otherwise  dispose  of  them,  which  hitherto  he  hath 
done  with  his  best  ability,  both  for  His  Majesty's  benefit  and 
the  quiet  and  ease  of  those  subjects,  as  by  the  account  hereafter 
declared  more  fully  appears. 

First.  The  said  accountant  is  to  be  charged  with  all  such 
sums  of  ready  money  as  have  come  to  his  hands  and  are  other- 
wise chargeable  upon  him  for  the  casual  rents  of  the  escheated 
lands  in  the  counties  of  Tyrone,  Armagh,  and  Coleraine,  viz. : 

Moneys  received.  Irish. 

For  the  remainder  of  the  rents  due  for  half  a        £       s.   d. 
year  ended  at  Hallowtide  1607,  which  were 
left  unlevied  by  the  traitor  Tyrone  at  the 
time  of  his  flight       -  -  -  -       348     4     6 

Also  for  rents  by  him  received  for  the  said  lands 
and  otherwise  chargeable  upon  him  for  a 
whole  year  ended  at  Hallowtide  1608  -    2,102     9     8 

For  the  like  for  a  whole  year  ended  at  Hallow- 
tide 1609     -----   2,862  16   10 

For  the  like  ended  at  Hallowtide  1610,  from 
which  time  this  accountant  has  given  up  his 
charge  of  the  said  receipts     -  -  -    2,847  15     7 

In  all  amounting  in  current  money  of 

Ireland  to  the  sum  of  -  -    8,161     6     6 

Also  he  is  to  be  charged  with  the  price  of  duty  butters, 
oats,  meal,  and  muttons  and  hogs  by  him  received  during  the 
three  years  aforesaid  out  of  the  profits  of  the  said  escheated 
lands,  viz. : 

Duty  butters,  oats,  meal,  muttons,  and  hogs  received  out 
of  the  said  lands. 

Butters  which  were  so  ill  made  after  the  country 
manner  as  they  were  scarce  worth  any  money, 
yet  were  they  sold  at  the  rate  of  15s.  a  barrel, 
viz.,  30  ton,  or  thereabouts,  which  at  61. 
sterling  a  ton  cometh  to       -  -  sterling       180     0     0 

Oats  received  in  the  same  time  for  the  like 
duties,  about  300  barrels  at  8d  sterling  a 
barrel  -  -  -  -  -         10     0     0 

Oatmeal  also  received  in  the  said  time,  brought 
in  "  raskans,"  which  were  240,  making  by  esti- 
mation 120  barrels  at  3s.  sterling  the  barrel  -        18    0    0 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  535 


1610. 


Irish. 
£     s. 

d. 

30 

0 

0 

10 

16 

0 

Muttons  received  in  the  said  time,  SCO  at  2s. 

sterling  a-piece  .  .  .  - 

Hogs  likewise  received  in  the  said  time,  72  at 

3s.  sterling  a-piece   -  -  -  - 

In  aU    -  -  -  -  sterling       248  16     0 

Makes  -  -  -      Irish       331  14     8 

And  further  he  is  to  be  charged  with  the  price  of  the  goods 
of  the  traitor  Tyrone  and  of  divers  fugitives  that  ran  away 
with  the  said  traitor,  viz.  : 

Of  the  goods  that  belonged  to  the  Countess  of 
Tyrone  ;  cows,  32,  whereof  12  were  claimed 
by  Nicholas  Weston  and  James  M'Gyns  [Ma- 
genis],  were  restored  by  the  Lord  Deputy's 
warrant,  so  remain  20,  at  15s.  a-piece 
Plough-mares  with  coltes,  5  at  40s.  a-piece 
10  heifers  at  10s.  a-piece  .  _  - 

1  garron  .  _  .  -  _ 
Steers,  2  at  13s.  id.  a-piece  -  .  - 
Calves,  13  at  4s.  a-piece  .  .  , 
Sheep,  which  all  died  and  yielded  nothing 

In  all    -  -  -      ■       - 

The  Earl  of  Tyi'one's  goods,  viz. : 

Small  steers,  9  at  10s.  -  -  -  -  4  10     0 

60  hogs  at  2s.  6d.  -  -  -  -  7  10     0 

2  long  tables,  10s. ;  2  long  forms,  5s.  ;  an 
old  bedstead,  3s. ;  an  old  trunk,  Ss. ;  a  long 
stool,  Is. ;  8  hogsheads.  Is. ;  half  a  cwt.  of 
hops,  30s. ;  3  hogsheads  of  salt,  11.  8s.  6d. ; 
valued  at     - 

A  silk  jacket   -  -  -  -  - 

8  vessels  of  butter,  containing  4J  barrels 

2  iron  spits       -  .  -  -  - 

A  powdering  tub  -  _  -  - 

2  old  chests       ----- 

A  frying-pan  and  a  dripping-pan 

5  pewter  dishes  _  -  -  _ 

A  basket,  2d. ;  a  comb  and  comb  case.  Is.  Qd.  - 

2  dozen  of  trenchers  and  a  basket 

2  pr.  barr  ferris,  vjs.  (sic)  -  -  - 

A  box  and  two  drinking  glasses 

A  trunk,  one  pair  of  red  taffeta  curtains,  one 

other  pair  of  gxeen  satin  curtains 
A  brass  kettle  ----- 


15     0 

0 

10     0 

0 

5     0 

0 

1  13 

4 

1     6 

8 

2  12 

0 

— 

35  12 

0 

4 

12 

6 

0 

13 

4 

3 

7 

6 

0 

2 

0 

0 

0 

6 

0 

4 

0 

0 

3 

0 

0 

5 

0 

0 

1 

8 

0 

0 

10 

0 

6 

0 

0 

1 

3 

4 

5 

0 

0 

8 

6 

536  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

1610. 


Irish. 


£ 

s. 

d. 

. 

0 

5 

0 

1   dishes 

- 

0 

0 

2 

- 

0 

0 

4 

- 

0 

3 

0 

- 

0 

1 

3 

^ 

0 

1 

6 

. 

0 

0 

6 

- 

0 

1 

6 

■ 

0 

1 

6 

- 

9 

0 

0 

claimed 

restored 

A  pair  of  cob  irons 

2  baskets  with  certain  broken  earthen 
and  some  waste  spices 

Half  a  pound  of  white  and  blue  starch 
A  vessel  with  two  gallons  of  vinegar    ■ 
17  pewter  dishes    ■      -   ■ 

3  glass  bottles 

2  stone  jugs,  whereof  one  broken 
A  little  iron  pot 

A  great  spit     -  -  _  . 

6  gari'ons  at  30s.  a-piece 

19  stud  mares,  whereof  two  were 
by  Nicholas  Weston,  which  were 
him  by  a  warrant,  being  proved  to  be  his 
own,  and  so  remain  17  ;  whereof  10  rated  at 
21.  10s.  a-piece,  25Z.,  and  7  at  21.  a-piece,  lit. ; 

in  all  -  -  -  -  -         39     0     0 

Working  mares,  six,  whereof  claimed  by  Nicho- 
las Weston  1,  and  by  Laughlin  O'Hagan  1, 
which  they  proved  to  be  their  own,  and  were 
restored  by  warrant ;  and  so  remain,  4  at  30s. 
a-piece  -  .  -  -  . 

Colts  of  a  year  old  at  1^.  a-piece,  9        - 
Young  colts  newly  foaled,  18  at  1  Os.  a-piece 

20  field  cocks  of  wheat,  by  estimation  30  barrels, 
at  5s.  a  barrel  .  -  -  - 


In  all 


Murtagh  Quin's  goods,  viz. 


1  hackney 

1  garron 

28  cows  at  15s. 

14  calves  at  4s. 

24  sheep  at  18d. 

3  steers 

60  swine  at  2s.  6c?. 

In  all    - 


Shane  O'Hagan's  goods,  viz. 

20  cows  at  15s.  ... 

C  garrons  at  11.  6s.  8d. 
38  sheep  at  Is.  6d        - 
35  swine  at  2s.  Qd.       - 
Barley,  9  cleaves  at  Is.  a-piece 
Butter,  20  lb.  wt.,  at  Id.  per  pound 


6     0 

0 

9     0 

0 

9     0 

0 

7  10 

0 

107  11 

0 

2     0 

0 

1     6 

8 

21     0 

0 

2  16 

0 

1  16 

0 

2     0 

0 

7  10 

0 

38     8 

8 

15     0 

0 

8     0 

0 

2  17 

0 

4     7 

G 

0     9 

0 

0     1 

8 

IRELAND— JAMES  I.  537 


1610. 


A  liorse-load  of  butter,  containing  by  estimation 

180  lbs.  wt.,  at  Id.  per  pound 
An  old  chest    -  -  -  -  - 

4  pairs  of  iron  hand-locks  at  Is.  4<d.  a  pair 
4  old  calivers  at  2s.  6d.  a-piece 
2  old  head-pieces  at  2s.  8d.  a  piece 
2  targets  at  Ss.  4c^.  a-piece        ,  .  - 

A  malting  ladle  _  .  .  . 

2  old  cap  cases  -  - 

A  small  brass  kettle     -  -  -  - 

An  old  sword  -  -  .  -  - 

An  Irish  harp  -  .  -  -  - 

In  all    - 

Teig  O'Keenan's  goods,  viz.  : 

15  cows  at  15s.  .  _  -  . 

Calves,  8  at  4s. 

1  gari'on  -  -  .  -  - 

1  hackney        .  .  -  -  - 

Swine,  25  at  2s.  6d.      -  -  -  - 

In  all 22     6     2 

Henry  Hagan's  goods,  viz. : 

1  garron  -  -  -  -  -168 
6  cows  -  -  -  -  -4100 

2  calves  -  -  -  -  -           0     8     0 
20  sheep  -  -  -  -  -           1  10     0 


Irish, 

£    s. 

d. 

0  15 

0 

0     1 

0 

0     5 

4 

0  10 

0 

0     5 

4 

0     6' 

8 

0     0 

3 

0     1 

6 

0     7 

0 

0     2 

.6 

0  10 

0 

3S  19 

9 

11     5 

0 

1  12 

0 

1     6 

8 

2     0 

0 

3     2 

6 

In  all 7  14  8 

A  Spaniard  that  lived  with  Tyrone  since  the  year 
1588,  and  fled  with  him,  viz. : 

5  cows  -  -  -  -  -3150 

2  calves             -              -              -              -              -           0     8  0 

1  heifer             -             -             -             -             -           0  10  0 

2  fowling  pieces            -             -             -             -           1     0  0 


InaU    -             -             -             -             -  5  13  0 

Hugh  M'Vaghe's  goods,  viz. : 

2  cows              -             -         _    -             -             -  1  10  0 
6  field  cocks  of  oats,  containing  by  estimation  6 

barrels  of  oats           -             -             -             -  0  4  0 

In  all    -            -            -            -            -  1  14  0 


538  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 


Irish. 
£    s.  d. 


Also  there  were  in  the  fields  of  other  fugitives 
goods  that  fled  with  Tyrone,  whose  names 
are  not  known  to  this  accountant,  which 
were  viewed  by  this  accountant  and  Sir 
Francis  Roe,  15  ricks  of  oats,  which  yielded 
by  estimation  40  barrels  of  oats,  at  8d  the 
barrel  -  -  -  -  -  2     0     0 

[Then  follow  similar  lists  and  valuations  of  the  goods  of  John 
Bath,  Art  Oge  O'Neal,  Henry  Hovenden ;  the  whole  amount 
of  the  fugitives'  goods  being  413?.  10s.  sterling,  making 
Irish  ^.] 

And  lastly,  the  said  accountant  is  to  be  charged  with  so 
much  by  him  received  and  taken  up  from  the  inhabitants  of 
the  counties  of  Tyrone  and  Armagh  in  the  year  ended  at 
Michaelmas  1609,  for  receiving  certain  traitors,  adherents  of 
O'Dogherty,  after  the  killing  of  the  traitor,  for  a  fine  imposed 
on  them  by  the  Deputy  and  Council,  200?.  sterling,  making 
266?.  13s.  4<d.  Irish. 

Casual  rents  of  the  said  escheated  lands  -    8,161     6     6 

Butters,  oats,  meal,  muttons,  and  hogs  received 

by  this  accountant  for  duties  rated    -  -       331  14     8 

Sum  of  all  the  charge  receipts  aforesaid, 
viz.,  in 

The  goods  of  the  traitor  Tyrone  and  other 
fugitives  that  were  with  him,'received  by  this 
accountant,  and  valued  at     -  -  -       551     6     0 

A  fine  imposed  on  the  inhabitants  of  the  coun- 
ties of  Tyrone  and  Armagh  for  relieving  of 
traitors         -  _  -  .  -       266  13     4 


InaU    -  -  -  -  -    9,311  14     0 

Eemittals  and  Abatements  of  Rents. 

The  said  accountant  prays  to  be  allowed  the  several  sums 
of  money  hereafter  expressed,  viz.,  sums  remitted  and  given 
away  by  special  warrant  from  the  Lord  Deputy  to  the  fol- 
lowing persons,  being  principal  gentry  of  the  country,  out  of 
the  rents  which  they  were  to  pay  His  Majesty  for  part  of 
the  escheated  lands,  partly  to  content  them  after  the  flight 
of  the  traitor  Tyrone,  and  partly  also  at  the  revolt  of  the 
traitor  O'Dogherty,  whereby  they  were  drawn  to  live  more 
peaceably,  by  whose  credit  and  power  in  the  country  the 
swordmen  and  ill-disposed  persons  there  (who  were  abundant 

>  Blank. 


IRELAND — JAMES  I.  539 


1610. 


in  those  countries)  were  kept  back  from  many  outrages  that 

they  were  ready  and  inclinable  unto  in  those  dangerous  times, 

viz. : 

Sterling. 

To  Captain  Tirlogh  O'Neal's  brother,  Neal  £  s.  d. 
O'Neal,  for  the  rent  of  the  castle  of  Newton, 
town  of  Strabane,  5  ballibetaghs  of  land,  with 
the  rent  of  so  many  tenants  as  fed  600  cows 
on  the  said  land,  which  formerly  paid  rent  to 
His  Majesty,  and  was  remitted  to  him,  viz., 
for  two  years  beginning  from  Hallowtide 
1608,  being  after  the  revolt  and  killing  of  the 
traitor  O'Dogherty,  and  ended  at  Hallowtide 
1610,  at  1201.  sterling  per  annum     -  -       240     0     0 

Sir  Cormac  M'Baron,  for  so  much  remitted  in 
part  of  his  rent  due  to  His  Majesty  for  two 
years  ended  at  Hallowtide  1609,  towards  the 
payment  of  "his  charges  in  the  Castle  of 
Dublin,  and  to  help  to  bear  his  charges  into 
England,  as  also  to  the  Lady,  his  wife,  after 
his  departure,  for  their  relief  -  -         90     0     0 

Bryan  Crossach  O'Neal,  son  to  the  said  Sir  Cor- 
mac, being  a  young  man  very  like  to  have 
joined  with  O'Dogherty,  who  by  his  birth 
and  estimation  was  able  to  draw  a  great 
many  idle  followers  after  him  to  commit 
villainy,  and  therefore  he  had  bestowed  on 
him,  the  better  to  content  him,  the  rents  of 
one  ballibetagh  of  land,  which  yielded  him 
401.  per  annum  from  the  tenants,  for  two 
years  ended  at  Hallowtide  1610,  whereby  he 
was  retained  in  dutiful  obedience      -  -         80     0     0 

The  said  Sir  Cormac's  lady,  allowed  the  rent  of 
120  cows  for  two  years  ended  at  Hallowtide 
1610  -  -  -  -  -        58     0     0 

Henry  M'Shane  O'Neale,  being  a  principal  man 
'  of  that  name,  allowed  the  rent  of  200  cows 
at  40Z.  per  annum  for  the  years   ended  at 
HaUowtidelGlO       -  -  -  -         80     0     0 

Con  M'Shane,  brother  to  the  said  Henry,  allowed 
to  draw  as  many  tenants  to  him  that  paid 
201.  per  annum  for  their  cows  on  part  of  the 
said  lands  for  the  said  two  years       -  -         40     0     0 

Art  M'Baron  O'Neal,  an  abatement  of  three 
parts  of  his  rent  of  801.  per  annum  for  the 
said  two  years  -  -  -  -120     00 

Con  M'Tirlagh  O'Neale  and  his  three  brothers, 
an  abatement  of  40Z.  per  annum,  being  two 
third  parts  of  their  rents  for  the  said  two 
years  -  -  -  -  -         80     0     0 


540  TEELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610, 


Sterling. 
£      s.   d. 


Hugh  M'Shane  O'Neil,  his  brother  and  kins- 
men, and  to  Phelim  M'Cormac  Toole  O'Neal 
and  his  kinsmen,  in  consideration  of  taking 
of  Shane  Carragh,  brother  to  O'Cane,  chief 
rebel  next  O'Dogherty,  remitted  their  rents 
for  two  years  ended  at  HaUowtide  1610,  at 
201.  jper  annuTn        -  -  -  -        40     0     0 

Donel  O'Neil  and  his  three  sons,  in  regard  of 
their  fidelity  in  the  time  of  O'Dogherty,  re- 
mitted their  rents  at  20!I.  per  annum  for  the 
said  two  years  -  -  -  -         40     0     0 

Captain  O'Cor,  remitted  the  rent  of  50  cows  for  _ 
three  years  ended  at  HaUowtide  1610,  in 
regard  that  he  had  much  credit  among  the 
swordmen  and  was  a  principal  leader  in  Ty- 
rone's rebellion,  and  yet  did  behave  himself 
very  dutifully  after  the  flight  of  Tyrone  and 
in  O'Dogherty's  rebellion,  and  did  then  and 
ever  since  perform  good  service  by  intelligence, 
at  lOL  fer  annum   -  -  -  -         30     0     0 

Mary  O'Neal,  daughter  to  Sir  Cormac  M'Baron, 
freedom  for  the  rent  of  50  cows  for  three 
years  ended  at  HaUowtide  1610,  at  lOl.jper 
annum        -  -  -  -  -30     00 

Conconoght  O'Devan,  freedom  for  50  cows  for 
two  years  ended  at  HaUowtide  1610,  for  liis 
maintenance  in  the  coUege  at  Dublin,  the 
better  to  encourage  others  to  conform  them- 
selves in  civility  and  religion,  at  \Ql.  per 
annum         -  -  -  -  -20     00 

Shane  O'Donnel,  for  the  like  consideration  and 

the  same  time,  at  the  said  rate 
Owen  M'lvor,  the  like  -  -  -  . 

Rory  M'Crely,  the  like  ... 

Donnell  Oge  O'Conry,  son  to  Donnell  O'Conry, 

the  like         -  -  -  -  -         20     0     0 

Tirlagh  O'Gormley,  for  the  like,  remitted  in 
regard  of  his  faithful  service  at  the  rebellion 
of  O'Dogherty,  at  \Ql.  per  annum  for  two 
years  ended  at  HaUowtide  1610        -  -         20     0     0 

Jenkin  O'Devyn,  for  the  like  service,  the  like 
remittal        -  -  -  -  -         20     0     0 

The  lands  of  Clonauly,  in  the  county  of  Armagh, 
being  found  for  the  Lord  Primate  on  the  office 
taken  for  the  said  attainted  lands  before  the 


20 

0 

0 

20 

0 

0 

20 

0 

0 

IRELAND— JAMES  I.  541 


J  610. 


Sterling. 

£  s.  d. 
Lord  Deputy,  were  assigned  over  to  him  for 
tliree  half  years  ended  at  Hallowtide  1610, 
here  demanded  in  allowance  because  it  is 
parcel  of  the  charge  before  mentioned,  at  40^. 
^jer  annum  -  -  -  -  -90     00 

The  rent  of  the  barony  of  the  Maughery,  in  the 
county  of  Coleraine,  being  given  to  the  Lon- 
doners for  this  last  half  year  ended  at 
Hallowtide  1610,  here  demanded  in  allow- 
ance, being  parcel  of  the  former  charge  -       100     0     0 

In  all  remitted  in  rents  as  before  par- 
ticularly appears        -  -  sterling    1,248     0     0 

Making      -  -  -      Irish    1,664     0     0 

Soldiers  raised  for  extraordinary  services  upon  the 
flight  of  the  traitor  Tyrone  and  the  revolt  of  the  traitor 
O'Doherty,  paid  out  of  the  duty  victuals  and  fugitives' 
goods  before  charged,  viz.,  by — 

Captain  Dermond  Leigh,  deceased,  late  high 
sheriff  of  the  county  of  Tyrone,  for  the  pay 
of  20  warders  put  into  the  castle  of  Dungan- 
non  immediately  after  the  flight  of  Tyrone, 
viz.,  for  42  days  ended  the  6th  of  November 
1607,  at  Qd.  sterling  a-piece  -  -  sterling         21     0     0 

Sir  Thomas  Philips,  for  a  ward  of  12  men 
which  he  put  into  Logheinshellin  about  the 
same  time  by  the  Lord  Deputy's  direction,  at 
Qd.  a-piece  per  diem,  for  90  days  ended  at 
January  1607  -  -  -sterling         27     0     0 

Patrick  Crely,  for  the  pay  of  8  men  put  into  the 
fort  of  Pontderune  by  his  Lordship's  present 
direction,  viz.,  for  100  days  to  February  1607, 
at  6cZ.  a-piece  per  diem         -  -  sterling         20     0     0 

Sir  Tobias  Calfield,  Knt.,  for  the  pay  of  8  men 
put  into  Maghirlecow  by  like  direction,  for 
120  days  ended  in  February  1607  at  the  like 
rates  -  -  -  -  sterling         24     0     0 

Patrick  Cartan,  for  the  pay  of  20  kerne  which  he 
commanded  by  the  Deputy's  direction  to  pro- 
secute Brian  M'Arte's  son,  and  Arden  M'Collo 
O'Hanlon,  who  went  into  action  of  rebellion 
presently  after  the  flight  of  Tj^rone,  for  91 
days  ended  in  February  1607,  at  4d.  a-piece 
per  diem      -  -  -  -  sterling         30     6     8 


54-2  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

1610. 


Sterling. 
£     s.  d. 


Hugh  M'Cawell  and  Laughlin  O'Hagan,  for  the 
pay  of  40  men  in  Bonaght  which  they  raised 
and  employed  at  and  about  Dungannon  upon 
the  revolt  of  the  traitor  O'Dogherty,  where 
they  remained  for  defence  of  those  parts  and 
to  conduct  victuals  to  the  army  in  Tyrconnell, 
viz.,  for  90  days  ended  in  September  1608,  at 
4cZ.  a-piece  per  diem  -  -  sterling         60     0     0 

Neil  O'Fagan  and  Ferdoragh  O'Hanlon,  for  the 
pay  of  40  men  by  them  levied  by  the  Lord 
Deputy's  direction  to  prosecute  Patrick  Oge 
O'Hanlon  and  Arden  M'Colle,  two  notable 
traitors,  who  with  their  adherents  committed 
many  outrages  in  killing,  burning,  and  spoil- 
ing in  the  counties  of  Tyrone  and  Armagh, 
viz.,  for  74  days  ended  in  January  1609,  at 
4<d.  a-piece  per  diem  -  -  -         49     6     8 


In  all   -  -  -  -  sterling       255  13     4 

Making  -  -  -      Irish       340  17     9 

Works  and  Fortifications. 

Paid  also  by  the  accountant  for  the  victualling 
of  two  men  that  wrought  in  making  the 
bridges  at  Charlemont  and  other  works  about 
the  fort,  for  90  days  in  May,  June,  and  July 
1609,  at  4cZ.  a-piece  per  c^iem  -  -         80     0     0 

Dieting  for  Irish  soldiers  sent  into  Sweden,  paid  out  of 
the  duty  victuals  and  the  fugitives'  goods  ;  also  paid  for 
the  victualling  of  certain  men  taken  up  in  the  counties 
of  Tyrone  and  Armagh  in  the  summers,  1609  and  1610, 
viz. : 

For  the  diet  of  80  of  the  said  soldiers  taken  up 
in  summer  1609,  for  16  days  during  the  time 
they  were  kept  in  prison  at  Dungannon  and 
Armagh  and  Charlemont,  tiU  they  were  sent 
away,  at  4cZ.  a-piece  per  diem  -  -         216     8 

Also  for  the  diet  of  72  of  the  said  men  taken  up 
in  summer  1610,  which  were  kept  in  prison 
at  Armagh  for  18  days  till  they  were  sent 
away,  at  4d  a-piece  per  diem  -  -  8     2     0 


In  all    -  -  -  -  sterling         29     8     8 

Making  -  -  -       Irish         32     4  10 


IRELAND — JA.MES   I.  543 


1610. 


Part  of  the  fugitives'  goods  before  charged  in  this 
account  given  away  and  disposed  of  partly  by  warrants 
and  directions  of  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Council  and  partly 
by  his  Lordship's  direction,  or  for  the  considerations 
within  mentioned,  viz.  : 

Irish. 
Sir  Tobias  Caulfield,  Knt.,  to  whom  the  goods  £  s.  d. 
that  belong  to  the  Countess  of  Tyrone  were 
given  by  the  Lord  Deputy,  in  consideration 
that  he  kept  Con  O'Neil,  son  to  the  said  Earl, 
for  three  years  ended  at  Michaelmas  last,  1610, 
and  found  him  meat  and  drink,  and  therefore 
here  demanded  in  allowance  at  the  rates  before 
charged  in  his  account,  being  -  sterling         35  12     0 

Also  delivered  to  the  wife  of  Teig  O'Kena,  at 
the  request  of  the  Earl  of  Thomond,  to  whom 
she  is  allied,  in  consideration  that  the  said 
Earl  alleged  that  the  said  Teig  sent  him  in- 
telligence of  importance  from  beyond  the  seas, 
all  her  husband's  goods,  which  before  are 
charged  on  this  account,  and  so  here  allowed 
at    -  -  -  -  -  sterUng         22     6     8 

To  Henry  M'Shane  O'Neal,  a  principal  man  of 
that  name  (to  relieve  his  poor  estate),  out  of 
the  goods  of  Shane  O'Hagan,  so  much  as  are 
valued  at      -  -  -  -  -         20     0     0. 

To  Henry  Hovendon's  wife  and  children,  for  her 
relief,  and  to  maintain  her  children  at  school, 
all  her  husband's  goods,  for  which  paid  only 
20  marks  sterling,  the  whole  being  valued 
at  4:01. 14s.  sterling,  and  before  charged,  so  as 
she  is  thereby  allowed  of  the  said  goods, 
by  virtue  of  a  concordatum  dated  21sfc  Sep- 
tember 1609,  which  is  here  allowed,  the  sum 
of   -  -  -  -  -  sterling         27     6     4 

To  Laughlin  O'Hagan,  given  so  much  of  his 
brother's  goods  as  were  valued  at  SI.  ]  9s.  9d. 
sterling,in  consideration  that  the  constableship 
of  Dungannon  was  taken  from  him  -  sterling  3  19     9 

To  Murtagh  O'Quin's  wife,  given  so  much  of 
her  husband's  goods  to  relieve  her  as  amounted 
to    -  -  -  -  -  sterling         18     8     8 

Also  given  to  the  Spaniard's  wife  and  children 
aU  her  husband's  goods  for  their  relief,  which 
are  valued,  as  before  charged,  at        -  sterling       113     0     0 

Also  given  to  Henry  Hagan's  wife  and  children 
aU  her  husband's  goods,  at  the  suit  of  her 
father,  Sir  Oghee  O'Hanlon,  when  he  sur- 
rendered all  his  lands  to  the  King,  which  are 
before  charged,  and  were  allowed  at,  sterling  7  14     8 


544  lEELAND — JAMES  t, 

1610, 


Sterling. 
£      s.   d. 


Also  given  Hugh  M'Vaghe's  goods  to  his  wife 
and  children,  for  their  relief,  before  charged, 
and  here  allowed  at  -  -  -  1    14     0 

Also  given  to  the  Lady  Pawlet,wife  to  Sir  George 
Pawlet,  deceased,  in  regard  of  her  miserable 
estate  after  the  death  of  her  husband,  certain 
goods  of  the  traitor  John  Bathe,  which  rested 
in  his  possession  till  his  death,  and  are  parcel 
of  the  goods  before  charged  in  this  account,  as 
amounted  to  the  sum  of        -  -  sterling         60     0     0 

Also  the  goods  of  Arte  Oge  O'Neal,  being  for- 
merly given  by  him  to  his  three  children 
before  his  flight,  were  on  their  humble  suit 
given  them  for  their  relief  by  the  Lord 
Deputy,  being  ...  sterling         22     6     0 

To  John  Comewell,  sub-sheriff  of  Tyrone  at  the 
time  when  the  Earl  fled,  given  him  out  of 
Tyrone's  goods  in  regard  of  his  great  trouble 
and  pains  then  taken  for  His  Majesty's  ser- 
vice, so  much  as  we  valued  at  -  sterling         10     0     0 

To  Bryan  M'Neile,  ensign  to  Sir  Henry  Oge 
O'Neale,  in  regard  of  money  he  received  when 
his  captain  was  killed,  out  of  the  fugitives' 
goods,  the  value  of  -  -  -  sterling  6     0     0 

Also  given  for  the  relief  of  Arte  Oge's  sons  and 
Oghy  Oge  O'Hanlon's  children,  being  both 
sent  to  Sweden,  out  of  the  fugitives'  goods 

sterling         20     0     0 

Also  there  were  delivered  to  divers  captains  part  of  the 
fugitives'  goods,  in  consideration  of  their  travail  and 
charges  sustained  in  going  to  many  places  of  the  country 
for  the  settling  and  establishing  thereof  upon  their  own 
charges  immediately  after  the  flight  of  Tyrone,  viz.,  to 

Captain  Dermond  Legh,  who  was  then  sheriff  of 

Tyrone 30  0  0 

Sir  Francis  Koe             -             -             -             -  12  2  0 

Sir  Thoms  Phillips        -             -             -             -  13  0  0 

Sir  Eichard  Hansard   -             -             -             -  6  0  0 


In  all 61     2     0 


In  all  given  to  the  persons  before  named 
it  of  the  fugitives'  goods     -  sterling 

Making      -  -  -      Irish       422  18     9 


out  of  the  fugitives' goods     -sterling       317     4     1 


IRELAND — JAMES  I.  545 


1610. 


Eeady  money  paid  into  His  Majesty's  receipt  of  Exchequer, 
viz. : 

And  lastly,  for  ready  money  paid  to  Sir  Thomas  Ridge- 
way,  Vice-Treasurer  and  Treasurer  at  Wars  in  Ireland. 

Irish. 
£       s.   d. 
The  13th  of  December  1608,  on  the  Vice-Trea- 
surer's acquittances    -  -  -    2,357     7     3 
The  18th  of  December  1609,  on  the  like  -   2,404     3     6 

In  all  as  by  said  acquittances     -  -    4,761  10     9 

Remittals  and  abatements  of  rents         -  -    1,664     0     0 

Sum  total  of  all  the  allowances  and  payments  afore- 
said, viz. : 

Entertainments  of  soldiers  entered  in  pay  on  the 

flight  of  Tyrone  and  revolt  of  O'Dogherty     -  340  17  9 

Works  and  fortifications            -             -             -  80     0  0 

Victualling  of  Irish  soldiers  sent  into  Sweden  -  39     4  10 

Gifts  and  restitutions  of  fugitives'  goods            -  422     9  9 

Ready  money  paid  into  the  receipt       -             -  4,761  10  9 

In  all 7,308  12     1 

And  so  remaineth  in  this  accountant's  hands, 
and  chargeable  on  him  to  His  Majesty's  use 

Irish    2,002     9     1 

Whereof  is  allowed  to  this  accountant,  by  virtue  of  a  con- 
cordatum  of  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Council,  the  tenor  whereof 
followeth  in  these  words  : — 

By  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Council. 
Arthur  Chichester. 

Whereas  upon  the  flight  of  the  traitor  Tyrone,  the  Deputy 
entering  into  consideration  how  fit  it  was  to  appoint  some 
man  of  sufliciency  to  take  the  chief  charge  and  superinten- 
dency  of  sueh  lands,  rents,  and  territories  as  belong  to  the 
said  traitor  in  the  counties  of  Tyrone,  Armagh,  and  Coleraine, 
made  choice  of  Sir  Toby  Calfeild  to  take  upon  him  that  charge, 
who  with  good  care  and  diligence  greatly  to  the  furtherance 
of  His  Majesty's  service  hath  not  only  for  this  three  years 
past  collected  the  rents  issuing  out  of  the  said  lands  and 
territories  to  His  Majesty's  use,  but  with  great  wisdom  and 
sufliciency  discharged  the  trust  reposed  in  him  ; — and  further- 
more hath  within  the  said  time  been  at  extraordinary  charges 
in  building  of  bridges,  highways,  and  strengthening  of  the 
fort  of  Charlemont,  and  building  a  house  within  the  same,  for 
all  which  he  has  humbly  craved  allowance ;  he  is  accordingly 
granted  an  allowance  of  lOOl.  a  year  for  each  of  the  three 
years,  making  in  harps  the  whole  sum  of  400?.  to  be  allowed 
him  in  the  foot  of  his  account. — Dublin,  16  December  1610. 

3.  MM 


546  IRELAJ^D — JAMES  I. 

1610. 

Signed:  Thomas  Dublin,  Cane,  Humfrey  Winch,  John 
Vaughan,  Francisse  Aunger,  Henry  Power,  Garrott  Moore, 
Eichard  Cooke,  Adam  Loftus,  John  Kinge.  400Z.  Irish.  To 
our  trusty  and  well-beloved  the  Lord  Chancellor  and  the  rest 
of  the  commissioners  for  taking  of  His  Majesty's  accounts 
within  this  realm. 

And  so  remain  in  the  said  accountant's  hands  1,602^.  9s.  \d., 
which  sum  of  1,602^.  9s.  Id  was  paid  into  the  hands  of  Sir 
Thomas  Ridgeway,  as  appears  by  his  acquittance  dated  24th 
December  1610. 

Then  follows  an  acquittance  and  discharge  of  Sir  Toby 
Calfeild  by  the  following  Commissioners  of  Accounts,  viz. : — 
Thomas  Dviblin,  Cane,  H.  Winch,  Jo.  Vaughan,  Fra.  Aungeir, 
Ed.  Cooke,  Jo.  Kinge,  Jo.  Davys,  Wm.  Peyton,  Jas.  Ware. — 
Dated  18  December  1610.^ 

Pp.  3.     Endd. :  "  The  copy  of  Sir  Thoby  Caulfeild's  accept." 

Dec.  22,      932.        Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Sir  John  Davys. 

vor6i,^'!^334.  Warrant  by  the  Lord  Deputy,  Sir  Arthur  Chichester,  to  Sir 

John  Davys,  Knight,  Attorney-General,  to  draw  forth  a  fiant 
of  a  pardon  of  alienation  of  the  island  of  Lambay,  and  of  the 
town,  lands,  and  wood  of  CuUon,  co.  Dublin,  to  Sir  Wm.  Usher, 
Knight,  his  heirs  and  assigns. — Dublin  Castle,  22  December 
1610. 

P.  1.     Orig.     ^<^d;  "Sir  Wm.  Usher,  1610." 

Dec.  23.      933.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
vol.  \Tv-  444-  Directs  him  to  peruse  the  certificate  made  by  the  Clerk  of  the 

Pipe  in  England,  setting  forth  the  practice  and  perquisites  of  the 
ofl&ce  before  the  erection  in  England  of  the  court  of  Wards  and 
Liveries,  surveyor-general's  office,  and  office  of  augmentation, 
and  of  particular  receivers  and  auditors  of  counties,  in  order 
to  the  better  payment  of  Eoger  Downton,  Clerk  of  the  Pipe 
in  Ireland,  and  his  secondaries,  in  consideration  of  his  reducing 
his  office  to  a  proper  state,  the  same  having  been  neglected 
for  40  years  before  his  time. — Westminster,  23  December,  in 
the  eighth  year  of  the  King's  reign. 

Pp.  1^.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Enrol.  Endd  by  Sir 
Arthur  Chichester:  "  Of  the  23d  of  December  1610.  From 
the  Kinge's  Ma*^®,  concerning  the  office  of  the  Pype  and 
Mr.  Downton,  the  officer.     Ee.  the  10th  of  Februarie." 

[Dec]       934.        Interrogatories  to  Deputy  Vice-Admiral  Grice. 

voreTg^^^m  Interrogatives  to  be  ministered  to  Eichard  Grice,  Deputy 

Vice-Admiral  of  the  province  of  Munster,  by  directions  from 
the  Lords  of  the  Privy  Council. 
Pp.  2.     Copy. 

'  This  account  is  enrolled  on  the  Exchequer  RemembranceRoU  of  Hilary  Term, 
8  Jac.  I.,  Art.  10.  It  has  been  already  printed  from  a  copy  furnished  by  the  late 
.T.amcs  Frederic  Ferguson,  Esq.,  Secretary  to  the  Commission  of  Enquiry  into 
the  Exchequer  Records,  in  "  The  Topographer  and  Genealogist,"  John  Gough 
Nichols,  vol.  3,  p.  75.     8vo.     London,  18.')8. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  547 


1610. 

[Dec]       935.        Digorye  Castle's  Deposition. 
v^nigfpl'iS.  ^^®   examination  of  Digorye   Castle,   alias  Tompkins,  of 

Youghall,  sworn  and  deposed  thereunto  before  Sir  Eichard 
Morison,  Knight,  Vice-President  of  the  province  of  Munster, 
Signed :  Digorey  Castell. 
Pp.  3.     Copy.     Endd. 

[Dec]       936.        The  Munster  Pirates. 

vol? 6^19  p^iTi'  Proceedings  concerning  the  treaty  for  reducing  the  pirates 

of  Munster. 
Pp.  2. 

S.P.,  Ireland,     937,  MEMORANDUM    of   the    LORD     MORLEY's     TiTLE     to    the 

""'^-  ^^^'  ^^*-  Makshalship  of  Ireland. 

The  office  was  granted  to  Wingfield  in  1603,  and  a  second 
person  obtained  the  reversion,  1611. 
P.  1.     Endd. 

S.P.,  Ireland,     938.  CAPTAIN  JAMES  ToBYN'S  REQUEST, 

vol,  229,  147. 

Prays  a  grant  of  501.  per  annum  of  escheated  and  concealed 
lands  in  Kilkenny,  and  also  for  a  joint  grant  to  the  Lord 
Deputy  and  another  of  all  the  escheated  and  concealed  lands 
throughout  Ireland  at  a  yearly  rent. 

P.  1.     Endd. 

S.P.,  Ireland,    939,         Servitors  and   NATIVES  PROPORTIONS  in  the   Ulster 
vol.  229, 148.  Plantation. 

Statement  of  the  number  of  proportions  remaining  to  be 
assigned  in  the  escheated  counties  to  the  servitors  and  natives 
after  the  Termon  and  other  ecclesiastical  lands  are  assigned. 

Pp.7. 

Docquet.        949.  The  EARL  OF  PEMBROKE  to  the  EARL  OF   SALISBURY. 

To  write  to  the  Lord  Deputy  that  the  King  would  have  no 
Governor  of  Cavan.  Sir  Edw.  Herbert,  the  writer's  cousin 
(being  sheriff  for  Cavan),  will  thus  be  exempted  from  the 
command  of  any  body. 

S.P.,  Ireland,    94^  LiST  of  NAMES  of  the  UNDERTAKERS  in  IRELAND, 

vol.  229    149. 

The  Lord  Deputy,  Lord  Audley,  Treasurer,  Marshal,  Master 
of  the  Ordnance,  Sir  Oliv.  Lambert,  Mr.  Attorney,  Sir  Foulke 
Conway,  Sir  Hen.  FoUiott,  Sir  Edw.  Blaney,  Sir  Toby  Caul- 
field,  Sir  Richard  Hansard,  Sir  Fran.  Rooe,  Sir  Francis  Ruish, 
Sir  Thomas  Phillips,  Capt.  John  Vaughan,  Sir  J.  Perrot, 
Capt.  Wm.  Stewart,  Capt.  Pat.  Crauford,  Capt.  Atherton, 
Capt.  Hope,  Capt.  Clotworthie,  Capt.  Basil  Brooke,  Capt. 
Culme,  Capt.  Dorrington,  Capt.  Cole,  Capt.  Illing,  Capt.  Leigh, 
Capt.  Anthony  Smith,  Archie  More,  Capt.  Henry  Skipwith, 
Sir  Geo.  Greaves,  Sir  Rich.  Greave,  Capt.  Bourgchier,  Capt. 
Lyons,  Capt.  Trever,  Capt.  Baker,  Capt.  Pykeman,  Sir  Tho. 

M  M    2 


548  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

IGIO. 

Williams,    Sir   Edw.   Fetyplace,   Sir  Tho.  Coach,  Sir  Kalph 
Bingley,  Capt.  Leckford,  Capt.  Pinuer,  Capt.  Hen.  Vaughan, 
Capt.    Hart,   Capt.  Gore,  Capt,  Cooke,  Capt.   Larkin,  Capt. 
Edney,  Capt.  Harrison,  Capt.  Anth.  Hugon. 
Pj).  2.    Endd. 

Add.  Papers,     942.  EAEL  OF   PEMBROKE  to   LORD  SALISBURY. 

p.R.O.  Writes  on  behalf  of  his  cousin.  Sir  Edward  Herbert,  that 

he  may  be  appointed  to  the  governorship  bf  co.  Cavan. 

P.  1.     Hoi.     Seeded.    Add.    Endd.    Not  dated. 
S.P.,  Ireland,    943,        A  TABULAR  ViEW  of  all  such  as  offcp  to  bccome  Under- 

vol.  229,  150.  ^^j^^^g_ 

1.  The  names  of  the  principal  undertakers,  with  their 
consorts. 

2.  Their  abilities  and  estates,  as  themselves  allege. 
3 

4 desired. 

Sir  Henry  Hobert's  consort : 

Sir  Henry  Hobbert, . 

John  Thurston,  Suffolk,  6001.  per  annum. 
Arthur  Everad,  Norfolk,  3001.  per  annum. 

Henry  Honinge,  Suffolk,  . 

Tho.  Blenerhassett,  Norfolk,  120?.  per  annum. 

Robert  Bogas,  Suffolk,  2i0l.  per  annum. 

Thomas  Flowerdue,  Norfolk,  200?.  per  annum. 

John  Arch  dale,  Suffolk,  200?.  per  annum. 

Richard  Harte,  one  of  His  Majesty's  servants,  Suffolk, 

50?.  per  annum. 
Sir  John  Aldridge,  Norfolk,  200?.  per  annum. 
John  Colby,  Suffolk,  200?.  per  annum. 
Isaac  Thomson,  Norfolk,  100?.  per  annum. 
William  Strutton,  Suffolk,  100?.  per  annum. 
Thomas  Cheyney,  Suffolk,  60?.  per  annum. 
Roger  Dersley,  Norfolk,  110?.  per  annum. 
15,000  acres.     Fermanagh. 

Sir  Marvin  Audley's  consort : 

Sir  Marvin  Audley, . 

Sir  Richard  Brooke, . 

Edward  Blunte, . 

11,000  acres.     Omey. 

Sir  Maurice  Barckley's  consort : 

Sir  Maurice  Barckley,  Somerset, ,  4,000  acres. 

Sir  Dudley  Digges,  Kent, ,  2,000  acres. 

Robert  Dillon,  Northampton, ,  4,000  acres. 

William  Powell,  Stafford,  2,000  acres. 

John  Dillon,  Stafford, ,  2,000  acres. 

Edward  Russell, , ,  2,000  acres. 

Onealand  or  Liffer. 


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Sir  Francis  Anderson's  consort : 

Sir  Francis  Anderson,  Bedford,  2,000?.  per  annum. 

Sir  William  Lovell,  Kent, per  annum,  2,000  acres. 

John  Fish,  Bedford,  SOOl.  per  annum,  2,000  acres. 
John  Allin,  Bedford,  BOOL  per  annum. 
Edmund  Anderson,  Bedford,  1001.  in  goods,  1,000  acres. 
Francis   Sachinwell,   Leicester,  3001.  per   annum,  2,000 

acres. 
John  Brounlowe,  Nottingham,  150?.  per  annum,  2,000 

acres. 

Onealand. 

Sir  William  Harmone's  consort : 

Sir  William  Harmon, ^,  2,000  acres. 

William  Wilson,  Suffolk, ^  1,000  acres. 

Thomas  Wilson,  Suffolk, 1,  1,000  acres. 

Roger  Garrett,  Suffolk, \  1,000  acres. 

Hemy  Shepheard,  merchant, \  1,500  acres. 

William  Clyston,  Somerset, 


Humphrey  Walker,  Somerset, , ^. 

Thomas  Stanton, ,  2,000  acres. 

Henry  Moye, \  1,000  acres, ^. 

Sir  Thomas  Cornwall's  consort : 

Sir  Thomas  Cornwall,  2,000  "acres. 
Edward  Cornwall,  2,000  acres. 
Gilbert  Cornwall,  2,000  acres. 
Thomas  Cornwall,  2,000  acres. 
George  Cornwall,  2,000  acres. 
Robert  Cornwall,  2,000  acres. 
James  Cornwall,  2,000  acres. 
Liffer, 

Sir  John  Mallerye's  consort : 

Sir  John  Mallery,  York,  1,000L  per  annum,  2,000  acres. 
Beckingham  Butler,  Hatford,  4>00l.  per  annum,  2,000  acres. 
Stephen  Butler,  Bedford,  1,500?.  his  estate,  2,000  acres. 
Lawrence   Warren,   Hatford,    800?.    in   silver,    20?.    per 

annum,  1,000  acres. 
Thomas  Woode,  York,  1,600?.  in  silver,  2,000  acres. 
William  Wake,  London,  2,000?.  his  estate,  2,000  acres. 
Thomas  Johnson,  York,  150?.  per  annum,  400?.   silver, 

2,000  acres. 

Charles  EUye,  York,  1,000?.  in  leases  and  silver, , 

John  Richeson,  York,  1,000?.  his  estate,  2,000  acres. 
Thomas  Composte,  York,  300?.  per  annum,  2,000  acres. 
Ardmagh. 

Sir  William  Monson's  consort : 

Sir  William  Monson,  1,000  acres. 

John  Barnewall,  Gray's  Inn,  1,000  acres. 


'  Blank  in  orig. 


550  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

Matthew  Southwell,  in  the  behalf  of  Thomas  St.  Law, 

2,000  acres. 
Richard  Dawtry,  Suffolk,  1,000  acres. 
James  Matchett,  clerk  and  preacher,  1,000  acres. 
William  Brewer,  Suffolk,  1,000  acres. 
Nicholas  Howarde,  Suffolk,  1,000  acres. 
Edward  Rivett,  merchant,  Suffolk,  1,000  acres. 
Richard  Wrighte,  merchant,  London,  1,000  acres. 
Onealand. 

The  Lord  Saye's  consort : 

The  Lord  Saye, ,  4,000  acres. 

Edward  Warde,  Suffolk,  4<00l.  per  annum,  1,000  acres. 
William  Stanhowe  and  Henry,  his  son,  Norfolk,  150^.  per 

annum,  500^.  goods,  2,000  acres. 
Joseph  Warde,  Norfolk,  2,000^.  goods,  1,000  acres. 
WUKam  Warde,  goldsmith,  London,  4,000Z.  goods,  1,000 

acres. 
Michael   Saltforde,  for  himself  and  Nicholas   Whiting, 

5001.  goods,  1,000  acres. 
James  Matchett,  Norfolk,  84?.  per  annum,  2001.  goods, 

1,000  acres. 
Richard  Roleston,  Stafford,  5001.  goods,  lOOl.  per  annum, 

1 ,000  acres. 
Jeffery  Money,  Norfolk,   40Z.  per  annum,  "goods  200?., 

1,000  acres. 
Richard  Matchett,  Norfolk,  4<0l.  per  annum,  200?.  goods, 

1,000  acres. 
William  Banister,  of  Southworke,  grocer,  London,  700?. 

goods,  1,000  acres. 
Edmund  Caston,  London,  300?.  goods,  1,000  acres. 
Onealande  only. 

Sir  Henry  Helmes'  consort : 

Sir  Henry  Helmes,  4,000  acres. 

Sir  Henry  Clare,  4,000  acres. 

Symon  Muskett,  Gray's  Inn,  200  marks  per  annum,  1,000 

acres. 
Timothy  Castleton,  Norfolk,  200  marks  per  annum,  2,000 

acres. 
John  Taylor,  Cambridge,  200  marks  per  annum,  2,000 

acres. 
William  Carter,  Norfolk,  200  marks  per  annum,  2,000 

acres. 
Thomas  Stone,  merchant,  Oxford,  50?.  per  annum,  1,000 

acres. 

Cavan. 

Sir  Henry  Docwra,  4,000  acres. — Liffer. 

Sir  Robert  Crosse,  2,000  acres. 

MarceUus  Rivers,  2,000  acres.— Ardmagh  or  Tyrone. 

Henry  Sackforde,  2,000  acres. — Onealand, 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  551 

1610. 

Sir  Hugh  : 

Sir  Hugh  Wirrall,  200^.  per  annum,  2,000  acres. 
John  Wirrall,  50?.  per  annum,  2,000  acres. 
Thomas  Mountfort,  1,000?.  ia  goods,  2,000  acres, 
1  large  sheet  or  roll  of  4  mems. 

S.P.,  Ireland,    944.  ClERK  of  FiRST   FrUITS. 

vol  229    151 

'      '  Warrant  for  Peter  Harrison  to  have  the  office  of  clerk  of 

the  First  Fruits,  in  reversion  after  Francis  Edgeworth. 
P.  1. 

S.P.,  Ireland,      945,  The  PRINCIPAL   HeADS  of  CAPTAIN   [BaRNABY]  RiCHE'S 

vol.  229, 152.  Treatise  delivered  to  my  Lord  Salisbury. 

Of  the  Idolatry  of  Ireland.  Of  the  Pride  of  Ireland.  Of 
the  Corruption  of  Ireland.  Of  the  Drunkenness  and  Incon- 
tinency  of  Ireland.  Of  the  tolerating  and  dispensing  with  all 
manner  of  offences  in  Ireland.  Of  the  generality  of  pardons 
in  Ireland.  The  supposed  reasons  why  vice  is  not  punished 
in  Ireland.  Of  unworthy  persons  preferred :  His  Majesty's 
Escheats  ill  bestowed.  His  Majesty  overburdened  more  than 
needeth,  viz.,  with  a  guard  of  100  men  for  the  Castle  of  Dublin, 
with  the  entertainment  of  a  serjeant-major,  a  corporal  of  the 
field.  (Note  in  margin.  I  find  neither  any  serjeant-major 
or  corporal  of  the  field  either  in  the  establishment  or  cheque 
book).  A  scout-master  and  such  like  officers  not  usual  but  in 
time  of  war.  That  the  Judges  have  large  allowance  from  the 
King,  and  yet  have  their  charges  plentifully  defrayed  by  the 
country.  That  the  Judges,  to  prolong  the  time  of  their  allow- 
ance, continue  in  shire  towns  many  days  longer  than  they 
need,  hearing  and  determining  causes  between  party  and  party 
which  no  way  belongs  to  the  King.  The  clerk  of  the  casualties 
hath  40?.  a  year,  and  doth  no  service  for  it.  Collector  and 
comptroller  of  the  impost  unnecessary  offices,  Concordatums 
over  generally  granted. 

How  His  Majesty's  revenues  have  been  lately  impaired. 

The  composition  in  Connaught  was  3,500?.  per  annum,  that 
by  the  collector  Davys  such  fraud  is  used,  as  not  above  590?. 
is  paid  in. 

That  where  there  were  certain  lands  in  the  Pale  that  did 
pay  3,000?.  a  year  to  the  King's  galloglasse,  those  kind  of 
people  ^being  out  of  use,  the  King  is  like  not  only  to  lose  the 
said  contribution  but  the  land  whereto  the  King's  escheator 
doth  entitle  His  Majesty. 

That  the  Council  table  hath  been  slack  herein ;  that  the 
Lord  Chief  Justice  hath  been  a  great  opposer  of  the  King's 
right ;  but  the  Lord  Chief  Baron  and  the  Master  of  the  RoUa 
do  stand  for  His  Majesty's  title. 

That  under  the  title  of  100?.  a  year  granted  in  fee-farm  to 
the  Earl  of  Thomond,  he  passed  the  manor  of  Caterlough  with 


552  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

the  demesnes  and  customs,  which,  if  it  were  improved,  is  worth 
SOOl.  or  400^.  a  year. 

That  in  exchange  thereof  the  King  had  from  the  Earl  the 
abbey  of  Galbally,  being  100?.  a  year  upon  the  rack.  But 
two  years  rent  is  behind,  though  the  Earl  and  Sir  Richard 
Boyle  have  entered  into  bonds  that  it  shall  yield  so  much  to 
the  King. 

That  where  Captain  Henshaw  paid  401.  a  year  for  certain 
lands  in  Monaghan  Sir  Edward  Blany  is  now  to  pass  in  fee- 
farm  for  45  s. 

That  the  Attorney  General  is  bound  in  5001.  to  Sir  Edward 
Blany  that  he  shall  quietly  enjoy  this  fee  farm. 

Sir  Richard  Boyle  is  to  pass  a  mill  at  18d.  a  year,  which 
was  ever  wont  to  yield  il.  10s. 

His  Majesty  abused  under  the  colour  of  the  Commission 
for  Defective  Titles. 

Many  have  altered  their  tenures  under  colour  of  amending 
their  titles,  and  have  freed  their  lands  from  wardships. 

Sir  Edward  Blany  had  but  a  lease  for  years  in  Monaghan, 
which  he  hath  altered  into  a  term  of  fee  simple. 

Sir  Edward  Fitzgarret  had  Balleboggen  in  fee  farm,  but 
hath  altered  it  into  fee  simple. 

It  is  thought  that  the  Earl  of  Ormond  hath  lately  defrauded 
His  Majesty  by  passing  of  certain  lands  to  one  Walter 
Lawlesse. 

The  Earl  of  Thomond  and  Sir  Richard  Boyle  are  at  this 
present  passing  so  many  parcels  of  land  as  the  particulars 
contained  in  a  roll  of  parchment  reach  16  yards  in  length. 

Those  lands  are  thought  to  be  for  the  most  part  Sir  Richard 
Boyle's. 

His  Majesty  abused  by  Officers  in  his  Courts. 

There  is  one  man  in  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  that  hath 
engrossed  the  whole  offices  that  appertain  to  five  or  six  several 
persons,  and  holdeth  them  all  in  his  own  hands. 

The  lilce  in  the  Court  of  the  Castle  Chamber,  &c. 

P23.  3.  Endd. :  "  Ireland,  Collections  out  of  a  book  pre- 
sented to  my  Lord  by  B.  R." 

S.P.,  Ireland,    946.     Estimate  of  the  cost  of  1 0  troops  of  horse  and  25  bands  of 
yol.  229, 153.  f^^j.,  by  Sir  John  Bingley. 

Pp.  3.     JSndd. 

Carte  Papers,    947.        An  ABSTRACT  His  MAJESTY'S  Several  TITLES,  whereby 

To.Gi,p.  87.  jj-g  jv[ajesty  and  sundry  other  persons,  Ecclesiastical 

and  Temporal,  are  entitled  to  the  Lands  in  the  County 

of  Armagh,  by  Sir  John  Davys. 

The   county   of   Armagh    is   divided    into  five    baronies ; 

namely,  1,  the  Fews  ;    2,  Orrier ;    3,  Armagh ;    4,  Toughrany  ; 

5,  Onealan, 


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1610. 


1.  His  Majesty's  title  to  the  temporal  lands. 

Shane  O'Neale,  being  slain  in  actual  rebellion,  was  by  Act 
of  Parliament,  1 1°  Elizabeth,  attainted  of  high  treason,  and 
because  the  lords  and  captains  of  divers  Irish  countries  in 
Ulster  did  adhere  to  the  said  traitor  O'Neale  in  his  rebelhon, 
for  their  offences  it  was  further  enacted,  that  the  Queen,  her 
heirs  and  successors,  should  have  and  enjoy  as  in  right  of  her 
Imperial  Crown  of  England  (among  other  counties),  the 
country  of  Tyrone,  the  country  of  Orrier,  called  O'Hanlon's 
country,  and  the  country  of  the  Fews,  called  Hugh  M'Neale's 
country,  and  all  the  lands  and  hereditaments  belonging  to  any 
of  the  said  lords  and  captains,  or  to  their  kinsmen  or  adherents 
in  any  of  the  said  countries  and  territories,  saving  to  the 
Archbishop  of  Armagh  and  his  successors,  the  Dean  and 
Chapter  of  Armagh  and  their  successors.  Sir  Nicholas  Bagnall 
and  his  heirs.  Sir  John  Bellew  and  his  heirs,  and  to  divers 
other  persons  and  bodies  politic  named  in  the  Act,  all  their 
rights.  Afterwards,  in  ]  3°  Elizabeth,  by  indentures  under  the 
Great  Seal  of  England,  dated  5  October,  13th  of  Elizabeth, 
between  the  Queen  of  the  one  part,  and  Captain  Thomas 
Chatterton  of  the  other  part,  in  consideration  that  Her  Majesty 
should  grant  unto  Chatterton  and  bis  heirs  the  county  of  Orier, 
the  country  of  the  Fews,  and  the  Galloglass  country,  which 
is  also  parcel  of  the  county  of  Armagh,  Chatterton  covenanted 
that  before  the  28th  of  March  1579  he  would  possess  and  plant 
with  civil  and  loyal  subjects  the  said  countries  of  Orier  and 
the  Fews,  and  the  Galloglasses  country,  and  would  divide  and 
distribute  the  lands  in  this  manner,  viz. :  To  every  horseman, 
two  ploughlands,  and  to  every  footman  one  ploughland  ;  and 
that  from  and  after  the  said  28th  of  March  1579,  he  should 
have  in  readiness  for  the  defence  of  those  countries,  for  every 
ploughland  one  footman,  and  for  every  two  ploughlands  one 
horseman  armed  after  the  English  manner,  provided  that  all 
such  ploughlands  as  should  not  be  so  possessed  and  divided 
before  the  said  28th  of  March  1579,  should  remain  to  the 
Queen  and  her  successors  for  ever. 

Afterwards  the  late  Queen,  by  her  letters  patent  dated  10th 
June,  15°  Elizabeth,  granted  to  the  said  Thomas  Chatterton 
and  his  heirs  for  ever,  the  country  of  Orier,  the  country  of  the 
Fews,  and  the  Galloglasses  country  lying  in  the  county  of 
Armagh,  on  condition  that  if  Chatterton  and  his  heirs  did 
not  perform  the  covenants  contained  in  the  said  letters  dated 
5th  .October,  13°  Ehzabeth,  that  then  the  said  letters  patent 
should  be  void. 

Chatterton  never  performed  the  covenants  before  expressed, 
being  slain  by  the  Irish  people  of  Orier  shortly  after  the  date 
of  the  letters  patent,  and  after  his  death  his  heirs  never 
attempted  to  perform  the  same ;  howbeit  there  was  no  office 
found  of  the  breach  of  the  covenants  and  conditions  aforesaid 
until  the  1st  day  of  July,  the  seventh  year  of  His  Majesty's 


554  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

reign,  by  virtue  of  a  commission  under  the  Great  Seal  dated 
29th  of  June  before,  which  was  omitted  by  the  officers  of  the 
Crown  here  till  that  time,  because  they  were  ignorant  of  the 
contents  of  the  said  letters  patent,  the  same  being  passed 
under  the  Great  Seal  of  England,  being  never  enrolled  in  any 
court  of  record  here. 

Afterwards,  on  20th  of  May,  29°  Elizabeth,  the  Queen,  by 
letters  patent,  created  Hugh  O'Neale  Earl  of  Tyrone,  and 
granted  him  aU  the  lands  and  hereditaments  which  King 
Henry  VIII.  by  his  letters  patent  dated  1st  October,  34th  year 
of  his  reign,  had  formerly  granted  to  Con  Backogh  O'Neale, 
the  Earl  of  Tyrone's  grandfather,  which  letters  patent  are  aU 
forfeited  and  come  to  the  Crown,  only  that  the  last  estate  tail 
in  remainder  limited  to  Sir  Cormac  O'Neale,  his  brother,  who 
is  now  in  the  Tower,  but  not  attainted  yet,  doth  remain 
unreduced. 

So  that  His  Majesty  is  entitled  to  all  the  temporal  lands  in 
the  county  of  Armagh,  which  are  in  His  Majesty's  hands  to  be 
disposed  of  to  undertakers  or  otherwise,  at  His  Highness's 
pleasure,  except  some  parcels  which  His  Majesty  since  the  said 
titles  did  accrue  to  the  Crown,  hath  granted  to  divers  natives 
and  English  servitors,  part  for  years  and  part  in  fee  farm. 

The  lands  are  these  : — 

1.  The  coimtry  of  the  Fews,  being  part  of  the  barony  of 

the  Fews  granted  to  Sir  Tirlagh  M'Henry  O'Neale 
and  his  heirs  by  letters  patent  dated  16  September, 
1°  Jacobij  which  grant  is  void  in  law,  because  the 
former  grant  of  Orier  and  the  Fews  made  to  Chat- 
terton  stood  then  in  force  as  aforesaid. 

Also  in  this  country  Sir  Christopher  Bellew  is 
seised  of  five  towns  as  parcel  of  his  manor  of  The 
Eoch  which  he  lately  evicted  out  of  the  possession 
of  Su-  Tirlagh  M'Henry. 

2.  Three  ballibetaghs  and  one  ballibo  in  the  barony  of 

Toughrany,  granted  12  June,  3°  Jacobi,  to  Sir  Henry 
Oge  O'Neale  and  his  heirs.  At  the  time  of  which 
grant  the  Earl  had  forfeited  his  estate  for  life,  and 
the  remainders  in  tail  male  limited  by  the  patent 
20°  Elizabeth ;  but  the  remainders  limited  to  Hugh, 
Henry,  and  Cormock  O'Neale  were  not  forfeited. 

3.  The  greater  part  of  300  acres  next  adjoining  to  the 

fort  of  Charlemont,  lying  in  this  country  south  side 
of  the  Blackwater,  are  granted  to  Sir  Tobias  Calfield, 
captain  of  that  fort,  for  21  years,  if  he  should  so 
long  live,  by  letters  patent  dated  6  June,  5°  Jacobi, 
which  remains  in  force. 

4.  Five  ballibos  next  adjoining  to  the  castle  of  the  Moiry 

in  Orier,  granted  to  Captain  Antony  Smith,  dated 
10  June,  4  Jacobi,  for  21  years,  if  he  should  so  long 
live.  This  grant  is  void  in  law,  because  Chatter- 
ton's  grant  was  not  then  avoided. 


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1610. 


5.  Three  ballibos  adjoining  the  fort  of  Mountnorris,  the 

greatest  part  of  which  lieth  in  Orier,  granted  to 
Captain  Henry  Atherton,  who  is  captain  of  that 
fort,  for  21  years,  if  he  shall  so  long  live,  by  letters 
patent  dated  [  ^]  Jacobi ;  but  that  grant  is 

void,  for  so  much  as  lieth  in  Orier,  by  reason  of 
Chatterton's  patent  as  aforesaid. 

6.  Twelve  ballibos  lying  in  Orier,  whereof  the  said  three 

ballibos  adjoining  to  Mountnorris,  and  granted  to 
Henry  Atherton,  are  part,  granted  in  fee-farm  to 
Patrick  O'Hanlon,  a  native  and  a  servitor,  by  letters 
patent  dated  26  October,  7°  Jacobi.  This  grant  of 
estate  is  good  in  law,  because  Chatterton's  grant 
was  then  avoided  by  office. 

7.  Seven  ballibos  in  Orier  granted  in  fee-farm  to  Eed- 

mond  O'Hanlon,  another  native  and  servitor,  by 
letters  patent  date(3  in  December,  7°  Jacobi,  which 
grant  doth  stand  in  force  for  anything  we  yet 
know. 
Thus  much  touching  His  Majesty's  several  titles  to  the 
temporal  lands  in  the  county  of  Armagh. 

The  ecclesiastical  lands  in  that  county  are  of  four  kinds  : — 

1.  The  lands  of  the  Lord  Primate  of  Armagh  in  right  of 

his  archbishoprick. 

2.  The  lands  of  the  dean  and  chapter  and  vicars  choral  of 

Armagh. 

3.  The  glebe  lands  of  parsons  and  vicars. 

4.  The  abbey  lands. 

King  Henry  VIII.  did  grant  unto  Con  Backagh  all  lands, 
tenements,  and  hereditaments  which  he  the  said  Con  Backagh 
late  had  and  held  in  Tyrone,  with  a  limitation  of  estate  to 
him  the  said  Hugh  O'Neale  (sic),  Earl  of  Tyrone,  during  his 
life,  the  remainder  to  Hugh,  his  eldest  son,  and  the  heirs  males 
of  his  body  ;  the  remainder  to  Henry  O'Neal,  his  second  son, 
and  the  heirs  males  of  his  body ;  the  remainder  to  the  heirs 
males  of  the  body  of  the  said  Hugh  Earl  of  Tyrone  and  of 
Jeane  his  wife;  remainder  to  the  heirs  males  of  the  body 
of  the  said  Hugh  Earl  of  Tyrone ;  the  remainder  to  Cormock 
M'Baron  O'Neale,  brother  to  the  said  Earl,  and  the  heirs  males 
of  his  body,  and  the  reversion  in  the  Crown. 

16  December,  13"  Elizabeth,  by  the  procurement  of  Hugh 
Earl  of  Tyrone,  the  inquisition  before  mentioned  was  taken  of 
the  bounds  and  limits  of  Tyrone,  whereby  it  was  found  that 
all  the  lands  which  now  lie  within  the  county  of  Armagh, 
Tyrone,  and  Coleraine  (except  Orier)  were  then,  and  of  ancient 
time  had  been,  within  the  meres  and  bounds  of  the  county  of 
Tyrone,  and  that  Con  Backagh,  at  the  time  of  this  survey, 
had  cessing  or  bonoght,  cutting  and  spending,  in  and  upon  aU 

'  Blank  in  the  original. 


556  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

1610. 

the  lands.  By  letters  patent  dated  1  December,  SOtli  Elizabeth, 
the  country  of  Orier,  called  O'Hanlon's  Country,  was  granted 
by  the  late  Queen  to  Sir  Oghy  O'Hanlon  for  life,  the  remainder 
to  Oghy  Oge  O'Hanlon,  his  son  and  heir  apparent,  and  the 
heirs  males  of  his  body,  with  divers  remainders  over,  with  a 
proviso  that  if  Sir  Oghy  O'Hanlon  or  any  of  the  persons  in  re- 
mainder did  at  any  time  enter  into  actual  rebellion,  the  letters 
patent  should  be  void ;  by  colour  of  which  grant  (although  it 
were  void  from  the  beginning  by  reason  of  Chatterton's 
patent,  stood  still  in  force,  being  not  avoided  by  office).  Sir 
Oghy  O'Hanlon  hath  taken  the  profits  of  the  said  country  of 
Orier  ever  since  until  August  last,  when  by  deed  enrolled  he 
surrendered  all  his  estate,  title,  and  pretence  of  title,  and  left 
the  possession  to  His  Majesty  1;  so  as  by  the  grant  made  to 
Chatterton,  15°  Elizabeth,  all  the  temporal  lands  [in  the] 
barony  of  Orier  and  the  country  of  the  Fews  and  the  Gallo- 
glasses  country,  Avere  entirely  passed  to  him  in  possession ;  and 
by  the  grant  made  to  the  Earl  of  Tyrone,  29°  Elizabeth,  all 
the  temporal  lands  in  the  three  baronies,  viz.,  of  Armagh, 
Toughranny,  and  O'Nelan,  and  part  of  the  barony  of  the 
Fews  [  2  -j^  ^higji  Con  Backagh  had,  U°  Hen.  VIII.  in 
demesne,  for  the  services  were  extinguished  by  11°  Elizabeth 
which  vested  all  in  the  Crown,  were  granted  to  Hugh  Earl  of 
Tyrone  as  aforesaid,  and  the  rest  of  the  land  within  the  three 
last-recited  baronies  and  part  of  the  barony  of  the  Fews 
which  were  not  ex[cepted]  ^  to  the  Earl,  did  and  do  remain 
in  the  possession  of  the  Crown  stiU  by  virtue  of  the  statute 
11°  Elizabeth. 

By  this  it  appears  how  all  the  temporal  lands  in  this  country 
came  to  the  Crown  by  the  Act  11°  Elizabeth  ;  and  it  likewise 
appeareth  how  all  the  lands,  except  the  lands  of  the  freeholders 
within  the  three  last  baronies,  were  passed  away  from  the 
Crown  by  two  several  grants,  the  one  made  to  Chatterton, 
the  other  to  the  Earl  of  Tyrone  (for  nothing  passed  by  O'Han- 
lon's patent,  Chatterton's  patent  being  in  force  at  the  time  of 
the  making  thereof). 

It  shall  now  be  declared  how  all  these  lands  which  were  thus 
passed  away  from  the  Crown  are  come  back  to  the  Crown 
again.  Now  follow  the  means  by  which  all  these  countries 
and  lands,  the  countries  of  Orier  and  the  Fews,  are  reduced 
again  to  the  Crown. 

Chatterton's  patent  being  passed  under  the  Great  Seal  of 
England,  15°  Elizabeth,  and  no  exemplification  thereof  trans- 
mitted hither,  himself  being  slain,  and  his  heir  making  no 
claim  to  the  lands,  his  title  was  concealed  and  unknown  till  of 
late,  and  Sir  Oghy  O'Hanlon's  grant  reputed  good  until  he 
brake  the  conditions  contained  in  his  letters  patent  by  enter- 
ing into  actual  rebellion,  whereupon  being  received  to  grace 


This  -word  is  doubtful.  '  Undecipherable. 


IRELAND — JAMES  I.  557 


1610. 


having  obtained  His  Majesty's  gracit)us  promise  to  have  new 
letters  patent  granted  unto  him,  himself  procured  an  office  to 
be  found  of  the  breach  of  the  condition  contained  inhis  letters 
patent,  to  the  end  he  might  take  a  new  grant  from  His  Majesty, 
and  did  also  surrender  all  his  estate  by  deed  enrolled  in  the 
Chancery;  notwithstanding  he  neglected  to  pass  his  new 
patent  until  Oghy  Oge  O'Hanlon,  his  son  and  heir,  to  whom 
the  first  estate  in  remainder  was  limited  by  his  former  letters 
patent,  entered  into  actual  rebellion  with  O'Doherty,  for  which 
he  has  been  indicted,  outlawed,  and  attainted.  So  as  His 
Majesty  is  directly  entitled  to  the  territory  of  Orier  against 
young  O'Hanlon,  both  in  law  and  in  honour,  but  because  old 
Sir  Oghy  had  His  Majesty's  gracious  promise  that  he  should 
have  the  like  estate  as  he  had  before,  which  was  during  his 
life  only,  albeit  he  stands  indicted  of  treason  for  relieving  his 
son,  being  .in  rebellion,  yet  the  Lord  Deputy,  to  make  the 
possession  clear  for  the  plantation  every  way,  both  in  honour, 
law,  and  equity,  compounded  and  agreed  with  him  ou  His 
Majesty's  behalf  that  he  should  grant  and  release  unto  His 
Majesty  all  his  estate,  claim,  or  pretence  of  title  to  that  country, 
which  he  hath  done,  by  his  deed  acknowledged  in  open  sessions 
before  the  Lord  Chief  Justice  in  August  last.  In  considera- 
tion whereof  the  Lord  Deputy  hath  covenanted  that  he  shall 
receive  an  annuity  or  pension  of  801.  per  annum  during  his 
life  out  of  His  Majesty's  exchequer  here,  and  has  also  paid 
about  200Z.  in  discharge  of  his  debts. 

Albeit  O'Hanlon's  pretence  of  title  to  the  barony  of  Orier 
be  thus  cleared,  Chatterton's  letters  patent  stood  still  in  force 
because  no  office  was  found  of  the  breach  of  the  conditions 
therein  contained,  but  Chatterton's  heir  had  still  an  estate  in 
law,  both  in  Orier  and  the  Fewes  and  the  Galloglasses'  country, 
until  an  inquisition  was  taken,  the  6th  of  July  last,  finding  a 
breach  of  the  conditions  contained  in  Chatterton's  patent, 
whereby  that  estate,  both  in  Orier,  the  Fewes,  and  the  Gallo- 
glasses' country,  is  clearly  avoided. 

In  this  manner  the  two  countries  of  Orier  and  the  Fewes 
are  reduced  to  the  Crown,  albeit  Sir  Tirlogh  M'Henry^O'Neale 
in  the  first  year  of  His  Majesty's  reign  obtained  letters  patent 
of  the  country  of  the  Fewes  to  him  and  his  heirs,  but  because 
Chatterton's  estate  was  not  then  avoided  that  grant  to  Sir 
Tirlogh  M'Henry  is  also  void  in  law. 

The  temporal  lands  of  the  other  three  baronies,  viz.,  of 
Armagh,  Toughranny,  and  O'Neilan,  and  part  of  the  barony  of 
the  Fewes  comprised  in  the  grant  of  Hugh,  late  Earl  of  Tyrone, 
as  being  parcel  of  the  possessions  of  Con  Backagh  O'Neale, 
have  been  reduced  in  this  manner  : — 

Tyrone,  during  his  late  great  rebellion  in  Queen  Elizabeth's 
time,  was  attainted  of  treason  by  outlawry,  whereby  he  for- 
feited his  estate  for  life  in  all  the  lands  which  Con  Backagh, 
his  grandfather,  had  in  Tyrone,  within  the  limits  whereof  the 
same  three  baronies  are  found  to  be  comprised. 


558  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

And  he  likewise  forfeited  his  estates  in  remainder  in  tail 
limited  to  him  after  the  death  of  the  said  two  sons,  Hugh  and 
Henry,  without  issue  ;  but  his  two  sons  and  his  brother 
Cormac  M'Baron,  who  had  estates  in  tail  in  remainder  after 
the  Earl's  estate  for  life,  were  not  then  attainted ;  but  they 
being  afterwards  pardoned  by  His  Majesty,  their  several 
estates  remained  in  them  still  when  His  Majesty  came  to  the 
Crown,  and  the  late  Earl  of  Tjrrone  himself,  being  also  pardoned 
in  the  third  year  of  His  Majesty's  reign,  obtained  new  letters 
patent  in  the  same  form  and  with  the  same  limitations  of 
estates  as  were  contained  in  his  former  letters  patent,  only 
some  parcels  of  land  were  excepted  out  of  the  last  patent, 
namely,  Henry  Oge's  country,  containing  five  balHbetaghs, 
three  of  them  lying  in  the  county  of  Armagh,  and  two  in 
Tyrone,  the  forts  of  Mountnorris  and  Charlemont,  and  300 
acres  of  land  next  adjoining  to  each  of  the  said  forts. 

But  now  upon  his  last  treason,  not  only  his  two  sons  Hugh 
and  Henry  were  by  outlawry  attainted  of  high  treason  in 
June  ]  608,  for  treason  committed  the  3rd  of  September  1607,-^ 
(by  which  last  attainder  the  Earl's  estate  for  life  and  the  estate 
in  remainder  limited  to  the  heirs  male  of  his  body,  and  the 
estates  in  remainder  limited  to  Hugh  and  Henry,  his  sons, 
are  .     j ^. 

Touching  the  lands  claimed  by  the  Lord  Primate,  the  case 
standeth  thus : 

The  statute  of  11°  Elizabeth,  before  recited,  which  vesteth 
all  the  lands  of  this  country  in  the  actual  and  real  possession  of 
the  Crown,  doth  save  the  right  of  the  Archbishop  of  Armagh 
and  his  successors. 

And  now,  by  virtue  of  a  commission  taken  at  Armagh,  12th 
of  August  1609,  to  inquire  of  the  ecclesiastical  lands  in  that 
and  other  counties,  and  to  distinguish  the  same  from  the  lands 
of  the  Crown,  it  is  found  that  the  Archbishop  of  Armagh  is 
seised,  in  right  of  his  Archbishop  rick,  of  26  towns,  or  there- 
abouts, as  of  his  mensal  and  demesne  lands,  and  that  he  ought 
to  have  certain  perpetual  rents  and  other  duties  out  of  160 
towns  more  (which  are  not  found  to  be  termon  or  herenachs 
lands)  lying  in  several  territories  of  this  county ;  but  the 
tenants  thereof,  being  now  Irish,  aTe  found  to  have  been  in- 
heritors thereof  time  out  of  mind,  according  to  the  Irish  custom 
of  tanistry  and  gavelkind  ;  and  that  the  Lord  Primate  could 
not  remove  the  said  tenants  at  his  pleasure.  Upon  which 
inquisition  we  are  of  opinion  that  the  said  lands,  out  of  which 
the  Lord  Primate  had  proxies,  rents,  and  other  duties  as 
aforesaid,  .  .  .  .  ^ 
Lands  of  the  Dean  Touching  the  lands  claimed  by  the  Dean  and  Chapter  of 
ChOTai'ofw'h^'*'"'  Armagh,  whose  right  is  also  saved  by  the  statute  of  11»  [Ehza- 
beth],  there  are  but  three  towns  and  odd  sessiaghs  found  to 


'  Obliterated  nearly.  '  The  rest  is  wanting.  '  Wanting. 


IRELAND — JAMES  I.  559 


1610. 

belong  to  the  Dean,  but  there  are  nine  towns  and  odd  sessiaghs 
found  to  belong  to  the  vicars  choral  of  that  church,  to  which 
we  think  he  '  no  title. 

The  Glebe  land.  Touching  the  glebe  lands  of  parsons  and  vicars,  there  are 

but  two  towns  and  a  half  found  to  belong  to  all  the  parsons, 
&c„  in  this  county,  for  most  of  the  parish  churches  are  without 
glebe. 
The  Abbey  lands.  Touching  the  Abbey  lands,  there  are  20  and  odd  baUi- 

betaghs  found  to  be  part  of  the  possessions  of  the  Abbey  of 
St.  Peter  of  Armagh,  which  are  passed  in  fee  to  Sir  Tobias 
Calfield,  and  the  number  of  ,^  with  the  possessions  thereof, 
containing  six  balliboes  as  passed  in  fee  to  Marmaduke  Whit- 
church, a  servitor,  and  seven  other  towns  lying  in  O'Neiland, 
parcel  of  the  possession  of  the  Abbey  of  the  Newry,  were 
granted  to  Sir  Nicholas  Bagnal  and  his  heirs,  4°  Edward  VI. 
ri  h^of  ''atrona°r  ^"^  Lastly  it  is  found  that  the  Lord  Primate  hath  of  later  years 
rig  0  pa  ronage.  collated  to  all  the  parsonages  and  vicarages  in  this  county,  but 
that  in  ancient  times  they  were  disposed  by  the  Pope's  bull. 

So  as  we  conceive  the  right  of  patronage  of  all  the  benefices 
in  this  county  doth  vest  in  His  Majesty. 

His  Majesty's  title  to  the  Herenagh  lands  in  this  county  is 
expressed  in  the  case  of  the  Herenagh  lands  of  the  coimties 
of  Tyrone  and  Coleraine,  therein  mentioned,  next  after  His 
Majesty's  title  is  expressed  to  the  temporal  lands  in  the  county 
of  Coleraine. 

An  abstract  of  His  Majesty's  title  to  the  [temporal]^  lands 
in  the  county  of  Tyrone. 

King  Henry  VIII.,  by  letters  patent,  dated  1st  October, 
anno  34°  of  his  reign,  did  grant  and  confer  to  Con  Backagh 
O'Neale  (the  first  Earl  of  Tyrone  and  grand  father  to  the 
late  fugitive  Earl),  omnia  castra,  dominia,  maneria,  terras, 
tenementa,  redditus,  reversiones,  et  servicia  quoi  prcefatus 
Conacius  jamduduon  habuit  et  tenuit  in  Tyrone. 

11°  Elizabeth,  Shane  O'Neale  was  attainted  by  Act  of 
Parliament,  and  the  entire  country  of  Tyrone,  whereof  the 
county  of  Tyrone  is  but  parcel,  was  (among  other  things)  by 
that  Act  given  to  the  Queen,  her  heirs  and  successors,  saving 
the  right  of  the  Archbishop  of  Armagh  and  the  Bishops  of 
Clogher,  and  the  Deans  and  Chapters  of  Armagh  and  Clogher, 
and  of  divers  other  persons  and  bodies  politic ;  but  the  right 
of  the  Bishop  of  Derry,  whose  diocese  doth  extend  into  part 
of  this  country,  was  not  saved  by  this  Act. 

Queen  Elizabeth,  by  letters  patent  dated  1st  May,  anno  29° 
of  her  reign,  created  Hugh  O'Neale  Earl  of  Tyrone,  and 
granted  unto  him  aU  those  castles,  manors,  lands,  tenements, 
and  hereditaments   in  the   country   or   territory  of  Tjfrone 


'  Not  legible.  2  Scored  out. 


560  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

which  Henry  VIII.,  by  his  letters  patent,  dated  1°  October, 
anno  34"  of  his  reign,  had  granted  to  Con  Backagh  O'Neals, 
his  grandfather ;  to  have  and  to  hold  to  the  said  Hugh,  Earl 
of  Tyrone,  during  his  natural  Kfe,  the  remainder  to  Hugh 
O'Neale,  his  eldest  son,  and  the  heirs  males  of  his  body,  the 
remainder  to  Henry  O'Neale,  his  second  son,  and  the  heirs 
males  of  his  body,  the  remainder  to  the  heirs  male  of  the 
body  of  Hugh  the  Earl  and  of  Joane  his  wife,  the  remainder 
to  the  heirs  males  of  the  body  of  the  said  Earl,  the  remainder 
to  Cormac  O'Neale,  the  Earl's  brotlier,  and  the  heirs  males  of 
his  body. 

6°  December,  30°  Elizabeth,  an  inquisition  was  taken  at 
Dundalk,  before  the  two  Chief  Justices,  the  Master  of  the 
RoUs,  and  others,  whereby  it  was  found  that  all  that  scope 
and  extent  of  land  whereof  the  county  of  Tyrone  doth  now 
consist,  did  lie  within  the  meres  and  bounds  of  the  country 
of  Tyrone,  and  that  eleven  ballibetaghs  in  Slew-shishe  were 
the  [inheritance^]  of  Neale,  Connelagh,  father  of  Tirlagh  Len- 
nagh  ;  and  that  the  territory  of  Glanconkeyn  and  Killetragh 
were  not  the  lands  of  O'Neale,  but  that  he  had  only  services 
out  of  the  said  lands,  the  certainty  whereof  the  jurors  knew 
not ;  so  as  the  eleven  ballibetaghs  in  Shew-Shishe,  and  lands 
of  Glanconkeine  and  KiUetragh  did  not  pass  to  the  Earl  by 
his  letters  patent,  for  Con  Backagh  had  only  services  out  of 
them,  which  services  were  extinct  when  the  lands  were  given 
to  the  Crown  by  the  Act  of  Parliament. 

Therefore,  His  Majesty  is  entitled  to  the  said  eleven  balli- 
betaghs which  were  the  inheritance  of  Tirlagh  Lennagh  and 
the  lands  of  Glanconkeine  and  Killetra,  by  the  statute  of  11 
Elizabeth,  and  not  by  the  attainder  of  the  late  Earl  of  Tyrone. 
Howbeit,  the  said  Hugh,  the  late  Earl  of  Tyrone,  by  inden- 
tures dated  13th  May,  29°  Elizabeth,  did  covenant  with  the 
late  Queen  to  pass  unto  Sir  Art  O'Neale  all  the  said  lands, 
which  covenant  was  never  performed.  But  all  the  rest  of  the 
lands  which  are  found  to  have  been  held  by  Con  Backagh,  and 
which  passed  by  the  grant  made  to  Hugh,  late  Earl  of  Tyrone, 
are  come  to  the  Crown  again  by  the  attainder  of  the  said  Earl, 
and  of  Hugh  his  eldest  son,  and  of  Henry  his  second  son, 
who  had  several  remainders  in  tail  limited  unto  thein  by  the 
said  grant,  and  limited  to  Sir  Cormac  O'Neale,  now  prisoner 
in  the  Tower,  and  not  attainted,  is  not  yet  forfeited  nor 
reduced. 

So  as  all  the  temporal  lands  in  the  county  of  Tyrone  are 
reduced  to  the  Crown,  partly  by  the  statute  of  11  Elizabeth, 
and  partly  by  the  attainder  of  the  late  Earl  of  Tyrone  and 
his  sons,  neither  hath  Queen  Elizabeth  nor  His  Majesty  that 
now  is,  granted  any  extraordinary  scope  thereof  to  any  ser- 
vitor or  native ;  but  only  two  ballibetgahs  called  Mointer- 

>  Doubtful. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  561 


1610. 


birme  in  the  barony  of  Dungannon  to  Sir  Henry  O'Neale  and 
his  heirs,  which  grant  was  3°  Jacobi,  when  the  late  Earl  had 
only  forfeited  his  estate  by  his  first  attainder. 

There  are  also  100  acres  and  odd  laid  to  the  fort  of  Charle- 
mont,  which  lie  on  the  north  side  of  the  Blackwater,  and  are 
granted  to  Sir  Tobias  Calfield,  Captain  of  that  fort,  for  20 
years,  if  he  so  long  shall  live. 

There  are  also  300  acres  laid  to  the  fort  of  Mountjoy  in 
this  county. 

In  this  state  are  all  the  temporal  lands  in  this  county. 

The  ecclesiastical  lands  are  of  four  kinds  : — 

1.  Mensal  or  demense  lands  of  the  bishops. 

2.  Termon  or  Herenagh  lands. 

3.  Glebe  lands  of  parsons  and  vicars. 

4.  Abbey  lands. 

1.  Touching  the  bishops'  lands  : — Three  several  dioceses  do 
extend  into  this  county,  viz.,  the  diocese  of  Armagh,  the  dio- 
cese of  Clogher,  and  the  diocese  of  Deny.  By  an  inquisition 
taken  at  Dungannon,  the  [  ^]  of  August  last,  by  virtue  of 
a  commision  directed  to  the  Lord  Deputy,  the  Archbishop  of 
Dublin,  the  Lord  Chancellor,  the  Lord  Primate  of  Armagh, 
and  others,  to  inquire  (among  other  things)  of  all  the  ecclesi- 
astical lands  in  this  county,  and  to  distinguish  the  same  from 
the  lands  of  the  Crown,  it  is  found  that  the  Bishop  of  Clogher 
is  seised  in  his  demesne  as  of  fee  of  certain  mensal  lands  near 
Clogher,  containing  [  ]  balliboes,  or  thereabouts  ;  but  they 
find  no  mensal  or  demesne  lands  either  for  the  Primate  of 
Armagh  or  for  the  Bishop  of  Derry  within  this  county.  But 
they  find  that  the  Primate  of  Armagh  and  the  Bishops  of 
Clogher  and  Derry,  in  right  of  their  several  bishopricks, 
ought  to  have  certain  yearly  rents,  pensions,  or  other  duties 
issuing  out  of  certain  lands  called  Herenagh  lands,  the  tenants 
whereof  called  Herenaghs  and  their  septs  have  inherited  the 
same  lands  time  out  of  mind,  according  to  the  Irish  custom, 
and  are  not  removeable  by  the  said  bishops. 

So  as  [if]  the  said  Herenaghs  and  their  septs  shall  be  ad- 
judged owners  of  the  said  lands  and  to  have  such  an  estate  as 
might  be  given  to  the  late  Queen  by  Parliament,  that  the  Act 
of  11°  Elizabeth  doth  vest  all  the  said  lands  in  the  Crown, 
and  the  bishops  are,  of  right  only,  to  have  their  rents,  pensions, 
and  other  duties.  But  if  they  shall  be  adjudged  but  tenants  at 
will  and  to  have  no  estate  in  the  said  lands,  then  the  bishops 
are  to  have  the  possession  of  the  land  itself. 

Only  the  Bishop  of  Derry  (because  the  right  of  the  said 
bishoprick  was  not  saved  by  the  Act  of  11°  Elizabeth)  cannot 
in  law  demand  either  land  or  rent,  but  is  left  to  His  Majesty's 
grace  and  favour  in  that  behalf. 


Blank  in  the  original. 


3.  ~  N  N 


562  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

1610. 

Touching  the  quantity  of  ecclesiastical  lands  in  this 
county : — 
Heienagh  lands.  The  Herenagh  lands,  out  of  which  the  Lord  Primate  of 
Armagh,  the  Bishop  of  Clogher,  and  the  Bishop  of  Derry  are 
to  have  rents,  pensions,  or  other  duties,  do  contain  312  towns 
or  balliboes,  two  sessiaghs,  and  16  acres. 
Glebe  lands.  The  glebe  lands  found  to  belong  to  the  several  parsons  and 

vicars   in  this   county,   contain   in   all   three  baUiboes,  two 
sessiaghs,  and  seven  acres. 
Abbey  lands.  The  abbey  lands  in  this  county,  whereof  some  parcels  are 

granted  in  fee-farm,  and  other  parcels  are  not  yet  in  charge, 
do  in  all  contain  [        ^]  balliboes. 

An  abstract  of  His  Majesty's  title  to  the  temporal  lands  in 
the  county  of  Coleraine. 

The  country  or  territory  called  O'Cahan's  country  was 
reduced  into  a  county  and  called  the  county  of  Coleraine, 
so  as  the  county  had  the  same  limits  as  that  Irish  country 
or  precinct  of  land  had,  and  no  other,  until  of  late  part  of 
O'Cahan's  country  was  included  within  the  peculiar  county  of 
the  city  of  Derry. 

The  Act  of  Attainder  of  Shane  O'Neale,  1 1  Ehzabeth,  doth 
recite  that  among  other  lords  and  captains  of  Ulster  O'Cahan 
did  adhere  to  the  said  traitor  O'Neale  in  his  rebellion  ;  where- 
fore it  was  enacted  that  the  Queen,  her  heirs  and  succes- 
sors, should  have,  hold,  and  enjoy,  as  in  right  of  her  Imperial 
crown  of  England,  among  other  Irish  countries,  the  country  of 
Kryne  called  O'Cahan's  Country,  and  aU  the  towns,  manors, 
castles,  lands,  tenements,  and  hereditaments  belonging  to  any 
of  the  said  Irish  lords  or  their  adherents,  in  the  said  several 
countries ;  and  that  all  the  premises  should  be  vested  in  the 
actual  and  real  possession  of  Her  Majesty,  her  heirs  and  suc- 
cessors ;  in  which  Act  there  is  a  saving  of  the  right  of  the 
Bishop  of  Derry  to  any  lands,  tenements,  and  hereditaments 
in  that  country. 

Queen  Elizabeth,  by  letters  patent  dated  1st  May,  29th  year 
of  her  reign,  did  grant  to  Hugh  Earl  of  Tyrone  aU  such  lands, 
tenements,  and  hereditaments  as  ConBackagh,his  grandfather, 
had  and  held  in  Tyrone  in  the  34th  year  of  King  Henry  VIII,, 
and  thereupon  an  inquisition  was  taken  at  Dundalk,  16th 
December,  30  Elizabeth,  of  the  meres  and  bounds  of  Tyrone, 
and  of  all  such  lands  as  Con  Backagh  had  and  held  in  Tyrone 
in  anno  34  Henry  ;VIII.  By  this  inquisition  it  was  found 
that  O'Cahan's  country  did  lie  within  the  meres  and  bounds 
of  Tyrone ;  but  it  is  also  found  that  the  lands  of  that  country 
were  not  the  lands  of  the  O'Neales,  but  that  the  O'Neales 
had  some  services  due  unto  them  out  of  that  country,  the 
certainty  whereof  the  jurors  knew  not. 

'  Blank  in  the  original. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  563 


1610. 

So  as  it  is  apparent  that  no  lands  in  that  country  or  county 
did  pass  unto  the  late  Earl  of  Tyrone  by  the  said  letters 
patent  dated  1st  October,  29  Elizabeth,  because  Con  Backagh 
had  not  those  lands,  but  only  services  out  of  them,  which 
were  all  extinguished  by  the  Act  of  11  Elizabeth,  which  gave 
the  whole  country  to  the  Crown. 

Notwithstanding  the  late  Earl  of  Tyrone,  by  colour  of  his 
letters  patent,  did,  until  the  end  of  this  late  great  rebellion, 
take  upon  himself  to  be  owner  of  all  that  country,  and  did 
take  Irish  cuttings  and  exactions  thereupon,  as  upon  the  rest 
of  the  lands  in  Tyrone,  and  since  his  last  restitution,  did 
impose  a  rent  of  2001.  per  annum  upon  O'Cahan,  who  ever 
since  the  statute  took  the  profits  of  the  country,  as  his  ancestors 
had  done  before  him,  without  yielding  any  account  for  the 
same ;  albeit  the  said  O'Cahan  never  had  any  grant  thereof 
from  the  Crown  until  the  last  year  of  Queen  Elizabeth's  reign, 
when,  upon  his  submission,  he  obtained  only  a  custodiam 
thereof  But  about  three  years  since,  being  impatient  of  so 
great  a  rent  imposed  upon  him  by  the  Earl,  he  exhibited  a 
complaint  to  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Council  here  against  the 
Earl  for  imposing  the  said  rent,  and  desired  to  take  an  estate 
by  letters  patent  from  His  Majesty ;  iipon  which  complaint 
His  Majesty's  learned  counsel,  examining  the  records,  found 
His  Majesty  to  be  in  the  real  and  actual  possession  of  the  said 
country,  and  having  drawn  a  true  case  of  His  Majesty's  title, 
the  same  was  certified  into  England,  whereupon  His  Majesty 
signified  his  gracious  pleasure,  that  the  late  Earl,  O'Cahan,  and 
His  Majesty's  Attorney-General  of  this  kingdom,  should  repair 
into  England,  where  His  Majesty  would  be  pleased  to  hear 
and  determine  the  said  controversy ;  but  the  Earl  being  guilty 
of  many  treasons,  when  he  should  have  repaired  into  England 
fled  out  of  this  kingdom  into  parts  beyond  the  seas,  where  he 
has  ever  since  remained  a  fugitive,  being  also  since  his  depar- 
ture attainted  by  outlawry  of  high  treason. 

So  as  all  the  temporal  lands  of  this  country  are  come  to  the 

Crown,  and    are  in    the  actual  and  real   possession   of  His 

Majesty,  by  virtue  of  the  Act  of  11  Elizabeth,  and  not  by  the 

attainder  of  the  Earl  of   Tyrone.     Only  O'Cahan,  u^son  his 

submission    to   Sir   Henry   Docwra,    had   a  promise   (as  he 

With  exception  of  An-  ^l^^geth)  in  the  name  of  her  late  Majesty,  that  he  should  have 

nogh  and  other  lands  a  grant  made  vinto  him  of  the  said  country  by  letters  patent, 

near  the  Derry,  and  in  the  benefit  and  advantage  of  which  promises  he  hath  since 

ttulafplo°nst:t  t'o'k  ^o^thily  forfeited  (as  we  conceive)  by  his  disloyalty,  for  which 

the  custodiam.i  he  now  stands  indicted  of  high  treason. 

There  is  no  part  of  the  temporal  lands  lying  within  this 
county  granted  to  any  person,  but  all  remaineth  in  His 
Majesty's  hands  to  be  disposed  of  to  undertakers  except  the 
moiety  of  the  royal  fishing  of  the  Ban,  first  granted  by  His 

1  Marginal  note  in  Sir  Arthur  Chichester's  hand. 

NN  2 


564  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 

1610. 

Majesty  to  John  Wakeman  and  his  heirs  in  fee  simple,  who 
bargained  and  sold  his  estate  to  James  Hamilton,  who,  at  the 
request  and  in  the  presence  of  the  Lord  Deputy  that  now  is, 
made  an  absolute  contract  with  the  Earl  of  Tyrone  to  convey 
to  the  said  Earl  and  his  heirs  the  said  fishing  for  2001.,  which 
200J.  was  afterwards  paid  by  the  Earl ;  but  it  doth  not 
appear  that  any  conveyance  was  made  of  the  fishing  by  James 
Hamilton  to  the  Earl  before  his  departure,  but  the  Earl  took 
the  profits  thereof  after  the  contract ;  and  it  is  found  by  office, 
in  August  1608,  that  the  Earl  at  his  departure  was  seized  of 
the  moiety  of  the  fishing  of  an  estate  in  fee,  and  that  the  said 
estate  was  come  to  the  Crown  again  by  the  attainder  of  the 
said  Earl. 

Thus  much  touching  the  temporal  lands  in  this  county. 

The  ecclesiastical  lands  in  this  county  are  of  four  kinds  : — ■ 

1.  The  demesne  lands  of  the  Bishop  and  Dean  of  Derry. 

2.  Termon  and  Herenagh  lands. 

3.  Glebe  lands  belonging  to  vicars  or  parsons. 

4.  Abbey  lands. 

All  which  do  lie  within  the  diocese  of  Derry. 

By  an  inquisition  taken  at  Limavaddy,  30th  of  August  1609, 
it  is  found  that  the  Bishop  of  Derry,  before  the  statute  of 
11  Elizabeth,  was  seise  in  demesne  of  one  ballibo  called 
Lisnemucky,  and  that  the  Dean  was  likewise  seised  of  two 
quarters  of  land  called  Ballionew. 

Touching  the  Termon  or  Herenagh  lands,  it  is  found  by  the 
said  inquisition  (the  Lord  Bishop  of  Derry  that  now  is  being 
present  and  a  principal  commissioner  in  that  commission  by 
virtue  whereof  the  said  inquisition  was  taken),  that  there  are 
certain  parcels  of  land  lying  within  every  parish  of  this  county 
whereof  certain  persons  called  Herenaghs  and  their  septs 
have  been  possessed  time  out  of  mind,  according  to  the  Irish 
custom  of  tanistry  and  gavelkind,  and  that  before  the  statute 
11  Elizabeth  these  Herenaghs  and  their  septs  ought  to  have 
yielded  and  paid  to  the  Bishop  of  Derry,  in  right  of  his 
bishoprick,  certain  rents,  pensions,  and  other  duties  ;  but  that 
the  said  Herenaghs  and  their  septs  were  not  removeable  from 
the  said  lands  at  the  pleasure  of  the  said  Bishop  of  Derry  nor 
of  any  lord  whatsoever  ;  and  it  is  also  found  that  long  before 
any  bishopricks  were  erected  in  these  parts  of  Ireland  the 
temporal  lords  gave  the  said  lands  to  certain  holy  men,  who 
gave  the  same  to  the  said  septs  of  the  Herenaghs,  to  the  end 
they  should  repair  the  parish  churches  and  maintain  hospitality 
upon  the  said  lands ;  and  that  afterwards,  when  the  Pope 
erected  bishops  in  those  parts,  the  said  rents,  pensions,  and 
other  duties  were  imposed  upon  the  said  Herenaghs  and  their 
septs,  to  be  paid  to  the  said  bishops,  which  ever  since  have 
been  paid  accordingly. 

So  as  if  the  Herenaghs  and  their  septs  shall  be  adjudged 
the  owners  of  the  said  lands,  then  the  Bishop  of  Derry,  before 
the  statute  of  11th  of  Elizabeth  ought  to  have  the  said  rents. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


565 


1610. 


'  Moylestine." 


pensions,  and  otber  duties  only  ;  but  if  they  shall  be  adjudged 
to  have  been  only  tenants  at  will  to  the  bishop,  then  the 
bishop  ought  to  have  the  lands  themselves.  But  because  the 
bishop's  right  is  not  saved  by  the  Act  of  11  Elizabeth,  which 
doth  resume  the  whole  country,  all  the  said  lands  do  vest  in 
His  Majesty,  and  the  said  rents,  pensions,  and  other  duties  are 
extinguished. 

1.  The  Herenagh  lands  in  this  county  do  contain  100  bal- 
liboes  or  thereabouts. 

2.  The  glebe  lands  found  to  belong  to  parsons  and  vicars  do 
contain  18  garden  plots  or  thereabouts. 

3.  The  abbey  lands  contain  22  balliboes,  all  which  abbey 
lands  have  been  brought  into  charge  since  His  Majesty  came 
to  the  Crown,  and  not  before,  and  have  been  passed  upon  divers 
books  of  fee-farm  to  sundry  servitors,  18  of  which  the  late 
Earl  of  Tyrone  purchased  of  Sir  John  Sidney,  do  now  again 
come  to  the  Crown  by  the  last  attainder  of  the  said  Earl ;  the 
other  four  parcel  are  of  the  possessions  of  the  abbey  of  Avogh, 
and  are  passed  to  Sir  Toby  Calfeild.  But  four  leases  ivere 
inade  by  the  first  purchasers  before  they  were  sold  owr  to  that 
Earl,  which  are  yet  in  being.     Dongeohn  is  the  King's  fort.^ 

The  right  of  patronage  of  all  the  fee-farms  in  this  county  is 
found  to  be  in  His  Majesty,  though  in  former  times  they  were 
in  the  Pope's  gift. 


The  island  of  Derry. 


The  Bishop's  part  in 
the  island. 


An  abstract  of  the  several  titles,  whereby  His  Majesty  and 
sundry  other  persons  are  entitled  to  the  lands  in  the 
county  of  the  city  of  Derry. 

The  county  of  the  city  of  Derry  doth  contain  the  island  of 
Derry  (three  parts  of  which  island  are  compassed  with  the 
river  of  Lough  Foyle,  and  the  fourth  part  is  divided  from  the 
country  of  Enishowen  with  a  bog),  and  the  said  peculiar  county 
doth  also  extend  three  miles  every  way  round  about  the  said 
island. 

The  whole  island  of  Derry  doth  not  contain  by  estimation 
above  200  English  acres,  the  one  moiety  thereof  lying  within 
the  diocese  of  Derry  and  the  other  within  the  diocese  of 
Rapho. 

By  the  inquisition  taken  at  Derry,  1  September  1609,  it  is 
found  that  this  island  hath  in  former  times  been  possessed 
part  by  the  Bishop  of  Derry,  part  by  the  Dean  of  Derry,  part 
by  the  Abbot  of  Derry ;  but  the  greatest  part  was  held  by 
two  Herenaghs  and  their  septs,  the  one  called  Laghina  and 
the  other  O'Derry. 

1.  The  Bishop  of  Derry  is  found  to  be  seised  in  right  of  his 
bishoprick  of  a  house  or  castle,  with  a  garden  plot  thereunto 
adjoining,  situate  on  the  south  side  of  the  cathedral  church, 

1  The  lines  in  Italics  and  the  marginal  word  are  additions  in  Sir  Arthur 
Chichester's  handwriting. 


566 


lEELAND— JAMES  I. 


The  Dean's  portion. 


The  Ahbot's  portion. 


The  rierenagh's  por- 
tion. 


ICIO. 

near  the  long  tower  in  the  said  island  of  Derry ;  and  it  is  also 
found  that  the  Bishop  and  his  predecessors  have,  time  out  of 
mind,  been  possessed  of  one  orchard  or  park,  lying  on  the  east 
side  of  the  gTeat  fort  in  the  said  island,  paying  unto  the 
Herenagh  Laghlina  10  white  groats  per  annum. 

2.  For  the  Dean  of  Derry  it  is  found  that  he  ought  to  have 
in  right  of  his  deanery  a  small  plot  or  parcel  of  land  in  the 
said  island,  but  the  meres  and  bounds  thereof  the  inquisition 
findeth  not. 

3.  For  the  Abbot  it  is  found  that  the  site  of  the  Abbey  of 
Derry,  otherwise  called  the  Abbey  of  Columkill,  is  in  the  said 
island  of  Derry. 

4.  For  the  Herenaghs  it  is  found  the  two  Herenaghs,  one 
called  Laghlina  and  the  other  O'Derry,  and  their  septs,  have, 
time  out  of  mind,  held  the  rest  of  their  lands  within  that 
island,  and  that  the  portion  of  Laghlina  lay  within  the  diocese 
of  Derry,  and  the  portion  of  O'Derry  lay  within  the  diocese 
of  Eapho,  and  that  both  these  Herenaghs  are  found  to  belong 
to  the  Abbot  of  Derry,  and  paid  nothing  either  to  the  Bishop 
of  Derry  or  the  Bishop  of  Kapho,  and  that  all  cuttings  and 
fines  for  bloodshed,  and  the  like  royalties,  which  in  the.  island 
did  belong  to  the  Abbot,  and  were  collected  by  the  Herenaghs, 
which  Herenaghs  could  not  be  removed  by  the  Bishop  or 
either  of  them.  And,  lastly,  it  is  fovmd  that  all  the  Termon 
and  Herenagh  land  within  this  county  was  first  given  by 
Colunikill,  and  the  succeeding  Abbots  of  Derry  by  (sic) 
(query  to)  several  septs  before  any  bishops  were  placed  in  that 
country,  which  lands  was  free,  and  had  the  privilege  of 
sanctuary,  and  was  enjoyed  by  the  septs  of  the  Herenaghs  in 
course  of  gavelkind. 

In  this  state  are  all  the  lands  within  the  island  of  Derry. 

Touching  the  title  and  interest  of  these  lands,  there  can  be 
no  doubt  made,  but  only  in  the  case  of  the  Herenaghs. 

For  the  Bishop  and  Dean  of  Derry  are  to  hold  their  por- 
tions, and  the  Abbot's  portion  being  come  to  the  Crown  by 
the  Act  of  Dissolution,  hath  been  passed  to  Sir  James  Fuller- 
ton  in  fee  farm,  and  is  by  mesne  conveyances  assigned  to  Sir 
George  Paulet. 

For  the  Herenagh  lands  the  title  stands  thus  : — 
The  island  of  Derry  is  parcel  of  the  country  of  Tyrconnell, 
thrwW^h  is*oYer''the  ^^^^^^  O'Donnel's  country,  and  has  ever  heretofore  until  the 
mountain    of   Barnes-  first  year  of  His  Majesty's  reign  holden  by  Irish  customs  and 
towards    Baila-  not  by  English  tenure. 

12  Elizabeth,  it  was  enacted  by  Parliament,  that  all  letters 
patent  granted  by  virtue  of  Her  Majesty's  letters  or  instruc- 
tions unto  any  pretended  lord  of  the  Irishry  within  the  pro- 
vinces of  Connaught  or  Ulster,  holding  his  lands  by  Irish  custom 
and  not  by  EngUsh  tenure,  upon  surrender  made  by  the  said 


The  country  of  Tyr- 


more. 
shannon. 


'  In  Sir  Arthur  Chichester's  handwriting. 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  567 


1C]0. 


pretended  lord  of  his  said  lands  and  possessions  unto  the  late 
Queen,  her  heirs  and  successors,  should  be  good  and  effectual 
in  the  law,  according  to  the  tenor  and  effect  of  the  same. 
Provided  that  this  Act  should  not  be  of  force  to  take  away 
from  any  person  any  right,  title,  entry,  or  possession  which 
they  or  any  of  them  had  or  ought  to  have  by  due  course  of 
Her  Majesty's  laws. 

The  King's  Majesty,  by  his  letters  dated  4  September,  1° 
Jacobi,  doth  signify  His  Majesty's  gracious  pleasure  to  the 
Lord  Deputy  that  Eory  O'Donnel  should  be  created  Earl  of 
Tyrconnell,  and  that  letters  patent  should  be  made  unto  him 
of  the  whole  country  of  Tyrconnell  (except  some  parcels, 
excepted,  among  which  the  island  of  Derry  is  not  comprised), 
to  have  and  to  hold  to  him  and  the  heirs  males  of  his  body, 
with  remainder  to  Caffer  O'Donnel  and  the  heirs  males  of  his 
body ;  the  remainder  to  Donnel  Oge  O'Donnel  and  the  heirs 
males  of  his  body,  and  the  reversion  to  the  Crown.  1  February, 
1°  Jacobi,  the  said  Kory  O'Donnel  being  created  Earl  of 
Tyrconnell,  and  being  pretended  lord  of  all  that  country,  did 
by  his  deed  enrolled  in  the  Chancery  surrender  unto  His 
Majesty  all  the  said  county  or  territory  of  Tyrconnell,  and  all 
castles,  lands,  tenements,  and  hereditaments  within  the  meres 
and  bounds  of  Tyrconnell.  10th  of  February  following.  His 
Majesty  by  letters  patent  doth  grant  unto  the  Earl  all  that 
the  country  or  territory  of  Tyrconnell,  and  all  castles,  manors, 
lands,  tenements,  and  hereditaments  in  Tyrconnell  (except  the 
parcels  excepted)  in  His  Majesty's  said  letters,  with  the  same 
limitation  of  estate  as  are  before  expressed. 

By  virtue  of  wliich  grant,  and  of  the  said  statute  of  12 
Elizabeth,  which  doth  make  the  said  grant  good  and  effectual 
according  to  the  tenor  and  effect  of  the  same,  the  Earl  had  a 
good  title  to  all  the  lands  in  the  said  country  against  all 
such  as  had  no  estate,  right,  or  possession  by  the  due  course 
of  His  Majesty's  laws ;  and  therefore  he  had  a  good  estate 
against  the  Herenaghs  and  their  septs,  who  had  no  estate  by 
the  laws  of  the  realm,  but  held  their  lands  according  to  the 
Irish  custom. 

So  as  the  said  Earl  and  Caffer  O'Donnel  and  Donnel  Oge 
O'Donnel,  being  all  attainted  by  outlawry,  His  Majesty  is  now 
entitled  to  all  the  lands  in  Tyrconnell  [the  county  of  Done- 
gall]  ^  by  their  attainter  (except  such  lands  as  are  excepted  in 
their  letters  patent),  and°consequently  His  Majesty  is  entitled 
to  the  Herenagh  lands  lying  within  the  island  of  the  Derry, 
being  parcel  of  Tyrconnell  as  aforesaid. 

The  rest  of  the  lands  within  the  county  of  the  city  of 
Derry  do  lie  part  in  Enishowen  (except  the  demesne  lands 
and  services  of  the  Bishop  and  Dean  of  Derry,  and  the  glebes 
of  parsons  and  vicars)  are  come  to  the  Crown,  as  well  by  the 


& 


'  The  words  in  Italics  are  a  suggested  amendment  of  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 


568  lEELAND — JAMES  I. 

1610. 

attainder  of  Sir  Cahir  O'Dohert}'-,  lately  slain  in  rebellion,  as 
by  breach  of  the  condition  contained  in  his  letters  patent, 
wherein  there  is  a  proviso  that  if  he  eatered  into  actual  rebel- 
lion his  letters  patent  should  be  void,  whereof  divers  inquisi- 
tions have  been  taken.  These  lands  are  granted  to  Sir  Arthur 
Chichester,  now  Lord  Deputy. 

The  rest  of  the  temporal  lands  within  this  county  which 
lie  within  O'Cahan's  country  are  come  to  the  Crown  by  the 
statute  of  11  Elizabeth,  whereby  that  entire  country  by  special 
name  was  resumed.  These  lands  are  not  yet  granted,  but 
remain  in  His  Majesty's  hands  to  be  disposed. 

Touching  the  ecclesiastical  lands  of  this  county  lying  out   ot 
the  island  of  Derry. 

1.  The  Bishop  of  Derry  by  the  said  inquisition  is  found  to 
have  in  demesne  one  quarter  of  land  in  Enishowen,  and  is 
also  found  to  [have]  had  the  possession  of  four  balliboes  in 
O'Cahan's  country  for  50  years  past,  out  of  which  the  Pri- 
mates of  Armagh  have  had  two  marks  yearly,  time  out  of 
mind. 

2.  The  Dean  of  Derry  is  found  to  have  four  quarters  in 
O'Cahan's  country. 

3.  There  are  but  two  parishes  within  tbis  county  wherein 
the  parson  and  vicar  have  no  glebe  but  two  garden  plots. 

4.  The  abbey  lands  contain  18  quarters  or  thereabouts,  and 
are  all  granted  in  fee  farm  to  Sir  Henry  Brouncker  by  letters 
patent  dated  29  August,  2°  Jacobi,  which  by  mesne  assign- 
ments are  come  into  the  hands  of  Sir  George  Paulett. 

Sir  Henry  Docwra's  lease  dated  25  May  1602,  1603, 
he  got  le  island  de  Derry;  Sir  Ralph  Bingley's  lease,  18th 
May,  1  James,  de  le  Derry  or  le  Island ;  Sir  George  Carle's 
grant  of  fee  simple,  dated  3  April,  2nd  of  King  James, 
del  scite  de  Columkill,  containing,  duas  crestas  terrce.  eiclem 
monasterio  adjacentes,  ac  medietatem  insulce  de  Derrie  in 
dido  comitatu  nostro  de  Donegcdl  extendentes,  a  scitu  dicti 
monasterii  usque  adfluviwmde  Loughfoyle  ex  orientali  'parte, 
et  a  scitu  2^fedicto  usque  ad  extremum  terminum  dictce  in- 
sulcB  a  ex  australi  parte  quce  continet  dAmidiuin  unius 
parvai  quarterice  terrce   pasturce  et  [  ]  per  annum; 

in  toto  sex  solidos  et  octo  denarios,  parcellas  terrarwm  et 
possessionum  nuper  monasterii  sive  domus  canonicorum  de 
Derrie  vocatam  abbatiam  Sancti  Golumbce,  cdias  Colwmldllyce 
prcedictcB  in  coinitatw  nostro  de  Donegall.  Ac  etiam  scitum 
et  precinctum  nuper  capellce  sive  Domus  Monialium  de 
Derrie  prcedictai  in  dicto  comitatu  nostro  de  Donegall.  Ac 
etiam  medietatem  dictce  insulce  de  Derrie  extendentem  a  terris 
dicti  m^onasterii  Sancti  Golumbce  in  quaque  parte  usque  ad 
extremum  terminum  dictce  insulce  ex  boreali  parte,  quce 
continent  in  se  dimidium  unius  parvce  quarterice  terrce 
p>astiorce,  super  qioam  nuper  cedijicabantur  qucedam  domieilia 
p>ro  habitatione  incolentum  valentes  per  ann.  13s.  4<d.  ac  unam 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  569 


1610. 

cdiam  quarteriavi  terrce,  vocaf  Ballinecallagh,  prope  villam 
cle  Ellagh  in  dicto  comitatu ;  et  attingat  in  toto  inter  sead  16 
sol'  et  octo  denariis,  et  nunc  aut  nuper  parcellce  dictce  capellce 
sive  domus  inonialium  de  Derry  prcedictce} 

An  abstract  of  His  Majesty's  title  to  the  lands  in  the 
county  of  Donegall. 

The  country  of  Tyrconnell,  called  O'Donell's  country,  being 
now  reduced  into  a  county,  is  called  the  county  of  Donegall, 
and  is  divided  into  five  baronies  : — 

1.  Enishowen. 

2.  Eapho. 

3.  Kilmacrenan. 

4.  Tirehugh. 

5.  Boylagh  and  Bannagh. 

This  country,  until  the  first  year  of  His  Majesty's  reign, 
was  always  a  mere  Irish  country,  not  governed  by  the  common 
nor  statute  laws  of  this  kingdom,  nor  subject  to  the  ordinary 
ministers  of  justice,  for  the  King's  writ  did  never  run  there, 
neither  before  that  time  any  sheriff,  coroner,  justice  of  assize, 
nor  gaol  delivery  exercised  authority  in  that  country  ;  but  the 
inhabitants  thereof  were  governed  by  the  O'Donnells  as  lords 
or  chieftains  of  that  country,  who  had  cuttings,  spendings, 
bonaght,  and  all  other  Irish  exactions  of  all  the  inhabitants 
therein,  and  took  upon  them  to  have  absolute  power  over 
their  lives,  lands,  and  goods,  as  other  Irish  lords  of  countries 
not  reduced  had  ever  used  ;  and  the  possessions  of  that  country 
were  ever  enjoyed  according  to  the  Irish  customs  of  tanistry 
and  gavelkind,  and  the  laws  in  use  were  only  the  Brehon  laws. 
Write  the  effect  of  the  The  state  of  this  country  standing  thus:  His  Majesty  by 
SurrendCTs  (sic).  '^  "^  ^^^  letters  under  the  privy  signet  dated  4  September,  1  Jacobi, 
did  signify  his  gracious  pleasure  unto  the  then  Lord  Deputy 
that  Rory  O'Donnell  should  be  created  Earl  of  Tyrconnell,  and 
that  the  whole  country  of  Tyrconnell  (except  certain  parcels 
hereafter  named)  should  be  granted  to  the  said  Rory  and  the 
heirs  males  of  his  body,  with  other  remainders  over. 

Afterwards  the  said  Rory  being  created  Earl  of  Tyrconnell, 
and  being  pretended  lord  of  all  that  country,  did  by  his  deed 
enrolled  in  the  Chancery,  dated  1  February,  1°  Jacobi,  sur- 
render unto  His  Majesty,  his  heirs  and  successors,  aU  the  said 
country  and  territory  of  Tyrconnell. 

His  Majesty  by  letters  patent,  dated  10  February  then  next 
following,  did  grant  unto  the  said  Earl  all  the  country  and 
territory  of  Tyrconnell,  and  all  castles,  manors,  lands,  tene- 
ments, and  hereditaments  in  Tyrconnell  (except  the  lands 
which  were  belonging  to  any  religious  house  dissolved),  and 
except  the  castle,  town,  and  fishing  of  Ballishannon,  and  one 

1  The  whole  of  this  abstract  is  in  Sir  John  Davys's  worst  handwriting  ;  and  in 
some  parts  (particularly  here)  almost  undecipherable. 


570  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

IGIO. 

thousand  acres  thereunto  next  adjoining,  and  except  Castle 
Finne,  and  all  the  lands  in  the  possession  of  Sir  Neale  Garve 
O'Donnell,  which  were  the  territories  of  Glanfyn  and  Monga- 
nagh,  and  except  O'Doherty's  country,  which  containeth  the 
whole  barony  of  Enishowen,  with  a  limitation  of  estate  to  the 
heirs  males  of  his  body,  the  remainder  to  Gaffer  O'Donnell, 
the  brother,  and  the  heirs  males  of  his  body,  the  remainder 
to  Donnell  Oge  O'Donnell  and  the  heirs  males  of  his  body, 
the  reversion  in  the  Crown. 

This  grant  being  made  by  virtue  of  His  Majesty's  letter 
and  upon  the  surrender  of  a  pretended  lord  of  the  Irishry  of 
lands  newly  subdued  and  reduced  under  the  English  Govern- 
ment, as  well  by  the  rules  of  the  common  law  as  by  the 
statute  of  12  Elizabeth,  is  made  good  and  effectual,  according 
to  the  tenor  and  effect  of  the  same,  against  aU  persons  but 
siich  as  have  estates  by  the  due  course  of  His  Majesty's  laws, 
and  therefore  all  the  inferior  lords  and  tenants  of  Tyrconnell 
holding  their  lands  by  the  Irish  customs  of  tanistry  and 
gavelkind,  not  by  the  course  of  His  Majesty's  laws  (except 
such  as  possessed  the  lands  as  are  excepted  out  of  the  grant 
made  to  the  Earl),  were  bound  by  this  grant  as  well  because 
they  could  make  no  title  nor  claim  any  estate  in  law  against 
the  patentee,  as  also  because  the  said  Act  of  12  Elizabeth 
doth  make  such  letters  patent  good  and  eflfeetual  as  aforesaid  ; 
so  as  the  Earl  had  a  good  estate  in  possession  in  all  the  lands 
of  TyrconneU,  except  the  lands  excepted  in  his  grant,  and  also 
except  the  lands  of  bishops,  parsons,  and  vicars,  who  have 
estates  in  succession,  whereof  the  common  law  taketh  notice. 
But  touching  the  Herenagh  lands,  being  inherited  by  divers 
Irish  septs,  according  to  the  Irish  customs  of  tanistry  and 
gavelkind,  the  inheritors  thereof  cannot  make  any  title  there- 
unto against  the  said  letters  patent,  because  they  have  no 
estate  by  the  due  com'se  of  His  Majesty's  laws. 

After  which  grant  the  said  late  Earl  obtained  from  O'Boyle, 
M'Swyne  Bannagh,  M'Swyne  Faynett,  and  M'Swyne  Ado, 
inferior  lords  of  that  country,  several  feoffments  or  releases  of 
their  several  territories,  as  it  is  found  by  an  inquisition  taken 
at  the  Lifford,  9  th  August  1608,  of  which  inferior  lords  only 
M'Swyne  Ado  had  formerly  obtained  letters  patent  of  bis 
country  from  the  late  Queen  Elizabeth,  date  [         ]. 

The  said  Earl  of  Tyrconnell  having  such  estate  in  aU  the 
lands,  tenements  of  Tyrconnell  (except  the  lands  excepted  in 
his  letters  patent,  10  January,  2  Jacobi),  did  commit  high 
treason,  whereof  he  now'stands  indicted  and  attainted  by  out- 
lawry, 19  April,  7  Jacobi,  and  the  said  Gaffer  O'Donnell  and 
Donell  Oge  O'Donnell,  3  September,  5  Jacobi,  did  likewise 
commit  high  treason,  whereof  they  are  also  indicted  and  out- 
lawed, 9  June,  6  Jacobi,  and  sithence,  viz.,  9  August  1608,  an 
inquisition  was  taken  by  virtue  of  a  commission  under  the 
great  seal,  whereby  it  is  found  that  the  Earl  was  seised  at  the 
time  of  his  treason  committed  of  all  the  said  country  of 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  571 


1610. 


Tyreonnell  in  his  demesne  as  of  fee  tail,  with  the  remainders 
over  as  aforesaid. 

Howbeit  in  the  meantime  between  the  treason  found  to  be 
committed  by  the  Earl  and  his  attainder,  the  Earl  made 
divers  mortgages  and  other  conveyances  of  divers  parcels  of 
land  and  fishings  ia  the  said  country  of  Tyreonnell. 

The  conveyances  made  by  the  Earl  are  these : — 

1.  The  Earl  by  his  deed  dated  28  February,  1°  Jacobi,  did 
grant  unto  Nicholas  Weston  and  his  heirs  the  moiety  of  the 
fishing  of  Loughfoyle  in  Tyreonnell  for  1,000  years,  upon  con- 
dition that  if  the  Earl  did  pay  200?.  sterling  to  Weston,  that 
lease  should  be  void,  and  that  after,  he  should  hold  the  same 
for  seven  years  only ;  and  afterwards  by  another  deed  dated 
26  February,  2°  Jacobi,  the  Earl  did  grant  the  said  moiety 
of  the  fishings  of  Loughfoyle,  so  as  the  same  did  not  extend 
two  miles  above  Lifford  Castle,  unto  James  Hamilton  and 
others  and  their  heirs,  rendering  lOl.  rent  per  annum. 

Afterwards,  viz.,  termino  Michaelis,  3°  Jacobi,  a  common 
recovery  was  suffered  in  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  at 
Dublin  of  the  said  fishings  wherein  the  Earl  was  vouched  and 
entered  into  the  warranty  and  vouchers,  according  the  common 
voucher,  which  recovery  was  to  the  use  of  James  Hamilton 
and  his  heirs.  These  conveyances  are  void  against  His 
Majesty,  because  the  said  Earl  is  now  dead,  and  the  said 
recovery  was  suffered  since  the  treason  whereof  the  Earl  is 
attainted,  was  committed;  besides  we  take  the  fishing  of 
Loughfoyle  to  be  a  royal  fishing,  because  Loughfoyle  is  a 
navigable  river  as  far  as  the  Lifford,  and  ebbs  and  flows  to 
the  latter,  but  the  water  is  fresh,  and  so  it  never  was  granted 
to  the  Earl,  and  no  special  mention  of  that  fishing  in  his 
letters  patent,  and  consequently  he  had  no  power  to  convey 
the  same,  but  general  words  of  all  fishings  belonging  to  Tyr- 
eonnell, which  extends  to  the  river,  and  the  river  divides 
Tja'one  and  Tyreonnell. 

Termino  Michaelis,  3°  Jacobi,  the  Earl  suffered  another 
recovery  of  certain  lands  called  Kil  or  Kil  M'ltrien,  and  other 
parcels  of  land  in  the  barony  of  Kil  M'Creenan,  and  did 
covenant  to  execute  an  estate  therein  unto  one  Patrick  Conley 
of  Dublin,  merchant,  and  afterwards  the  said  Earl  and  his 
recoverors  did  execute  a  feoffment  thereof  unto  the  said  Conley, 
which  feoffment  is  dated  in  June,  5°  Jacobi,  which  was  not 
above  three  months  before  the  said  Earl  fled  out  of  this 
kingdom ;  this  conveyance  is  also  void  in  law. 

The  said  Earl  did  also  make  a  feoffment  of  the  castle  of  Do 
and  eight  quarters  of  land  in  or  near  Rathmullan  unto  John 
Arthur,  of  Dublin,  merchant,  which  feoffment  beareth  date 
8  July,  6°  Jacobi.     This  conveyance  is  also  void  in  law. 

The  said  Earl  did  also  convey  unto  Nicholas  Weston,  of 
Dublin,  alderman,  and  his  heirs,  29  quarters  of  land  in  Port- 
lagh  and  Tirebrassil,  and  thereupon,  termino  Mich.  4°  Jacobi, 


572  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

IGIO, 

did  levy  a  fine  and  suffer  a  common  recovery  of  the  said  lands 
to  the  use  of  the  said  Westen  and  his  heirs.     This  conveyance 
-  is  also  void  in  law. 

There  are  allowed  by  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Commissioners 
to  the  mother  of  the  late  Earl  of  Tjo-connell,  quarters  of 

land  lying  in  the  harony  of  Rapho,  to  hold  the  same  during  her 
life,  and  quarters  of  land  to  the  widow  of  O'Boyle  during 

her  life,  which  assignation  is  made  by  virtue  of  His  Majesty's 
instructions  in  that  behalf.  But  no  estates  are  passed  to 
convey  them. 

In  this  estate  are  all  the  lands  granted  to  the  Earl  in  this 
county. 

Touching  the  lands  excepted  out  of  the  Earl's  patent : — 

O'Dogherty's  country,  containing  the  entire  barony  of 
Enishowen,  being  a  mere  Irish  country.  Sir  John  O'Dogherty, 
Knight,  being  pretended  lord  thereof,  did  by  his  deed  dated 
15  June,  30  Elizabeth,  surrender  all  the  castles,  manors,  lands, 
tenements,  and  hereditaments  in  the  several  territories  lying 
within  Enishowen  unto  the  said  late  Queen,  her  heirs  and 
successors  for  ever. 

Queen  Elizabeth,  by  letters  patents  dated  28  June,  anno  30°, 
did  grant  all  the  said  manors,  lands,  tenements,  and  heredita- 
ments unto  the  said  Sir  John  O'Dogherty  and  his  heirs  for 
ever,  with  a  proviso  that  if  the  said  Sir  John  O'Dogherty,  his 
heirs  or  assigns,  should  commit  treason  or  rebellion  against 
Her  Majesty,  her  heirs  or  successors,  that  then  the  said  letters 
patent  should  be  void. 

Sir  John  O'Dogherty,  being  in  actual  rebellion,  died  2nd 
February,  44°  Elizabeth,  and  Sir  Cahir  O'Dogherty,  his  son, 
being  received  to  grace,  obtained  new  letters  patent  of  the 
said  country  dated  28  January,  2°  Jacobi,  with  a  limitation  of 
estate  to  the  said  Sir  Cahir,  and  the  heirs  male  of  his  body, 
the  remainder  to  John  O'Dogherty,  and  the  heirs  males  of  his 
body,  the  remainder  to  Rory  O'Dogherty  and  the  heirs  males 
of  his  body,  the  reversion  in  the  Crown,  with  a  proviso  that  if 
Sir  Cahir  or  any  of  the  rest  in  the  remainder  did  enter  into 
actual  rebellion,  the  letters  patent  should  be  void. 

Afterwards,  viz.,  13  October,  6  Jacobi,  it  was  found _  by 
inquisition  that  the  said  Sir  John  O'Dogherty  did  enter  into 
actual  rebellion,  2  May,  37  Elizabeth  ;  and  it  is  also  by  the  said 
inquisition  found  that  Sir  Cahir  O'Dogherty,  20  May,  anno 
6°  Jacobi,  did  enter  into  actual  rebellion,  and  that  the  said 
letters  patent  became  void. 

2.  Touching  the  lands  of  Glanfynne  and  Monganagh  (which 
were  possessed  by  Sir  Neal  O'Donnell,  and  excepted  out  of  the 
Earl's  grant,  with  an  intent  that  the  same  should  be  passed  to 
the  said  Sir  Neale),  the  said  lands  were  never  granted  to  the 
said  Sir  Neale  because  he  neglected  to  pass  the  same,  holding 
it  too  small  a  portion  for  himself,  howbeit  being  advised  to 
pass  letters  patent  thereof,  he  made  surrender  of  the  said 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  573 


1610. 

lands  to  His  Majesty  by  deed  enrolled  bearing  date  [  ]  ; 

but  before  he  had  sued  out  his  letters  patent,  he  practised  and 
conspired  with  O'Dogherty  in  his  late  treasons,  whereof  he 
now  standeth  indicted. 

3.  Touching  the  castle,  lands,  and  fishings  of  Ballishannon, 
and  the  1,000  acres  thereunto  adjoining  (which  are  also  ex- 
cepted out  of  the  late  Earl's  grant)  ;  the  same  are  granted  to 
Sir  Henry  Folliott,  Knight,  for  21  years  if  he  so  long  shall 
live,  for  the  rent  of  [  ]. 

4.  Touching  the  abbey  lands,  excepted  also  out  of  the  said 
late  Earl's  grant ;  this  is  the  state  thereof : — 

The  Abbey  of  Kilmacreenan,  containing  31  quarters  and 
some  otber  parcels  belonging  to  other  small  religious  houses 
dissolved,  containing  five  quarters,  were  granted  in  fee  farm 
to  Sir  James  Fullerton,  by  letters  patent,  dated  11  October, 
]  o  Jacobi,  and  by  him  conveyed  over  to  Sir  Ealph  Bingley, 
who  bargained  and  sold  the  same  to  the  late  Earl  of  Tyrconnell 
and  his  heirs,  by  whose  attainder  the  said  lands  are  come 
again  to  the  Crown.  Albeit  the  said  Earl  by  his  feofiment 
dated  20  November  1606,  did  convey  the  said  lands  of  Kil- 
macreenan unto  the  said  Nicholas  Weston,  which  was  made 
after  the  Earl's  treason  committed. 
Q're.  del  m''  Serveyor  The  possessions  of  the  religious  house  of  Kiladonnell,  con- 
pur  cest  paice .  taining  three  quarters,  passed  by  His  Majesty  in  fee  farm,  and 

assigned  to  Captain  Basill  Brookes,  whose  estate  is  good  in 
law  for  ought  appearing  unto  us. 

The  island  of  Torrey  and  four  quarters  of  land,  the  lands 
of  Bealahane,  containing  three  quarters  passed  in  fee  farm  to 
Sir  James  Fullerton,  by  letters  patent  dated  12  October,  1° 
Jacobi,  and  by  him  conveyed  to  Sir  Ealph  Bingley,  who  sold 
the  same  to  the  late  Earl  of  Tyrconnell,  by  whose  attainder 

the  said  lands  are  escheated  to  the  Crown. 

« 

The  Abbey  of  Asheroe,  containing  14  quarters,  passed  to 
Auditor  Gofton  in  fee  farm,  and  assigned  to  Sir  H.  Folliott. 

Touching  the  other  ecclesiastical  lands  in  this  country : — 

1.  The  Bishop  of  Derrye's  demesnes  are  found  to  be  13 

quarters. 

2.  The  Bishop  of  Eaphoe's  demesnes  are  found  to  be  23 

quarters. 

3.  The  Dean  of  Eaphoe's  demesnes  are  found  to  be  but 

one  quarter. 

4.  The   glebes  of  vicars  and   parsons    do  contain   only 

5.  The  Herenagh  lands,  out  of  which  the   Bishops   of 

Derry  and  Eapho  have  pensions,  rents,  and  other 
duties,  do  contain  30  quarters  or  thereabouts. 
The  title  of  which  Herenagh  lands  stand  thus  :  [  i]. 


'  Blank  in  the  original. 


574 

1610. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I. 


FERMANAGH; 


An  abstract  of  His  Majesty's  title  to  the  lands  in  the  county 
of  Fermannaghi 

The  country  of  Fermannagh,  called  M'Guyres  country,  being 
reduced  to  a  county,  doth  contain  seven  baronies,  viz, : — 

1.  Magheryboy. 

2.  Clinawley. 

3.  Lurge. 

4.  Knockninny. 

5.  Maghery  Steffana. 

6.  Clancaliy. 

>j    fCoole.  1  two  half 

L'^ii'^cannada.  J  baronies. 
This  country  being  a  mere  Irish  country,  not  reduced  to  a 
shire  nor  governed  by  the  laws  of  England,  but  wholly  subject 
to  the  Irish  lords  and  customs,  as  is  said  before  of  Tyrconnell ; 
Coeonaght  M'Guyre  being  lord  or  chieftain  thereof,  did  by 
deed  enrolled  in  the  Chancery,  dated  1  June,  27°  Elizabeth, 
surrender  unto  Her  Majesty,  her  heirs  and  successors,  the 
whole  and  entire  country  of  Fermannagh,  and  all  castles, 
lands,  tenements,  and  hereditaments  in  Fermannagh. 

a 

Afterwards,  according  to  instructions  signed  by  the  late 
Queen  Elizabeth,  and  transmitted  to  Sir  John  Perrott,  then 
Lord  Deputy,  letters  patent  were  made  unto  the  said  Co- 
eonaght M'Guyre,  whereby  the  whole  and  entire  country  of 
Fermannagh,  and  all  castles,  manors,  lands,  tenements,  and 
hereditaments  in  Fermannagh,  were  granted  unto  the  said 
Coeonaght  and  his  heirs  for  ever.  Coeonaght  M'Guyre  died, 
by  and  after  whose  death  the  said  country,  lands,  &e.  descended 
and  came  unto  Hugh  M'Guyre,  as  son  and  heir*of  the  said 
Coeonaght  M'Gujrre.  Hugh  M'Guyre  being  seised  of  the  said 
country  by  virtue  of  the  said  letters  patent,  did  adhere  to  the 
late  arch  traitor  Tyrone,  and  was  slain  in  actual  rebellion 
against  the  late  Queen  Elizabeth,  whereof  divers  inquisitions 
have  been  taken. 

Hugh  M'Guyre  being  slain,  by  special  instructions  from  the 
late  Queen  Elizabeth,  the  whole  country  was  granted  to 
Connor  Eo  M'Guyre  by  letters  patent,  dated  20  February, 
43°  Elizabeth,  with  a  limitation  of  estate  to  him  and  his 
heirs  males  for  ever,  the  words,  "  of  his  body,"  being  omitted 
by  the  negligence  of  the  clerk. 

Afterwards,  viz.,  1°  Jacobi,  Coeonaght  Oge  M'Guyre,  brother 
to  the  said  Hugh,  being  received  to  grace  and  pardoned,  His 
Majesty  signified  his  gracious  pleasure  to  the  Lord  Deputy 
and  Council  that  they  should  treat  with  Connor  Ro  M'Guyre 
to  surrender  his  former  grant  of  the  whole  country  and  to 
accept  a  competent  quantity  thereof,  so  as  the  rest  might  be 


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1610. 


granted  to  Coconaght  Oge  M'Guyre,  Whereupon  the  Lord 
Deputy  and  Council,  calling  both  parties,  drew  them  to  an 
agreement  touching  their  poi'tions,  which  agreement  was 
entered  in  the  Council  book,  14  January  1603,  to  this  effect, 
viz.  : 

That  Coconaght  Oge  M'Guyre  should  have  granted  unto 
him  and  his  heirs  the  castle  of  Eniskillin,  the  half  barony  of 
the  Cojde,  the  barony  of  Lurgue,  the  barony  of  Magheryboy, 
the  barony  of  Clinawley,  so  much  of  the  barony  of  Knock- 
ninny  as  lieth  on  the  west  and  south  side  of  Loughearne, 
together  with  the  islands  of  Loughearne,  anciently  belonging 
to  every  of  the  said  baronies  ;  and  that  Connor  Ro  M'Guyre 
should  have  granted  unto  him  the  barony  of  Maghery  Stef- 
fana,  the  barony  of  Clancally,  the  half  barony  of  Tyrcannada, 
and  the  Toy  of  Conteneyes  [Colenerer],  being  part  of  the 
barony  of  Knockninny,  lying  on  the  north  side  of  Loughearne, 
with  all  islands  belonging  to  any  of  the  said  baronies,  under 
such  rents  and  services  rateably  as  were  reserved  upon  any 
former  grant  of  the  said  country. 

Hereupon  Connor  Ro  M'Guyre,  by  his  deed  enrolled  in  the 
Chancery,  dated  16  January,  1°  Jacobi,  did  surrender  unto  His 
Majesty  all  his  estate  in  the  said  country,  and  hath  since 
enjoyed  only  the  portion  allotted  unto  him  by  the  said  agree- 
ment, but  hitherto  he  hath  not  obtained  any  letters  patent 
thereof,  neither  did  Coconaght  Oge  M'Guyre  sue  out  any 
letters  patent  of  the  portion  assigned  to  him,  but  became  a 
traitor  and  a  fugitive,  and  is  since  dead,  being  outlawed  and 
attainted  of  high  treason. 

In  this  state  are  all  the  temporal  lands  in  this  county. 

Touching  the  ecclesiastical  lands  : — 
The  greatest  part  of  this  county  doth  lie  within  the  diocese 
of  Clogher. 

1.  The  Herenagh  lands  lying  within  the  diocese  of  Clogher 
do  contain  tathes  [  *]  (sic),  out  of  which  the  Bishop  of 
Clogher  hath  pensions,  rents,  and  other  duties,  which  are 
found  by  inquisition  at  Eniskillin,  September  1609. 

That  part  of  this  county  which  lieth  within  the  diocese  of 
Ardagh  doth  contain  [         ]  parishes,  and  the  Herenagh  lands 
there,  out  of  which  the  Bishop  of  Ardagh  hath  pensions,  rents 
and  other  duties  do  contain  [         ]  tathes,  as  it  is  found  by 
the  said  inquisition. 

2.  The  Abbey  lands  containing  [  ]  tathes  and  [  1 
small  islands  in  Loughearne,  are  granted  in  fee  farm  to  Sir 
Henry  Brunkar,  Knight. 


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1610.  " 

3.  The  glebe  lands  of  parsons  and  vicars  do  contain  but 
[  ^]  tathes  thoroughout  this  county. 

4.  The  advowsons  [  ]. 

Cavan. 

An  abstract  of  His  Majesty's  title  to  the  lands  in  the 
county  of  Cavan. 

This  country,  called  Breny  O'Rely,  and  now  reduced  to  a 
county  called  the  county  of  Cavan,  being  a  mere  Irish  country 
wherein  all  the  possessions  did  run  according  to   the  Irish 
customs  of  tanistry  and  gavelkind,  and  not  according  to  the 
course  of  the  laws  of  England,  19  August,  4°  Jacobi,  an  inqui- 
sition was  taken  at  Cavan  in  the  said  county  by  virtue  of  a 
commission  under  the  great  seal  of  Ireland  to  Sir  James  Ley, 
then   Lord    Chief  Justice   of  Ireland,    and   others   directed, 
whereby  it  was  found  that  one  Phillip  O'Rely  was  seised  in 
his  demesne  as  of  fee,  and  of  fee  and  right,  of  and  in  the 
whole  country  or  territory  of  Breny  O'Rely  in  the  said  county 
of  Cavan,  and  the  issues  and  profits  of  all  the  said  country  of 
Breny  O'Rely,  and    of  every  parcel  thereof,  did  take  to  his 
own  proper  use,  and  did  dispose  the  same  at  his  own  will  and 
pleasure  ;  which  said  country  of  Breny  O'Rely  did  contain  seven 
entire  baronies,  viz.,  the  barony  of  Loughty,  otherwise  called 
the  barony  of  Cavan ;  the  barony  of  Tullaghgarvey,  the  barony 
of  Clanchy,  the  barony  of  Castlerahen,  the  barony  of  Clanmahon, 
the  barony  of  Tullaghknogho,  and  the  barony  of  Tullaghchagh, 
and  that  the  said  Phillip  O'Rely  being  so  seised  of  the  premises, 
1  August,  38°  Elizabeth,  did  enter  into  actual  rebellion  against 
the  said  late  Queen  Elizabeth,  and  being  in  actual  rebellion, 
19  October,  in  the  said  38th  year  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  the 
said  Phillip  at  Cavan  aforesaid  was  slain  in  actual  rebellion, 
by  reason  whereof  all  the  said  territory  or  country  of  Breny 
O'Rely,  and  every  parcel  thereof,  and  all  and  singular  the 
premises,  did  come  unto  the  hands  of  the  said  late  Queen 
Elizabeth,  and  are  now  in  the  actual  possession  of  His  Majesty, 
as  is  found  by  the  said  inquisition. 

Since  which  time,  by  virtue  of  His  Majesty's  letters,  dated 
IG  July,  5°  Jacobi,  a  grant  in  fee  farm  hath  been  made  unto 
the  Baron  of  Delvin  and  the  Lady  Baroness  of  Delvin,  his 
mother,  of  [  ]  polls  of  land  in  the  barony  of  Clanmahon  in 
the  said  county. 

And  also  by  virtue  of  other  letters  from  His  Majesty,  dated 
[  ],  another  grant  in  fee  farm  hath  been  made  unto  Gar- 

rett Fleming,  Esq.,  of  [  ]  polls  of  land  in  the  barony  of 

Clanchy. 

In  this  state  are  all  the  temporal  lands  in  this  county, 

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1610. 


1609. 


Touching  the  ecclesiastical  lands : — 
This  county  doth  lie  within  the  diocese  of  Kilmore,  and  by 
an  inquisition  taken  [  ^]    September  1609,  it  is  found 

that, — 

1.  The  Lord  Bishop  of  Kilmore  hath  [  ]  poUs  as  his 
demesne  or  mensal  lands,  and  that  he  ought  to  have  pensions, 
rents,  and  other  duties  out  of  [  ]  polls  of  Herenagh  land 
•within  that  county. 

2.  The  abbey  lands  already  granted  in  fee  farm  do  contain 
[  ]  polls  of  land. 

3.  The  glebe  lands  belonging  to  parsons  and  vicars  do 
contain  [  ]. 

4.  The  advowsons  are  found  to  [  ]. 

Hoi.  Endd. :  "  The  cases  of  Armagh,  1 ;  Tirone,  2  ;  Col- 
rane,  3 ;  Derry,  4  ;  Donegal],  5  ;  Fermannagh,  6  ;  Cavan,  7." 


s.  P.,  Ireland,   948.        Vice-Teeasuree's  ACCOUNT,  for  half  a  year  ending  at 
™^-^^°-  Easter  1609.2 

Eeceipt  of  the  rents,  revenues,  and  casualties  received  by 
Sir  Thomas  Ridgeway,  Knight,  Vice-Treasurer  and  Receiver- 
General  of  the  kingdom  aforesaid,  for  the  space  of  one  half- 
year,  ended  at  the  feast  of  Easter,  in  the  7th  year  of  the  reign 
of  King  James  I.,  and  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  1609  ;  viz. : — 
8  April  1609. 

From  Sir  Thomas  Roper,  Knight,  farmer  of  divers  customs 
and  chief  rents  belonging  to  the  late  Earl  of  Desmond, 
attainted,  lying  in  the  country  and  territories  of  Desmond 
and  Clanmorres,  at  lOL  per  annum,  for  half  a  year  due  and 
ended  at  the  feast  of  Easter,  in  the  7th  year  of  the  reign  of 
King  James  I.,  lOOs. 

From  Sir  Francis  Barcklie,  Knight,  farmer  of  the  town  and 
lands  of  Athnes,  in  the  county  of  Limerick,  parcel  of  the 
possessions  of  Donnogh  M'Teig,  attainted,  at  23s.  4d.  per 
annum,  tenant  of  Magnestie,  aZiaa  Rockbarklie,  with  other 
things  in  the  county  aforesaid,  at  96Z.  13s.  4d  per  annum ; 
and  the  castle  of  Askeating,  in  the  county  aforesaid,  at  61s.  4c?. 
per  annum.  In  all,  for  the  rents  of  the  same  for  half  a  year 
due  and  ended  as  aforesaid,  501.  9s. 

From  Donat,  Earl  of  Thomond,  as  a  fine  for  the  wardship 
of  the  body  and  lands  of  Teig  M'Donell  Reagh  M'Nemarra, 
late  of  Garrowragh,  in  the  county  of  Clare,  deceased,  at  20s. 
per  annum,  granted  to  the  said  Donat  by  the  King's  letters 
patent,  100s. 

13  April  1609. 

From  Henry  Piers  and  John  Cusacke,  gentlemen,  as  a  fine 
for  the  wardship  of  the  body,  lands,  and  marriage  of  Patrick 


'  This  and  the  following  blanks  are  in  the  original. 

=  This  paper  belongs  to  the  year  1609 ;  but  as  it  forms  a  separate  volume 
(the  230th)  in  the  series  of  State  Papers,  Ireland,  in  the  Public  Kecord  Office 
we  have  thought  it  advisable  to  follow  the  order  of  the  volumes.  ' 

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578  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609.  ^,r      li 

Barnewall,  son  and  beir  of  James  Barnewall,  late  of  Monckton, 
gentleman,  together  with  a  grant  of  intrusions  and  alienations, 
61.  13s.  4-d. 

18  April  1609. 

From  Martin  Codd,  grandson  and  heir  of  Martin  Codd,  of 
Castletowne,  in  the  county  of  Wexford,  gentleman,  deceased, 
as  a  fine  for  the  livery  of  his  lands  out  of  the  King's  hands, 
together  with  a  pardon  of  intrusions  and  alienations, 
101.  10s. 

From  William  Cowley,  Esq.,  for  a  third  part  of  the  vicar- 
age (?)  of  Carbry,  at  23?.  per  annum,  parcel  of  the  possessions 
of  the  late  Priory  of  Connals,  lying  in  the  county  of  KiJdare, 
for  the  rent  thereof,  viz.,  for  his  proportion  for  one  whole 
year,  due  and  ended  at  the  feast  of  Easter,  in  the  7th  year  of 
the  reign  of  King  James  I.,  81. 

[This  account  is  in  Latin,  and  fills  an  entire  volume  of 
439  pages ;  but  the  entries  translated  above  will  suffice  as 
a  specimen  of  the  entire.     It  is  arranged  under  nine  heads : — 

(1.)  Receipts  of  revenues  and  casualties  received  by  Sir 
Thomas  Ridgeway,  Knight,  General  Receiver  of  the  kingdom, 
for  the  half-year  ending  Easter,  in  the  seventh  year  of  King 
James  I.,  Anno  Domini  1609. 

Pp.  1-117. 

(2.)  Receipts  of  the  composition  of  the  Pale  and  Connaught, 
for  the  half-year  ending  Easter  1609,  7th  James  I. 
Pp.  119-125. 

■  (3.)  Receipts   of  revenues   for  the    Province  of  Munster, 
received  by  Sir  Richard  Morrison,  Knight,  Vice-President  of 
the  Province,  and  Deputy  of  Sir  Thomas  Ridgeway,  Knight, 
for  the  half-year  ending  Easter,  7th  James  I. 
Pp.  127-162. 

(4.)  Receipts  of  the  composition  of  the  Province  of  Munster, 
for  the  half-year  ending  Easter,  7th  James  I. 
Pp.  163-168. 

(5.)  Receipts  of  revenues  for  the  Province  of  Connaught, 
received  by  John  Davis,  Deputy  Vice-Treasurer,  for  the  half- 
year  ending  Easter,  7th  James  I. 

Pp.  169-179. 

(6.)  Receipts  of  revenues  and  casualties  received  by  Sir 
Thomas  Ridgeway,  Knight,  Vice-Treasurer  and  General  Re- 
ceiver of  the  kingdom,  for  the  half-year  ending  Michaelmas, 
7th  James  I.,  1609. 

Pp.  181-348. 

(7.)  Receipts  of  the  composition  of  the  Pale  and  Connaught, 
for  the  half-year  ending  Michaelmas  1609,  7  James  I. 
Pp.  849-857. 


lEELAND— JAMES  I.  579 


1609.  ^  ,^      ^ 

(8.)  Receipts  of  revenues,  &c.,  for  the  Province  of  Munster, 
for  the  half-year  ending  Michaelmas  1609,  7th  James  I., 
received  by  Sir  Eichard  Morrison,  Knight. 

Pp.  359-390. 

(9.)  Payments  made  as  weU  to  patentees  for  fees,  pensions, 
and  annuities,  for  the  year  ending  at  Michaelmas  last  past, 
1609,  as  to  divers  other  persons,  by  several  warrants  and 
other  directions,  for  service  by  them  done  to  His  Majesty  and 
©ther  respects  within  the  time  aforesaid,  according  to  the 
particulars  hereafter  following. 

Pp.  393-437.] 

Pf.  439.    Latin.    Endd.  as  above. 
1606. 
June  30.     949.        The  King  to  the  Treasurer  at  Waes.^ 

'^'^''■pE o"'''"'^"  ^^'^'^^  herewith  an  Establishment,  signed  with  his  hand, 

of  the  forces  [and  charges  of  the  realm  of  Ireland,  the  same 
being  begun  in  the  lifetime  of  the  late  Lieutenant,  but  finished 
since  by  such  of  the  Council  as  have  been  deputed  to  attend 
to  the  affairs  of  that  kingdom.  Has  sent  the  same  to  the 
Deputy,  and  requires  him  (the  Treasurer  of  Ireland)  to  make 
his  payments  according  to  it.  Having  given  warrant  to 
the  Deputy,  upon  any  accident  extraordinaiy,  to  levy  one 
or  two  thousand  men  or  more,  he  also  authorises  the  Trea- 
surer to  pay  them  according  to  the  warrant  of  the  said  Deputy. 
— Greenwich,  30  June,  in  the  fourth  year  of  the  reign. 

P.  |.     Endd.  "  30  June  1606.     To   the  Treas.  at  Warres 
for  Ireland,  with  the  Establishment." 
1608. 
May  2.5.     950.        Lords  of  Council  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
^^^^^'  ggj  The  bearer  [not  named]  having  been  recommended  by  the 

'   '   '      '  Earl  of  Southampton  and  Sir  John  Jephson,  under  whom  he 

served  in]the  late  Irish  wars,  for  a  grant  for  twenty-one  years  of 
the  constableship  of  the  castle  of  Armagh,  and  it  having  been 
reported  by  Sir  Anthony  Sentleger  and  Sir  James  Ley,  that 
such  grant  would  not  be  prejudicial  to  the  plantation  of 
Ulster ;  their  Lordships  refer  his  suit  and  petition  to  the 
Lord  Deputy,  with  a  recommendation  for  its  favourable  con- 
sideration.— Greenwich,  25  May  1608. 

Signed :  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton,  T.  Suffolke,  J.  E. 
Worcester,  W.  Knollys,  Jul.  Csesar,  J.  Herbert. 
1609. 
March  27.     951.        The  King  to  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Chancellor. 

vol  ^2%  1  -^^^  *^^®  better  ordering  of  the  Exchequer,  and  settling  a 

form  for  the  receipt  of  casualties  in  Ireland,  the  King  had 
caused  some  questions  to  be  addressed  to  the  ancient  officers 
of  the  Exchequer.  Sends  herewith  their  answers  in  writing, 
and  directs  the  Lord  Deputy  and  Chancellor  to  cause  the 
same  to  be  put  in  execution.     And  as  this  may  involve  some 

1  Some  of  the  following  miscellaneous  papers  were  not  received  till  too  late  for 
insertion  in  their  proper  place ;  others  were  accidentally  omitted. 

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580  IRELAND— JAMES  I. 

1609. 

loss  to  certain  officers,  the  King  directs  that  they  may  be  in- 
demnified out  of  the  casualties  of  the  Exchequer,  in  case  the 
amounts  be  not  large ;  otherwise  they  are  to  be  referred  to 
His  Majesty's  consideration,  with  a  certificate  of  their  defect. 
— Westminster,  27  March,  in  the  seventh  year  of  the  reign. 

P.  1.  Signed  at  head.  Add.  Endd.  Signature  torn 
off. 

April  5.     952.        Minute  to  the  Lord  Deputy. 
^ii-^-:^^^"^^-  Have  caused  a  project  to  be  made  for  the  distribution  of 

escheated  lands  in  Ulster,  which  is  so  well  approved  of  that 
it  is  not  to  be  altered  in  any  point  of  substance. 

On  consideration,  they  propose  to  grant  to  the  Lord  Deputy 
and  his  heirs,  the  entire  barony  of  Enishowen,  called  O'Dog- 
hertie's  Country,  in  co.  Donegal,  in  the  same  manner  as  the 
late  traitor,  or  his  father.  Sir  John  O'Dogherty,  held  the  same. 

The  Lord  Deputy  to  yield  the  same  rent  as  the  English  and 
Scottish  undertakers,  and  to  plant  one  freeholder  at  least  in 
every  1,000  acres,  and  to  perform  the  other  articles  of  the 
plantation  as  a  servitor  in  that  kingdom. 

Such  lands  to  be  excepted  out  of  the  grant  as  are  allotted 
to  the  Bishop  of  Derry,  and  the  incumbents  of  the  several 
parishes  within  the  barony. 

P.  1.     In  the  hand  of  Sir  John  Davys.    Endd. 

May  13.     953.         The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Add.  p.,  Ireland.  Directs  him  to  appoint  Sir  Francis  Aungier,  Master  of  the 

Rolls  in  Ireland. 

P.l.     Sealed.     Add.     Endd. :"  Angier." 


P.E.O. 


June  7.      954.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 
Add.  P.^lreland.  WaiTant  for  John  and  Daniel  Leigh  to  have  the  command 

of  Fort   Omagh,   in  Tyrone,  which  they  had  built  at  their 
own  cost. 

Pp.  2.      Eyidd. :    "  To  the   Lord   Deputy,  for   John  and 
Daniel  Leigh." 


June  9.      955.        Plantation  of  Ulster. 
Add.  p.,  Ireland.  Articles  of  instructions  for  the  commissioners  appointed  for 

the  plantation  of  Ulster,  to  be  sent  to  the  Lord  Deputy. 
Pp.  2.     Endd.     [See  sii-pra,  p.  213.] 

Also   the   appointment   of  the    commissioners    and    their 
authorities,  under  six  heads. 
P.  1. 

Aug.  31.     956.        The  King  to  [the  Attorney  and  Solicitor-General]. 

■^"'^''■pR^O^''"'''  ^^^  accoimt  of  Sir  Thomas  Ridgeway,  Treasurer-at-War 

having  been  taken  by  virtue  of  His  Majesty's  commission  to 

some  of  the  Council,  such  accounts  beginning  1  July  1606 

and  ending  September  1607;  and  having  been  perfected  and 


IRELAND — JAMES  I.  681 


1609. 

allowed  by  them,  he  now  sends  the  ledger  thereof,  containing 
120  sheets  of  paper,  to  the  end  it  may  be  delivered  up  on 
oath  by  Sir  Thomas,  authorising  either  of  them  to  take  his 
oath  thereon ;  which  having  been  duly  entered  in  the  book 
and  subscribed  by  them,  is  to  be  sent  back  to  the  Treasurer 
of  England  to  remain  here. — Hampton  Court,  31  August 
1609. 

P.  1.  "Signed  by  the  King."  Endd.:  "Treasurer  at 
Wars." 

[Nov.]       957.        Appointment  of  John  Corbett  as  Mustee-Mastee. 
^'^'^'  p  E  o'^°^'  Appointment  of  John  Corbett,  Muster-Master  of  Ireland, 

but  resident  in  England,  with  6s.  8d.  per  diem. 
Pp.2.     Undd.:  "Mr.  GoAet.     Nov.  1609." 

A^<ii-F.^ye]a.nd..   953.  UNDERTAKERS   for   PLANTATION   of  ULSTER. 

"  The  number  of  undertakers  for  the  plantations  of  Ulster." 
1.  English  and  Scottish,  who  are  to  plant  with  English  or 
Scottish,  123.  2.  of  servitors,  41.  3.  of  natives,  63.  In  all, 
228  freeholders. 

Of  these,  the  only  difficulty  will  be  to  supply  the  English 
and  Scottish  undertakers,  viz.,  123 ;  for  there  will  be  more 
servitors  and  natives  suing  for  portions  than  there  are  portions 
assigned  for  them. 

P.  1.  In  the  hand  of  Sir  John  Davys.  Endd.:  "The 
number  of  undertakers." 

Add.  p.,  Ireland.    959  GeANT  to   WlLLIAM   KENDALL. 

P  E  O  ...  w.*. 

Grant  from  the  King  to  William  Kendall,  gentleman,  and 
Wm.  Leigh,  yeoman,  of  so  much  of  his  lands,  &c.  in  Ireland 
as  amount  to  the  j^early  value  of  33Z.  6s.  8d.,  sterling  money 
of  England.  Also  of  10,000  acres  of  the  Earl  of  Tyrone's 
lands  in  fee-farm. 

Pp.  2.     Endd. 

Add.  P.,  Ireland.   96O.  DeANS  and  CHAPTERS  for  DoWN,  CONNOE,  and  DeOMORE. 

Minute  of  a  warrant  for  the  erection  of  Deans  and  Chapters 
in  the  Bishoprics  of  Down,  Connor,  and  Dromore. 
Pp.  2.     Endd. 
1610. 
Feb.  10.      961.        Lord  Delvin  to  Earl  of  Salisbury. 

^ToT.2^3L°7!'  -^^^  ^®^"  moved  by  the  Lord  Deputy  to  perfect  a  second 

surrender  of  all  his  lands  in  county  of  Longford.  Is  informed 
by  his  counsel,  to  whom  he  submitted  the  deed,  that  this  may 
prejudice  his  claim  under  His  Majesty's  grant,  confirming  to 
him  the  lands  in  that  county,  not  pertaining  to  Rosse  and 
Brian  O'Farrall.  Nevertheless,  he  has  perfected  the  deed; 
and  he  relies  on  His  Majesty's  grace  that  he  will  have  the 
benefit  of  this  grant  for  a  few  parcels  in  the  county,  some 
of  which  were  purchased  by  his  father,  seeing  that  it  was  by 
his  (Lord  Delvin's)  travail  and  great  charge  that  the  King's 


582  IRELAND — JAMES  I. 

1610. 

title  -was  first  brought  to  light  in  that  county.     Prays  for 
Salisbury's  support  of  his  suit. — Dublin,  10  February  1610. 
P.  1^.    Hoi.    Sealed.    Add.    Endd. 

April  3.      962.        The  King  to  the  Loed  Deputy  and  Chancellob. 
^BuMie^rir*^'  Directs    them    to   accept    surrender   of  Thomas,   Earl    of 

P.K.O.   ■  Ormond    and  Ossory,  and  of  Theobald,  Viscount  Butler  of 

Tulleophelim,  of  the  castles  of  Kilkenny,  and  of  the  lordship 
of  Arclo  and  Tulleophelim,  and  all  their  appiu-tenances, 
and  of  aE.  their  other  castles,  lordships,  manors,  and  other 
possessions  in  the  realm  of  Ireland,  and  to  re-grant  the 
same  to  them  (excepting  the  liberty  of  the  county  of 
Tipperary  and  all  such  chiefries,)  by  letters  under  the  great 
seal.  Given  at  the  palace  of  Westminster,  3  April,  in  the  8th 
year  of  the  reign. 

Pp.  2.  Orig.  Signed.  Sealed.  Add.  Much  mutilated. 
[See  supra,  p.  426.] 

April  3.     963.        The  King  to  [Loed  Deputy  and  Chancellob]. 

^'^'^■p^E.a '^°^"  Copy  of  the  above. 

Pp.  3.     Signed  by  Sir  Thomas  Lake. 

Sept.  3.     964.        Lords  op   the   Council  to  the   Loed   Deputy  and 
Phiiad.  p.,_  Council. 

Direct  that  David  Condon,  son  of  Patrick  Condon,  be  re- 
stored to  his  blood  and  to  all  the  lands  contained  in  the 
King's  letters  patent,  being  the  late  possessions  of  his  father, 
deceased,  passed  after  a  late  hearing  of  five  days,  before  His 
Majesty's  Privy  Council,  of  the  case  betvs^een  the  said  David 
Condon,  son  and  heir  of  Patrick  Condon,  deceased,  and  Arthur 
Hyde,  son  and  heir  of  Arthur  Hyde,  deceased.  At  the  hear- 
ing it  appeared  that  Patrick  Condon,  being  wrongly  attainted 
for  burning  the  old  castle  of  Ballyhenden,  where  he  took  cer- 
tain rebels,  was  forced  to  procure  a  pardon  ;  yet  his  lands  were 
passed  by  letters  patent  to  Arthur  Hyde,  Marmaduke  Red- 
man, and  Thomas  Fleetwood,  deceased  ;  he  was  subsequently 
restored,  however,  by  orders  from  the  Privy  Council  to  the 
then  Lord  Deputy  and  Vice-President  of  Munster.  But  the 
said  Arthur  Hyde  then  suggesting  that  Patrick  Condon  had 
been  attainted  by  outlawry  in  the  24th  year  of  the  late 
Queen,  for  being  in  action  with  James  Fitzmaurice,  and  was 
also  attainted  for  being  in  rebellion  with  Gerot,  late  Earl  of 
Desmond,  the  said  Patrick  Condon  was  removed,  and  Hyde  re- 
stored to  so  much  as  had  been  granted  him  by  the  former  letters 
patent.  Since  that  time  (some  five  years  past),  David  Condon 
repaired  to  them  (the  Council),  and  affirmed  that  his  father 
was  never  in  action  with  James  Fitzmaurice  as  alleged,  and 
produced  a  letter  from  the  Earl  of  Ormonde,  testifying  so 
much,  and  also  affirming  that  on  his  (the  said  Earl's)  return 
to  Munster  as  general  of  the  Queen's  forces  there,  he  received 
the  said  Patrick  Condon,  who  was  then  one  of  the  principal 


vol.  4,  p.  109. 


IRELAND— JAMES  I.  583 


1610. 

adherents  of  Gerald,  Earl  of  Desmond,  to  mercy,  and  promised 
him,  in  the  Queen's  name,  pardon  and  restitution ;  and  that 
thereupon  said  Patrick  Condon  did  acceptable  service,  as 
appears  by  the  said  Earl  of  Ormonde's  letter,  dated  13th 
August  1593.  The  Earl  of  Essex's  letter  to  the  said  Patrick 
Condon  was  also  produced,  promising  Her  Majestj'^'s  gracious 
favour.  It  was  therefore  ordered  by  them  (the  Lords)  that 
both  of  them,  said  David  Condon  and  Arthur  Hyde,  should 
surrender  their  lands  to  the  Crown,  to  the  number  of  81 
ploughlands  which  being  done.  His  Majesty  thereupon  granted 
the  said  lands  to  David  Condon  and  his  heirs,  subject  to 
12d.  yearly  rent  per  ploughland,  and  composition ;  and  for 
the  satisfaction  of  said  Arthur  Hyde,  another  course  has  been 
taken. 

The  said  David  Condon  is  to  be  protected  against  all  suits 
to  be  moved  against  him  by  the  said  Arthur  Hyde,  Marma- 
duke  Eedman,  and  Thomas  Fleetwood.  And  although  the 
said  Patrick  Condon  failed  in  the  beginning  in  his  loyalty 
(which  proceeded  rather  out  of  discontent  which  he  conceived 
in  the  prosecution  of  his  law  causes,  than  out  of  any  natural 
inclination  to  disloyalty),  yet  having  in  his  latter  days  shed 
his  blood  in  the  service  of  the  State,  and  last  of  all,  having 
lost  his  life  by  means  of  a  cruel  wound  received,  his  thigh 
bone  being  broken,  His  Majesty  accepts  thereof  as  an  expiation 
of  his  former  misprisions. — 3  September  1610. 

Signed  :  T.  EUesmere,  Cane,  R.  Salisbury,  H.  Northampton, 
Lenox,  Notingham,  Suffolke,  Gilb.  Shrewsbury,  E.  Worcester, 
Jul.  Csesar. 

Pp.  2i.  Add.  Endd. :  "  From  the  LI.  of  the  Council, 
touchenge  M^  Condon  and  Arthur  Hide.  Receaved  the  20*11 
of  November  1610." 

Sept.  13.     965.        The  King  to  Sir  Aethur  Chichester. 

By  letters  patent  uader  the  Great  Seal,  dated  23d  June 
1608,  there  was  granted  to  Thomas  Read  and  Walter  White, 
or  the  longer  liver  of  the  two,  the  office  of  General  Escheator 
in  the  counties  of  Dublin,  Wicklow,  Wexford,  Kilkenny, 
Catherlagh,  Kildare,  the  King's  and  Queen's  County,  Louth, 
Meath,  Westmeath,  and  Longford,  and  in  and  through  the 
province  of  Leinster,  and  in  all  other  counties  and  places 
wheresoever  within  the  English  Pale  and  elsewhere  in  Ireland 
out  of  the  provinces  of  Munster,  Connaught,  and  Ulster,  in 
reversion  to  Nicholas  Kennie,  the  present  escheator  and 
feodary.  Some  doubts  having  arisen  as  to  the  validity  of  this 
grant  to  two  joint  patentees,  and  the  said  .Thomas  Read  having 
by  deed  released  to  White  all  his  interest,  the  King  is  pleased 
to  accept  a  surrender  at  the  hands  of  White,  and  to  re-wrant 
the  office  to  him  to  be  held  by  himself  or  deputy  during  good 
behaviour. — Westminster,  13  September  1610. 

Pp.  2.     Copy.    [See  supra,  p.  515.] 


584  lEELAND— JAMES  I. 


vol.  2,  p.  5. 


1610. 

Oct.  16.      966.        The  King  to  Sir  Arthur  Chichester. 

f  biiad.  P.,  Warrant  to  accept  a  surrender  from  Cahir  O'Callaghane,  of 

Dromynine,  in  the  county  of  Cork,  and  Art  O'Keiff,  of  Dro- 
magh,  in  said  county,  as  well  in  consideration  of  the  good 
service  done  by  the  said  Cahir  to  the  late  Queen,  as  of  the 
well  deserving  of  the  said  Art,  of  the  castles,  manors,  lands, 
&c.,  of  Dromynine,  Drommore,  Gortnegre,  Ballywine,  Bally- 
hostie,  Balljmefehie,  and  Ganymacwohny,  and  all  other  lands 
to  them  the  said  Cahir  O'Callaghane  and  Art  O'Keiff  belong- 
ing, and  thereupon  to  re-grant  the  same  without  fine  to  them, 
either  jointly  or  severally,  as  they  shall  desire,  to  be  held  by 
them,  their  heirs  and  assigns,  of  the  King  in  common  soccage, 
as  of  the  castle  of  Dublin,  subject  to  the  present  rents. — West- 
minster, 16  October,  in  the  8th  year  of  the  King's  reign. 
Pp.  1\.    Signed  at  head.    Add.    Endd. 


GENERAL    INDEX. 


A. 

Abtey  of  Ffayre,  148. 

of    Annogh,    in    Coleraiue    County, 

(pranted  to  Sir  Toby  Caulfeild,  565. 

of  SS.  Peter  and  Paul,  Armagh,  20 

ballibetaghB  formerly  belonging  to, 
granted  to  Sir  Toby  Caulfeild,  559. 

Abbey  Boyle  garrison,  commander  of.  Sir 
John  King,  508. 

Abbey  lands,  577. 

,  quit-rents  of,   in  Down  and  Antrim, 

448. 

,  how  marked   in   maps   of  escheated 

counties,  402. 

,  the  six  counties,  403. 

Abbeys,  the  poor  to  be  passed  to  the  servitors, 
"  before  they  gripe  all,"  423. 

Abbots,  guardian,  lately  appointed  for  every 
abbey  in  Ireland,  475. 

Aberoorn,  Earl,  483. 

Abstract  of  His  Majesty's  several  titles,  and 
of  sundry  other  persons,  ecclesiastical 
and  temporal,  to  the  lands  in  the 
counties  of  Armagh,  Tyrone,  Coleraine, 
county  of  the  city  of  Derry,  Donegal, 
Fermanagh,  and  Cavan,  by  Sir  John 
Davys,  552-576. 

of  His  Majesty's  several  titles,  whereby 

His  Majesty  and  sundry  other  persons, 
ecclesiastical  and  temporal,  are  en- 
titled to  the  lands  in  the  escheated 
counties  in  Ulster,  552. 

Abuses  of  First  Fruits,  450. 

Ackland,  Lieutenant,  servitor,  to  be  an  under- 
taker, 428. 

Acland,  Lieutenant,  368. 

Account  of  Tyrone's  rents  for  three  and  a  half 
years,  ending  1  Nov.  1610,  by  Sir  Toby 
Caulfeild,  the  King's  receiver,  532. 

Adamstown,  in  Queen's  County,  185. 

Addcrton,  see  Atherton. 

Admiralty,  Londoners  ask  Admiralty  of  coasts 
of  Tyrconnell  and  Coleraine,  350. 

"  Advantage,"  the  ship,  to  be  sent  against 
pirates,  29. 

"  Advertisements  from  Eome,"  xlii. 

Advices  by  the  Commissioners  of  Plantation, 
482. 


Africa,  without  the  many  petty  wards  in 
Ulster,  no  more  would  be  known  of  the 
temper  of  the  people  there,  than  of 
Africa,  95. 

Agnus  Deis,  sent  in  pretended  letter  from 
Rome,  xlii. 

Albert,  Archduke,  receives  the  Fugitive  Earls 
with  honour,  xxxix. 

Aldridge,  Sir  John,  548, 

Aldworth,  Capt.  Rich.,  provost  marshal  of 
Munster,  507,  509. 

,  Sir  Richard,  465. 

Alford,  Mr.,  114. 
Alicknocan,  lands  of,  134. 

Allegiance,  the  King's  Apology  for  Oath  of, 
284. 

,  answer  to,  circulated  in  manuscript, 

ib. 

Allen,  Sir  Allen,  367. 

,  John,  549. 

Allengton,  John,  bill  to,  19. 

.......71. 

Allotment,  an  inconvenient  mode  of  distribu- 
ting the  escheated  lands  to  the  under- 
takers, 159. 

Allowances  to  various  officers  to  be  retrenched, 

450. 
Aloan,  see  Athlone. 
Alone,  see  Athlone. 
Ambassadors,  English,  abroad,  report  on  the 

proceedings  of  the  fugitives,  xxxix. 
America,  95. 

Amiens,  Tyrone  at,  xxxix. 
Amsterdam,  a  ship  of,  seized  by  Jennings  the 

pirate,  130. 
,  hopeful  project   (not   explained)    o? 

some  Dutchmen  of,  242. 
,  ships  to  be  chartered   at,  for  carriage 

of  timber  from  Ireland,  149. 
Anagh,  castle  of  O'Cahan,  x. 
Anderson,  Sir  Francis,  of  Bedford,  a  principal 

undertaker  in  Onealand,  with  the  names 

and  abilities  of  his  consorts,  549. 

,  Edmund,  ih. 

Andrewes,  Eusebius,  pension  of,  168. 

,  367,  506. 

,  Henry,  79. 

Andrews,  Mr.,  336. 
Angell,  William,  341. 


586 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Annagh,  one  of  the  chief  places  of  Coleraine, 

61. 
Annaly,  harony  of  TulKgarvy  set  apart  for 

composition  rent  of,  489. 
Annesley,  Francis,  suit  of,  recommended,  40. 
,  and  John  Strowde,   agents   of 

Chichester,  for  obtaining  for  him  the 

barony  of  Enishowen,  103. 

,  Francis,  252. 

,  Mr.  Francis,  367. 

,  Francis,  sent  over  with  charge  of  Sir 

Neale  O'Donnell  and  his  fellow  pri- 
soners, 306. 
, ,  delivered  at  Chester  by  an  order 

to  pass  the  prisoners  from  sheritf  to 

sheriff,  till  they  reach  London,  319. 
, ,  remonstrates  against  this 

as  unsafe,  ib. 

,  Francis,  322,  325. 

, ,  servitor,  to  bean   undertaker, 

428. 
Annesleys,  the,  letters  of,  423. 
Annogh,  in  Coleraine  County,  563. 
,  excepted  out  of  the  lands  to  be  restored 

to  O'Cahan,  ib. 
Abbey  of,  granted  to  Sir  Toby  Caul- 

feUd,  565. 
Antrim,  population  of,  mixed,  xii. 
,  relations  with  England  complicated, 

xiii. 
,  county  of,  granted  to  Earl  of  Essex, 

Ixxii. 

,  a  county  of  Ulster,  viii. 

Scottish  colony  in,  xii. 

,  description  of,  xiii. 

County,   Sir  Eobt.   Jacob  found   no 

habitations  there  but  where  he  and  his 

brother  commissioners  lodged,  194. 

,  qiiitrents  in,  448. 

Aphugh,  Ambrose,  121. 

,  Rice,  ib. 

, Captain  Owen,  336,  368,  511. 

Appesley,  Sir  Allen,  commissary  for  victuals 

in  Munster,  301.     See  Apsley. 
Apsley,  Sir  Allan,  480,  481,  482,  487,  507. 
Archdale,  John,  548. 
Archdeacon,  Richard,  202. 
Archduke,  the,  sends  the  Irish  regiment  to 

the  King  of  Spain,  893. 
four  Dunkirk  ships  belonging  to,  with 

military   stores    for  Irish   expedition, 

398. 
Archebald,  Edmund,  381. 
Archer,  Father,  tries  to  convert  Robert  Short, 

13. 
, ,  not  seen  for  six  months  by  Kil- 

iinghall,  51. 

,  John,  of  Kilkenny,  324. 

Archers,  office  of,  obsolete,  and  to  be  abolished, 

451. 
Arclo,  surrender  and  regrant  of  lordship  of, 

582. 
Ardcromman  Castle,  495. 
Arde,  rectory  of,  448. 


Ardes,  Little  and  Great,  districts  in  Down,  xi. 

the  Little,  granted  to   Sir  Thomas 

Smith  and  his  son,  Ixxii. 

, ,   on   condition    to    subdue  the 

rebels  of  Great  and  Little  Ardes,  and 
plant  English  there,  ib. 

.barony  of,  Abbey  of  Jugo  Dei  in, 

448. 

Ardingraple,  in  Scotland,  395. 

Ardmagh,  see  Armagh. 

Argyle,  Earl  of,  daughter  of,  said  to  be  sought 
in  marriage  by  Baron  of  Dungannon, 
■  xxxvi. 

Armada,  preparing  for  Irish  expedition,  30. 

Armado,  see  Armada. 

Armagh,  a  new  county  of  Ulster,  viii. 

,  description  of,  x. 

,  counties  contained  in,  ib. 

,  Archbishop  of,  and  his  freeholders,  ib. 

,  a  small  village,  the  church  and  friaries 

of,  broken  and  defaced,  ib. 

and  Upper  Tyrone,  a  government  of 

Ulster,  xxiii. 

assizes  at,  in  1608,  Ixxix. 

questions  regarding,  1. 

people  of,  attend  the  commission  of 

oyer  and  terminer,  7. 

,  sessions  at,  15. 

grand  jury  willingly  indite  their  kins- 
men who  had  gone  into  rebellion,  ib. 

,  proclamation  against  rebels  in,  27. 

,  condition  of,  the  same  as  that  of  Ty- 
rone, 62. 

,  to  whom  it  belongs,  ib. 

,  county  of,  65. 

,  wood  kerne  of,  petition  for  pardon  of, 

143. 

,  oonstableship  of  gaol  at,  274. 

,  maps  of  county  of,  contents  and  ex- 
planations of,  402. 

,  barony  of,  area  of,  ib. 

,  Errenagh  land  in,  403. 

,  demesne,  bishops  in,  ib. 

,  precinct  of,  405. 

,  market  of,  406. 

,  survey  of  county,  407. 

County,  inhabitants  of,  discontented 

at  the  plantation,  499. 

,  Archbishop  of,  to  be  compounded  with 

for  the  impropriations  in  his  possession, 
that  they  may  be  bestowed  on  the  Lon- 
doners, 490, 

,  found  (by  Inquisition,  12  August 

1 609)  to  be  seized  in  right  of  his  arch- 
bishoprick  of  26  town  lands,  his  mensal 
or  demesne  lands,  558. 

, ,  also  found  entitled  to  perpetual 

rents  and  duties  out  of  160  town  lands 
more,  ib. 

Dean  and  Chapter  of,  but  three  towns 

and  odd  sessiaghs  found  to  belong  to, 
558,  559. 

,  vicars  choral  of,  nine  towns  and  odd 

sessiaghs  found  to  belong  to,  559. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


587 


Armagh— COM*. 

abtey  lands   in,   20   and  odd  balli- 

betaghs  found  to  be  part  of  the  posses- 
sions of  the  Abbey  of  SS.  Peter  and 
Thomas  in  Armagh,  ih. 

, ,  these  are  granted  to  Sir  Toby 

Caulfeild,  ib. 

six  ditto  granted  to  Sir  Marma- 

duke  Whitchurch,  a  servitor,  ib. 

County,  disturbed  by  the  robberies  of 

Oghe  O'Hanlou,  195. 

,   the    damages    ordered    to    be 

raised  off  the  two  baronies  where  the 
robberies  were  done,  196. 

,  will  be  a   means  to    drive  him 

out  of  the  country,  ib. 

,  His  Majesty's  title  to  the  tem- 
poral lands  in,  553. 

,  to  the  ecclesiastical  lands  in,  555. 

, ,  lands  in,  claimed  by  the  Lord 

Primate,  558. 

Dean  and  Chapter  lands  in,  ib. 

,  glebe  land  in,  559. 

,  abbey  lands  iufib. 

,  advowsons  in,  ib. 

,  Sir  John  Davys's  abstract  of  the 

King's  title  to  the  escheated  lands  in, 
552. 

,  lands  of  Archbishop  of,  553. 

, Dean  and  Chapter  of,  ib. 

, ,  excepted  out  of  those  in  Armagh, 

vested  by  Stat,  of  1 1th  of  Elizabeth  in 
the  Crown,  ib. 

,  constableship  of  the  castle  of,  579. 

Armathe,  see  Armagh. 

Armstrong,  xcvi. 

Army,  in  Ireland,  charges  of,  43. 

,  reduced  after  suppression  of  O'Dog- 

herty's  outbreak,  94,  95,  1 13. 

,  list  of,  captains    of  foot,  November 

1608,  96. 

,2,  95,  100. 

charge  of,  1595-1606,  282. 

,  ,  1595-1609,  291. 

, before  ODogherty's  outbreak, 

326. 

,  charge  nov?  required,  ib. 

charges  of,   October  1609  to   March 

1610,418. 

list  for  30th  September  1610,  507. 

Aron,  see  Arran. 

Arran  (of  Donegal),  island  of,  36. 

Arras,  Tyrone  at,  xxxix. 

Arrears,  account  of,  since  December,   1605, 
323. 

Arthur,   Anthony,   888.     See  Arthure,  An- 
thony. 

,  Father,  Jesuit,  at  Limerick,  463. 

,  John,  agrantof  Doe  Castle  to  him, 

and  eight  quarters  of  land  near  Kath- 
muUan  by  the  Earl  of  Tyroonnell,  571. 

, ,  void,  and  why,  ib. 

,  Robert,  of  Youghal,  24. 


Arthure,  Anthony,  a  poor  man,  holds  castle 

of  Glyn,  388. 
,  P.,  Mayor  of  Limerick,  suit  of,  as  to 

the  customs  and  other  privileges  of  the 

city,  257. 

,  ,  death  of,  267. 

,Eobert,  50. 

Articles,  the  Book  of,  for  regulation  of  the 

transplanted  Graemes,  cii. 
,  ,  in  the   custody  of  Walter  Gra- 
ham, the  gudeman  of  Netherby,  ib. 
,  ,  injunctions  of,  not  followed  by 

the  Grahams,  ib. 
,  between  the  King  and  city  of  London 

for  the  plantation  of  Derry  and  county 

of  Coleraine,  359,365. 
of  Instruction,  the  1 9,  annexed  to  the 

commission  of  plantation   of  21st  July 

1609,  Ixxxvi. 
, ,  for  plantation  of  Ulster,  580. 

Ash,  Sir  Thomas,  his  wardship  of  O'Carroll's 
heir,  421. 

,  ,  sells  it  to  Viscount  Butler,  ib. 

, ,  Chichester  disapproves  this,  26. 

Ashe,  John,  367. 

,  Sir  Thomas,  367,  372. 

Asheroe  Abbey,  purchased  by  Sir  H.  FoUiot, 
from  Mr.  Auditor  Gofton,  363. 

,  Abbey  of,  granted  to  Auditor  Gof- 
ton, 573. 

• . .  .■ ,  sold  by  him  to  Sir  Henry  Folliot, 

ib. 
Ashfield,  Sir  Robert,  land  purchased  from,  by 

SirD.  Sarsaeld,  162. 
Ashpoole,  [         ],  108. 
Askeating,  castle  of,  577.     See  Askeaton. 
Askeaton,  Sir  Francis  Barkley  offers  to  build 

a  wall  round,  351. 

) )  30  years'  experience  promises 

well  for  any  undertaking,  ib. 

Asketton,  fee-farm  grant  of,  to  Sir  Francis 
Barkley,  430.    See  Askeaton. 

Assizes  at  Armagh  in  1 608,  Ixxix. 

)  to  be  held  once  a  year  in  Munster 

and  Connaught,  154. 

summoned  in  each  county  by  planta- 
tion commissioners,  293. 

.court  of,  held  in  Connaught  by  Sir 

R.  Jacob,  298. 

Aston,  Sir  Arthur,  125. 
,  John,  ib. 

> >  to  tave  a  suitable  ecclesiastical 

preferment,  260. 
Atemple,  David  M'Ulicke  [Bourke],  87. 
Athboy,  town  of,  burnt  in  Tyrone's  rebellion, 

'  surrender  and  re-grant  of  these  lands 

ordered, ib. 

,  King's  letter  for,  298. 

)  charter  of  incorporation,  481. 

town  burnt  in  Tyrone's  war,  and  port- 
reeve and  many  burgesses  slain,  ib. 
Atherton,  Capt.,  366,  547. 


588 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Atherton — cont. 

,  Capt.,  servitor,  to  be  an  undertaker, 

428. 

,  Capt.  Henry,  509. 

Capt.  Henry,  three  balliboes  adjacent 

to  fort  of  Mountnorris  demised  to  him 
for  21  years  [         ],  James  I.,  555. 

Athie,  Sir  E.  Wingfield's  men  at,  33. 

Athlone,  a  president  for  Connaught  to  live  at, 

XT. 

,  castle  of,  Ixii. 

,  the  fugitive  Earls  charged  with  design 

to  seize  it,  ib, 

,  95,  98. 

,  King's  boats  at,  95. 

,  repair  of  King's  boats  at,  231. 

,  fee-farm,  rents  in,  371. 

castle,  ward  of,  507. 

,  constable  of,  Earl  of  Clanricard,  508. 

Athnes,  town  and  lands  of,  577. 

Athy,  327,  376. 

Atkins,  Lieutenant,  servitor,  to  be  an  vmder- 

taker,  428. 
Atkinson,  Capt.,  367. 
,  Lieutenant,  368. 

"  Atlantic  Monthly  Magazine,"  account  given 
in  number  for  March,  1868,  of  the 
transfer  of  Sir  Arthur  Chichester's 
papers  to  the  Library  of  Philadelphia, 
in  1799,  ciii. 

,  accuracy  of,  this  account  questipned, 

ciii,  civ. 

,  true  account  suggested,  cv. 

Attainders  of  Irish  traitors  in  England  to  be 
certified  into  and  enrolled  in  the  King's 
Bench  of  Ireland,  119,  127. 

Attkinson,  Captain,  semtor,  to  be  an  under- 
taker, 428. 

Attorneys,  provincial,  their  fees,  104. 

Attorney,  the  King's,  an  undertaker  in  Armagh, 
180. 

Aubigny,  the  Lord,  undertaker  in  Coleraine 
county,  181. 

Audelay,  Lord,  undertaker  in  Ai'magh  county, 
180. 

, ,  proposes  to  plant  in  Tyrone,  259. 

,  ,  his  proposal  favourably  con- 
sidered, 258.     See  Audley. 

Audely,  Lord,  he  and  his  son  become  under- 
takers in  Ulster,  256.  See  Audley  and 
Audelay. 

, ,  his  ancestor  was  one  of  the  first 

Lord  Marchers  of  Wales,  ib. 

, ,  others  of  the  family  were  com- 
panions of  De  Courey  in  his  conquest  of 
Ulster,  ib. 

,  a' castle  yet  standing  in  Lecale,  named 

after  Lord  Audely,  ib. 

,  Sir  Mervyn,  a  principal  undertaker 

in  Omagh,  with  the  names  and  abilities 
of  his  consorts,  548. 

Lord,  the  first  servitor  who  became 

undertaker  in  Ulster,  500,  547. 


Auditor  of  foreign  accounts,  grant  of  office  of, 
to  Sir  JamesWare  and  John  Ware,  478. 

Audley,  Lord,  Ixxxii,  Ixxxiii. 

, his  extravagant  project  of  planta- 
tion in  Tyrone,  Ixxxii. 

,  asks  for  100,000,  acres,  ib. 

, ,  offers  to  build  30  towns  of  30 

families  at  the  least,  Ixxxiii. 

, ,  gets  a  grant  of  Ferns  Castle  by 

surprise,  as  alleged  by  Sir  Eichard 
Masterson,  lessee  for  50  years,  121. 

,   ,  reported  to  have  a  grant  of 

100,000  acres  in  Tyrone,  297. 

, ,  his  antecedents  as  a  planter  in 

Munster  condemned  by  Chichester,  297. 

, ,  proposal  of  plantation  in  Tyrone 

referred  to  Chichester,  319. 

, ,  claims  time  to  consider  it,  ib. 

, ,  servitor,  to  be  an  undertaker, 

428. 

,  ,  asked  for  a  large  grant  in  Ulster, 

but  is  now  content  to  rank  as  an  ordi- 
nary undertaker,  467. 

,  ,  grant  to,  494. 

, ,121,122,256,365,467,494,500. 

Audleys,  the,  Anglo-Norman  settlers  in 
Lecale,  xii.     See  Audley. 

Aimgier,  Sir  Francis,  212,  215. 

, appointment  as  Master  of  Eolls, 

Ireland,  580. 

Aylmer,  Sir  Garrett,  letter  of  council  in 
favour  of,  423. 


B. 

Babington,  Brute,  to  be  bishop  of  Derry,  448. 

,  Dr.,  487. 

,  Braith  [Brute],  490. 

,  Edwin,  230. 

Bagenall,  Arthur,  undertaker  in  Armagh,  180. 
See  Bagnal  and  Bagnall. 

Baggot,  Edmund,  of  co.  Limerick,  324. 

Bagnal,  Arthur,  509. 

Bagnall,  George,  surrender  and  re-grant  to,  of 
castle  of  Ballimone  and  Kilmage,  443. 

,  Sir  Nicholas,  inheritor  of  Newry  and 

Mourne,  xi. 

, ,  seven  towns  in  Orealan,  for- 
merly belonging  to  the  Abbey  of 
Newry,  granted  to  Sir  Nicholas  Bag- 
nal, in  4  Edw.  VI.,  559. 

, .lands  of,  in  the  county  of  Ar- 
magh excepted,  when  the  rest  of  the 
county  was  vested  in  the  Crown  by 
statute  11th  of  Elizabeth,  553. 

, ,  son  of  Sir  Samuel,  servitor,  to 

be  an  undertaker,  428. 

Baker,  Capt.,  367,  547. 

,   servitor,  to  be  an  undertaker, 

428. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


589 


Bakers  and  brewers  in  Dublin  all  bake  and 

brew  for  themselves,  482. 

,  also  in  Cork  and  Waterford,  ib. 

Ball,  Robert,  of  Dublin,  aldeiman,  325. 
,  Thomas,  suit  of,  with  William  Ches- 

hale,  259. 

, ,348. 

Balinaas.Ballinnasse,  near  island  of  Claudie,  26. 

,  troops  sent  to,  to  interrupt  rebels,  35. 

Ballashanuon,  see  Ballysbannon. 

Balle  Cljmloagh,  co.  Cavan,  469. 

Balleassakille,  324. 

Ballibegs,  Abbey  of,  co.  York,  96. 

Ballesbannon,  see  Ballyshannon. 

Balliboe  or  taffe,  in  Monaghan,  20*.  to  be  paid 

for  each,  178. 

,  number  of,  in  Armagh,  402. 

Ballimore,  surrender  and  re-grant  of  castle  of, 

443. 
Ballimonescreagh,  church  of,  448. 
Ballinacarge,  castle  of,  in  Cavan,  56. 

,  ,  land  to  be  reserved  to,  ib. 

BaUinacky,  380. 

Ballinasse,  see  Balinaas. 

Ballinderrie,  136. 

Ballirickarde,  rectory  of,  448. 

Ballisax,  lease  of,  to  Kobt.  Naagle,  216.    See 

Ballysax. 
Ballishannon,  see  Ballyshannon. 
Balletrokell,  town  and  lands  of,  456. 
Ballonelope,  wood  of,  38. 

Ballybaughil,  co.  Dublin,  tithes  of,  granted  to 
Earl  of  Ormond,  506. 

Ballybeg,  abbey  of,  grant  of,  202. 

Ballyboggan,  grant  of  abbey  of,  to  Sir  F.  Rush, 
523. 

Ballycommon,  121. 

Ballycowmoyle,  375. 

Ballycrokill,  town  and  lands  of,  petition  re- 
garding, 180. 

Ballydavid,  in  Waterford,  lands  of,  282. 

Bally  do  wd,  co.  Dublin,  325. 

Ballygrannan,  494. 

Ballyhack,  co.  Dublin,  325. 

Ballyhenden,  castle  of,  burned,  582. 

Ballyhostie,  castle  and  lands  of,  584. 

Ballymaclesham,  494. 

Ballymackeady,  476. 

Ballymartin,  co.  Cork,  324. 

Ballynacargy  castle,  constable  of,  Archie 
Moore,  508. 

Ballynefehie,  castle  and  lands  of,  584. 

Ballynemore,  alias  Baronscourt,  (co.  Wex- 
ford), 122. 

Ballyntubered,  lands  of,  185. 

Ballysallagh,  494. 

Ballysax,  103,  216. 

Ballyshannon,  government  of,  xxiv. 

,  a  government  of  Dlster,  xxiii. 

castle,  fugitive  Earls    charged    with 

design  to  seize  it,  Ixii. 


Ballyshannon — cont. 

troops  for  defence  of,  27. 

,  Sir  H.  EoUiott's  men  at,  33. 

,  Allen  goes  to,  39. 

,  a  ward  to  be  reserved  at,  58. 

,  repair  of  the  King's  boats  at,  77. 

,  repairing  of  the  King's  boats  at,  227. 

,  to  be  surprised  by  Neal  GaiTe,  308. 

,346,  363,366. 

in  hands  of  Sir  H.  Folliot,  363. 

,  would  have  built  at  Belleek  but  Sir 

Arthur  Chichester  forbade,  ib. 

,  the  reason,  ib. 

castle,  town,  and  fishing,   and   1,000 

acres  contiguous  excepted  out  of  the 

re-grant  to  Rory,  first  Earl  of  Tyreon- 

nell,  on  his  surrender,  1  James  I.,  569, 

570. 
demised  to   Sir  Henry  ToUiott  for  24 

years,  provided  he  shall  so  long  live, 

573. 

,  governor  of.  Sir  Henry  EoUiolt,  507. 

Ballysonan,  surrender  and  re-grant  of;  162. 
Ballywine,  castle  and  lands  of,  584. 
Baltimore,  quarters  at,  42. 

,  plantation  at,  good  work  in,  43. 

,99,  100,  101. 

,  larger  and  more  civUly  and  religiously 

ordered  than  any  town  in  Munster,  100. 

,  though  only  so  lately  began,  ib. 

,  through   means    of    Mr.    Crooke,  of 

Baltimore,  ib. 

,  ill-will  to  him  thereby,  ib. 

,  hence  accusations  of  piracy,  ib. 

Ban  river,  89,  92,  194,  199,  207,  209. 

the,  camp  at,  15. 

,  fishing  rights  of,  to  be  declared,  61. 

,  fishing  of  salmon  and  eels  in,  reserved 

to  Londonderry  for  20  years,  136. 
,  fishing  of,  given  to  Londoners  as  far 

as  Lough  Neagh,  361. 
,  the,  much  admired  by  the  London 

agents,  281. 

,  below  the  Leape,  286. 

the  fishing  of.  Sir  Humphrey  Winch 

takes  some  exceptions  to  Wakeman's 

patent  for,  389. 
,  fishing   of  the,   repurchased  by  the 

King,  476. 
,  now  to  be  re-conveyed  to  His  Ma- 
jesty, ib. 
,  note  of  the  moneys  disbursed  by  S'r 

James  Hamilton  and  his  partners  aboa: 

the   fishing   of    the    Ban   and   Louji 

Foyle,  ib. 
,  warrant  of  the  Exchequer  to  pay  Sir 

James  Hamilton  1,000/.  for,  477. 
,   in   addition  to  other  moneys  before 

paid  to  him  for  his  title  and  interest  in 

the  fishings   of  the  Ban  and  Lough 

Foyle,  ib. 
,  tithe  fish  of,  O'Neil  seeks   compen- 
sation for,  taken  from  him  by  the  Lon- 
doners, 505. 


590 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Ban  river — cont. 

,  fishery,  Sir  J.  Davys's  notes  on,  527. 

fishing  of,  Salisbury  dislikes  the  grant 

made  of,  352. 
,  Chichester's  account  of  the  Earl  of 

Devonshire's  dealing  with  it,  353. 
,  ordered  him  to  pass  it  to  Wakeman 

(his  trustee),  ih. 

,  discontent  of  Earl  of  Tyrone  at,  ib. 

,  passed  afterwards  to  Mr.  Hamilton,  ib, 

,  Tyrone    got  a  period  of  40  years 

therein,  ib. 
,   Sir  Randal    M'Donnell   claimed    a 

quarter,  ib. 

,  Tyrone  claimed  a  moiety,  ib. 

,  the  fishing  of,  the  moiety  granted  to 

John  Wakeman  is  the  only  thing  not 

vested  in  the  immediate  possession  of 

the  Crown  in  the  county  of  Coleraine, 

563. 
Banagher,  grant  of  a  yearly  fair  at,  527. 
Banatyne,  Robert,  baillie  of  Edinburgh,  477. 
Bauckes,  Mr.,  341. 
Bangor,  abbey  of,  448. 
Banister,  William,  550. 
Bannoven,  co.  Galway,  325. 
Bann,  river,  see  Ban. 
Banne,  river,  see  Ban. 
Bautry  Bay,  101. 

Barbary,  fleet  at  the  Groyne  to  transport  King 
of  Morocco  to,  383. 

Barckley,  see  Barkeley  and  Barkley. 

Barclay,  see  Barkeley  and  Berkeley. 

Barclie,  see  Barkeley. 

Bards,  the  Irish,  make  songs  in  praise  of  Cap- 
tain Tyrrell,  437. 

Barkeley,  a  map  maker,  employed  by  the  Earl 
of  Devonshire  in  Ulster,  Ixxxvii. 

,  murdered  by  the  inhabitants  of  Done- 
gal, ib. 

,  appointed    by    Lord  Devonshire   to 

make  a  map  of  north  of  Ulster,  be- 
headed by  the  inhabitants,  285. 

Barkley,  see  Berkeley. 

,  Sir  Erancis,  98,  99,  351,  366,  388. 

,  ,  in   command  of  Carrigefoyle 

castle,  388. 

,  present  at  taking  of  recogni- 
zance of  Edmund  Fitzgerald,  ib. 

,  farmer  of  lands  of  Athnes,  577. 

, ,  grant  to,  of  Asketton  castle,  430. 

,  Sir  Maurice,  imdertaker  in  Annagh, 

180. 

, of  Somerset,  a  principal  un- 
dertaker in  Onealaud  or  LifFord,  with 
the  names  and  abilities  of  his  consorts, 
548. 

Morrice,  reversion  of  constableship  of 

Limerick,  grant  of  to,  433. 

Barley  (and  oats)  only  corn  of  Ulster,  144. 

Barlowe,  Mr.,  Chichester's  chaplain,  recom- 
mended to  be  Bishop  of  Ossory,  390. 


Bamesmore,  mountain  of,  xxiii. 

,  divides  the  districts  of  Donegal,  xxiv. 

,  mountain  of,  38. 

BamewaU,  Edward,  90. 

,  Patrick,  ib, 

,  Peter,  ib, 

,  Robert,  ib. 

,  Patrick,  54. 

,  Robert,  ib. 

,  Patrick,  381,  382. 

,  Christopher,  382. 

,  James  (father  of  Patrick),  of  Monck- 

ton,  577. 

,  Patrick,  wardship  of,  577,  578. 

,  Simon,  328. 

Barnstaple,  78,  106. 

,  pirates  to  be  sent  to,  188. 

,  ship  of,  wrecked  at  Kinsale,  232. 

,  after  landing  400  men  under  Sir  An- 
thony Cooke  at  Waterford,  ib. 
Baron,  the  Chief,  112. 
Bai'onies  in  the  six  counties,  403. 
Baronmore,  202. 
Barons,  wars  of  the,  xxx. 
Baronscourt,   (co.   Wexford),  alias  Ballyne- 

more,  122. 
Barrer,  John,  360. 
Barrett,  473,  480,  486. 
,  Pierce,  of  Balleasseskell,  co.  Mayo, 

324. 
Barries,  the  plantations  by,  17. 
Barrington,  Alexander,  185. 
Barry,  David,  374. 
,  ,  gi'andson  of,  wardship  of,  to  be 

granted  to  Elinor,  Countess  of  Ormond, 

Lord  Barry's  daughter,  425. 
Lord  Buttevant,  good  service  of,  in 

the  Queen's  time,  ib. 

, ,374. 

,  Mr.,  bill  for  use  of,  19. 

,  Richard,  341. 

Barton,  John,  commissioner  for  plantations  of 

Londonderry,  136. 

, 488. 

Basinge,  Sunday  kept  solemnly  at,  269. 

Basilian,  Cornelius,  149. 

Bassett,  Arthur,  provost  marshal  of  Munster, 
32. 

,  Captain,  367. 

,  Captain  Arthur,  510. 

Bath,  John,  and  others,  account  of  their  for- 
feited goods  rendered  by  Sir  Toby 
Caulfeild,  after  flight  of  Tyrone,  538, 
544. 

,  Mr.,  of  Saundestoun,  474. 

,  Thomas,  of  Drumconrott,  co.  Dublin, 

325. 

,475. 

Baxter,  Captain  John,  Lady  Desmond's  com- 
plaint against,  449. 

Baynard,  Captain  John,  78,  125,  245. 
Bayonne,  a  fleet  preparing  at,  13. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


591 


Beaghan,  John,  511. 

Bealaghughie,  castle  of,  in  co.  Cork,  517. 
Bealahane  and  Terry  Isle,  granted  1°  Jas.  I., 
to  Sir  James  Fullerton,  573. 

,  who  sold  to  Sir  Ealph  Bingley,  ib. 

,  who  sold  to  Earl  of  Tyreonnell,  ib. 

Beart  Castle  invested  by  Sir  Thomas  Ridge- 
way,  xlix. 

Beaumont,  Sir  Thomas,  471. 

,  Viscount,  472. 

Beeston,  George,  247. 
Begg,  John,  341. 
Belagh,  James,  73. 
Beleoke,  see  Belleek. 
Belfast,  timber  woods  near,  89. 
Bell,  Robert,  pensioner,  538. 
Belleek,  near  Bally  shannon,  55. 

, ,  land  to  be  reserved  to,  ib. 

, ,  purchased  by  Sir  H.  Eolliott, 

363. 
Bellew,  Sir  Christopher,  seized  of  five  towns 

in  the  Fews  country  as  parcel  of  his 

manor  of  the  Koch,  554. 
...„...., ,  lately  recovered  them  at  law, 

from  Sir  Henry  M'Turlogh  O'Neil,  ib. 
,  Sir  John,  lands  of,  in  the  county  of 

Armagh,  excepted  when  the  rest  of  the 

county  was  vested  in  the   Crown  by 

Stat.  11th  of  Elizabeth,  553. 

,  the  Lady  (otherwise  Dillon),  110. 

,  Mr.,  with  his  bride,  coming  over,  282. 

Belturbert  to  be  made  a  ward,  55. 

,  land  to  be  reserved  to,  ib. 

,366. 

,  Stephen  Butler,  undertaker,  to  settle 

at,  489. 
Benburbe,  a  defaced  castle  on  the  Blackwater, 

ix. 

,  in  the  barony  of  Dungannon,  439. 

Bengal  land  system  resembled  the  old  Irish, 

xxvii. 
Bennett,  Nicholas,  229. 
Benson,  Hugh,  bills  to,  19. 
Bensons,  the,  settled  in  Lecale,  xii. 
Berkeley,  see  Barkley. 
Berkley,  see  Barkley. 
Best,  Mr.,  letter  from,  58. 
Bevans,  Nicholas,  74,  227. 
Beverley,  Sir  George,  pension  of,  168. 

, ,  comptroller  of  victuals,  301. 

BickneU,  Wm.,  pensioner,  338. 

Bilbao,  preparations  at,  for  invasion  of  Ire- 
land, 14. 

Billboe,  see  Bilbao. 

BUlingsley,  Sir  Henry,  484. 

Bingley,  John,  bill  to,  19. 

,  Sir  John,  estimate  of  cost  of  troops 

by,  552. 

,  Sir  Ealph,  invests  island  of  Torry,  1. 

, ,  Sir  Raphe,  Scottish  soldiers  assigned 

to,  10. 


Bingley^con^, 

,  Sir  Ralph,  left  to  watch  the  rebels  at 

Torry,  27. 

, ,  number  of  his  men,  33. 

, ,97. 

, ,  surrender  and  re-grant  of  lands 

to,  in  Bonegal,  172. 

, ,  had  aliened  them  to  Tyreonnell, 

ib. 

,  John,  chief  remembrancer,  174. 

Sir  Ralph  (Richard),  363,  367. 

, ,  sold  abbey  of  KUmacrenan  to 

Tyreonnell,  and  lost  600/.,  441. 

, ,  recommended  as  a  servitor  for 

extraordinary  grant,  ib. 

,  ,548. 

,  ,  buys   of  Sir  J.   EuUerton  the 

abbey  lands  of  Kilmacreenan,  573. 

,    ,  sells  to  Earl  of  Tyreonnell,  ib. 

,    Captain,    recommended    to     Privy 

Council,  43. 

,  Captain  Richard,  197,  251. 

,  ,  has  prepared  soldiers  for  Swe- 
den, 264. 

,  ,287,343. 

,  ,  servitor,  to  be  an  undertaker, 

428. 

,  Sir  Richard,  sues  to  be  muster- 
master  general,  436. 

,  appointed  to  organise  a  body  of 

such  swordsmen  for  the  Swedish  service, 
458. 

, ,  his  articles  of  agreement  with 

Lords  of  Council,  459. 

, ,  solicits  a  portion  of  lands  as 

servitor,  461. 

,  496,  509,  510. 

,  Sir  Robert,  servitor,  to  be  an  under- 
taker, 428. 

Bircheusha,  see  Birchenshaw. 

Birchenshaw,  Sir    Ralph,  excuses  himself  to 

Salisbury,  151. 
, had  not  presumption  to  expect 

an  answer   to   "  such  a  poor  mail  as 

himself,"  152. 
, ,  has  returned  from  journey  of 

460  miles,  191. 

, ,  sues    to    be    paid  in  British 

money,  303. 

,  Mr.,  367. 

Bird,  Thomas,  341, 
Birkett,  John,  511. 
Birne,  see  Byrne. 

,  Edmund,  pensioner,  338. 

Birt  Castle,  monk  taken  at,  apostatizes,  16. 

castle  of,  60. 

Birte,  William,  511. 

Biscay,  Passage  [Pasages]  in,  a  fleet  prepar- 
ing at,  13. 
pagador  of,  14. 

Bishop,  a  pirate,  arrives  in  command  of  pirates 
in  Munster,  273. 


592 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


Bishops-eon  ^ 

,  Edward,  elected  admiral  of  the  pirates, 

277. 

,  the  pirate,  480. 

, ,  Lord  Deputy's   letter  in  favour 

of,  457. 

Bishops'  propositions  in  Ulster  plantation, 
116. 

Bishops,  lands  of,  return  of,  180. 

Bishops,  the,  have  only  the  rents  of  the  church 
lands,  not  the  lauds  themselves,  281. 

of  "Ulster,  what  they  sliouid  be  bound 

to  in  the  plantation,  in  Chichester's 
opinion,  358,  359. 

,  to  bring  tenants  from  England, 

lb. 

to  build  each  a  strong  house  to 

dwell  in  in  his  diocese,  il/. 

,  to  give  glebes  of  60  acres  or  100 

acres  to  each  church,  ib. 

,  they  .should  have  the  Termon 

lands  discharged  of  the  Corbes  and 
Erenagh,  ib. 

found   to   have   no   title   to  Erenagh 

lands,  389. 

,  their  demesne  and  mensal  lands  re- 
stored, ib. 

,   their   register  books   discredited   by 

juries,  390. 

to  have  free  grant  from  the  King,  of 

Erenagh  and  Termon  lands,  410. 

may  grant  leases  of  60  years,  358. 

, ,   afterwards   no   more   than   21 

years,  ib. 

,  number  of  acres  allotted  to,  417. 

demesnes,  403. 

,  reported  influx  of,  from  Rome,  461. 

Bishop  of  Cork,  letter  in  his  defence,  100. 

,  Mr.  Crooke  has  been  continually  em- 
ployed against  the  pirates,  ib. 

Biskey,  see  Biscay. 

Bisse,  Christopher,  second  remembrancer  of 
Exchequer,  419. 

Bissett,  Baron,  of  the  Glens,  xiii, 

Blackabbey,  abbey  of,  448. 

Blackfoord,  castle  of,  in  Queen's  County,  de- 
livered up  by  Harpole,  401. 

,  ,  a   strong  and  important  place, 

ib. 

Black  Rook,  iu  Connaught,  473. 

Blackwater,  the,  in  Tyrone,  ix. 

,  bridge  and  fort  of,  x. 

fort  of,  inhabited  by  three  ministers 

of  Tyrone,  279. 

, ,  defended  by  Sir  Thos.  Williams, 

280. 

,  Charlemont  on  the,  294. 

Bhiin,  Sir  Edward,  10. 

Blainey,  see  Blayney. 

Blaney,  see  Blayney. 

Blantyre,  Lord,  483. 

Blanye,  see  Blayney. 


Blayney,  Sir  Edward,  commanded  in  Mona- 

ghan,  xxiv. 

, ,  number  of  his  men,  33. 

97,366. 

, ,  servitor,  to  be  an  undertaker, 

428,  510,  547. 

,  507. 

,  JLord,  his   residence   at   Monaghan, 

294. 

Blennerhassett,  John,  appointed  extra  Baron 

of  Exchequer,  257. 
Thos.,  548. 

Bladder,  Sir  Thomas,  contractor  for  victual- 
ling King's  ship,  316. 

Bluudel,  George,  surrenders  reversion  of  con- 
stableship  of  Limerick,  433. 

BlundeU,  see  Blundeville. 
Blundell,  Sir  Francis,  373. 
Blundeville,  Erancis,  321. 
Blunte,  Edward,  548. 
Boats,  the  King's,  on  Lough  Sidney,  229. 
,  captains  of,  in  the  north,  to  be  under- 
takers in  Ulster,  366. 

,  keepers  of  the  King's,  list  of,  512. 

:  King's,  kept  at  Loughfoyle,  513. 

,  , Ballyshannon,  ib. 

,  , Masseryn,  ib. 

,  Lough  Sidney,  ib. 

Bodley,  Sir  Josias,  Ixxxvii. 

,  ,  surveys  for  the  plantation,  ib. 

,231. 

, ;  his  proceedings  in  the  survey  of 

escheated  counties,  293. 

,  ,367,374,  391. 

, ,  his  account  of  the  maps  of  the 

escheated  lauds,  392. 

,  ,  how  prepared,  393. 

, ,  called  people  in  every  barony 

skilled  in  the  names  of  the   balliboes 

before  him,  ib. 
, ,   his  plan  prevented  fraudulent 

dealing,  ib. 
, ,  servitor,  to  be  an  undertaker, 

428. 
Bogas,  Robert,  548. 
Boine,  Gerrot,  511. 
Bolton,  Richard,  recorder  of  Dublin,  70. 

Bonaghs  and  Galloglass,  commission  for,  in 
counties  of  Carlo  w  and  Wexford,  118. 

,  remission  of  arrears  of,  127. 

Bondrows  [Bundrowes],  363. 

,  promised  to  Sir  H.  EoUiott,  on  certain 

conditions,  ib. 

Bonecrana,  see  Buncrana. 

Bonnoghts,  the  Minshelas,  Macdamors,  and 
MacVadocks  have  been  the  bonoghts 
or  hired  soldiers  of  the  Cavenaghs, 
472. 

Bonyton,  Captain,  detained  by  storm,  1 30. 

Boothby,  Mr.,  346. 

Booy,  Edmund,  511. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


593 


Border,  Minstrels,  Sir  Walter  Scott's,  xcvi. 

,  cattle-lifting  of  border  counties,  ib. 

,  border  land,  ib. 

Borrowes,  Henry,  337,  511. 

Bothwell,  Earl  of,  conference  of,  with  Tyrone, 
179. 

Boughe,  a  pirate,  .522. 

Bourchier,  Captain,  367,  374,  547. 

, ,  servitor,  to  be  an  undertaker, 

428. 

,  Sir  George,  112,  374. 

,  ,  pension  given  to,  as  composi- 
tion for  a  debt,  438. 

,  ,  pension  of,  442. 

Bourke,  see  Burke. 

David  M'Ulicke,  87. 

,  Edmond,  son  of  Thomas,  speedy  in- 
quisition ordered  regarding  his  legiti- 
macy, 260. 

,  Edmund,  291. 

,  John,  542. 

,  Lady  Margaret,  342,  343. 

,  Lord,  inquiry  in  the  cause  of,  291. 

,  Lord  Castleconnell,  342. 

,  Lord,  pensioner,  338. 

,  Rd.  Eitzwilliam,  of  CO.  Limerick,  324. 

,  Richard,  of  Derrymaelaghlin,  342. 

,  late  Lord,  291. 

,  Sir  Theobald,  Ixix. 

,  ,  falsely  included  in  Tyrconnell's 

treason,  by  Lord  Howth,  ib. 

,  Theobald,  Lord  Castleconnell,  324. 

,  ,  reputed  Lord  Bourke,  260. 

,  Sir  Th.,   of  BaUy  Lough  Mask,  co. 

Mayo,  325. 

,  Thomas,  342. 

,  Tibbot,  governor  of  a  province,  124. 

,  Sir    Tibbot,    of    Ballincarrowe,     co. 

Mayo,  325. 

,  Sir  Tybbot,  having  been  accused  of 

being    of   Tyrone's    conspiracy,    was 
imprisoned,  86. 

, ,  but  is  let  out  on  bonds,  ib. 

,  ,  earnestly  prays  for  a  trial,  ib. 

,  was    charged  by   the   Earl    of 

Clanricarde,    on    the    information    of 
David  M'Ulick  Atemple  Bourke,  87. 

, ,  Chichester  does  not  believe  him 

to  be  ill-affected,  ib. 

,  Sir  Thomas,  no  party  to  Tyrconnell's 

treason,     though     charged     by    Lord 
Howth,  Ixix. 

,  ,  charged  as  privy  to  conspiracy,  2. 

,  Thomas  (brother  of  the  Earl  of  Clan- 
ricarde), complains  that  the  Earl  has 
falsely  given  out  that  he  intended  to 
murder  him  and  his  little  son,  86. 

,  ,  this  done  to  disgrace  him,  ib. 

,  ,  was  accused  of  being  of  Tyrone's 

conspiracy  for  same  object,  ib. 

, ,  having   been  in  prison,  is  out 

upon  bonds,  ib. 

, ,  prays  for  a  trial,  ib. 

3. 


Bourke — coiit. 

,  Walter,  of  Turlogh,  co.  Mayo,  325. 

Bourks,  the,  plantations  by,  17.     See  Bourke, 

Burke. 
Bourne,  William,   grant  of  constableship  of 

Ardmagh  gaol  to,  274. 
Bowen,  Augustine,  373. 

,  Edmund,  512. 

,  Mr.,  367. 

,  OUver,  289. 

,  Robert,  captain,  pension  for,  ib. 

,  claims  debt  of  700/.  out  of  Tyr- 

connell,  ib. 

,  Richard,  pension  of,  168. 

,  Robert,   surrenders    provost-marshal- 
ship  of  Leinster  and  Heath,  185. 

,  ,507. 

Bowlton,  Richard,  233. 
Boylagh,  precinct  of,  404. 

and  Banagh  baronies,  368. 

,  who  should  undertake  them  ib. 

Boyle,  Sir  Richard,   deposition  taken  before, 

24. 
, ,  report  on  his  woods  referred  to, 

43. 

,  ,  examinations  taken  by,  49. 

,  70,  91,  348,  476,  495. 

, ,    suit   of,   with  Wm.    Cheshall, 

259. 
,  ,  passes  reversion  of  lauds  on  Sir 

W.  Taaffe's  book,  397. 
,  ,  bound  for  rent  of  abbey  of  Gal- 
bally,  435. 
, ,   married   to    Sir    G.    Fenton's 

only  daughter,  528. 
,  ,  his  iron  works  near  Youghal, 

530. 
, ,  charged  with  passing  patent  for 

so  many  lands  that  the  parchment  rolls 

are  16  yards  long,  552. 

Boyletefarnham    (Multifarnam),    abbey    of, 

463. 
Boyne,  Hamilton,  Viscount,  cv,  note. 

Brabazon,  Sir  Edward,  366. 

,  ; ,    opposes     captains     becoming 

undertakers,  407. 

,  .......  recommended  by  Chichester  to 

Salisbury,  429. 
Bradies,  the,  in  Cavan,  will   expect  allotment 

of  a  good  portion  of  land,  55. 
Brady,  of  the  Cavan,  charges  the  young  Prince 
with  seducing  the  late  Lord   Essex's 
daughter,  453. 

,  Dennis,  511. 

Nicholas,  367. 

,  Philip  M'Tyrrelagh,  115. 

,  Phillip,  511. 

,  Walter,  ib. 

,  ,  pensioner,  337. 

"  Brance  "  (branch)  of  Sir  R.  Hansard's  letter 

about  the  rebels,  37. 
Brand,  William,  360. 

P  P 


594 


GENERAL  INDEX, 


Brasilagh,  89,  364,  366. 

>  in  county  of  Armagh,  well  stored  with 

woods,  89. 

>  Sir  Fulk  Conway  would  undertake, 

364,  366. 

,   M'Phelim,     undertakes     to     Shane 

Manus  O'Dounel  to  kill  M'Nagher,  who 
betrayed  PheUmy  Keagh,  94. 

,  Phelim,  ib. 

Braslowe,  see  Brasilagh. 

Brasolaeh,  Tirlough,  holds  his  land  from  the 
Earl  of  Tyrone,  x. 

Brehon  law,  Ixxiv. 

,  forhidden  in  Queen's  County  planta- 
tion between  English  subjects,  ib. 

Brenny,  the,  otherwise  O'Reilly's  country,  221. 

,  claimed  by  Richard  Plunkett,  of  Eath- 

more,  ib. 

,  as   descended  from  one  of  the  heirs 

female  of  Sir  Theobald  de  Verdon,  ib. 

,  of  whom  it  was  held,  ib. 

,  Tyrrell  had  a  troop  of  soldiers  out  of, 

436.     See  Breny. 

Brenon,  John,  511. 

Breny  O'KeiUy,  otherwise  Cavau  county,  576. 

Brereton,  Henry,  185. 

,  William,  511. 

Brerton,  Arthur,  pensioner,  338. 

,  William,  pensioner,  ib. 

,  see  Brereton. 

Bresilagh,  in  Armagh,  62.     See  Brasilagh. 

Brett,  Thomas,  74. 

Brian,  Lieutenant,  368. 

, ,  servitor,  to  be  an  undertaker, 

428. 
Brice,  Richard,  341. 
Bristol  merchants,  report  of  goods  taken  from, 

by  Jennings,  the  pirate,  14. 
Bristol,  Mayor  of,  prisoners  sent  to,  49. 

,  pirates  to  be  sent  to,  188. 

,106,  119. 

,    Dublin    being     desolate    after    the 

slaughter  made  of  ^the   Easterhngs  by 
the  English,  210. 

,  given  by  King  Henry  II.  to  Bristol 

to  inhabit,  ib. 

inhabited  by  the  men  of  Bristol,  ib. 

,  to  the  eternal  commendation  of  Bris- 
tol, ib. 

band  barrel  proposed  as  the  sole  mea^ 

sure  to  be  used  in  the  port  towns,  261. 

, ,  reasons  for  adopting,  262. 

Britaines  (Britons)  precincts,  equality  in  di- 
vision of,  impossible,  406. 
Britons,  undertakers,  their  several  proportions 

in  the  escheated  counties,  339. 
Brittany,  the  middle  shires  of,  xcvi. 
Broad,  John,  commissioner  for  plantation  of 
Londonderry,  136. 

,  Mr.,  one  of  the  London  agents  skilled 

in  iron  working,  290. 

,  bis  judgment  of  the  iron  ore 

found  in  Toom,  ib.     See  Brode. 


Broadhaven,  near  Sligo,  intended  landing  at, 
14. 

Brode,  John,  Ixxxii. 

,'commissioned,  with  three  others, 

for  city  of  London,  to  view  the  country 
the  City  had  undertaken  to  plant,  ib. 

Brodey,  John,  488. 

Brokesby,  Mr.  James,  xlii. 

Broncker,  Sir  Henry,  imposed  fines  for  re- 
cusancy, 129.     See  Brounker. 

, ,  to  be  remitted,  131. 

Brook,  Capt.  Basill,  366,  509,  547.  -See 
Brooke. 

) servitor,  to  be  an  undertaker, 

428. 
Brooke,  Capt.  Basil,  is  granted  the  lands  of 

KiUadonnel  Abbey,  in  the  county  of 

Donegal,  573. 

,  Sir  Calisthenes,  certificate  from,  134. 

,  Edward,  367. 

,  Sir  Richard,  548. 

Broughtou,  Arthur,  sent  into  England  by  Fr. 

CresweU,  53. 
Brouncker,  Sir  Henry,   128,   203,   215,  226. 

See  Brounker. 
Brounker,  Sir  Henry,  fined  many  for  resisting 

his  warrants,  447. 
Brower,  William,  550. 

Browne,  John,  an  honest  merchant  of  London, 
xli. 

,  Lieutenant,  left  on  guard  to  watch  the 

rebels,  36. 

, ,  servitor,  to  be  an   undertaker, 

428. 

,  ,368. 

,  Sir    Nicholas,    his    son    married    to 

Countess  of  Desmond's  daughter,  450. 
,  WiUiam,  of  Malrankin,  co.  Wexford, 

324. 

,  367. 

Brownlow,  John,  549. 

Brussels,  Jesuits'  college  at,  a  party  sent  out 
from,  268. 

,474. 

Bruton,  Mr.,  one  of  Salisbury's  secretaries, 
278. 

Bimcrana,  Castle  of,  60. 

,  M'AUen  returns  from,  38. 

Burgot,  John,  476. 

Burke,  Sir  Bernard,  his  Peerage  and  Baronetage 
cited,  cv,  note. 

,  John,  brother  of  Lord  Clanrickard,  a 

malcontent,  298. 

,  Sir  Thomas,  a  malcontent,  ib. 

,  Raimond  Seoube,  465. 

,  Sir  Theobald,  captures  pirates,  141. 

, ,465. 

,  Sir  Thomas,  entertainment  of,  19. 

,  Thomas,  465. 

Burleigh,  Lord,  letters  of,  found  in  Sir  G. 
Fenton's  papers  after  his  death,  and  re- 
turned to  Salisbury,  528. 

Burne,  Daniel,  511. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


595 


Burnell,  Henry,  endorsements  of,  on  deed  be- 
tween Lord  Kildare  and  Sir  R.  Digby, 
141. 

, fined  for  making  these  endorse- 
ments, ib. 

,  Mr.,  forged  endorsement  on  deed  of 

jointure,  201. 
Burrishoole   garrison,   commander  of,  Jasper 

Harbert,  508. 
Bushop,  a  pirate,  now  upon  the  coast,  188. 

•See  Bishop. 
Butler,  Beckingham,  .549. 

,  Katharine,  lands  to  be  allotted  to,  183. 

,  Stephen,  489,  549. 

,  Theobald,  Viscount,  of  TuUeophelim, 

surrender  and  re-grant  of  his  castles 

and  lands,  582. 
,    Lord    TuUoe,    takes    deposi- 
tion as  to  intended  Spanish  invasion  of 

Ireland,  398. 

,  Sir  Thomas,  bill  to,  19. 

,  Thomas,  harbinger,  79. 

,  Viscount,  372. 

, ,  reports  to  Salisbury  a  reputed 

plot  for  the  overthrow  of  all  the  great 

houses  of  the  realm,  522. 
Butlers,  the  plantation  of,  17. 
Buttevant,  Baron  Lord,  374. 
Buttler,  see  Butler. 
Byngley,  see  Bingley. 
Byrne,  Gerrot,  336. 

Phelim  M'Feagh  M'Kem,  465. 

Byrnes,  arrantest  knave  of  the,  his  reply  to  Sir 

H.  Sydney,  177. 

and  Tooles,  69. 

Byshope,  «ee  Bishop. 
Bysse,  Christopher,  367. 


c. 


Caddell  Woogan,  332. 

Cade,  a  mariner,  arrested  by  Sir  E.  Monson, 

398. 
Cadiz,  WilUam  Duffe,  learns  intelligence  at, 

of  Spanish  preparations,  393. 

,  another  report  from,  398. 

Cffisar,  Sir  Julius,  commissioner  for  plantation 

of  Londonderry,  136. 
Cahir  Castle,  379. 
Cahir-na-Mart  325. 
Calais,  99. 

Calebeg,  see  Killybegs. 
Calefeelde,  see  Caulfield. 
Calefeild,  Sir  Toby,  10. 
Calefield,  see  Caulfeild. 
Cales,  see  Cadiz. 
CaUan,  384. 


Calthorpe,  Sir  Charles,  70,  73,  229,  231,  233. 

, ,  second  justice  of  Common  Pleas, 

his  yearly  fee,  339. 

Calvert,  Robert,  75,  369. 

Cambrensis,  Giraldus,  remark  of,  as  to  Tues- 
day being  a  fortunate  day  for  the  Bng- 
Ush,  14. 

,  book  of,  sent  to  Salisbury  by  Sir  J. 

Davys,  135. 

Campheir,  Sanders  Fleming  of,  pirate,  843. 

Canary  islands,  232. 

Canevoyre  Wood,  1. 

Canterbury,  Archbishop  of,  Chichester  recom- 
mends Mr.  Barlowe  to,  to  be  Bishop  of 
Ossory,  390. 

, ,  censures  Bishop  of  Down,  457. 

Cantier,  see  Cantire. 

Cantire,  in  Scotland,  opposite  to  the  coast  of 
Antrim,  xiii. 

,  Lord  of,  Angus  M'Connell,  ih. 

Cantwell,  Thomas,  476. 

John,  of  Cantwell's  Court,  CO.  Kil- 
kenny, 324. 

Captaincies  and  seneschalships,  no  more  to  be 
granted,  119,  127. 

Captains  of  foot,  list  of,  Nov.  1608,  96. 

of  boats  and  constables  of  castles  in 

the  north,  to  be  undertakers  in  Ulster, 
366. 

Caragh,  Brian,  his  country,  xiii. 
Carberry,  474. 

,  vicarage  of,  578. 

Card  [Chart] ,  to  be  made  of  each  county  in 
Ulster,  293. 

Carekanassy,  282. 

Carew,  Lord,  323,  329,  384. 

, ,  warrants  issued  by,  447. 

, ,  issued  warrant  to  Limerick,  ib. 

, ,  which  was  resisted,  ib. 

, ,  fined  and  imprisoned  the  mayor, 

ib. 

John,  325. 

Papers,  account  of  Ulster  from,  viii. 

Carie,  William,  511. 

Carless,  Christopher,  pensioner,  338. 

Carleton,  Mr.  Secretary  Dudley,  373. 

,  Dudley,  348. 

Carlingford,  334,  497. 

,  Chichester  goes  to,  to  see  troops  em- 
barked for  Sweden,  300. 
,   Castle,    constable     of,    Marmaduke 

Whitchurch,  509. 
Carlisle,  Bishop  of,  xcix. 
Castle,  some  of  the  Grsemes  break  out 

of,  xovii. 
,  Lord,  obtained  living  of  Gray stocke  in 

commendam,  458. 
Carlow  county,  324. 
and  Wexford,  King's  commission 

for  Bonaght  and  Gallowglass  in,  118. 
,  manor  of,  granted  on  fee-farm  to  Earl 

of  Thomond,  551. 

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GENERAL  INDEX. 


Carlow — cont. 

,  ^. ,  in  exchange  with  the  King  for 

the  abbey  of  Galbally,  552. 
,  dispute    of  Thomond    and   Sir    A. 

Loftus  regarding  order  in,  412. 
,  Harpole's  treasons  "while  constable  of, 

401. 

Carmick,  Nicholas,  341. 

Carnan,  Owen,  sues  for  800  acres  of  land  in 
Cavan,  his  suit  recommended,  441. 

Carnew,  in  Shillelagh,  a  ward  placed  at,  95, 

,  constable  of,  Richard  Mitten,  508. 

Carolan,  Patrick,  380,  382. 

,   Shane    Graue,    385,   386,    and    see 

Shane  Grane  O'Halloran,  385,  387. 

, ,  chief  of  the  Carolans,  386. 

,  lies  ill  at  his  house,  387. 

, ,  a  horseman  in  Sir  G.  Moore's 

troop,  387. 
(   ,  sent  for  examination  to    Sir 

James  Ley,  386. 

, ,  released  by  him,  ib. 

,  a  spirited  fellow,  ib. 

) performed  good  service  to  the 

Crown,  ib. 

Carolans,  the,  384,  335,  386. 

,   complaint  of  Lord  Howth  against, 

275. 
,  Sir  G.   Moore  "ordered  to   forbear 

them,"  but  does  not  forbear,  ib. 

,  are  now  both  horse  and  foot,  276. 

the  Deputy  to  be  ordered  to  withdraw 

his  favour  from,  ih. 
,  Lord  Howth  complains  of  the  favour 

shown  them  by  Chichester,  ib. 
,  Chichester  charged  with  protecting, 

386. 

,  explanation  regarding,  ib. 

,  cessing  soldiers  on  the  country,  385.^ 

,  horses  given  to,  by  Howth,  to  take 

Sir  Garret  Moore's  life,  387. 
warrant  for  prosecution  of,  demanded 

by  Howth,  385. 
Carpenter,  supervisor  at  Youghal,  53. 
,  John,  to  be  chief  remembrancer  in 

reversion  to  K.  Hopper,  174. 

, ,   clerkship  of  Crown,   &c.,   for 

Munster,  grant  of  reversion  of,  431. 
, ,  patent  of,  for  reversion  of  some 

preferment  in  Ireland  to  be  renewed, 

518. 
Carrickfergus,  65,  74,  75,  89,  96. 

,  troops  to  be  conveyed  to,  11. 

,  Chichester  returns  by,  28. 

,  troops  at,  40. 

,    ,   establishment  for,   approved, 

47. 

Palace,  repairs  of,  80. 

- ,  no  timber  or  wood  nearer  than  Belfast, 

89. 

,  there  is  nothing  but  stubbed  oak  near 

Carrickfergus,  ib. 


Carrickfergus — cont. 

Governor  of,  Sir  Arthur  Chichester, 

507. 

,  ward  of,  ib. 

..  Castle,   constable  of,  Capt.   Faithful 

Fortescue,  508. 

Palace,  constable  of,  John  Dalway,  ib. 

,  Chichester  desires  to  be  independent 

of  Ulster  Presidency,  xxii. 

,   ,   and   government    of  Ulster, 

xxiii. 

,  CeoU  desired  to  keep  government  of 

Ulster  in  his  own  immediate  direction, 
ib. 

Carrick  (on  Suir),  99,  121,  352. 

Carrick,  Teige  ne,  pensioner,  338. 

Carrigefoyle,  castle  of,  388. 

, petition  of  John  O'Connor  to 

be  restored  to,  455. 

, ,  is   in  custody  of   Sir  Francis 

Barkeley,  455. 

Carrigleamleary,  340. 

,  Lord  Roch  complains  of  Sir  Dominick 

Sarsfield,  chief  justice,  of  Munster, 
preventing  him  in  the  purchase  of, 
340. 

,  Sir  Dominick  Sarsfield  states  the  de- 
fects of  Lord  Roche's  title,  341. 

Carroll,    James,     recommended    as    muster- 
master  general,  162. 

, ,  vice-treasurer,  claim  upon,  for 

200/.  remaining  in  his  hands,  of  the 
traitor  Tyrone,  301. 

,  Chichester's  statement  regarding 

it,  301,  302. 

,  Sir  James,  367. 

,  John,  pensioner,  336. 

,  Thomas,  341. 

Cartan,  Patrick,  541 . 

Carter,  William,  550. 

,  ,  master  of  the"SeaFlower,"287. 

Carter's,  suspicious  proceedings  of,  151. 

Carthage,  501. 

,  activity  of  the  Londoners  likened  to 

Vii'gil's  description  of  the  building  by 
Dido  of  her  colony  of  Carthage,  501. 

Carty,  Dermot,  350. 

,  Dermond,  467. 

,  Owen  M'Teig,  co.  Cork,  324. 

Carvyle,  John,  his  project  of  plantation  upon 
8,000  acres  in  Ireland,  323. 

Gary,  Sir  George,  26,  198,  207,  508. 

John,  512. 

Case  of  Countess  Dowager  of  Kildare  against 
Sir  Robert  Digby,  376. 

Casey,  John,  494. 

Cashel,  Archbishop  of,  324. 

, ,  Kearney,  Dr.,  350. 

, to  be  member  of  Council  of 

Munster,  xviii. 

,  King's  letter  regarding,  149. 

,  the  old  Archbishop   of  (Miles  Ma- 

grath),  dispute  of,  with  the  Bishop  of 
Derry  and  Clogher,  288. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


597 


Cashel — cont. 

,    Meiler    Magrath,    Archbishop     of, 

urges  Sir  T.  Ridgeway  to  get  for  him 
the  bishoprics  of  Killaloe  and  Achonry, 
353. 

...,  ,  they  were  promised  him  on  his 

resigning  Waterford  and  Lismore,  ib. 

, ,  the  King  appoints  W.  Knight, 

an  ancient  master  of  arts,  to  he  his  co- 
adjutor, 501. 

, as  well  because  of  the  Arch- 
bishop's great  age,  as  that  he  is  seldom 
resident  at  his  see,  ib. 

,  ,'.but  dwells  on  his  own  temporal 

lands  in  Ulster,  ib. 

,  ,  W.  Knight  to  succeed  as  arch- 
bishop when  vacancy  occurs,  ib. 

,  diocese  of,  and  Emly,  226. 

,  Emly,  and  Lismore,  dioceses  of,  dis- 
ordered, and  commission  of  inquiry 
into  their  condition,  186. 

,  Catholic  Archbishop  of,  495. 

Casie,  James,  493. 

Caslanlough,  465. 

Cassie,  James,  487. 

Castcll,  Jo.,  324. 

Castie,  Wm.,  pensioner,  338. 

Castle  Chamber,  Court  of,   74,  162,  210,  and 

see  Star  Chamber,  382. 
,  ,  paper   lights  and   candlesticks 

for,  74. 

,  ,  sentence    of  (draft)    in  case  of 

Lord  Kildare  and  Sir  E.  Digby,  141. 

, ,  decree  of,  ib. 

,  ,  Archbishop   Jones   prays  that 

the  difference  between  hira  and  Lord 
Howth  may  be  heard  in,  331. 

Castle  Gonnell,  Theobald,  Lord,  324. 

,  Eourke,  Lord,  342. 

Castle  of  Dublin,  see  Dublin  Castle. 

,  record  room  to  be  prepared  in,  154. 

,  tenure  by  knight's  service  as  of,  an 

unfit  and  hard  condition  for  Ulster 
undertakers,  160. 

Casllefinne,  Sir  Neale  O'Donnell  at,  37. 

,   meeting   of   Sir    Neale    Garve   with 

O'Dogherty  at,  308. 

Castlefynn,  2. 

Castlekarrow  in  Mayo,  lands  of,  185. 

Castle  Lough,  465. 

Castlemaine  Fort,  constable  of.  Sir  Thos. 
lloper,  508. 

Castlenoe,  Old  Stone  Bawu  of,  in  Queen's 
County,  Ixxiii,  Ixxiv. 

,  ,  grant  of,  to  G.  Harpoole,  with 

the  conditions  of  the  Queen's  County 
plantation,  ib. 

Castlepark,  fortress  of,  39. 

,  gunners  at,  507. 

,   Haleboling,   Galway,  and  limerick, 

forts  of,  374. 
,  fort  of,  assessment  for  repairs  of,  409. 


Castlepark — cont. 

, ,  Capt.  Skipwith   recommended 

as  commander,  ib. 
constable  of,  Capt.  Henry  Skip- 
with, 508. 
Castlerahin,  precinct  of,  405. 
Castleroe,  constable  kept  at,  to    guard   the 

fishery  at,  x. 
Castlerooe,  see  Castleroe. 
Caslles,  now  in  King's  hands,  commission  to 

pass  them  to  persons  in  England  and 

Scotland  willing  to   undertake    them, 

433. 
,  how  far  true  that  the  Irish  never  built 

castles,  xciv. 
,  undertakers  to  erect  them,  or  stone 

houses,  xcv. 
Castleton,  Delvin,  vicar  of,  376. 

,  Timothy,  550. 

Castletown,  in  Cork,  grant  of,  to  David  Eoohe, 

517. 

,  in  "Wexford,  578. 

,  county,  494. 

Castlre,  403. 

Caston,  Edmund,  550. 

Casualties,  receipts  of,  578. 

,  ofiicers  of  the,  are  to  leave  if  they 

have  not  patents,  435. 
Caswell,  John,  511. 
Catherlogh,  483. 

,  grant  of,  to  Lord  Thomoud,  396. 

, ,  ,   barred    by  Sir  W.  Harpole's 

lease,  396.     See  Carlow. 

Caulfeild,  Sir  Toby,  97,  195,  364,  366,  472, 

474,  510,  547. 
,  ,   commanded  in  Armagh    and 

Upper  Tyrone,  xxiii. 
,  ,  his  account  of  Tyrone's  rents, 

xxvi. 

,  ,  cows,  rent  charged  upon,  at  a 

fixed  rate  per  cow,  xxvii. 
, , ,  to  be  counted  on  a  given 

day,  ib. 

,  ,  appointed  receiver  of  Tyrone's 

rents  after  the  flight,  ib.. 

,  ,  renders  a  final  account,  ib. 

,  ,  number  of  his  men,  33. 

all  around  Dungannon  in  peace 

(A.D.  1609)  through  his  discreet  and 

temperate  carriage  as  governor,  195. 
,  Sir  Robert  Jacob  and  his  fellow 

justices  relied  on  him,  and  were  greatly 

governed  by  him,  ib. 

,   Chichester  would    have    him 

undertake  Clancan,  364. 

,  ,  to  be  an  undertaker,  428. 

; ,in  a  letter  to  Chichester  informs 

him  of  the  discontented  minds  of  the 
people  of  Ulster,  474. 

) )  on  the  divulging  of  the  scheme 

of  plantation  by  Sir  Turlogh  M'lienry, 
lately  arrived  from  England  ;  they  say 
they  will,  many  of  them,  have  to 
become  woodkerue  of  necessity,  ib. 


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GENERAL  INDEX. 


Caulfeild,  Sir  Toby — cont. 

,  for  they  will  have  no  other 

means  to  live,  ib. 

,  say  they  hope  that  so  great 

cruelty  will  not  be  offered  as  to  remove 
them  from  their  houses  in  ■winter,  ib. 

, ,  when  they  are  to  provide  them- 
selves by  making  up  their  harvest,  ib. 

, ,  complain  of  the  injustice  after 

they  had  been  pardoned,  and  promised 
by  the  King  protection  for  goods  and 
lands,  ib. 

, ,  would  not  have  been  surprised 

if  done  after  a  war,  ib. 

,  ,  not  a  more  discontented  people 

in  Christendom,  ib. 

,  ,  his  account  rendered  of  three 

and  a  half  years'  rents  of  Tyrone's 
lands  to  1  Nov.  1660,  from  his  ffight  to 
the  plantation  of  Ulster  in  the  latter 
date,  532-546. 

,  is  allowed  100?.  a  year  for  his 

collection  of  Tyrone's  rents  in  the 
counties  of  Tyrone,  Armagh,  and 
Coleraine,  and  in  consideration  of  his 
charges  in  building,  545. 

, ,  was  granted  300  acres  adjacent 

to  fort  of  Charlemont  for  21  years, 
6  June,  5th  of  James  I.,  554. 

,   ,  is  granted  20  and  odd  balli- 

betaghs,  formerly  belonging  to  the 
Abbey  of  SS.  Peter  and  Paul,  Armagh, 
559. 

, ,  abbey  of  Annogh  in  Coleraine 

county  granted  to,  565. 

Cavan  Court,  369. 

Cavan,  498. 

,  a  government  of  Ulster,  Sir  Garrett 

Moore,  xxiii. 

,  governor  of,  xxiv. 

county,  opening  of  the  commission  of 

1610  at,  xci. 

, ,  Sir  J.  Davys's  account  of,  xcii. 

,...,  known  as  O'Reilly's  country,  ib. 

,  attainder  of  the  chiefs  held  to  give 

the  King  the  lands,  ib. 
,   discharged   of   the    estates   of  the 

inhabitants,  ib. 
what  they  might  be  supposed  to  allege 

in  defence  of  their  rights,  xciii. 

,  instructions  as  to  plantation  of,  54. 

town  of,  land  for,  55. 

,  to  be  made  corporate,  ib. 

,  people  of,   claim  to  have  freeholds, 

160. 
,  to  be  the  end  of  the  plantation  com- 
missioners' circuit,  282. 
,  plantation    commissioners'  visit    to, 

289. 
,  charters  of  incorporation,  fiant  for, 

390. 
,the  commissioners  of  plantation  began 

with,  because  the  people  more  pliable 

than  those  in  remoter  parts,  480. 


Cavan — cont. 

and  more  land  to  dispose  of,  ib. 

next  to  Cavan  most  is  in  Fermangh, 

ib. 

,  which  they  take  next,  ib. 

>  barony  of  TuUochgarvie  set  out  to 

servitors  and  natives,  505. 

,  warrant  for  new  charter  for,  514. 

,  otherwise  Brenny  O'Eeilly,  576. 

,  Philip  O'Eeilly  being  seised  of,  re- 
belled, 1  Aug.,  asth  Eliz.,  ib. 

,  was  slain  in  active  rebellion,  19 

Oct.  in  38th  Eliz.,  ib. 

is  now  forfeited,  and    in  the 

King's  hands,  ib. 

,  a  grant  by  His  Majesty  in  fee-farm 

of  lands  in  barony  of  Clonmahon,  has 
been  made  to  Baron  of  Delvin  and  the 
Lady  Delvin,  his  mother,  ib. 

,  another  to  Garrett  Fleming,  Esq.,  in 

barony  Clanchy,  576. 
,  abstract  of  His  Majesty's  title  to  the 

temporal  lands  in,  ib. 

,  touching  ecclesiastical  lands  in,  577. 

,  Bishop  of  Kilmore's  lands  in,  ib. 

,  abbey  lands  in,  ib. 

glebe  lands  in,  ib. 

,  advowsons  in,  ib. 

Cavenagh,  Art.  M'Dermot,  of  the  Murrows, 
CO.  Wexford,  324. 

,  Dermot  M'Morish,  ib. 

,  Donnel,  511. 

Gerald  M'Murtagh,  324,  337. 

Cavenaghs,  the,  69,  472. 

Cawclawny  Castle,  228. 

Cecil,  policy  of,  for  Ulster,  xxv. 

,  Sir  Robert,  476. 

,  Sir  J.  Davys's  letters  to,  xxx. 

Cessing  of  soldiers  on  the  country,  bad  effects 

of,  143. 
Chadderton,  see  Chatterton. 
Chamberlain,  Michael,  90. 
Chambers,  George,  341. 
Chancellor,  the  Lord,  112. 

, gets  sick  and  is  forced  to  leave 

the  commission  of  plantation,  285. 

,  his  yearly  fee,  338. 

, LordHowth's  charges  against, 

386. 
,  Lord  Howth's  account  of  his 

conduct  in  the  Council,  394. 
, ,  objected  to  on  the  Council  by 

Lord  Howth  as  hostile  to  him,  391. 

Chapelizod,  church  of,  484. 

Chapters  to  be  erected  in  Down,  Connor,  and 
Dromore,  581. 

Charges  incurred  in  suppressing  northern  re- 
bellion, 43. 

of  army  in  Ireland,  ift. 

,  extraordinary,  in  Ireland,  44. 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


599 


Charges — cent. 

for  Ireland,  estimate  of,  153. 

,  army,  in  Ireland,  ib, 

,  abstract  of,  ib. 

,  extraordinary,  beyond  the  establish- 
ment, 334. 

,  what  they  are,  enumerated,  ib. 

of  transport  of  men  to  Sweden,  263. 

of  army,  1595-1606,  282. 

,  1595-1609,  295. 

which  may  be    spared,  estimate   of, 

295. 

,  of  army  and  garrisons,  book  of,  418. 

Charlemount,  Sir  T.  Caulfeild's  men  at,  33. 

,  fort  of,  on  the  Blackwater,  294, 

,  ,63. 

,  ,  Sir  Toby  Caulfeild  at,  extra- 
ordinary charges  in  building  bridges 
and  highways,  and  strengthening  the 
fort,  and  building  a  house  within  the 
same,  545. 

,  market  of,  406. 

,  making  bridges   and  other  works  at 

fort  of,  542. 

,  making  bridges  and  highways,  and 

strengthening  the  fort  of,  and  building 
a  house  withm  the  fort,  545. 

,  100  acres  and  more  laid  to  the  fort  at 

the  north  side,  and  demised  to  Sir  Toby 
Caufeild  for  21  years,  provided  he  so 
long  live,  561. 

Charters,  renewal  of,  to  cities  and  towns,  suit 
for,  154. 

,  ,  without  recommendation  of  the 

Government,  has  increased  the  pride 
of  the  Irish,  400. 

,  have  been  renewed,  452. 

Chatterton,  Capt.  Thomas,  daughter  of,  mar- 
ried to  Marcell  Rivers,  455. 

, ,  had  a  grant  of  laud  from  the 

late  Queen,  ib. 

, ,  built  and  planted  a  fort  in  Ire- 
land, 453. 

,  ,   indenture    between    him    and 

Queen  Elizabeth  (5  Oct.,  13th  Eliz.), 
553. 

,  ,  thereby  undertook  to  conquer 

Drier,  the  Fews,  and  the  Galloglass 
countries,  ib. 

,    ,  his   failure,  and   death   at  the 

hands  of  the  Irish,  ib. 

., ,  how  his  title  to  Orier,  theFews, 

and  the  GaUoglasses  country  in  Ar- 
magh, though  forfeited  for  his  failing 
to  conquer  them,  yet  embarrassed  all 
titles,  because  not  found  void  by  in- 
quisition, 556,  557. 

, ,  at  length  (6  July  1609)  inqui- 
sition taken,  and  the  claim  of  his  heirs 
then  disposed  of,  ib. 

Chauntry  lands,  judges  to  find  a  means  to  re- 
duce them  to  the  hands  of  the  Crown, 
370. 

Chester,  106,  200,  201. 

.,, ,  Mayor  of,  487. 


Chetham  and  Long,  128. 

lease  of  revenue  to,  to  be  revoked,  129, 

131. 

Chetham,  Thomas,  367. 

Cheyney,  Thomas,  548. 

Chichester,  Sir  Arthur,  Iviii,  lix,  Ixv,  Ixvi, 
Ixvii,  Ixxiv,  Ixxv,  Ixsviii,  Ixxx, 
Ixxxiii,  65,  507,  509,  510. 

,  ,  held  a  presidency  to  be  indis- 
pensable in  Ulster,  xxi. 

, ,  desires  appointment  for  himself, 

xxii. 

, ,  report  of  his  appointment,  ib. 

desires  Carrickfergus  to  be  in- 
dependent, ib. 

, ,  his  paper  on  Ulster  in  1607, 

xxiii. 

, ,  his  letters  on  commission  of 

surrenders  very  instructive,  xxix. 

, ,  his  policy  for  weakening  the 

influence  of  the  chiefs,  xxx. 

, ,  his  investment  of  the  Tyrcon- 

nell  rebels  at  Claudie,  1. 

, ,  considered  Tyrone's  flight  better 

for  the  State  than  to  have  him  in  the 
Tower  of  London,  Iv. 

his  various  suggestions  as  to  the 

course  to  be  pursued  in  consequence, 
Ivi. 

, ,  proposes  two  plans,  ib. 

, ,  Privy  Council's  answer,  Ivii. 

,  ,  resolves  on  the   indictment  of 

the  Fugitive  Earls,  Iviii. 

, ,  is  at  Slane  when  he  is  apprised 

of  the  Earl's  flight,  lis. 

, ,  his  remark   that  going  on  his 

keeping  by  an  Irishman  was  generally 
followed  by  rebellion,  Ixi. 

, ,    applies    this    to     Sir    Donel 

O'Cahan,  ib. 

, ,  his   collections    out    of   Lord 

Howth's  discourses,  Ixvii. 

,  ,  his    plan   for  transporting   the 

seven  septs  of  Leix,  Ixxiv. 

, ,  they  had  rebelled  18  times  be- 
tween Philip  and  Mary's  reign  and 
accession  of  Jas.  I.,  ib. 

, ,  the  seven  septs  transplant  under 

Mr.  Crosby  to  Tarbert  in  Kerry  in  Ire- 
land, in  June  1609,  Ixxv. 

, ,  proceedings  under  the  first  com- 
mission in  the  plantation  of  Ulster, 
Ixxviii. 

, ,  he  and  the  other  commissioners 

leave  Dublin,  3  July  1608,  ib. 

,   ,  receive  news  of  O'Doherty's 

death  at  the  review  of  the  forces    on 
Lurgan  Green,  in  co.  Louth,  ib. 

, ,  he  digests  his  observations  on 

each  of  the  escheated  counties  and  his 
plans  of  plantation  in  1608,  Ixxxi. 

, ,  commits  them  in  the  form  of 

instructions  to  Sir  James  Ley  and  Sir 
John  Davys,  Ixxxi. 

, ,  which  they  carry  over  to  Eng- 
land, Ixxzi. 


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GENERAL  INDEX. 


Chichester,  Sir  Arthur— cok(. 

)  .his  remarks  on  Lord  Audley's 

extravagant  project  of    plantation   in 

Tyrone,  Ixxxiii,  Ixxxiv. 

>  ,   his   sarcastic   observations   ou 

Lord  Audley's  "  nearness,"  Ixxxiv. 

,  ,  his  objections  to  the  project  of 

a  plantation  as  drawn  by  the  commis- 
sioners, Ixxxv. 

> ,  disapproves  of  the  lottery,  ib. 

> !  it  is  copied  from  the  plantation 

of  Canaan  by  the  Hebrews,  ib. 

, ,  but  in  Canaan  there  were  cities 

ready  built  to  be  seized,  ib. 

, ,  in  Ulster  none,  ib. 

, objects  to  the  small  provision 

made  for  the  natives  of  Ulster,  ib. 

, ,  the  ewordmen,  who  are  the  men 

of  most  credit,  greatly  incensed,  ib. 

,   ,  he   sends   out   the   judges   on 

their  circuits  before  their  usual  date  to 
pacify  them,  ib. 

,  ,  by  declaring  that  men  of  credit 

would  be  provided  for,  Ixxxvi. 

,  ,  begins  his  journey  to  execute 

the  commission  of  1610  on  St.  James's 
day,  sci. 

, the  day  of  that  Blessed  Saint  in 

heaven  and  great  monarch  upon  earth, 
ib, 

,  looks   upon  the  iUght   of  the 

Earls  as  providential,  xciv. 

, ,  in  enabling  the  King  to  colo- 
nise Ulster,  ib. 

, ,  without  English  and  Scottish 

justices  and  jurymen  all  commands 
were  issued  in  vain,  ib. 

, for  none  would  prosecute  priests 

and  Jesuits  merely  for  performing  their 
church  duties,  ib. 

, ,  earliest  views  of  a  fit  scheme  of 

plantation,  ib. 

, ,  his  first  view  of  the  Grsemes,  o. 

, ,  thinks  them  "  a  witty  and  under- 
standing people,"  ib. 

, ,"  and  withal  very  civil  compared 

with  the  Irish,"  ib. 

,  ,  but  changes  his  opinion,  ib. 

,  ,  the  Grahams  to  be  planted  to- 
gether, c. 

, ,  benefits  of,  ib. 

, ,  disadvantages  of,  ib. 

, his  later  opinion,  cii. 

four  volumes  of  his  State  Papers 

lodged  in  the  Philadelphia  Library,  ciii. 

, ,  suggestions  as  to  the  true  ac- 
count of  their  getting  there,  civ,  cv. 

, ,  probability  that  they  camefiom 

Joshua  or  Arthur  Dawson,  clerks  of 
the  Papers,  cv. 

, ,  their  descendant  gives  them  in 

1799  to  the  Philadelphia  Library,  ib. 

,   ,  proceedings  on  his  learning 

O'Dogherty's  death,  6. 


Chichester,  Sir  Arthur — cont. 

; )  encamps  in  O'Hanlons  country, 

ib. 

, ,  prosecutes  the  O'Hanlons  and 

O'Neills,  ib. 

)  ,  takes  few  of  them,  ib. 

,  retires  over  the  Blackwater,  ib. 

;  ,  Shane  Carragh  O'Cahane  falls 

into  his  hands,  ib. 

,  makes  a  progress  through  the 

coimties,  ib. 

,  ,  issues  commissions  for  survey 

of  fugitives'  lands,  and  of  oyer  and  ter- 
miner, ib. 

, ,  trial  and  execution  of  rebels,  ib. 

, ,  common  law  as  traitors,  ib. 

, ,  this  mode  produces  more  effect 

than  trials  by  martial  law,  ib. 

,  ,  deals  with  the  principal,  so  as  to 

secure  their  service,  ib. 

,  marches  to  Glanconkayne,  8. 

, ,  pursues  the  rebels  diligently,  and 

kUls    and    makes    prisoners  of  many 

of  them,  ib. 

, ,  captures  Phelimy  Reagh,  ib. 

, ,  reports  what  still  remains  to  be 

done,  ib. 
,  ,  account  of  the  late  supplies  of 

men  from  England  and  Scotland,  ib. 
, ,  issues   orders  for  payment   of 

port  customs,  ib. 
,  will  send  full  information  by 

the  chief  justice  or  attorney  general,  ib. 
, ,  zealously   assisted  by  his   col- 
leagues in  the  commissions,  11. 
,  has  killed  or  taken  the  heads  of 

the  rebellion,  ib. 
, ,  apprehension   of  rising  of  the 

rebels  in  Leinster  through  his  absence, 

18. 

,  kept  iu  check  by  fear  of  him,  ii. 

, ,  his  successful  journey  to  Cole- 

raine,  22. 

,  returns  from  North,  25. 

,  calls  Lord  Howth  before  the 

Council  to  prove  his  charges  against 

Sir  G.  Moore,  25. 
,  ,  complains  of  his  great  expenses, 

26. 

, ,  proceedings  of,  at  Lifford,  ib. 

,  leaves  troops  for  defence,  27.  - 

,  he  is  execrated  in  Ulster,  31. 

^ fears  entertained  of  his  being 

made  President  of  the  North,  ib. 

,  his  troop  of  horse,  32. 

,  of  foot,  33. 

,his  letters  delayed  by  contrary 

winds,  ib. 

,  ,  charge  of  his  journey,  34. 

his  zeal  and  success  commended, 

46. 

, instructions  to  Sir  James  ley 

and  Sir  John  Davys,  54. 


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Chichester,  Sir  Arthur — cont, 

, ,  his  instructions  to  Sir  J,  Davys 

and  Chief  Justice  Ley  going  to  Eng- 
land, 65. 

, ,  his  narrative  of  his  proceedings 

with  Sir  Donnell  O'Cahane  since  his 
submission  in  1602,  ib. 

, ,  his  views  for  the  plantation  of 

Ulster,  68. 

, ,  inequality  of  estates  by  giving 

pre-eminence  to  chiefs,  its  ruin,  ib. 

,  ,  allotments  should   not   be   too 

large,  ib. 

, whole  countries  not  to  be  passed 

to  one  man,  ib. 

..........  ,  natives  should  be  satisfied,  ib. 

,  ,  should  be  placed  in  plains  where 

they  might  be  overlooked,  ib. 
,  ,  the  BjTnes' and  Tooles'  country 

made  in  his  time  into  the   county  of 

"Wicklow,  69. 
,  the  people  grown   to   a   good 

conformity,  ib. 

, ,  but  the  chieftains  ill  aflFeeted,i6. 

,  ,  as  are  the  Cavanaghs,  ib. 

,  .plantation  of  Ulster  cannot  be 

begun  tiU  next  summer  (1609),  ib. 
,  ,  his  letter  to  the  King  (15  Oct. 

1608),  81. 
,  ,  now  the  time  to  plant  and  re- 
form that  rude  and  irreligious  corner  of 

the  North,  ib. 
,  ,  denies   that   he   oppressed   the 

Earls  of  Tyrone  and  TyrconncU,  ib. 
,  ,  but  admits  he  kept  good  spies 

upon  them,  ib. 
, ,  this  was  the  cause  of  their  flight 

82. 
,  ,  spent  many  hours  upon  Tyrone 

trying  to  make  him  a  good  subject,  ib. 
,  ,  sends  his  letter  by  Sir  James 

Ley  and  Sir  John  Davys,  ib. 
,   ,  has  sent  over  the  surveys  of 

Ulster  by  Sir  James  Ley  and  Sir  John 

Davys,  85. 

,  ,  has  not  inserted  the  values,  ib. 

, ,  but  has  sent  them  by  a  private 

note,  ib. 

,  ,  because  he  hears  the  lands  are 

promised  to  be  given  away  to  impor- 
tunate suitors  according  to  the  survey 
value,  ib. 

,  ,  100/.  rent  value  to  one,  200/. 

ditto  to  another,  ib. 

,  ,  protests  that  this  will  overthrow 

the  expected  plantation,  ib. 

if  the  nobility  and  subjects  of 

Scotland  are  to  bring  over  the  Is- 
landers or  their  neighbours,  thinks  the 
lands  had  better  been  left  with  the 
Irish,  ib. 

,  advises  that  the  customs  should 

be  left  to  the  toivns,  86. 

, ,  it  will  discontent  them,  ib. 


Chichester,  Sir  Arthur — cont. 

,  they  should  be  kept  loyal,  with- 
out which  all  may  be  some  time  or 
other  endangered,  ib. 

,  employs  Francis  Annesley  and 

John  Strowde  as  his  agents  to  obtain 
for  him  the  barony  of  Enishowen,  103. 

,  ,  considers  that  Ulster  should  not 

be  made  waste,  because  the  undertakers 
would  not  be  able  to  re-stock  it,  114. 

,  ,  it  was  so  in  Munster,  though 

better  land  and  nearer  to  the  sun,  ib. 

,  ,  recommends  suits  of  the  towns 

and  cities,  128. 

,  ,  reports  Lord  Howth's  going  to 

England  to  prosecute  charges  against 
Sir  G.  Moore,  136. 

,  advises  repression  and  expul- 
sion of  priests  and  Jesuits,  143. 

,  ,  suggests  pardon  of  meaner  sort 

of  woodkerne,  ib. 

,  ,  makes   suit  for    O'Doghertie's 

escheated  lands,  146. 

,  ,  promises  to  make  a  "cyvile" 

plantation,  ib. 

,  ,  advises  that  priests  and  friars 

may  be  castigated  by  martial  law  like 
rogues  and  beggars,  147. 

,  no  answer  to  this  advice,  ib. 

,  ,  suggestions  as  to  the  planta- 
tion, 156-161. 

, ,  desires  to  be  undertaker  for  Tyr- 

connell,  180. 

,  thanks  Salisbury  for  his  favour 

in  that  suit,  192. 

,  ,  thanks  the  King  for  bestowing 

on  him  Inishowen,  O'Doherty's  late 
country,  203. 

,  ,  recommends  George  Courtney, 

his  near  kinsman,  to  Salisbury's  favour, 
239. 

> ,  he  affects  the  good  plantation 

of  his  seignory  in  Munster,  ib. 

,  has   a   suit   with  Morice  Mtz- 

thomas  Eitzgerald,  ib. 

,  his  account  of  Sir  Neale  O'Don- 

nel's  trial,  241. 

,  ,  of  his  son,  ib. 

,  ,  would  send  him  back  to  Ox- 
ford, 241,  251. 

,   Sir  Neale's   brothers  and   son 

kept  in  prison,  241. 

I  ,  now  the  trial  is  over,  will  dis- 
miss them  home,  241,  251. 

, ,  opinion  of  Irish  juries,  241. 

!  fears  that  the  commission  for 

Ulster  may  be  so  delayed  that  the 
winter  will  come  before  the  commis- 
sioners go  out,  ib. 

>  ,  has  sent  on  bread  to  Newry  for 

the  forces  that  are  to  accompany  the 
commissioners,  ib. 

' cannot  make  Ireland  support 

Itself  by  reason  of  hot-brained  Jesuits 
that  drive  the  people  to  rebellion,  242. 


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Chichester,  Sir  Arthur— con*. 


•> >  or  heggar  them  by  feeding  on 

them,  ib. 


■> ,  forwards  some  hopeful  project 

of  some  Dutchmen  of  Amsterdam,  ib. 

•>  >  coin  of  England  of  so  fine  silver 

that  httle  of  it  stays  in  Ireland,  ib. 


■t >  thinks  Sir  John  Davys  has  mis- 
understood Salisbury's  intentions  about 
the  customs,  243. 


•  •; ,  if  the  corporate  towns  be  allowed 

to   collect  them,   and  to  account  for 
them,  they  will  conceal  the  value,  ib. 

•> •.  obliged  to  leave  the  castle  of 

Dublin  in  the  summer,  250. 

•  ) ,  for  its  noieomeness,  ib. 

■  > ,    sends    estimate    of    costs    of 

strengthening  castle  prison,  ib. 

,  and  of  record  depository,  250, 


251. 


•  ••;  ,  of  repair  of  Klbuainham,  ib. 

■  ■; ,  lamentable  alienations  of  church 

property,  250. 

..-,  ahenations  forbidden,  ib. 

...,  .......  pluralities  in,  ib. 

•  ••, ,  has  recalled  all  noblemen's  sons 

from  being  educated  in  seminaries 
abroad,  ib. 

..., ,  also  merchants'  sons,  ib. 

...,  ,  that  the  children  of  the  trans- 
planted Moores  left  behind  may  be  sent 
to  England,  251. 

.., ,  and  put  to  trades,  ib. 

i .  • , ,  that  Tyrone's  and  Caffar  O'Don- 

ueU's  children  may  be  brought  over,  ib. 

..,  ,  recommends  the  suit  of  Francis 

Annesley  for  reversion  of  the  Provost- 
marshalship  of  Coimaught  after  Capt. 
Charles  Coote's  death,  252. 

..,  ,   has   received   commission   for 

more  exact   survey  of  Ulster  just   in 

time  to  save  the  year,  253. 

. . ,  ,  will  go  out  on  3 1  July,  ib. 

..,  ,  takes  horse  and  foot  that  lie  in 

his  way,  ib. 
..,  draws  none   from   Connaught 

and  Munster,  ib. 

..,  ,  Chancellor  unable  to  travel,  ib. 

.., ,   regrets   absence  of  Bishop  of 

Derry,  ib. 

.., ,  because  of  bishop's  lands,  ib. 

..,  ,  fears  that  he  has  laboured  well 

his  own  ends,  ib. 
.., ,  to  the  damage  of  the  plantation, 

ib. 

.., ,  his  intrigues,  253,  255. 

..,  ,   is    offended    with    Chichester 

because  he  advised  him  to  leave  his  too 

great  care  of  the  world,  ib. 
..,  ,  and  betake  himself  to  his  spi- 
ritual duties,  ib. 

.,  ,   whom  he  takes  with    him  to 

Ulster,  254. 


Chichester,  Sir  Arthur— com*. 

' >  has  made  all  the  bishops  inte- 
rested in  Ulster  lands,  commissioners, 
ib. 

> would  spare  the  life  of  Owen 

Groom  Magrath,  the  friar,  ib. 

,  ,  why,  ib. 

> ,  Viscount  Gormanston  and  Sir 

Thomas  KtzwUliams,  then:  offer  of 
20o;.  for  Mr.  Florio,  255. 

his  journey  to  the  north,  259. 

) his  party  to  rendezvous  atDun- 

dalk,  ib. 

,  liOrds  of  Council  desire  that  as 

many  native  Irish  as  possible  may  be 
vented  out  of  the  land,  264. 

proposes  to  send  1,000  more  to 

Sweden,  ib. 

)  advises  that  Jesuits  not  leaving 

at  the  proclamation,  should  be  hanged 
by  martial  law,  269. 

>  ,  charged  by  Lord  Howth  with 

favouring  the  Cardans,  276. 

>  .......  report  of  proceedings  of  plan- 
tation commissioners  in  Armagh,  Ty- 
rone, Cahir,  and  Donegal,  285. 

>  ,  proceedings  of,  on  breaking  up 

the  camp,  293. 

,  ,  goes  to  Carlingford  to  super- 
intend expedition  for  Sweden,  300. 

, reports   on  the  claim  of  John 

Manwoode  for  2001.  of  the  late  traitor 
Tyrone,  301,  302. 

,  suppresses   a   mutiny   of    the 

Swedish  levies  at  CarHngford,  304. 

,  ,  gets  rid  of  a  multitude  of  dan- 
gerous rebels  by  means  of  this  expedi- 
tion, 305. 

,  ,  has  made  no  charge  for  his  tra- 
velling expenses,  307. 

, ,  his   account  of  the  broil   at   a 

tennis  court,  in  Thomas  Street,  between 
Lord  Howth  and  Sir  Eoger  Jones,  322, 
323. 

,  ;  wherein    one    Barnewale    was 

slain,  ib. 
, ,  Tyrone  asks  leave  to  return  to 

Ireland,  325. 
,  bespeaks    favour    for    Captain 

John   Vaughan   to    keep   the   fort  of 

Duualong,  326. 

, ,  as  he  expects  that  the  Londoners 

will  claim  it,  ib. 

, ,  suggests  that  Owen  Groom  Ma- 
grath, the  friar,  under  sentence  of  death, 
be  pardoned,  344. 

, that   Sir  Neal  O'Donnell  and 

Sir  Donel  O'Cahan  be  sent  over  to 
London,  ib. 

,  the  danger  would  be  great  if 

they  escaped  out  of  prison,  ib. 

, observes  that  Howth  has  ever 

mixed  truth  and  falsehood,  345. 

, hopes  he  may  never  have  any- 
thing more  to  do  with  him,  ib. 


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603 


Chichester,  Sir  Arthur — cont. 

, four  merchants  (named)   offer 

to  undertake  the  whole  county  of 
Donegal,  346. 

, ,  will  build  a  fort  near  seaside, 

ib. 

, ,  his    account    of   the    different 

claims  to  the  fishing  of  the  Ban,  353. 

, ,  sends      his     "  Considerations 

"  touching  the  plantation  of  the  es- 
"  cheated  lands  in  Ulster,"  355. 

, , ,  the  King's  title  to  he  cleared, 

ib. 

,  men  of  quality  to  he  leaders,  ib. 

, ,  so  as  to  have  followers,  ib. 

, ,  others  will  consume  the  sub- 
stance and  undo  themselves,  ib. 

,  ,  one   or   two   chief  undertakers 

near  one  another  in  each  barony  to 
give  countenance  to  strangers,  ib, 

, ,  knows  some  who  will  undertake 

a  whole  barony,  ib. 

,  unless  so,  or  on  a  common  purse, 

has  no  hope  of  the  plantation,  ib. 

, ,  every      powerful      undertaker 

should  be  forced  to  make  his  dwelhng 
on  the  straights,  356. 

, ,  or  places  of  command,  ib. 

,, , ,  his  tenants  not  to  disperse  to 

edges  of  woods  and  into  glens,  as  they 
did  in  Munster,  ib. 

, ,  but    to   dwell    near  the    chief 

undertaker,  ib. 

, ,  as  for  the   castles  and  bawns 

projected,  thinks  they  cannot  be  built 
in  less  than  four  years,  considering  the 
many  works  on  hand,  ib. 

,  ,  and  the  want  of  labourers,  ma- 
terials, tools,  &o.,  ib. 

, ,  the  planters  should  be  enjoined 

to  enclose  part  of  their  lauds  with 
ditches  and  quickset  in  a  limited  time, 
after  the  manner  of  England,  ib. 

, ,  to  bind  men  of  quality  to  be  so 

long  resident  would  rather  overthrow 

than  further  the  plantation,  ib. 
,  ,  no  wise  man  would  do  so,  and 

may  do  it  better  by  friends  or  substi- 
tutes, 356. 
,  ,  his      considerations     touching 

plantation  of  Ulster,  ib. 
,  ,  undertakers  should  have  three 

years'  freedom  from  rent,  ib. 
,  ,  Munster  undertakers  had  this, 

and  horse  and  foot  to  guard  them,  ib. 
, but  not  enough,  though  nearer 

England,  and   so  many  castles   ready 

built  to  their  hand,  ib. 

, ,  all  wanting  in  Ulster,  ib. 

, ,  under  tenants  not  to  be  liable 

for  arrears  of  the  King's  head  rent, 

357. 
,  many  seigniories   thus  wasted, 

and  private  men  undone  in  the  Munster 

plantation,  ib. 


Chichester,  Sir  Arthur— cok«. 

, .should    all    hold    in    common 

soccage,  ib. 
, ,  tenures  in  capite  burdensome, 

and  the  profits  go  not  to  the  King  but 

to  his  oficers,  ih. 
, ,  in  Ueu  thereof  the  undertakers 

to  be  bound  to  make  no  estates  for  less 

than  21  years,  ib. 
,  ,  should    not    alienate    without 

license,  ib. 
, ,  and  should  be  forbidden  from 

marrying  and  fostering  with  the  Irish, 

ib. 
, ,  the   issue   of   the  undertakers 

would  thus  be  linked  together  in  mar- 
riage and  affection,  ib, 
, ,  and   sti'engthened  against  the 

Irish,  ib, 
, ,  defects  of  the  Munster  planta- 
tion in  this  respect,  ib, 
,  ,  the  Irish  were  allowed  to  dwell 

intermixed,   hoping   to   civilize   them, 

ib, 
,  ,  instead  of  imitating  the  English, 

they  scorned  them,  ib. 
, ,  plotted  against  their  lives,  ib. 

, ,  envied  them  and  robbed  them, 

ib. 
,  ,  contrived   forged   titles   to  the 

lands  they  had  built  on  and  enclosed, 

ib. 
, ,  the  Irish  and  EngUsh  should 

dwell  apart,  358. 

, ,  the    Irish    in    the    flat    clear 

country,  ib. 
,  ,    or    in    town-reeds   intermixed 

with  English,  ib. 
,  ,  thus   the   many    inferior   Irish 

being  quieted,  may  outweigh  the  higher 

discontented  men,  ib. 
, ,  the  Irish  must  quit  creaghting 

and  dwell  in  town-reeds,  ib. 
, ,  the   EngUsh    tongue   must    be 

preserved  pure  and  neat,  ib. 
,  ,  this   best   done   by   forbidding 

intermarriage,  ib. 

,  ,  and  by  outnumbering  the  Irish, 

ib, 

,  ,  it  was  thus  the  English  tongue 

was  preserved  in  the  English  Pale,  ib, 
,  ,  in  Wexford,  ib, 

,  and  in  parts  of  South  Wales, 

ih, 

, ,  would  have  the  Termons  given 

in  demesne  to  the  bishops,  ib, 

> discharges  of  the  estates  of  the 

Corbs  and  Erenaghs,  ib. 

> ,  for  he   does  not    think    them 

worthy  of  them,  ib. 

) ,  unless  as  any  other  tenant  al- 
lowed by  the  bishops,  ib. 

)  would  have  glebes  of  60  or  100 

acres  taken  out  of  the  bishop's  lands 
for  parsons,  ib. 


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CMcliester,  Sir  Arthur— co«<. 


.,  .......  bishops  should  be  enjoined  to 

build  one   strong   house  for  their  see 
house  in  each  diocese,  359. 


■■>  >  and  to  bring  tenants  from  Eng- 
land, ib.  ^ 

■>  ,  their     Irish     tenants     to    quit 

creaghting,  359. 

■> )  f^ncl  to  dwell  in  town-reeds,  ib. 

•> ; ,  benefices  not  to  be  given  to  the 

bishops  to  bestow  at  discretion,  ib. 


■■>  ;  some  principal  benefices  to  be 

left  for  the  Lord  Deputy  to  prefer  his 
chaplains  to,  ib. 


•■;  ,  proportions  of  land  to  be  laid 

out  for  corporate  towns,  ib. 

•J  >  for  forts,  free  schools,  hospitals, 

and  the  college  near  Dublin,  ib. 

■! bishops  to  let   their   lands   for 

three  hves  or  21  years,  and,  not  under, 
ib. 

•  )  ,  his   "instructions"  to   Sir  T. 

Eidgeway,  362. 

■  .  ,  concerning  Sir  Dominic    Sars- 

field,  Patrick  Fox,  Auditor  Ware,  Sir 
Garrett  Moore,  ib. 

•;  ,  concerning  fit  undertakers  from 

Ireland  for  the  plantation  of  Ulster, 
363. 

■  ,  ,  as   Sir    Oliver    St.   John,    Sir 

James  Perrot,  Sir  T.  Williams,  Sir 
Garrett  Moore,  Sir  Oliver  Lambert, 
ib. 


.,  ,  would  have  Sir  Ei chard  Bing- 

ley  undertake  Kilmacrennan,  ib. 

.,  Sir  H.  FoUiottthe  land  between  Bon- 
drowes  and  Ballyshaunon,  ib. 

,  Sir  Fulke  Conway,  Brasilogh, 


ib 


364. 


,  Sir    Toby    Caulfeild,    Clancan, 
.,  Sir    Fras.    Roe,   Munterdevlin, 


ib. 
..,  ,  Capt.  H.  Skipwith,  Cullmacka- 

treen,  ib. 
.., Sir  T.   Chichester,  Cullmacka- 

treen,  ib. 
..,  his    opinion     of    Sir    Turlogh 

JM'Henry  CNeal's  claim,  ib. 

..,  ,  of  Connor  Ro  Maguire's,  ib. 

..,  ,  the  islands  in  Lough  Erne  to  be 

giNcn  to  worthy  undertakers,  but  not 

to  any  Irish,  ib. 
,  of  Arthur  M'Baron  O'Neil,  Tyr- 

logh  M'Art.   O'Neil,  Henry  and    Con 

M'Sliane      O'Neil,     Brian      Crossuch 

O'lN'eil,  ib. 

of  Sir  Cormack  M'Baron,  365. 

. .,  of  his  wife  and  children,  ib. 

,  of  Brian  Maguire,  ib. 

,  of  the  three  jM'Swynes,  O'Boyle, 

M'JIamis,  and  O'Canc,  ib. 
., ,  of     Sir    Noal     O'Donncl    and 

DoDncl  O'Canc,  ib. 


Chichester,  Sir  Arthur — cont. 

>  sends  lists  of  those  servitors, 

cml  and  military,  in  Ireland  fit  to  be 
undertakers  in  Ulster,  and  where  to  be 
placed,  365. 

>  ,  sends  lists  of  the  Council  who 

may  be  induced,  366. 

J  ••■.■■•>  se^is  lists  of  captains  of  com- 
panies who  have  already  houses  and 
fixed  dwelling  in  Ulster,  ib. 

>  )  sends  lists  of  those  who  have 

none,  but  are  willing,  ib. 

J >  sends  lists  of  constables  of  castles 

and  captains  of  boats  in,  ib. 

' ; ,  sends  lists  of  other  knights,  ser- 
vitors, and  pensioners  in  pay,  fit  with 
help,  367. 
! , ,  sends  lists  of  other  knights,  ser- 
vitors, and  pensioners  in  pay,  fit  without 
help,  ib. 
) ; ,  sends  lists  of  other  knights,  ser- 
vitors, and  pensioners  not  in  pay,  ib. 
) )  sends  lists  of  other  knights,  ser- 
vitors, and  pensioners  in  pay  who  will 
undertake   under  greater  undertakers, 
368. 

,  ■ instructions   (second)  to  Sir  T. 

Eidgeway  touching  the  public,  ib. 

)  • ,  wishes  division  by  proportions 

(single,  middle,  or  double)  given  up, 
and  divisions  by  baronies  chosen  in- 
stead, 367. 

,    ,   ministers   should  be  provided 

for  near  the  churches,  ib. 

)  ,  new  parishes  cannot  be  created 

till  the  country  is  better  peopled,  ib. 

,  ,  and  it  will  be  hard  to  get  new 

churches  built,  ib. 

, ,  it  is  for  the  King  to  dispose  of 

the  Erenagh  lands,  ib. 

,  ,  undertakers  should  time   their 

journeys  so  as  to  meet  the  commis- 
sioners in  their  respective  counties,  369. 

,  ,  there  will  be  no  inns  for  them, 

and  no  provisions  otherwise,  ib. 

in  what  order  the  commissioners 

will  take  the  several  counties,  ib. 

,  ,  if  there  is  to  be  a  president  of 

Ulster,  Dungannon  must  be  the  place ; 
a  house  must  be  built,  and  3,000  acres 
laid  to  it,  ib. 

,  ,  priests    and  Jesuits  must  be 

banished,  ib. 

, wards  and  ganrisons,  ib. 

, ,  answer  to  Lord  Howth's  charges, 

384. 

, charges  made  against,  by  Lord 

Howth,  ib. 

, ,  of  protecting  the  Carrolans,  ib. 

, ,  of  disrespect   and  ill-usage  of 

himself,  385. 

, ,  of  revealing  his  secrets  to  the 

Chancellor,  ib. 

, ,  answers,  385-7. 

,  charged  with  favouring  Lord 

Delvin's  escape,  386. 
, his  answer  to  this  charge,  ib. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


605 


Cliicliester,  Sir  Arthur — co7it. 

, ,  his  familiaritywith  Sir  G.  Moore 

never  harmed  any  one,  385. 

, ,  stays  at  Mellifout,  ib. 

, ,  calls  Lord  Ho-wth  a"babbler," 

386. 
,  ,    sends    Cari'olan     before     Sir 

James  Ley  for  examination,  ib. 
, ,  suggestions  for  distribution   of 

escheated  lands,  390. 
,  ,   refuses    to    suitors   for    lauds 

license  to  go  to  England,  391. 
, ,  Lord  Howth   complains  of  his 

conduct  in  the  Privy  Council,  394. 
, ,  selected   to   be   an   undertaker, 

428. 
,  is  to  have  the   placing  of  the 

natives  in  the  plantation,  439. 
, ,  calls  Bishop  of  Down  to  account 

about  commendams,  457. 
,  ,  to  be  a  commissioner  for  passing 

lands  to  undertakers,  460. 
,  ,  reports  the  rumours  of  Tyrone's 

return,  but  disbelieves  them,  461. 
, ,  has  given  -warning,  however,  to 

the  forts,  462. 
,  warns  Salisbury  to  be  watchful 

against  some  attempt  on  the  King's  life 

or  the  Prince's,  467. 

,  ,  announces  the  arrest  of  Florence 

Mulconry,  ib. 

,  ,  account    of   the   settlement   of 

Magennis's  country,  Iveagh,  in  county 

of  Down,  470. 
,  ,  a  new  settlement  to  be  made,  to 

give  him  larger  demesne  lands,  471. 
,  ,  depriving   the  Irish   Lords    of 

their  dependents  the  best  reform,  ib. 
,  ,  a  title  discovered  for  the  King 

in  the  Kinshelas  country  in  Wexford,  ib. 

) through    Viscount    Beaumont, 

deceased,  ib. 
, ,  Sir  Thomas  Beaumont  is  urged 

by  some  to  put  in  his  claim,  471. 
, ,  this  country  is  the  "  den  of  the 

Cavanaghs,"  472. 

,  ,  the  inhabitants  are  bonao-hts  or 

hired  soldiers  of  the  Cavenaghs,'472. 
■ ,  will  make  a  lease  of  21  years  to 

Sir  Richard  Masterson,  ib. 

, ,  to  try  the  title,  ib. 

,  ,  a  better  one  discovered  for  the 

King     through   Viscount    Beaumont, 

471,  472. 
,  ,  the  people  of  Ulster  will  not  be 

removed,  even  though  to  better  land, 

without  force,  472. 

,  ,  accordingly    has    provided    a 

small  army  to  accompany  the  commis- 
sioners of  plantation,  ib. 

,  ,  their  discontent  is  declared  by 

Sir  Toby  Caulfeild,  ib. 

, ,  hopes  to  begin  the  commission 

for  putting  the  undertakers  into  posses- 
sion at  Cavan  on  St.  James's  day,  479. 


Chichester,  Sir  Arthur — co}it. 

, ,  the  day  of  that  blessed  Saint  in 

Heaven  and  great  monarch  on  earth, 
ib. 

,  ,  they  shall  find  many  stiff-neeked 

people,  for  the  word  of  removing  and 
transplanting  is  to  the  natives  as  wel- 
come as  the  sentence  of  death,  ib. 

,  many  of  the  commissioners  pray 

to  be  dispensed  because  of  ill-health, 
480. 

,  ,  and  hardships  of  the  journey, 

ib. 

, ,  Sir  T.  Ridgeway  and  Sir  A.  St. 

Leger  only  will  accompany  him,  ib. 

, ,  takes   with   him   some   of   the 

Council  and  Marshall  Wingfield,  ib. 

, ,  has  some  Irish  dogs  and  mewed 

hawks  for  Salisbury. 

,  ,  Saukewell,   the   pirate,  thrown 

overboard  by  Easton,  who  offers  to  sub- 
mit, 495. 

,  ,  temporises  with  the  pirates  from 

his  weakness,  having  only  "  the  Lion's 
Whelp,"  ib. 

, ,  recounts   the   transportation  of 

600  Irish  in  two  ships  (Sept.  1616)  to 
Sweden,  496,  497. 

,  ,200  of  these  from  Ulster,  497. 

,  ,  residue  were  pirates  and  despe- 
rados from  Munster  and  Connaught,  ib. 

,  ,  fear  of  being  thus  transported 

sends  all  the  able  and  idle  of  Ulster  to 
the  woods,  ib. 

,  ,  it    discontents    and    perplexes 

them  no  less  than  the  late  distribution 
of  the  lands,  ib. 

> ,  after  leavmg  Carlingford  one  of 

the  ships  was  wrecked  on  the  Isle  of 
Man,  but  saved  by  a  Scotch  ship  cap- 
tain, ib. 

>  ,  another   ship   was    obtained  in 

Scotland,  and  the  men  sent  forward,  ib. 

>  ,  ofacers   employed  should  have 

power  to  punish  running  away  by  death, 
ib. 

;  >  his  account  of  their  proceed- 
ings under  the  commission  (July  and 
August  1610)  for  putting  the  under- 
takers into  possession,  501,  504. 

> foresees  failure,  from  the  quality 

of  such  of  the  undertakers  as  are  come 
502. 

'  ,  those  of  the  best  judgment  now 

begin  to  see  the  difficulty  of  planting 
almost  five  whole  counties  in  so  barreS 
and  remote  a  place,  ib. 

'  undertakers     will    'constantly 

press  for  liberty  to  keep  the  natives,  ib. 

'  ■.•••••.  the  Scotch  are  already  in  hand 

with  the  natives,  promising  them  that 
they  will  get  them  license  to  stay,  ib. 

' ; if  yielded  to,  the  main  work  and 

plantation  is  overthrown,  ib. 

:  •■:-.  the  servitors  will  thereby  be  in- 
juriously treated,  ib.  /    ■=  m 


606 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Chichester,  Sir  Arthur_con<. 

I  J  for    the    natives    were    to    be 

assigned  to  them,  ih. 

; and  have  prepared  the  minds  of 

the  natives  to  the  change,  502. 

)  ,  discontent  of  the  natives  at  the 

small  portions  of  land  assigned  them,  ib. 

1 ,  especially  in  Tyrone,  Armagh, 

and  Coleraine,  ib. 

>  ,  who  had  put  on  English  apparel 

and  promised  to  live  in  town-reeds,  and 
quit  their  creaghting,  ib. 

, ,  now  they  have  no  land  given 

them,  and  cannot  be  taken  as  tenants, 
which  is  very  grievous  to  them,  ib. 
, ,  for   they  had  promised   them- 
selves better  conditions  under  the  King 
than  under  their  old  masters,  ib. 

,  ,  deems  the  natives  to  have  been 

very  badly  treated  in  Tyrone,  Armagh, 
and  Coleraine,  502,  503. 

, ,  as  to  Tyrone,  it  was  a  great 

oversight  to  thrust  the  servitors  and 
natives  in  a  county  that  paid  the  King 
3,000Z.  a  year  rent  into  little  more  than 
half  a  barony,  503. 
,  ,  doubts  the  ill-will  of  the  com- 
missioners towards  him,  ib. 

,  ,  prays  he  may  not  be  guided  by 

any  directions  of  theirs,  for  they  know 
not  Ireland  as  well  as  he  does,  especi- 
ally Ulster,  ib. 

,  ,    the    people    of    these     three 

counties  have  sent  to  Tyrone  to  hasten 
his  return,  or  to  send  his  son  Henry,  ib. 
,  ,  or  to  send  them  arms  and  am- 
munition, wherewith  to  arm  themselves 
against  the  plantation,  ib. 

,  ,  for  they  will  die  rather  than  be 

removed  to  the  small  portions  assigned 
them,  ib. 

,  or  seek  a  new  dwelling  in  other 

countries,  ib. 

,  the  letter  of  Sir  Donel  O'Cahan 

out  of  the  Tower  of  London,  to  his 
brother  Manus,  shows  what  firebrands 
are  among  them,  ib. 

, ,  the  priests  preach  that  they  are 

a  despised  people,  worse  dealt  with 
than  any  nation  ever  heard  or  read  of, 
ib. 

^  ,  they  were  promised  pardon  and 

protection,  and  are  now  thrust  out  of 
their  homes  and  compelled  like  vaga- 
bonds to  go  they  know  not  where,  ib. 

,  sees    not  how  they  can   rebel, 

unless  they  get  aid  from  foreign  parts, 
ib. 

,  found  himself  so  soantled  by  the 

commissioners  division,  that  he  had  to 
forego  his  own  3,000  acres  in  Armagh, 
to  make  room  for  servitors,  504. 

,  ,  and  to  strike  out  the  names  of 

his  nearest  kinsmen,  ih. 

,  ,  he   has  thereby  foregone  _  more 

acres  of  good  land  than  he  has  in  all 
the  barony  of  Enishowen,  ib. 


Chichester,  Sir  Arthur— eo?(<. 

> )  report  of  same  to  Privy  Council, 

505.  ^ 

> marking  the  heart's  grief  of  all 

the  natives  of  Ulster,  he  doubled  the 
garrisons  of  Coleraine,  Mountjoy,  and 
Charlemont,  ib. 

,  writes  to  the  King  reciting  his 

services  in  his  ofBoe,  519. 

) ,  now  six  years  in  office,  ib. 

> )  plantation  of  Ulster  effected, 

520. 

) ,  results  of  this  measure,  ib. 

,   had    rather  labour    with    his 

hands  in  the  plantation  of  Ulster,  than 
dance  or  play  in  that  of  Virginia,  ib. 

) ,  has  endeavoured  the  extirpation 

of  popery,  521. 

; ,  Art.  M'Baron's  promise  to  re- 
move willingly  to  his  new  assignment, 
at  May  next,  has  worked  wonders  with 
the  natives,  530. 

' ,  ,  now  fears  that  they  will  all  re- 
move on  purpose  to  overthrow  the 
plantation,  ib. 

,  ,  without  them  the  undertakers 

would  have  to  send  20  miles  off  for 
provisions,  ib. 

,  and  would  be  wearied  out,  ib. 

, ,  the  new  Wexford  plantation, 

531. 

, ,  urges  the  speedy  issuing  of  a 

commission  to  find  the  King's  title  to 
that  part  of  Wexford,  occupied  by  the 
Irish,  as  intruders,  ib. 

, ,  has  made  out  a  clear  title  for 

King,  ib. 

,  Sir   L.   Esmonde   and  Sir  Ed. 

Fisher  have  laboured  to  render  some  of 
the  chief  Irish  there  compliant,  ib. 

, ,   these    intruders   have   entered 

over  the  blood  and  bodies  of  good  sub- 
jects, ib. 

, ,  the  King  must  therefore  expect 

some  opposition  from  such  unsound 
members,  ib. 

,  Sir  Thomas,  364. 

, ,  to  be  a  servitor    undertaker, 

428. 

,  Mr.  John,  368. 

Chief  Justice  of  King's  Bench,  his  yearly  fee, 

338. 
Chief  Kemembrancer  of  Exchequer,  office  of, 

to  be  granted  to  John  Carpenter,  175. 

Chiefries  in  Connaught,  claims  of,  397. 
Child  born  in  Tyrconnell  with  six  toes,  xxxvi. 

,  regarded  as  an  omen,  ib. 

Childi-en  of  Irish  not  to  be  sent  for  education 

over  sea,  174. 
,  if  abroad  already,  to  he  recalled,  265. 

Chishall,  William,  controversy  of,  with  Sir  E. 
Boyle  and  T.  Ball,  259. 

, ,  to  be  reheard  on  certain  con- 
ditions, 260. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


607 


Chissel,  William,  348.     See  Chishall. 
Christchurch,  323. 

Church,  Established,  lamentable  alienations  of 

its  property,  250. 
,  ,  pluralities  in,  ib. 

, ,  proclamation  published  against, 

ib. 

Church  lands  in  Ulster,  commission  of,  21 
July  1609,  to  more  accurately  dis- 
tinguish, Ixxxvi. 

„ ,  to  be  assigned  to,  in  the  settlement, 

64. 

,  alienation  of,  to  be  restrained,  174. 

,  surrey  of,  required  by  the  King,  274. 

,  in  escheated    district,    settled    by   a 

jury  of  clerks,  280. 
,  13  jui'ors  spoke  Latin,  ib. 

in  Ulster,  Chichester  has  done  all  in 

his  power  to  forward  the  settlement  of, 
389. 

,  how   marked   in    escheated   counties 

maps,  402. 

,  inquisitions  of,  in  every  county,  409. 

Churches,  the,  are  commonly  in  ruinous  con- 
dition throughout  the  escheated  dis- 
tricts, 64. 

,  repair  of  decayed,  in  the  Pale,  371. 

"  Churls,"  the  English  so  called  by  O'Dog- 
herty,  xlix. 

,  have  no  courage,  ib. 

Cinque  Ports,  charter  of,  136. 

Cities,  suits  of  the  corporations  of,  to  the 
King,  128. 

Clabb,  Patrick,  arms  taken  from,  314. 

Clan-Alister,  in  Antrim,  xiv. 

Clan-Alster,  see  Clan-Alister. 

Clanawley,  country  in  Armagh,  x. 

,  appertains  to  Archbishop  of  Armagh, 

ib. 

ClanawUe,  see  Clanawley. 

ClanbrasiU,  a  country  in  Armagh,  x. 

,  has  no  horsemen  but  80  kerne,  ib. 

Clancan,  or  M'Cann's  country,  in  Armagh,  x. 

,  has  no  horsemen,  ib. 

,  has  100  kerne  who  live  on  stealth,  ib. 

,  Chichester  would  have  Sir  Toby  Caul- 

feild  undertake  it,  364. 

Clancarty,  Earl  of,  to  be  member  of  council  of 
Munster,  xviii. 

Clanchy,  precinct  of,  405. 

Clandeboy,  South,  in  Down,  xi. 

,  captain  of,  ib. 

,  Korth,  in  Antrim,  xiii. 

Clandonells,  the,  a  "  bastard  kind  of  Scots," 
ib. 

,  ,  all  horsemen,  ix. 

, ,  a  sept  of  Tyrone,  61. 

Clanmorish,  freeholders  of,  to  be  discharged  of 
the  composition,  433. 

Clanmorres,  ten-itory  of,  577. 

Claim-I-Bamie,  manor  of,  397. 


Clauricard,  Earl  of,  Ixxvii,  86,  97,  98,  226, 
252,  328,  342,  366,  372,  381,  481,  507, 
508,  509,  510. 

, ,  proposed  as  president  of  Con- 
naught,  xvii. 

, ,  his  troop  of  horse,  32. 

,  foot,  33. 

,  ,  Chichester  justifies  him  against 

the  charge  of  being  the  author  of  his 
brother's  (Thomas  Bourke's)  imprison- 
ment, ib. 

, ,  will  bring  over  his  wife   and 

little  boy  to  England,  98. 

,  ,  recommendation  of  suit  of  Gal- 
way  to,  133. 

aia , ,  goes  to  England,  270. 

, ,  lands  at  Holyhead,  having  been 

detained  12  days  in  Dublin  by  winds, 
281. 

, ,  old  chiefries  passed  to,  as  rent- 
charge,  397. 

,  ,   return   of,    long    expected   by 

Chichester,  462. 

, ,  re-grant  to  be  made  to,  imme- 
diately on  surrender,  435. 

Clapham,  James,  491. 

,  Lord,  388. 

Clare,  Sir  Henry,  550. 

,   Sir  Thomas,  plantation  by,  in  Tho- 

mond,  17. 

,  Father  John,  English  Jesuit,  51. 

Clarke,  Sir  Wm.,  pensioner,  338. 

Claudie,  island  of,  rebels  in,  26. 

, ,  Tyrconnell  rebels  retreat  to,  1. 

, ,  invested  by  Chichester,  ib. 

Clemoire,  wood  of,  94. 

Clephane,  see  Clapham,  James. 

,  Lord,  see  Clapham. 

Clerk  of  the  Check,  162. 

of  the  Crown,  in  cos.  of  Dublin,  Kil- 

dare,  Carlow,  Queen's,  &c.,  to  Thos. 
Cole,  in  reversion  after  Eusebius  An- 
drewes,  506. 

of  the  Pipe,  inquiries  directed  as  to 

fees  of,  545. 
Cleryndon,    Richard,   sent  into    England    by 

Er.  Creswell,  53. 
Cley,  Phineas,  226. 
Clifton,  Sir  John,  Ixxvi. 
Climanty,  near  Lisgoole,  428. 
Clinawley,  barony,  575. 
Clinton,  John,  93. 
Cloghamon,  121,  122. 
Clogher,  barony,  365. 

,  ,  falls  to  Salisbury's  lot,  434. 

, ,  favourable  account  of,  ib. 

,  Bishop  of,  247. 

,  >  his  mensal  lands  in  county  of 

Tyrone,  561. 

bishopric  of,  483. 

,  market  of,  406. 

,  precinct  of,  404. 

,  00.  (Jalway,  324. 


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GENERAL  INDEX. 


Clonaghles,  rectory  of,  514, 
Clonauly,  541. 
Clonawly,  precinct  of,  405. 
Clonmahon,  barony  of,  the  O'Eeillys  chiefs  of 
third  part  of  it,  440. 

,  precinct  of,  405. 

Clonmell,  49. 

)  merchants  examined  at,  bring  reports 

from  Spain,  398. 
Clonroowe,  lands  of,  134. 
Clonybrenin,  on  borders  of  Meath,  170. 
Clotworthy,  Capt.,  367,  547. 

,  Capt.  Hugh,  72,  229,  512. 

Clough  Fanne,  Donegal,  inheritance  of  Mur- 

tagh  O'Dongan,  469. 
Cloughoughter,  castle  of,  80. 

> ,  constable  of,  Capt.  Hugh  Culme, 

509. 

to  be  reserved  and  regarded  for,  55. 

)  Capt.  Hugh  Cuhne,  repairs  fort  of, 

80. 

Clowanstown,  Thos.  Plunket  of,  382. 

Clownie  [Clones], a  convenient  place  to  lodge 
troops  in,  433. 

Clundasa,  lands  of,  134. 

Clunynglyn,  lands  of,  134. 

Clyston,  William,  549. 

Coach,  Sir  Thomas,  367,  477,  478,  548. 

Coall,  Captain,  servitor,  to  be  an  undertalier, 
428. 

Coalnemshy,  see  Coolnemsky. 

Coat,  for  John  Hoy,  pursuivant,  with  the 
King's  arms,  226. 

Goates,  Sir  Thomas,  served  well  in  the  wars  of 
Ireland,  and  recommended  for  land  in 
the  plantation,  409. 

Coath  (Coates)  Sir  Thomas,  servitor,  to  be  an 
undertaker,  428. 

Cockane,  William,  136,  360,  488. 

Cockayn,  William,  commissioner  for  planta- 
tion of  Londonderry,  136. 

Cocket,  see  Cocquet. 

Cocquet  customs  of  Limerick,  to  be  granted 
to  the  corporation,  267. 

of  Waterford,  ib. 

of  Cork,  ib. 

of  Youghal,  tJ. 

of  Kinsale,  ib. 

,  some  farm  of  them  to  be  re- 
served to  the  King,  268. 

Codd,  Martin,  of  Castletown,  fine  of,  578. 

Cogan,  Roger,  483. 

Coif,  Sergeant's,  Sir  J.  Davys  released  from 
wearing,  153. 

Coin  of  England  so  fine  that  little  of  it  stays 
in  Ireland,  242,  243. 

Coinage  of  Ireland,  a  project  for  the  relief  of 
Ireland  by  minting  these  small  moneys, 
243. 

,  cruel  effects  of  the  corrupted  coin,  ib. 

,  want  of  small  coin,  ib. 

,  quantities  of,  in  Spain,  France,  Ger- 
many, and  Low  Countries,  ib. 


Coinage — cont 

>  the  projector  will  paytheKing  2,500/. 

yearly  in  small  coin,  ib. 
>  these  coins  to  be  of  3d.,  2d.,  Id.,  and 

Coins,  small,  ought  to  be  of  the  same  standard 
of  fineness  with  England,  272. 

Colby,  John,  548. 

Cole,  Captain,  367,  547. 

,  John,  337. 

,  Thomas,  506. 

,  Capt.  William,  77,  227,  500,  512. 

, has  charge  of  boats  on  Lough 

Erne,  450. 

, recommended  for  servitor's  por- 

tion,  450. 

Colegraunge,  alias  Graunge,  rectory  of,  448. 

Colehorton,  Sir  Thomas  Beaumoht,  of,  472. 

Coleman,  Laughlin,  512. 

,  Richard,  174. 

Colenerer,  see  Toy  of  Conteneys. 

Coleraine,  a  new  county  of  Ulster,  viii. 

,  corresponds  in  the  main  with  Lon- 
donderry, X. 

,  contains  O'Cahan's  country,  ib. 

,  castle  of,  ib. 

and  Glanconkeyne,  a  government  of 

Ulster,  xxiii. 

,  its  limits,  xxiv. 

,  O'Cahan's  territory,  Ix. 

,  ,  now  confiscated,  ib. 

,  assizes  at,  in  1608,  Ixxix. 

,  ,  202,  207,208. 

,  county  of,  Sir  J.  Davys's  journey  to, 

as  commissioner  in  1 608,  Ixxx. 
, ,  passes  through  the  woods  and 

and  glyns  of  Glanconkeyne,  ib. 
,..,,...., ,  the  people  as  much  surprised  to 

see   the  Lord  Deputy   there,    as   the 

ghost   in  Virgil   were  surprised  to  see 

^neas  alive  in  Hell,  ib. 
,  ,  the  great  number  of  able  in- 
habitants, Ixxxv. 
,  ,  and    consequent    danger    and 

difficulty  of  planting,  ib. 

,  ,  366,  369. 

, ,  rebellion  in,  6. 

,  ,  people  of,  appear  in   numbers 

at  the  commission  of  oyer  and  terminer 

in,  7. 
, ,  fastnesses  of,  discovered  by  the 

King's  officers,  and  no  longer  available 

as  cover  for  rebels,  16. 
, ,  surveyed  and  found  to  be  vested 

im  the  Crown,  17. 
, ,  Chichester's  successful  journey 

to,  22. 

,  town,  chief  place  of  county,  60. 

,    a  small  county  of  three  baronies, 

ib. 

,  chief  septs  of,  ib. 

,  chief  places  of,  61. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


609 


Coleraine — cont. 

,  castle  and  abtey  of,  89. 

,  buildings  to  be  erected  at,  136. 

,  customs  of,  136. 

,  county  of  (called  O'Cahan's  country), 

194. 
,  ,  assizes    for,    held    (1609)    at 

Limavaddy,  ib. 
, ,  Limavaddy,  O'Cahan's  principal 

house  in,  ib. 
, ,  an    ill-favoured    and    ruinous 

castle,  ib. 
, , ,  but  good  land  around  it, 

ib. 
, ,  people  quiet  but  ready  to  revolt, 

ib. 
, ,  all  prisoners  in,  spared,  and  sent 

to  serve  in  Sweden,  281. 
, ,    Chichester's   interests   near   it 

affected  by  the  London  agents,  297. 

, ,  first  conference  with  deputies  of 

London,  347. 

,  ,  deputies  of  London  ask  3,000 

acres  to  be  laid  to  Coleraine,  347. 

,  ,  on  the  Antrim  side,  347,  348. 

,  ,  but  this  belongs  to  Sir  Eandal 

M'Donnel,  ib. 

,  ,  are  offered  1,000  acres  on  the 

Antrim  side  and  2,000  on  the  other,  ib. 

, ,  but  they  decline,  ib. 

, ,  second  conference,  ib. 

,  ,  ask  the  whole  county  of  Cole- 
raine, 348. 

,  in  fee-farm,  349,  350. 

and  cities  of  Coleraine  and  Derry  in 

free  burgage,  350. 

,  the  towns  of   Coleraine  and  Derry, 

and  the  county  of  Coleraine  to  be  freed 
from  all  monopolies  already  granted, 
351. 

articles  between  the  King  and  city  of 

London,  for  the  plantation  of  Derry 
and  county  of  Coleraine,  359. 

,  .,....,  to  be  built  on  the  abbey  side, 

360. 

,  100  houses  to  be  built  and  room  left 

for  300  more,  ib. 

,  3,000  acres  to  be  laid  to  the  town  on 

the  abbey  side,  unless  the  King  builds 
bridge,  ib. 

,  then  1,000  acres  on  the  abbey  side 

and  2,000  acres  on  the  other  side  of 
the  river,  ib. 

,  the  Londoners  are  to  have  the  town 

and  entire  county  of  Coleraine,  esti- 
mated at  10,000  acres  or  thereabouts,  ib. 

,  lands   to   be   cleared   of  all   private 

men's  titles,  except  bishops'  and  deans' 
residences,  and  three  or  four  Irish  gen- 
tlemen (no  more)  now  dwelling  in  the 
county,  ib. 

,  to  have  the  customs  for  99  years,  361. 

,  the  fishing  of  the  Ban  as  far  as  Lough 

Neagh,  ib. 

,  the  admiralty,  ib. 

3. 


Coleraine,  county  of — cont. 

J ,  their  own  wrecks  restored  to 

them,  361. 
, ,  the  liberties  extend  three  miles 

every  way,  ib. 
, ,  engage  to  have  40  houses  up 

by  1  Nov.  1611,  362. 
,  ,  workmen    to   be    collected   by 

sheriffs  for  building  of  Coleraine,  379. 
,  ,  Londoners  ask  for  liberties  to 

extend  four  mUes  every  way,  351,  361. 

,  priory  of,  448. 

,  Londoners'   money     for    works    at, 

watched  by  pirates,  473. 

, ,  but  missed,  ib. 

,  activity  of  Londoners  in  preparing  to 

build  Coleraine,  500,  501. 
,  garrison,  commander  of.  Sir  Thomas 

Phillips,  508. 
,  county,  by  Act  of  attainder  of  Shane 

O'Neil,  11th  of  Elizabeth,  vested  in  the 

Crown,  562. 
,  ,   Queen  Elizabeth    restored    to 

Hugh  O'Neil,  Earl  of  Tyrone,  all  that 

his  grandfather.  Con  Backagh,  held,  ib. 

,  ,  by  inquisition  at  Dundalk  itwas 

found  (16  Dee.,  30th  of  Elizabeth),  that 
O'Cahan's  country  lay  within  Tyrone's 
limits,  but  was  not  his,  and  the  land 
only  owed  him  services,  ib. 

,  ,  the  late  Earl,  however,  pre- 
tended to  have  cuttings  on  the  lands, 
and  imposed  200/.  a  year  rent  on 
O'Cahan's  country,  563. 

, ,  O'Cahan  appealed  about  three 

years  since  against  the  Earl's  proceed- 
ings, to  the  King,  ib. 

, ,  O'Cahan  and  Tyrone  were  to 

have  been  heard  before  the  King,  but 
Tyrone  fled,  ib. 

,, ,  and  is  since  attainted,  ib. 

, ,  an  abstract  of  His  Majesty's 

title  to  the  temporal  lands  in,  562. 

, ,  an   abstract  of  His  Majesty's 

title  to  the  ecclesiastical  lands  in,  564. 

, ,  demesne  lands  in,  of  the  Bishop 

Derry,  ib. 

...,  ,  Termon  and  Herenagh  lands  in, 

ib. 

, ,  glebe  lands  in,  565. 

,   ,  it   was   found   by   inquisition, 

30th  August  1609,  that  before  Statute 
11th  of  Elizabeth  the  Bishop  of  Derry 
was  seised  of  Lisnemucky,  containing 
one  ballibo  in  Coleraine  county,  564. 

,  and  the  Dean  of  Derry  of  two- 
quarters,  called  Ballionew,  ib. 

, ,  Herenagh  lands  in,  contain  100 

ballibos,  565. 

, ,the  glebes  containing  18  garden 

plots,  ib. 

, ,  the  abbey  lands,  22  balliboes, 

ib. 

, ,  18  granted  to  Sir  John  Sidney 

were  purchased  by  the  Earl  of  Tyrone 
from  him,  ib. 

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GENERAL  INDEX. 


Coleraine,  county  of — cont. 

, ,the  18  balliboes  purchased  of  Sir 

J.  Sidney  by  Tyrone  are  (by  Tyrone's 

attainder)  revested  in  the  King,  565. 
, ,  the  four  balliboes  (residue  of 

22),  are   the  possessions   of    the   late 

Abbey  of  Auogh,  and  are  passed  to  Sir 

Toby  Caulfeild,  ib. 
Collection  of  Tyi-one's  rents  from  his  flight  in 

Sept.  1607  till  1  November  1610   (3| 

years),  ■when  the  lands  were  set  out  in 

plantations   by    Sir    Toby    Caulfeild, 

King's  Eeceiver,  532. 
College,  Trinity,  Ridgeway's  account  of  the 

"  title  coUidge,"  70. 

,  commencement  at,  70. 

, ,  how  many  doctors,  bachelors  in 

divinity,  masters,   and  B.A.,   created, 

70. 

lands  in  six  counties,  403,  406. 

Colleges,  English,  in  Spain,  5 1 . 

Colletter  [acolyte] ,  one  of  the  minor  orders, 

51. 
Colley,  William,  president  at  Euske,  170. 
CoUum,  William,  491. 

,  Capt.  Robert,  ib. 

Colrane,  see  Coleraine. 

Comerford,  Thomas,  384. 

Commendams,  unduly  procured  by  Bishop  of 

Down,  457. 

,  the  Bishop's  defence,  458. 

,  three,  held  from  the  King,  ib. 

Commissary   of  the   victuals  in    Connaught, 

Thos.  Smith,  507. 

,inMunster,  Sir  Allen  Apsley,  507. 

Commission  of  accounts,  112,  113,  114. 

of  arrears,  118. 

of   defective    titles    and   surrenders, 

xxviii,  118,  213. 

of  Bonaghtand  Galloglass,  118. 

of  escheat  in  1608,  Ixxix. 

,  Sir  J.  Davys's  account  of  proceedings 

under,  Ixxix,  Ixxx. 

for  Irish  causes,  Ixxx  ;   222,  477,  486. 

to  collect  Crown  debts,  470. 

for  projecting  a  plantation  of  Ulster, 

names  of  commissioners,  Ixxxiv,  note. 

for  plantation  of  Ulster,  Ixxi. 

the  three,  for  effecting,  Ixxvii. 

in  1608,  1609,  1610,  ib. 

proceedings  under  commission  of  1608, 

Ixxviii. 

,  not  of  record,  Ixxviii,  Ixxix,  note  2. 

,  must  have  issued  about  June,  ib. 

, ,  assizes  at  Armagh,  Dungannon,  and 

Coleraine  under  it,  Ixxix. 
,  time  occupied,  was   from  5   July  to 

2  Sept.  1608,  bcxx. 
,  proceedings  of  the  second  commission 

in  1609,  Ixxxvi. 

,  its  purpose,  ib. 

the  19  articles  of  instructions  to  the 

commissioners  annexed,  ib. 


Commission — cont. 

occupies  from  31st  July  to  30th  Sept. 

]  609,  Ixxxvii. 
of  plantation,  brief   of   proceedings, 

409,  410. 

for  survey  of  Ulster,  255. 

of  survey   and   escheat   for   Ulster, 

236,  246. 

,  articles  of  instruction  annexed  to,  23 7 . 

,  names  of  Commissioners,  431. 

for  putting  undertakers  of  Ulster  in 

possession,  proceedings  under  (in  July 

and  August  1610),  497,  501. 

,  advices  for,  480,482. 

many  of  them  pray  dispensation  for 

ill  health,  and  fear  of  hardship,  480. 
for  passing  lands  to  undertakers,  names 

of,  460. 

to  sell  Crown  lands,  202. 

to  hear  suits  concerning  the  Ulster 

plantation,  ib. 
of  martial  government  to  the  Earl  of 

Ormonde,  104. 

for  surrenders  in  Munster,  489. 

for  Comynes,  instructions  for  commis- 
sioners, 491. 
on  O'Doherty,  to  find  O'Doherty  to 

have  fled  in  rebellion,  Ixi. 

held  super  visum  corporis,  ib. 

equal  to  attainder,  Ixi,  Ixxix. 

for  executing  pirates  and  priests  wished 

for  by  Sir  A.  Chichester,  473. 

to  demise  Crown  lands,  470. 

of  the  middle  shires,  xcvi  (and  see 

"  Grahams  "),  cii. 

between  England  and  Scotland,  ib. 

,  otherwise   of   the  middle    shires    of 

Brittany,  xcviii,  note,  xoix,  oi,  note.' 
,  agreement  of  commissioners  with  Sir 

Ralph  Sidley,  ib. 

,  his  undertaking  to  plant  his  seigniory 

of  Roscommon  with   the  Graemes   of 

Esk,  Leven,  and  Sark,  xcix. 

names  of  the  commissioners,  ib. 

Commissioners   of    arrears    and    surrenders, 

485. 

,  of  fugitives'  lands,  xxxv. 

,  Irish  members,  ib. 

Common   Prayer,  book   of,    translated    hito 

Irish,  184. 
, ,  a  copy  of,  sent  to  Salisbury  by 

Sir  J.  Davys,  300. 
, ,  first  set  in  hand  by  Sir  James 

Ley,  ib. 
Compositions,  the,  of  Leinster,  Connaught,  and 

Munster  revived,  452. 
Composte,  Thomas,  549. 
Comynes,  customary  gifts  by  which  the  lord 

retained  his  followers,  491. 

,  now  that  the  followers  are  detached, 

the  lord  is  to  have  a  return  of  part  of 
the  gifts,  ib. 

Concealments  in  Connaught,  commission  for, 
397. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


611 


Concordatums,  enumeration  of  charges  paid 
out  of  concordatum  fiind,  334,  335. 

,  certificate  of,  for  three  quarters  of 

a  year,  ending  30  June  1609, 225. 

Condestahile,  the,  complains  of  the  King  of 
England's  league  with  United  Pro- 
Yinces,  17. 

Condon,  David,  suit  of,  with  Arthur  Hyde, 

582. 

, ,  Essex's  letter  to,  583. 

,  Patrick,  Ixxvi,  note. 

,  ,  to  be  restored  to  blood  and 

lands,  582. 

Conelands,  the,  horsemen  of  Tyrone,  xxvii. 

Conley,  John,  a  young  friar,  463. 

.Patrick,  341,465. 

,  ,  title  of  composition  made  for, 

420. 

, ,  dwelling  in  Bred  street,  Dub- 
lin, 463. 

,  Mrs.  Alice,  her  son  writes  from  col- 
lege of  Toumay,  complaining  of  great 
want  of  money,  48. 

Connals,  priory  of,  598. 
Connanght,  96,  217,  226. 

,  plantation  in,  17. 

,  provost  marshal  of,  32. 

,  Lord  Clanricarde's  men  in,  33. 

,  President  of,  Shane  M'Manus  said  to 

be  gone  to,  37. 
charges  for  bringing  prisoners  from, 

73. 

,  composition  of,  96. 

,  assizes  to  be  held  in,  twice  a  year, 

154. 
,  surrender  of  lands  to  the  Crown,  ib. 

the  store  of  waste  land  to  be  had  in, 

prejudices  the  demand  for  Ulster  lots, 
193. 

,  provost  marshal  of,  Fras.  Annesley's 

suit,  252. 

clerk  of  council  of,  fees  of,  261. 

,  assizes  in,  report  on,  298. 

not  above  two  or  three  notable  male- 
factors tried  at,  ib. 

,  at  least  2,000  idle  men  in,  299. 

,  composition  of,  397. 

,  vice-president  of,  sends  out  warrants 

for  provisions,  ib. 

,  concealments  in,  ib. 

,  chiefries  in,  ib. 

,  decay  of  compositions  in,  435. 

,  province  of,  tottering  and  unassured, 

462. 

a  vice-president  must  be  appointed 

unless  Clanricard  return,  ib, 

,  President  of.  Earl  of  Clanricard,  507. 

,  provost  marshal  of.  Sir  Chas.  Coote 

ib. 

,  receipts  of  composition  of,  578. 

receipts  of  composition  of  revenues 

of,  ib. 


Connor,  Dean  and  Chapter  to  be  erected  in, 

581. 
Connors,  the,  and  Moores,  dispersed,  421. 
Conron,  Philip,  325. 
Constable,  Sir  Ralph,  367,  512. 

, ,  pension  of,  168. 

Constables  of  castles  and  captains  of  boats,  in 

Ulster,  to  be  planters,  366. 
of  castles,  (Sept.  1610),  in  the  four 

provinces,  list  of,  508. 
Conteneys,  the  Toy  of,  575. 
Conventional    signs    in    maps    of   escheated 

counties,  401,  403. 
Conversion  of  tenures  in  Ireland,  xxv  and  foil. 
Conway,  Sir  Eulk,  77,  89,  97,  364,  366,  509, 

510,  547. 
, lieutenant  of  Sir  A.  Chichester 

in  Carrickfergus,  xxiv. 
,  ,  owns  the  great  wood  of  Kill- 

ultagh,  89. 

,  ,  to  be  an  undertaker,  428. 

Conwey  in  Wales,  281. 

Conymifalies,  lands  of,  134. 

Cooke,  Captain,  33,  97,  321,  368,  548. 

, ,  a  servitor,  to  be  an  undertaker 

428. 

,  ,  musters  delivered  up  to,  4. 

, ,  number  of  his  men,  10. 

, ,  recommended  by  Salisbury,  320. 

,  Sir  Anthony,  232. 

,  Capt.  Hercules  Francis,  510. 

,  Sir  Eichard,  26,  87,  178,  373. 

,   ,   commissioner    of   plantation, 

460. 

Sir  Thomas,  213. 

Coole  and  Tircanada,  precinct  of,  405. 
Coolmakenna,  precinct  of,  401. 
Coote,  Capt.  Charles,  252. 
Cootnemoky,  Mr.  Wall  of,  44. 
Coquette  customs,  257.     See  Cooquet. 

Corb,    Coarb,   or  Erenagh,  of  the    Termon 

Magragh,  288. 
CorbaUaymore,  202. 
Corbett,  John,  481,  512. 
, ,  appointed     muster-master     of 

Ireland,  581. 

,Mr.,  347. 

,  Mrs.  Margaret,  petition  of,  414. 

Corbit,  Edward,  late  George,  services  of,  185. 

,  Margaret,  his  widow,  pension  for,  ib. 

Cork,  Bishop  of,  100,  101. 

, ,  to  be  member  of   Council  of 

Munster,  xviii. 

,  mayor  and  bailiffs  of,  report  of  decay 

of  their  city,  30. 

,  merchants  of,  474. 

,  new  charter  for,  petitioned  for,  154. 

,  privileges  as  to  customs,  ib. 

,  good  carriage  of  citizens  of,  401. 

,  fines  for  recusancy  remitted  at,  ib. 

,  ward  of,  507. 

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GENEEAL  INDEX. 


Cork — cont. 

gentry  of,  assessed  for  repairs  of  forts, 

409. 

,  county,  220. 

,  to  what  undertakers  set  out,  Ixxvi. 

intended  to  be  divided    and    made 

into  two,  being  60  miles  in  length,  220. 

,  Youghal  to  be  the  county  town    of 

one  half,  ib. 

Voughal   objected   to   by  the  gentry 

and  freeholders,  as  lying  at  the  utmost 
eastern  border,  ib. 

,  Lords  of  the  Council   suggest  that 

while  Cork  shall  still  be  kept  as  the 
county  town,  Rosscarbery  may  be  the 
other,  ib. 

Corn,  dearth  of,  in  England,  119. 

,  to  be  stored  for  the  winter  use  of  gar- 
risons, 22. 

,  export  of,  prohibited,  except  to  Eng- 
land, 144. 

Corn-powder  sent  into  Ireland,  return  of,  148. 

Comewall,  John,  544. 

,  Sir  Thomas,  549. 

, ,  a  principal  undertaker  in  Lifford, 

with  his  consorts,  their  names  and 
abilities,  ib. 

Edward,  ib. 

,  Gilbert,  ib. 

,  Thomas,  ib. 

,  George,  ib. 

,  Robert,  ib. 

,  James,  ib. 

CornwalUs,  Sir  Charles,  his  conferences  with 
the  Condestabile  about  the  United  Pro- 
vinces, 17. 

,  ,  120. 

, ,  report  on  Irish  in  Spain,  179. 

CornwalUs  settlement  of  land  in  India,  xxvii. 

Corporate  towns'  lands  in  six  counties,  403. 

Corporate  towns  and  free  schools,  lands  of, 
406. 

Corporations,  King's  pleasure  concerning,  149. 

the,  in  Ireland  have   renewed  their 

charters,  452. 

Corrach,  a  boat  covered  with  hide,  27. 

Corunna,  383. 

,  fleet  at,  supposed  for  transport  of  Earl 

of  Tyrone  to  Ireland,  583. 

great  meeting  of  ships  and  galleys  at, 

393.     See  Groyne. 

Cosby,  Captain,  127. 

Coshogcowlie,  grant  of,  to  Sir  James  Fitz- 
gerald, 162. 

Cotteril,  Clement,  477. 

Cottingham,  Mr.,  93,  96. 

.Philip,  70,  96,  114,  126,  225. 

,  ,  sent  to   Ireland   to   report   on 

timber  for  the  navy,  21. 

, ,  sent  to  Munster  with  letter  to 

the  President,  ib. 

,  is  to  view  woods   in   Leinster 

and  Conuaught  also,  ib. 


Cottingham,  Philip — cont. 

,  ,  and  in  Leix  and  Ophaly,  ib. 

craves  pardon  for  losing  his 

letters,  22. 

, ,  has  reported  to  Sir  Jeffrey  Pen- 
ton,  ib. 

, ,  inspects  woods  in  Munster,  29. 

, ,  goes  into  Desmond's  country, 

ib. 

,  does   not  go   to  President   of 

Munster,  30. 

, ,  assisted  in  search  for  timber, 

40. 

, his  report  referred  to,  43. 

Cottle,  Mr.,  367. 

John,  484. 

Council-book  of  14  January  1603,  575. 
Council  Chamber,  109,  227. 
,  necessaries  for,  74. 

Council,  Privy,  of  Ireland,  charged  by  Lord 
Howth  as  hostile  to  him,  391. 

,  ,  took  no  notice  of  his  words,  as 

spoken  in  heat,  392. 

Count,  a  Dutchman,  host  of  Andrew  Whitte, 
13. 

Counties,  the,  of  Ulster,  nine  in  number,  viii. 

, ,  old,  three,  ib. 

,  ,  newly  made,  six,  ib, 

,  the  six  escheated,  will  all  be  surveyed 

before  Michaelmas,  67. 

, ,  contents  of,  403. 

,  Irish,  ib. 

Courcy,  Sir  John  de,  plantation  in  Ulster  by, 

17. 

,  Lord,  see  Cursie. 

, ,biUto,  19. 

Courcy's  country,  composition  for,  by  Kinsale 

corporation  to  be  for  20  years,  131. 

Court  town,  co.  Kilkenny,  325. 
Courtuay,  Aschton,  483. 

,  George,  239,  484. 

,  ,  his  suit  with  Morice  Fitzthomas 

Fitzgerald,  239,  300. 
, ,  is  a  near  kinsman  of  Chiches- 
ter's, 239. 

, ,  affects  the   good  plantation  of 

his  Munster  seigniory,  ib. 

,  Sir  William,  Ixxvi. 

Courts  of  Justice,   the,   fully  established   in 

Ireland,  452. 
Coward,  Captain,  200,  473. 
Cowel,  Robert,  511. 

,  Lieutenant,  368. 

, ,  servitor,  to  be  an  undertaker, 

428. 
Cowley,  WiUiam,  rent  of  vicarage  of  Carbry, 

578. 
Cows,  to  be  assigned  out  of  those  forfeited  by 
the    rebels  for  defraying  the  King's 
charge,  22. 
Coyle  barony,  co.  Fermanagh,  575. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


613 


Cox,  Mr.  Henry  Hamilton,  civ,  cv. 

,  ,  the  depositor  of  the  Chichester 

papers  in  the  Library  of  Philadelphia, 

civ. 
, ,  his  descent  from  Joshua  Daw- 
son, "  Clerk  of  the  Papers,"  civ,  cv. 
, ,   suggestion   that   these   papers 

came  &om  Joshua  Dawson,  or  Arthur, 

his  son,  to  Mr.  H.  H.  Cox's  father,  cv. 
,  ,  and  thus   through  Mr.   H.  H. 

Cox  to  the  Philadelphia  Library,  ib. 
,  Eichard  T.,  of  Peoria,  Illinois,  U.S.A., 

cv,  note. 
,  Katharine  Ann,  Miss,  of  Alexandra 

Villas,  Queenstown,  Cork,  cv,  note. 

,  Sir  Richard,  ovii,  cviii. 

Crafforde,  see  Crawford. 
Crafoord,  see  Crawforde. 
Craford,  see  Crawford. 
Craforde,  see  Crawford. 

,  Captain  Patrick,  510. 

"  Cranbourne  town,"  so  called,  proposed  to  be 

built    in   O'Neal-land,    co.    Armagh, 

42."). 

also  "  Cicille's  Port,"  42.5. 

Cranston,  xcvi. 

,  Sir  William,  his  troop  sent  in  pursuit 

of  the  Grahams,  xcvii. 
Crapp,  Donatus,  350. 
Crawford,  Captain,  366,  428,  547. 

,  number  of  men,  33,  97. 

,  ,  servitor,  to  be  an   undertaker, 

428. 

,  ,  recommended  by  the  King  as 

undertaker,  464. 

,  David,  463. 

,  Captain  Patrick,  Scottish  soldiers  as- 
signed to,  10. 

,  Owen,  463. 

"  Creaghtes,"  the,  have  the  lands  when  the 
great  lords  are  in  prison  or  abroad, 
145. 

"  Creaghting,"  the  practice  of,  to  be  sup- 
pressed, 65. 

,  natives  can  with  difficulty  be  got  to 

give  up,  176. 

Creaghts,  suffered  to  return  after  the  suppres- 
sion of  the  rebellion,  27. 

Crchall,  Nicholas,  pensioner,  339,  511. 

Crely,  Patrick,  541. 

Cress  well.  Father,  an  English  Jesuit,  49. 

Crickstown,  see  Krickstown. 

Croagh,  494. 

Crofton,  William,  79,  228. 

Cromwell,  Lord,  79,  97,  366,  510. 

,  ,  number  of  his  men,  33. 

,  Mr.  James,  102. 

Crook,  Mr.,  of  Baltimore,  42. 

,  Mr.  Thomas,  of  Baltimore,  100. 

,  ,  wrongly   charged   with   piracy, 

ib. 

...    ...., ,  Bishop  of  Cork's  letter  in  favour 

of,  ib. 


Crook,  Mr. — cont. 

, ,  has  gathered  out  of  England  a 

whole  town  of  people  at. Baltimore,  ib. 
, ,  Baltimore   thereby  was  larger 

and  more  civilly  and  religiously  ordered 

than  any  town  in  Munster,  ib. 

,  ,  though  so  lately  founded,  ib. 

, ,  is  acquitted  by   the  Lords  of 

Council,  101. 

Crookhaven,  99. 

Crosby,  Mr.  Patrick,  Ixxiv,  Ixxv,  ciii,  105, 
217,  218,  240,  247,  329,  330,  372,  384, 
473. 

j ,  his  opinion  of  the  Graemes,  ciii. 

,  ,  tells  Chichester  of  a  plan  for 

transplanting  them  to  Ulster,  ib. 

, ,  offers  to  bring  over  an  intelli- 
gencer with  news  of  the  Irish  in  Spain, 
105. 

, ,  stayed  by  Lord  Deputy,  in  order 

to  bring  the  transplanting  of  the  Moores 
to  an  end,  171. 

,  ,  gets   Tarbert   for    a    place  of 

transplantation  for  the  seven  septs,  217. 

,  they  will  bear  him  everlasting 

malice  for  this  office,  ib. 

, ,  Chichester  sends  Salisbury  the 

letters  of  commendation  received  by 
Mr.  Crosbie  from  the  Queen's  County 
planters,  218. 

,  ,  he  will  thus  see  how  much  it  is 

to  their  good  liking,  ib. 

, ,  to  have  "the  breeching"  of  the 

young  Moores,  204. 

, ,  offers  to  bring  Eily  O'Carroll 

to  the  King's  hands,  evicting  Sir  Wil- 
liam O'Carroll,  372. 

)  ,  suit  of,  for  grant  of  the   castle 

of  Glyn,  388. 

,  order  to  pass  castle  of  Glynne 

to,  ib. 

,  leaves  King's  letter  behind  him 

at  Bristol,  ib. 

,  ,  seeks  to  overthrow  Sir  Wil- 
liam O'CarroU's  patent,  420. 

,  ,  deserves  recompense,  421. 

,  • ,  servitor,  claim  of,  on  castle  of 

Lixnaw,  432. 

,  ,  to  be  called  before  the  Council 

and  advised  to  surrender  it,  433. 

>  ,  engaged  that  the   transplanted 

O'Moores  should  not  return,  453. 

Crosomond,  captain  of  the  Janissaries,  279. 

Crosse,  Henry,  78,  232. 

,  Sir  Robert,  550. 

>   the    county    of    (Tipperary),    hieh 

sheriff  of,  462.  " 

Crowe,  William,  239,  367. 

'  John,  petition  for  reversion  of  remem- 

brancership  of  Exchequer,  419. 
Crown  lands,  rents  of,  account  of,  577,  573. 

)  inquisition  of,  in  every  county,  409. 

,  rents  reserved,  154. 


614 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Cruise,  Sir  John,  221. 

,  Sir  Thomas,  ib. 

Dame  Marian,  ib. 

,  Sir  John,  married  Margery,  one  of 

the    daughters    of    Sir   Theobald    de 

Verdon,  221. 

Cullen,  CO.  Duhlin,  wood  of,  546. 

Patrick,  50. 

,  Surgeon  Bdmond,  79,  507. 

CuUin,  manor  of,  co.  Cork,  206,  207. 
Cullinagh,  lands  of,  185. 

Culhnackatrean,  Chichester  would  have  Capt. 

Skipwith  undertake  it,  364,  366. 
Colme,  Capt.,  367,  547. 

,  Hugh,  76,  80,  509,  512. 

, ,  servitor,  to  be  an  undertaker, 

428. 

,  Capt  Robert,  234. 

, ,  pension  of,  430,  514. 

, surrendered  and  re-granted  to 

his  son  William,  431. 
Culmore,  66. 

fort  of,  330,  351,  361. 

,  O'Doherty's  design  upon,  1. 

,  taken  by  O'Dogherty,  38. 

,  a  ward  to  be  reserved  at,  58. 

,  castle  of,  60. 

,  fort  of,  repairs  of,  by  Lieut.  Baker, 

80. 

,  the  taking  of,  by  O'Doherty,  222. 

,  Sii-  Neal  O'Donnell  party  to  the  plot, 

ib. 

,  tried  for  it,  ib. 

,  the  London  agents  desire  part  of  Chi- 
chester's claim  at,  297. 

keeper  of,  Sir  Arthur  Chichester,  509. 

Cumber,  abbey  of,  448. 

Cumberland    and   Westmoreland,   gentlemen 

of,  c. 
,  subscribe  for  the  transplantation  of 

the  Grsemes  into  Ireland,  ib. 

Curates,  lands  of,  433. 

Curlews,  castle  in  the,   constable   of,    Capt. 

John  St.  Barbe,  508. 
Currency,  remarks  on,  272. 
Currocke,  see  Corrach. 
Cursie,  Lord,  368. 
Curtaine,  Mr.,  341. 
Cusack,  John,  341,  373. 
,  fine  of,  for  wardship  of  Patiick 

Bamewal),  577. 
,  Christopher,  promises  to  obtain  plan 

of  study  for  Robert  BamewaU,  54. 
,  Sir  Thomas,  his  book  on  the  state  of 

Ireland,  xv. 
, ,  his  proposal  of  four  Presiden- 
cies, xvii. 
, ,  native  element  recognised  in  it, 

xvii,  XX. 
Customs,  243. 
,  of  Limerick  and  other  Munster  cities, 

257 


Customs — cont. 

,  the,  are  now  reduced  in  all  the  port- 
towns,  452. 

,  Chichester  advises  that  the  towns  be 

not  rendered  discontented  by  taking 
from  them  the  customs,  86. 

,  the  King  answers  he  will  not  allow 

the  temporary  grants  of  his  predeces- 
sors, or  their  mere  toleration  to  bind 
him,  128. 


D. 

Dacres,  xcvi. 

Dae,  Denis,  512. 

Dale,  Capt.  Denis,  pension  for,  430. 

, 508. 

,  William,  commissioner  of  plantation 

of  Londonderry,  136. 

,  William,  438. 

Dalway,  John,  80. 

,  Mr.,  367,507. 

Damet,  Dr.  Wilham,  226. 

Danes,  see  Easterlings. 

Daniel,  Mr.,  preacher,  79.     See  Daniell. 

Daniell,  Dr.,  translates  New  Testament  and 
prayer  book  into  Irish,  184. 

,  ,  recommended  for  seeof  Tuam, 

ib. 

,  and  to  have  treasurership  of  St. 

Patrick's  in  commendam,  ib. 

/Nicholas,  341. 

Dansker,  Capt.,  of  Flushing,  a  pirate,  279. 

Danvers,  Lord,  President  of  Munster,  his  troop 
of  horse,  32. 

,  ,foot,  33. 

,  ,  letter  to  Salisbury,  with  infor- 
mations, 49. 

,  defends  the  course  he  took  in 

treating  with  pirates,  71. 

,    the   dangers   at   the  time   of 

O'Doherty's  outbreak,  ib. 

,  ,  Father  Archer  and  O'SuUivan 

Beere  hasted  from  Madrid  and  Sala- 
manca to  send  boat-loads  of  priests  and 
Irish  agents  to  encourage  the  revolt, 
ib. 

, ,  if  not  supported  will  resign  the 

office  of  President  of  Munster,  72. 

, ,  cost  of  his  journey  to  Ireland, 

75. 

,  ,  78,  97,  98,  226,  228,  501,  507, 

509,  510. 

, ,  Ormonde  commends  him,  120. 

,  ,  unable  to  sail  from  fear  of 

pirates,  130. 

, ,  reports  capture  of  pirates  151. 

,   ,  secured    on   escheated  lands, 

claims  made  upon,  283. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


615 


Danvers,  Lord — cent. 

) ,  President  of  Munster,  366. 

,  remits  fines  for  recusancy  to 

the  citizens  of  Cork,  401. 

Darcy,  Christopher,  380. 
Damans,  the,  of  North  Clandeboy,  xiii. 
Darrell,     Sir    Marmaduke,     contractor    for 
victaalling  King's  ships,  316. 

,  Marmaduke,  382. 

Dartrey,  a  eouuty  of  Monaghan,  ix. 
Daruse,  lands  of,  134. 
Davenport,  Sydrack,  367. 
Davies,  Nevil,  120. 

Davys,  Sir  John,  his  letters  singularly  instruc- 
tive, xxix. 

, ,  on  the  circuits  and  inquisitions, 

ib. 
,  ,  account  of  the  flight  of  the 

Earls,  XXXV. 
, ,  thinks  it  as  providential  for  the 

settling  of  the  kingdom,  hv. 
,  lix,  Ix,  Ixii. 

,  goes  as  one  of  a  commission  to 

Donegal  and  Tyrone  to  indict  the 
Fugitive  Earls,  Ix. 

,  ,  the  proceedings  and  finding  of 

the  bills,  ib. 

, ,  sends  copy  of  the  bill  to  Salis- 
bury, Ixii. 

, ,  the  three  points  of  treason  in, 

Ixii,  Ixiii. 

,  ,  account  of  the  proceedings  to 

Salisbury,  Ixiii. 
,  ,  and  of  the  nature  of  the  bills, 

ib. 

, ,  the  separate  proceedings  against 

Tyrone  at  Strabane,  Ixiv. 
,  ,  he  is  there  indicted  for  assuming 

the  title  of  O'Neale,  ib. 

,  the  proofs  offered,  Ixiv,  Ixv. 

,  his   astonishment  at  Tyrone's 

flight,  Ixvii. 

,  ,  his  remarks  upon  it,  ib. 

,  ,  his  estimate  of  Tyrconnell,  Ixix. 

,    ,   Tyrone's    estimate  of   Sir   J. 

Davys's  manners,  Ixx. 

,  ,  he  insults  Tyrone  in  the  pre- 
sence of  the  Council,  ib. 

,  is  with  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  at  the 

review  of  the  troops  at  Lurgan  Green, 
when  Sir  Cahir  O'Doherty's  death  is 
announced,  Ixxviii. 

, ,  is  ordered  to  draw  a  proclama- 
tion thereof,  ib. 

,  his  account  of  the  assizes  at 

Armagh  in  1608,  Ixxix. 

, ,  of  those  at  Dungannon,  ib. 

,  ,  at  Coleraine,  ib. 

,  ,  of  the  proceedings  under  the 

commission  of  escheat,  Ixxix,  Ivxx. 

,  ,  his  journey  from  Dungannon 

to  Coleraine,  through  the  woods  pan 
glyns  of  Glanconkeyne,  Ixxx. 


Davys,  Sir  John — cont. 

,  the  wonders  that  aoeompanied 

the  commissioners'  journey,  ib. 
, remains  in  London  during  the 

autumn  and  winter  of  1608,  Ixxxi. 
, ,  does  not  return  to  Ireland  till 

5  May  1609,  ib. 
his    amusing   account   of  the 

reception  of  the  agents  for  London  at 

the    camp   of   the   commissioners    of 

plantation  at  Derry,  Ixxxii. 
, ,  places  the  bishops  of  Ulster  on 

the  commission  of  1609,  Ixxxvii. 

, ,  his  reasons,  ib. 

,   ,  his  remarks  upon    the    map 

maker's  murder,  ib. 
,  ,  the  need  hence  of  guards  to 

accompany  Sir  Josias  Bodley,  ib. 
....,....,  ,  his  account  of  the  work  done 

by  the  commissioners,  Ixxxviii,  Ixxxix. 

,  ,  remains  in  London  till  3  June 

1609,  xci. 

, ,  his  account  of  the  opening  of 

the  commission  of  1610  at  Cavan, 
xcii. 

,  ,  its  purpose,  ib. 

,  ,  to  give  the  undertakers  pos- 
session, ib. 

, ,  his  account  of  the  opening  of 

this  commission  at  Cavan,  xcii,  xciv. 

, ,  his   curious  remark  as  to  the 

coincidences  of  dates  and  numbers  in 
the  death  of  O'Dogherty,  14. 

, ,  goes  to  England  with  Sir  James 

Ley,  instructed  by  Chichester,  65. 

)   ,   he   and    Sir   James   Ley   are 

familiar  with  all  that  has  been  pro- 
jected for  the  settlement  of  Ulster,  67, 
69. 

, ,  Chichester  states  that  his  ex- 
penses of  journeys  to  Loudon  have 
been  great,  70. 

, ,  his  expenses  as  commissioner 

for  indicting  the  Fugitive  Earls,  75. 

,  65,  67,  70,  72,   75,  77,  93,  112, 

114,  116,  117,  200,  203,  204,  213,  215, 
218,  222,  223,  225,  243,  256,  343,  390, 
466,  497,  546,  551. 

, ,  his  pension,  168. 

I commissioner  for  Ulster  planta- 
tion, 171. 

,  the  King  highly  satisfied  with, 

176. 

, ,  new  letters  patent  as  Attorney- 
General  to  be  made  out,  176. 

, ,  services  of,  in  plantation  ac- 
knowledged, 186. 

>   )  release    of,  from    serjeantcy, 

)  ,  since  his  return  to  Dublin  finds 

the  town  full  of  people  seeking  news 
204. 

.) ,  or  on  law  business,  ib. 

) >  tut  the  courts  are  nearly  empty 

of  suits,  ib. 


616 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Davys,  Sir  John — cont. 

,  ,  because  the  priests  spread  ru- 
mours of  approaching  trouhles,  204. 

,  ,  except  for  this,  never  was  there 

a  time  of  more  universal  inward  peace, 
lb. 

,  ,  the    servitors    object     to     the 

plantation  that  they  are  not  allowed  to 
choose  their  seats,  205. 

, ,   Sir   Neal   O'Donnel,   and    Sir 

Donnel  O'Cahane  have  been  arraigned, 
and  are  to  be  tried  next  term,  ib. 

, ,  because  juries  cannot  sooner  be 

had  from  those  remote  countries,  ib. 

,  ,  has  clear  evidence  against  Sir 

Neal  O'Donnel,  ib. 

,  ,  the  King's  book  is  admired  for 

its  strength,  ib. 

, ,  on  the  renewal  of  the  ancient 

charters  of  towns  corporate,  214. 

, ,  has  omitted  in  the  new  charters 

their  privileges  to  buy  and  sell  with  the 
King's  enemies,  ib. 

,  to  give  the  King's  enemies  safe 

conduct,  ib. 

, ,to  shut  their  gates  if  the  Deputy 

came  with  more  forces  than  they  could 
master,  ib. 

,  ,  Salisbury   will    smile   to   hear 

that  the  Bishop  of  Waterford  claims 
among  his  privileges  that  the  mayor 
shall  not  lift  up  his  sword  within  the 
cathedral  precincts,  214. 

, .the  citizens,  though  all  papists, 

exclaim  that  he  is  thereby  seeking  to 
erect  a  papacy  in  Waterford,  ib. 

, ,  because  he  will  not  allow  the 

King's  sword  to  be  carried  into  his 
liberty,  ib. 

,   anxiety   of   the   State   at   the 

delay  in  the  commission  for  the  planta- 
tion of  Ulster,  ib. 

, ,  they  fear  the  year  will  be  lost, 

ib. 

, ,  the    servitors    have    declined, 

hoping  by  long  delay  that  they  may  be 
allowed  to  choose  their  seats,  ib. 

,  ,  if  the  empty  veins  of   Ulster 

were  once  fiUed  with  good  British 
blood  the  whole  body  politic  would 
quietly  recover  perfect  health,  ib. 

,    ,    fines    imposed     by   Sir    H. 

Brouncker  on  Munster  recusants  re- 
duced, but  not  remitted,  215. 

, ,  "W.  Eavenscroft's  letter  to,  ib. 

,  desires   him   to  let   him  know 

whenever  he  is  tired  of  his  late  pur- 
chase, ib. 

, ,  he  shall  have  his  money  with 

advantage,  ib. 

,  ,  but  hopes  rather  he  may  keep 

it,  and  add  to  it,  ib. 

, ,  his  account  of  the  trial  of  Sir 

Neal  O'Donuell,  222. 

, ,  Sir  Neale  objected  to  the  Irish 

jury  as  too  mean,  and  demanded  one  of 
English  knights,  223. 


Davys,  Sir  John — ccmt. 

, ,  agreed  that  they  were  too  mean 

to  convict  an  Irish  lord,  ib. 
,   ,  his   opinion    of   Irish    juries, 

225. 
, ,  thinks   they  must  try  him  in 

Middlesex  as  O'Rorke  was,  ib. 

, ,  or  else  keep  him  in  prison  till 

Ulster  is  planted,  ib. 

,  ,   the   alacrity   they   all  feel  a.t 

setting  forth  on  the  commission  into 
Ulster,  256. 

,  ,  he  and  the  Chief  Justice  have 

been  appointed  for  the  assizes  of 
Lower  Leinster,  but  they  now  go  to 
Ulster,  ib. 

,  ,  sends  a  draught  of  the  commis- 
sion drawn  by  himself,  ib. 

, ,  how  the  Bishop  of  Derry  gained 

for  the  Church  all  the  Termon  lands, 
ib. 

, ,  pleased  that  Lord  Audeley  and 

his  son  become  undertakers  in  Ulster, 
ih. 

,  ,  report  from  Cavan  of  the  plan- 
tation commission,  292. 

, ,  goes  to  England  with  the  trea- 
surer, 390. 

sues   to  be  undertaker  under 

Lord  Salisbury,  426. 

,  ,  thought  meet  to  be  a  servitor, 

428. 

,  ,  has  served  seven  years  appren- 
ticeship in  Ireland,  451. 

,  ,  hopes  to  be  recalled,  ib. 

, ,  statement  of  the  measures  car- 
ried into  effect  by  him,  452. 

, ,  all  things  are  now  as  in  English 

courts,  ib. 

, ,  any  experienced  English  lawyer 

may  take  his  place,  ib. 

, reports  the  proceedings  of  the 

commissioners  (under  their  commis- 
sion to  give  the  undertakers  possession) 
in  Ulster  in  Julv  and  August,  1610 
497-.501. 

. . . . , ,  they  gave  natives  their  portions, 

ib. 

,  and  servitors,  ib. 

, ,  and  proclaimed  what  precincts 

were  for  English  and  Scottish,  and 
what  for  servitors  and  natives,  and 
warned  natives  to  retire  to  live  under 
the  servitors,  ib. 

, ,  as   the   undertakers  were   not 

ready,  the  natives  have  been  allowed  to 
stay  till  1  May  1611,  tfi. 

,  to  remove  them  at  once  would 

have  created  a  famine,  ib. 

to  such  undertakers  as  appeared 

the  commissioners  gave  warrants  for 
possession,  498. 

,  and  assigned  them  timber  for 

building,  ib. 
, ,  began  at  Cavan,  ib. 


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617 


Davys,  Sir  John — cont. 

, ,  the  protest  of  the  Irish  through 

a  lawyer  of  the  Pale,  ib. 

, ,  speech  in  answer,  ib. 

,  ,  in  rermanagh  and  Donegal  no 

eflFort  at  protest  made,  499. 
,   Irish    there    contented    "with 

their  lots,  ib. 
,  except   Connor   Roe  Maguire, 

who  has  one  whole  barony,  ib. 

,  ,  but  was  promised  two,  ib. 

, ,  yet  he  did  not  oppose  the  sheriff, 

but  gave  up  possession,  ib. 
, ,  in  Tyrone  and  Armagh  where 

they   expected   least    trouble   met  the 

most,  ib. 
,  ,   the   O'Quins   and   O'Hagans, 

Tyrone's   horsemen,   spurned   at  their 

small  lots,  ib. 
,  ,  said  they  would  rather  be  ten- 
ants at  will  under  the  servitors,  ib. 

,   ,   than   such  small   freeholders, 

liable  to  serve  at  assizes  and  on  juries, 
500. 

, ,   suggests  that  thoy  be    settled 

under  the  bishops,  of  whom  they  will 
grow  as  fond  as  j'oung  pheasants  of 
a  home  hen,  though  not  their  nest 
mother,  ib. 

,  ,  as  for  the  servitors,  none  would 

imdertake  last  year  only  Lord  Audley, 
ib. 

, ,  now  so  many  press  for  lots  that 

there  is  much  ado  to  provide  for  them, 
ib. 

, ,  those  who  have  got  lots  are  for 

the  most  part  servitors  who  had  set  up 
their  rests  in  Ulster,  ib. 

,  ,  the  unprovided  are  soothed  by 

hopes  of  lots  under  the  Londoners,  the 
bishops,  or  of  being  placed  in  the  glens 
of  Tyrone,  ib. 

, ,  the  Londoners  have  made  better 

preparation  for  building  the  town  of 
Coleraine  than  the  commissioners  could 
have  expected,  ib. 

,  ,   their   workmen  were  so   busy 

that  he  thought  he  saw  the  building  of 
Carthage  as  described  by  Virgil,  501. 

,  his  notes  on  the  fishery  of  the 

Bann,  527. 
,  (Mr.  Attorney),  547. 

, ,  his  abstract  of  the  King's  title 

to  the  Earl  of  Tyone's  late  escheated 
lands  in  the  county  of  Armagh,  552. 

, ,  ,  in  the  county  of  Tyrone, 

559. 
, , ,  in  the  county  of  Coleraine, 

562. 
, ,  ,  in  the  county  of  the  city 

of  Derry,  565. 
, ,  ,  of  the  Herenagh  lands  in 

the  county  of  Derry,  566. 
, ,  ,  ecclesiastical  lands' lying 

out  of  the  island  of  Derry,  568. 


Davys,  Sir  John — cont. 

, , ,  of  the  county  of  Donegal, 

569. 

, , ,  of  the  county  of  Fer- 
managh, 574. 

, , ,  of  the  county  of  Cavan, 

576. 

,  Lord,  see  Danvers. 

Dawson,  Joshua,  civ,  cv,  cvi. 

..,  Arthur,  cvii,  cviii. 

,  clerks  of  the  papers  in  Ireland  for  50 

years,  cv. 

,  Mr.  Henry  Hamilton-Cox,  their  de- 
scendant, ib. 

, ,  who  gives  Sir  Arthur  Chichester's 

papers  to  the  Philadelphia  Library,  ib. 

,  ,  his  descent  from  Joshua  Dawson, 

ib. 

,  ,  suggestion   that   they  came   to 

him  through  this  connexion,  ib. 

Dawtrey,  Richard,  550. 

Dean  of  Derry,  to  be  endowed,  136. 

Dean  and  Bishop  of  Derry,  to  be  endowed,  ib. 

Deane,  William,  warrant  to  be  made  Bishop  of 
Ossory,  398. 

Deans  and  Chapters,  creation,  of  in  Down, 
Connor,  and  Dromore,  581. 

Dearth  in  England,  corn  to  be  licensed  to  be 
exported,  because  of,  119. 

Dease,  see  Deyse. 

,  Garrett,  375. 

Debateable  land,  the,  xcvi. 

De  Courcy,  Sir  John,  brought  English  settlers 
to  Lecale,  xii. 

Defective  titles,  commission  of,  xxviii. 

,  list  of  surrenders  and  sales  under  com- 
missioners of,  324. 

,  discoveries  to  be  allowed  as  in  Eng- 
land, and  the  owner  to  compound,  370. 

,  otherwise   the  King  to  make  a  lease 

of  his  lands,  ib. 

,  commission  of,  455. 

,  Barnabj'  Ryche's  charge  that  the  King 

is  abused  in  the  execution  of  this  com- 
mission, 552. 

Deise,  William,  90. 

Delahide,  James,  337,  511.     See  Delahoide. 

Delahoide,  James,  of  Moygaddy,  co.  Kildare, 
325. 

Delahoyde,  James,  511. 

Delvin,  the  Lady,  392. 

,  Lady,  urged  by  Howth   to   dissuade 

Lord  Delvin  from  submitting,  392. 

,  ,  103,  108. 

,  Mary,  Dowager  Lady,  the  surrender  of 

the  O'Ferralls'  lands  to  be  enrolled 
519.  ' 

,  Lady,  charge  made   to,  against  Lord 

Howth,  42. 

,  Lord,  Ixv,  Ixvi,  Ixviii. 

,  ■ ,  his  confession  of  his  conspiracy 

with  Tyrconnell,  ib. 
,  ,  his  discontent,  ib. 


618 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Delyin,  Lord — cont. 

, ,  his  confession  at  Dublin  Castle, 

IxTiii. 

, ,  privy  to  conspiracy,  2. 

,  ,  his    title    to   lands   in    Cavau 

thought  defective,  56. 
, ,  excuses   himself   to   Salisbury, 

141. 

,  ,  is  accused  by  Lord  Howth,  ib. 

, deposition  of,  in  case  of  Lord 

Howth  and  Sir  G.  Moore,  153. 
, ,   Sir    G.    Moore's     statements 

about,  169. 
,  ...,..,   escape  of,    makes    constables 

more  watchful,  178. 
,  ,  79,  103, 104,  205,  335,  344,376, 

381,  386,  391,  392,  394. 
, ,  prays  that  Groome,    the   friar 

lately  sentenced  to  die,  may  be  spared, 

206. 
, ,  he  (Delvin)  will  otherwise  be 

held   the    author   of   his   death,   206, 

255. 
, ,  gives  evidence  against   Owen 

Groome  Magraith,  a  friar,  265. 
, , ,  importance  of  this  fact, 

ib. 
, ,  encouraged  by  Lord  Howth  to 

escape  from  prison,  386. 
, ,  affirms  this  repeatedly  to  Howth's 

face,  ib. 
,  ,    escape   of,   from   prison,  Chi- 
chester charged  with  favouring,  ib. 
,  ,   the  message   sent  to   him   by 

Hovrth,  391. 
, , ,  conflict  of  evidence  as  to 

its  purport,  392. 

, ,  persists  in  his  statement,  ib. 

,  ,  Lord  Howth  reveals  his  inten- 
tion to  escape  from  the  castle,  394. 
,  country,  Franciscan   abbey  in, 

463. 
,  ,  order  for  enrolment  of  his  sur- 
render of  the  OTarralls'  lands,  519. 
, ,  to  make  a  second  surrender  of 

his  lands  in  Longford,  581. 
, , ,  fears  this  will   prejudice 

his  title,  but  has  perfected  the  deeds, 

relying  on  the  King's  promise,  ib. 
,  ,  and  Lady  Delvin,  his  mother, 

576. 
Delvyn,  see  Delvin. 
Delvyne,  see  Delvin. 
Demands  made  of  Philemy  Reagh,  1. 
Demesne  lands  restored  to  the  bishops,  389. 
Demesnes,  bishops',  403. 
Denball,  Samson,  a  pirate  at  Tunis,  279. 
Denham,   John,    recommended   to   be    Chief 

Baron,  147. 

,213,215,382. 

, ,  made  Lord  Chief  Baron,  445. 

Denmark,  the  Irish  natives  to  be  removed  for 

the  service  in,  408. 


Denny,  Arthur,  121. 

, ,  arrears  of  rent  to  be  remitted 

to,  190. 

Deposition  of  John  Redlake,  477.' 

of  Ashton   Courtney   of   Devonshire, 

Sanders  Fleming,  of  Camphier,  Ire- 
land, G.  Nichol,  of  Devonshire,  Eobt. 
Herries,  of  Bristol,  Eoger  Cogin,  Can- 
nonnier,  made  prisoners  in  a  prize, 
483. 

of  Thomas  Barlow,  532. 

of  Diggory  Castles,  alias  Tomkins  of 

Youghal,  547. 

Deptford,  Drake's  monument  at,  100. 
,  timber  to  be  landed  at,  149. 

Deputy  and  Council,  letters  of,  on  commission 
of  surrenders,  very  interesting,  xxix. 

De  Rose,  Lennan  de,  engineer,  80. 

De  Rosse,  473.     See  De  Rose. 

Derry,   Bishop  of,   claims   that  the    Termon 

lands  are  church  lands,  Ixxxvi. 

,  ,  ,  how  they  are  held,  li. 

, ,  their  nature,  ib. 

, design  of  the  King  in  issuing 

a  second  commission  concerning,  ib. 
,  ,  his   claims    to   the    island    of 

Derry,  Ixxxviii. 
, ,  his  differences  with  O'Cahan, 

Ixi. 
,  ,   dispute   of,    with    Sir   George 

Paulet,  59. 
, ,  takes  part  with  O'Cahan  against 

Tyrone,  65. 
,  ,  who  got  the  apparel  of  his  wife 

seized  in  O'Dogherty's  outbreak,  94. 

, ,  SirR.  M'DonneU  prays  to  have 

sequestration  of  Bann  fishery  trans- 
ferred to  him  from  Sir  T.  Phillips, 
21. 

,  recommended  to  Salisbury,  12. 

,  offended   with   Chichester    for 

advising  him  to  leave  off  his  too  great 

care  of  the  world,  253. 
and  to   betake  himself  to  his 

spiritual  calling,  ib. 
,  his  intrigues  about  the  lands  in 

Ulster,  ib. 
, ,  to  the  damage  of  the  plantation, 

253,  255. 

,  ,  his  absence  much  felt,  271. 

,  his  complaints  have  influenced 

the  Chancellor,  ib. 
,    ,   required   to   send    survey   of 

church  lands,  274. 

, ,  arrives  at  camp,  280. 

,   objects    to    proposals    about 

bishops'  lands,  281. 
,    letters    of,    confirm    charges 

against  Sir  Donnel  O'Cahane,  313. 

, ,  gives  an  account  of  the  church 

.    lands  in  Ulster,  389. 

, titles  of  Bishop  and  Dean  of, 

and  of  citizens  to  be  cleared,  412. 


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619 


Derry,  Bishop  oi—cont, 

, ,    found     by     inquisition    (30th 

Aug.  1609),  seised  of  Lisnemucky,  one 

haUibo,  in  Coleraine  county,  before  11 

of  Ehzabeth,  564. 
, ,  held  of  old  part  of  the  island  of 

Derry,  565. 

, ,  found    to    be    possessed  of   a 

house  or  castle  and  garden  plot  on  the 
south  side  of  the  cathedral  church  in 
right  of  his  see,  near  the  Long  Town  in 
the  island,  ib. 

, ,  found  also  possessed  time  out  of 

mind  of  an  orchard  or  park  on  the  east 
of  the  great  fort  in  the  island,  paying 
to  the  Herenagh  Laghina,  four  white 
groats  a  year,  566. 

,  ,  found   entitled   to   one   quarter 

of  land  in  Enishowen,  568. 

,  ,  and  had  four  baUiboes  in  times 

past  in  O'Cahan's  country,  ib. 

, ,  two  marks  being  thereout  pay- 
able to  the  Archbishop  of  Armagh,  ib. 

,  ,  246,  247,  254,  255. 

,  Dean  of,  held  of  old  part  of  the  island 

of  Derry,  565. 

, ,  entitled  to  a  small  plot,  but 

bounds  unknown,  566. 

....,  207,  208,  209,  210,  222,  223,  227,  248, 

249,  340,  347  351. 

,  a  wardable  building,  ix,  x. 

,  surprise  of,  by  Sir  Cahir  O'Dogherty, 

Ix. 

,  Sir  George  Paulet,  governor  of,  slain 

by  O'Dogherty,  ib. 

,  Ixxx. 

,  island  of,  Ixxxviii. 

,  ,  claimed  for  the  Bishop,  ib. 

,  O'Dogherty's  designs  on,  1. 

,  burning  of,  14. 

,  piece  of  ordnance  to  be  moved  from, 

to  Droghedonan,  20. 

,  forts  of,  to  be  repaired,  27. 

,  Sir  Oliver  St.  John's  men  at,  33. 

,  repairs  of,  approved  by  Privy  Council, 

47. 

,  land  to  be  assigned  to  it,  being  en- 
tirely without  land,  58. 

,  works  to  be  executed  at,  ib. 

,  repairs  of  ramparts  and  forts  of,  80. 

customs  of,  136. 

,  exports  of,  ib. 

,  lands  reserved  to,  137. 

,  charter  of,  and  other  charters,  to  bo 

modelled  suitably,  136. 

,  buildings  to  be  erected  at,  ib. 

,  city  of,  to  have  patronage  of  churches, 

ib. 

,.,.,  fines  for  houses  at,  175. 

,  Sir  Robert  Jacob's   account   of,  in 

1609,  194. 
,  the  fairest-begun  city  that  ever  waS 

made  in  so  short  a  time,  ib. 


Derry — cont. 

but  is  now  all  ruined  except  the  ram- 
parts, ib. 

hardly  to  be  restored,  till  some  great 

man  who  shall  have  O'Dogherty's 
country  shall  make  his  residence  there, 
194. 

present  weakness  of,  ib. 

..,  commodities  vendible  at,  340. 

,  Sir  Neal  O'Donnell  tried  for  being 

party  with  O'Dogherty  in  the  sacking 
and  burning  of,  223. 

moneys  paid  for  relief  of  distressed 

citizens  of,  230. 
,  plantation  of,  instructions  for  survey 

of,  316. 

, ,  points  to  be  reported  on,  ib. 

,    ,   detailed  replies    of  viewers, 

316,317. 

, ,  on  situation,  316. 

,  ,   commodiousness  and  fertility, 

317. 

,  ,  timber,  ib. 

, minerals,  ib. 

, ,  harbour,  ib. 

,  fishery,  318. 

,  demands  of  the  Londoners  for  4,000 

acres  to  be  laid  to,  347,  360. 

,  on  same  side  of  the  river  as  the  town, 

ib. 

,  to  be  freed  from  all  monopolies  already 

granted,  351,  361. 

liberties  of,  to  extend  four  miles  every 

way,  ib. 

,  articles  between  the  King  and  city  of 

London  for  the  plantation  of  Derry 
and  county  of  Coleraine,  359. 

,  200  houses  to  be  built,  and  room  left 

for  300  more,  360. 

,4,000   to  be  laid  to  the  town  on  the 

Derry  side,  ib. 

sites  to  be  given  for  houses  for  bishop 

and  dean,  ib. 

,  Londoners  to   have  the    customs  of 

Coleraine  and  Derry,  361. 

,  salmon  and  eel  fishings  of  Ban  and 

Lough  Eoyle,  ib. 
,  admiralty,  ib. 

,  their   own  ships,  if  wrecked,    to  be 

restored  to  them,  ib. 
,  to  have  Culmore  Castle,  ib. 

liberties  to  extend  three  miles  every 

way,  ib. 

,  60  houses  to  be  up  by  1st  Nov.  1611 

362. 

) ,  workmen  to  be  collected  by  the 

sheriifs  for  building  of,  379. 

,  composition  made  for,  420. 

^I'i  inhabitants  of,  Londoners  dealt 

with  that  they  may  be  admitted"  to  be 
of  the  corporation,  488,  489. 

'   500/.  to  be    employed  to  their  use, 

tb. 


620 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Derry — cont. 

,  impropriations  belonging  to  the  Arch- 
bishop of  Armagh,  a  return  to  be  made 
of,  489. 

,  none  but  a  Briton  to  be  sheriff  for 

three  first  years,  ib. 

bishopric,  Londoners  commend  Dean 

Webb  for  Bishop,  488. 

,  bestowed    on  Dr.  Braeth  Ba- 

bington,  on  promotion  of  G.  Mont- 
gomery to  see  of  Meath,  490. 

,  gunners  at,  .507. 

,  the  county   of   the  city  of,    extends 

three  miles  every  way,  665. 

,  ,  is  as  to  three  fourths  an  island, 

surrounded  by  Lough  Eoyle,  ib. 

,  the  other  one  fourth  is  divided 

by  a  bay  from  Enishowen,  ib. 

,  ,  the  island  contains  by  estima- 
tion only  300  acres  English,  ib. 

, ,  one  moiety  thereof  in  the  dio- 
cese of  Derry,  the  other  moiety  of 
Eapho,  ib. 

,,.,  ,  it  is  found  by  inquisition  taken, 

1  Sept.  1609,  that  this  island  has  been 
possessed  in  former  times,  part  by  the 
Bishop,  part  by  the  Dean,  and  part  by 
the  Abbot  of  Derry,  ib. 

, ,  but  the  greatest  part  was  held 

by  two  Herenaghs  and  their  septs,  the 
one  called  Laghma,  the  other  O'Derry, 
ib. 

, ,  His  Majesty's  and  sundry  other 

persons  titles  to  lands  in,  565. 

,  the  island  of  Derry,  ib. 

,  ,  the  bishop's  part  of,  ib. 

,  ,  the  dean's  part  of,  566. 

, ,  the  abbot's  part  of,  ib. 

,  ,  the  herenagh's  part  of,  ib. 

,  Abbot  of,   held  of  old  part   of   the 

island  of  Derry,  ib. 
,  the   abbot  formerly    owned    in   the 

island  the  site  of  the  abbey  of  Colum- 

kille,  566. 
,  the   two    septs   of  the  Laghines  and 

O'Derry  owned  the  rest  of  the  island, 

ib. 
laghiue's  lands  being  in  the  diocese 

of  Derry,  ib. 
,  and  O'Derry's  lands  in  the  diocese  of 

ilapho,  ib. 
,  both  had  fines  for  blood,  sanctuary, 

cuttings,   and   other    royalties,    which 

were  collected  by  them  and  paid  to  the 

abbot,  and    nothing  to  either    of  the 

Bishops,  ib. 
,  they   were   not    removable    by   the 

Bishops,  ib. 
the  Termon   and    Herenagh    lands, 

within  the  island,  found  to  have  been 

first  given  by  Columkille  to  the  several 

septs,  ib. 
, ,   and    were  held    by  them   in 

gavelkind,  ib. 


Derry — cont. 

> they  were  given  by  the  abbots 

before  any  bishops  were  placed  in  that 
see,  lb. 

,  these  Herenagh  lands  beingthe 

Abbot's  portion,  came  to  the  Crown  by 
the  Act  of  Dissolution  of  Abbeys,  &c., 
and  were  given  to  Sir  James  EuUerton 
in  fee-farm,  and  by  him  sold  to  Sir 
George  Paulet,  ib. 

,  Dean  of,  found  seised  of  BaUionen, 

in  county  of  Coleraine,  by  inquisition 
(30th  August  1609),  564. 

,  Herenagh  lands  in  the   island    and 

city  of,  565. 

,  the  title  and  condition  of  it,  ib. 

, ,  the  island,  parcel  of  Tj'reonnell, 

ib. 

,    ,  Tyrconnell,    or     O'Donnell's 

-  country,  ever  heretofore  held  by  Irish 
customs  and  not  by  English  tenure 
until  the  1st  year  of  King  James  I., 
ib. 

,  by  the  Statute  12th  Elizabeth  all  Irish 

lords  of  Ulster  and  Connaught  who 
should  surrender  their  lands  to  the 
Queen  or  her  successors,  should  have 
them  re-granted  free  of  all  estates  (ex- 
cept such  as  had  good  right  by  due 
course  of  Her  Majesty's  laws)  accord- 
ing to  the  tenor  of  the  re-grant,  566, 
567. 

, ,  1  Feb.,  1  James,  Eory  O'Don- 

nel,  pretended  Lord  of  Tyrconnell, 
surrendered,  and  had  a  re-grant  of 
Tyrconnell,  to  him  and  his  heirs  in  tail, 
the  effect  being  to  bar  all  estates  ex- 
cept those  held  by  the  English  law,  567. 

, ,  and  thus  the  Erenagh's   titles 

(being  held  by  Irish  tenure)  were  made 
void,  ib, 

,  ,  and  thus,  by  the  Earl  of  Tyr- 

counell's  attainder,  are  vested,  like  the 
rest  of  Tyrconnell,  in  the  Crown,  ib. 

,  ,  the  residue  of  the  lands  in  the 

county  the  city  of  Derry  lie  in  Enish- 
owen, and  are  come  to  the  Crown  by 
the  same  attainder,  567,  568. 

,  ,  the  rest  of  the  temporal  lands 

in  the  county  of  Coleraine  which  lie  in 
O'Cahan's  country  are  vested  in  the 
Crown,  by  11th  Ehzabeth,  568. 

, ,  the  lands  are  not  yet  granted, 

but  remain  at  the  King's  disposal,  ib. 

,  Dean  of,  possessed  of  four  quarters  in 

O'Cahan's  country,  ib. 

,  parson  and   vicar   of,   two    parishes 

only  in  the  county  of  the  city  of,  with 
no  lands,  only  two  garden  plots  belong- 
ing to  the  parson  and  vicar,  ib. 

,  county  of  the  city  of,  the  abbey  lands, 

18  quarters,  granted  in  fee-farm,  29 
August,  2  James  I.,  to  Sir  Henry 
Brouncker,  and  came  by  mesne  assign- 
ment to  Sir  George  Paulet,  ib. 

, ,  leases  thereof,  to  Sir  Henry 

Docwra,  Sir  Ealph  Binglcy,  Sir  George 
Carey,  in  1602  and  1603,  ib. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


621 


Deny—cont. 

,    Cloghei-,    and   Raphoe,   Bishop    of, 

recommended  to  be  promoted  to  Meath, 

14. 

and  Eapho,  Erenagh  land  in,  403. 

,  see  also  Londoners. 

Derry  Maclaghlin,  342. 
Dersley,  Roger,  548. 
Dery,  Barnaby,  84. 

,  Thomas,  83. 

Description  of  Ulster  in  1586,  viii  and  foil. 
Deserte  Linn,  commissions  at,  294. 
Desmond,  Elizabeth,  Countess  of,  petition  for 

pension,  20. 
,  Earl   of,   proposed   as   President   of 

Munster,  xvii. 

,  ,Si32. 

,  late  Earl  of,  forfeited  lands  of,  577. 

,  Gerot,  Earl  of,  rebellion  of,  582. 

,  John  of,  called  the  Counte,  13. 

,  Morice  EitzJohn,  475. 

,  in  Munster,  474. 

,  good  harbours  in,  ib. 

,   Countess  of,    petition   to    Salisbury, 

449. 

,  has  married  her  daughter,  450. 

Devereux,  Lieutenant,  to  be  a  "  servitor,"  428. 
Devlins,  the,  horsemen  of  Tyrone,  xxvii. 
Devonshire,  Earl  of,  Ixxxvii,  207,  353. 
,   ,   claim  on  200A   of  the  traitor 

Tyrone,  302. 
,  names  of  chief  undertakers  from,  in 

Munster,  Ixxvi. 

,  county  of,  477, 

Dezart  alias  Kells,  priory  of,  448. 

Dido's  colony  at  Carthago,  alluded  to  by  Sir 

J.  Davys,  501. 
Dies,  William,  360. 
Diffrin,  see  Dufferiu. 
Diflfringe,  see  Dufferin. 

Digby,  Sir  R.,  suit  with  Earl  of  Kildare  re- 
mitted to  ordinary  course  of  law,  20. 
,  ,  suit  of,  against  Earl  of  Kildare, 

inquiry  touching,  29. 
,  ,  decree  of   Castle   Chamber  in 

his  suit  with  Lord  Kildare,  141. 

, ,210. 

,    ,  suit  with  Lord  Kildare,  four 

papers  regarding,  424. 
, ,  renews  bis  claims  against  the 

Earl  of  Kildare,  517. 

,  ,  remitted  to  Irish  courts,  524. 

Digges,  Sir  Dudley,  548. 

Diggis  fort,  by  Derry,  38. 

Dillon,   Bartholomew,  called  as   witness   by 

Lord  Howth,  391. 

, ,  his  evidence,  392. 

,  ,  conflict  of  testimony,  ib. 

, ,  maintains  his  statement,  ib. 

,  ,  confirmed  by  Howth,  ib. 

, ,  Lord  Howth's  account  of  his 

deposition  before  the  Council,  394. 


Dillon — cont. 

,  Bartholomew,  denies  that  Howth  ever 

spoke  to  him  on  the  subject,  394. 

,  ,  his  letter  to  Howth  contradict- 
ing Chichester's  allegation,  ib. 

,  ,  381,391,  394. 

,  Henry,  233. 

,  Sir  Henry,  held  a  Presidency  neces- 
sary in  Ulster,  xxi. 

,  Patrick,  79. 

,  Sir  Robert,  109. 

,  Robert,  548. 

,  John,  ib. 

,  Mr.,  in  suit  with  a  person  who  has 

gone  over  with  the  Ti-easm-er,  408. 

,  the  Lady,  (otherwise)  Bellew,  110. 

Dios,  William,  commissioner  of  plantations  of 
Londonderry,  136. 

Discourse  on  Ireland  by  J.  Hudson,  xx. 

Divelins,  the,  attend  session  at  Dungannon, 
16. 

Dixon,  Robert,  511. 

Do,  castle  of,  and  eight  quarters  of  land  near 
RathmuUen,  granted  to  John  Arthur,  of 
Dublin,  merchant,  571.     See  Doe. 

Doa,  see  Doe. 

,  Doagh,     castle    of,   held     by    Neile 

M'Swyne,  9. 
Doagh,  see  Doe. 

,  why  used,  ib. 

Dob,  John,  231. 
Dobb,  John,  75. 
Mr.  John,  368.     See  Dob. 

Docquet  of  Henry  Reynoldes'  disbursements, 
19. 

Docwra,  Sir  Henry,  suitor  for  Ulster  Presi- 
dency, xxii. 
c. ,  ,  his  troop  of  horse,  32. 

,  ,  his  office  of  provost  prejudicial 

to  Derry,  59. 

,  ,    Sir   Donnel   O'Cahane   makes 

his  submission  to,  in  1602,  65. 

,  ,  117,  366,  556. 

,  ,  pension  of,  168. 

,  ,  fines  received  by,  175. 

,  referred  to  by   Chichester  for 

account  of  Sir  Neale  O'Donnel  and  his 
fellow  prisoners,  306. 

,  ; ,  O'Cahan's  conditions  with,  upon 

his  submission,  413. 

,  ,  governor  of  Lough  Foyle,  507. 

Dod,  Dr.  Roger,  376. 
Doddridge,  John,  116. 

Dodington,  Captain,  has  a  ward  at  Dono-iven 
194.  ° 

,  ,  it  will  control  the  wild  inhabi- 
tants between  that  and  Glanconkein,  ib. 

,  Edward,  has  undertaken  a  set- 
tlement in  Ireland,  and  asks  for  favour 
291. 

,  to  be  a  "servitor,"  428. 

,  ,  504. 

, ,  Edward,  509. 


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GENERAL  INDEX. 


Doe,  Sir  Ealph  BIngley's  men  at,  33. 

castle  of,  a  ward  to  be  reserved  at,  58. 

,  ,  81,  115,367. 

' constable  of,  William  EUing, 

509. 

>  J  Capt.  Richard  Bingley,  ib. 

,  precinct  of,  405. 

,  John,  73. 

Dogherty,  Phelim,  a  monk,  deposition  of,  in 

Neale  Garve's  case,  309. 
Dogs,  Irish,  477,  479. 
Donalonge,  366. 
Donderry  in  Cork,  522. 
Donegal,  a  new  county  of  Ulster,  viii. 

,  modem  name  of  Tyroonnell,  xxiv. 

,  "bangled"  by  Tyrconnell  by  sales 

and  mortgages,  57. 

,  wards  to  be  reserved  in,  58. 

,  town  of,  a  ward  to  be  reserved  at,  ib. 

,  people  of,  claim  to  have  freeholds,  160. 

,  four  merchants  (named)  offer  to  be- 
come undertakers  of  the  whole  county 
of  Donegal,  346. 

, ,  would  build  a  fort  near  the  sea 

side,  ib. 

,  county  of,  363,  369. 

,  castle  and  abbey  of,  367. 

,  constable  of,  Capt.  Basil  Brooke,  509. 

,  county  of,  or  O'Donnel's  country,  569. 

,  King's  title  to  forfeited  lands  in,  ib. 

,  a  mere  Irish  county  till  1  Jas.  I.,  ib. 

,  King's  writ  never  ran  there,  ib. 

,  the  Irish  lords  had  cuttings  and  spend- 

ings,  bonaght,  and  all  other  Irish  ex- 
actions, ib. 

,  the  country  surrendered,  and  re- 
granted  under  statute  12  Ehzabeth,  ib. 

,  except  abbey  and  spiritual  lands,  and 

the  castle  of  Ballashannon,  town  and 
fishing,  and  1,000  acres  adjacent,  which 
were  reserved  to  the  King,  ib. 

except  also  Castle  Finne,  and  all  Sir 

Neale  O'Donnell's  lands  called  Glan 
Tynne,  and  Monganah,  570. 

,  except  also  O'Doherty's  country,  con- 
taining the  barony  of  Enisbowen,  ib. 

,  Hercnagh  lands  in,  ib. 

,  the  titles  all  destroyed  by  the  sur- 
render and  re-grant,  as  not  being 
estates  held  according  to  the  King's 
laws,  ib. 

,  His  Majesty's  title   to   the   temporal 

lands  in,  569. 

,  conveyances  made    by  the  Earl  of 

Tyrconnel,  571. 

,  lands    excepted    out    of   the  Earl's 

patent,  572. 

,  ecclesiastical  lands  in,  573. 

,  abbey  of  Kilmacreenan,  ih. 

, Killadonell,  ib. 

, Asheroe,  ib. 


Donegal — cent. 

,  Bishop  of  Derry's  demense  lands,  ib. 

,  Bishop  of  Raphe's  demesne  lands,  ih. 

,  Dean  of  Raphe's  demesne  lands,  ib. 

,  glebe  lands,  ib. 

,  Herenagh  lands,  ib. 

county,  see  Tyrconnell. 

Donellan,  Nehemiah,  Archbishop  of  Tuam, 
petition  of,  to  be  allowed  to  resign  his 
see,  184. 

Donelyes,  the,  attend  sessions  at  Dungannon, 

16. 
Donganon,  precinct  of,  405. 
market  of,  406. 

Dongheon,  in  county  of  Coleraine,  the  King's 
fort  of,  565.    See  Dungiven. 

Dongiven,  see  Dungiven. 
Donnalong,  346. 
Donnell,  John,  511. 
Donnington,  Captain,  367. 
Donovan,  see  O'Donovan. 

Doole,  Oge,  rides  to  O'Donnell  at  Castle  Eynn, 

2. 
Dorrington,  Captain,  547. 
Doters,  "Wm.,  360. 
Douay,  college  of,  44. 

,  ,  president  of,  ib, 

,  Tyrone  of,  xxxix. 

Doubbeny,  Nicholas,  to  be  a  servitor,  428. 

Dounbar,  Earl  of,  commissioner  of  plantation, 
136. 

Dowdal,  Sir  John,  suit  of,  recommended,  40. 
,  101,  126,  484.     S'ecDowdall. 

Dowdall,  Francis,  tenant  of  Arde  rectory, 
Eathmulleu,  448. 

Down,  an  old  county  of  Ulster,  viii. 

,  description  of,  xi. 

,  large  infusion  of  Anglo-Norman  ele- 
ment in,  xi. 

,how  divided  into  districts,  xxiv. 

,  abbey  of,  in  county  of  Wexford,  121, 

122. 

,  Bishop  of,  censured  for  unduly  pro- 
curing commendams,  457. 

,  his  explanation  and  defence  to 

Salisbury,  458. 

county  of,  Sir  Robt.  Jacob  foimd  to 

be  as  quiet  in  Feb.  1609,  as  the  Eng- 
lish Pale,  193. 

,  ,  but   they   are   (as   the   rest   of 

Ulster)  all  false  in  their  hearts,  ib. 

,  dean  and  chapter  to  be  erected  in,  581. 

Down,  St.  Patrick's  monastery  at,  448. 

,  abbey  of  St.  Thomas  and  John  at,  ib. 

,  house  of  monks  at,  ib. 

,  quit-rents  in,  ib. 

Downgevine,  see  Dungiven. 

Downlis,  the  Lord  of,  465. 

Downtou,  Roger,  clerk  of  the  Pipe,  inquiries 
as  to  his  perquisites,  546. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


623 


Drake  (Sir  Francis),  100. 

,  John,  of  Drakeston,  hostility  of,  to 

Sir  G.  Moore,  140. 
,  a  pirate  taken  by  Lord    Thomoud, 

186. 

,  monument  of,  at  Deptford,  100. 

Drakeston,  in  Meath,  140. 
Drea,  John,  467,  473. 
Drogheda,  221,  254,  322,  383. 

,  Lord  Howth's  men  at,  33. 

,  suit  for  renewal  of  charters  and  pri- 

■vileges  as  to  customs,  154. 
,  proposal  to  make  a  residence  for  the 

Deputy  at,  423. 
,  Mayor  of,  arrests  a  party  of  decayed 

gentlemen  of  North  Wales,  453. 
Droghedonan,  ordnance  to  be  moved  to,  20. 
Dromagh,  in  Cork,  584. 
Dromgoole,  Thomas,  bill  to,  19. 

> 227. 

Drommore,    castle   and   lands   of,   584.     See 

Dromore. 
Dromore,  Bishop  of,  470,  471. 

,  bishopric  of,  487. 

,  dean  and  chapter  in,  581. 

Dromynine,  castle  and  lands  of,  584. 

Drumconragh,  co.  Dublin,  325. 

Drumrusk  Castle,  constable  of,  Capt.  Maurice 

Griffith,  508. 
Dublin,  Archbishop  of,  107. 

,  charter  of,  to  be  renewed,  132. 

,  suit  for  renewal  of  charter  and  privi- 
leges as  to  customs,  154. 
,  college,  lands  set  apart  for,  to  be   dis- 
tinguished by  bounds,  182. 
,  being  left  desolate  by  the  slaughter 

made  of  the  Easterlings,  was  given  by 

King  Henry  II.  to  Bristol,  209. 

, ,  to  be  inhabited  fi'om  Bristol,  ib. 

city,  complains  of  soldiers  cessed  on 

them,  251. 

,  mayor  of,  323. 

,  coroner  of,  ib. 

, ,  loans  by  merchants  of,  to  Government, 

their  names  and  loans,  341. 
complains  of  the  cessing  of  soldiers 

on  the  city,  343. 
,  college  lands,  how  marked  in  maps  of 

escheated  counties,  403. 
Dublin  Castle,   112,   230,  231,  234,  236,250, 

328,  386,  394. 
,  fugitive  Earls  charged   with  designs 

to  seize  it,  Ixii,  Ixv. 
,  prison,  prisoners,  and  prison  keepers 

of,  78. 

,  gaol  in,  175. 

to  be  separated  from  Lord  Deputy's 

dwelling,  ib. 
,  Chichester  obhged  to    leave  it    in 

summer  for  its  noisomeness,  250. 
,  estimate  of  cost  of  repair  of  gaol  in, 

ib.  251. 
, of  record  depository,  250. 


Dublin  Cast\e-cont. 

John  Cole,  pensioner,  for  saving  the 

prisoners  from  escape,  on  an  out- 
break, from  prison  in,  when  he  was 
wounded,  337. 

,  Lord  Delvin's  escape  from,  336,  394. 

,  constable  of,  Henry  Pierce,  508. 

Dudlej',  Lord,  to  be  privy  councillor,  191. 

Duffe,  James,  prays  for  payment  of  moneys 
sent  to  Sir  T.  Ridgeway,  514. 

,  William,  examination  of,  393. 

,  of  Drogheda,    charges     the    young 

Prince  with  seducing  the   late   Lord 

Essex's  daughter,  453. 

Dufferin,  a  country  of  Down,  xi. 

,  sometime  the  inheritance  of  the  Man- 

deviUes,  xii. 

,  now  belongs  to  White,  ib. 

,  usurped  by  Scots,  ib. 

,  the,  John  White,  of,  484. 

Duffes,  the,  condemned  for  not  bearing  wit- 
ness against  Sir  G.  Moore,  140. 

Dumfermline,  Earl  of,  483. 

Dun,  Doctor,  Master  in  Chancery,  338. 

Dunalong,  fort  of,  325. 

Dunbar,  Earl  of,  483. 

Duncannon  Castle,  fugitive  Earls  charged  with 
design  to  seize  it,  xii. 

,  fort  of,  12,  40,  98,  369. 

,  ,  constable  of,  Sir  Laurence  Es- 
mond, 508. 

Dundalk,  travellers  northwards  from,  impeded 
by  Shane  O'Neill,  xi. 

,  all  stations  north  of,  purely  military, 

XV,  Ixxviii. 

,  Capt.  Steward's  men  at,  33. 

,  the  rendezvous  for  Chichester's  jour- 
ney to  the  north,  257. 

,  Chichester    orders    the    captains    of 

horse  and  foot  to  meet  at,  385. 

Dundrum  estuary,  Down,  xxiv. 

Dunegal,  see  Donegal. 

Dunegall,  see  Donegal. 

Dungall,  see  Donegal. 

Dungannon,  the  new  castle  of,  ix. 

,  Baron  of,  said  to  be  about  to  marry 

M'Callum's  daughter,  xxxvi. 

,  assizes  at,  in  1608,  Ixxix. 

,  proceedings  of  Sir  J.  Davys  and  Sir 

T.  Ridgeway,  under  commission  of  es- 
cheat and  survey  at,  Ixxix,  Ixxx. 

,  Sir  J.  Davys's  journey  from,  to  Cole- 

raine,  through  the  woods  and  glyns  of 
Glanconkeyne,  Ixxx. 

,  trial  and  execution  of  rebels  at,  7. 

,  sessions  at,  account  of,  15. 

, ,  apostacy  of  a  monk  at,  16. 

,  gets  his  liberty  and  life  thereupon,  ib. 

,  barony  of,  60. 

,  to  be  made  a  corporation,  61. 

,  Sir  Eobt.  Jacob  holds  assizes  there, 

in  1609,  195. 


624. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Dungannon — cont. 

was  wont  to  be  the  receptacle  of  all 

traitors,  195. 

,  now  in  best  order  in  Ulster,  ib. 

,  all  round  Dungannon  in  peace,  ib, 

,  well  governed    by  the   discreet  and 

temperate  carriage  of  Sir  Toby  Caul- 
feild,  ib. 

,  if   there    is    to    be    a   president   of 

Ulster,  his  house  must  be  at  Dun- 
gannon, and  3,000  acres  laid  to  it, 
369. 

,  Tirlagh  M'Art  O'Neill  to  have  two 

middle  proportions  in,  429. 

castle,  constable  of,  John  Meeke,  509. 

,  492,  541,  .'>42. 

Dungarvan  Castle,  constable  of,  Sir  George 
Carey,  508. 

Dunglven,  one  of  chief  places  of  Coleraine, 
61. 

,  a   ward  under  Capt.    Dodington  at, 

194,  367. 

,  abbey  of,  349. 

,  asked  for  by  the  Londoners,  ib. 

, already  given    to   college    at 

Dublin,  ib. 

Castle,  constable,  Capt.  Henry  Dod- 
ington, 509. 

Dunkirk,  383. 

Dunluce,  castle  of,  21. 

,  cannon  of,    1588   (Spanish  Armada), 

taken  out  of  sea  at,  303. 

Dunsoghly,  surrender  of  and  re-grant  to  Sir 
C.  Plunkett,  518. 

Durham,  diocese  of,  50. 

Dutch,  harbouring  of,  in  England,  complained 
of  by  Spaniards,  179. 

Dutchmen,  some  hopeful  project  (unexplained) 
of,  242. 

Dutch  prize  taken  by  pirates,  142. 

Dutton,  Eichard,  usher  of  the  Exchequer,  514. 

^  Sir  Thomas,  to  be  scoutmaster-geue- 

ral,  432. 

scoutmaster,  507. 


E. 

Earls,  the  fugitive,  80,  81 .  See  also  "  Fugitive 

Earls." 
"Earls,  the,"  flight  of,  particulars  of  history, 
xxxiv. 

,  reported  carefully  by   ambas- 
sadors abroad,  ib. 

,  first  announced  by  Sir  Cormac 

M'Baron,  ib. 

,  proclamation  issued,  xxxv. 

,  commissioners  to  govern  their 

territory,  ib. 


Earls,  the — cont. 

, ,  Irish  commissioners,  ib, 

opinion  divided  as  to  their  desti- 
nation on  leaving  Ireland,  xxxvii. 

,  ,  hopes  of  their  return  to  Ireland, 

2. 

,  ,  expect  to  be  joined  by  all  the 

Irish,  3. 

their  followers  attend  Dungan- 
non assizes,  16. 

Easterlings,  210. 

,  Dublin  being  left   desolate    of,  by 

slaughter,  210. 

,  given  to  Bristol  to  inhabit,  ib. 

,  eternal  glory  of  Bristol  to  have  in- 
habited Dublin,  ib. 

,  this  precedent  to  be  followed  at  Derry 

by  the  Londoners,  ib. 

Easton,  498. 

Ecclesiastical  lands  in  the  six  counties,  403. 

proportions  in  Ulster  plantation,  116. 

Eccleston,  Tristram,  230,  231. 
Edgewoilh,  Mr.,  367. 

,  Erancis,  551. 

Edinburgh,  Tolbooth  prison  of,  477. 
Edmond,  Sir  Laurence,  see  Esmond. 
Edmonds,  Thos.,  350. 
Sir  Thomas,  reports  of,  on  fugitives, 

xxxix,  xl. 
Edney,  Capt.,  368,  548. 
, ,  servitor,  to  be  an  undertaker, 

428. 

,  Walter,  511. 

Education,  foreign,  proclamation  recalling  sons 

of  noblemen  in  foreign  seminaries,  371. 
of  noblemen's  sons  abroad  forbidden, 

250. 

,  they  are  to  be  recalled,  ib. 

,  also  merchants'  sons,  250,  251. 

Edwards,  Mr.,  347. 

Effingham,  Lord,  letters  patent  of,  528. 

EUagh,  37. 

Elling,  Capt.  William,  509. 

EUinge,  Capt.,  81 . 

ElHott,  Baron,  73,  75,  77,  339. 

Sir  John,  233. 

,  John,  339. 

EUis,  Capt.,  368. 

,Capt.   Edmund,   provost   marshal    of 

Lough  Eoyle,  507. 

Elizabeth,  Queen,  statute  of  eleventh  year, 
attainting  Shane  O'Neale,  16. 

EUough,  castle  of,  60. 

EUye,  Charles,  549. 

Ely  O'Carroll,  372. 

Patrick  Crosby  offers  to  bring  into 

the  Eng's  hands,  evicting  Sir  W. 
O'Carroll,  372. 

,    strifes    for,    between  the    Earls  of 

Ormond  and  the  Lords  of  Ely  O'Car- 
roll, ib. 


GENERAL  INDEX, 


625 


Ely  O'Carroll— comJ. 

,  Ormond  claims  it  as  within  his  liberty, 

372. 
,  might  be  well  planted  now  that  the 

Moores  are  removed  and  dispersed,  and 

the  Connors  suppressed,  ib. 
Emly,  diocese  of,  commission  of  inquiry  into 

state  of,  186. 
Enescorphy,  see  Enniscorthy. 
Engineer-ministers  of  Ordnance,  507. 
Engineer,  Joice  Bverard,  507. 
English  costume  worn  by  Maginnis,  ix. 
born  in  Ireland  to  be  excluded  from 

administration,  xx. 
troops  brought  over  to  Dubhn,  return 

of,  5. 

their  trades  and  occupations,  6. 

language,  how  to  be  preserved  neat  in 

Ulster  plantation,  358. 
,  how  preserved  to  this  day  in  the 

English  Pale,  ib. 

in  Wexford,  ib. 

in  some  parts  of  South  Wales, 

ib. 
,  undertakers  of,  in  counties,  180,  181, 

note  1. 
and  Scotch  planters,  places  of  meeting 

for,  406. 
Englishmen  settled  in  Iveagh,  xi. 
Enishbofin,  rebels,  interrupted  at,  35. 

EnishloghUn   Castle,    constable  of.   Sir  Fulk 

Conway,  509. 
Enisholagan,  33. 
Enishowen,  see  Inishowen. 
,  Chichester  employs  Francis  Annesley 

and  John   Strowde,  as   his  agents,  to 

obtain  for  him  the  grant  of  the  barony 

of  Enishowen,  103. 
,  annuity  of  40?.  a  year  to   Sir  Cahir 

O'Dogherty's  widow  out  of,  216. 
,  bestowed  on  Sir  Arthur  Chichester, 

203. 
thanks    the    King    for    this    gift   of 

O'Dogherty's  late  country,  ib. 

,  103,364,  367. 

,  called  O'Dogherty's  country,  580. 

,  grant  of,  to  Chichester,  ib. 

Enniscorthy,  53. 

Ennishkellin,  see  Enniskillen. 

EnniskiUen,  the  fittest  place  in  Eermanagh  for 

a  corporation,  57. 
,  castle  of,  in  charge  of  Capt.  WiUiam 

Cole,  450. 
,  constable  of,  Capt.  John  "Cole, 

509. 
Enose,  Daniel,  512. 
Entertainments,  book  of,  1608,  1609,  418. 

of  the  Deputy  and  other  officers,  513. 

Erenagh  lands,  estate  of,  jurors'  report  on, 

280. 
,  bishops  have  the  rents,  but  the  pro- 
perty is  in  the  Eneragh  and  their  sept, 

283. 

3. 


Erenagh  lands — cont. 

,  Sir  Oliver  St.  John  on,  303. 

..,,  found  by  juries  to  belong  to  the  King, 

389. 
,  and  Termon  lands,  in  the  six  counties,  . 

403. 
,  granted  as  a  free  gift  by  the  King  to  , 

the  bishops,  41 0. 
,  to  be  planted  one-third  with  Britons  . 

and  the  rest  with  the  'natives  of  the 

sept,  419. 
Erne,  Lough,  29, 95. 
King's  boats  at,  95. 

Escheat,  commission  of,  in  1608,  proceedings  ' 

under,  Ixxix. 
Escheated  lands,  account  of,  sent  by  Sir  J. 
Ley,  and  Sir  John  Davys,  146. 

,  ,  seems  not  to  have  been  perused 

or  not  understood  in  England,  ib. 

Chichester's    suit    for    O'Dogherty's 

lands,  approved,  146. 

in  Ulster,  see  Ulster  Plantation. 

Bscheator  of  Leinster,  Thomas  White,  495. 

Escheatorship  of  Dublin  and  other  counties, 
grant  of,  515. 

,  ,  to  Thomas  Eead  and  Walter 

White,  583. 

Esmond,  Sir  Laurence,  170,  379,  508,  531. 

,  ,   constable  of  Duncannon  fort, 

12. 

,  ,  examinations  taken  by,  ib. 

,  ,  helps  to  render  the  Wexford 

Irish  of  the  new  plantation  to  be  com- 
pliant, 531. 

Esop,  allusion  to  fables  of,  29. 

Essex,  Earl  of,  his  attempted  plantation  of 
Antrim,  xii. 

, ,  massacre  at  Eathlin  by,  li. 

, ,  letter  of,  to  David  Condon,  583. 

the  late  Earl  of,  his  daughter  said  to- 
be  seduced  by  the  young  prince,  453. 

men  brought  over  toDubHn,  4. 

Establishment,  draft  of  a  new,  sent  over,  34. 

,  further  particulars  of,  40. 

,  of  October  1608,44. 

,  increase  of,  reftised  by  Privy  Council, 

46. 

,  reason  of  discussed,  iJ. 

,  the,  of  Ireland,  579. 

Estates,  equalization  of,  aimed  at  by  Enghsh 
policy,  XXX. 

,  independent,  created  in  the  several 

septs,  xxxii. 

Eston,  a  pirate,  99. 

Eustace,  Christopher,  385. 

, ,  said  to  have  overheard  treason- 
able discourse  of  Sir  G.  Moore,  138. 

, ,  of  Lesoartane,  said  to  have  con- 
spired against  Sir  G.  Moore,  140. 

, ,  strictiirefi  of  Lord  Delvin  on, 

163. 

,  notoriously  bad  character  of, 

170. 

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Eustace,  Christopher— eoii*. 

) )  estimate  of  charges  necessary 

for  public  service,  156. 

, ,  information  by,  162. 

, sent  by  Lord  Howth,  to  borders 

ofMeath,  163. 
,  takes   Howth's    letters    from 

messenger  to  MeUifont,  ib. 
, .overhears  treason  discussed  of 

Sir  G.  Moore,  ib. 

, ,  returns  letters  to  messenger,  t'A. 

, never  told  this  to  any  one 

but  Lord  Howth,  ib. 
, ,  never  heard  any  other  such  dis- 
course from  Sir  G.  Moore,  164. 
, ,  interrogations  ministered  to  Sir 

G.  Moore  on  these  points,  164, 166. 

,  called  mad  Eustace,  167. 

, ,  discovered  as  the  person  who 

overheard  Sir  G.  Moore,  385. 

, ,  examined  by  Chichester,  ib. 

, ,  sent  to  England,  ib. 

Evagh,  see  Iveagh. 
Everard,  Christopher,  45. 

,  Edmund,  ib. 

, ,  letter  to  Nichs.  Haly,  47 

,  Elizabeth,  49. 

,  James,  48. 

,  Richard,  45. 

, ,  letter  to  his  mother,  49. 

,  Arthur,  548. 

,  John,  engineer,  80. 

,  Joice,  229. 

, ,  engineer,  507. 

Exchequer,  new  rules  for,  119. 

,  Chief  Baron  of,  his  yearly  fee,  339. 

,  Chief  Remembrancer,  Dudley  Norton 

made,  383. 

J  issues  of,  for  service  of  Ireland,  270. 

,  questions    and     answers    regarding, 

579. 
Expenditure  in  Ireland,  statement  of,  for  1608, 

453. 


F. 


Fanadagh,  Donell,  a  messenger  of  Sir  Neale 
O'Donnell,  4. 

Fanner,  William,  chirurgeon,  his  Chronicnlary 
Discourses  for  1612,  1613,  1614,  and 
1615,  cvii. 

,  addressed  to  Sir  Arthur  Chi- 
chester, Lord  Belfast,  ib. 

Earnoy,  territory  of,  granted  to  Earl  of  Essex, 

Ixxii. 
Eammanagh,  see  Fermanagh. 
Farrel,  Thady,  pursuivant,  76,  226. 
Farrell, ,  322. 


Farrs,  Anthony,  511. 

Fathom,  fort  of,  Shane  O'Neile,  near  Newry, 
xi. 

Faughan,  37. 

Fawne,  see  Faughan. 

Fawnett,  precinct  of,  405. 

Fedom  see  Fathom. 

Fees,  payments  of,  519. 

,  certain,  to  be  abolished,  450. 

Fenton,  Sir  Jefifry,  70,  87,  112,  114,  348. 

, ,  advises  the  pulling  down  of  the 

houses  of  O'Neill  and  O'Donnell,  liv. 

, ,  also  a  plantation  of  both  coun- 
tries, ib. 

, ,  reports  on  Cottingham's  survey 

of  the  woods  of  Ireland,  21. 

, ,  Sir  W.  Parson's  uncle,  114. 

, ,  he  announces  his  death  to  Sir 

J.  Davys,  ib. 
,  and  seeks  to  succeed  him  as 

commissioner  of  accounts,  ib. 
...'. ,  ,  to  be    succeeded  by  Sir  W. 

Usher,  162. 

, ,  papers  of,  relating  to  public  ser- 
vice, examined  after  his  death,  528. 

Fermanagh,  included  in  government  of  Bally- 
shannon,  xxiv. 

,  Tennon  and  church  lands  in,  xxx. 

,  a  new  county  of  Ulster,  viii. 

,  description  of,  ix. 

,  captain  of,  ib. 

,  cannot  be  divided,  as  Connor  Roe 

Maguire  has  a  patent  of  it,  56. 

,  no  town  or  civil  habitation  in,  57. 

,  people  of,  claim  to  have  freeholds, 

160. 

,  no  English   or   Scottish  undertakers 

in  it,  being   promised  to  Coimor  Roe 
Maguire,  181. 

,  report  of  commissioners  of  planta- 
tions upon,  288. 

,  county  of,  363,  369. 

,  Sir  Oliver  Lambert  to  undertake 

a  proportion  in,  363. 

easier  settled  in  the  plantation 

than  Cavan,  499. 

, .natives  contented,  ii. 

, all  but  Connor  Roe  Maguire, 

who,  having  been  given  one  whole 
barony,  claims  another  according  to  the 
King's  promise  in  1603,  ib. 

, .surrendered  by  Coconnaght Ma- 
guire, 1  June,  27th  Elizabeth,  574. 

, .re-granted  to  him  by  Sir  John 

Perrot.  ib. 

, ,  Coconnaght  died,  and  was  suc- 
ceeded by  his  son  Hugh,  who  adhered 
to  Tyrone,  and  was  slain  in  actual  re- 
bellion, ib. 

, 20  Feb.  43rd  Elizabeth,  Fer- 
managh granted  to  Connor  Roe,  ib. 

,  an  abstract  of  His  Majesty's 

title  to  the  lands  in,  ib. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


627 


Fermanagh,  county  of — cont. 

, ,  to  the  temporal  lands  in,  574. 

, ,  touching  the  ecclesiastical  lands 

in,  575. 

, ,  Herenagh  lands  in,  iJ. 

,  abtey  lands  in,  ib. 

..., ,  1st  Jas.  I.,  Coconnaght,  brother 

of  Hugh,  was  pardoned,  and  Connor 
was  persuaded  by  Lord  Deputy  to  sur- 
render in  order  to  provide  for  said  Co- 
connaght, 574,  575. 

, ,  Coconnaght  was  to  have  Ennis- 

iillen  Castle,  and  the  baronies  and 
lands  on  the  south  side  of  Lough  Erne, 
57.5. 

, ,  Connor  Roe,  the  baronies  and 

lands  on  the  north  side  of  Lough  Erne, 
ib. 

,  Coconnaght  never  sued  out  any 

patent,  became  a  traitor  and  a  fugitive, 
and  is  since  dead,  outlawed,  and  at- 
tainted of  high  treason,  ib. 

Fermoy,  Lord,  David  Eoche,  325. 

Eems,  castle  of,  repaired  by  Sir  Ed.  Master- 
son,  121. 

, ,  an  ancient  defence  against  the 

neighbouring  Irish,  ib. 

, ,  Lord  Audley  has  got  a  grant  of 

it  by  surprise,  ib. 

Abbey,  121,  122. 

Ferrinhamon,  121. 

Fettyplace,  Sir  Edward,  367,  548. 

, to  be  a  servitor,  428. 

Fews,  the,  a  country  in  Armagh,  x. 

peopled  by  the  Neyles,  who  have  the 

spoil  of  the  Pale,  ib. 

the,  and  Drier,  and  the  Galloglass 

country,  Ixxii. 

,  granted  to  Chatterton,  ib. 

,  Sir  Tyrlagh  M'Henry's  (O'Neile)  pos- 
sessions in,  62. 

,  Chichester's  march  through,  293. 

,  barony  of,  area  of,  402. 

,  precinct  of,  405. 

,   country   of,   called   Hugh  M'Neal's 

country,  553. 

,.., vested  in  the  Crown  by  statute 

1  Ith  of  Elizabeth,  for  attainder  of  Shane 
O'Neal,  ib. 

,  .afterwards  (13th  of  Elizabeth), 

Captain  Thomas  Chatterton,  indents 
with  the  Queen  for  its  conquest,  and 
that  of  Drier  and  the  Galloglasses' 
countries,  ib. 

, ,  his  failure,  and  death  at  the 

hands  of  the  Irish,  ib. 

Ffayres,  abbey  of,  grant  of,  to  Edward  Sexton, 
148. 

Field,  Simon,  pensioner,  338,  511. 

Fine  imposed  on  the  counties  of  Tyrone  and 
Armagh,  for  relieving  traitors  after 
O'Dogherty's  revolt,  532,  538. 

, ,  Sir  Toby  Caulfeild's  account  of  sums 

received  for,  ib. 


Finglas,  Mrs.  Garret,  102. 

,  Mr.  Christ.,  ib. 

Richard,  101. 

First  Fruits,  office  of,  abuses  in,  450. 

Fish,  John,  549. 

Fisher,  Sir  Edward,  367. 

, ,  he  and  Sir  Lawrence  Esmond 

help   to    render  the   Wexford    Irish 

compliant  to  the  new  plantation,  531. 

,  Henry,  508. 

,  Capt.  WilUam,  346. 

Fishing  of  Bann  and  Lough  Foyle,  doubts  to 

be  resolved  about,  423. 
Fitton,  Sir  Edward,  Ixxvi. 

,  Kate,  110,  111. 

Fitz-Edmund,  Father  Thomas,  a  fair-spoken 

friar,  463. 
Fitzgerald,  the  Lady  Bridget,  a  daughter  of 

Earl  of  KUdare,  Ixv. 
, ,  is  married  to  Earl  of  Tyrconnell, 

ib. 
,  Edmund,  Isnight  of  the  VaUey,  329, 

330,  384,  388. 
, ,  father  and  grandfather  of,  at- 
tainted, 388. 
, ,  himself  obstinate  and  ill-affected, 

ib. 
,  last  in  the  province  to  submit, 

ib. 

,  Edward,  206. 

,  Sir  Edward,  552. 

,  Garret,  surrender  and  re-grant  to,  of 

castles   of  Ballemone    and    Kilmage, 

443. 

,  the  Lady  Jane,  232. 

,  Jane,  EUen,  and  Elizabeth,  511. 

,  Sir  James,  surrender  and  re-grant  of 

Ballysonan,  162. 

,  Sir  James  Fitz-Piers,  198. 

,  recommended  as  undertaker  for 

a  large  proportion  of  escheated  lands 

in  Ulster,  ib. 

,  John,  511. 

,  MoriceFitz  Thomas,  239. 

,  Thomas  Fitz  Morish,  Baron  of  Lix- 

naw,  surrender  and  re-grant  of  Castle 

of  Lixnaw,  432. 

Fitzjames,  Mr.,  an  English  catholic,  visits 
Robert  Webbe  in  prison,  52. 

Fitzmaurice,  James,  rebellion  of,  582. 

Fitzpatrick,  John,  Lord  Upper  Ossory's  son, 
suit  of,  for  reversion  of  abbeys  of 
Eathhassell  and  Jeripont,  262. 

,  William  Birne,  of  Moyle,  co.  Carlow, 

324. 

FitzSymons,  Adrian,  368,  510. 

,  Garret,  375. 

Fitzwilliams,  Sir  Thomas,  255,  345,  346. 

,  ,  wishes  to  compound  for  the 

500Z.  forfeited  by  him  and  Lord  Gor- 
manston  as  security  for  O'Dogherty, 
345. 

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GENEEAL  INDEX. 


Fitzwilliams,  Sir  Thomas — cont. 

,  Sir  William,  M'Mahon  executed  in 

his  government,  188. 

, ,  rebellion  in  his  time,  454. 

Flax,  export  of,  136. 

Fleetwood,  Thomas,  582. 

Fleming,  Captain,  367. 

, ,  servitor,  to  be  an  undertaker, 

428. 

, ,  his  fee-farm  grant  in  barony  of 

Clanchy,  county  of  Cavan,  576. 

,  Sanders,  483. 

,  Thomas,  511. 

Fleminge,  Capt.  Gerrett  [Gerald],  to  have  a 
grant  of  land  in  Cavan,  56. 

Flemington,  surrender  of,  to  he  accepted,  518. 

Flemish  Jesuits  come  to  England,  269. 

Fletcher,  office  of,  now  obsolete,  45 1 . 

Florence,  Duke  of,  wrongs  done  by,  278. 

Florida,  new  colony  of,  87. 

Florio,  Mr.,  255,  345,  346. 

, the  King   bestows  on  him  the 

500/.  forfeited  by  Sir  T.  Fitzwilliams 

and  Viscount  Gormanston    as   O'Dog- 

herty's  securities,  345. 
Flowerdue,  Thomas,  548. 
Flushing,  port  of,  279. 
: ,  the  Grahams   delivered  at,  to  serve 

the  King  in  the  Low  Countries,  xcvii. 

FoUiott,  Sir  Henry,  77,  97, 230,  346,  363,  366, 

507,  509,  510,  547. 

, ,  to  be  an  undertaker,  423,428. 

, ,  governor  of  Ballyshannon,  xxiv. 

, ,  castle  of  Lougheske  surrendered 

to,  xlix. 

, ,  invests  Torry  island,  li. 

,  ,  dispatch  to  Chichester,  lii,  liii. 

, ,  placed  to  keep  watch  over  rebels 

at  Torry  island,  27. 

,  ,  number  of  his  troop,  32. 

,  ,  foot,  33. 

, ,  letter,  copy  of,  34. 

,  depositions  taken  by,  45. 

,  buys  Asheroe  Abbey  from  Mr. 

Auditor  Gofton,  573. 
Foorth,  Ambrose,  Master  in  Chancery,  338. 

See  Forth. 
Fortescue,  Capt.,  367. 

,  Capt.  Faithful,  508. 

Forth,  Dr.,  gives  a  note  for  trial  of  pirates, 

424.     See  Foorth. 
Fortifications,  building  and  repairs  of,  156. 

,  suggestions  concerning,  ib. 

,  overseer  of,  Sir  Josias  Bodley,  507. 

Forts,  new  works  for,  at  various  places,  40. 

to  be  victualled  in  advance,  144. 

,  in  Ireland,  weak  and  unfinished,  400. 

,  the  lands  of,  not  to  be  granted  in 

lease  or  fee-farm,  408. 

peculation  of  under  ministers  of,  ib. 


Forts — cont. 

,  to  be  repaired  throughout  the  king- 
dom, 269. 

,  names  of,  270. 

Foster,  John,  of  Ballydowd,  co.  Dublin,  325. 

,  Mr.  Serjeant,  93. 

Fosterage,  custom  and  influence  of,  xlix. 

Fox,  Hubert,  pensioner,  338. 

...,.....,  Patrick,  clerk  of  Council,  53,  107, 
362,  365,  479. 

, ,  to  be  requited  for  long  service, 

422. 

,  Richard,  488. 

Fowerson,  W.,  488. 

Foyle,  Lough,  95. 

,  King's  boats  at,  ib. 

Francton,  John,  State  printer,  74,  75,  79,  213. 

Frayue,  the,  co.  Meath,  324. 

Freckleton,  Sir  Ferdinando,  367. 

Freeholders  to  be  made  in  the  settlement  of 

the  escheated  lands,  56. 
Freeholds  claimed  by  the  native  Irish,  160. 
Freeman,  Master,  360. 
,    ,   commissioner  of  plantation  of 

Londonderry,  136. 

French  and  Spaniards,  war  between,  379. 

, Captain  Tobin's   services    with 

the  French,  ib. 

French  King,  the  murder  of,  the  news  ex- 
pected to  breed  trouble  in  Ireland, 
453. 

Friars,  reported  influx  of,  from  Rome,  461. 

Frith,  John,  511. 

Froude,  Mr.,  account  of  massacre  at  Rathlin, 

li. 
Fues.     See  Fews. 

Fugitive  Earls,  account  of  their  flight  and 
travels  abroad,  xxxiv,  and  foil. 

...,  names  of  the  principal  companions  of 

their  flight,  xxxix. 

,  treachery  of  their  followers,  xl,  xli. 

,  their  flight  suspends  James  l.'s  in- 
tended policy  in  Ulster,  liv, 

,  indictment  of,  for  treason  resolved  on, 

Iviii. 

,  their  embarkation,  Ix. 

,  copy  of  the  indictment,  Ixii. 

, ,  sent  by  Sir  J.  Davys  to  Salis- 
bury, ib. 

, ,  the  three  points  of  treason  in, 

ib. 

,  Sir  John'Davys's  surprise  at  Tyrone's 

flight,  Ixvii. 

,  probable  cause  of,  ib. 

,  land,  survey  of,  desired  by  Chichester, 

9. 

,  expected  return  of,  11. 

,  earnestly  desired  by  the -ill-affected, 

12. 

,  fees  for  indictment  of,  76. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


629 


Fugitive  Earls — cont. 

Sir  Chas.  Comwallis  depreciates  them 

to  the  King  of  Spain,  83. 

,  calls  them  ragged  rebels,  ib. 

,  ought  to  have  been  long  since  treated 

as  the  Kings  of  Spain  treated  the 
Moors,  ib. 

,  have  received  cold  comfort  from  King 

of  Spain,  ib. 

,  lands,  plantation  of,  meetings  regard- 
ing, attended  by  the  King,  128. 

,  their  speedy  return  promised  by  the 

priests,  217. 

Fullcrton,  Sir  James,  112,  117,  202,  222,  334, 
347,  366,  505,  506,  508. 

, ,  to  submit  draft  of  an  establish- 
ment, 34. 

,  ,  vindicated  by  Chichester,  ib. 

, ,  has  reported  on  the  musters  in 

Ireland,  152. 

, ,  to  be  succeeded  by  James  Car- 
roll, 162. 

,  his  pension,  168. 

, commissioner  for  Ulster  planta- 
tion, 171. 

, ,  obtains  a  grant  in  1st  James  I. 

of  Kilmacreenan  Abbey,  573. 

,  ,  sells  to  Sir  Ralph  Bingley,  ib. 

,  who  sells  to  Earl  of  Tyrconnell, 

ib. 
Furres,  Antony,  480. 
Fygot,  in  co.  of  Donegal,  468. 


G. 


Gabriel],  Capt.,  495. 
Gaffeney,  William,  74. 
Gainsford,  Captain,  367. 

Galbally,  rent  of  the  abbey  of,  suspended  for 

two  years,  435. 

,  Sir  E.  Boyle  bound  for,  ib. 

,  assigned  to  Earl  of  Thomond,  ib. 

Castle  and  Galbally- Aherlo,  grant  of, 

to  Thomas  Cantwell,  of  Ballymackeady, 

476. 

,  late  the  inheritance  of  Donagh 

M'Creagh,  Moragh  O'Brea,  and  Ulick 
M'William  Bourke,  or  either  of  them, 
ib. 

,  abbey  of,  552. 

"  Galiasse,"   a  Venetian,   surprises  and   cap- 
tures a  pirate  ship,  279. 

Gallicia,  armada  of,  sent  for  to  come  to  the 
Groyne,  30. 

Gallin,  in  Leix,  33. 

Gallitia,  see  Gallicia. 


Gallowglas  country,  in  the  county  of  Armagh, 

Capt.   Thomas   Chatterton  undertakes 

to   conquer  it   in   13th   of  Elizabeth, 

553. 
,  his  failure  and  death  at  the  hands  of 

the  Irish,  ib. 
Gallwey,  H.,  sovereign  of  Kinsale,  24. 

William,  511. 

Galway,  fortifications  at,  40. 

,  agents  of,  recommended  to  Chichester, 

133. 

,  suit  of,  to  the  King,  ib. 

,  customs  of,  ib. 

,  new  charter  for,  154. 

,  Brian  Kelly's  lands  in,  134. 

,  221. 

,  fort  of,  repairs,  231. 

,  rebels  in  the  pass  between  Galway 

and  Shrowle,  298. 

new  charter  of  incorporation  of,  222. 

their    suburbs    enlarged,   from    two 

miles  to  three,  ib. 

,  as  far  as  the  Abbey  of  St.  Francis,  ib. 

,  fort  of,  374. 

,  gunners  at,  507. 

Gameforth,  Capt.  Francis,  pensioner,  337,  510. 

Garamoe,  494. 

Gardner,  Sir  Robert,  Queen's  Commissioner, 

xviii. 

, ,202. 

Garener,  John,  488. 

Garrans  (horses),  cost  of,  in  repairing  Derry 
fortress,  to  be  levied  off  the  people,  27. 
Garrett,  Roger,  549. 
Garrouragh,  lands  of,  in  Clare,  577. 
Garruife,  see  Garve. 

Garve,  Neal  [O'Neill],  his  apprehension  much 

lamented  in  Spain,  31. 
Gatehouse,  prison  of,  40. 
Gavelkind,  the  Irish  tenure  of  this  nature,  498. 

Gaye,  comes  over  with  first  batch  of  the  Lon- 
doners, 437. 

"  Gayle  "  (gaol)  of  Mount  Norries,  63. 
Gentlemen,   not   to   send  their   sons  beyond 

seas,  174. 
,  proclamation  against,  175. 

Gerald,  Edmund  FitzJohn,  of  Ballymartin,  co. 
Cork,  324. 

,  Morris  FitzThomas,  suit  of,  with  Ed- 
ward Courtney,  300. 

Geraldine,  Thomas,  475. 

Geraldines,  the,  plantations  by,  17. 

Gernon,  Nicholas,  228. 

Gerrard,  Dorothy,  Mrs.,  52. 

,  Father,  a  Jesuit,  50. 

Gessell,  Nicholas,  78. 

Geste,  Sir  Leynal  [Lionel] ,  Lady  Desmond's 

complaint  against,  449.     See  Guest. 
Gibson,  Robert,  479. 
Gill,  Bryan,  512. 


630 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Gillett,  John,  511. 
pensioner,  337. 

Gilmore,  Rice,  sent   as    agent  of  Sir  Donell 

O'Cahan,  413. 

...., ,  malversations  of,  ib. 

)   ,   has  obtained   the   "shrifery" 

[sherifEry]  of  the  comity,  ib. 

,  broke  open  O'Cahan's  castle,  413, 

Ginnet,  Sir  William,  472. 

Giraldus  Cambrensis,  see  Cambrensls. 

Glanarme,  see  Glenarm. 

Glanbally,  precinct  of,  404. 

Glanconkayne,  see  Glanconkeyne. 

Glanconkein,  348.     .See  Glanconkeyne. 

Glanconken,  see  Glanconkeyne,  and  Glancon- 
keyne. 
Glanconkeyne,  a  government  of  Ulster,  xxiii. 

,  Ixxx,  Ixxxiii. 

,  Chichester  marches  to,  8. 

,  greatest  fastness  in  "Ulster,  ib. 

,  had  been  well  tilled,  but  was  depopu- 
lated by  the  war,  ib. 

,  Shane  Carragh  O'Cahan  taken  in,  15. 

,  goodUest  timber  in,  208. 

,  61,  89,  194. 

,  divers  live  on  spoil  between  Dongiven 

and  Glanconkein,  194. 

,208. 

,  surveyed  by  London  agents,  286. 

., ,  near  Kiltdter,  294. 

and  Killeitragh,  349. 

..: ,  Londoners  ask  for  woods  of  Glancon- 

keen  and  Killeitragh,  ib. 

,  are  offered  the  use  of  them,  ib. 

,  they  are  20  miles  long,  ib. 

and  Killetragh,  not  the  estate  of  the 

Earls  of  Tyrone,  560. 
they   only   received   services   out  of 

them,  ib. 

Glanfield,  Toby,  a  pirate  at  Tunis,  279. 

Glanfinne,  39. 

,  party  of  troops  sent  into,  37. 

Glanfynne,  promised  to  Sir  Neal  O'Donnell, 

57.  See  Glanfinne. 
Glan  Fynne  and  Monganah,  Sir  Neal  O'Don- 

nell's  lands  of,  570. 
,  excepted  out  of  the  re-grant  made  to 

the  Earl  of  Tyrconnell  on  his  surrender, 

1  Jamea  I.,  ib. 

,but  not  re-granted  to  Sir  Neal  O'Don- 
nell, who  conspired  with  O'Dogherty 
before  the  patents  could  be  made  out, 
573. 

Glanvagh,  see  Glanveagh. 

Glanveagh,  O'Dogherty's  flight  from,  45. 

Glebe  land,  proportions  with,  403. 

lands,  577. 

Glenarm,  in  dispute  between  SirE.  M'Donnell 
and  Sir  A.  M'Awla,  446. 

castle  of,  assignment  of,  to  Angus  and 

Sir  James  M'Kouuell,  39,'). 


Glenconkeyue,  woods  and  lands  of,  reserved 
,   to  city  of  Derry,  136. 

,  to  be  reserved  to  the  King  by  Lord 

Audeley's  proposal,  259.  See  Glan- 
conkeyne. 

Glenor,  castle  of,  surrender  and  re-grant  of 

to  David  Eoche,  517. 
Glens,  the,  why  so  called,  xiii. 

>  eontains  seven  baronies,  ib. 

Glenvagh,  see  Glenveagh. 

Glenveagh,  demand  regarding,  I. 

>  O'Dogherty's  departure  from,  3,  4. 

messengers  sent    to  O'Dogherty  in, 

18. 

,  O'Doherty  sends   his    creaghls   and 

cattle  into  the  fortress  of,  223. 

Marshal  Wingfield  and  Sir  T.  Eidge- 

way  intended  to  capture  them  there, 
ib. 

> >  hut  their  design  was  betrayed 

to  him  by  Sir  Neal  O'Donnel,  224. 

Glesinenloe,  stream  of,  38. 

Ghn,  Knight  of,  46  5.     See  Glyn. 

castle,  claim  of  P.  Crosby  to,  against 

the  Knight  of  the  Valley,  329,  330, 
384.  ,        ■'  '         ' 

Glinues,  the  people  of,  wonder  to  see  the  De- 
puty, like  the  ghosts  at  seeing  .ffineas  in 
the  Shades,  16. 

,  rebels  in,  39.     See  Glens. 

Gloucestershire  men  brought  over  to  Dublin, 
5. 

Glyn  castle,  see  Glin  castle. 

Glyn   Loughvagh,    an    inaccessible  fastness, 

xlix. 
Glynne,  castle  of,  in  Limerick,  order  to  pass 

to  Patrick  Crosbie,  388.     See  Glin. 
, ,  claimed  by  Edmund  Fitzgerald, 

ib. 

, ,  description  of,  ib. 

, ,  possessed  by  Anthony  Arthur, 

who  sold  wines  there,  ib. 
Glynnes,  see  Glens. 
Glynns,  the,  meeting  of  chiefs  in,'  3. 

,  of  Glanconkayne,  15. 

Glynny,  manor  of,  co.  Cork,  206,  207. 
Glyns,  the,  in  Ulster  (Antrim),  395. 

,  the,  of  Antrim,  446.     See  Glens. 

Goare,  see  Gore. 

Gode,  Francis,  pensioner,  337. 

Gofton,  Auditor,  363. 

, ,  is  granted  Asheroe  Abbey,  573. 

, ,  sells  to  Sir  Henry  Folliott,  ib. 

Gogh,  Sir  James,  102. 

,  Lady,  ib. 

,  Patrick,  ib. 

Goldsmill,  John  Erode,  commissioner  for 
plantation  of  city  of  London,  266. 

Gordon,  John,  101. 
,  Nicholas,  ib. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


631 


Gore,  Captain  Paul,  invests  Torry  Island,  li. 

, insists  on  getting  the  heads  of 

the  rebels  at  Tony  Island,  liii. 

, , ,  stationed  to  watch  Torry  Is- 
land, 27. 

, ,  tries  to  intercept  rebels  escaping 

from  Torry  Island,  35,  367,  548. 

, ,  semtor,  to  be  an  undertaker, 

428. 

Gormanston,  Viscount,  216,  255,  345,  346, 
380,  381,  382. 

, offers  2001.  of  the  500/.  for- 
feited as  baU  for  O'Dogherty,  345. 

,  claims  a  trial,  rather  than  re- 
main suspected,  255. 

, ,  he  and  Sir  Thomas  Fitrwllliams 

offer  but  200Z.  for  Mr.  Florio,  ib. 

Gortnegre,  castle  and  lands  of,  584. 

GosnoU  [Gosnold],  Henry,  second  justice  in 
Muuster,  his  yearly  fee,  339. 

Governor  and  assistants  of  the  plantation  of 

Ulster,  recommend   Dean  Webb    for 

bishop,  488. 
,  names  of  the  Governor  and  several 

assistants,  ib. 
Governors  of  Ulster  districts,  purely  miUtary 

officers,  xxiv. 

Governors  and  other  officers,  with  their  reti- 
nues, in  the  four  provinces,  507. 

Grace,  Robert,  of  Court  town,  co.  Kilkenny, 
325. 

Graeme,  Fergus,  pensioner,  337,  511.  See 
Grahame. 

,  Sb  George,  126,  836,  367,  508. 

,  Sir  Richard,  367,  510, 

Sir  George's  sons,  368. 

Graham,  Sir  George,  cii. 

, ,  some  of  the  transplanted  Gra- 
hams fly  to,  lb. 

, ,  as  their  kinsman,  ib. 

, ,  the  sons  of,  to  be  undertakers, 

428. 

, ,  126.     See  Grfeme. 

,  Sir  Richard,  servitor,  to  be  an  under- 
taker, ib. 

,  see,  Graeme,  Greames. 

Grahams,  the,  transplantation  of,  xcv-ciii. 

,  active  borderers,  xcvi. 

,  how  they  celebrated  Kimg  James's 

accession,  ib. 

,  proclamation  against,  of  4th  Decem- 
ber 1603,  !6. 

,  are  reduced,  ib. 

,  and  submit  to  be  transplanted,  ib. 

,  are  arrested,  and  the  "heads"  kept 

in  prison,  xcvii. 

,  the  vulgar  sort  dismissed,  ib. 

,  sent  to  serve  the  King   in  the  Low 

Countries,  ib, 

,  of  72  delivered  at  Flushing  only  14 

remain,  ib. 

,  the  rest  returned,  ib. 


Grahams — coiit. 

,  troops  sent  to  Eskdale,  &o.  in  pursuit 

of,  xcvii. 
,  to  catch  some  that  broke  out  of  Car- 
lisle Castle,  ib. 
,  had  rather  die  at  home  with  shame, 

than  serve  the  King  abroad  with  credit 

xcviii. 
,  they'rob,to  furnish  themselves  forthe 

Low  Countries,  ib. 
,  few  or  none  hanged  for    returning 

without  Ucense,  ib. 
,  their  plea  for  pardon  for  arresting 

Sandies  Rimon,  ib. 

,  Jock  of  the  Pear-tree,  iJ. 

,  Jock  Ritchie,  ib. 

,  the,  to  be  transplanted  into  Ireland, 

xcix. 

,  under  Sir  Ralph  Sidley  at  Roscommon, 

,  ib. 
,  agreement  between  Sir  Ralph  Sidley 

and  the  Commissioners  of  the  Middle 

Shires,  ib, 
,  of  Leven,  Esk,  and  Sark  (the  late 

borders  of  England)  to  be  transplanted, 

ib. 
,  agreement  dated  1 2th  September  1606, 

ib, 
,  Sir  Ralph  undertakes  to  keep  a  clergy- 
man to  instruct  them,  c. 
,  Sir  Arthur  Chichester's  first  approval 

of,  ib. 

,  he  later  disapproves  of,  ib, 

,  when  transplanting,  are  guarded  by 

horse  and  foot  to  Workington,  ib. 
the  common  sort,  after   agreeing  to 

transplant,  fly  at  the  moment  of  em- 
barkation, c,  ci. 
,  the  chief,  being  imprisoned,  cannot 

escape,  ci. 
,  Sir  Arthur  Chichester's  opinion  of,  at 

first,  c. 

,  to  be  planted  together,  ib, 

,  advantages  of,  iJ. 

,  disadvantages,  ib. 

,  Walter  (Graham),  of  Netherby,  ci. 

, called  the  gudeman  of  Netherby, 

ib. 

,  catalogue  of  remarkable  names  of,  ib, 

,  their  complaints,  ib. 

,  pray  to  be  allowed  to  return  to  Cum- 
berland, ib. 
their  objections  to  Roscommon,  ib, 

,  not  above  six  or  seven  stayed  at  Ros- 
common, cii. 
,  the  rest  had  fled,  ib. 

,  Sir  Ralph  Sidley 's  character  of  them, 

ib. 

,  that  they  were  given  to  drink,  horses, 

dogs,  ib. 

,  are  now  dispersed;    when  collected 

again  and  placed  on  any  land,  the  next 
country  will  find  them  ill-neighbours, 
q72. 


632 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


Grauard,  107. 

Sir  Francis  Shaen  possessed  of,  354. 

,  yet  claims  the  rent  from  the  inhahi- 

tants  of  county  of  Longford,  ib. 

)  abbey  of,  grant  of,  to  Sir  F.  Shaen  to 

be  perfected,  407. 

vicarage  of,  grant  of,  to  be  stayed,  ib. 

,  rent  beeves   of,  due  to   Sir  Francis 

Shaen,  204. 
Grange,  the,  town  and  lands  of,  to  be  in  the 

liberties  of  Waterford,  456. 
Graunge,  rectory  of,  448.     See  Grange. 
Graves,  WilUam,  a  pirate  at  Tunis,  279. 
Gravesend,  52. 
Graystocke,    in  Cumberland,   parsonage    of, 

458. 
Greames,  the,  are  now  dispersed,  421. 

,  a   factious   and   naughty  people,  ib. 

See  Graham. 
Greave,  Sir  Eichard,  547. 
Greaves,  Sir  George,  ib. 
Greencastle,    a     building     in    O'Dogherty's 
country,  x. 

at  entrance  of  Lough  Foyle,  60. 

Greene,   Clement,   proposed  as  inspector  of 

measures,  262. 
Greenmell,  William,  commissioner  for  planta- 
tion of  Londonderry,  136. 
Green-wax  money,  should  be  let  to  farm,  370. 

,  trial  of,  to  be  made  for  some  years, 

424. 

,  to  be  better  collected,  425. 

Greenwell,  W.,  369,  488. 

Grice,  Richard,  answer  to   Sir  E.  Moryson's 

interrogations,  528,  546. 
Griffith,  Capt.  Maurice,  508. 
Grimsdich,  George,  198. 
Groom,  see  Owen  Groom  Magrath. 

...,  Tirlagh  M'Owen  Boor  M'Hugh,  94. 

Groyen,  see  Corunna. 

Groyne,  the,  a  fleet  prepared  at,' II.     Sec  Co- 
runna. 
,  1,000  men  sent  to  meet  the  new  go- 
vernor at,  1 3. 

,20  colours  march  out  of,  ib. 

,  many  Irish  there,  30. 

Grymesdiche,  see  Grimsdich. 
Guest,  Sir  Lionel,   Lady  Desmond's  charges 
against,  449. 


H. 


Hadsor,  Eichard,  regards  the  plantation  as  a 
consequence  of  the  flight  of  the  Earls, 
liv. 

,  Sir  Richard,  undertaker  in  Armagh, 

180. 


Hagan,  Henry,  his  goods  forfeited,  as  having 
fled  with  Tyrone,  537. 

)  ,  his  wife  and  children,  543. 

I  >  Sir  Toby  Caulfeild  renders  ac- 
count of,  ib.     See  O'Hagan. 

Hagans,  the,  placed  by  O'Neile  in  O'Neylan, 

X. 

,  attend  sessions  at  Dungannon,  16. 

Haghe,  see  Hague. 

Hague,  the,  treaty  of,  25. 

Hairt,  Sir  William,  Justice  Depute,  477. 

Haleboling  fort,  gunners  at,  374,  507. 

constable  of,   Sir  Francis    Slingsby, 

508. 

,  King's  boat  at,  228.     See  Hawlbow- 

line. 
Hales,  Sir  Charles,  xcix. 
Haly,  Nicholas,  47. 
Hamden,  William,  510. 
Hamilton,  .Tames,  92,  199,  200,  353. 
his  dispute  about  fishing  of  the 

Bann  with  Sir  E.  M'Dounell,  21. 
,  ,  his  claims   on  fishery  of    the 

Bann,  92. 
,  ,  tenant  of  several   priory   and 

abbey   lands    in  Down    and   Antrim, 

448. 
, ,  the  Earl  of  Tyrconnell  grants 

him  a  moiety  of  the  fishing  of  Lough 

Foyle,  but   not   to   extend  two  miles 

above  Lifford,  571. 
,  Sir  James,  new  grants  to,  of  his  lands, 

168. 

, ,476. 

,  Mr.  John,  366. 

,  Joshua,  civ. 

,  Mary,  otherwise  Dawson,  ib. 

, ,  daughter  of  Joshua   Dawson, 

clerk  of  the  papers,  ib. 

Hamlin,  Andrew,  Mayor  of  Drogheda,  de- 
claration of,  in  case  of  Lord  Howth  and 
Sir  G.  Moore,  140. 

,  Michael,  agent  of  Dublin  corporation, 

urges  the  suit,  132. 

,  Patrick,  90,  91. 

Haudes,  Mr.  AVilliam,  368. 
Hanlon,  Patrick,  pensioner,  338. 
Hanmer,  Eobert,  born  at  Radford,  examina- 
tion of,  23. 

, ,  went  to  Spain,  ib. 

became  servant  of  Don  Pedro 

de  Lyra,  ib. 

,  brought  to  a  hospital  at  Madrid, 

24. 
Hansard,  Sir  Eichard,  command  of,  in  Lough 
Foyle,  xxiii. 

,  10,  07,  366,  510,  .'544,  547. 

, ,  returns  from  Dublin,  20. 

, ,  plot  to  entjap  him  in  ambus- 
cade, ib. 

, number  of  his  men,  33. 

, copy  of  his  letter,  37. 


-GENERAL  INDEX. 


633 


Hansard,  Sir  Richard — cont. 

,  ,  his  proceedings   against    the 

rebels,  ib. 
, Sir    Neale     O'Donnell's    plot 

against,  39. 

,  servitor,  to  be  undertaker,  428. 

Hanser,  see  Hansard. 

Happen,  John,  325. 

Harbert,  Sir  Edward,  367,  509.     See  Herbert. 

Jasper,  508. 

Harding,  Eichard,  203. 

Harmon,  Sir  William,  a  principal  undertaker 
in  Lifford,  with  his  consorts,  their 
names  and  abilities,  549. 

Harold's  Grange,  freedom  of,  263. 

Harpole,  Sir  William,  his  lease  of  Catherlogh, 
396. 

,  ,  constable  of  Carlow,  Lord  Tho- 

mond  demands  his  removal  on  proof 
of  misbehaviour,  400. 

, ,  his  alleged  treasons  and  misde- 
meanours, 401. 

Harpoole,  George,  his  grant  of  Monk's  Grange 
in  the  Queen's  County,  Ixxiii. 

,  shows   the   conditions   of  that 

plantation,  ib. 

Harrington,  Sir  Henry,  88,  205,  366. 

,  Sir  James,  undertaker  in  Tyrone,  180. 

Harris,  a  pirate  at  Tunis,  279. 
Harrison,  N.,  488. 

,  Peter,  551. 

,  Captam,  368,  548. 

,  ,  servitor,  to  be  an   undertaker, 

428. 

,  Capt.  Samuel,  511. 

,  William,  commissioner  for  plantation 

of  Londonderry,  136. 
, ,  360. 

Harristown,  surrender  of,  and  re-grant  to  Sir 
C.  Plunkett,  518. 

Harle,  Eichard,  548. 

Harrydon,  Harridon,  town  of,  50. 

Harrys,  Joseph,  a  servant,  282. 

Hart,  Captain,  M' Allen  goes  to  him,  38. 

,  ,  330,  368,  548. 

Harvie,  Sir  Gerrard,  323. 

Hasset,  see  Blennerhasset. 

Hassett,  Mr.,  his  precedence  as  Baron  of  Ex- 
chequer disputed,  293. 

,  Baron,  application  of,  for  leave  to  re- 
turn to  England,  389. 

Hatton,  Edward,  376. 

Sir  Christopher,  Ixxvi. 

Haugans,  see  O'llagans. 

Ilawe,  Henry,  511. 

Hawks,  478,  480. 

,  Ormond  regrets  he  has  none  to  send 

this  year  to  Salisbury,  478. 

,  Irish,  Chichester's  soar   hawks   are 

rotten,  480. 


Hawks — eont. 

,  cast  of,  offered  to  Salisbury  by  Sir  A. 

Boyle,  41. 

,  of  Fermanagh,  115. 

Hawlbowline,  fortifications  at,  40. 

Hay,  Sir  Alexander,  483. 

"  Headman,"  Indian,  resembles  the  collector 
of  Tyrone's  rent  system,  xxviii. 

Head  money,  charge  of,  335. 

"  Heads,"  cutting  off  of,  xxx. 

Hemp,  export  of,  136. 

Hennesy,  David,  47. 

,  William,  ih. 

Henry  VI.,  great  lords  in  reign  of,  xxx. 

Henshaw,  Captain,  552. 

Herbert,  Sir  Edw.,  bills  to,  19. 

, ,  number  of  his  troop,  33. 

,  request  to  be  made  governor  of 

CO.  Cavan,  548. 

, ,  sheriff  of  Cavan,  .549. 

,  Sir  John,  commissioner  of  plantation 

of  Londonderry,  136. 

Herenaghes'  lands,  found  to  be  vested  in  the 
Crown,  16. 

Herenagh  lands,  plantation  of,  171. 

Herenagh,  577.     See  Erenagh. 

or  Termon  lands,  in  county  of  Ty- 
rone, 561.     See  Erenagh. 

,  in  county  of  Coleraine,  564. 

,  their  nature,  ib. 

,  whether   they   belong  to  the  King  or 

Bishop  of  Derry,  ib. 

,  if  they   were  fee-farmers   who   held 

them,  then  they  are  the  King's,  565. 

,  if  tenants  at  will  to  the  Bishop,  then 

they  are  the  Bishop's,  ib. 

,  in  the  island  of  Derry,  566. 

,  held  time  out  of  mind    by  the  two 

septs  of  Laghine,  and  O'Derry,  ib. 

,  but  their    estates    destroyed    by  the 

Earl  of  Tyrconnell's  surrender  and  re- 
grant,  1  Jas.  I.,  567. 

,  all  the  Herenagh  lands  in  the  whole 

county  of  Tyrconnell,  afterwards  called 
county  of  Donegal,  destroyed  in  like 
manner,  570. 

Heron,  Baron,  deceased,  Saxey  sues  for  place 
of,  263. 

Herries,  Robert,  483. 

Hetheriugton,  George,  transplanted  to  Eos- 
common  with  the  Grammes,  ci. 

,  Wm.,  pensioner,  337. 

, ,511. 

Hewett,  Charles,  367. 

Hibbots,  Thos.,  78,  510. 

,Mr.,  367. 

"  Hibernia   Anglicana,"  Sir   Richard    Cox's, 

cviii. 
Hide,  Mr.,  Ixxvi. 
Hides,  "  corbett"  of,  133. 

..,  export  of,  136,  155. 

, ,  ftom  Dublin,  197. 


634 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Hides — cont, 

return  of  tanned  and  salted,  197. 

,  raw,  export  of,  the  greatest  trade  in 

Ireland,  351. 
Higges,  WilUam,  73,  74,  77,  229,  231. 
HiU,  John,  bill  to,  19. 

....,Moyses,  367,  512. 

Hison,  Francis,  508. 
Hohart,  Henry,  116. 

Hohert,  Sir  Henry,  a  principal  undertaker  in 
Fermanagh,  and  his  15  consorts,  their 
names  and  abilities,  548. 

Hodgson,  James,  488. 

Hodson,  James,  360. 

Holland,  William,  512. 

HoUanderg,  the,  209. 

,  colony  of,  proposed  for  Lough  Erne, 

288. 
HoUewood,  priory  of,  448. 
Holmes,  Sir  Henry,  a  principal  undertaker  in 

Cavan,  with  the  names  of  his  consorts, 

their  means  and  abilities,  550. 
Honing,  Henry,  548. 
Hope,  Captain,  367,  547. 
, ,  ser-vitor,  to  be  an  undertaker, 

428. 

,  Thomas,  of  MuUingar,  325. 

Hopp,  see  Hope. 

Hopper,  Richard,  has  reversion  of  office  of 

chief  remembrancer,  175. 
Hore,  Mrs.  Alison,  102. 

,  Philip,  ib. 

,  Mrs.  Mall,  ib. 

Hore  Abbey,  lease  of,  to  Kobt.  Nangle  of  Bal- 

lisax,  216. 
Horesh,  John,  341. 
Horsemen,  Tyrone's,  533. 
Horses,  Irish,   Ormond  sends  Salisbury  two, 

Irish  nags,  479. 

Hotghton,  James,  commissioner  for  plantation 
of  Londonderry,  136. 

Hovenden,  Henry,  see  Ovington. 

,  ,  (and  others  that  fled  with  Ty- 
rone), account  of  their  goods  by  Sir 
Toby  Caulfeild,  528. 

, ,  his  wife,  543. 

Howard,  xcvi. 

,  Nich.,  bill  to,  19. 

, ,  367,  550. 

Howth,  Lord,  79,  91,  97,  107,  108,  109,  113, 
200,  321,  322,  323,  326,  327,  328,  330, 
344,  345,  366,  374,  376,  377,  380,  381, 
382,  384,  385,  386,  387,  391,  392,  394, 
510,  529. 

, prefers  articles  against  Sir  Gar- 
rett Moore,  24, 

,  ,  proceedings  in  the  case,  ib. 

,  ,  his  examination,  25. 

, ,  called  before  the  Council,  ib. 

, ,  number  of  his  men,  33. 

, ,  his  information  to  Chichester, 

Ixv. 


Howth,  Lord — cont. 

) ,   his  questionable  conduct  and 

character,  Ixvi,  Ixx. 

,  ,  Chichester's  distrust  of,  ib. 

,  the  Council's  distrust,  ib. 

, ,  his  unworthy  charges  against 

Sir  Garrett  Moore  and  the  Chancellor, 

ib. 

, ,  lays   an   anonymous   paper    at 

door  of  Council  Chamber,  Ixvii. 

,  charging  that  there  was  a  plot 

for  a  general  insurrection,  ib. 

,  Chichester's  collections  out  of 

hie  discourses,  ib. 

, ,  his  information,  Ixix. 

, ,  involves  many  guiltless,  ib. 

,  is  well  paid  for  his  services,  Ixx, 

Ixxi. 

,  ,  privy  to  conspiracy,  2. 

, ,  musters  delivered  to,  4. 

, ,  illness  of,  41. 

, ,  his  account  of  his  quarrel  with 

Sir  Garrett  Moore  and  the  Chancellor, 
41. 

, delay  of  suit  complained  of, 

48. 

, ,  both  parties  to  be  sent  to  Eng- 
land if  they  persist,  ib. 

, ,  his  complaint  against  Sir  G. 

Moore,  proceedings  regarding,  137. 

, accuses  Lord  Delvin,  141. 

, ,  charges  against  Sir  G.  Moore, 

thought  to  be  "  more  of  malice  than 

good  matter,"  146. 
,  ,  suggestion  that  the  case,  when 

opened   by  the   King,  be   remitted  to 

Ireland,  ib. 
,  ,  Howth  is  certainly  the  publisher 

of  his  own  discourse,  147. 
, ,  calumnies  against  the   Chan- 
cellor, 151. 
, ,  SirG.  Moore's  answer  to,  169- 

171. 
, recommended  by  the  King  to 

Chichester,  191. 
, ,  Archbishop  Jones  (Chancellor) 

to   Salisbury,  about   Howth's   charges 

against  him,  91,  107. 

, ,  Howth's  charges  and  the  Arch- 
bishop's answers,  108. 

,  ,  charges   the  Archbishop  with 

spreading  a  report  that  Lord  Howth 
visited  a  lady  (Miss  Kate  Fitton)  in 
Meath,  intending  to  seduce  her,  108, 
109. 

, ,  prepares  to  prosecute  Sir  Gar- 
rett Moore  for  treason  before  the  King 
in  Council,  113. 

, ,  the  King  declares  that  he  did 

not  compromise  Lord  Delvin's  safety 
in  the  ifisclosure  of  the  conspiracy, 
191. 

,.,, ,  Delvin  ordered  to  dismiss  all 

unkindly  feeling,  ib. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


635 


Howth,  Lord — eont. 

, ,  Sir  Gr.  Moore  ordered  to  be  re- 
conciled to  him,  X. 

, ,  he  and  Delvia  not  to  be  recon- 
ciled, 254. 

, ,  nor  is  it  to  be  wished,  ib. 

,  ,  represents  to  the  King  the  un- 
favourable impression  produced  by  His 
Majesty's  letter  in  his  favour,  274. 

,  ,  asks  a  fresh  order  to  repress  his 

maligners,  275. 

, ,  complains  of   Sir  Gr.  Moore's 

conduct,  ib. 

, ,  complains   of   Sir   G.   Moore's 

son's  violence  towards  Mr.  Dyllon,  son 
of  the  Chief  Justice,  320. 

, ,  despairs  of  a  fair  trial  in  Ireland, 

where  Sir  G.  Moore  is  strongly  backed 
with  friends,  and  prays  Salisbury  to  set 
down  some  course  for  ascertaining  the 
truth,  321. 

, ,  accuses  Sir  Roger  Jones,  son  of 

the  Chancellor,  of  calling  him  coward, 
ib. 

, ,  Jones  is  married  to  a  daughter 

of  Sir  Garrett  Moore,  ib. 

, ,  Sir  Garrett  is  the  root  of  this 

malice,  ib. 

, ,  assaulted  him  at  tennis,  ib. 

,  ,  while    one   of   Jones's   friends 

clasped  him,  Jones  thrust  at  him,  ib. 

,  ,  in    this    broU   a  kinsman    of 

Howth's  was  slain,  ib. 
, ,   Chichester's  account  of   this 

broil,  322,  323. 
, ,  Deputy  and  Council's  account 

of  this  broil,  327. 
, ,  is  committed  for  the  death  of 

Simon  BarnewaU,  328. 

, ,  Archbishop   Jones's  letter   to 

the  King,  vindicating  himself  from  his 

calumnies,  330. 
, ,   Chichester  says  he  has   ever 

mixed  truth  and  falsehood,  and  prays 

he  may  never  hti.ve  anything  more  to 

do  with  him,  345. 
, ,  notes   out  of  his  letter  to  the 

King,  wherein  he  is  to  explain  himself, 

374. 
, ,  what  great  men  have  reported 

him  a  dangerous  man  ?,  ib. 

, ,  what  smaller  men  have  threaten- 
ed to  hunt  him  out  of  the  kingdom  ?, 
ib. 

,  who  have  called  him  coward  ?, 

ib. 
, ,  says  that  the  Deputy  would  not 

look  at  him,  and  refused  to  have  his 

company  to  Ulster,  ib. 

,  observations  out  of  his  letters 

to  the  Lords,  ib. 

, ,  Lord  Howth's  answers,  376. 

, by   "great  men"  means  the 

Lord  Chancellor,  ib. 


Howth,  Lord — cont. 

, ,  and  Su'  Garrett  Moore,  377. 

, ,  examination  of,  before  Deputy 

and  Council,  touching  the  above,  380. 

, ,  complains  of  Chichester's  par- 

tiahty,  384. 

, ,  charges   him  with  disrespect, 

385. 

, complains  of  not  being  taken 

to  the  North  by  him,  ib. 

, ,  of  his  protecting  the  Carrolans, 

ib. 

,  his  object  was  to  cess  his  com- 
pany on  the  country,  ib. 

,  ,  called  a    "babbler"   by   Chi- 
chester, 386. 

,  ,   audacity  of,   in  incensing  the 

IGng    against,  his    faithful    servants, 
387. 

) ,  charges  against  Archbishop  of 

Dublin,  ib. 

,  seeks  to  have   Sir   G.  Moore 

kiUed,  ib. 

, ,  cited  before  the  Council,  391. 

, ,  refused  at  first  to  produce  his 

witnesses,  ib. 

,  charges  Council    with    being 

hostile,  ib. 

, ,  his  witnesses  examined,  ib. 

,  ,  withdraws   "in    a    displeased 

fashion,"  ib. 

,  Lord  Delvin  says  he  urged  him 

to  conceal  his  name  as  party  to   the 
plot,  392. 

) ,  the  most  arrant  traitor  living, 

ib. 

;  ,  urges  Lady  Delvin  to  dissuade 

her  sou  from  submitting,  ib. 

;. )  bis  object  is   to  get  leave  to 

live  in  England,  ib. 

;  ,  bis  own  report   to  the  King  of 

the  proceedings    before  the   Council, 
394. 

>  ,  his  conduct  condemned  by  the 

Privy  Council  of  England,  427. 

)  ,  not  to  repair  to  England,  ib. 

Hoy,  John,  226,  367. 

, ,  pursuivant,  76. 

Hubarte,  Henry,  see  Hobart,  Henry. 

Hubbert,  Derrick,  his   proposition  for   salt, 
424.  ' 

Hudbank,  Rich.,  pensioner,  337. 

Hudson,  John,  Discourses  on  Lreland  by,  xx. 

requires  President  of  Ulster  to 

be  a  great  English  noble,  xx,  xxi. 

' Tyrone  and  Tyrconnell  to  be 

kept  in  check,  xvi. 
Huggins,  Antony,  511. 
>  Anthony,  pensioner,  338. 

>  Captain,  servitor,  to  be  an  undertaker, 

428. 

Huggon,  Capt.  Anthony,  220.     See  Huggins. 


636 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Hugon,  Capt.  Anthony,  548.     See  Huggins. 

Capt.  Arthur,  368. 

Hull,  Captain,  arrested  by  E.  Morison,  397. 

,  ,  marie  commissioner  for  parley- 
ing with  pirates,  398. 

Hutton,  Edward,  Ixxvi. 

HwoUaghan,  Thadeus,  350. 

Hyde,  Arthur,  suit  of,  with  Patrick  Condon, 
582. 

, ,  son  of  Arthur  Hyde,  ib. 


I. 


"  Idle  men,"  at  least  2,000  in  Connaught,  299. 

,  4,000  in  Ulster,  ib. 

,  3,000  in  Leinster,  ib. 

,  as  many  in  Munster,  ib. 

,  emhers  ready  to  be  raked  up  into  re- 
bellion, ib. 

,  desirable  to  get  them  away  to  service 

of  Sweden,  ib. 

,  1,000  sent  away  to  Sweden,  409. 

Ua,  island  of,  in  Scotland,  ix. 

llling,  Captain,  367,  547. 

Imly,  see  Emly. 

Imports,  officers  of,  to  leave,  unless  they  have 
patents,  434. 

,  officers  useless  while  customs  are  in 

farm,  451. 

Impropriations  belonging  to  Archbishop  of 
Armagh,  in  Ulster,  to  be  purchased  up, 
that  the  King  may  bestow  them  on  the 
Londoners,  489. 

Ince,  Randall,  prays  for  reversion  of  post  of 
usher  of  the  Exchequer,  514. 

Inche  in  Lecale,  priory  of,  448. 

,  rectory  of,  ib. 

Incheloiigh  Carr,  227. 

Incumbents  in  the  escheated  counties,  number 
of  acres  allotted  to,  417. 

Indictment  of  fugitive  Earls  resolved  on,  Iviii. 

of  the  fugitive  Earls,  ib. 

,  true  bills  found; by  grand  juries  of  Ty- 
rone and  Donegal,  15  December  1607, 
Ix. 

,  proceedings,  &c.,  outlawrj',  ib. 

of  the  fugitive  Earls,  copy  of,  commu- 
nicated in  confidence  by  Sir  John 
Davys  to  Salisbury,  Ixii. 

,  the  three  charges  of  treason  in,  ib. 

,  Tyrone  charged  with  assuming  the 

title  of  O'Neale,  Ixiii. 

,  the  evidence   offered  for  proof,  Ixii, 

Ixiii, 

,  the  composition  of  the  juries,  Ixiv. 

,  Sir  Cahir  O'Dogherty,  foreman,  ib. 

,  13  Irish,  ivnd  only  10  English,  ib. 


Indictment — cont. 

,  the  bills  read  in  English  and  Irish,  Ixiv. 

,  an  unusual  course,  ib. 

,  difficulty  of  the  jurors  as  to  finding 

against  the  followers  of  the  Earls,  ib. 

,  though  they  had  none  as  to  the  Earls 

themselves,  ib. 

...,what  judgment  to  form  of  the  plot, 

ixT-lxx. 

Inishgaltagh,  240. 

Inishkellin,  see  Enniskillen. 

Inishowen  (and  see  Enishowen),  O'Dogherty's 
country,  Ix. 

,  how  confiscated,  Ix,  Ixxxviii. 

,  creaghtB  of,  27. 

Sir  H.  FoUiott  at,  34. 

,  fit  seat  for  good  subjects,  58. 

,  all  vested  in  the  King,  59. 

,...,  if  not  all  granted  to  one  good  subject, 

may  be  divided  into  parcels,  60. 

.,  Chichester  hopes  for  grant  of,  179. 

,  asks  Sir  J.  Davys's  aid  towards  this 

end,  ib. 

Chichester  rides  to  see,  294. 

Inquisitions  of  crown  and  ecclesiastical  lands 
taken  in  every  county,  409. 

Instructions,    Chichester's,  to  Sir  James  Ley 
and  Sir  J.  Davys  in  1608,  Ixxxi. 

,   19  articles  of,   to   commissioners  of 

plantation,  annexed  to  commission  of 
July  1609,  Ixxxvi. 

to   Sir  John  Davis  and  Chief  Justice 

Ley,  by  Chichester,  65. 

„ (from  Sir  Arthur  Chichester)  to  Sir 

Thomas  Ridgeway,  362. 

,  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  to  Sir  Thomas 

Ridgeway,  Sir  Dominic  Sarsfield  to  suc- 
ceed Lord  Walsh  as  Chief  Justice  of 
Common  Pleas  on  Walsh's  death,  ib. 

,  (second)  from  Sir  Arthur  Chichester 

to  Sir  Thomas  Ridgeway  touching  the 
public,  368. 
Intermarriages  of  English  and  Irish  forbidden 

in  Leinster  plantation,  Ixxiv. 
Intrusions,  form  of  grant  of,  422. 

Invasion,  Spanish,  of  Ireland,  they  are  all  pre- 
pared for,  400. 

Ireland,  reformation  of,  a  discourse  for  the,  xv. 

,  kingdom  of,  granted  to  Tyrone  by  the 

Pope,  13. 

Iriell,  see  Oriel. 

Irish,  the,  in  Ulster,  did  not  build  castles,  xciii. 

,  but  did  elsewhere,  ib. 

,  why  not  in  Ulster,  ib.,  and  note. 

,  expected  generally  to  join  the  Earls 

on  their  return,  3. 

,   native,    show   no   remorse   of   con- 
science or  fear  of  death,  7.    ■ 

,  in  Spain,  preparing  for  expedition  to 

Ireland,  13. 

,  Spanish   government   deny  all  com- 
plicity with  them,  17. 

gentlemen,  long  neglected  in  Spain,  but 

now  treated  liberally,  30. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


637 


Irish,  the — cont. 

,  many  go  abroad,  30. 

,  native,  to  be  considered,  the  best  and 

chief  of  them,  in  the  settlement  of  the 
plantation,  63. 

,  to   be   drawn    from  the   practice    of 

"  creatinge  "  (creaghting),  65. 

,  made  to  build  houses  as  in  the  Pale, 

ib. 

,  to  be  prohibited  from   "creatinge," 

or  running  up  and  down  the  country 
with  their  cattle,  ib. 

,  to  be  forced  to  settle  in  villages,  ib. 

to  build  houses  instead  of  cabins,  ib. 

.Barnaby  Ryche's  account  of,  106. 

,  his  40  years'  experience  of,  ib. 

,  his  collections  prepared  in  a  pamphlet 

for  Salisbur5''s  use,  ib. 

,  denies  the  rumours  in  London  that 

he   has   therein  scandalised   the  Lord 
Deputy,  107. 

,  as  an  infallible  rule,  none  at  any  time 

serve  their  Prince  against  their  coun- 
trymen, 196. 

,  except  when  some  of  their  own  ad- 
versaries are  out  in  rebellion,  ib. 

,  thus  to  be  revenged  of  their  enemies, 

ib. 

,  it  is  only  want  of  arms  that  keeps 

them  in  subjection,  ib. 

,  are  disarmed  systematically,  ib. 

,  O'Dogherty's  success  was  owing  to  his 

getting  possession  of  the  store  of  arms, 
ib. 

,  want  not  for  men,  notwithstanding  the 

war,  and  plague,  and  famine,  ib. 

,  of  Ulster,  213,  ib. 

,  swordmen  of,  ib. 

,  must  be  outnumbered  by  the  under- 
takers in  the  plantation,  270. 

,  their  hatred  of  English  nation,  283. 

make   submission  with  better  grace 

than  Chichester  ever  expected,  286. 

,  swordmen  all  peers,  and  object  to  serve 

under  each  other,  296. 

,  language.   Common  Prayer-book   in, 

sent  to  Salisbury,  300. 

first  undertaken  by  Sir  James  Ley,  ib. 

,  the  native  Irish  prefer  to  serve  under 

an  English  ofBcer,  305. 
dangerous  natives,  sent  away  to  the 

Swedish  expedition,  305,  306. 

,  levies  for  Swedish  service,  305. 

,  the,  were  allowed  to  dwell  intermixed 

with  English  planters  in  the  Munster 

plantation,  357,  358. 
,  that  they  might  imitate  the  English, 

ib. 

,  instead,  they  scorned  them,  ib. 

,  alleged  false  titles  to   the  lands  they 

had  built  on  and  enclosed,  ib. 

,  envied  them,  ib. 

plotted  against  their  lives,  ib. 


Irish,  the — cont. 

,  in  the  Ulster  plantation  should  dwell 

apart,  ib. 

,  in  the  flat  country,  ib. 

,  or  intermixed  with  English  in  town- 
reeds,  ib. 

,   must   be   forced   in   Ulster   to    quit 

creaghting,  and  to  dwell  in  town-reeds, 
ib. 

,  native  Irish,  summoned  to  appear  at 

the  plantation  commission,  389. 

,  regiment,  sent  by  Archduke  to  King 

of  Spain,  393. 

soldiers,  200,  under  command  of  Capt. 

Stanyhurst,  ib. 

,  full  of  spirits  at  prospect  of  voyage  to 

Ireland,  394. 

,  pride  of,  increased  by  the  renewal  of 

their  charters  in  England,  without  re- 
commendation of  the  State,  400. 

,  pedigrees  of  great  Irish  lords,  402. 

,  countries,  403. 

the,  the  caterpillars  of  the  kingdom, 

408. 

,  it  is  hoped  they  will  be  removed  by 

the  service  in  Denmark,  ib. 

,  to  be  planted  along  with  the  servitors, 

411. 

,  but  not  with  Britons,  410. 

"  swordmen,"  new  levy  of,  to  be  sent 

to  Sweden,  458. 

,  to  be  mere  Irish,  ib. 

,  what  is  wanting  of  Ulster  men,  to  be 

made  up  from  other  provinces,  459. 
,  not  advisable  to  embark    them  at 

Derry,  ib. 

causes,  commissioners  for,  see  Commis- 
sioners. 

,  commissioners  of,  Ixxxi. 

,  commissioners  of,  486  ;  and  see 

commissioners. 

,  committee  of,  222. 

greyhounds,  477,  479,  480. 

,  present  of,  to  Salisbury,  ib. 

hawks,  478,  480. 

nags,  479. 

,  Ormond  sends  Salisbury  two,  ib. 

Irishry,  the,  have  surrendered  and  taken  re- 
grant  of  their  lands,  154. 

,  claim  to  have  freehold  of  the  lands, 

160. 

)  will  not  give  up  "  creaghting,"  176, 

many  do  not  affect  large  grants,  ib. 

others  will  not  be  content  with  whole 

counties,  ib. 

Iron  ore,  at  Toome,  very  rich  and  valuable' 
290.  ' 

>  ™ade  steel  in  less  than  an  hour,  ib. 

Ironworks,  reservation  of,  260. 

in  Munster,  project  for,  419. 

in  Munster,  348,  530. 

'  g'''^"'  for    purchase  of  woods    and 

grounds  for  erecting  in  Ireland,  432. 


638 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


Ironworks — cont. 

,480. 

,   on  the  Shannon  by  Mr.  Tokefield, 

ib. 
,  and  at  Youghal  by  Sir  Eichard  Boyle, 

ib. 
,  forge  to  be  set  up  in,  to  smelt  some 

ore  brought  over  for  trial  &om  the 

Forest  of  Dean,  ib. 
Isaac,  Nicholas,  346. 
Isham,  George,  466. 
Island  Magee,  in  Antrim,  xiii. 
Island  M'Gye,  see  Island  Magee. 
Islanders,  expedition  against,  11.     See  Out- 
Islanders. 
Isle  of  Man,  497. 
Issues  of  Exchequer  for  service  of  Ireland, 

270. 
Italy,  dangerous  persons  from,  474. 
Ivagh,  see  Iveagh. 
IvaUie,  Shane  Oge  M'Brien,  deposition  of,  in 

Sir  Neal  Garve's  case,  311. 
Iveagh,  a  government  of  Ulster,  xxiii. 
settlement  of,  Chichester    seeks  to 

have  confirmed,  457. 

,  the  "libertine  lord"  of,  ib. 

or  Magennis's  country,  469. 

settlement  of,  487. 


Jacob,  Sir  Robert,  233. 

, ,  report  of,  on  Connanght,  298. 

,  .,....,  the  King's  solicitor,  commenda- 
tion of,  457. 

,  ,   deserving  of  encouragement, 

ib. 

Jacobson,  a  pirate  taken  by  Lord  Thomond, 
186. 

James  I.,  policy  of,  for  Ulster,  xxv. 

James,  Colonel  Sir  Henry,  R.E.,  xc,  note  4. 

Janissaries,  the,  the  captain  of,  279. 

"Jarmaynes"  [Germans],  iron-workers,  out- 
done by  a  poor  smith  at  Toome,  290. 

Jennings,  the  pirate,  goods  taken  from,  14. 

, ,  Spanish  caravel  brought  in  by, 

42. 

, ,  comes  into  Limerick,  130. 

, ,  has  seized  an  Amsterdam  ship, 

ib. 

, ,  offers  to  submit,  131. 

, ordered  to  be  arrested,  ib. 

, comes  to  Erris,  in  Connaught, 

141. 

, ,  prays  mediation  of  Lord  Tho- 
mond for  pardon,  145. 

, ,  captured,  151. 


Jennings,  the  pirate — emit. 

,  account  of  capture,  162. 

,  ,  brought  prisoner   to   Dublin, 

186. 

, ,  penitent  for  hia  courses,  187. 

,   recommended   to    mercy    by 

Chichester,  ib. 

, ,200,212,251. 

,343. 

Jephson,  Elizabeth,  Lady,  96. 

,  Sir  John,  79,  96,  202,  203,  218,  366, 

512,  574. 
Jepson,   Sir   John,  pension    of,    168.      See 

Jephson. 
Jerripoint   [Jerpoint],  suit  for  the  reversion 

of  abbey  of,  262. 

Jesuits,  242,  251. 

,  practices  of,  in  foreign  colleges,  41. 

,  dangerous  character  of,  143. 

,  a  college  of,  at  Brussels,  268. 

, ,  four  or  five  sent  from,  to  Eng- 
land, ib. 

not    BngUshmen,   but   Walloons   or 

Flemings,  269. 

,  infinite  number  and  impudent  bold- 
ness of,  283. 

,  infectious  breath  of,  ib. 

,  "  viperous  seducers,"  ib. 

,  reported  influx  of,  from  abroad,  461. 

,  reported  flocking  of,  to  Ireland,  484. 

,  are  received  in  the  cities  and  towns, 

ib. 

Johns,  see  Jones,  Baptist. 

Johnson,  Anthony,  a  pirate  at  Tunis,  279. 

Edward,  491. 

,  Thomas,  549. 

Jointures     secured    on     lands    of  fugitives, 

claims  in  respect  of,  283. 
,  their  claim  void  in  English  law,  ib. 

Jolles,  Sir  John,  commissioner  for  plantation 
of  Londonderry,  136. 

,  John,  488. 

Jones,  Archbishop  of  Dublin,  and  Lord  Chan- 
cellor, 91,  107,  109,  330,  366.  376,  377, 
381,  382,  386,  387,  391,  394. 

,  ,  complains  to  Salisbury  of  Lord 

Howth's  calumnies,  91,  107. 

,   ,  has  besought    the  Deputy   to 

call  them  both  before  him,  108. 

, ,has  sent  many  messages  to  Lord 

Howth,  to  apologise,  if  he  has  given 
him  offence,  ib. 

, ,Lord  Howth's  charges,  with  the 

Archbishop's  answers,  ib. 

,  ,  Howth  said  openly  that  he  had 

gone  to  England  to  break  the  Arch- 
bishop's neck,  ib. 

,  ,  charges  the  Archbishop  with 

reporting  that  he  (Howth)  visited  a 
lady  in  Meath  for  the  purpose  of  in- 
trigue, ib. 

,  ,  had  cleared  himself  in  Chi- 
chester's opinion,  113. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


639 


Jones — cont. 

,  Archbishop,  Howth  makes  merry  OYer 

the  Chancellor's  grief,  113. 

, ,  Latin  letter  of,  to  the  King,  330. 

,  apologises  for  bad  style  after  40 

years'  disuse,  ib. 
, ,  vindicates  himself  against  the 

calumnies  of  Lord  Howth,  ib. 
, ,  Howth  seizes  a  letter  missiTehe 

(Jones)  had  sent  to  the  Earl  of  Kildare 
at  Kilkea  Castle,  331. 
, ,  threatens  his  messenger,  t4. 

,  ,  charges  his  (the  Chancellor's) 

son  with  receiving  a  bribe  of  60/.  to 
influence  the  Chancellor,  ib. 

,   appeals  to  his    conduct  and 

character  since'15.'J4,  when  he  was  made 
Bishop  and  Privy  Councillor,  ib. 

, ,  prays  that  the  suit  between  him 

and  Howth  may  be  heard  in  the  Court 
of  Castle  Chamber,  ib. 

,  copy  of  his  letter  missive  to 

the  Earl  of  Kildare,  332. 

,  Baptist,  recommended  by  Chichester, 

34. 

,  ,  367,512. 

SirKoger,  111,  112,321,  322,323,367, 

377. 
, ,  goes  into  the  garden  at  Mille- 

font,  166. 
, ,  Howth  accuses  him  of  calling 

him  coward,  321. 
, ,  assaults  him  at  a  tennis  court, 

ib. 
, ,  thrusts  him,  while  two  of  Jones's 

friends  clasp  liim  in  their  arms,  ib. 
, ,  a  kinsman  of  Howth's  (Barne- 

wall)  killed,  ib. 
,  ,  Chichester's  account   of  this 

broil,  322,  323. 
, ,  Deputy  and  Council's  account 

of  this  broil,  327. 

Jordans,  the,  Anglo-Norman  settlers  in  Lecale, 
xii. 

Jowels,  Sir  John,  360.     See  Jolles. 
Juarcey,  certifies  innocence  of  Mr.  Crook,  43. 
Judges  of  King's  Bench,  111. 

.,  sent  on  circuit  into  Ulster,  161. 

,  robes  of,  233. 

,  the,  and  Attorney-General,  fit  to  be 

undertakers  in  Ulster  among  the  civil 

servitors,  366. 
and  law  ofScers,  list  of,  with  their  fees, 

338. 

,  circuit  allowance  of,  450. 

,  all  of  late  have  come  from  Lincoln's 

Inn,  516. 
,  Chichester  suggests   selection    from 

other  inns,  ib. 
,of  Ireland,  their  injustice,  according 

to  Bamaby  Riche,  651. 

Jugo  Dei,  abbey  of,  in  Ardes,  448. 
Jura,  island  of,  ix. 


Juries,  Irish,  Sir  J.  Davys's  account  of,  224, 

225. 

, ,  Chichester's  account  of,  241. 

,  the,  in  Ulster,  find  the  King's  title 

to  Erenagh  and  Termon  lands,  389. 
Jurors,  13,  in  Coleraine  county,  spoke  Latin, 

280. 
Justice,  the  Lord  Chief,  charged  by  Barnaby 

Eich  with  being  against  the  King's 

right,  551. 
,  but  the  Chief  Baron  and  Master  of 

the  KoUs  for,  ib. 


K. 


Kanturk,  castle  of,  re-grant  of,  to  Desmond 
Owen  M'Carthy.  516. 

Kavanaghs,  the,  apprehended  rising  of,  78. 

,  to  be  "bridled"  by  a  plantation  at 

Carlow,  396. 

Keantwirck,  see  Kanturk. 

Kearney,  Dr.,  350. 

,  Brian,  Archbishop  of   Cashel,  has 

gone  to  the  traitor  Tyrone,  399. 

,  Paul,  his  brother,  a  merchant  of  Ca- 
shel, 398. 

, ,  collects  money  from  parts  of 

Cashel,  and  goes  with  it  to  London,  ib. 

, ,  if  watched  on  arriving  in  Lon- 
don, &c.,  may  lead  to  discovery  of  his 
brother  the  Archbishop,  ib. 

Kelitoom,  Brian  Kelly's  land  in,  134. 

Kelleys  [Kellys],  the,  a  savage  people,  in- 
habit Clanbrasell,  the  Goolichars,  xi. 

KeUs  alias  Dezart,  priory  of,  448. 

Kelly,  Brian,  petitions  for  recovery  of  his 
lands,  133. 

, the  King  assents,  134. 

,  his  petition,  ib. 

, ,  his   father's    lands  in    Galway 

and  Koscommon  to  be  passed  to  him, 

176. 

,  Dennis,  611. 

,  Donaugh,  612, 

,  Edmund,  511. 

,  John,  ib. 

,  Captain,  337. 

Kelly's  Country,  134. 
Kempe,  Mr.  John,  General,  528. 
Kennaleigh,  cantred  of,  131. 
Kennedy,  Robert,  325,  341. 

1 )  to  be   second   chamberlain  of 

Exchequer,  530. 
Kenny,  Mr.,  367. 
,  Nicholas,   escheator  and  feodary  of 

Dublin  and  other  counties,  515. 

) escheator  of  Dublin  and  other 

counties,  583. 


640 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Kentish-men  brought  over  to  Dublin,  4. 
Keogh,  the  name  formerly  M'Oghie,  120,  note. 
Kerdiffe,  Mr.  Serjeant,  74,  75,  77. 

Serjeant  Nicholas,  233. 

Kern,  difEculty  of  arresting,  385. 
Kerne,  O'Dogherty's,  advised  to   leave  Glen- 
vagh,  45. 

,  wood — ,  petition  for  pardon  of,  143, 

Kerry,  county  of,  98,  217,  247. 

Kerson,  John,  of  Embden,  a  pirate  of  Tunis, 
279. 

Kevenaught,  see  Kavanagh. 

Keys,  David,  84. 

Kilbarro,  225. 

Eleoran,  225. 

Kildare,  Earl  of,  inheritor  of  Leeale,  xii. 

,  ,  his  daughter  Bridget  married  to 

Earl  of  Tyrconnell,  Ixv. 

,  ,  his  suit  ■with  Sir  R.  Digby  re- 
mitted to  ordinary  courts,  20. 

, ,  inquiry  regarding,  29. 

, ,  suit  with   Sir   R.  Digby,   draft 

sentence  on,  141. 

,  ,  decree  of  Castle  Chamber,  162. 

,  Mabel,  Countess  of,  jointure  of,  141. 

,  Earl,  his  case,  202. 

,  ,  proof  of  the  deed,  8  Eliz.,  ib, 

,  327,  330,  331,  332,  482. 

, ,  complains    that   he    has    been 

vexed  by  Sir  Robt.  Digby,  by  suits  in 
Court  of  Castle  Chamber,  210. 

, ,  was  acquitted  there,  ib. 

, ,  he  (the  Earl)   now  proceeds  in 

King's  Bench,  ib. 

, but    is   prohibited   by    Council 

Board,  ib. 

, ,  prays  that  the  ordinary  course 

of  law  be  allowed,  ib. 

,  ,  papers  regarding  his  suit  with 

Sir  R.  Digby,  424. 

, ,  death  of  his  old  aunt,  517. 

, contest  with  Sir  R.  Digby  re- 
newed, ib. 

, ,  contest  with  Sir  R.  Digby,  re- 
newed on  death  of  old  Countess,  524. 

,  ,  cause  of,  remitted  to  the  tri- 
bunals of  Ireland,  ib. 

,  Countess  Dowager  of,  327. 

,  Mabel,  Countess  Dowager  of,  376. 

Killeightra,  208.     See  Killetra. 

Killeightragh,  348,  349.     See  Killetra. 

Killeytra,  89.     See  Killetra. 

Kiliole,  priory  of,  448. 

Kilkay,  see  Kilkea. 

Kilkea,  331. 

Kilkellan,  dissolved  abbey  of,  457. 

Kilkenny,  new  charter  of,  54. 

,  William  Deane,  dean  of,  398. 

Killadonnell,  Sir  Neale  O'Donnell  at,  3. 

,  abbey  of,  county  of  Donegal,  granted 

to  Captain  Basil  Brooke,  573. 


Killalo,  Moriertagh  M'Erien  Arra,  Bishop  of, 

384. 
Killaloe  and  Achoury,  bishoprics   of,  Meiler 

Magrath,  Archbishop  of  Cashel,  seeks 

to  have  them,  353. 
,  he  was  promised  them  on  resigning 

Waterford  and  Lismore,  ib. 
Killeen,  Lord,  376,  381,  382. 
Killeightra,  goodliest  timber  in,  208. 

Killeitragh,  Ixxxiii.     See  KiUetra  and  Kille- 

tragh. 
Killene,  Baron  of,  150.     See  Killeen. 
Killetra,  surveyed  by  London  agents,  286. 
Killetragh,  woods  of,  to  be  reserved  to  city  of 

Derry,  136. 

I ,  Lord  Audelay  proposes  to  re-' 

serve  to  the  King,  259. 
Killibeg,  in  Donegal,  464. 
Killinghall,  Henry,  examination  of,  23. 

, ,  taken  prisoner  at  Youghal,  ib. 

, ,   reconciled  to    the    church   of 

Rome,  ib. 
,  ,  reports  the  expected  aid  of  the 

Pope  to  Tyrone,  ib. 
,  was  accounted  to  the  church  of 

Rome  before  he  left  England,  24. 
,  ,  never  saw  Tyrone  while  out  of 

England,  49. 

, has  not  received  orders,  ib. 

Killultagh,  89,  194,  364. 

and  Brasilogh  (which  latter  Sir  Eulk 

Conway  would  undertake),  are  a  den  of 

rebels  and  thieves,  364. 
Killybeggs,  scouts  brought  from,  26. 
,194. 

Kilmacrennan  barony.  Sir  Ralph  Bingley  to 
undertake  a  proportion  in,  363,  366. 

,  abbey  of,  sold  to  Tyrconnell  by  Bing- 
ley, 441. 

,    ,   granted    to   Trinity    College, 

ib. 

,  ,  and  31  quarters  of  its  lands 

granted  to  Sir  James  EuUerton,  1  Ith 
Oct.,  1  James  L,  573. 

, ,  by  him  sold  to  Sir  Ralph  Bing- 
ley, ib. 

, ,  who  sold  to  the  Earl  of  Tyr- 
connell, ib. 

Kil  M'ltrien,  lands  of,  in  Kilmacreenan 
barony,  granted  by  Earl  of  Tyrconnell 
to  V.  Conley,  of  Dublin,  merchant, 
571. 

,  being  after  the  Earl's  treason,  void, 

ib. 

Kilmacahil  friary,  216. 

Kilmage,  surrender  of  castle  of,  443. 

Kihnainham,  the  only  King's  house  fit  for  the 
Deputy,  250. 

,  a  goodly  and  vast  building,  ib. 

much  decayed,  ib. 

,  will  cost  3,000Z.  to  repair  it,  ib. 

.,  unless  repaired  this  summer  will  fall 

down  in  the  TOnter,  250,  251. 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


641 


Kilmainham — cont. 

has  stayed  the  grant  of  the  lands  be- 
longing to  it  on  the  north  side  of  the 
Liffey  to  Auditor  Sutton,  332,  333. 

,  the  house  of  Kilmainham  convenient 

for  residence  of  the  Deputy,  because  of 
the  noisesomeness  of  the  Castle  of 
Dublin,  333. 

,  this  land  is  convenient  for  the  house, 

ib. 

the  Deputy  has  already  lost  1,500  to 

2,000  barrels  of  tithe  corn  payable  to 
the  Deputy's  house  till  Michaelmas  last, 
ib. 

,  he  fears  if  they  lose  this  land  the 

King  must  either  buy  it  back  again,  ib. 

,  or  make  the  Deputy  larger  allowance, 

ib. 

,  rebuilding  of,  423. 

Kilmallock,  to  be  the  seat  of  one  of  the  presi- 
dents, xvi. 

,  203. 

,  inquiry  in  the  cause  of  Lord  Bourke 

at,  291, 

,  mayor  of  Limerick  imprisoned  at,  447 . 

Kilmaiian,  see  Kilmainham. 
Kilmore,  Bishop  of,  115. 

,  ,  his  demesue  lands,  ib. 

,  ,  his  duties  out  of  Erenagh  lands, 

ib. 

and  Ardagh,  Bishop  of,  Ixxxvii. 

,  diocese  of,  inquisition  in,  577. 

,  Erenagh  land  in,  403. 

Bishop's  demesnes  in,  ib. 

Kilmorie,  494. 

Kilpatrick,  rectory  of,  grant  to  James  Netter- 
ville,  288. 

Kilteefany,  115. 

Kilultagh,  a  county  in  Down,  xi. 

,  captains  of,  ib. 

Kilulter,  one  of  the  greatest  fortresses  in 
Tyrone,  294. 

Kilultoe,  see  Kilultagh. 

Kilwarliu,  a  county  in  Down,  xi. 

,  captain  of,  ib. 

,  country  of,  470. 

Kiualarty,  a  country  in  Down,  xi. 

Kinaleurty,  see  Kiualarty. 

King  James  the  Second,  his  Chancellor  sup- 
posed (wrongly)  to  have  removed  Sir 
Anhur  Chichester's  papers  from  Ire- 
laud,  ciii. 

,  and  that  they  thereby  came,  in  1799, 

to  America,  ib. 
King's  Bench,  111. 

,  Lord  Chief  Justice  of,  his  yearly  fee, 

338. 

)   clerkship   of    Crown   and   Common 

Pleas,  to  Thos.  Cole,  506. 
King's  and  Queen's  Counties,  plantation  of, 

Isxiii. 

,  intermixed  habitation  of,  the  capital 

error,  Ixxvi. 
3. 


King's  titles  to  lands  in  escheated  counties 

recorded    and  reduced  into    a   book, 

410. 
King,  John,  attorney  to  Countess  of  Desmond, 

20. 

, ,202. 

,  Sir  John,  218,  366,  507,  508. 

Neale,  101. 

Kingsmill,  John,  bill  to,  19,  509. 

Kinsale,  final  defeat  of  Irish  at,  xviii. 

,  sovereign  and  commons  solicit  favour 

in  regard  of  their  customs,  24. 

island  near,  50. 

,  recusancy  fines  remitted  in,  128. 

,  agent  of,  at  London,  131. 

,   fines   (for   nonconformity)   imposed 

on,  remitted,  128. 

,  new  charter  for,  154. 

,206. 

,  new  charter  of,  warrant  for,  523. 

liinshelagh,   fort  in,   constable,  Capt.   Denis 

Dale,  508. 
Kintinke,  375. 
Knegagh,  Eorie,  and  his  followers,  the  cutting 

off  of,  74. 
Knight  of  the  Valley,  329.     See  Glin,  Knight 

of. 
Knight,  William,  M.A.,  501. 
Knockfergus,  Queen's  castle  at,  xiii. 

,  troops  at,  33. 

new  charter  for,  154. 

Knockicligh,  castle  of,  in  barony  of  Dunganon, 

439. 
Knockinny,  precinct  of,  405. 
Knocklesilla,  hill  of,  37. 
Knockverges,  see  Knockfergus, 
Knolles,  Lord,  commissioner  of  plantation  of 

Londonderry,  136. 
Knox,  Andrew,  Bishop  of  Isles  of  Scotland,  to 

be  Bishop  of  Eaphoe,  442. 
Krickstoun,  381. 
Kylmalocke,  see  Kilmallock. 


L. 


Lacyes,  the  plantation  by,  17. 
Lagan,  the,  river,  89. 

Lagh,  William,  yeoman,  grant  of  lands   to, 

581. 
Laghina,  the  sept  of,  565. 

,  held,  as  Erenaghs,  part  of  the  Island 

of  Derry,  ib. 
Laharne,  see  Lame. 
Lake,  Sir  Thomas,  489. 
Lamb,  Holy,  sign  of,  50. 
Lanibay,  Island,  546. 

S  S 


642 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Lambert,  Sir  Charles,  Ixxviii. 

,  Josias,  73.  ^ 

,  Sir   Oliver,  75,  224,  363,  509,    510, 

512,  529,  547. 

, ,  account  of  his  successes,  14. 

,  ,  apologises   for   not  writing   to 

Chichester,  30. 

,  ,  number  of  his  troop,  32. 

, ,  the  Tyrone  and  TyrconneU  re- 
bels, 8. 

, ,  his  services  against  the  rebels 

acknowledged,  11. 

, attends  the  escheator  in  Con- 
naught,  397. 

, ,  gets  Sir  Hugh  O'Connor's  lands 

for  himself,  397. 

, ,  to  be  a  servitor,  428. 

, ,  well  acquainted  with  Chichester's 

view,  522. 

, well  acquainted  with  the  coun- 
try, 527. 

, has  made  a  strong  building  upon 

a  thievish  and  disordered  border,  ib. 

Lancashire,  names  of  chief  undertakers  in 
Munster,  from,  Ixxvi. 

Lane,  Sir  Parr,  72,  92,  101,  364,  383. 

, LordDanvers  commends  him  for 

his  extraordinary  zeal  for  reUgion,  92. 

, information  sent  to,  of  Florence 

O'Mulconnor's  landmg,  464. 

Lanen,  Masselyne,  a  butcher,  arrested  by  Sir 
K.  Morison,  397. 

Langford,  Capt.  Hercules,  74. 

Eichard,  336. 

Capt.  Roger,  74. 

,  Mr.,  368. 

, ,  Hercules,  tenant  of  Muckmaye  Priorj', 

448. 
Larkin,  Captain,  368,  548. 
, ,  servitor,  to  be   an  undertaker, 

428. 
Lame,  the  "  lough  "  of,  assignment  of,  395. 
Latin  letter  of  Bernardinus  Meaghe,  442. 
of  Sir  T.  Jones,  Archbishop  and  Lord 

Chancellor,  to  the  King,  330. 
, ,  apologises  for  his  style  after  40 

years'  disuse,  ib. 
Lawlcs,  "Walter,  motions  to  be  deUvered  by, 

54. 
Laws  of  Ireland,  report  on,  by  Sir  J.  Davys, 

134. 

sent  to  Salisbury,  135. 

Lawson,  Sir  Wilfrid,  xcix. 

Lawyers,  Irish,  if  Sir  Dominic  Sarsfield  be 
promoted  to  be  Chief  Justice  of  Com- 
mon Pleas,  the  Irish  lawyers  will  see 
they  are  not  disregarded  as  they  now 
suppose,  362. 

Leadbetter,  Edmund,  368,  511. 

"  Leape  "  the,  of  the  Bann,  286. 

,  ,360. 

Learry,  native  of  Kinsale,  servant  of  the 
Pagador  of  Biscay,  14. 


Lease,  rectory  of,  in  Kildare,  448. 
Leat,  Nicholas,  488.     See  Leate. 
Leate,  Nicholas,  commissioner,  136. 
Lecaell,  see  Locale. 
Lecalc,  a  county  in  Down,  xi. 

a  sort  of  outlying  Pale,  xii. 

,  inheritance  of  Earl  of  Kildare,  ib. 

,  one  of  the  governments  of  Ulster, 

xxiii. 

,  limits  of,  xxiv. 

,  barony  of,  quitreuts  in,  448. 

Lechahtdl,  see  Lecale. 

Leckford,  Captain,  548. 

Ledsom,  Thomas,  509. 

Leghorn,  road  of,  278. 

Leicestershire  men  brought  over  to  Dublin,  5. 

Leigh,  see  Liegh,  Lye. 

,  Captain,  367,  547. 

,   ,  Tyrone's  fear  and  hatred  of 

him,  Ixx. 

,  Capt.  John,  509. 

John,  245,  247. 

,  Daniel,  ib. 

,  Capt.  Dermond,  541,  544. 

Sir    Henry,  his   troop    under   John 

Plumpton  occupy  vale  of  Esk,  xcvii. 

,  ,  in  pursuit  of  the  Graemes,  iJ. 

,  Capt.  Edmund,  states  that  Chichester 

was  appointed  President  of  Ulster, 
xxii. 

,  , ,  Chichester's  "  whispering  com- 
panion," xxii. 

, ,  commanded  in  Lower  Tyrone, 

xxiv. 

, ,  hated  and  suspected  by  Tyrone, 

ib. 

,  Edmund,  constable  of  Omagh,  death 

of,  172. 

,   John,  recommended  to  succeed  his 

brother  in  constableship  of  Omagh, 
172. 

,   Daniel,  grant  to,  jointly  with  John 

Leigh,  of  constableship  of  Omey,  289. 

,  John,  joint  constable  of  Omey,  ib. 

,  Captain  Elise,  servitor,  to  be  an  un- 
dertaker, 428. 

Captain  Daniel,  servitor,  to  be  an  un- 
dertaker, ib. 

,  John,  and  Daniel,  to  be  in  command 

of  Armagh  Port,  580. 

Leighlin  Bridge,  constable  of,  Henry  Fisher, 
508. 

Leinster,  escheator  of,  Thomas  White,  495. 

,  plantation,  the  7  Septs  of  Leix  trans- 
plant in  June  1609,  Ixxiii,  Ixxv. 

,  in  Philip  and  Mary's  reign,  Ixxiii. 

,  the  O'Moores'  country  of  Leix  made 

into  Queen's  County,  ib. 

,  the  O'Connors'  into  King's  County, 

ib. 

,  reverses  of  this  plantation,  ib. 

,  supposed  defects  in,  ib. 


GENERAL  INDEX 


643 


Leinster— coBi, 

,  constant  war  between  colonists  and 

ancient  natives,  Ixxiv. 
,  eighteen  insurrections    from  Queen 

Mary  to  James  I.,  ib. 
,  in  1607   so  low  that  they  would  be 

extinguished  if  not  transplanted,  ib. 
,  they   agree   to  transplant  to  Kerry, 

under  P.  Crosby,  ib. 

,  apprehended  rising  in,  18. 

caution  in  disposing  escheated  lands 

in,  20. 
Leise  see  Leis. 

Leith,  the  ship  William  of,  393. 
Leix,  33,  226. 

,  the  King's  fort  of,  401. 

Lemayaddy,  see  Limavaddy. 

,  O'Cahan's  principal  house  there,  194. 

,  a  ruinous  iU- favoured  castle,  ib. 

,  but  the  land  around  good,  ib. 

,  assizes  held  there  in  1609,  ib, 

Lenna,  John,  pensioner,  337. 

Lenox,    Duke    of,  undertaker    in    Coleraine 

county,  181. 
Lenton,  Mr.,  367. 

,  Edward,  226,  228,  507. 

Lescartane,  or  Meath,  140. 

Le  Strange,  Marcus,  pensioner,  337. 

Letters  from — 

Annesley,  Francis,  and  Jo.  Strowde, 

to  SaUsbury,  103. 
Apsley,  Sk  Allen,  to  Dudley  Norton, 

481. 
Arthm-,  P.,  to  Salisbury,  257. 
Barnewall,  Patrick,  to  Eobert  Barne- 

waU,  54. 
,  Peter,  to  his  sisters,  90. 

, ,  to  his  brother  Patrick, 

ib. 

, ,  to  his  brother  Edward, 

ib. 

Baxter,  John,  to  Salisbury,  376. 
Bircheushaw,  Ralph,  to  Chichester, 

97. 
,  to  Salisbury,  151, 191, 

Blundell,  Sir  Francis,  to  Secretary 

Carleton,  373. 
Bodley,  Sir  Josias,  to  Chichester,  392. 

, ,  to  Salisbury,  83. 

Bourchier,  Sir  John,  to  Salisbury, 

219. 

Boyle,  Sir  Richard,  to  Chichester, 
96. 

Brabazon,  Sir  Edward,  to  Salisbury, 
407. 

Butler,  Viscount,  to  Salisbury,  352. 

,  Lord,  to  Salisbury,  522. 

Carew,  Lord,  to  Salisbury,  323. 

Carty,  Dermot,  to  Jesuit  and  Fran- 
ciscan Fathers,  350. 

) ,  to  Richard  O'Connell, 

priest,  ib. 


Letters  from — 

Caulfeild,  Sir  Toby,  to  Chichester, 

474. 
Chamberlayne,  Michael,  to  William 

Deyse,  90. 
Chancellor  of  Ireland  to  Salisbury, 

17,  91,  151,  426. 
and  CouucU  to  Privy  Council, 

20. 

Chichester  to  Privy  Council,  5,  11, 
24,  26,  33,"43,  68,  134,  141,  150, 
157,  186,  240,  250,  332,  334,  343, 

388,  389,  409,  436,  446,  496,  505. 
to  Salisbury,  11,  24,  25,42, 

70,  84,  88,  93,  96,  ll3,  137,  146, 
149,  150,  154,  155,  162,  172,  188, 
191,  203,  205,  216,  239,  242,  252, 
253,  326,  330,343,  351,  352,  353, 
390,  399,  400,  409,  429,  433,  444, 
448,  457,  461,  467,  470,  478,  479, 
501,  516,  525,  529,  530. 

to  Sir  James  Ley  and  Sir 

John  Davys,  54. 

to  King,  81,  519. 

to  Mr.  Cottingham,  93. 

to  Lords  of  Council,  94,  388, 

389,  531. 

to  Dudley  Norton,  126,  321, 

481. 
,  to  Earl  of  Northampton,  145, 

373,  521. 
to  Bishop  ot  Derry,  Raphoe, 

and  Clogher,  147. 

to  Sir  John  Davys,  172,  328, 

514,  515,  523. 

to  Attorney   General,   222, 

383,  390,  456,  478,  481,  529,  530, 
546. 

to  Francis  Annesley,  322, 

325. 

to  Lord  Admiral,  457. 

to  Salisbury  and  Nottingham, 

495. 

to  Attorney  or  Solicitor-Ge- 
neral, 523,  527,  529. 

to  Sir  Richard  Coleman  and 

Sir  James  CarroIl,-525. 

Clanricard  to  Salisbury,  98,  252, 
281. 

Committee  of  Irish  Causes  to  Privy 
Council,  222. 

Cork,  Bishop  of,  to  Lords  of  Council, 
100. 

,  mayor  and  bailiffs  of,  to  Sa- 
lisbury, 30. 

and  sheriffs  of,  to  Salis- 

buiy,  582. 

Comwallis,  Sir  Charles,  to  Privy 
Council,  17,  83,  179, 

J !  to  Lords  of  Council, 

120. 

Cottingham,  Philip,  to  Salisbury,  29, 
91. 

SS   2 


644 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Letters  from — 

Cottingham,  Philip — cont. 

,  ,  to  Lord  Deputy,  29. 

, ,  to  Chichester,  96. 

, to  Fenton,  30. 

Council,  Lords  of,  to  Danvers,  101. 

, ,  to  Chichester,  103. 

Croshie,  Patrick,  to  Salisbury,  105, 

171,  247,  384. 
Danvers,  Lord,  to  Salisbury,  14,  49, 

72,  92,  98,  99,  130,  151. 
,   ,  to    Dudley  Norton, 

212. 

, to  Privy  Council,  71. 

, ,  to  Lords  of  Council, 

101. 
,  ,  to  Privy  Council  or 

Salisbury,  130. 

Davys,  Sir  John,  to  Salisbury,  14, 
134,  201,  204,  213,  222,  256,  280, 
282,  288,  292,  300,  426,  451,  523. 

,  ,  to  Chichester,  497. 

Delvin  Lord,  to  Salisbury,  141,  205, 
581. 

Denham,  Sir  John,  to  Salisbury, 
382. 

Deputy  and  Council  to  Privy  Coun- 
cil, 14,  40,  53,  67,  103,  112,  137, 
184. 

,  ,  to  Salisbury,  445. 

Dery,  Thomas,  to  Edmund  Morgan, 
83. 

, ,  to  Barnaby  Dery,  84. 

Desmond,  Elizabeth,  Countess  of,  to 
Salisbury,  20,  449. 

Dillon,    [  ],  to  Lord  Howth, 

394. 

Dodington,  Edward,  to  Salisbury, 
291. 

Donellan,  Nehemiah,  to  Lord  De- 
puty, 184. 

Down,  Bishop  of,  to  Salisbury,  458. 

Everard,  Edmund,  to  Nicholas  Haly, 
47. 

, ,  to  James  Everard,  48. 

, ,  to  Mrs.  Alie   Conly, 

ib. 

,  ,  to  Edmund  Everard, 

sen.,  ib. 

,  Richard,  to  Piers   Morgan, 

45. 

,  ,  to  Christopher  Eve- 
rard, ib. 

,  to  Elizabeth  Everard, 

49. 

Fenton,  Sir  Jeffery,  to  Salisbury,  20, 
21,43. 

Einglas,  Bichard,  to  Nicholas  Gor- 
don, 101. 

,  ,  to  John  Gordon,  ib. 

,  to  Lady  Gough,  102. 

,  ,  to  Mrs.  Alison  Hore, 

ib. 


Letters  from — 

Einglas,  Kichard — cont. 

,  to  Philip  Here,  ib. 

to  Mrs.  Mall  Hore, 

ib. 

,   ,   to    Patrick   Gough, 

ib. 

,  ,  to  Patrick  Walsh,  ib. 

, ,  to  James  Cromwell, 

ib. 

,  to  Mrs.  Garrett  Ein- 
glas, ib. 

,  ,  to  Christopher  Ein- 
glas, ib. 

, ,  to  Sir  James  Gough, 

ib. 

Fitzgerald,  Edward,  to  Salisbury,  206. 

,  Sir  James,  to  Salisbury,  239. 

Folliott,  Sir  Henry,  to  [Lord  De- 
puty], 34. 

Fox,  Mr.,  to  Salisbury,  453. 

FuUerton,  Sir  James,  to  Lord  Trea- 
surer of  England,  4. 

Governor  and  assistants  of  the  plan- 
tation of  Derry  to  Salisbury,  487. 

Hay,  Sir  Alexander,  to  [Salisbury] , 
262,  268. 

Howth,  Lord,  to  the  King,  274,  321, 
394. 

, ,  to  the  Privy  Council, 

275. 

,  to  Salisbury,  41,  276, 

322,  394,  523. 

Jacob,  Sir  Robert,  to  Salisbury,  298, 
478. 

Jennings,  the  pirate,  to  Salisbury, 
145. 

Jones,  Lord  Chancellor,  to  Salisbury, 
107,  322,  331. 

,  ,  to  the  King,  330. 

Keys,  David,  to  Barnaby  Dery,  84. 

Kddare,  Earl  of,  to  Sahsbury,  201, 
211,  257,  330,  517. 

,  ,  to  the  King,  210,  330. 

King  to  Chichester,  96,  103,  107, 
116,  121,  126,  148,  174,  191,200, 
202,  203,  207,  212,  213,  216,  218, 
222,  236,  239,  240,  245,  247,  251, 
257,  260,  263,  274,  2S2,  285,  289, 
293,  295,  321,  333,  348,  374,  376, 
384,  398,  425,  430,  431,  432,  433, 
435,  438,  442,  443,  444,  445,  448, 
460,  465,  466,  468,  476,  477,  481, 
483,  493,  494,  495,  501,  506,  516, 
517,  518,  546,  580,  583. 

to  Lord  Deputy  and  Chan- 
cellor, 154,  162,  168,  175,  176, 
185,  190,  579,  582. 

to  Lord  Treasurer,  329. 

to    Lord    Chancellor    and 

others,  433. 

to  Deputy  and  Council,  491. 

to  Treasurer-at-Wars,  579. 

to  Attorney-General,  580. 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


645 


Letters  from — 

Kinsale,  sovereign  and  commons  of, 
to  Salistury,  24. 

Lambert,  Sir  Oliver,  to  Salisbury, 
30. 

Latin,  James,to  James  Goodwing,  70. 

,  to  Stephen  Latin,  ib. 

, ,  to  Nicholas  Ash,  7 1 . 

,  ,  to  W.  Latin,  ih. 

, ,  to  Richard  Quin,  ib. 

Lichfield,  Capt.,  to  Salisbury,  334. 

Limerick,  Bishop  of,  to  Chichester, 
462,  464. 

Lords  of  the  Council  (England)  to 
Chichester,  20,  21,  23,  47,  48,  92, 
1C5,  118,  128,  129,  131,  132,  133, 
139,  148,  174,  185,  190,  197,  198, 
200,  213,  216,  218,  220,  236,  258, 
259,  260,  261,  263,  264,  266,  267, 
268,  300,  329,  330,  346,  373,  378, 
394,  401,  407,  414,  431,  436,  438, 
441,  443,  450,  455,  458,  461,  466, 
467,  468,  479,  492,  493,495,  529, 
579. 

, to  President  of  Mun- 

ster,  43. 

,  ,  to  Sir  J.  Davys,  93. 

..... —  to  Deputy  and  Council,  427, 

439,  440,  481,  483,  484,  486,  487, 

488,  489,  491,  582. 

M'Carthy,   Florence,   to    Salisbury, 

117. 
M'Carthy,  Lady  Ellen,  to  Salisbury, 

482. 
M'Donnell,  Sir  Randal,  to  Salisbury, 

21. 
M'Greery,  John,  to  John   Clinton, 

93. 
Magrath,     Meiler,     Archbishop    of 

Cashel,  to  Sir  T.  Ridgeway,  353. 

Miaghe,  Bernardinus,  to  Robert 
Miaghe,  442. 

Mooney,  Donagh,  to  Friar  Maurice 
Ultan,  ib. 

•  ••■• to  Superior  of  Fran- 
ciscans, ib. 

Moore,  Sir  G.,  to  Salisbury,  150, 
169,  387. 

Moryson,  Sir  Richard,  to  Dudley 
Norton,  53. 

,  ,  to  Salisbui-y,  277,  397. 

,  to  Chichester,  446. 

Newcomen,  Sir  Robert,  to  Chichester 
382. 

Norton,  Dudley,  to  SirT.Lake,  489. 

O'Cahan,  Sir  Donell,  to  Salisbury, 
413. 

O'Donuel,  Sir  Neile,  to  Salisbury, 
453. 

O'Farrell,  James,  to  Salisbury,  354. 
O'Ferralls,  the,  chiefs 'of,  to  Salis- 
bury, 449. 

O'Neill,  Henry,  to  Salisbury,  408. 


Letters  from — co7it. 

Ormonde,  Earl  of,  to  Lord  Deputy, 

54. 
,  ,  to  Salisbury,  99,  120, 

127,  478. 
, ,  to  Lords  of  Council, 

99. 
Parsons,  William,  to  Salisbury,  528. 
,  Sir  W.,  to  Sir  John  Davys, 

114. 
Pepwell,  Henry,  to  Salisbury,  278. 

Phillips,  Sir  Thomas,  to   Salisbury, 

248,  290. 
Ravenscroft,  W.,  to  Sir  John  Davys, 

215. 
Ridgeway,  Sir  Thomas,  to  Sahsbury, 

18,  31,  72,  104, 147,  155,  204,  225, 

401,515,525. 
, ,  to  Lord  Northampton, 

69, 
, ,  to  Sir  Julius  Caesar, 

343. 
Roche,  Lord,  to  Sahsbury,  340. 
Roper,    Sir   Thomas,   to   Salisbury, 

141. 
Ryche,  Barnaby,  to  Salisbury,  106. 
Salisbury,  Earl  of,  to  Lord  Deputy, 

411. 
Sarsfield,  Sir  Dominick,  to  Deputy, 

30. 

,  ,  to  Salisbury,  135,162. 

Saxey,   Mr.    Justice,   to   Salisbury, 

172,  263. 
Say,  Lord,  to  Salisbury,  425. 
Schypwych,  Henry,  to  [  ],  282. 

Shaen,    Sir   Francis,    to   Salisbury, 

107,  204. 
Somerset,  Robert  T.,  to  Salisbury, 

290. 

Soutoum,  Edward,  to  Sir  Parr  Lane, 
383. 

St.  John,  Sir  Oliver,  to  Salisbury, 
43,  303,  437,  485. 

Stafford,  Sir  Francis,  to  Salisbury 
478.  ^ 

Strange,  Thomas,  Mayor  of  Water- 
ford,  to  Salisbury,  43. 

Strowde,  Jo.,  and  Francis  Annesley 
to  Salisbury,  103. 

Thimble,  William,  to  Salisbury,  283. 

Thomond,  Earl  of,  to  Sahsbury,  162 
186,396,483. 

)  ;  to  Sir  Thomas  Smyth 

162.  ■'     ' 

'  to  Dudley  Norton,  400. 

Tirry,  Patrick,  to  Salisbury,  518. 
Tobin,  Capt.,  to  Salisbury,  379. 
Tod,  Dr.  John,  to  Mr.  Norton,  391 
Tyrone,  Earl  of,  to  Henry  O'Neill, 

Ware,  Auditor,  to  Chichester  374 


646 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Letters  from — 

■Winch,  Sir  Humphrey,  to  Salisbury, 

206,  389. 
Young,  Thomas,  to  Salisbury,  114. 
Ley,  Sir  John,  bill  to,  19. 

,  Sir  James,  65,  67,  70,  72,73,   112, 

116,  222,  230,  333,  347,  349,  350,  386. 

, ,  King's  letter  removing  him  from 

Ireland,  116. 

, ,  from  Chief  Justice  of  Ireland, 

he  makes  him  Attorney  of  the  Court 
of  Wards  in  Kngland,  ib. 

,  in  order  to  have  him  near  him, 

ib. 

, ,  Sir  Humphrey  Winch  to  suc- 
ceed him  as  Chief  Justice,  117. 

,   ,  commission  for  plantation  of 

escheated  counties,  139. 

, ,  commissioner  for  Ulster  plan- 
tation, 171. 

,  ,   sets  Irish  Book  of   Common 

Prayer  in  hand,  300. 

, ,  Shane  Grane  Carrolan's  suit  be- 
fore him,  386. 

, ,  report  by,  579. 

Leycester,  Capt.  Thomas,  227. 

Ley  ton,  Eaffe  (Ralph),  52. 

"  Liberties,"  "  Book  of,"  drawn  up  in  Queen 
EUzabeth's  time,  139. 

LifFer,  the,  66. 

Lifford,  Ixxxviii,  228,  366. 

to  be  the  seat  of  a  President,  xv. 

,  wars   regarding,  between  O'Donnell 

and  O'Neill,  ix. 

,  situated  in  the  government  of  Lower 

Tyrone,  xxiv. 

,  castle  of,  to  be  seized  by  the  fugitive 

Earls,  Ixii. 

,  Sir  Neale  O'Donnell  engages  to  take, 

2. 

,  assizes  at,  8. 

,  camp  near,  39. 

a  ward  to  be  reserved  at,  58. 

assizes  there  in  1609,  194,  195. 

,  Sir  Eobt.  Jacob's  account  of,  ib. 

,  surveyed  by  London  agents,  286. 

,26  prisoners  hanged  at,  228. 

,  assizes  at,  294. 

Sir  Neal  O'Donnell  promised  to  sur- 
prise, 308. 

,  precinct  of,  404. 

LUhard,  Jonas,  511. 

Limavaddy,  349. 

a  castle  of  the  O'Cahan's,  x. 

,  O'Cahan's  territory,  Ix. 

confiscated,  ib. 

,  in  O'Cahan's  country,  fortress  of  the 

O'Cahan's,  281,  294. 

Limbricque,  see  Limerick. 

Limerick,  county  of,  98. 

,  to  what  undertakers  set  out, 

xxvi. 

,  city  of,  127. 


Limerick — cont. 

,  ward  at,  507. 

,  pirates'  spoils  stored  at,  187. 

,  mayor  of,  P.  Arthure,  257. 

,  customs  of,  ib. 

,  freight  of  poundage,  ib. 

,  Bishop  of,  sends  a  list  of  those  to 

whom  'Tyrone  sent  letters,  &c.,  out  of 

Spain,  by  Florence  Mulconry,  465. 
,  ,  reports  influx  of  popish  priests 

and  Jesuits,  461. 
,  ,  his  information  distrusted  by 

Chichester,  462. 

, ,  his  letter  to  Chichester,  462, 463. 

city,  charters  of,  franchises,  remission 

of  fines,  122. 
,  customs  of,  139. 

,  seeks  release  from  poundage, 

ib. 

,  and  compensation  for  houses  de- 
stroyed in  works  of  fortification,  ib. 

,374,388. 

,  repair  of  bulwarks  of,  374. 

Castle,  476. 

,  a  cellar  under  it,  by  which  it 

might  be  entered,  476. 

,  constable  of.  Sir  Francis  Barkley, 

508. 

,  corporation  of,  to  have  grant  of  co- 
equal customs,  267. 

,  fortifications  at,  40. 

,  Jennings,  the  pirate  at,  130. 

,  merchants  of,  474. 

,  mayor  of,  refused  to  obey  the  Presi- 
dent's warrant,  447. 

, ,  fined  and  imprisoned  for,  ib. 

,  new  charter  for,  154. 

Limevaddy,  see  Limavaddy. 

Lincoln,  Bishop  of,  his  book,  papists  refuse 
to  read  it,  as  forbidden  by  the  church, 
284. 

"  Lion's  Whelp,"  the,  the  only  King's  ship  on 
the  Irish  coast,  480,  495. 

Lisbone,  fleet  for  Ireland  preparing  at,  13. 

Lisgoole,  428. 

Lisieux,  Tyrone's  visit  to,  xxxix. 

Lisley,  Martin,  337. 

Lismore,  Waterford  and.  Bishop  of,  439. 

,  cathedral  to  be  rebuilt,  440. 

List  of  captains  of  foot,  510. 

,  5  Nov.  1608,  96. 

of  captains  of  horse  and  foot,  32. 

,  further,  40. 

of  captains  of  horse,  509. 

of  commissions  of  surrenders  on  de- 
fective titles,  324. 

of  petitions  for  grants  on  sale  of  His 

Majesty's  lands,  32.5. 

of  concordatums   to  30  June  1609, 

225. 
of  general  ofliccrs,  507. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


647 


List — cont. 

of  extraordinary  payments  made  and 

to  be  made  for  the  year  ending  1st  Oct. 

1607,  72. 
of  governors  and  other  of&cers,  with 

their  retinues  in   Connanght,  Munster, 

"Ulster,  Leinster,  507. 
of  judges  and  law  officers,  with  their 

fees,  338. 
of  officers  of  army  and  garrisons  in 

pay  for  half  a  year,  from  1st  April  to 

30th  September  1610,  507. 

of  servitors,  civil  and  militai-y,  in  Ire- 
land, fit  to  he  undertakers  in  the  plan- 
tation of  Ulster,  and  where  to  be  placed, 
365. 

of  those  of  the  council  willing,  ib. 

of  those  who  might  be  induced,  366. 

of  captains  of  companies  who  already 

have    houses   or    fixed  residences  iu 
Ulster,  ib. 

of  those  who  have  none,  yet  are  will- 
ing, ib. 

of  constables  of  castles  and  captains 

of  boats,  ib. 

,.  of  other  knights,  servitors,  and  pen- 
sioners in  pay,  who  will  undertake,  if 
helped,  ib. 

without  help,  ib. 

under  friends,  368. 

of  servitor   undertakers,   where  and 

when  made,  xci. 
of  names  of  servitors  and  undertakers, 

547. 
of  friends  of  Tyrone  that    he    sent 

letters  to,  out  of  Spain,  by  Florence 

Muloonry,  465. 

of  keepers  of  the  King's  boats,  512. 

of  names  of  undertakers   (servitors), 

547. 

of  officers  of  musters,  512. 

of  payments  by  way  of  concordatum, 

334,  335. 

of  pensioners,  336. 

of  parties  in  Ulster  paid  or  allowed 

sums  by  Sir  Toby  Caulfeild,  to  induce 

them   to   be  quiet   upon  the  flight  of 

Tyrone,  and  after   the   revolt   of  0' 

Dogherty,  538. 
of  pensioners,  from  1st  April  to  30th 

September  1610,  510. 

of  provost  marshals,  512. 

of  servitors  of  Irish  birth,  ib. 

of  those  offering  to  be  principal  under- 
takers in  Ulster,  with  their  consorts, 
their  abilities,  and  their  estates,  as  they 
themselves  allege,  548. 

Liveries,  special,  not  to  be  passed  without 
schedule  of  lands,  174. 

Livome  (Leghorn),  278. 

Lixuaw,  castle  of,  surrender  and  re-grant  of, 
432. 

Lloyd,  Thomas,  235. 


Loans  to  government  by  Dublin  merchants, 

341. 

,  their  names  and  sums  advanced  by,  ib. 

Loch  Coe,  little  island  of,  x. 

Lodge,  John,  of  London,  a  pirate,  142. 

,  Mr.  John,  cvi. 

, ,  his  peerage  of  Ireland,  ib, 

, ,  records  of  the  KoUs,  ib. 

,  ,  Usts  of  patentee  officers,  ib. 

, ,  history  of  the  Earls  of  Kildare, 

ib. 
,  Desiderata  Curiosa  Hibernioa, 

ib. 
,  ,  this  last   contains  evidence  to 

prove  that  he  had  access  to  Sir  Arthur 

Chichester's  papers,  ib. 
,  ,    character    of  the  Chichester 

papers,  ib. 
, ,  probabiUty  that  they  were  once 

in  the  Paper  Office,  ib. 
, ,  gives  King's  warrants  and  de- 
spatches from  the  Council  contaiued  in 

the  Chichester  papers,  ib. 
, could  only  have  been  obtained 

from  this  source,  cvii. 
, ,  ehronieulary  discourses  for  1612, 

1613,  1614,  1615,  ib. 
, ,  dedicated  to  Sir  Arthur  Chi- 
chester, Lord  Belfast,  ib.    :_ 
, ,  originally  Sir  Arthur's  private 

property,  ib. 
, ,  comprised  in  Desiderata  Curiosa 

Hibernica,  ib. 
,  ,  this  also  probably  in  the  Paper 

Office  at  some  time,  ib. 
, ,  all  once  in  the  custody  of  Joshua 

and  Arthur  Dawson,  ib. 
Loftus,  Sir  Adam,  213,  338,  366. 
, ,  jycarly  fee  of,  as  master  in  Chan- 
cery, 338,  483. 

, ,  assists  Chichester,  11. 

,  ,  cross  dealings  of,  396. 

,  ,  alleges  a  debt  of  Sir  William 

Harpcle,  ib. 
,  ,   breaks  faith   with   Lord   Tho- 

mond,  ib. 
, ,  a  councillor  and  gownman,  and 

to  be  watched  accordingly,  ib. 
,  ,  paper  on  his  dispute  with  Lord 

Thomond  submitted  to  Salisbury,  400. 
,   ,  ordered  to  retract  expressions 

used,  412. 

, ,  Francis,  322,  367. 

Loghteoge,  lands  of,  185. 

London,  city  of,  209. 

,  citizens  of,  undertake  the  plantation 

of  Coleraiue  county,  Ixxxi. 
>    ,  treaty    carried    on    between 

their  agents  and  the  King,  ib. 

, ,  from  January  till  August  1609, 

lb. 

,  ,  send  four  agents  into  Ire- 
land to  report  upon  the  lands  they 
were  to  plant,  Ixxxii, 


648 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


London,  city  of — cont. 

; Sir  Thomas  Phillips  employed  hy 

the  King  to  accompany  them,  Ixxxii. 
>  ,   are  made    exceeding  -welcome 

by  the    commissioners    of    plantation 

at  their  camp  at  Derry,  ib. 
)  ,  common  council  of,  committee 

of,    for    plantation    of   Londonderry, 

136. 

,  mayor  and  commonalty  of,  ih. 

,  willing  to  undertake  the  planta- 
tion, 266. 

, ,  send  commissioners  to  survey 

the  country,  ib. 

, ,  instructions  of  the  Privy  Council 

as   to  their   guidance   and  treatment, 
ib. 

, ,  all  that  is  attractive  to  he  set 

before  them,  and  all  distasteful  points 

kept  out  of  sight,  267. 
,  ,  the  four  agents  take  an  exact 

survey  of  the  country,  285,  286. 
, ,  the  agents  of,  claim  all  the  best 

situations  about  Derry,  297. 
, ,  trench  on  Chichester's  claim, 

ib. 
, ,  Chichester  prays  they  may  not 

prove  like  the  London  women,  who  long 

to-day  and  loathe  to-morrow,  ib. 

Londonderry,  articles  of  plantation  of,  136. 

Londoners,    207,    326,   339,   347,  348,   349, 

350. 

plantation,  Ixxxi. 

,  a  separate  proceeding,  ib. 

conducted  not  by]  the  commissioners 

for    plantation,  but   by  the  King   and 

council,  ib. 
,   treaty  began  between  the  King  and 

the  city  of  London,  28th  January  1609, 

ib. 

,  the  27  articles,  ib. 

,  ,  concluded  in  August,  1609,  ib. 

the  employ  of  four  agents  to  view  the 

country,  Ixxxii. 
,  their  four  agents  made  welcome  by 

the  commissioners  of  plantation  at  their 

camp  at  Derry,  ib. 

plantation  of  Derry  207. 

,  motives  to   induce    them  to   plant, 

ib. 
,  Coleraine  and  Derry  fittest  places  for 

them  to  plant,  208. 
,  the  King  will  give  them  these  places, 

ib. 

,  with  charters  of  incorporation,  ib. 

,  description  of  their  sites,  ib. 

,  what  other  benefits  they  shall  have, 

ib. 
,  the  salmon  fishery   of  Lough  Foyle, 

and  of  the  Bann,  ib. 
,  the  commodities  of  the  North  of  Ire- 
land, ib. 
,  Sir  Thomas  Phillips  presents  an  esti- 
mate of  the  profits  to  the  Londoners, 

248,  249. 


Londoners  — co7((. 

^^<^  diflBculties  of   the    first  years, 

248.  -^ 

'   Sir  T.  Phillips  will  endure  himself 

great  losses  by,  ib. 

)  has  made  woods  and  bogs  pass- 
able for  timber  for  seven  miles,  ib. 

tasa  six  years' lease  of  some,  i6. 

)  the  fort  he  has  built  has  given 

the  Londoners  courage  to  proceed, 
249. 

profits  they  will  derive  from  fisheries 

estimated,  ib. 

)   profits  of  cattle,  pork,  tillage,  pipe 

staves,  flax,  linen,  resin,  tanneries, 
brewhouses,  ib. 

>  the,  welcomed  by  plantation  commis- 
sioners, 281. 

!  they  now  are  determined  on  a  planta- 
tion at  Derry,  326. 

,  first  conference  with  the  deputies  of 

London  for  plantation  of  Ulster,  347. 

,  ask    for   4,000  acres   to   be   laid  to 

Derry,  347,  348. 

and  3,000  to  Coleraine  on  the  Antrim 

side,  348. 

,  demand  the    woods   of  Glanconkeiu 

and  Killeitragh,  ib. 

second  conference,  ib. 

ask   for  7,000  acres  to  be   laid  near 

Derry,  ib. 
to  have  the  whole  county  of  Coleraine, 

ib. 

ask  for  the  abbey  of  Dungiven,  349. 

and  Limavaddy,  ib. 

,  Dungiven  Abbey  already  given  to  the 

college  at  Dublin,  ib. 
shall  have  wood  for  their  use  out  of 

Glanconkeiu  and  Killeitragh,  ib. 

,  but  the  wood  is  20  miles  long,  ib. 

,  covers  the  whole  county  of  Coleraine, 

ib. 
want  the  woods  not  for  merchandise, 

but.  for  shipbuilding,  ib. 

,  woods  in  Tyrone  much  wasted,  ib. 

demand    the    patronage    of     all    the 

churches,  ib. 
,  granted,  except  those  given  already  to 

Trinity  College,  ib. 
demand  county  of  Coleraine  in  fee- 
farm,  ib. 
,  and  Derry  and  Coleraine  cities  in  free 

burgage,  350. 

third  conference,  ib. 

,  they  demand  the  customs,  ib. 

,  fishings  of  Ban  and  Lough  Foyle,  ib. 

,  admiralty  of  coasts  of  Tyrconnell,  ib. 

the  two  towns  of  Coleraine  and  Derry 

and  the  county  of  Coleraine  to  be  freed 

from   all  monopolies  already  created, 

351. 

to  have  Culmore  Castle,  ib. 

,  liberties  of  Derry  and  Coleraine  to 

extend  four  miles  every  way,  ib. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


649 


Londoners — cont. 

,  both  these  towns  and  the  whole  county 

of  Coleraine  to  be  freed  from  all  mono- 
polies already  granted,  351. 

,  difiiculties  about  the  state  of  the  title 

to  the  fishing  of  the  Ban  ;  3S3. 
,  Chichester's  account  of,  ib. 

,  articles  between  the  King  and  city  of 

London,  for  the   plantation  of  Derry 

and  county  of  Coleraine,  359. 

to  subscribe  20,000/.,  360. 

,  how  to  be  applied,  ib. 

,  200  houses  to  be  built  in  Derry,  and 

room  left  for  300  more,  ib. 
,  4,000  acres  to  be  laid  to  the  town  on 

the  Derry  side,  bog  and  mountain  to  be 

thrown  in  uncounted,  ib. 
,  Bishop   and  Dean  to   have  sites  for 

houses,  ib. 
,  Coleraine  to  be   built   on  the   abbey 

side,  ib. 
,  100  houses  to  be  built,  and  room  left 

for  200  more,  ib. 
,  3,000  acres  to   be  laid  to  the  town, 

ib. 
,  1,000  acres   on   the  abbey  side,  and 

2,000  on  the  other  side,  if  the   King 

will  build  a  bridge,  ib. 

,  otherwise  the  whole  3,000  acres  to  be 

on  the  abbey  side,  ib. 
,  lands  to  be  measured  in  balliboes,  ib. 

,   that   the   rest  of  the   territory   and 

native  county  of  Coleraine,  estimated 
to  be  10,000  acres,  more  or  less,  be 
held  of  the  King  in  fee-farm,  ib. 

,  to  be  cleared  of  all  other  interests, 

except  Bishop  and  Dean's  claim,  ib. 

,  and  three  or  four  Irish  gentlemen  at 

the  most  dwelling  in  the  county  of 
Coleraine,  ib. 

,  the  woods  and  soil  of  Glanconkein, 

and  Killeightra  from  Colei'aine  to  Bal- 
linderry  to  be  the  city's  (of  London), 
ib. 

,  for  use  of  the  plantation,  but  not  to 

be  made  merchandise  of,  ib. 
,   the  city    (of  London)   to   have   the 

patronage  of  the  chvirches,  ib. 
>  customs  of  the  port  to  be  the  city's 

for  99  years,  361. 
,  fishing  of  the  Ban  as  far  as  Lough 

JSTeagh,   and  fishing  of   Lougli  Foyle 

given,  ib. 
,..,  admiralty  of   county   of  Tyrconnell 

and  Coleraine  to  be  theirs,  ib. 
,   and   the   wrecli  of  their  own  ships 

restored  to  them,  ib. 
,  shall   be   freed  from  all  monopolies 

heretofore  granted,  ib. 

,  shall  have  Culmore  Castle,  ib, 

,  liberties  of  Derry  and  Coleraine  shall 

extend  three  miles  every  way,  ib. 
lands  to  be  cleared  of  all  private  men's 

titles,  362. 


Londonors — cont. 

undertake  to  have  60  houses  built  in 

Derry  and  40  in   Coleraine  before  1st 

Nov.  1611,362. 

,  agreement  to  plant  concluded,  378. 

,  have  chosen  a  governor  and  company 

of  assistants,  ib. 

,  John  Rowley  appointed  agent,  ib. 

,  Sir  Arthur  to  direct  sheriffs,  &c.  to 

furnish  them  with  men,  379. 

,  and  provide  provisions,  ib. 

,  residue  of  Bishop  of  Derry's  lands  to 

be  disposed  of  to,  412. 

,  first  set  of  planters  from,  ill-chosen, 

437. 

,  pirates  lay  watching  in  the  Channel 

for  the  Londoners'  money  sent  for  the 
works  at  Coleraine,  473. 

,  but  missed  it,  ib. 

articles  of  28  January  (1610),  between 

the  King  and  corporation  for  the  plan- 
tation of  Ulster,  489. 

,   impropriation   in   the   hands  of  the 

Archbishop  of  Armagh  to  be  purchased 
up,  to  be  bestowed  on  the  Londoners, 
ib. 

,  the  see  of  Connor  to  be  also  com- 
pounded with  for  the  rectory  of  Cole- 
raine, for  same  purpose,  490. 

Chichester  has  recommended  Capt. 

Dodington  to  the  Londoners  for  an 
*  assignment  in  their  plantation,  504. 

,  their  activity  in  building  Coleraine, 

500,  501. 

Long  (and  Chetham),  lease  of  farm  of  re- 
venue to,  to  be  revoked,  129. 

,  131. 

,  lease  to,  of  customs,  soon  to  fall  in, 

139. 

,  Mr.  WilKam,  367,  510. 

,  James,  367. 

Longford,  money  assessed  on,  to  be  appUed  to 
repairs  of  castle,  258. 

county,  107. 

,  settlement  of,  471. 

,  Delvin's  promised  lands  there,  104. 

,  inhabitants  of,  354. 

,  their  grievances  represented  by  James 

O'Farrell,  ib. 

>  Sir  Francis  Shaen  claims  the  rent- 
beeves,  ib. 

,  have  already  paid  400/.  arrears  of,  ib. 

,  600/.  further  claimed,  ib. 

,  Sir  Francis  is  possessed  of  the  de- 
mesnes of  Granard,  ib. 

)  out  of  which  the  principal  part  of  the 

rent  was  issuing,  ib. 

,  petition  to  be  freed  from  arrears,  ib. 

:  Sir  Francis  Sliaen  seeks  to  draw  the 

inhabitants  to  a  dependency  on   him, 

355. 

!  prays  to  be  relieved  of  the  arrears 

and  growing  rents  due  to  the  heirs  of 
Sir  Nicholas  Malby,  ib. 


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GENERAL  INDEX. 


Longford — cont. 

,  troubled  state  of,  433. 

,  inhabitants  of,  letter  of  attorney  from, 

449. 

,  Lord  Delvin's  lands  in,  581. 

Lottery  for  lauds  in  Ulster,  Chichester's  ob- 
jections to  this  part  of  the  commis- 
sioners' project,  Ixxxv. 

,  scheme  for,  of  undertakers  proportions 

in  Ulster,  116. 

,  lots  to  bo  wrapped  in  balls  of  wax, 

ib. 

to  be  drawn  from  a  box,  ib. 

Lough  Erne,  freshwater  lake  in  Fermanagh, 
highly  praised  by  Sir  J.  Davys,  288. 

,  Dutch    colony    proposed  to    settle 

there,  ib. 

,  islands  in,  should  not  be  passed  to 

any  Irish,  364. 

, ,  but  to  worthy  undertakers,  ib. 

, ,  King's  boats  in,  commanded  by  Cap- 
tain W.  Cole,  450. 

Lough  Eske  Castle,  surrendered  to  FoUiott, 
xlix. 

Lough  Foyle,  north  of  0'Doghert}''s  country, 

ix,  194,  207. 
,  a  district  or  government  of  Ulster, 

xxiii. 

limits  of,  xxiii,  xxiv. 

,  harbour  of,  defended  by  Greencastle, 

60.  , 
,  ,  right  of  fishery  of,  to  be  de- 
clared, 61. 

,  ,  salmon  and  eel  fishing  in,  136. 

,  Lough  Neagh,  Lough    Earne,  and 

Athlone,  95. 

,  most  admired  by  Londoners,  281. 

,  surveyed  by  London  agents,  286. 

,  siege  of,  414. 

,  Governor  of,  Sir  H.  Docwra,  .607. 

,  a  moiety  of  the  fishery  of,  granted 

by  the  Earl   of  Tyrconnell  to   James 

Hamilton,  but  not  to  extend  two  miles 

above  Lifford,  571. 

,  ,  why  void,  ib. 

Loughinsholin  garrison,  541. 

Loughnaber,  209. 

Lough  Neagh,  barque  and  boats  kept  on,  by 

Capt.  Hugh  Clotworthy,  72. 

209. 

Lough  Swedy,  247. 

Lough  SwiUy,  ammunition  lying  at,  without 

guard,  39. 
,   surrounds   O'Dogherty's   country  in 

part,  ix. 

,  209. 

Loughtee,  precinct  of,  404. 

,  a  county  of  Monaghan,  ix. 

Loughtie,  see  Loughtee. 
Loughveagh,  taken  by  Chichester,  li. 

,  ravaged  by  troops,  27. 

Loughvagh  (Loughveagh),  camp  at,  45. 


Lough  Yeame,  see  Lough  Erne. 
Louth,  an  old  county  of  Ulster,  viii, 

,  description  of,  ib. 

,  dissolved  House  of,  121. 

,  leased  for  40  years  to  Ambrose 

Ap  Hugh,  ib. 

,  woodkerne  in,  231. 

Louvain,  the  Fugitives  at,  xliii. 

Lovel,  Sir  William,  549. 

Low  Countries,  the  Grahams  sent   to  serve 

the  King  in,  xcvi,  xcvii. 
,  of  72,  delivered  at  Flushing,  14  only 

did  not  escape  and  return,  ib. 
,    no  Grahams   hanged  for  returning 

firom  Low  Countries  without  license, 

xcviii. 

,  53,  120,383. 

,  Brian  Kelly's  service  in,  134. 

and  Spain,  much  plotting  between 

both  countries  and  Ireland,  299. 

,  license  to  transport  beer  to,  482. 

Lowe,  Thomas,  360. 

,  Sir  Thomas,  commission,  136. 

Lowther,  Sir  Richard,  xcvii. 
,  ,  his  house  searched  for  Gra- 
hams, ib, 
Lurgan  Green,  co.  Louth,  Chichester  reviews 

his  troops  there,  Ixxviii. 
,  ,  receives  news  of  O'Dogherty's 

death,  ib. 

Lurgan,  in  Tyrone  45. 

Lurgue  barony,  co.  Fermanagh,  575. 

Lusk,  lands  in,  granted  to  James  Netterville 
289. 

Lutterel,  Mr.,  "intrusion"  on  the  lands  of, 

408. 
Lybenady,  see  Limavaddy. 
Lye,  John,  pensioner,  337. 

,511. 

Lyffor,  the,  see  Lifford. 
Lyfford,  see  Lifford. 
Lynch,  Henry,  493. 

,  liichard,  367. 

Lyons,  Captain,  367,  547. 

,  William,  512. 

Lyra,  Don  Pedro   de,   captain   of   King  of 

Spain's  galleys,  23. 
Lysley,  Martin,  510. 


M. 

M'AUan,    James    Balloe,    examination    of, 

37. 
,  James  BaUagh,  evidence  of,  in  Noal 

Garve's  case,  308. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


651 


M'Art,  Bryan  O'Neil,  Ixxix.,  74. 

, ,  query  regarding  his  son  Art,  2. 

, ,  the  base  son  of,  ringleader  in 

Tyrone,  8. 

,  ,  his  rebellion,  15. 

,    ,  Sir  Marmaduke  Whitechurch 

brings  a  jury  of  co.  of  Armagh  to  Dub- 
lin for  his  trial,  78. 

, ,  [O'Neil],  his  base  son  not  to  be 

pardoned,  143. 

, ,"' ,  his  bastard,  capture   of, 

much  desired,  178. 

,  , ,  his  son  submits  and  vo- 
lunteers for  Sweden,  287. 

Macauleys,  the,  of  the  Glens,  xiv. 

M'Awla,  Sir  Awla,  petition  of,  395. 

,   ,  dispute  of,   with  Sir  Randall 

M'Donnell,  446. 

,' ,had  best  be  settled  in  Ireland,  ih. 

M'Awnle,  see  Macauley. 

M'Baron,'  (O'Neale),  Art,  his  claims  in  Ar- 
magh, 62. 

, ,  his  sons  dangerous,  ih. 

,  Sir   Cormack,  prisoner  in  the  Tower, 

295. 

,  ,  his  wife  gives  house  room  to  the 

commissioners'  party,  but  has  neither 
meat,  drink,  nor  linen  to  welcome  them, 
295. 

)  Art,  [O'Neill],  to  have  one  great  pro- 
portion in  Orier,  429. 

,  Arte,  and  wife,  529. 

,  Sir  Cormack,  365. 

M'Brian,  Donogh,  511. 
,  Dowley,  511. 

M'Brien'  Arra,  Moriertagh,  Bishop  of  Killaloe, 
384. 

M'Cabes,  the,  will  expect  lands  to  be  allotted 
to  them  in  Cavan,  55. 

M'Callum,  Earl  of  Argyle,  report  of  intended 
marriage  of  daughter  to  Baron  of  Dun- 
gannon,  xxxvi. 

M'Can,  John,  512. 

M'Cannah  see  M'Keuua. 

M'Canns  country,  in  Armagh,  62. 

M'Carmack,  see  M'Cormack. 

M'Cartan,  Acolie,  captain  of  the  country,  xi. 

M'Cartan's  country,  in  Down,  xi. 

,  agovemment  of  Ulster,  xxiii. 

,  commanded  by  Sir  Gregory  Cromwell, 

xxiv. 

M'Carthy,  Dermond  M'Owen,  re-grant  of 
castle  and  manor  of  Kanturk  to,  516. 

,  Donald,  465. 

,  Florence,  petitions  Salisbury,  117. 

,  ,  his  sickness  from  long  imprison- 
ment, ib. 

,  his  removals  from  prison  to  prison, 

ib. 

, ,  death  of  his  eldest  son,  118. 

, ,  heavy  charge  of  maintenance  of 

his  three  surviving  sons,  ib. 


M'Carthy — cont. 

,' Florence,  was  pardoned  by  the  late 

Queen,  ib. 

, ,  prays  a  change  of  prison  for  a 

change  of  air,  ib. 

,  ,  Lord  Koche,  O'SuUivan  More, 

and  the  White  Knight  bound  for  him,  ib. 

,  Lady  Ellen,  having  obtained  a  rem- 
nant of  her  father's  lauds  through  Salis- 
bury's aid,  lost  them  at  law,  482. 

,  is  now  in  great  distress,  ib. 

,  prays  license  to  transport  certain  tuns 

of  beer  to  the  Low  Countries,  ib. 

,  Donald,  324. 

M'Cawel,  Hugh,  542. 

M'Chisocke,  William,  94. 

M'Closkies,  one  of  chief  septs  of  Coleraine, 

60. 
M'Coghlan,  Sir  John,  grant  to,  of  license  for  a 

yearly  fair  at  Banagher,  527. 

M'Connell,  Angus,  Lord  of  Cantire,  xiii. 

,  Eaynal  M'Sourlagh,  465. 

M'Cormacks,  the,  of  the  Glens,  xiv. 
M'Cormick,   Hugh,   sent  by  Neale  Garve  to 

O'Dogherty,  310. 
M'Cormook,  Brian  Crossagh,  conspires  after 

O'Dogherty's  death,  3. 

M'Court,  195. 

M'CowIey,  Ever,  his  oldest  son,  accused  of 
harbouring  rebels,  389. 

M'Crely,  Eory,  540. 

M'Daved,  see  M'Davitt. 

M'David,  see  M'Davitt. 

M'Davitt,  M'Davit,  Philemy  Eeagh,  "De- 
mands to  be  made  of,"  I . 

,  ,  ,  answers  of,  2. 

,  ,    ,   knew   nothing   but   by 

O'Dogherty's  report,  ib. 

, , ,  heard  from  him  who  was 

to  join  the  conspiracy,  ib. 

, ,  ,  examination  of,  3. 

,  ,  ,  his  account  of  O'Dog- 
herty's treasons,  ib. 

, , ,  statements  as  to  SirNeale 

O'Donnell,  ib. 

,  ,the  firebrand  of  O'Dog- 
herty's rebellion,  8. 

, > ,  apprehended,  ib. 

)  J  ,  account  of  his  capture, 


•  > >  ,  pains  taken  to  keep  him 

alive  for  his  trial,  ib. 

,  examined    on    sundry 

;  his   dangerous   quahties, 

>    ;  executed    at    Lifford, 


points,  ib. 
"ib.""'  "" 


26. 


'•' ! )  bis  evidence  against  Sir 

Neal  Garve  O'Donnell,  308. 

'•'  )   >  further    deposition  of, 

311. 


652 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


M'Davitt,  M'Davit,  PhUemy  'Re&gh—cont. 

'  > ,   Shane  Crone,  flight  of, 

with  the  Earls,  ]. 

> ,  went  out  of  love  to  Tyr- 

connell,  2. 

>  Shane  M'Donald  Groomc,  daughter 

of,  married  to  Gillespick  M'Donnell,  1. 

M'Dermod,  Brian  Oge,  of  Carrig  Dermod,  co. 

Roscommon,  324. 
M'Dermond,  Cor.,  hill  to,  19. 
M'Devitt,  see  M'Davitt. 
M'Donagh,  see  Donough. 
M'Donnell,  Gillaspick,  demand  regarding,  2. 

,  Sir  James,  agreement  hy,  395. 

, ,  complains  of  Sir  Eandall,  446. 

,  Angus,  agreement  hy,  395. 

,  Niece,  hrother  of  Sir  Randall,  395. 

,  Sir  Randall,  falsely  charged  by  Lord 

Howth,  Ixix. 


,  ,  is  no  party  to  Tyrconnell's  sup- 
posed plot,  lb. 

, ,  demand  concerning,  1. 

,   ,   dispute  with    Mr.   Hamilton 

about  Bann  fishery,  2 1 . 

,  ,  92,  199. 

, agreement  of,  395. 

, ,  dispute  with  Sir  A.  M'Awla,  446. 

,  ,  license  to  repair  to  England, 

448. 

,  ,  his  negociations  with  the  Lon- 
doners, 449. 
M'Donough,  Art.,  74. 

,  Brian,  78,  228. 

M'Ea,  Thomas,  494. 
M'Edmond,  Thomas,  474. 
M'Enery,  John,  493,  494. 

,  Gerald,  ib. 

,  Shane  M'Thomas,  ib. 

M'Enys,  see  Magennis  and  M'Gennis. 
M'Gees,  the,  of  North  Clandeboy,  xiii. 
M'Gennis,  Sir  Arthur,  his  country  divided  in 
1609,  and  portioned  out  to  hold  under 
the  King,  193. 

, ,  this  will  weaken  him,  ib. 

,  ,  at  first  he  scorned  the   small 

portion  left  to  himself  in  demesne,  ib. 

,  ,  but  at  length  contented  with  it, 

ib. 
,  ,  to  have  his  demesne  lands  en- 
larged, 469,  470,  471,  487. 
,  will  be  kept  in  duty  by  the  set- 
tlement of  Iveagh,  457. 

, ,  "  a  libertine  lord,"  ib. 

, ,  469,470. 

,  Bryan   Arthroe,   married   to   one  of 

Tj'rone's  daughters,  464,  465. 
,  Bryan  Oge  M'Rorj,  470. 

,  Edmond,  prisoner  in  the  Gatehoiue, 

40. 

, ,  231. 

,  Capt.  Ever  M'Kory,  of  Kilwarlin,  xi. 


M'Gennis — cont. 

Glasny  M'AghoUy,  324. 

•  .Sir    Hugh,    "the    civUest    of    the 

Irishry,"  xi. 

) )  contributes  to  the  Queen,  xi. 

!  number  of  his  horsemen,  ib. 

) ,  abandons  Tanistry,  xi. 

country, ! J.,  457. 

,  or  Iveagh,  xxiv. 


,    commanded    by   Sir   Edward 

Trevor,  ib. 

M'Geoghegan,  Brian,  324. 

M'Gettiham,  Owen,  of  Donegal,  464. 

M'Gilduffe,  Dwaltagh,  evidence  of,  in   Neal 
Garve's  case,  308. 

>   >   ,   further   depositions   of, 

310. 

M'Gilleglan,  Donogh,  brings  message  to  Sir 

Cahir  O'Dogherty,  20. 
M'GiUiganes,  one  of  chief  septs  of  Coleraine, 

60. 

M'Gilliglasse,  Donuell,  sent  by  Sir  Neale  to 
O'Dogherty,  311. 

M'Gills,  the,  of  the  Glens,  xiv. 

M'Goolechan,  Clanbrasell,  in  Down,  xi. 

,  ,  inhabited  by  the  Kelleys,  ib. 

M'Grery,  John,  93. 

M'Guire,  attainted,  Ixxi. 

,  anecdote  of,  hy  Sir  John  Davys,  xix. 

,  lands    in    plantation   of  Ulster    for 

mother  of,  238. 

,  Brian,  365. 

,  Connor  Roe,  conditions  in  favour  of, 

177. 

5  ,   has   grant  of  Fermanagh    by 

patent,  56. 

, ,  has  made  a  settlement,  ib. 

, ,  expects  three  baronies,  accord- 
ing to  promise,  364. 

,  but  Chichester  does  not  think 

such  a  barbarous  man  should  be  made 
so  much  greater  than  his  neighbours, 
ib. 

,  the  barony  of  MaherestefEana 

will  contain  him  and  all  his  followers, 
ib. 

,    ,  to  have  the  barony  Maghery 

Steffana,  364,  429,  499. 

,  Bryan,  brother  of  Coconnaght,  56. 

,  ,  to  have  a  proportion  in  precinct 

of  Code  and  Tircanada,  429. 

, ,  demands  four  baronies  in  Ferma- 
nagh, 441. 

,  ,.....,  his  suit  cannot  be  agreed  to,  ib. 

,  ,  but  he  is  to  have  one  propor- 
tion in  precinct  of  Coole  and  Tircanada, 
ib. 

,  Coconnaght,  574, 

, ,  (Cow  Connaught,  Cuconnaght), 

four  baronies  intended  for,  56, 

>  Oge,  574. 

, ,  one  of  the  fugitives  xxxix,  48. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


653 


M'Guire — cont. 

,  Coconnaght,  assisted  and  relieved  by 

Sir  Garrett  Moore  in  Ms  flight,  25. 
,  ,  interrogatory  regarding,  put  to 

Sir  G.  Moore,  165. 

,  ,  his  reply,  167. 

,   Sir   Conohour,  chief  of  Fermanagh, 

ix. 

,  ,115. 

, ,  betrayed  by  his   son,  semble, 

504. 
,  Ix)rd,  expected  by  Tyroonnell  to  join 

in  his  treason  if  it  succeeded,  Ixvi. 
the  mother  of,  lands  to  be  allotted  to, 

188. 

,  Hugh,  slain  in  Munster,  56. 

, ,  his  son,  grandson  of   Tyrone, 

ih. 
,  Tirlagh,  to  have  half  a  small  portion, 

429. 
, ,  to  have  half  a  small  proportion 

in  Coole  and  Tircanada,  441. 

M'GwiUyn,  see  M'Quillin. 

M'Gwyre,  see  M'Guire. 

M'Gyes,  the,  see  M'Gees. 

M'Gylduffe,  Dewaltagh  (Dalto),  followers  of, 

surprised  and  cut  off,  37. 
,   proceedings    with    Sir   Neale 

O'Donnell,  38. 

, ,  killed  Donagh  Boy  O'Shiel,  39.' 

,  ,  attempts  to  conceal  the  fact,  ib. 

M'Gylglasse,    Donnogh,  messenger    of    Sir 

Neale  O'Donnell,  4. 

M'Henry  [O'Neill],  Sir  TjtIowc,  possessions 
of,  to  be  enlarged,  177. 

M'Hugh,  Feaugh  [O'Toole],  the  traitor,  401. 

,  Owen,  512. 

,  Brian  Oge,  464. 

M'lvor,  Owen,  540. 

M'Kallym,  see  M'CaUum. 

M'Keuna,  daughter  of,  1. 

,  Densleat,  and  his  brother  Edmund, 

enrolled  in  Swedish  service,  306. 
,  Father  Thomas,  guardian  of  Boylete- 

farnan,  463. 
M'Kennas,  the,  of  Monaghan,  some  of  them 

still  at  large,  8. 
M'Killerhuskly,  Connor,  115. 
Macionaye,  priory  of,  448. 
M'Mahou,  Brian  ne  Savagh,  still  at  large,  8. 
, ,  interrogatory  regarding,  put  to 

Sir  G.  Moore,  166. 

,  ,  his  answer  thereto,  168. 

,  ,  never   submitted   to  course  of 

law,  178. 

,  ,  lease  of  his  lands  promised  to 

Mr.  Treasurer,  ib. 

,  ,  his  head  gotten  by  Chichester, 

188. 

,  ,  warrant  for  his  death,  189. 

,  ,201,204. 

,  Ever  M'CoUo,  474. 


M'Mahon — cont. 

,  Ever  M'Cooley,  389. 

,  Owen,  pensioner,  337. 

Sir  Eory,  chief  of  Monaghan,  ix. 

,  Sir  Patrick  Art  M'Moyle,  389. 

,  ,  accused  of  harbouring  rebels, 

ib. 

M'Mahonagh,  Brian,  464,  465. 

M'Mahons,  the,  united  (A.D.  1609),  notwith- 
standing their  factions,  not  out  of  love 
for  one  another,  but  out  of  hatred  of 
the  English,  196. 

M'Mahoune,    Conn     M'Eory,     enrolled    for 

Swedish  service,  306. 
,  ,  married  to  Tyrone's  daughter, 

ib. 
M'Mahownes,  lords  of  Monaghan,  389. 
, .natives  ought  to  be  freed  from 

dependence  on,  ib. 
M'Manus,  Shane  Oge,  suspicions  regarding,  2. 
,  ,   takes  refuge   in  Torry  island, 

26. 

,  ,  his  movements  imknown,  28. 

,  ,  innocence  of,  protested,  35. 

,  ,  proffers   made   for   taking   his 

head,  ib. 
, ,  said  to  be  at  Arran  (Donegal), 

36. 
,  ,  goes  to  President  of  Connaught, 

37. 

,  Rorie,  pensioner,  338. 

M'Morice,  Dermot,  pensioner,  336. 

, ,  510. 

M'Mulcaiar,  Earrell  M'Donell,  sent  to  O'Dog- 

herty  by  Sir  Neale  O'Donnell,  18. 
M-Nally,  Manus,  349. 
M'Neale,  Shane  O'Quin,  enrolled  for  Swedish 

service,  306. 
M'Neil,  Ensign  Bryan,  544. 

M'Neill,   Sir   Con  Oge,  possession  of  Great 

Ardes,  xii. 

,  Neal  M'Brian  Ferto,  ih. 

,  Hugh  M'PheUm,  ib. 

,  Brian  M'Phelim,  ib. 

,  Sir  Cormack,  captain  of  Kilultoe,  xi. 

M'Nemarra,  Teig  M'Donnell  Reagh,  577. 

M'Neyle,  see  M'Neill. 

M'Odo,  Richard,  202. 

MackOgg,  see  M'Oghie. 

M'Oghie,  name  now  known  as  Keogh,  120,  n. 

,  a  solicitor  in  Spain  and  Low  Countries 

of  the  Earl  of  Tyrone,  120. 

, and  a  writer  against  the  King's 

estate,  ib. 

M'O'Nally,  Manus,  to  be  admitted  into  Cole- 

raine  county,  429.     See  M'Nally. 
M'O'Neilles,  the,  of  Claudeboy,  siii. 
M'Owen,  Ferdorogh,  sons  of,  3. 

>  Hugh  M'Shane,    promised    to     join 

O'Dogherty,  ib. 

M'Phelim,  Sir  Brian,  has  letters  patents  of 
North  Clandeboy,  xiii. 


654 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


M'Quillin,  captain  of  the  Glens,  xiv. 

, ,  well   nigh    expulsed    by    the 

Scots,  ib. 

Ever,  74. 

,  Kory,  511. 

M'Quin,  Donnagh,  of  great  credit  in  O'Kane's 
country,  306. 

M'Eichard,  Coy  Ballagh,  to  he  admitted  to 
lands  in  county  of  Coleraine,  429. 

M'Eory,  Owheny  (Ownie),  Blackford  castle 
surrendered  to,  401. 

,  Harpole  promised  to  marry  his 

sister,  ib. 
,   ,,   she  is  now  wife    to   Captain 

TirreU,  ib. 

M'Sett,  Eichard,  511. 

M'Shane,  Hugh,  apprehends  the  murderer  of 
Denis  O'MuUan,  6. 

M'Sheary,  John,  511. 
M'Sheehie,  Manus,  ib. 
M'Sheiy,  John,  pensioner,  337. 
M'Skally,  Donnel,  324. 
M'Sweeny,  na  Banna,  95. 

,  ,  in  prison,  ib. 

,  ,  enters  Killybegs  with  80  armed 

men  the  night  Derry  was  burnt,  195. 

..,  ,  tried  for  it  before  Sir  Eobert 

Jacob  at  Lifford,  in  1609,  ib. 

, ,  but  acquitted,  ib. 

,  ,  surrenders   his   lands   to   Earl 

of  Tyrconnell,  570. 

..., na-Do,   surrenders  his  lands  to   the 

Earl  of  Tyrconnell,  ib. 

,  Neal,  194. 

Fanad,   sits   as  justice   (in   1609)  at 

Lifford  with  Sir  Eobert  Jacob,  195. 
,  ,  but  came  in  an  uncivil  manner 

in  his  mantle,  ib. 
,  Faynett    [Panaght],   surrenders  his 

lands  to  the  Earl  of  Tyrconnell,  570. 

,  three  septs  of,  57. 

,  Bane  (Banagh),  ib. 

,  Eanaght,  ib. 

,  Doe,  ib. 

,  Do,  Eawnet,  Bannagh,  365. 

Banagh,  to  have  portion  in  Eaynet  or 

Do,  429. 

, 465. 

,  O'Doe  [na-Doe],  to  have  portion  m 

Faynct  or  Do,  429. 

,  Faynet,  to  have  portion  in  Faynct  or 

Do,  429. 
,  Sir  Mulmory,  joins  Folliott's  forces 

in  investing  Torry,  lii. 

, ,  negociation  with,  35. 

,  Folliott's  offers  to,  36. 

, ,  pretends  business  iu  Dublin  to 

escape  sitting  as  justice  of  assize  at 

Lifford,  in  1609,  105. 
,  fearing  to  be  called  in  question 

for  something  treasonable,  ib. 


M'  Sweeny— con*. 

Neile,  nephew  of  Sir  Neile  O'Donnell, 

still  at  large,  9. 

,  capture  of,  most  desired,  178. 

, ,  228. 

,  one  of  the  garrison  of  Torry  Island 

castle,  offers  the  heads  of  seven  of  his 
comrades  for  his  pardon,  Uii. 

M'Sweenys,  the,  chief  supporters  of  O'Don- 
nell, Ix. 

,  to  be  deUvered  up  to  Sir  H.  Folliott, 

36. 

M'Swynne,  see  M'Swyne,  M'Sweeny. 

M'Teig,  Donogh,  attainted,  lands  of,  forfeited, 

577. 

Murroagh  oge,  511. 

M'Toole,  Phelemie  oge  M'Cormock,  promises 

to  join  O'Dogherty,  3. 

M'Vagh,  Hugh,  his  goods,  account  of,  ren- 
dered by  Sir  Toby  Caulfeild  after  Ty- 
rone's flight,  ."537. 

, ,  his  wife  and  children  relieved, 

544. 

M'-Y-Gills,  see  M'Gills. 

Madrid,  Eobert  Hanmer  at,  24. 

,  Father  Creswell  at,  51. 

Madryll,  Madrile,  see  Madrid. 

Magennis,  see  M'Gennis. 

Magherastephany,  barony,  in  co.  Fermanagh, 

575. 
Maghirlecow,  541. 
Maghree  Eiagh,  Donegal,  the  inheritance  of 

Murtagh  O'Dougan,  468. 
Maghriboy,  precinct  of,  405. 
Magnesse,  see  M'Gennis. 
Maguestie  alias  Eockbarcklie,  577. 
Magragh,  Termon,  see  Termon. 
Magrath,  Meiler,  Archbishop  of  Cashel,  letter 

to  Sir  T.  Eidgeway,  353. 
,  ,  ,  to  obtain   for   him   the 

Bishoprics  of  Killaloe  and  Achonry,  zi. 
, , ,  he  was  promised  them  on 

resigning  Waterford  and  Lismore,  ib. 

Eedmond  Meilerus,   Archbishop   of 

Cashel,  324. 
,  Owen  Groome,  friar,  to  be  pardoned, 

on  condition  of  confining  himself   to 

some  part  of  Ulster,  265. 

,  ,  206,255. 

, ,  friar,  jury  would  never   have 

convicted  him   but  for  Lord   Delvin's 

proving  his  confession,  344. 
,  Chichester  suggests  that  he  be 

pardoned,  ib. 

,Tiu:logh,  324. 

Maguire,  see  M'Guire, 
Maguyre,  see  M'Guire. 
Maherasteffana  barony,  will  be  enough  for 

Connor  Eo  Maguire,  though  he  was 

promised  three  baronies,  364. 
Mahones,  suspicious  proceedings  of,  151. 
Mair,  John,  488. 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


655 


Maisterson,  Capt.  John,  has  raised  a  company 
for  Sweden.     See  Masterson. 

, ,  solicits  a  servitor's  portion  of 

escheated  lands,  461. 

Malby,  Henry,  xcix. 

,  ,  his  widow.  Lady  Sydley,  258. 

,  Capt.,  the  heirs  of,  449. 

,  Sir  Nicholas,  interest  of,  inM'Cartan's 

country,  xi. 

, ,  xcix. 

, ,354. 

, ,  grant  of  the  ate  Queen  to,  395. 

,486. 

Mallory,  Sir  John,  of  York,  a  principal  un- 
dertaker in  Armagh,  with  his  consorts, 
their  names  and  abilities,  549. 

Maly,  Owen,  of  Cahir  ne  Mart,  co.Mayo,  325. 

Manachan,  see  Monaghan. 

Manwoode,  John,  claim  assigned  to,  for  200/. 
on  James  Carroll,  301,  506. 

Mapowther,  Eichard,  pensioner,  337. 

, ,511. 

Maps,  Sir  John  Davys's  account  of  the  maps 
of  the  escheated  counties,  Ixxxviii, 
Ixxxix,  xc. 

,  discovered  in  1861,  xc. 

,  re-produced  in  fac-simile,  ib. 

,  at  what  price  sold,  ib.  n. 

,  made  of  the  several  counties,  293. 

,  of  the   six   escheated   counties  sent 

over  by  Eidgeway  in  six  books,  401. 

,  a  set  of,  sent  for  SaUsbury's  private 

use,  402. 

Map-making,  Sir  Josias  Bodly's  for  plantation 
of  Ulster,  Ixxxvii. 

,  need  of  guards  for,  ib. 

,  a  mapmaker  murdered  in  Donegal,  ib. 

Marieborough,  see  Maryborough. 

Markets,  to  be  places  of  meeting  for  English 

and  Scotch  planters,  406. 
Marocoes,  see  Morocco. 
Marshal,  Thomas,  511. 

, ,  pensioner,  338. 

,  George,  a  squire  of  the  stable,  295. 

,   ,  his  brother  presented  by  the 

King  for  promotion  in  the  church,  ib. 
Marshalship  of  Ireland,  Lord  Morley's  claim 

to,  547. 
Martin,  Patrick,  511. 
Marwood,  John,  368. 
Maryborough  Castle,  Ixxiii. 
,  planters  of  Queen's  County  held  as  of, 

ib. 

....,  SirH.  Power's  men  at,  33. 

,  fort,  334. 

,  ward  of,  507. 

,  constable  of.  Sir  Henry  Power,  508. 

,  porter  of,  Francis  Hison,  ib. 

Maryborow,  fort  of,  cost  900/.  to  repair,  408. 

See  Maryborough. 
Massereen  Castle,  constable  of,  George  Tre- 

villian,  509. 


Masserine,  74.     See  Massereen. 

Masterson,  Capt.,  334. 

,  Lawrence,  pension  of,  168. 

, ,511. 

,  Nicholas,  by  marriage  with  Alison, 

daughter  of  Eobert    Eoche,    of  Ard- 

cromman,  co.  Wexford,  obtains   New 

Castle  and  13  ploughlands,  495,  496. 
, ,  John  Eoche,  servant  of  Eobert, 

being  entrusted  with  keeping  the  castle 

in  the  late  rebeUion,  holds  it  against 

Nicholas  Masterson,  ib. 
,  Sir  Eichard,  lessee  of  Ferns  Castle  in 

Wexford  for  50  years  unexpired,  121. 
,  ,  complains    of  Lord   Audley's 

getting  a  grant  of  it  by  surprise,  ib. 

, ,  after  all  his  costs  of  repairs,  ib. 

,  ,  and  after  the  defence  of  it  by 

him  and   his   father   and  kinsmen   to 

hazard  of  their  lives,  ib. 

, ,  to  have  it  in  fee  farm,  122. 

,  ,  121,  324,  32,5,  472,  508. 

Matchet,  Eev.  James,  550. 

James,  ib. 

,  Eichard,  ib. 

Matrimony,   lawful,   Irish   (according  to   Sir 

J.  Davys)  never  esteemed,  but  made 

bastards  share  equally  with  legitimates, 

498. 
....,,...,  ill  consequences,  ib. 
,    never    planted    orchards,    or   built 

houses,  ib. 
Matthew,  Patrick,  93. 
Maughery,  barony  of,  in  county  of  Coleraine, 

541. 
MaunseU,  Capt.  Thomas,  346. 

Maximilian,  a  Dutch  merchant,  proposes  a 
colony  of  Dutch  for  Lough  Erne,  288. 

Maxwell,  Eobert,  251. 

May,  Capt.,  servitor,  to  be  an  undertaker,  428. 

Maynard,  John,  512. 

Maynooth,  Isv. 

Meares,  Capt.,  367. 

,  Capt.  William,  512. 

Measures,  great  variety  of,  used  in  selling, 
261. 

,  one  only  proposed  to  be  used,  ib. 

,  officer  to  be  appointed,  262. 

Heath,  Bishop  of,  report  of  his  death,  14. 

,  ,  high  reputation  of,  ib. 

,  Bishop  of  Derry  recommended  as  his 

successor,  ib. 

,  G.  Montgomery,  Bishop   of  Derry, 

Clogher,  and  Eapho,  made  Bishop  of 
Meath,  247. 

,  Lough  Swedy  formerly  held  in  com- 

mendam,  ib. 

,  inquiries  directed,  ib. 

,  .......376. 

,  ,  to  be  speedily  invested,  444. 

bishopric  of.  Bishop  of  Derry  promoted 

to,  483. 

,  to  be  held  with  Clogher,  ib. 


656 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Meath — cont. 

,  which   is  endowed  with  Termon   and 

Erenagh  lands,  483. 

,  and  lands  of  Muckna,  ib. 

Meeke,  John,  368,  509. 

Meeres,  Captain,  servitor,  to  he  an  undertaker, 

428. 

Meighe,  David,  of  Kilmallock,  525. 

,  Robert,  wardship  of,  to  he  granted  to 

David  Terrey,  525. 
Melans,  a  sept  in  Tyrone,  61. 
Meldrome,  a  Scottish  gentleman,  comes  with 

false   letterc  of    commendation   for   a 

grant  in  the  plantation,  526. 
Meliphant,  see  Mellifont. 
Mellifont,  Chichester's  sojourn  at,  385. 
Melville,  Sir  Robert,  483. 
Mensal  lands,  bishops',  180. 

restored  to  bishops,  389. 

Mercatura,  De,  treatises  sent  by  Sir  J.  Davys 

to  Salisbury,  135. 
Merchants  of  Dublin,  loans  of  several,  to  Go- 
vernment, their  names  and  sums,  341. 
Merrion,  letter  dated  from,  478,    480,    481, 

497. 
Metcalf,  Dr.,  507. 

Miagh,  Robert,  vicar-apostolic  of  Cork,  442. 
Miaghe,  Bernardinus,  a  student  of  Louvain, 

ib. 
Michell,  John,  79. 
Middle  shires  of  Brittany,  xcvi,  note. 

,  between  England  and  Scotland,  xcvi. 

,  commissioners   of,  xcvi,   7Wte,   xcvii, 

note,  xoviii,  xcix. 

,  the,  xcv-xcvi. 

Middlesex  men  brought  over  to  Dublin,  4. 
Middleton,  George,  in  bishopric  of  Durham, 

50. 
Mill  castle,  co.  of  Meath,  376. 
MUlefont,    treasonable   discourse   of    Sir   G. 

Moore  at,  138. 

,  Eustace's  information  about,  162. 

Minohinche,  see  Monaincha. 

Mint,  for  small  coins,  project  for,  in  Ireland, 

243,  244. 

,  project  of,  in  Ireland,  273. 

Missetts,  the,  of  the  Glens,  xiv. 
Mitten,  Mr.,  88,  96. 

,  Richard,  508. 

Mittene,  Richard,  $ee  Mitten. 

Mogeely,  Moggely,  survey  of  woods  at,  29,  91. 

Mointcrbirne,  two   baUibetaghs,   so  called   in 

the  barony  of  Dungannon  granted,  3rd 

James  I.,  to  Sir  iJcnry  O'Neil,    560, 

561. 
Molineux,  Samuel,  367,  374.     See  Mulliuex. 
Monaghau,  a  new  county  of  Ulster,  viii. 

,  the  various  countries  in,  ix. 

,  captain  of,  Sir  Rory  M'Mahon,  ib. 

,  a  government  of  Ulster,  xxiii. 

,  equal  division  of  lands  in,  aimed  at 

by  the  State,  xxx. 


Mouaghan — cont. 

,  proclamation  against  rebels  in,  27. 

,  Sir  Edward  Blaney's  men  at,  33. 

,  rents  to  be  paid  for  land  in,  178. 

,  county  of,  the  M'Mahons  of,  all  united 

(A.D.  1609),  196. 

,  settlement  of,  389. 

,  will  be    unfavourable   to   natives  if 

they  be  not  freed  from  dependence  on 

the  M'Mahownes,  ib. 
,   seneschal   of   county,    Sir    Edward 

Blaney,  507. 
Monaincha,  great  assembly  collected  by  priests 

at,  on  borders  of  co.  Tipperary,  240. 
Monckton,  residence  of  James  Barnewall,  578. 

Money,  to  be  held  in  readiness  in  ease  of  a 
landing  of  the  fugitives  and  followers, 
12. 

,  want  of,  fatal  to  the  public  service,  145. 

,  great  want  of,  146. 

,  evil  results  of  want,  t'i. 

,  urgent  demand  for,  147. 

,  two  quarters  to  be  sent  at  once,  ib. 

,  base,  suggestions  of  Chichester  re- 
garding, 272. 

,  discontents  about,  273. 

,  sore  want  of,  for  public  service,  307. 

,  excefsive  scarcity  of,  in  Ireland,  516. 

Jeffrey,  550. 

Mouganah  and  Glan  Eynne,  Sir  Neal  O'Don- 
nell's  lands,  570. 

excepted  out  of  the  re-gi'ant  made,  1st 

James  I.,  to  the  Earl  of  Tyreonnell,  ib. 

,  on  his  surrender,  ib. 

,  but  not  re-granted  to  Sir  Neal,  who 

conspired  with  O'Doherty,  573. 

,   great  part   of,  promised   to    Sir   N. 

O'Donnell,  57. 

Monk's  Grange,  Queen's  County,  Ixxiii. 

,  ,  grant  of,  to  Geo.  Harpool,  with 

the  conditions  of  plantation,  ib. 

Monopolies  sought  for  making  salt,  sowing 
oil  seeds,  wood,  soap,  ashes,  glass- 
making,  saltpetre,  ropes,  &c.,  370. 

,  Chichester  asks  instructions,  ib. 

,  wine  and  tobacco,  ib. 

,  Chichester  is  pressed  to  grant,  421. 

,  remarks  on,  424. 

Monroes,  John,  commissioned  by  the  city  of 
London  to  view  the  territories  the 
city  had  undertaken  to  plant,  Ixxxii. 

,   ,    London      commissioner      for 

plantation,  266. 

Monson,  Sir  William,  a  principal  undertaker 
in  Armagh,  with  his  consorts,  their 
means  and  abilities,  549. 

Montague,  Sir  Henry,  360. 

,  ,  commissioner  for  plantation  of 

Londonderry,  136. 

Montgomery,  George,  made  Bishop  of  Meath, 
247. 

Hugh,  pays    quit-rent   of    abbey   of 

Moyville,  448. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


657 


"  Moone,"  the  ship,  to  be  sent  against  pirates, 

29. 
Mooney  Donagh,  -writes  to  Father  Ultan,  442. 
Moore,  Archy,  367. 

,  Capt.  Archie,  servitor,  to  be  an  under- 
taker, 428. 

,  Archie,  509,547. 

,  Edward,  377. 

,  Sir  Garrett,  107,109,   113,115,  200, 

213,  345,  362,  363,  376,  377,  378,  380, 

381,  384,  385,  386,  387,  391,  394,  508, 

509. 

, commanded  in  Cavan,  xxiv. 

, ,  Lord  Howth's  charges  against, 

24. 
,    ,   complicity  with    Coueonuagh 

Maguire  in  his  flight,  25. 

,  .......  a  party  to  the  conspiracy,  ib. 

, ,  number  of  his  troop,  32. 

, ,  Lord  Howth's  quarrel  with,  41. 

, ,  his  dispute  with  Lord  Howth, 

delays  of,  48. 
,  ,  Lord  Howth  says  he  will  open 

his  (Sir  Garrett's)  treasons  before  the 

King  in  Council,  113. 
,  Capt.  Richard  Tyrrell's  charges 

against  Sir  Garrett,  115. 

, ,  charged  by  Capt.  Tyrrell  with 

warning  Tyrone  (Sir  Garrett's  intimate 
and  dear  friend)  that  he  (Tyrrell)  was 
employed  to  take  his  life,  ib. 

, jLordHowth's  complaint  against, 

proceedings  regarding,  137. 

,     Lord    Howth's     declaration 

against,  145. 

, ,  sent  over  to  London  to  answer 

charges,  134. 

,    submits    his    case    to   Privy 

Council  in  all  things,  150.,; 

, ,  Eustace's  deposition  regarding, 

162. 

,  ,  interrogatories  put    to,   164- 

166. 

, ,  his  answers  thereto,  166-168. 

, ,  his  pension,  168. 

, ,  detailed  answer  to  Lord  Howth's 

accusations,  169-171. 

, ,  revealed  the  meetings  of  Tyr- 

connell,  Delvyn,   and   Howth   to    the 
Deputy,  169. 

,  ,  petition  of,  to  Privy  Council, 

171. 
,   restored   to    favour   notwith- 
standing Lord  Howth's  charges,  200, 
201. 
,  ,  Lord  Howth's  renewed  com- 
plaint against,  274. 
, ,  Lord  Howth's  quarrel  with,  re- 
newed, 386. 
,  charges  of  Howth  against,  ib. 

, ,  answers  of,  to  the  charges  made 

to  the  King,  387. 

,  ,  to  the   charges  made  to  the 

Privy  Council,  ib. 
3. 


Moore,  Sir  Garrett — cont. 

, his  life  sought  by  Howth,  387. 

, ,  objected  to  on  the  Council  by 

Lord  Howth    when    cited    before  it, 

391. 
, ,  Lord  Howth  complains  to  the 

King  regarding,  394. 

, ,  suitor  for  fee-farm  of  several 

lands,  422. 
,  pays  the  greatest  rent  to  the 

King  of  any  man  in  the  kingdom,  423. 

, his  suit  recommended,  ib. 

, ,  the  King  does  not  question  his 

loyalty,  428. 
, ,  suit  of,  for  fee-farm  of  his  lands 

recommended  to  Salisbury,  525. 
,  Lady,  comes  with   Lord   Howth  to 

Mellifont,  162. 

,  Sir  John,  80. 

,  Laurence,  merchant  of  Drogheda,  told 

by  Lord  Howth  about  Sir  G.  Moore, 

385. 

, ,  of  Drogheda,  138. 

Robert,  511. 

Moores,  the,  transplantation  of,  216,  217. 

,  Patrick  Crosbie  employed  to  effect  it, 

from  his  influence  with  them,  217. 

,  injured  by  displanting  his  own  lands 

of  them  in  the  Queen's  County,  ib. 

,  he  prevailed  with  the  meaner  sort, 

ib. 

,  but  the  chiefest  refused,  being  loth  to 

quit  the  seats  where  they  bad  so  often 
kindled  the  iires  of  rebellion,  ib. 

,  in  view  of  the  Ulster  displantation, 

Chichester  added  force  to  persuasion, 
ib. 

,  now  by  the  aid  of  Crosbie  and  Mr. 

Pigott  the  seven  septs  are  departed, 
217,  240. 

,  some  into  Thomond,  more  into  Con- 
naught,  and  most  into  Kerry,  ib. 

,  they  will  bear  Mr.  Crosbie  everlasting 

iU-will,  ib. 

,  Chichester  calls  the  Moores  of  Leix, 

"  White  Moors,"  240. 

,  transplantation  of,   all  transplanted, 

except  some  young  children,  bastards, 
that  are  fostered  there,  240,  251. 

,   wishes   they   were  put   to  trades  in 

England,  ib. 

,  so  that  they  might  forget  their  pride 

and  fierceness,  251. 

,  rebellion  commonly  kindled  by  these 

white  Moors,  ib. 

,  children  of  the,  not  worth  while  to 

have  the  charge  of  sending  to  England, 
264. 

they  have  the  "breeching"  by  pro- 
vision of  Patrick  Crosby,  ib. 

,  now  that  they  are  removed  and  dis- 
persed, Ely  O'Connell  might  be  well 
planted,  372. 

T  T 


658 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Moores,  the — cont. 

,  it  was  among  the  Moores  the  fire  of 

rebellion  in  Leinster  has  often  been 

kindled,  372. 
,  fleet  collecting  at  Corunna  for  trans- 
porting the,  393. 
,  suggestion  that  it  is  for  bringing  over 

the  Irish  regiment  in  Spain  to  Ireland, 

ib. 
,  to  be  "bridled"  by  a  plantation  at 

Carlow,  396. 

,  the,  and  Connors,  are  dispersed,  421. 

,  transplanted,  reported  to  be  returning 

to  their  country,  453. 

Moors,  the,  of  Spain,  83. 

,   the   Ulster  inhabitants   ought    long 

since  to  have  been  treated  by  the  Kings 
of  England  as  the  Kings  of  Spain  did 
the  Moors,  ib. 

Morgan,  Edmund,  83. 

,  Piers,  father  of   Richard   Everard, 

45. 
Morley,  Lord,  his  title  to  the  marshalship  of 

Ireland,  547. 

Moroagh  McTeige  Oge,  pensioner,  337. 

Morocco,  the  King's  brother  said  to  have  re- 
ceived subsidies  from  Spain  to  fight 
against  the  King,  398. 

Morocoe,  see  Morocco. 

Morris,  Edmund,  333. 

Morrison,  Sir  Richard,  number  of  his  men, 
33, 

,  ,  petition  of,  to  Salisbury,  53. 

complaint   of   corporation   of 

Waterford  against,  190,  226,  251. 

,  dealings  of,  with  the  pirates,  277. 

,  ,  tries  to  divert  them  from  their 

evil  courses,  ib. 

, ,  cannot  take  summary  measures 

owing  to  their  numbers,  ib. 

,  sends  men  into  the  west  against 

the  pirates,  446. 

, complaint  against,  from  citizens 

of  Waterford,  ib. 

,  ,  defends  his  conduct,  447. 

,  precedents  of  other  governors, 

ib. 

,   ,  offered  the  choice  of  compro- 
mising the  complaint,  ib. 

, ,  but  refuses,  and  demands  a  judg- 
ment of  censure  or  approbation,  ib. 

, ,  is  quite  willing  to  retire,  ib. 

, ,  76,  97,  366,  467,  480,  510. 

,  interrogatories  to  deputy  Vice- 
admiral  Grice,  528,  530. 

, vice-president  of  Munster,  577. 

, ,his  account  of  rents  andrevenue 

of  Munster,  578,  579. 

Moryson,  see  Morrison. 

Mountague,  see  Montague. 

Mountgarret,  Lord,  falsely  charged  by  Lord 
Howth  with  Tyrconuell's  treason,  Ixix. 


Mountjoy,  the  Lord,  Ul,  329. 

,  market  of,  406. 

,  precinct  of,  404. 

,  fort  of,  in  Tyrone,  61. 

, repairs  of,  by  !Franois  Eowe,  80. 

, ,  raising  higher  the  ramparts  of, 

229,  366. 

,  300  acres  laid  to,  561. 

, ,held  by  Sir  Francis  Roe,  477, 

478. 

, ,  reversion  to  Sir  Thomas  Coach, 

ib. 
Mountjoye,  see  Mountjoy. 

Sir  F.  Roe's  men  at,  33. 

Mount  Norris,  Chichester  encamps  at,  6. 
Mountnorris  castle,   constable   of,    Capt.  H. 
Atherton,  509. 

,   fort  of,  erected  for  a  gayle  (gaol), 

63. 

,    ,    three    balHbos   adjacent  to, 

in    Oner,    demised    to    Capt.  Henry 
Atherton  for  21  years,  7  James  I.,  555. 

,367. 

,  market  of,  406. 

Mourne,  lordship  of,  in  Down,  xi. 

and  Newry,  a  government  of  Ulster, 

xxiii. 

,  commanded  by  Sir  Edward  Trevor, 

xxiv. 
Mowrne,  see  Mourne. 
Moy,  Henry,  549. 
Moygaddy,  325. 
Moyle,  CO.  Carlow,  324. 

,  Captain  Henry,  bill  to,  19,  367,512. 

,  Philip,  341. 

Moylurke,  priory  of,  448. 
Moyry,  the   pass  of,  a  few  woodkerne  still 
out  there  in  Feb.  1609,  198. 

,  is  situate  midway  between  Dun- 

dalk  and  Newry,  ib. 
..,,  the  fort  of,  five  ballibos  next  to,  de- 
mised, 10th  June,  4th  Jas.  I.,  to  Capt. 
Anthony  Smith^for  21  years,  554. 
Moyville,  abbey  of,  448. 
Moyvore,  town  of,  53. 

Muckna,  lands  of,  annexed  to  bishopric  of 
Clogher,  483. 

Mucknee,  see  Mucknoe. 
Mucknoe,  a  county  in  Armagh,  x. 

,  possessed  by  Earl  of  Tyrone,  ib. 

Mulconry,  Florence,  461,  464,  465, 467. 
Mullen,  Denis,  murdered  by  his  kinsman,  178. 

Mullinex,  Daniel,  king  of  arms  and  clerk  of 
works,  76,  80,  226. 

Mullingar,  Hope,  Thomas,  of,  325. 

Mullins,  the,  may  be  pardoned,  with  one  ex- 
ception, 178. 
Mulranken,  324. 

Mulryan,  Honora-ny-,  lawful  mfe  of  Thomas 
Bourke,  291. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


659 


Multifamam,  convent  ot  442. 

, ,  priest  arrested  saying  mass  at, 

445. 

,  tut  rescued,  ib. 

Mungomery,  see  Montgomery. 

Munitions  of  war,  for  the  following  forts,  485 — 

AtUone. 

Ballashannon. 

Carrickfergus. 

Castlemaine. 

Castle  Park. 

Castle  Toorae. 

Charlemont. 

Cork. 

Culmore. 

Derry. 

Dublin. 

Dun  cannon. 

Limerick. 

Massareen. 

Monahan. 

Mount  joy. 

Mountnorris. 

Newry. 

Sligo. 

,  Sir  Oliver  St.  John's  statement,  486. 

Munster,  Deputy  Vice-Admiral  of,  Robert 
Grice,  546. 

,  forts  of,  Danyers  wishes  increase  of 

artillery  for,  93. 

,  ironworks  in,  348. 

, ,  and  at  Youghal,  ib. 

, ,  and  in  Shannon,  ib. 

,  notes  on  province  of,  by  Sir  D.  Sars- 

field,  135. 

,  escheated  lands  of,  ib. 

,  undertakers  of,  ib. 

,  pirates  on  coast  of,  28. 

,  plantation  of,  Ixxiii. 

, ,  in  1584,  ib. 

, conditions  of,  Ixxyi. 

,  ,  intermixed   habitation   of   (the 

capital  error  of  Leinster  plantation), 
intended  to  be  avoided,  Ixxvii. 

,  Irish  tenants  and  servants  for- 
bidden to  undertake,  ib. 

, ,  the  worst  ever  made  in  Ireland, 

17. 

, the  planters  could  not  stock  the 

country  to  restore  the  waste,  114. 

...,. ,  a  warning  against  wasting  tJl- 

ster  before  planting,  as  it  is  not  so  good 
land,  nor  so  near  to  the  sea,  ib. 

, ,  errors  of,  357. 

,  undertakers  of,  names  of  the  chief, 

Ixxvi. 

, ,  of  Cheshire  and  Lancashire,  ib. 

, ,  of  Devonshire   and   Somerset, 

ib. 

,  undertakers  in,  484. 

, ,  George  Courtney  one  of,  ib. 


Munster,  undertakers  in — cont. 

, ,  Sir  John  Dowdal  purchases  of 

Sir  H.  BOlingsley,  his  seigniory,  484. 
, ,   these    were    granted    to    Mr. 

Strowde's  father,  ib. 

, ,  Sir  George  Thornton,  487. 

,  President  of,  unable  to  cope  with  the 

pirates,  28. 

, ,69. 

, ,  Ormonde  commends  him,  120. 

, ,  Samuel  Newoe,  serjeant-at-arms 

to,  226. 

,  provost-marshal  for,  466. 

, ,  Richard  Aldworth,  507. 

,  recusants  of,  fines  imposed  upon,  by 

Sir  H.   Brouncker,  reduced  but  not 

remitted,  215. 

revenues  of,  receipts  of  the,  578. 

,  composition  of  receipts  of,  ib. 

,  ships  sent  to  coast  of,  383. 

,  towns  of,  privileges   granted  to   the 

corporations,  267. 

,  cocquet  customs  granted  to,  ib. 

,  Vice- Admiral   of,   to   be  arrested  for 

abetting  pirates,  353. 
,  Vice-President  of.  Sir  Charles  Wil- 

mot,  329. 

, ,46. 

,  ,  Sir  Richard  Morrison,  467, 477, 

495. 

,  woods  of,  greatly  wasted,  88. 

, ,  suggestion  that  they  be  seized 

into  the  King's  hands,  164. 
,  circuits  of  assize,  two  yearly  to  be 

held  in,  154. 

,  Council  of,  proposals  regarding,  xvui. 

Munterdevlin,    Chichester    would    have    Sir 

Eras.  Roe  undertake  it,  364,  366. 
Musgrave,  xcvi. 
Muskett,  Simon,  550. 

Muster-master,    Capt.  Rd.   Bingley,  recom- 
mended for,  for  Ulster,  497. 
of  Ireland,  John  Corbett  appointed, 

581. 

general.  Sir  J.  King,  507. 

Musters,  officers  of,  512. 
,  the,  Sir  J.  Fullerton  has  given  [satis- 
faction regarding,  152. 


N. 

Naas,  St.  John  Baptist,  abbey  of,  at,  126. 

Nangle,  Edward,  103. 

,  Robert,  ib. 

,  accused  in  second  year  of  the 

King's  reign,  on  petition  of  gentlemen 
of  county  of  Kildare,  of  various  of- 
fences, 206. 

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GENERAL  INDEX. 


Nangle — cont. 

,  Eotert,  Edward   Fitzgerald    (1G09), 

prays  a  commission  against  him  again, 

206. 
,  is  granted  an  extension  of  his 

lease  in  BaUisax,  &c.,  216. 
Natives,  consideration  to  be  had  of  the  best  of 

them  in  the  plantation,  63. 
(Irish),  distribution  of  precincts  to 

them  conjointly  with  servitors,  410. 

, ,  reasons  of  this  course,  411. 

,  conditions  of  settlement  of,  412. 

,  ,  proportions  to  be  assigned  to 

the  principal,  429. 
, .unfairly  treated  in  distribution 

of  precincts,  521. 

, ,  ill-affected  in  consequence,  522. 

Neagh,  Lough,  72,  209. 

,  King's  boats  at,  95. 

Neilson,  Captain,  368. 
Nelson,  Capt.  Mar,  511. 

,  John,  ib. 

Netherby,  Walter  Graham,  "  the   gudeman 

of,"  ci,  cii. 
Netterville,  James,  grant  of  lands  to,  289. 
Nettervylle,  Mr.,  recommendation  of,  to  Lord 

Northampton,  145.     See  Netterville. 
Neugeut,  see  Nugent. 
Neuterville,  see  Netterville. 
Newcastle  of  Ardcrommau,  495. 

(in  Northumberland),  334. 

Newee,  Capt.,  797. 

Samuel,  226. 

Newcomeu,  Beverley,  507. 

,  Sir  Eobert,  bill  to,  19. 

,  purveyor  to  His  Majesty,  80. 

, ,  purveyor  of  victuals,  301. 

,  ,367,382,  383. 

Newfoundland,  209. 

New  Ross,  new  charter  for,  154. 

New  Rosse,  liberties  and  immunities  claimed 

by,  528. 
, ,   Chichester's   notes   thereupon, 

ib.     See  New  Ross. 
Newry,  the  lordship  of,  in  Down,  xi. 

83,  241. 

,  assizes  held  there  in  Eeb.  1609,  193. 

,  Sir  Robt.  Jacob's  account  of,  ib. 

,  settlement  of  Sir  Arthur  Magennis's 

lands  made  or  about  three  years  since, 

469,  470. 
Castle,  constable  of,  Capt.  Anthony 

Smith,  509. 
,  abbey  of,  seven  towns  lying  in  One- 

alan,   formerly    the   property   of  this 

abbey,  granted,  4th  of  Edw.VI.,  to  Sir 

Nicholas  Bagnal  and  his  heirs,  559. 
Newt,  Newce,  Neuce,  Captain,  men  delivered 

to  his  lieutenant,  5. 

, ,  number  assigned  to,  10. 

, , ,  foot,  33. 

Newton,  priory  of,  448. 
,  Walter,  336. 


Newtown-by-Trim,  monastery   of    St.  John 

Baptist  at,  518. 
Newtown,    a    castle    of    Lord    Dungannon, 

granted  to  Turlaghe  M'Arte  O'Neile, 

34. 

,  ,  reasons  of  this  grant,  ib. 

,  in  Tyrone,  delivered  to  Tyrlow  and 

Neale  M'Arte  O'Neill,  61. 

,  the,  adjoining  Waterford,  456. 

Nichol,  George,  483. 

Noblemen  not  to  send  their  sons  beyond  seas, 

174. 
Norreys,  the  Lady,  96. 

,  Sir  Thomas,  96,  340. 

Norris,  Sir  John,  garrison  planted  by,  at  Ros- 
common, 258.     See  Norreys. 
Northampton,  Lord,  69. 

,  Earl  of,  his  precinct,  521. 

, has  chosen  good  men  to  under- 
take it,  ib. 
Northon,  see  Norton. 
Norton,  Sir  Daniel,  96,  202. 
,  Captain,  certificate  of  men  brought 

over  to  Dublin  by,  July  14,  1608,  4,  5. 
,  Dudley,   63,92,101,   125,    127,  204, 

383,  481,  489. 

,   ,  secretary  for  Irish  causes,  151. 

,  ,  requested  to  favour  Tod's  claim 

to  the  mastership  of  the  Savoy,  391. 
, ,  Lord  Thomond  sends  him  his 

petition  against  Sir  Adam  Loftus,  400. 
, ,  maps  of  escheated  counties  sent 

to  Salisbury  by,  401. 

,  Mr.,  Salisbury's  secretary,  276. 

,  Capt.  Gregory,  126,  127. 

,  Humphry,  127. 

,  Gregory,  511. 

,  Captain  Humphrey,  367. 

,  John,  511. 

Nott,  James,  secretary  to  the  Earl  of  Tyrone, 

a  pensioner,  for  betraying  his  secrets, 

337. 
Nottinghamshire  men  brought  over  to  Dublin, 

5. 
Nuce,  Capt.  Wm.,  510.     See  Newoe. 
Nugent,  Edward,  324,  375. 
,  Father,  a  Jesuit,  gives  popish  books 

to  Sir  Christopher  Flunkett's  son  to  be 

brought  into  Ireland, 

,  Mary,  Dowager  Lady  Delvin,  519. 

,  Eobert,  373. 

,   Thomas,    relation    of    conversation 

with  Lord  Howth,  155. 

,  Mr.  Walter  Bane,  281. 

,  Walter,  512. 

Nummis,  Be,  treatise  sent  by  Sir  J.  Davys  to 

Salisbury,  134. 
Nunmonkton,   co.    Cork,  J.  Carvyle  of,  his 

project  of  plantation,  323. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


661 


0. 


O'Boyle,  95,  365,  570. 

,  sept  of,  claim  freehold  in  Donegal,  57. 

, -widow  of,  to  be  removed  to  natives' 

precinct,  429. 
,  ,  allowed   (on  the  plantation  of 

Ulster)  [         ]   quarters  of  land  in  the 

harony  of  Eapho,  572. 
O'Brien,  Turlogh,  384. 
,  proposed  as  president  of  Connaught, 

xvii. 

,  Dermot,  wardship  of,  262. 

,  ,  ,   to  he   confirmed   to  his 

mother,  263. 
,  Mabel,  to  have  wardship  of  her  son, 

262. 
O'Brogan,  the  vicar,  94. 
O'Byrne,  Lieutenant  Teg,  231. 
O'Cahan's  Country,  comprised   in  Coleraine, 

xxiv. 

,  freeholds  created  in,  xxjdii. 

O'Cahan's    independence  of  Tyrone, 

great  cause  of  offence  to  the  Earl,  xxi  v. 
,   not   alone  in   claiming  independent 

estate,  xxxii. 

,  lix. 

,  country  claimed  by  Tyrone,  as  part  of 

Tyrone,  ib. 

,  how  confiscated,  Ix. 

,  contained  in  Coleraine  Co.,  x. 

,  captain  of,  Kory  O'Cahan,  t6. 

,  left  to  Sir  Tirlough's  government,  e6. 

,  able  to  muster  140  horsemen  and  400 

foot,  ib. 
O'Cahan,  Sir  Donuel,  lix. 
,    ,   6.5,  66,   67,  78,  87,   101,   104, 

112,  119,  120,  126,  127,  194,  201,  204, 

218,  225,  344,  365,  503,  504. 
,    ,   commissioner     in    Fugitives' 

country,  xxxv. 

, ,  his  differences  with  the  Bishop 

of  Derry,  Ixi. 

, .repairs  to  Dublin,  ib. 

, ,  as    proof    of   his    innocence, 

offers  to  be  imprisoned  till  cleared  by 

law,  ib. 

, ,    is    committed    to    the    castle 

prison,  ib. 

, ,  is  ordered  to  be  sent  over  to 

London,  ib. 

, ,  is  first  indicted,  but  not  tried,  ib. 

, reasons  for  this,  ib. 

, ,  is  sent  to  the  Tower,  Ixii. 

, ,  dies  there  untried,  ib. 

,  ,  prisoner  in  Dublin  Castle,  15, 

29. 


■ ,  imprisonment  causes  much  em- 

barassment  in  Spain,  3 1 . 

,  gives  up  a  barony  to  Tyrone  in 

lieu  of  a  debt  of  200/.,  60. 


O'Cahan,  Sir  Donnel— con*. 

,  Chichester's   narrative  of  his 

course  with,  65. 

J ,  his  agreement  with  Tyrone,  ib. 

his  first  difference  with  Tyrone, 

ib. 

, ,  he  and  Tyrone  reconciled  by  the 

priests,  66. 
, ,  would  have  fled  with  Tyrone, 

ib. 
, ,  submits  to    Sir    Arthur    Chi- 
chester, ib. 
, ,  thrusts  his  brother  Shane  Car- 

ragh  into  rebellion,  ib. 
, ,  his  lands  set,  while  in  prison,  by 

Chichester,  67. 
, ,  Chichester  seeks  directions  for 

his  trial,  87,  112. 
, ,  he  and  Sir  Neale  O'Donnell  are 

plotting    to   escape  out  of   the  castle 

prison,  ib. 
,  .Chichester  wishes  that  they  be 

sent  to  the  new  colony  of  Tlorida,  if 

they  be  freed  from  the  law,  ib. 
, ,  his  trial  approaches,  104,  112, 

119,  126. 
, ,  the  Chief  Justice  and  Attorney- 
General  should  be  sent  back  from  Eng- 
land, ib. 
, ,  question  as  to  how  O'Cahan  is 

to  be  dealt  with,  145. 
, ,  conditions  for,  if  he  escape  the 

gallows,  177. 
,    ,  Limavaddy,    an    ill  favoured, 

ruinous  castle  at,  O'Cahan's  chief  house, 

194. 
, , ,  assizes  held  there  in  1609, 

ib. 

, , ,  land  good  about  it,  ib. 

, ,  Chichester    seeks    instructions 

how  to  deal  with,  179. 
,  ,  was  to  be  tried  in  Hilary  Term, 

1609,  201. 
, ,  Sir   J.  Davys    does  not  know 

why  Chichester  omitted  it,  ib. 
,  ,  what  to  be  done  with  his  chil- 
dren, ib. 
,  ,  has  been  arraigned,  and  is  to  hi 

tried  next  term,  205, 
, ,  Lords  of  the  Council  surprised 

at  Chichester's  delay  in  bringing  him 

to  trial,  218. 

, ,  after   the    event   of  Sir  Neal 

O'Donnel's  trial,  Sir  John  Davys  post- 
pones Sir  Donnel  0'Cane's,225,  241. 
.,  to  be  sent  prisoner  to  England, 


263. 


..,  ,   Chichester's    proceedings    re- 
garding, approved,  264. 

.,  King's  letter  for  sending  over, 


270. 

has  his  chief  house  at  Lima- 
vaddy, 294. 

■>  sent  to  England  for  Irial,  300. 

.., ,  character  of,  307. 


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GENERAL  INDEX. 


O'Cahan,  Sir  Donnel — cont. 

, ,  and  Naugtton  O'Donnel,    son 

of  Sir  Neale,  sent  to  England  for  trial, 
306. 

, , ,  character  of,  307. 

, ,  treasons  charged  against,  312. 

, ,  witnesses  against,  313-16. 

,  Chichester  proposes   that  he 

and  Sir  Naughton  O'Donnel  be  sent 
oyer  to  London,  344. 

,  ,  petition  of,  412. 

, ,  two  years  a  prisoner  in  Dublin, 

ib. 

, ,  deprived  of  profits  of  his  lands, 

413. 

, ,  knows  not  the  cause,  ih. 

, ,  begs  to  be  informed,  ih, 

, letter  to  Salisbury  on  same  sub- 
ject, ib. 

, ,wife  of,  to  be  provided  for  when 

the  Deputy  shall  please,  429. 

,  five  months  a  prisoner,  434. 

,  writes  a  letter  from  his  prison  in 

the  Tower  of  London,  which  Chi- 
chester sends  to  Salisbury  to  show 
what  firebrands  are  abroad,  503. 

, ,  his  letter  to  his  brother  Manus, 

504. 

,  ,  protests  his  innocence,  ib. 

,  had  a  promise  from  Sir  Henry 

Docwra  in  the  Queen's  name  that  he 
should  be  restored  to  his  lands,  563. 

,  ,  excepting  Annogh  and  other 

lands  near  Derry,  ib. 

Brian  Carragh,  his  head  set   up  on 

Dungamon  Castle,  16. 

,  ,  his  priest  and  ghostly  father 

executed,  ib. 

O'Cahan,  Dermol,  101. 

,  Donogh  M'Quin  oge,  goes  to  Swedish 

service,  305. 

Manus,  349. 

, ,  Sir  DonneU's  brother,  deposi- 
tion of,  314. 

, ,  letter  of,  to  Pawlet,  316. 

, to  be  considered  in  the  settle- 
ment, 61. 

,  ,365,  503,  504. 

,  Manus  M'  Quy vally,  to  be  favourably 

considered  in  the  settlement,  61. 

,  Shane  Carragh,  66. 

,  ,  deposition  of,  in  Sir  Donnell 

O'Chane's  case,  313. 

, ,  brother  of  Sir  Donnell,  murderer 

of  Denis  O'MuUan,  6. 

, ,  captured  and  delivered  to  Chi- 
chester, 7. 

, ,  tried  and  executed  as  a  traitor, 

ib.,  11. 

,  ,  reward  given  for  his  capture,  7. 

,  hanged  at  Dungannon,  Ixxix, 

Ixxx. 

,  ,  Aveny,  deposition  of,  touching 

Sir  Donnell  O'Chane,  313. 

,  ,  further  depositions,  314,  315. 


O'Callaghan,  Cahir,  of  Dromynine,  surrender 
and  re-grant  to,  584. 

O'Cane,  Eory,  512.     See  O'Cahan. 
O'CarroU,  Ely,  231. 

,  Daniel,  512. 

,  Sir  William,  372. 

, patent  of,  impeached  by  Cros- 

bie,  420. 
O'Carroll's   Country,  made  shire-ground    by 

Chichester,  420. 
O'Carrolls,  heir  of  the,  a  ward  of  Sir  Thomas 

Ash,  421. 
,  wardship  of  sold  by  Ash  to  Lord 

Butler,  ib. 
O'Carveel,  Teige,  94. 

, ,  examination  of,  45. 

,  ,  reports  of  messages  sent  by 

O'Doherty  to  Sir  N.  O'DonneU,  ib. 
, ,  deposition  of,  in  Neal  Garvc's 

case,  310. 
O'Cavan,  Manus,  to  be  admitted  into  Coleraine 

county,  429. 
O'Connell,  Richard,  priest,  300. 

,  ,467. 

,  Eiccard,  475. 

O'Connors,    the,    plantation  of    Slewmargy, 

King's  county,  Ixxiii. 
to  be  "bridled"  by  a  plantation  at 

Carlow,  396. 

,  Donald,  of  co.  Sligo,  324. 

,  Sir  Donnogh,  death  of,  273. 

, ,  brother  of,  an  unstaid  man,  who 

long  served  the  Spaniards,  ib. 

,  Roe,  death  of,  273. 

Dune  (Don),  Sir  Hugh,  mortal  illness 

of,  ib. 

Sir  Hugh,  325. 

,   Hugh  M'Tirlagh  Roe,    condemned 

for  treason,  but  pardoned,  397. 

,  John,  388. 

,  petitions  to  be  restored  to  Car- 

rigfoyle  Castle,  455. 

,  his  petition,  456. 

,  Lysagh,  168,  483,  511. 

,  Roe,  one  of  the  greatest  Irish  lords  in 

Connaught,  298. 

,  death  of,  ib. 

, ,  has  left  divers  sons,  who  may 

prove  honest  or  dishonest,  298. 
,  Sligo,  one  of  the  greatest  Irish  lords  in 

Connaught,  298. 

, ,  death  of,  ib. 

, ,  died  without  issue,  ib. 

, ,  his  lands  pass  to  brother  Don- 
nell, ib. 
, ,  is  a  widower,  and  is  to  marry 

one  of  Lord  Desmond's  daughters,  ib. 

,  William,  511. 

O'Conry,  Donnell  oge,  540. 

,  Donnell,  ib. 

O'Cor,  Capt.,  allowance  made  him  by  Sir  Toby 

Caulfeild,  540. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


663 


O'Corres,  a  minor  sept  in  Tyrone,  61. 
O'Delvynes  (O'Devlins),  a  minor  sept  in  Ty- 
rone, 61. 
O'Dempsy,  Hugh,  324. 
O'Derry,  the  sept  of,  565. 
,...,  ,  held  as  Erenaghs,  part  of  the 

island  of  Derry,  ib. 
O'Devan,  Coneonnagh,  allowance  made  him 

by  Sir  Toby  Caulfeild,  540. 

,  Jenkin,  540. 

O'Dogan,  Mortagh,  comes  to  Castle  Kune,  38. 
, ,  communications  with  Sir  Neale 

O'Donnell,  ib. 
O'Doghertie,  Brian  M'Coyne,  confession  of,  20. 
, ,  reports  treacherous  message  of 

Sir  Neal  O'Neale  to  Sir  Cahir  O'Dog- 

herty,  ib. 
O'Doghertie,  commission  for  survey  of  his 

lands,  7. 

O'Dogherty,  73,  94,  95,  99,  115,  194,  203. 
,  Sir  Cahir,  222,  223,  224,  226,  227, 

228,  249,  330,  345,  346,  347,  368,  369, 

389,  504. 
, ,  rising  of,  history  of,  xlviii  and 

foil. 

, ,  seizes  Derry,  xlviii. 

, ,  intercepted  letter  of,  to  O'Gal- 

lagher,  xlix. 
, ,  his  success  brief,  ib. 

, ,  the  war  "  made  thick  and  short," 

ib. 

,  ,  slain  in  battle  by  some  of  his 

own  men,  ib. 

,  ,  they  get  the  reward  for  his 

head,  ib. 

, ,  commissioner  in  Fugitive's  coun- 
try, XXXV. 

, ,  his  rising,  Ix,  Ixi,  Ixxi. 

, ,  his  territory,  ib. 

, ,  his  seizure  of  Derry,  ib. 

, ,  and  slaughter  of  Sir  J.  Paulett, 

ib. 

, ,  slain,"24. 

found  by  inquisition  to  have 

died  in  rebellion,  Ixi. 
, ,  effect  of  this  finding,  equal  to 

attainder,  ib. 
,  was  foreman  of  the  jury  that 

found  true  bills  of  treason  against  the 

Fugitive  Earls,  xiv. 
,  news  of  his  being  slain  brought 

to  Chichester,  Ixxviii,  Ixxx. 
, ,  at  the  review  of  the  troops  on 

Lurgan  Green,  Ixxviii. 

J ,  proclamation  thereupon,  ib. 

, ,  demands  regarding,  1. 

, requires  to  have  half  the  spoil 

of  the  Derry,  3. 

, ,  report  of  his  death,  5. 

, ,  young  brother  of,  still  at  large, 

8. 

> , execution  of,  11. 

, ,  death  of,  curjous  coincidences 

of  dates  and  numbers  in,  14. 


O'Dogherty — cont. 

,  Bryan  O'Quyne,  confession  of,  18. 

, ,  reports  Sir  Neale  O'Donnell's 

complicity  with  O'Dogherty,  ib. 

,  ,  sent  two  messengers  to  him, 

ib. 

,  reward  for  head  of,  28. 

, ,  Sir  N.  O'Donnell's  dealings  with, 

39. 

rebellion,  generally  approved  by  Irish, 

31. 

,  his  death  not  heard  in  Spain,  ib. 

,  the   expedition  used  in  suppressing 

his  outbreak  has  amazed  the  most  re- 
bellious spirits,  99. 

Sir  Cahir,   ComwalUs  hears  that  if 

his  (O'Dogherty's)  rising  had  been  suc- 
cessful, underhand  supplies  would  have 
been  sent  him  from  Spain,  120. 

,  Friars  TirlaghO' Gallagher  and 

Edmond  O'Molarchy  the  contrivers  of 
his  treason,  194. 

, ,  they  lurk  in  county  of  Cavan. 

ib. 

, ,  wander  up  and  down  like  Satan, 

seducing  people  into  rebellion,  ib.\ 

, ,  his  success  owing  to  his  seizing 

the  store  of  arms,  196. 
,  his  late  country  (Enishowen) 

bestowed  on  Sir  Arthur  Chichester, 

203. 
,  pension  of  40/.  a  year  to  his 

widow  out    of   Enishowen,    his    late 

country,  216. 
, ,  his  sister  and  wife  committed 

to  the  custody  of  the  sheriff  of  Dublin 

for  80  days,  227. 

, , ,  Sir  Thomas  Phillips'  fort   (at 

Limavaddy)  checked  his  career,  249. 

'. ,  has  ruined  Mrs.  Corhett's  estate, 

414. 

.504. 

,  Sir  Donnel  O'Cahan  calls  on 

his  brother  Mauus  to  observe  how  little 
it  profited  some  of  Turlagh  M' Art  Oge's 
company  to  slay  Sir  CaMr  O'Dogherty, 
ib. 

fine  imposed  on  the  counties  of 

Tyrone  and  Armagh  for  reheving  trai- 
tors after  his  revolt,  532. 

Sir  Toby  Caulfeild  renders  an 

account  of  sums  received  under,  ib. 

,  Donagh,  was  along  with  Sir  Neil 

O'Donnell,  45. 

,  Lady,  wife  of  Sir  Cahir,  deposition 

of,  in  Neal  Garve's  case,  309. 

, ,216. 

, ,  who  got  her  apparel  on  O'Dog- 
herty's outbreak,  94. 

, Margaret,  deposition  of,  in  Sir 

Neal  Garve's  case,  309. 
,  ,  and  her  child  committed  for 

80  days  to  custody  of  Thomas  Drom- 

gool,  one  of  the  sheriffs  of  Dublin, 

227. 


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GENERAL  INDEX. 


O'Dogherty—  cont. 

,  Donnell,  base  brother  to  Sir  Cahir, 

confession  of,  regarding  Sir  Neale,  312. 

,  Eory,  512. 

,  bastard  brother  of,  executed,  15. 

,  Eoor  (Rorie),  apprehension  of,  con- 
trived, 150. 

, deposition  of,  in  Sir  Neal  Garve's 

case,  309. 

,  interrogatory  to  Sir  G.Moore,  con- 
cerning, 166. 

,  his  answer  thereto,  168. 

O'Dogherty's  Country,  King's  title  to,  572. 

,  contains  barony  of  Enishowen, 

ih. 

, , .,  a  mere  Irisb  county,  ib. 

,  surrendered  15  June,  30  Eliz., 

by  Sir  John  O'Dogherty,  ib. 

,  and  re-granted  on  condition  to 

be  void  for  rebellion,  ib. 

,  Sir  John  died  in  actual  rebel- 
lion, 44  Elizabeth,  ib. 

,  new  patents  to  his  son.  Sir  Cahir 

O'Dogherty,  28  Jan.,  2  James  I.,  ib. 

,  Sir  Cahir,  20  May,  6  James  I., 

rebelled,  and  his  patent  thereby  became 
void,  ib. 

,216. 

,  called  Enishowen,  580. 

,  granted  to  Chichester,  ib. 

O'DoUan,  O'Brien,  511. 

O'Donnell,  Caflfar,  one  of  the  fugitives,  xxxix. 

,  Caphar  Oge,  87,  104. 

,  Capbar,  219,  240. 

, ,  a  young  son  of,  how  to  be  dis- 
posed of,  62. 

,  Chichester's  opinion  of,  57. 

,   ,    Chichester   asks    instructions 

about,  179. 

,  ,  and  about  his  sons,  ib. 

,  ,  Chichester  wishes  the  child  of, 

and  the  children  of  the  Earl  of  Tyrone 
put  to  trades  in  England,  240. 

, ,   to  be  continued  in   restraint, 

264. 

,  Caffar  M'Hugh  Duve,  94. 

,  ,  is  given  a  silk  gown  and  three 

yards  of  velvet,  part  of  the  spoil 
gathered  by  O'Dogherty,  ib. 

,    Caphar    Oge,    prisoner  in    Dublin 

Castle,  29. 

,  Donel   Oge,    one  of   the  fugitives, 

xxxix. 

,  Edmond,  194. 

,  Manus  O'Donnell,  widow  of,  to  be 

removed  to  the  natives'  precincts,  429. 

,  Multane  Dualtagh,  94. 

,  Naghtan,  one  of  the  fugitives,  Xixix. 

Shane  M'Turloe,  carries  off  M'Manus's 

cows,  37. 
,  Sir  Neale,  66,  67,  75,  87,   104,112, 

119,  120,  126,  127,  201,  204,  218,  222, 

223,  224,  225,  344,  365. 


O'Donnell,  Sir  Neale — cont. 

, ,  captain  of  Tyrconnell,  ix. 

,    commissioner     in    fugitives' 

country,  xxxv. 

, ,  his  infant  heir,  Caffar,  forcibly 

carried  off  by  the  Earls,  xxxvi. 

, ,  indicted  and  tried,  Ixii. 

,  ,  jury  give  no  verdict,  ib. 

,  ,  the  effect  of  this  on  the  dealing 

with  Sir  Donel  O'Cahan,  ib. 

, ,  demand  regarding,  1. 

his  activity  in  the  conspiracy, 

2. 

,  advises  the  taking  of  Derry  and 

massacre  of  the  people,  ib. 

,  engages  to  take  LifFord,  ib. 

, ,  uncle  of  Neile  M'Swyne,  9. 

, ,  sends  a  treacberous  message  to 

O'Dogherty,  20. 

,  prisoner  in  Dublin  Castle,  29. 

, ,  messenger  sent  to,  by  O'Dog- 
herty, 37. 

,  ,  has  dealings  with  M' Allen,  38. 

, ,  complicity  with  O'Doherty,  45. 

,  ,  his  son  a  dangerous  youth,  57. 

,  ,    Chichester's    account    of    his 

courses  after  he  became  Deputy,  66. 

,  ,  why  he  pardoned  Sir  Neale  and 

got  him  a  grant  of  Glanfyn,  ib. 

, ,  his  lands  set,  while  in  prison,  by 

Chichester,  67. 
,  seeks   directions   for   his   trial 

and  that  of  his  son,  two  brothers,  and 

Caffar  Oge  O'Donnel,  87,  112. 
,  they  are  plotting  to  escape  out 

of  the  castle  prison,  87. 
,  ,  wishes  that  such  of  them  as  may 

be  freed  from  the  danger  of  the  law  be 

sent   to   the   new   colony   of   Florida, 

ib. 
,  bis  trial  (and  tbat  of  Sir  Donel 

O'Cahan  and  others)  approaches,  104, 

112,  119,  125. 
,  ,  if  tried  in  the  absence  in  Eng- 
land of  Sir   James  Ley  (Ch.  J.)  and 

Sir  John  Davys  (Att.  Gen.)  it  will  be 

a  loss,  ib. 
, ,  reports  among  the  Irish  in  Spain 

that  he  has  escaped,  and  will  head  the 

IFlster  rebels,  120. 
, ,  was  to  be  tried  in  Hilary  Term 

1609,  201. 
, ,  Sir  J.  Davys  does  not  know 

why  Chichester  omitted  it,  ib. 

, ,  the  King's   directions  not  yet 

given  about  the  children  of  Sir  Neale 
O'Donnell  and  O'Cahane,  ib. 

,  ,  inquiry  how  he  is  to  be  dealt 

with,  145. 

, accusations  against,  to  be  con- 
sidered by  commissioners,  160. 

,  ....:.,  conditions  for,  if  he  escapes  the 

gallows,  177. 

,  tries  to  escape,  178. 


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665 


O'Donnell,  Sir  Neale — cont. 

, ,  rope  discovered  in  his  posses- 
sion, ib. 

, ,  his  son  Naghton,  179. 

, ,  Chichester  wishes  his  sons  were 

sent  to  the  plantation  in  Virginia,  ib. 

,    desired    to    proclaim    himself 

"O'Donnell,"  but  was  prevented,  189. 

,  has  been  arraigned,  20.'5. 

, ,  is  to  be  tried  next  term,  ib. 

, ,  Council  of  England  surprised  at 

Chichester's  delay  in  bringing  him  to 

trial,  218. 
,  ,   Eorie    O'Donuel,    Sir    Neale's 

lawful    brother,   only    11    years    old, 

arrested,  219. 
, ,  but  the  Judges  of  Assize  in  the 

county  of  Down  refused  to  try  him  be- 
cause of  his  youth,  ib. 
,  ,  Sir   John   Davys's   account   of 

his  trial,  222. 
, ,  is  charged  with  being  party  with 

O'Dogherty  to  the  sack  and  burning  of 

Derry,  ib. 

,  his  other  treasons,  ib. 

, ,  jury -who  tried  him,  all  Irish,  ib. 

,  he  objects  to  them  as  too  mean, 

ib. 
, ,    demands   a    jury   of    English 

knights,  ib. 
, ,  the  jury  remain  together  from 

Friday  to  Monday,  224. 
, ,  they  refuse  to  find  him  guilty, 

ib. 
, ,  the  judges  refuse  to  accept  a 

verdict  of  acquittal,  ib. 
,  ,  the  Deputy  and  Council  are  in- 
formed of  it,  ib. 
, , ,  but  prefer  that  the  jury  should 

be  discharged  rather  than  acquit,  ib. 

, ,  though  they  could  only  be  fined 

after  a  verdict,  ib. 
,  ,   the    jury   discharged    without 

verdict,  225. 
, ,  if  he  is  to  be  tried  at  law,  must 

be  tried  in  Middlesex,  as  O'Euark  was, 

ib. 
,  ,  or  kept  in  prison  till  Ulster  is 

planted,  ib. 
,  ,   Chichester's    account    of    the 

trial,  241. 
, ,  they  refuse  to  find  him  guilty 

unless  proved  to  have  drawn  his  sword, 

ib. 
,  ,  his  brothers  and  son  in  prison, 

ib. 
, ,  shall  now  be  dismissed  home, 

lb. 
, ,  wishes  to  be  allowed  to  send  Sir 

Neale's  son  back  again  to  Oxford,  241, 

251. 
, ,  though   of  active   spirit,  is  in- 
clined to  his  book,  241,  251. 
,   cannot    be    sent    over   before 

Christmas,  271. 


O'DonncD,  Sir  Neale — cont. 

, ,  sent  over  to  England  for  trial, 

306. 

, ,  character  of,  307. 

, ,  case  of,  ib. 

,  ,  treasons  charged  against,  ib. 

,  ,  witnesses  by  whom  proved,  308. 

, Chichester  suggescs  that  he  and 

O'Cahanbe  sent  to  London,  344. 

, ,  petition  of,  414. 

,  ,  joint  petition  of,  with  O'Cahan, 

ib. 
,  Naghton,  his  son,  petition  of, 

437. 

,  ,  appeals  to  Salisbury,  453. 

,  ,  his  serviees  to  late  Queen,  ib. 

, supplanted  by  the  late  Earl  of 

Tyrconnell,  454. 
, ,  denies  eomphcity  with  the  base 

rebel  O'Dogherty,  ib. 
,  five  months  a  prisoner,  asks  to 

justify  himself  face  to  face,  ib. 

,  ,  "malieed  "  by  Tyrone,  ib. 

,  ,  his  lands  of  Glan   Fynne  and 

Monganah  excepted  out  of  the  re-grant 

made  upon  the   Earl   of  Tyrconnell's 

surrender,  1  James  I.,  569,  670. 
,  ,  Glan    Fynne    and    Monganah 

never  re-granted  to,  because  he  rebelled 

with  O'Dogherty,  5/3. 
,  ,  Nuala,  sister  of  Tyrconnell,  one 

of  the  fugitives,  xxxix. 

, ,  Rorie,  219. 

,  Rory,  late  Earl  of  Tyrconnell,  charged 

by    Sir   N.    O'Donnell,   of    procuring 

favour  of  the  Crown  by  bribery,  454. 

, ,  his  escape  from  Dublin  Castle 

procured  by  Tyrone,  ib. 

,  Shane,  540. 

,  Shane  M'Manus  Oge,  94. 

, ,  ambitious  to  be  made  O'Donnell 

after  the  flight,  9. 

,  took  refuge  in  Torry  Island,  ib. 

, ,  holds  the  island  of  Torry,  ib. 

,  ,  posts   himself  in  the  island  of 

Claudie  with  240  men,  26. 
O'Donnells,     the,    well    affected    to      Shane 

O'Neylo's  sons,  ix. 

O'Donnelly,  Patrick,  deposition  of,  touching  Sir 

Donnell  O'Cahane,  313. 
O'Donnoles  [O'Donnellys],  a   secondary  sept 

in  Tyrone,  6. 
O'Donovan,  Donald,  eo.  Cork,  325. 
O'Dooveny,  Owen,  94. 
,  >  gets  a   vestment   with    20/.  on 

O'Dogherty's  outbreak,  ib. 

,  Donagh,  ib. 

O'Dougan,  Murfan;h,  4G8. 

■•■ of  Fegot,  in  Donegal,  prays   to 

be  continued  in  his  lands,  ib. 

O'Driscol,  Connor,  475. 

G'Dugan,  Murtagh,  sent  to  O'Dogherty  bv 
Sir  Neale  O'Donnell,  3. 


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GENERAL  INDEX. 


O'Falstaff,  Teig,  examination  of,  30. 

, ,  goes  to  France,  and  thence  into 

Spain,  ib. 
O'Fan-ells,  the,  104,  486. 
O'Fegan,  Niel,  542. 

O'Ferralls,  the,  of  Longford,  rent  payable  by, 
to  Sir  N.  Malby,  395. 

,  chiefs  of  septs  of,  petition  to  Salis- 
bury, 449. 

,  raise  question  against  Sir  F.Shane, 

407. 

,  the,  and  Sir  Francis  Shane,  order  in 

this  cause,  486. 

O'Ferrall,  Brian,  449,  581. 

,  Conell,  449. 

,  Gerratt,  ih. 

,  James,  354. 

,  John,  449. 

,  Leysagh,  ih. 

,  Eoase,  581. 

,  Thady,  512. 

Officers  of  horse,  September  1610,  lists  of, 
509. 

of  foot,  September  1610,  lists  of,  510. 

of  the  army,  list  of,  for  30th  Septem- 
ber 1610,  507. 

O'Flaherty,  lord  of  a  barren  country  south- 
west of  Galway,  has  built  a  strong  fort 
lately,  299. 

,  Moragh  na  moir,  of    Bunowen,  co. 

Galway,  325. 

,  Teig  ne  Bully,  ib. 

O'Galchor,  see  0' Gallagher. 

O'Gallaghells,  see  O'Gallaghera. 

O'Gallagher,  fosterer  of  the  O'Donnells,  xlix. 

,  O'Dogherty's  letter  to,  ib. 

,  held  the  castle  of  Lough  Eske,  ib. 

,  surrenders  it,  ib. 

,  Douagh,  94. 

,  Donagh  Oge,  his  confession,  ib. 

,  Donnagh  M'Towel,  465. 

,  Tirlagh  M'Owen  Groom  got  all  the 

apparel  of  Lady  O'Doherty  and  the 
Bishop  of  Derry's  wife,  94. 

,  James,  Tyrconnell's  servant,  47. 

,   Patrick,    messenger    of    Sir    Neale 

O'Donnell  to  O'Dogherty,  18. 

,  Tirlagh,  194,  511. 

O'GaUaghers,  fosterers  of  Tyrconnell,  27. 

,  sept  of,  claims  a  freehold  in  Donegal, 

57. 

O'Gilmars,  the,  a  strong  sept  of  Great  Ardes, 
xii. 

Oglethorpe,  Baron,  73,  77. 

,  Sir  Robert,  233,  339. 

,  ,  claims   precedence    of  Baron 

Hassett,  293. 

, .seeks  a  grant    of  land  as  an 

undertaker,  ih. 

, ,  Baron  of  Exchequer,  his  yearly 

fee,  339. 

O'Gormley,  Turlogh,  512,  540. 


O'Hagan,  Henry,  228. 

,  LaughUn,  542,  543. 

,Phelim,  228. 

,  Shane,  his  goods.  Sir  Toby  Caulfeild 

renders  an  account  of,  being  seized,  as 

having  fled  with  the  Earl  of  Tyrone, 

536. 
O'Hagans,  the,  499. 

,  horsemen  of  Tyrone,  xxvii. 

,  a  minor  sept  of  Tyrone,  61. 

O'HaUoran,   Shane  Granoe,  (and  see   Shane 

Grane  Carolan),  378,  380,  381,  385. 
O'Hanlon's  Country,  in  Armagh,  63. 

,  Chichester  encamps  in,  6. 

O'Haulon,  Arden  M'CoUo,  541,  542. 

,  Ferdoragh,  542. 

,  Groome,  512. 

,  Sir  Oghie,  67,  324,  543. 

,  surrendered  his  interest  to  the 

King  with  promise  of  re-giant,  62. 

, character  of,  ib. 

,  ,  takes  a  pension  for  life,  67. 

, ,  his  lands  to  be  planted,  ib. 

, ,  his  son  attainted  and  gone  to 

Sweden,  ib. 
,  was  granted  (1  Dec,  30th  Eliz.) 

his  country,  caUed  O'Hanlon's  country, 

or  Orier,  for  life,  556. 
,  remainder   to    Oghy  Oge,  his 

eldest  son  in  tail,  ib. 
, ,  but  the  patent  to  become  void 

if  he  or  any  of  his  sons  ever  went  into 

rebellion,  ib. 
, ,  rebelled,  but  was  pardoned  by 

King  James  I.  and  his  country  pro- 
mised to  be  restored  to  him,  556,  557. 
, ,  but  before  his  patent  was  made 

out  Oghy  Oge  O'Haulon,  his  son,  went 

into  rebellion  with  O'Dogherty,  557. 
,  ,  the  King,  however,  took  Sir 

Oghy's  surrender  of  any   claim,  and 

gave  him  80/.  for  life,  ib. 

,  Oghy  Oge,  Isxix,  Ixxx,  195. 

,  ,  query  regarding,  2. 

, returns  out  of  Tyrconnell,  6. 

,  ,  still  remains  at  large,  8. 

, ,  brings  a  party  from  Tyrconnell 

to  Mount  Norris,  6. 

, ,  account  of,  his  rebellion,  15. 

, ,  his  wife  dies  from  ill-usage  and 

cold  and  famine,  ib. 
,  will  not  be  pardoned  or  per- 
mitted to  leave  the  realm,  143. 
, ,  prosecution  of  Sir  J.  Perrottj 

detained  for,  150. 

, ,  disquiets  Armagh  county,  195. 

,  robs  and  spoils  the  borderers 

near  him,  ib. 
, ,  two  days  before  Sir  Robt.  Jacob 

held  sessions  at  Armagh,  195. 

, ,  capture  of,  much  desired,  178. 

, ,  submits  volunteers  for  Sweden, 

287. 


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667 


O'Hanlon,  Oghy  Oge — cont. 

J  son  of  Sir  Oghie,  goes  to  the 

Swedish  expedition,  305. 

,  Patrick,   a  native   and   servitor,  was 

granted  12  ballibos  in  Orier,  in  fee- 
farm,  26th  October,  7  James  I.,  555. 

,  Kedmond,  another  native  and  servitor, 

was  granted  seven  ballibos  in  Orier  in 
fee-farm,  7  James  I.,  ib. 

O'Haras,  the,  chief  followers  of  the  Bowte, 
xiv. 

G'Hariee,  the,  see  O'Hara. 

O'Harkan,  Brian,  deposition  of,  45. 

,  ,  in  Keal  Garve's  case, 

310. 
O'Harraghan,  Laughlin,  511. 
O'Hoolaghan,  Teig,  475. 
,  ,  a  Franciscan  friar,  one  of  the 

Pope's  commissioners,  463. 
O'Keenan's   goods   forfeited,  as  having   fled 

with  the  Earl  of  Tyrone,  537,  543. 
,   ,    Sir    Toby  Caulfeild   renders 

account  of,  ib. 
O'Keiff,  Art.,  surrender  and  re-grant  to,  584. 

See  O'Keeffe. 

O'Kelly,  Hugh,  of  Clogher,  co.  Galway,  324. 
,  Brian,  Captain,  his  information  as  to 

invasion  from  Spain,  13. 
O'Kennedy,  John,  of  Lacky,  co.  Tipperary, 

324. 
,  Philip,  of  Castletown,  co.  Tipperary, 

ib. 
O'Kieran,    Murtagh,     minister    of   Earl    of 

Tyrone,  280. 
O'Kiron,  see  O'Kieran. 
O'Knoker,  Donnel,  465. 

Old  Court  Castle,  constable  of,  Sir  Richard 
Graeme,  508. 

O'liOrkan,  William,  511. 

O'Machalons,  the,  see  O'Mulhollands. 

Omagh,  barony,  365,  367. 

,the,  mutiny  of  Eerdoragh  M'Owen's 

sons,  near,  3. 

,  death  of  constable  of,  172. 

,   fort  at,  built  by  John  and  Daniel 

Leigh,  brothers,  245. 

,  ,  made  constables  of,  ib. 

,  petition  of  John  Leigh  to    Prince 

Henry,  247. 

,  grant  of  constableship  of,  289. 

Castle,  constable  of,  John  Leigh,  509. 

,  fort  of,  John  and  Daniel  Leigh,  com- 
manders of,  581. 

O'Mellan,  GUlduffe,  confession  of  touching  Sir 
Donnell  O'Chaine,  313. 

Omey,  fort  of  in  Tyrone,  61. 

,  see  Omagh. 

,  precinct  of,  404. 

,  market  of,  406. 

O'Molarchy,  Edmund,  194. 

O'Molarky,  the  priest,  309. 

,  Brian  Ballagh,  310 


O'Molchonor,  Florie,  see  O'Mulconnor. 

O'Moores,  the,  Ixxiii. 

,  plantation   of  Leix,  their  territory, 

ib. 
,    some   companies    of,    collected    by 

Tyrlagh  O'Toole,  18. 

,  Owny,  379. 

,  Ownie  M'Rorie,  sister  of,  married  to 

TyrreU,  437. 

O'Morison,  Makenhy,  deposition  of,  in  Sir 
Neal  Garve's  case,  311. 

O'Mulconnor,  Florence,  467. 

,  ,  reported  return  of,  461. 

, ,  lately  made  archbishop  of  Tuam, 

ib. 
, ,   great  favour  of,  in  Court  of 

Spain,  ib. 

O'Mullan,  Denis,  murdered  by  Shane  Carragh 

O'Cahane,  6. 
,  Donogh,  goes  to  service  of  Sweden, 

305. 
,  Donnell,  Art,   enrolled  for  Swedish 

service,  306. 

,  ,  account  of  him,  ib. 

,   Hugh    Duff,  deposition    of,    in    Sir 

Donnell  O'Cahane's  case,  315. 
,  Shane,  a  friar,  confers  privately  with 

Tyrone  and    Sir   Donnell  O'Cahane, 

314.     See  O'MulIen. 
O'MuUanes,  one  of  chief  septs  of  Coleraine, 

60. 

O'Mullchane,  511. 

O'MulIen,  Denis  and  Shane,  to  be  provided 

for  as  one  person,  429. 
O'Mulhollands,  the,  a  sept  of  Antrim,  xiii. 
,  country   in,   north-east    of   Antrim, 

ib. 
O'MuUarkie,  Edmund,  a  friar,  3. 
,  ,  a  messenger  employed  by  Sir 

Neale  O'Donnell,  4. 

,  ,  and  by  O'Dogherty,  37. 

O'Mubian,  99. 

,  William,  324. 

,  Teig  M'Onghney,  324. 

O'Murlough,  Towel,  465. 
O'Nealan  in  Armagh,  63,  529. 

,.,,  barony,  366. 

,  country  in  Armagh,  x. 

,  claimed  by  the  Earl  of  Tyrone,  ib. 

,  barony  of,  area  of,  402.' 

,  precinct  of,  404. 

,  Lord  Say's  suit  for  grant  of  land  in, 

425. 

O'Neale,  Sir  Art,  177. 

,  Art  M'Baron,  364,494,529. 

,has  fouror  five  sons  beyond  seas,  364. 

,  two  of  them  captains  with  the  Arch- 
duke, ib. 

,  one  a  lusty  knave  at  home,  ib. 

,  he  must  therefore  be  contented  with  a 

portion  of  escheated  land,  ib. 


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GENERAL  INDEX. 


O'Neale,  Sir  Arthur,  father  of  Tyrlogh,  439. 

O'Neil,  Art  M'Baron,  and  wife,  to  have  2,000 
acres  in  Orier  for  their  lives,  529. 

,  his  promising  to  remove -willingly  to 

another  assignment  at  May  next  has 
worked  wonders,  ib. 

,  Sir  Arthur,  Hugh  Earl  of  Tyrone, 

undertakes  to  grant  him  11  balli- 
betaghs  in  Slew  Shishe,  really  the 
estate  of  Sir  Arthur's]  father,  Turlogh 
Lennagh,  and  of  Neal  Connelagh,  his 
grandfather,  560. 

,  Arte  Oge,  and  M' Arte  M'Brian,  goes 

to  the  Swedish  service,  305. 
,    ,  (and  others    that    fled    with 

Tyrone),  account  of  their  goods  by  Sir 

Toby  Caulfeild,  538,  544. 

,  Brian  M'Art,  541. 

,  Bryan  Modder,  512. 

,  Brian,  one  of  the  fugitives,  xxxix. 

, ,  Con,  and  Neal,  to  have  a  middle 

proportion  between  them,  429. 

,  Brian  Crossach,  364. 

, ,  sums  paid  him  by  Sir  Toby  Caul- 
feild, 539. 

,  Con,  51. 

,  Con  Baccogh,   first  Earl   of  Tyrone, 

limitations  of  remainders,  after  his  estate 
for  life  in  his  patent,  555. 

, , ,  to  Hugh,  his  eldest  son  in 

tail,  ih. 
,  ,  ,    to  Henry,    his.    Con's, 

second  son  in  tail,  ib. 
, ,  ,  to  Hugh's  issue  by  Jeane, 

his  then    wife,  to    Cormac    M'Baron, 

brother  of  said  Hugh  in  tail,  ib. 
, ,34Hen.Vni.  created  Earl 

of  Tyrone,  554,  555,  559. 
,  Con  M'Turlogh,  aUowanoes  made  to 

him   and   his    three   brothers,  by  Sir 

Toby  Caulfeild,  539. 

Con  M'Shane,  364. 

,    ,   allowance    made   him  by  Sir 

Toby  Caulfeild,  539. 
,   Neal  Connelagh,  father  of  Turlogh 

Lennagh,  560. 
,    Sir   Cormac   M'Baron,   the   first   to 

report  to  the  Deputy  the  flight  of  the 

Earls,  xxxiv. 

,  ,  his  motives  suspected,  ih. 

, ,  seeks  a  custodiam  of  Tyrone's 

lands,  Ivi. 
, ,  good  reasons  for  refusing  it,  ib. 

, ,  besides,  he  was  suspected  of  com- 
plicity, ib. 

, ,  his  country,  61. 

,  ,  his  wife  to  be  placed  when  the 

Deputy  shall  choose,  429. 

, ,  Con's  brother  to  have  proportion 

in  Coole  and  Tircanada,  429. 

,  ,  sum  paid  him  for  his  charges  lo 

Dublin,  and  toward  his  expenses  to 
England,  and  for  relief  of  his  wife, 
539. 


O'Neil — cont. 

Sir  Cormac  M'Baron,  the  remainder 

limited  to,  after  the  Earl  of  Tyrone  ; 
his  estate  and  his  sons'  not  forfeited, 
560. 

, ,  is  not  attainted,  but  is  now  pri- 
soner in  the  Tower  of  London,  ib. 

,  ,  554,  555. 

,   Sir   Turlagh  M'Henry,   granted  the 

country  of  the  Fews  by  patent  to, 
1st  James  L,  554. 

,  Donel,  allowance  made  him  by   Sir 

Toby  Caulfeild,  540. 

Donnell,  M'Rory  Ny-Fynen,   Neale 

Moder,  Magunchynan,  Shaen,  Henry, 
and  Hugh,  to  be  placed  as  Chichester 
may  judge  fit,  439. 

,  Eerdorcha,  one  of  the  fugitives,  xxxlx. 

,  Henry,  503. 

Henry  and  Con,  sons  of  Shane  O' 

Neale,  have  settled  on  Cuconnaught 
Maguire's  land,  57. 

Henry,  Tyrone's  son,  47. 

son  of  Shane  O'Neil,  long  has 

been  a  suitor,  408. 

,  Henry  M'Shane,  to  have  a  proportion 

in  precinct  of  Orier,  429. 

,    ,  allowance    made  him  by   Sir 

Toby  Caulfeild,  539,  543. 

,  Sir  Henry  Oge,  commissioner  in  fugi- 
tives' country,  xxxv. 

.„ ,  two  bally betaghs  of  Tyrone 

granted  to  him,  16. 

, ,  sons  of,  178. 

,     ,  was    granted    three    ballibe- 

taghs,  in  barony  of  Toughranny,  in 
12th  June,  3  Jas.  L,  554. 

,  ,  two  ballibetaghs,  called  Moin- 

terbirne  in  the  barony  of  Dungannon, 

granted  to   Sir  Henry  O'Neil  and  his 

heirs,  3  Jas.  L,  560,  561. 
,    Sir   Henry    M'Turlough,    asks    for 

more  land,  364. 
, Chichester  wishes  he  could  get 

him  to  remove  from  the  Fews  to  the 

plains,  ib. 

Hugh  Boy,  334. 

,  Hugh  M'Shane,  15. 

,  Hugh,  see  Earl  of  Tyrone. 

,   ,  Heniy,   and  Cormac,  sons  of 

the  Earl  of  Tyrone,  554. 
, , ,  their  remainders  after  the 

Earl's    first    attainder,    not    forfeited 

thereby,  ib. 
, , ,  but  now  are  forfeited  by 

their  flying  with  their  father,  558. 
,    Hugh   Oge,  one   of  the  fugitives, 

xxxix. 
,  Hugh,  recommended  for  a  native's 

place  in  the  plantation,  443. 
, ,  services  of,  in  raising  troops  for 

Sweden,  ib. 
,  Hugh  M'Shane,  allowance  to,  by  Sir 

Toby  Caulfeild,  540. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


669 


O'Neil — cont. 

John,  one  of  the  fugitives,  xxxix. 

,  Mary,    daughter     of     Sir    Cormae 

M'Baron,  allo-wance  made  her  for  her 
reUef  by  Sir  Tohy  Caulfeild,  540. 

Captaia  Neale  Oge  M'Art,  enrolled 

for  the  Swedish  service,  306. 

, , ,  account  of  him,  ib. 

,  Neale,   Con,  and  Brian,  sons   of  Sir 

Arthur,  to  have  a  middle  proportion  in 
Duuganuon  among  them,  439. 

,  Neil  Garve,  his  wife  one  of  the  fugi- 
tives, xxxix. 

,  has  never  had  a  grant  of  his 

country,  17. 

, ,  intended  escape  of,  151. 

, ,  to  be  sent  prisoner  to  England, 

263. 

, Chichester's  proceedings  re- 
garding, approved,  264. 

,  Shane,  Ixxx. 

,  infests  the  road  from  Dundalk 

northwards  from  his  castle  at  Fathom, 
xi. 

, ,  the  sons  of  Henry  and  Con,  to 

have  proportions  of  land  in  Armagh 
and  in  Fermanagh,  431,  432. 

,  his  attainder  by  llth  of  Eliza- 
beth, and  the  effects  of  that  Statute, 
553. 

,  ,  vested  in  the  Queen  and  her 

successors  all  the  lands  in  Tyrone, 
Orier,  and  the  Fews,  except  those  of 
the  Archbishop  of  Armagh,  the  Dean 
and  Chapter  of  Armagh,  and  of  Sir 
Nich.  Bagnal  and  Sir  John  Bellew, 
553. 

,  Shane  M'Brien,  512. 

,  Tirlough,  maintains  M'Quilliu  in  the 

Glens,  xiv. 

,  Turlagh  Lennagh,   found   entitled  to 

11  ballibetaghs  in  Slew  Shishe,  560. 

,  yet  Hugh,  Earl  of  Tyrone,  at  Queen 

Elizabeth's  request  (13  May,  29th  of 
her  reign),  covenanted  to  pass  all  the 
said  lauds  to  Sir  Art  O'Neale,  560. 

,  Tyrlowe  M'Arte,  6),  364,  504,  512. 

,  special  grant  to  be  made  to,  34. 

, ,  two  proportions  in  Dungannon, 

429. 
,  Henry,  530. 

,  Neal,  Capt.   Turlagh's  brother,   sum 

allowed  him  to  keep  him  quiet,  539. 

Sir  Tirlagh  M'Henry,  195,334,   364, 

474. 
,    ,    claims     independent    estate, 

xxxii. 
,    commission       in      fugitives' 

country,  xxxv. 

, ,  lands  in  the  Fews,  62. 

,  ,  is  Tyrone's  half-brother,  195. 

, ,  and  next  to  Tyrone,  if  Tyrone 

come  not  again,  ib. 
, ,  has  three  sons,  swordmen,  ib. 


O'Neil,  Sir  Tirlagh  M'Henry — cont. 

, ,  is  to  be   suspected   (says  Sir 

Eobert  Jacob),  195. 

,  because    he   gives    meat   and 

wages  (called  Bonaght)  to  loose  per- 
sons, ib. 

, ,  might  easily  take  Oghey  O'Han- 

lon  if  he  would,  196. 

, ,  but  will  not,  because  O'Hanlon 

is  Tyrone's  sister's  son,  ib. 

,    ,   sues   for   the  grant  of   Slew 

Sheese,  formerly  his  grandfather's 
lands,  438. 

, ,  has  custody  of  castles  of  Stra- 

bane  and  Newtown,  439. 

,  ,  prays   to  have   the   castles  of 

Benburb  and  Knockielegh,  ib. 

,  ,  as  he  is  willing  to  be  removed 

from  the  Fews,  a  place  to  be  appointed 
him  in  Cavan,  489. 

,  Sir  Tirlough,  the  chief  M'Guire,  ix. 

,  Shan,  sons  of,  ib. 

, ,  Benburb  Castle  built  by,  ib. 

,  Sir  Henry  Oge's  children,  63. 

,  Con  M'Tyrlagh,  ib. 

,  Owen  More,  ib. 

O'Neill,  proposed    as    president   of    Ulster, 
xvii. 

)  suzerainty  of,  resisted  by  minor  lords, 

xxxii. 

assuming  the  title,  treason,  Ixiii,  Ixiv, 

Ixv. 

O'Neills,  the,  all  Galloglas,  ix. 

,   the,   claim  estates   in    their    lands, 

xxxi. 

,  resisted  by  Tyrone,  ib. 

,   and   O'Hanlons    pursued    by    Chi- 
chester, 6. 

,  wild  habits  of,  7. 

,   Chichester  seeks  to    civilize  them, 

ib: 

,  their  chief  sept  in  Tyrone,  61. 

,  not  a  great  man  of,  left  in  Ulster,  but 

Sir  Turlogh  M'Henry  of  the  Fews, 
county  of  Armagh,  195. 

O'Punty,  Shane,  Tyrone's  purse-bearer,  asks 
liberty  to  return  to  Ireland,  325. 

! ,  Earl  of  Tyrone  does  the  same, 

ib. 

O'Quin,  Ixv. 

,  chief  of  his  name,  325. 

,  Owen  Eo,  ib. 

,  Brian,   deposition   of,   in    Sir   Neale 

Garve's  case,  312. 

,  Murtagh,  543.     See  Quin. 

O'Quins,  the,  499. 

,  chief  men  of  the  Rowte,  xiv. 

,  a  minor  sept  in  Tyrone,  61. 

Orchards  and  gardens,  Irish  never  made  498. 
J )  because  of  gavelkind  tenure,  ib. 


670 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


O'EelUy's  country,  the  county  of  Cavan,  xcii. 

,  how  forfeited,  ib. 

,  the  treason  and  attainder  of  the  chiefs 

held  to  destroy  the  rights  of  the  inha- 
bitants, ib. 
,  and  to   give  the  King  the  lands  to 

dispose  of,  ib. 

,  (see  also  the  Brenny),  221. 

, ,  claimed  (by  descent  from  the  heirs 

female  of  Sir  Theobald  de  Verdon)  by 

Ed.  Plunket  of  Eathmore,  ib. 
O'Eeilly's,  Captain  Tirrell  is  in  their  confi- 
dence, 426. 

,  two  ballibetoes  will  not  content,  178. 

O'Eeilly,  Brien  ne  Shaffegh,  115. 

,  Brian,  468. 

,  Cahir,  511. 

,  O'Eealy,  (O'Eealye,  O'Eely,  O'Eelj-e, 

O'Eeilly,    O'Eeillye),    most  powerful 

sept  in  Cavan,  54. 
,  Mulmore,  widow  of,  lands  to  be  allotted 

to,  183. 

,  Mulmory  M'Edmond  Eeongh,  115. 

,  John   and  Connor  M'Cahir,  to  have 

lands  in  Cavan,  as  other  natives,  440. 
,  Sir  John,  widow  of,  lands  to  be  allotted 

to,  183. 

,  ,  grandfather  of  Mulmorie,  55. 

Mulmorie,  part  of  barony  of  Cavan  to 

be  disposed  to,  55. 
,  lands  in  plantation  of  Ulster  to 

widow  of,  238. 
,  Shane  M'Brien,  interrogatory  put  to 

Sir  G.  Moore  concerning,  166. 

, ,  his  answer  thereto,  168. 

, ,115. 

,  John,  pedigree  of,  419. 

,  Shane,  enrolled  for  Swedish  service, 

306. 

,  ,  account  of  him,  ib. 

Oreragh,  see  Oner. 

Oriel,  a  country  of  Monaghan,  ix. 

Orier  barony,  366,  367. 

Orier,  O'PIanlon's  country,  x. 

, ,'makes  40  horse  and  200  foot,  67. 

barony  of,  area  of,  402. 

,  precinct  of,  405. 

,  barony  of,  Marcell  Elvers  to  have  a 

grant  of  land  in,  455. 
,  called  O'Hanlon's  country,  vested  in 

the  Queen  by  Statute  1 1   of  Elizabeth, 

for  attainder  of  Shane  O'Neil,  553. 
,  granted  1  Dec.,  30th  Elizabeth,  to  Sir 

Oghy  O'Hanlon  for  life,  remainder  to 

Oghy  Oge,  his  son  and  heir  apparent 

in  tail,  556. 
,  conditioned  that  if  Sir  Oghy,  or  any 

of  those  in  remainder,   should   rebel, 

the  letters  patent  should  become  void, 

ib. 
,  10  August  last  Sir  Oghy  surrendered 

his  patent  to  the  King,  ib. 
, ,  and  took  an  annuity  of  80/.  for 

his  life  from  the  King,  557. 


Orkney,  island  of,  "  much  eyed  by  "  the  Irish 

fugitives,  179. 

Isles,  the,  477. 

,  deposition   of  John    Eedlake, 

taken  prisoner  in  the  prize  made   at 

the  Orkney  Isles,  ib. 

Onnond,  borders  of,  98. 

Ormonde,  Earl  of,  Ixxvii,  99,  104,105,351, 
372,  379,  478,  506,  552. 

,  petition  to  protect  his  liberties 

in  the  new  charter  of  Kilkenny,  54. 

,  ,  his  demands  sent   by  Henry 

Sherwood,  352. 
,  ,  that    he    may  surrender   and 

have  a  re-grant,  ib. 
, may  hold  pleas  up  to  20/.,  ib. 

, ,  be  free  of  subsidies  and  com- 
positions, ib. 

,  ,  that  his  son-in-law  may  have  a 

grant  in  reversion  of  the  Lord  Trea- 
surership  upon  his  (Ormonde's)  death, 
ib. 

, ,  that  Lord  Butler  may  be  of  the 

Privy  Council,  ib. 

, ,  his  letter  in  favour  of  David 

Condon,  582. 
,  EUen,  Countess  of,  374. 

,  the  house  of,  has  always  had  conflict 

with  the  O'CarroU's,  421. 

,  Ellinor,  Countess  of,  to  have  wardship 

of  David  Barry,  425. 

, ,  estates  of,  family  settlement  of, 

426. 

and  Ossory,  Thomas,  Earl  of,  sur- 
render and  re-grant  of  his  castle  and 
lands,  ib. 

Osbaldeston,  Jefifry,  78. 

,  John,  Baron  of  Exchequer,  his  yearly 

fee,  339. 
Osborne,  Eichard,  preacher  in  Muuster,  78. 

O'Shiel,  Donagh  Boy,  kUled  by  M'Gillduffe, 

39. 
Ossory,   see  of,  vacant  by  death  of  bishop, 

890. 
, ,  Mr.  Barlowe  recommended  for, 

ib. 
,  "William  Deane  to  be  Bishop  of,  398. 

,  Bishop  of,  Chichester  recoimnends  his 

ciaplain,  Mr.  Barlow,  390. 

O'SuUivan,  Bere,  71. 

,  Daniel,  475. 

;  More,  118. 

Teig  M'Daniel,  475. 

,  not  to  sail  with  the  expedition  to  Ire- 
land, 13. 

,  receives  a  secret  command  in  Spain, 

31. 

,  son  of,  a  page  of  the  King  of  Spain, 

399. 

,  death  of,  ib. 

O'Swillevan,  see  O'SuUivan. 


GENERAL   INDEX. 


671 


O'Toole,  Donnogh,  gives  information  on 
popish  affairs  to  the  Bishop  of  Lime- 
riot,  462. 

,    Rose,    wife     of     Feagh     M'Hugh 

[O'Toole],  harboured  by  Sir  W.  Har- 
pole,  401. 

O'Tooles,  a  new  insurrection  of,  suspected,  6. 

apprehended  rising  of,  18. 

,  Tyrlagh,  plans  a  surprise  of  Powers- 
court  Castle,  18. 

,  betrayed  by  his  uncle,  ib. 

,    gathers    a    company    of    the 

O'Moores  out  of  Queen's  County,  ib. 

, ,  lurks  among  his  friends,  but 

there  seems  little  danger  from  him,  ib. 

, ,  suspected  unduly,  28. 

narrowly  watched  by  Chiches- 
ter, ib. 

O'ToweU,  see  O'Toole. 

Out-Islanders,  expedition  against  them,  11. 

, . . . ,  preparations  for,  28. 

Out  Islands,  Sir  W.  St.  John  retixrns  from, 
43. 

Outred,  Henry,  Ixxvi. 

Ovington  (or  Hoveudon),  Henry,  withdraws 
from  the  fugitiyes,  and  makes  his 
peace  with  the  King,  xl. 

Owen,  Bichard,  511. 

,  ,  pension  of,  168. 

Owine,  Capt.  Bartholomew,  219. 

, resides  in  fort  of  Blackwater, 

280. 

Oxford  University,  Chichester  wishes  to  be 
allowed  to  send  Sir  Neale  O'Donnel's 
son  back  to,  241,  251. 

,  while  his  father  is  in  prison,  ib. 

,  Lord  Roch  sends  his  son  thither,  441. 


P. 


Pagador,  the,  of  Biscay,  14. 

Pale,  spoil  of,  taken  by  the  Neyles  of  the 
Fews,  X. 

,  Tyrone's  tenants  fly  into,  from  his 

exactions,  xxxi. 

,  lawyer  of,  employed  by  the  inhabitants 

of  Cavan,  to  protest  against  their  re- 
moval, xcii. 

, what  he  claimed  for  them,z6. 

, ,  not   allowed    to    defend   their 

rights,  ib. 

,  "  risings  out"  of,  dismissed  onO'Dog- 

herty's  death,  6. 

,  first  plantation  in,  the  best  one  made 

in  Ireland,  17. 

..,the,  109. 

, merchants  of,  claim  exorbitant  mort- 
gages on  Tyrconnell's  lands,  283. 


Pale — colli. 

the  English,  how  the  English  lan- 
guage has  been  preserved  in,  358. 

,  decayed  churches  in,  warrant  for  re- 
pairing, 422. 

,  priests  of,  474. 

,  the,  498. 

,  abuses  concerning  the  military  forces 

in,  according  to  Barnaby  Riche,  551. 

,  compositions  of,  receipts  of,  577. 

Pahner,  Mr.  Justice,  73,  77. 

,  Peter,  233. 

Palmerston,  rectory  of,  514. 

Paper  Office,  otherwise  the  office  of  the  Clerk 
of  the  Papers,  cv. 

,  first  created  in  Ireland  in  1703,  ib. 

,  Joshua  Dawson,  first  clerk   of  the 

papers,  ib. 

,  oflice  made  joint  to  him  and  his  son 

Arthur,  ib. 

,  proof  that  Sir  Arthur   Chichester's 

papers  were  once  in  the  Paper  Office, 
ib. 

,  how  they  passed  thence  to  the  Phila- 
delphia Library,  ib. 

Parishes  in  the  six  counties,  403. 
"  Park,"  the,  tough  of,  395. 

Parkins,  Lieutenant,  servitor,  to  be  an  under- 
taker, 428. 

Parliament,  motives  for  holding  a,  in  Ireland, 
451. 

,  number  of,  since  Conquest,  ib. 

,  various  questions  concerning,  ib. 

,  the  King's  intention  to  hold,  523. 

, ,  gives  much  satisfaction,  ib. 

Parratt,  Sir  James,  see  Perrot. 

Parreses,  John  de,  rector  of  English  College 

at  VaUadolid,  51. 
Parrot,  see  Perrott. 

,  Thos.,  pensioner,  337. 

Parsons,  Father,  pretended  messages    from, 

xUi. 
,  Lawrence,  clerk  of  crown  and  peace 

in  Munster,  431. 

,  SirWiUiam,  114. 

,  surveyor,  367. 

,  Mr.,  King's  surveyor,  recommended 

to  Salisbury,  391. 

,  William,  321,  391. 

,  ,  to  be  an  undertaker,  428. 

,  petition  for  lease  of  reversion  of  two 

rectories,  514. 
, ,  sends  back  letters  of  Lord  Bur- 
leigh and  Salisbury,  found  in  Sir  G. 

Fenton's  papers,  528. 
Passage,  in  Biscay,  port  of,  13. 
Patentees,  payments  to,  579. 

Patents  of  lands  and  offices  passed  in  England, 
to  be  certified  by  the  English  Chancel- 
lor into  Ireland,  119. 

to  be  enrolled  there,  119,  127. 


672 


GENERAL  INDEX, 


Patrick,  St.,  miracle  of,  in  converting  Irish 

xxxix. 
, ,  King  James  will  work  a  greater 

miracle,  ib. 
Paul's  chair,  50. 
Paulet,  Sir  George,  command  of,  in  Lough- 

foyle,  xxiii. 
,  ,  governor  of  Deny,  slain  by  Sir 

Cahir  O'Dogherty,  Ix. 

, ,  murderer  of,  apprehended,  8. 

, , ,  executed,  11. 

, ,80. 

, ,  letters  of,  confirm  charges  against 

Sir  Donnell  O'Cahan,  314. 

,  the  Lady,  78,  347. 

,  ,  title  of,   composition  made  for, 

420. 

,  sums  in  her  relief,  544. 

Paynton,  Alexander,  bill  to,  19. 

Payton,    Christopher,    assignee     to    Thomas 

Fleming,  511. 
Peartree,  the,  Jock  Graham  of,  ci. 
Peck,  Mr.,  recommended  as  attorney  of  Ulster, 

444. 
Peckham,  real  name  of  Robert  Haumer,  52. 

,  Edmund,  ib. 

,  Sir  George,  ib. 

Pedigree  of  John  O'Eeilly,  419. 

Pedigrees,    Irish-conceived,    of   great   lords, 

402. 
Peerce,  Captain,  Little  Ardes  farmed  to,  xii. 
Pelham,  Chief  Baron,  well  received  in  Tyrone 

and  Tyrconnell,  xx. 

,  Sir  Edmund,  384,  388. 

, ,  Chief  Baron,  388. 

Pelletston,  in  county  of  Meath,  140,  382. 
Pells,  the,  clerk  of,  E.  Reynolds,  477. 
Pembroke,  Earl  of,  his  cousin    Sir  Edward 

Herbert,  sheriff  of  Cavan,  547,  548. 
Pennington,  Joseph,  xcix. 
Pension  list,  for  30  September  1610,  510. 
Pensions,  payments  of,  579. 

,  list  of,  336. 

, (Sept.  1610),  510. 

Pensions  of  captains  and  soldiers,  442. 

Peppard,  Patrick,  324. 

Perce,  Mr.  Henry,  367. 

Percevall,  Richard,  appointed  by  CreswtU  to 

go  into  England,  53. 
Percy,  Sir  Richard,  pension  of,jl68. 

,367. 

Perkins,  Lieutenant,  368. 
Perrott,  see  Parrot. 

,  Sir  James,  number  of  his  men,  33. 

, ,   detained    for    prosecution    of 

rebels,  150. 

,  79,  97,  219,  363,  366,  510,  547. 

,  ,  servitor,   to  be   an  undertaker 

428. 

,  Sir  John,  his  "project,"  xvi. 

,  ,  574. 

Personnes,  see  Parsons. 


Persons  presentative,  403. 

Petition  of  Florence  M'Carthy  to   Salisbury, 

117. 
of  John  (brother  of  Sir  Arthur)  Aston 

to  Salisbury,  125. 
of  Lady    Arabella   Stuart   to   King, 

152. 
of  Nicholas  Weston,  for  the  fishing  of 

the  Ban,  199. 

of  Sir  Thomas  Phillips,  202. 

of  Alexander  Spicer,  211. 

of  Richard  Pluukett,    of  Eathmore, 

221. 

of  John  Leigh  to  Prince  Henry,  247. 

for  grants  on  sale  of  H.M.  lands,  list 

of,  325. 

of  Lord  Roch,  of  Fermoy,  340. 

of  W.  Angell,  341. 

of  James  O'Farrel,  and  the  inhabit- 
ants of  the  county  of  Longford,  354. 

of  Captain  Bourchier,  374. 

of  Saml.  Molyneux,  ib. 

of  Mabel  Countess    of  Kildare,  and 

Sir  Eobt.  Dieby,  376. 

of  Moriertagh  M'Brien  Arra,  Pro- 
testant Bishop  of  Killalo,  384. 

of  Sir  Awla  M'Awla,  395. 

of    Sir  Donell   O'Cahan    to    Privy 

Council,  412. 

of  Sir  Neal  O'Donnell,  414. 

of  Sir  Donell  O'Cahan,  434. 

of  Neale  and  Nachtain  O'Donnell,  437. 

of  John  O'Connor,  456. 

of  Lord  Thomond,  400. 

of  Margaret  Corbett,  414. 

of  John  Crowe  to  Salisbury,  419. 

of  Murtagh  O'Dougan,  468. 

of  Captain  Richard  Tyrrell,  468. 

of  Ninian  Watson,  479. 

of  Richard  Waldrom,  477. 

,  to  be  dispensed  for  five  years 

from  personal  residence  on  his  propor- 
tion in  Ulster,  ib. 

,  offers  George  Sharpe  and  Cle- 
ment Cotteril  as  his  deputies,  ib. 

of  John  White  against  Trinity  College 

and  Sir  Henry  Power,  484. 

of  W.   Hill,  gent.,  for  compensation 

for  the  tithe  fish  of  the  Ban,  505. 

of  Randal  luce  to  Salisbury,  514. 

of  William  Parsons  to  Salisbury,  ii. 

of  James  Duffe,  ib. 

Peyton,  auditor,  112,  367. 

,  Christopher,  511. 

Phehmy  Reagh,  [M'Davitt],  the  firebrand 
and  seducer  of  O'Dogherty,  8.  See 
M'Davitt. 

Philadelphia  Papers,  the  account  hitherto 
given  of  their  removal  to  America, 
ciii. 

,  deposited  in  Library  in  1799,  ih. 

, ,  by  a  supposed  grandson  of  a 

Lord  Chancellor  of  Ireland,  ib. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


673 


Philadelphia  Papers — cont. 

communications  with  the  descendant 

of  the  depositor,  in  America,  civ. 

,  the  depositor  was  Mr.  Henry  Hamilton 

Cox,  lb. 

Library,  see  Philadelphia  Papers. 

Philipstown,  Sir  F.  Eushe's  men  at,  33. 

,  fort,  cost  of  repairing,  408. 

constable  of,  Sir  Garret  Moore,  508. 

Phillips,  Callye,  grant  of  reversion  of  a  pen- 
sion to,  49. 

,  Sir  Thomas,  commanded  in  Coleraine, 

xxiv. 

, ,  claims    a  good  scope  of  the 

Fugitives'  lands,  liv,  Ixxxii,  Ixxxviii. 

,  ,  employed  by  the  King  to  ac- 
company the  agents  of  the  city  of  Lon- 
don in  their  journey  through  Ulster, 
Ixxxii. 

...,....., ,  men  assigned  to,  10. 

, ,  numbers  of  his  men,  33. 

, ,  fishing  of  the  Ban  sequestered 

on,  21. 

,  66,  97,  202,  248,  334,  366,  494, 

508,  509,  510,  541,  544,  547. 

, ,  repair  of,  to  England,  189. 

, ,  recommended  by  Chichester,  i6. 

,  ,  estimate  of   the   profits  to  the 

Londoners  of  their  plantation,  248. 

, ,  promotes  it,  ib. 

,  but  to  his  own  loss,  ib. 

, ,  has  made  seven  miles  of  road 

through  bogs  and  woods  to  transport 

timber,  ib. 
.,., ,  has  six  years  lease  of  same  yet 

to  run,  ib. 
,  his  estate  not  much  improved 

since  Salisbury  induced  him  to  come 

out  of  Prance,  249. 
, ,  brief  of  the  losses  he  is  like  to 

undergo,  ib. 
,  ,  dangers  he  has  undergone  in 

maintaining  his  post,  ih. 
, ,the  relief  it  was  to  the  fugitives 

of  Derry,  ib. 

,  ,  it  stayed  O'Dogherty,  ib. 

,  ,   appointed   to    accompany    the 

commissioners    of    London    for     the 

plantation,  266. 
, recommended    by    the    Privy 

Council,  269. 
,  ,  accompanies  the  agents  of  the 

city  of  London  for  the  plantation,  287. 
,  ,   report  on   iron   ore   found   at 

Toome,  290. 
, ,  contest  with  Bishop  of  Derry, 

294. 
,  commended  by  Chichester   to 

Privy  Council,  297. 
, ,  title  of,  composition  made  for, 

420. 

,  ,  to  be  a  servitor,  428. 

,  Dudley,  494. 

3. 


Philpots,  Michael,  74. 
Philtown,  near  Youghal,  126. 
Physician  to  State,  Dr.  Metcalf,  507. 
Pierce,  Henry,  508. 

,  Capt.  William,  107. 

Piercie,  John,  a  Jesuit,  50. 
Piercy,  see  Percy. 

,  Henry,  227. 

,  Sir  Richard,  bill  to,  19. 

, ,512. 

Piers,  see  Pierce. 

,  Henry,  fine  of,  577. 

Piggot,  Mr.,  Ixxv,  217. 
Pikeman,  Captain  John,  127,  512. 

,  Captain,  367,  547. 

,  ,  servitor,  to  be  an  undertaker, 

428. 
Pikman,  John,  78.     See  Pikeman. 
Pinder,  Thomas,  346. 
Pine,  Nicholas,  pensioner,  337. 
Pinnar,  Captain,  548. 
Pinnock,  Michael,  511. 
Pipe  staves,  waste  of  wood  in  making,  174. 
Pirates,  "  Tramontane  "  sent  against,  28. 
,  too  numerous  to  be  resisted  by  the 

president  of  Munster,  28. 
,  ready  to  serve  against  the  rebels  and 

fugitives,  29. 

visit  to  Baltimore,  42. 

,  not   attacked   by   Captain   Williams, 

42. 

in  Munster,  69,  71,  99,  100,  105. 

at  Baltimore  seize  a   Spanish  carvcll 

with  6,000?.  of  gold  concealed,  100. 

,  Lord  Danvers  will  take  care  of  it  for 

the  King  of  Spain,  ib. 
,  believes  there  is  more   gold  still  con- 
cealed in  her,  ib. 
,  denies   the   imputations    that    would 

liken    the    coasts  of  Munster    to   the 

coast  of  Barbary,  ib. 
,  Bishop   of  Cork  writes  to  Lords  of 

Council  in  favour  of  Mr.   Crooke,  of 

Baltimore,  100. 
,  Mr.  Crooke  is  wrongly  charged  with 

piracy,  ib. 
,  want  of  such  a  statute  in  Ireland  as 

28  Hen.  VIII.  to  try  them,  105. 
they  are   therefore   to   be   sent  over 

from  time  to  time  for  trial  in  England, 

106. 

,  to  be  sent  to  England  for  trial,  119. 

,  Lord  Danvers  afraid  of,  and  detained 

from  sailing  by  fear,  130. 

,  their  suppression  strongly  urged,  ib. 

..,  captured  by    Sir    Theobald    Burke, 

141. 

,  ordered  to  be  tried  in  England,  ib. 

,  account  of,  ib. 

,  names  of,  and  proceedings  regarding, 

142. 

take  a  Dutch  prize,  141. 

V  U 


674 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Pirates — cont. 

fight  with  a  Frenchman,  142. 

to  be  diligently  watched,  ib. 

sent  to  Chester,  ib. 

,  Lord  Thomond's  proceedings  against, 

151. 

,  brought  to  Dublin  by  him,  186. 

,  spoils  found  in  tbeir  hands,  188. 

,  to  be  sent  to  Bristol  or  Barnstaple, 

ib. 

expect  the  King's  pardon,  ib. 

,  200,212,  329,  330,  343,  371,  373,473, 

480,  483,  486. 
,  Trevor,  Roope,  and  Drake  to  be  sent 

over,  251. 

,  arrival  of,  at  Munster,  273. 

,  their  number,  277. 

,  Sir  E.  Moryson's  proceedings  with 

them,  ib. 

,  elect  Bishop  admiral,  ib. 

,  proposed  to  employ  them  in  Virginia, 

278. 

,  party  of,  at  Tunis,  ib. 

,  Pepwell's  attempt  to  persuade  them 

to  abandon  piracy,  279. 

,  36  of  them  hanged,  ib. 

,  Chichester  sends  four  horsemen  with 

the  Admiral's  warrant  into  Munster  to 
arrest  the  vice-admiral  and  others, 
abettors  of  piracy,  353. 

,  more  necessary  to  have  ships  on  the 

Irish  coast  in  summer  than  in  winter, 
371. 

,  the  galleys  in  winter  cannot  face  the 

seas,  ib. 

,  Captain  HuU,  commissioner  for  par- 
leying with,  398. 

,  continual  resort  of,  to  Munster  coast, 

ib. 

list  of,  apprehended  in  Munster,  ib. 

,  note  for  trial  of,  424. 

,  50  men  sent  against,  by  Sir  E.  Mory- 

son,  446. 

,  particulars  regarding,  457. 

,  have  now  come  into  the  Channel  near 

Dublin,  and  robbed  both  English  and 
Scotch  ships,  473. 

,  they  lay  watching  for  the  Londoners' 

money  sent  to  Coleraine,  ib. 

,  but  missed  it,  ib. 

,  has   ordered  up  the  King's  pinnace 

from  Munster,  ib. 

,  hears  this  day  that  Coward  and  Bar- 
rett, pirates,  are  talien  by  one  Lenan  de 
Eosse,  a  Dutchman,  who  lay  a  fishing 
near  the  Black  Eock  in  Connaught, 
ib.     See  Eosse. 

,  Saekewell  (Salkeld),  that  petty  rebel, 

killed,  480. 
Coward  says  that  next  spring  they 

intend  to  fire  the  fleet  of  fishermen  at 

Newfoundland,  ib. 
,  if  not  taken  to  mercy,  ib. 


Pirates — cont. 

,  Chichester  advises  that  they  he  par- 
doned, ib. 

,  otherwise  they  will  prey  upon  sub- 
ject as  well  as  stranger,  ib. 

examinations  of  four,  before  the  Privy 

Council  at  Edinburgh,  483. 

,  Saukewell     thrown     overboard    by 

Easton,  who  offers  to  submit,  495. 

,  Chichester  has  granted  them  protec- 
tion for  40  days,  knowing  his  own 
weakness,  ib. 

,  has  only  the  "Lion's  Whelp,"  ib. 

,  the  Munster,  547. 

,  treaty  for  their  submission,  ib. 

,  pirates  and  priests,  Chichester  wishes 

they  had  a  commission  for  executing, 
473. 

Plantation,  see  Ulster  plantation,  also  Lon- 
doners. 

Plantations,  in  Ireland  have  been  many,  17. 

,  that  of  the  Pale  the  best,  ib. 

,  that  of  Munster  the  worst,  ib. 

,  English,   various,    made   in   Ireland, 

ib. 

partly  rooted  out  by  Irish,  ib. 

partly  degenerated,  ib. 

,  same   fate   to   be    expected   for   new 

plantations,  if  precautions  be  not  taken, 
ib. 

,  early,  in  Ulster,  Ixxi. 

,  enumerated,  Ixxi-lxxv. 

,  Chatterton's,  in  1572,  Lxxii. 

,  Sir  T.  Smith's,  1572,  ib. 

,  Earl  of  Essex's,  1573,  ib. 

,  their  failure,  Ixxiii. 

in  Leinster,  ib. 

,  in  what  reign,  ib. 

,  the  reverses  of,  ib. 

,  defects  of,  designed  to  be  re- 
medied in  Ulster  plantation,  Ixxv. 

of  King's  and  Queen's  counties,  Ixxiii. 

....,    formerly    the    O'Moore's    and 

O'Coimor's  country,  ib. 

of  Munster,  Ixxiii. 

,  what  counties  planted,  ib. 

,  from  what  counties  in  England 

the  planters  came,  ib. 

,  the  reverses  of  this  plantation, 

ib. 

seignories  of  12,000  acres  and 

6,000  acres  too  large,  Ixxv. 

conditions  of,  Ixxvi. 

.....  ,  fate  of,  ib. 

of   Ulster,    defects    of   Leinster  and 

Munster  plantations  designed  to  be 
remedied  in,  Ixxv.  See  also  Ulster 
plantation. 

,  commissioners  for  forming  pro- 
ject of,  Ixxxiv,  n. 

,  their  names,  ift. 

,  their  project,  Ixxxv. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


675 


Plantations,  of  Ulster — cont. 

,  Sir  Arthur  Chichester's  objec- 
tions to,  ib. 

contrasts  it  with  the  occupation 

and  plantation  of  Canaan  by  the  He- 
brews, ib. 

,  where   there  were  cities  ready 

built,  ib. 

,  but  none  in  Ulster,  ib. 

,  proceedings  under  the  oommis- 

mission  of  1609,  Ixxxvi. 

,  the  difiference  between  the  Bi- 
shop of  Derry  and  Sir  Thomas  Phillips 
endeavoured  to  be  composed  by  them, 
Ixxxviii. 

,  lay  in  camp  nine  weeks,  ib. 

,  what  work  they  did,  ib. 

determined    again    the    terjnon 

lands  for  the  King,  ib. 

,  made  maps  of  every  barony,  ib. 

,  commission  of  1610,  xci. 

,  to  give  the  undertakers  posses- 
sion, ib. 

,  proceedings  under  commission 

of  1608,  Ixxix. 

,  King    attends    meetings  of   Council 

about,  129. 

of  Loudondeny,  articles  of,  136. 

,  commissioners  for,  ib. 

,  memoranda  on,  by  Sir  J.  Davys, 

ib. 

,  orders  and  conditions  of,  139. 

,  abstract  of,  140. 

of  escheated  counties,  commissioners 

for,  project  of,  139. 

,  printed  books  regarding,  155. 

,  Chichester  has  made  them  public,  but 

does  not  know  the  effect  of  them,  157. 

proportions  in  which  the  lands  are  to 

be  assigned,  158. 
mode  of  assignments  to  be  followed, 

159. 

,  lottery  not  a  fitting  mode,  ib. 

,  tenures  of  escheated  lands,  160. 

,  commissioners  to  have  discretion  as  to 

tenure,  ib. 

,  few  here  wiU  bear  any  part  in,  161. 

,  commissioners  of,  their  proportions, 

171, 
,  difficulties  of  carrying  out  the  project, 

176. 

,  objection  to  take  part  in,  ib. 

,  natives  will  not  change  their  course  of 

living,  ib. 
,  instructions    to    commissioners    for, 

181. 

,  services  of  Sir  John  Davys  in,  185. 

,  city  of  London  undertakes  part  of, 

266. 

,  commissioners  for,  sent  by,  iJ. 

,  cannot  be  done  by  private  men,  270. 

,  must  be  the  work  of  the  common- 
wealth, ib. 


Plantations— cont. 

,  proposed  that  every  parish  in  Eng- 
land shall  plant  one,  two,  or  three  men, 
ib. 

,  commissioners  of,  report  of  their  pro- 
ceedings, 280. 

,  tropic  or  turn-point  of  the  journey, 

282. 

,  different  parties  appearing  before  them, 

282,  283. 

,  their  journey  homewards  to  Ferma- 
nagh and  Cavan,  ib. 

,  the  survey  of  Ulster  will  be  ready  in  a 

fortnight,  288. 

,  report  of  commissioners  on  Ferma- 
nagh, ib. 

,  report  of  Sir  J.Davys  on  commis- 
sion in  Cavan,  292. 

,  inquiry  as  to  termon  lands,  ib. 

,  confirms    the    report    of  last  year, 

ib. 

,  instructions    for    survey  of  Derry 

plantation,  316. 

,  answers   of    the  viewers  who  have 

lately  been  at  Derry,  316-318. 

,   J.    Carvyle,     of    Nunmonkton,   co. 

Cork,  project  of,  on  8,000  acres,  323. 

,  Chichester  sends  suggestions  for  dis- 
tribution of  lands,  390. 

..,  Lord  Salisbury  said  to  intend  to  bean 

undertaker,  391. 

,  memoranda  on,  by  Chichester,  401. 

,  maps  of  six  counties  sent  to  Salisbury, 

401. 
,  brief  of  commissioners'  proceedings. 

409. 
,  distribution  of  precincts,  404. 

,  natives  not  to  plant  with  Britons  or 

Scots,  410. 

,  but  to  plant  with  servitors,  411. 

,  questions  concerning  the  plantation, 

415. 

,  regarding  the  church,  ib. 

,  regarding  coi'porate  towns,  ib. 

,  regarding  transplantation,  ib. 

,  answers  thereto,  416. 

,  commissioners'  proceedings,  419. 

,  nomination  of,  424. 

,  plantation   of  Derry,  arrival   of  the 

first  planters,  437. 

,  ill-chosen  and  bad  workmen,  ib. 

,  will  cause  general  scarcity  of  pro- 
visions, 438. 

,  commissions  for  the  several,  authority 

given  for,  452. 

,  powers  of  the  commissioners,  460. 

,  of  Ulster,  commissioners  for,  580. 

instructions  for,  580. 

Plase,  Henry,  named  assumed  by  KiUinghall, 
51. 

Plomley,  Captain,  detained  by  tempests,  130. 

Plumlie,  a  pirate,  69,  99. 

UU   2 


676 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Plunket,  Sir  Christopher,  478. 

,  ,  popish  books,  &e.,  sent  to  his 

son,  192. 

,  brought  up  at  Douay  College, 

ib. 
,  ,  security  taken   for  his  appear- 
ance, 192. 

, ,  surrender  and  re-grant  of  lands 

to,  518. 

,  Mr.  Luke,  376,381. 

,  son  of  Lord  Killene,  150. 

,  Oliver,  of  Gibbstown,  140. 

,  ,  condemned  at  suit  of  Sir  [G. 

Moore,  140. 

,  OliTer,  382. 

,  Richard,  221. 

,  Sir  Thomas,  221,  382. 

,  of  Clonybrenin,  170. 

Pointall,  398. 
Pontderune  garrison,  541. 
Pope,  the,  physician  of,  suspected  of  poisoning 
Tyrconnell,  xlvii. 

,  the,  grants  the  kingdom  of  Ireland  to 

Tyrone,  13. 

,  army  to  land  at  Broadhaven,  14. 

,  the,  106,  283. 

,  has  commanders  and  commissioners 

in  Ireland,  463. 

,  names  of,  ib. 

Popery,  Chichester,  has  endeavoured  the  ex- 
tirpation of,  521. 
Popish  books  and  manuscripts  discovered  by 
mayor  of  Chester,  192. 

,  intended  to  be  brought  by  one  Ham- 

Ij'n,  ib. 

,  were  to  be  delivered  to   son  of  Sir 

Christopher  Plunket,  192. 
Portaferry,   grant   of,  to    Pierce    Tumolton, 

506. 
Portlogh,  precinct  of,  404. 
Portraarnock,  tithes  of,   granted  to  Thomas 

Earl  of  Oi-mond,  506. 
Portmore,  battle  of,  123. 

,  praise  of  Sir  Hugh  O'Niel's  valour  at, 

123. 
Portrush,  209. 

Portrushe,  customs  of  port  of,  136.     See  Port- 
rush. 
Portugal,  armada  of,  sent  for  to  the  Groyne, 

30. 
Poulet,  see  Paulet. 

Poundage,  cities  seek  release  from,  139. 
Powder  sent  into  Ireland,  return  of,  148. 
Powell,  William,  548. 

Power,  Sir  Henry,  97,  213,  254,  255,  334,  366, 
379,  484,  508,  510. 

,  ,  men  delivered  to,  5. 

,  number  of  his  men,  33. 

;,    ,   made    governor    of    Queen's 

County,by  Earl  of  Devonshire,  254, 255. 

,  Capt.  John,  bill  to,  19. 

,  .John,  suit  of,  with  Lord  Roche,  524. 

,  Sir  William,  484. 


Powerscourt  castle,  plan  of  Tyrlagh  O'Toole 

to  surprise  it,  18. 
Powlett,   Sir   George,  land  purchased  by,  at 

nerry,  59. 
,  ,  this  land   to  be   purchased  by 

the  grantee  of  Innishowen,  60. 
Prator,  Mrs.,  a  CathoUc,  52. 

Prayer,  Book  of  Common,  cost  of  printing  it 

in  Irish,  75. 
Prayer-book,  Common,  Irish  translation  of, 

184. 

Precincts,  purpose  of  the  commission  of  July 

1609,  regarding,  Ixxxvi. 

distribution  of,  to  undertakers,  404. 

,  English,  ib. 

,  Scottish,  ib. 

,  seiTitors  and  natives,  405. 

,  reasons  for  joint  plantation  of  servitors 

and  natives,  411. 
,  grant,  number,  names,  and  quantities 

of,  in  the  six  counties,  417. 
,  distribution  of,  unfair  to  servitors  and 

natives,  521. 
Presidency  of  Ulster  intended,  xiv,  and  foil. 

,  abandoned  as  hopeless,  xvi. 

,   ,  opinions   as  to  its  necessity, 

xxi-xxii. 
,   .......  peremptorily   objected   to   by 

O'Neil,  xviii. 
President,   for  Connaught  to  lie  at  Athlone, 

XV. 

,  for  Munster,  at  Limerick,  ib. 

,  at  Armagh  or  Newry,  for  Ulster,  ib. 

,  nature  of  the  president's  ofBce   and 

powers,  XV. 

Presidents,  two  for  Ireland,  at  Killmallock  and 
Lifford,  xvi. 

,  nature  and  term  of  ofBce,tA. 

,    O'Neill  desired  to   be    president  of 

Ulster,  xvii. 

,  chiefs  of  Irish  and  Anglo-Irish  race 

proposed  to  be  presidents,  ib. 

four  presidents  proposed  by  Thomas 

Cusake,  ib. 

,  three  to  be  of  native  birth,  ib. 

,  of  Ulster,  Sir  Robert    Jacob    urges 

the  appointment  of,  197. 

,  ,  authority  of  their  warrants,  447. 

,  of  Munster,  his  court  for  the  con- 
venience of  undertakers,  Ixxvi. 

Preston,  Robert,  381. 

Priests,  the,  in  Ireland,  magnify  Tyrone,  23. 

,  great  influx  of,  takes  place,  30. 

,  reported    to    use    "execrations    and 

bannyngs  "  against  many  persons,  31. 

,  intelligence  from  a,  49. 

,  more  dangerous  than  pirates,  143. 

.Chichester  advises  that  they  be  re- 
strained, ib. 

,  cannot  be  expulsed  but  by  fire  and 

sword,  ib. 

,  exorbitant  presumption  of,  147. 

,  flock  like  locusts  into  kingdom,  ib. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


677 


Priests — cont. 

,  to  be  castigated  like  rogues  and  beg- 
gars by  martial  law,  ib. 

,  no  answer  made  to  this  suggestion,  ib. 

,  many  priests,  seminaries,  and  Jesuits 

lately  come  into  Ireland,  192. 

,  have  held  many  meetings,  the  last  in 

Tipperary,  16. 

7,000  persons  present,  ib. 

,  said  to  be  for  pardons  from  Rome  for 

sins  of  last  16  years,  ib. 

,  such  meetings  always  have  been  fore- 
runners of  rebellion,  ib. 

,  lately  arrived  (1609),  203. 

and  Jesuits,  have  flocked  in  in  numbers, 

240. 

,  the  most  eager  and  stirring  come 

and  go  with  the  swallow,  ib. 

,  sell  indulgences,  &c.,  and  reap  a 

rich  harvest,  ib. 

,  gather  large  assemblies  for  par- 
dons and  absolutions,  ib. 

,  are  protected  by  the  people,  ib. 

,  a  large  assembly  last  week  at 

Monaincha,  on  borders  ofco.  Tipperary, 
240,  251. 

another  at  Inishgaltagh,  in  Con- 
naught,  ib. 

,  described  by  Chichester  as  "  viperous," 

265. 

obstruct  the  plantation,  ib. 

,  frame  reports  of  invasion  and  insur- 
rection, 269. 
,  styled  "caterpillars,"  ib. 

,  proposed  to  hang  them  by  martial  law, 

ib. 

,  persuade  the  people  of  the  speedy  re- 
turn of  the  fugitives,  277. 

,  increased   number  and   boldness   of, 

28(. 

,  are  saluted  in  the  streets,  ib. 

,  draw   thousands   to   their    idolatrous 

sacriiices,  ib. 
,  convert  many  Protestants  to  popery, 

ib. 
many  sent  over  from  abroad,  all  able 

and  lusty  young  men,  29'J. 
,  multiplied  vastly  in  the  country,  ib. 

,  have  wrought  the  people  not  to  pray 

for  Church  or  King,  ib. 
,  a  sudden  blow  is  to  be  feared,  ib. 

,  preach    unlawfulness    of   service    in 

Sweden,  300. 
,  flock  to  Ireland  in  the  spring  of  the 

year  to  gather  money,  399. 
if  arrested  by  soldiers,  are  rescued  by 

the  young  men  and  women  of  the  city, 

ib. 
,  Romish,  come  in  greater  abundance 

than  ever,  444. 
,  masses  said  openly,  ib. 

,  draw  noblemen  and  gentlemen's  sons 

to  schools  beyond  sea,  445. 


Priests  —cont. 

,  must  transport  them,  or    take   other 

severer  course,  ib. 
,  one   lately  apprehended   saying  mass 

at  Multifarnam,  ib. 

,  but  rescued  by  the  country,  ib. 

,  a  man  fined  for  refusing  to  assist  in 

arresting  a  priest,  447. 
,  great    influx   of,   into    Ireland   from 

Home  and  elsewhere,  461. 

,  spreaders  of  falsehood,  462. 

,  "  archpractizing,"  ib. 

,  arrival  of,  474. 

of  the  Pale,  ib. 

,  vicars    general    lately   appointed    in 

every  diocese,  475. 
,    are   to   appoint   a   curate   in   every 

parish,  ib. 
,  not  a  marriage,  baptism,  or  burial  in 

Ireland  but  with  a  priest,  ib. 
of  Ulster,  preach  that  the  Irish  are  a 

despised  people,  worse  used  than  any 

ever  heard  or  read  of,  to  be  thrust  out 

of  their  homes,   after   being  promised 

pardon  and  protection,  503. 
and  Jesuits,  would  be  prosecuted  by 

the  English   and   Scotch  undertakers, 

xciv. 
who  would  be  justices  and  jury- 
men, ib. 
no   Irish  would  prosecute  them 

for  merely  doing  their  church  duties, 

ib. 
and  pirates,   Chichester   wishes   they 

had  a  commission  for  executing,  473. 

Primate,  the,  of  Armagh,  Ixxxvii,  Ixxxviii,  62. 

,  petition  of,  about  Erenagh  and  Termon 

lands,  390. 
, ,  not  presented  till  last  night,  ib. 

Prince,  the,  aid  for  making  knight  to  be  levied 

in  Ireland,  174. 
the    young,   charged    with    seducing 

Lord  Essex's  daughter,  453. 

Priory  lands  in  Down  and  Antrim,  quit-rents 

of,  448. 
Proclamation,    for     transplantation     of    the 

Grsemes,  xcvi. 
,  dated  4th  December  1603,  ib.,  iiote. 

. .  at  Cavan,  that  the  natives  retire  from 

the  lands  of  the  English  and  Scottish 
undertakers,  xcii. 

,  ,  and   settle  under  the  servitors, 

ib. 

,  against  alienations  by  spiritual  per- 
sons, 238. 

,  20th  August  1610,  with  conditions  of 

plantation,  dated  at  Lifford,  490. 

Project  of  plantation,  J.  Carvyle's,  of  NuU' 
monliton,  co.  Cork,  on  8,000  acres, 
323. 

Proportions,  undertakers',  in  the  Ulster  planta- 
tion, 116. 

, ,  bishops  and  incumbents'  pro- 
portions in,  ib. 


678 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Proportions — cont. 

,  in  Ulster  plantation  of  single,  middle, 

and  double,  should  be  given  up,  and  the 
work  be  by  baronies,  368,  391. 

,  how  marked  in   maps    of  escheated 

counties,  403. 

,  with  glebe  land,  ib. 

Provost  Marshal  of  Connaught,  252. 

, ,  Francis  Annesley  prays  rever- 
sion of,  after  Capt.  Charles  Coote's 
death, ib. 

,  Edward  Lenton,  507 . 

,  of  Leinster,  Robert  Bowen,  ib. 

"  Punch,"  the,  in  the  Indian  land  system,  like 
TjTone's  rent  collectors,  xxviii. 

PnrceU,  Denis,  512. 

,  Edmund,  493,  494. 

.Thomas,  511. 

Purgatory  of  St.  Patrick  in  Termon  Magragh, 
288. 

Putt,  William,  511. 

Pyne,  Henry,  desires  to  introduce  Irish  timber 
for  the  navy,  39. 

, report  on  timber  from  Ireland, 

149. 

Pynnar,  Captain,  368.     See  Pinnar. 


Q. 

Quarless,  Jonas,  bill  to,  19. 

Queen's  County,  216,  218,  254. 

,  Sir  Henry  Power  made  governor  of, 

by  Earl  of  Devonshire,  254. 

planters,  the  removal  of  the  seven  septs 

by  Mr.  Crosbie  is  to  their  good  liking, 
218. 

Quilleboeuf,  fugitives'  land  at,  xxxix. 

Quin,  Murtagh,  his  goods,  536. 

, ,  Sir  Toby  CaulfeUd  renders  ac- 
count of,  being  seized  after  Tyrone's 
flight,  ib. 

Quinns,  Hagans,  Connelans,  and  Devlins,  Ty- 
rone's horsemen,  533. 

Quins,  the,  attend  sessions  at  Dungannon, 
16. 

,  placed  in  Oneylan  by  Oneill,  x. 

,  horsemen  of  Tyrone,  xxvii. 

Quit-rents  in  Down  and  Antrim,  448. 

Quynnes,  see  Quins. 


K. 

Eadford,  town  of,  in  Nottingham,  23. 

,  in  Nottinghamshire,  52. 

Eaffo,  see  Kaphoe. 


Raleigh,  Sir  Walter,  Ixxvi. 

,  record  of  his  attainder  in  Eng- 
land sent  over  to  Ireland,  exempUfied 
under  the  Great  Seal,  215. 

Rapho,  see  Raphoe. 

Raphoe,  Andrew  Knox  to  be  Bishop  of,  442. 

Eathcannon,  Casey,  James,  of,  494. 

Rathcofify,  325. 

Eathe,  John,  pilot  of  the  fugitives'  ship,  his 
base  treachery,  xl,  xli. 

Ratheram,  see  Rothuram. 

Rathgartie,  church  of,  co.  Westmeath,  375, 

876. 
RathhasseU,  suit  for  reversion  of  abbey  of, 

262. 
Eathlin  Island,  massacre  at,  li. 
Eathmore,  221. 
EathmuUen,  Ix,  Ixii. 
,  embarkation  of   fugitive  Earls  at, 

Ix. 

,  rectory  of,  448. 

Eead,  Thomas,  grant  of  escheatorship  to,  583. 

Reagh,  Phelin  (M'Davitt),  reward  for  head  of, 
28. 

, ,  paid  to  Patrick  Conley,  32. 

,  Phelim,  224. 

Rebels,  rewards  for  apprehension  or  killing  of, 
28. 

escape  of,  from  Torry  Island,  34. 

,  dealings  of  FoUiott  with,  6. 

,  successfully  repressed,  14. 

Receipts  of  revenues  and  rents  of  Crown  lands, 

577,  578. 
Recognizances,  great  number  of,  taken  after 

the  rebellion,  173. 
Records,  public,  place  for  safe  keeping  of,  to 

be  provided,  148. 
Kectories  in  Downe  and  Antrim,  quit-rents  of, 

448. 
Eecusancy,  fines    for,  imposed    by    Sir    H. 
Bruncker,  129. 

,  petitions  for  remission  of,  ib. 

sought  to  be  remitted  in  Kinsale,  ib. 

,  King  consents  to  this,  131. 

,  to  be  compounded  for,  ib. 

,  fines  for,  King's  pleasure  regarding, 

149. 

enforcement  of,  urged  on  Salisbury, 

284. 

,  offer  of  4,000/.  for  the  farm  of,   in 

Leinster,  Munster,  and  Connaught,  ib. 

,  money  for  repairs  of  churches  and 

schools  to  be  forced  from  richer  recu- 
sants, ib. 

,  about  2,000  returned  recusants  in  the 

Pale  lately,  299. 
,  fines  for,  remitted  in  Cork,  401. 

Eecusant  mayors,  &c.,  refuse  the  supremacy 

oath,  371. 
Eedman,  Marmaduke,  letters  patent  to,  582. 
Eedmond,  Ensign  George,  228. 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


679 


Reignoldes,  Henry,  docquet  of  moneys  received 

by,  from  Sir  T.  Bidgeway,  19.     See 

Eeynolds. 
Eeinoldes,  Thomas,  of  Cork,  captured  along 

■with  the  pirates,  but  released,  42.     See 

Reynolds. 
Kemembrances    for    Sir  Thomas   Eidgeway, 

touching  the  public,  368. 

on  the  plantation,  401. 

Eemington,  Sir  Eobert,  bill  to,  19. 

, ,  Vice-president  of  Munster,  73. 

Eendall,  William,  grant  of  lands  to,  581. 

Eent  system,  Irish  account  of,  xxvi. 

rent,  partly  in  money,  partly  in  kind, 

xxvi. 

charged  on  cows,  ib. 

,  amount  variable,  xxviii. 

,  evil  results  of  system,  ib. 

,  made  tenants  entirely  dependent  on 

chiefs,  ib. 
Eents,  Tyrone's,  account  of,  by   Sir  Toby 

Caulfeild,  xxvi. 

,  slow  payment  of,  32. 

,  in  the  plantation  to  be  proportioned 

according  to  the  country  and  engage- 
ments of  the  settlers,  64. 

,  the  King's  receipts  of,  577,  578. 

Eeogh,  Walter,  pensioner,  337. 

Eeserve  of  treasure  for  emergencies  of  public 
service  most  desirable,  462. 

Revenues,  the  King's,  are  now  settled  in  their 
course,  452. 

Rewards  for  apprehending  or  killing  rebels,  28. 

Reynolds,  Anthony,  367,  477,  512. 

,   Mr.,    reports    that    Sir    Humphrey 

Winche  is  charged  with  defaults  of  pay- 
ment, 515. 

Eich,  Barnaby,  107.     See  Ryche. 

,  Lady,  351. 

Richardson,  Henry,  an  "intelligencer"  of 
Salisbury,  xli. 

Riche,  Barnaby,  his  treatise  on  the  Pride, 
Corruption,  Drunkenness,  and  Incon- 
tinency,  &c.,  of  Ireland,  551. 

Eicheson,  John,  549. 

Eidgeway,  Mr.  George,  367,  510. 

,  Capt.  John,  368. 

, ,  servitor,  to  be  undertaker,  428. 

,  Sir  Thomas,  Ixxviii,  69,  72,  81,  92, 

97,  122,  201,  204,  213,  225,  353,  362, 
366,  368,  373,  479,  507,  510,  529. 

, ,  invests  Beart  Castle,  xlix. 

, ,  hastens  up  to  Dublin  for  a  com- 
mission or  inquest  on  Sir  Cahir  O'Dog- 
herty,  Ixxviii,  Ixxix. 

, ,  the  finding  or  verdict,  super 

visum  corporis,  ib. 

,  ,  equivalent  to  attainder,  ib. 

, ,  his   view  that  justice  is  best 

carried  on  in  Ireland  during  war,  Ixxix. 

,  ,  he  and  Sir  John  Davys  em- 
ployed under  the  commission  of  escheat 
and  survey,  1608,  Ixxix,  Ixxx. 


Eidgeway,  Sir  Thomas— com/. 

,  .......  carries  over  the  maps  to  Lon- 
don, xc. 
, detained  in  London  tiU  5th  July 

1609,  xoi. 
, ,  money  paid  by,  to  Henry  Rey- 

noldes,  19. 
,  his  merits  acknowledged  by  the 

King,  23. 

, ,  report  on  expenditure,  31. 

,  earnest  appeal  of,  for  money  for 

the  public  service,  147. 

,  ,  requisition  of,  for  treasure,  153. 

,  "the  little  treasurer,"  155. 

„., ,  charged  by  Lord  Howth  with 

defrauding  him,  ib. 
, ,  has  to  borrow  money  for  public 

service,  154. 
,   ,  commissioner  for  plantation, 

171. 
, ,  Sir  Arthur  Chichester  advises 

that  he  should  have  Brian-ne-Savagh's 

(M'Mahon's)  lands,  201. 
, ,  prays  that  his  grant  may  be 

speeded,  so  as  to  get  tenants  at  May, 

204. 
,  ,  the   only    time    for    securing 

honest  tenants,  ib. 

, ,  the  land  is  waste,  ib. 

, ,  will  become  again  a  den  of 

thieves,  ib. 

,  his  treasurer's  accounts,  295. 

, ,  report  in  favour  of  Munster 

ironworks,  419. 
, ,  sends  maps  of  the  six  escheated 

counties  to  Salisbury,  401. 

, ,  Lord  Deputy's  advices  to,  420. 

, ,  to  be  an  undertaker,  428. 

,  ,    particulars   of   plantation   re- 
ported by,  460. 
highly   approved  by  the  King, 

ib. 
,  ventures  over  from  England  in 

a  boat  of  seven  or  eight  tons,  479. 
,  ,  in  order  to  join  the  commis- 
sioners of  plantation  in  their  journey 

to  Ulster,  ib. 
, ,  had  he  delayed  but  10  days, 

they   could    not  have    gone  out  this 

summer,  ib. 

,  ,  license  for  his   three   sons  to 

travel  for  three  years  in  France,  Italy, 
and  other  places,  529. 

, ,  (treasurer),  547. 

, ,  vice-treasurer,  his  account,  577, 

578. 
,  ,  commissioners  appointed  to  take 

his  accounts,  580. 
Rimon,  Sandyes,  of  Randelinton,  xcviii. 

one  of  the  Grsemes,  ib. 

,  his  arrest,  ib. 

,  claim  to   pardon  for    the  merit  of 

arresting,  ib. 


680 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


EiotUand,  281. 

Rivers,  Marcell,  recommended  as  undertaker 
for  a  great  or  middle  proportion,  455. 

, ,  married  to  Capt.  T.  Chatterton's 

heir,  ib. 

,  ,  to  be  placed  in  Orier,  ib. 

,  Mareellus,  SOS. 

Kiverstou  (co.  Meath),  110,  111. 

Rivett,  Edward,  550. 

Roach,  see  Roche. 

Roache,  see  Roche. 

Robbuckwales,  tithes  of,  granted  to  T.,  Earl 
of  Ormond,  506. 

Eoberts,  Henry,  pensioner,  336. 

Robes,  cost  of,  from  chief  justices  down  to 
Serjeants,  77. 

Robinson,  a  pirate,  42. 

Roch,  see  Roche. 

the  manor  of,  in  the  Fews,  belongs  to 

Sir  Christopher  Bellew,  554. 

,  he  recovers  at  law  five  townlands  from 

Sir  Henry  M'Turlogh  as  part  of  his 
manor  of  the  Roch,  ib. 

Roche,  Alison,  495. 

,  David,  206,207. 

,  Lord  Eermoy,  325,  340,  341. 

,  Lord,  118. 

, ,  charge  against  Sir  D.  Sarsfield, 

162. 

,  ,   complains   that   Sir   Dominic 

Sarsfield,  Chief  Justice  of  Munster, 
prevented  him  in  the  purchase,  by 
fraud,  of  Carrigleamleary,  of  which  his 
father  was  unjustly  dispossessed,  340, 
341. 

, ,  will  send  Salisbury  a  brief  of 

his  complaint  when  his  son  goes  to 
Oxenford,  ib. 

, ,  his  case,  title  to  Carrigleam- 
leary, as  stated  by  Sir  Dominic  Sars- 
field, ib. 

,  ,  suit  of,  with  John  Power,  524. 

,  ,  surrender  and  re-grant  of  lands 

in  Cork,  517. 

,  Dominic,  325. 

,  John,  496. 

Miles,  476. 

,  Mr.,  44. 

.Robert,  496. 

,  Walter,  ib. 

Eochell,  50. 

Roehclle,  24. 

Roches,  the,  plantation  by,  in  Ireland,  17. 

Rochester,  383. 

Rock  Barkley,  in  Limerick,  scignory  of,  430. 

Roekbarklie,  alias  Magnestie,  in  Limerick, 
577. 

Roe,  Sir  Francis,  conunmander  of,  in  Lough- 
foyle,  xxiii. 

,  ,  English  soldiers  assigned  to,  10. 

, ,  number  of  his  men,  33,  80,  97, 

229,  364,  366. 


Roe,  Sir  Francis — cont. 

, ,  servitor,  to  be  an  undertaker, 

428,477,  510,  544,  547. 
Rollestone,  Richard,  550. 
Rolls,  the  Master  of,  his  yearly  fee,  338. 
,   Mastership   of,   in   Ireland,  Francis 

Aungier  named  to,  580. 
Rome,  a  letter  from,  circulated  in  Ireland,  12. 
"  Rood"  (road),  of  Leghorn,  278. 
Roope,  a  pirate  prisoner,  brought  to  Dublin, 

186. 

Rooper,  see  Roper. 

Roper,  Sir  Thomas,  number  of  his  men,  33. 

,  ,97. 

,  ,  addition  of  50  men  to  his  com- 
pany, 141. 

, ,  pension  for,  150. 

, ,  petition  of,  318,  321,366,466, 

495,  508,  510,  529. 

,  ,  Knight,  farmer  of  lands  of  late 

Earl  of  Desmond,  577. 

Roscommon,  castle  of.  Fugitive  Earls  indicted 
for  design  to  seize  it,  Ixii. 

,  ,  ruined,  258. 

,  xcix,  c,  ci. 

,  transplantation  of  Graemes  into,  xcix. 

,  under  Sir  Ralph  Sidley,  ib. 

,  terms  of  his  agreement,  ib. 

,  made  ivith  the  commissioners  of  the 

middle  shires,  ib. 

,  dated  12th  Sept.  1606,  ib. 

county,  324. 

,  Brian  Kelly's  lands  in,  134. 

Rose,  Lennan  de,  engineer,  80. 

Ross,  part  of,  not  to  be  included  in  the  charter 

of  Wexford,  132. 
,  in  Wexford,  Chichester  suggests  it  as 

a  most  convenient  place  to  build  King's 

ships,  88. 
Rossbranagh,  lands  of,  185. 

Ross  Carbery,  suggested  as  the  second  county 
town  on  the  proposed  division  of  the 
county,  in  preference  to  Youghal,  220. 

Rosse,  John,  313. 

Rotheram,  Sir  Thomas,  delivers  men  to  Lieut 
Smyth,  4. 

,  number  assigned  to,  10. 

,  number  of  his  men,   33,   97, 

231,  510. 

Routlege,  Quintin,  pensioner,  337.  See  Rut- 
ledge. 

Rowe,  see  Roe. 

Rowles,  Wm.,  pensioner,  338. 

Rowley,  John,  Ixxxii. 

,  ,  commissioned  by  city  of  Lon- 
don to  view  the  lands  the  city  had 
undertaken  to  plant,  ib. 

,  ,  commissioner  from  city  of  Lon- 
don for  plantation,  266. 

,  Mr.,  365. 

, ,  title  of  composition  made  for, 

420. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


681 


Eowte,  the,  a  county  of  Antrim,  xiii. 

,  formerly  inhabited  by  English,  xiv. 

,  in  Antrim,  446. 

Royalties  of  Tyrconnell  and   Coleraine,   re- 
served to  Derry,  136. 
Ruish,  see  Rush. 

"Running-post,"  the,  rapid  rate  of,  281. 
Rush,  Sir  Frances,  97.     See  Eushe. 

Rushe,  Sir  Francis,  numher  of  his  men,  33, 

325,  366,  379. 

,  ,  high  character  of,  434. 

,  ,  servitor,  to  he  an  undertaker, 

428,  510,  547. 
,  ,  grant  of  abbey  of  Ballyboggan 

to,  523 

Ruske,  M'Mahon's  dAvelling  at,  170. 

Russell,  Edward,  548. 

..., ,  Sir  William,  Lord  Deputy,  401. 

Russells,     the,     Anglo-Norman     settlers     in 
Locale,  xii. 

Russia,  the  men  sent  to  Sweden  to  be  rather 

employed  in  service  of,  422. 
Rutledge,  Quintin,  511. 
Ryche,  see  Riche. 
,  Barnahy,  106,  367. 


Sachinwell,  Francis,  549. 
Sackford,  Capt.,  368,  550. 

, ,  servitor,  to  be  an  undertaker, 

428. 

Salisbury,  Earl  of,  his  strict  watch  on  the 
fugitives,  xl. 

,  ,  considers  it  necessary  to  make 

the  fugitives'  countries  the  King's 
after  the  flight,  Iv. 

,  hawks   offered  to,   by    Sir  E. 

Boyle,  41. 

, ,  books  presented  to,  by  Sir  J. 

Davys,  135. 

,  ,  report  on  province  of  Munster 

to,  by  Sir  Dominick  Sarsfield,  ib, 

,  ,  said  to  purpose  being  an  under- 
taker in  plantation,  391. 

,  ,  maps  of  escheated  counties,  a 

set  of,  presented  for  his  own  use,  402. 

,  ,   Sir  J.   Davys,  sues  to  be   an 

undertaker  under  him,  426. 

,  ,  barony  of  Clogher  falls  to,  as 

undertaker,  434. 

,  ,  letters  of,  found  in  Sir  G.  Fen- 
tan's  papers,  and  returned,  528. 

Salktld,  see  Saukewell. 

Salt,  proposition  regarding,  424. 

Saltford,  Michael,  550. 


Samford,  Lient.,  sent  to  recruit  for  the  service 
of  Sweden,  296. 

, ,  raises  a  company  for  Sweden,  305. 

Sanctriffc  (Santry),  tithes  of,  granted  to  T. 
Earl  of  Ormond,  506. 

Sarsfield,  Sir  Dominic,  73,  112,  233,  338,  339, 
340,  362,  393,  466,  476. 

, ,  writes  in  the  Lord  President's 

absence  to  Chichester,  30. 

, ,  takes  deposition  of  Falslaff,  ib. 

,  ,    report    on    the     province    of 

Munster,  135. 

, book   on    escheated   lands    of 

Munster,  ib. 

,  ,  charged  by  Lord  Roche  about 

purchase   of  lands   from    Sir    Robert 
Ashfield,  162. 

,  ,  second  justice  of  King's  Bench, 

his  yearly  fee,  338. 

,  ,  Chief  Justice  in  Munster,  339. 

,  ,  his  yearly  fee,  ib. 

,  ,    contention   between   him    and 

Lord  Roche,  about  Sir  Dominie's  pur- 
chase of  Carrigleamleary,  340. 

,  ,  takes    deposition    of    WiUiam 

Duffe,  393. 

, proposed   to    be    made    Chief 

Justice  of  Common  Pleas,  422. 

,  , ,  approved  of,  424. 

Saukewell,  480,  495. 

Savadges,  the,  settled  in  Lccale,  xii.  See 
Savage. 

Savage,  Lord,  inherits  Little  Ardes,  ib. 

Sir  Arthur,  379. 

,  Rowland,  pensioner,  337. 

,  Eobert,  512. 

Savoy,  the,  mastership  of,  391. 

Sawie,  rectory  of,  belonging  to  monastery  of 
St.  Patrick,  448. 

Saxbridge,  pirate,  69. 

,  Captain,  detained  by  storm,  130. 

,  ,  offers  to  seize  the  pirate  Jen- 
nings, 131. 

Saxey,  Justice,  would  exclude  Irish  and  Eng- 
lish born  in  Ireland  from  the  adminis- 
tration, xxi. 

,  ,  has  reported  to  Salisbury  faith- 

fally  on  state  of  the  countrj',  172. 

,  might  have  easily  made  a  for- 
tune by  private  practices,  but  is  poor, 
173. 

,  ,   seeks    appointment   as   King's 

counsel  in  Marches  of  Wales,  ib. 

,  solicits   the    place    of    Baron 

Heron,  263. 

Say,  the  Lord,  principal  vmdertaker  in  Ar- 
magh, with  the  names  of  his  consorts, 
their  means  and  abilities,  550. 

,  and    Seal,  Lord,  suit  of,  for  land  in 

O'Neal-laud,  425. 

,  ,  proposes  to  build  a  town  called 

Cranbourne,  and  a  fort  called  "  Cecille's 
Fort,"  ib. 

Scarcity  in  England,  export  of  corn  to,  to  be 
licensed  because  of,  119. 


682 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Scio,  island  of,  Kerson,  the  pirate,  sails  to, 
279. 

Scotch  and  English  planters  to  meet  at  mar- 
kets, 406. 

,  and  at  sessions  and  assizes,  ib. 

captains  report  preparations  in  Spain, 

for  invasion  of  Ireland,  394. 

Scotland,  supposed  by  some  to  be  the  destina- 
tion of  the  fugitives,  xxxvii. 

, ,  200  soldiers  sent  out   of,  into 

Ireland,  22. 

instructions  of  Privy  Council  to  Chi- 
chester, regarding,  ib, 

Scots,  the,  make  descents  on  Antrim  coast, 
xii. 

,  descents  of,  on  Antrim  coast,  xiv. 

,  expel  M'Quillin,  ib. 

Scott,  Sir  Walter,  his  Border  Minstrelsy,  xcvi. 

Scottish  soldiers  sent  into  Ireland,  10. 

,  rates  of  pay  to,  ib. 

Scoutmaster-general,  Sir  Thomas  Button  to 
be,  432,  ROT. 

Scurlock,  Walter,  of  the  Frayne,  eo.  Meath, 
324. 

"  Sea-flower,"  the,  ship  a  transport  to  Sweden, 
287. 

"  Seamew,"  the,  timber  shipped  on  board  of, 
149. 

,  charter-covenant  of,  ib. 

Sedgrave,  Mr.,  90. 

,247. 

,  Nicholas,  of  Ballyhack,  co.  Dublin, 

325. 

Walter,  ib. 

,  Richard,  ib. 

Seigworth,  Capt.  Henry  (for  Skipworth  ?), 
101. 

Selskar,  222. 

Seminaries,  foreign,  sons  of  noblemen  and 
gentlemen  not  to  be  educated  in,  175. 

,  their  information  works  strange  effects 

in  the  nation,  399. 

Seminary,  emissaries  from,  reported  as  plot- 
ting against  the  King's  life,  49. 

Seminary  priests,  dangerous  character  of,  143. 

,  spread  reports  of  invasion,  269. 

Semple,  Richard,  506. 

Senesehalships,  no  more  to  be  granted,  119. 

Septs,  Irish,  completely  dependent  on  the 
great  lords,  xxxi. 

, ,  independent  estates  created  in 

them,  xxxiii. 

of  the  Erenaghs,  410. 

Sergeantcy,  release  of  Sir  J.  Davys  from, 
153. 

Servitors,  list  of  proposed  undertakers,  how 
and  when  made,  xci. 

,  to   be  chosen   to  have  lands   in  the 

plantation,  63. 

,  names  to  be  sent  forward  by  Chi- 
chester, 129. 

,  Chichester  to  send  list  of,  to  be  set 

down  in  Tyrone,  128. 


Servitors — cont. 

,  English,  proportions  allotted   to,  in 

the  plantation,  181. 

and  English  undertakers  must  begin 

to  plant  at  same  time,  212. 

,  must  defend  the  borders  and  fast- 
nesses for  the  planters,  ib. 

,  Sir  Thomas  Williams,  an  aged  ser- 
vitor, wishes  to  undertake,  213. 

,  Captain  Steward,  leader  of  a  company 

out  of  Scotland,  wishes  to  undertake, 
218. 

,  is  to  be  favoured  as  one  of  that 

country  that  bore  the  brunt  of  the  first 
service  against  the  rebels,  ib. 

civil  and  military,  fit  to  be  under- 
takers, and  where  to  be  placed,  lists  of, 
by  Sir  Arthur  Chichester,  365. 

,  list  of  the  Council  willing,  ib. 

, ,  who   might  be  induced,  365, 

366. 

,  captains  of  companies  having  already 

fixed  residences  in  Ulster,  366. 

,  ,  who  have  none,  ib. 

,  constables  and  captains  of  boats  ib. 

,  other  knights,  servitors,  and  pen- 
sioners in  pay,  fit  with  help,  366,  367. 

,  fit  without  help,  ib. 

, ,  under  their  friends  who  may  be 

undertakers,  367,  368. 

,  suggests  all  lieutenants,  ensigns,  and 

Serjeants  in  the  northern  counties,  368. 

, ,  and  others  in  other  counties, 

now  late  in  pay,  ib. 

,  Lord  Cursie  and  Lord  Delviu  offer  to 

be,  ib. 

and  natives'  precincts,  405. 

, ,  conditions  of  settlement  of,  412. 

,  list  of,  meet  to  be  undertakers,  428. 

,  rules  for  choice  of,  ib. 

,  none   to  he   admitted  but   "martial 

men,"  with  three  exceptions,  428. 

,  Lord  Audley  undertakes  as  a  servitor, 

467. 

Captain  Richard  Tyrrell  prays  that  he 

may  undertake  as,  468. 

,   proclamation  of  Lord   Deputy   and 

Commissioners,  1610,  as  to  conditions 
of  plantation  for  servitors,  490. 

,  Lord  Audley  the  first  to  undertake  as 

a  servitor,  500. 

afterwards  so  many  pressed  forward, 

that  there  was  a  difiiculty  to  provide 
for  them,  ib. 

,  most  of  those  provided  for  had  pre- 
viously set  up  their  rest  in  Ulster,  ib. 

,  the    unprovided    arc    soothed    with 

liopes  of  being  placed  under  the  Lon- 
doners, or  the  bishops,  or  in  the  glens 
of  Tyrone,  ib. 

,  to  license  the  British  undertakers  to 

keep  the  Irish  as  tenants,  would  be  to 
injure  the  servitors  who  were  promised 
them  on  their  portions,  502. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


683 


Servitors — cont, 

,  wrong  of  the  commissioners  who  pre- 
pared the  scheme  to  leave  so  little  land 
to  the  servitors  and  natives,  ib. 

,  monstrous  to  thrust  the  servitors  with 

all  the  natives  of  one  whole  comity 
that  paid  the  King  2,000^  a  year  rent, 
into  one  single  barony,  503. 

,  Chichester   had    given   up   his    own 

3,000  acres  to  enlarge  their  lands,  504. 

,  has  not  3,000  acres  of  so  good  landin 

all  Enishowen,  ib. 

,  of  Irish  birth,  512. 

,  statement  of  the  number  of  propor- 
tions remaining  to  be  assigned  to  the 
servitors  and  natives,  after  the  Termon 
and  other  lands  are  assigned,  547. 

,  list  of  names  of,  undertakers  in  Ulster, 

ib. 

,   unfairly   treated  in    distribution    of 

precincts,  521. 

Seven  septs  of  the  Queen's  County,  see 
Moores,  the. 

Seville,  college  of,  mission  from  every  year  to 
Rome,  50. 

Sexten,  George,  73,  74,  229. 

,  Edmund,  of  Limerick,  85. 

,  Mr.  George,  367. 

, ,  secretary  to  Sir  Arthur  Chi- 
chester, 79,  101. 

,  Edward,  surrender  and  re-grant  to,  of 

abbey  of  Ffayres,  148. 

,  Arthur,   high    sheriff  of   Tipperary, 

brings  an  informer  to  Bishop  of  Li- 
merick, 462. 

Shaen,  Sir  Francis,  107,  486. 

, ,  question  raised  against,  by  the 

O'Eerralls,  407. 

, ,  contest  of  the  O'Eerralls  with, 

449. 

, ,  and   the  O'Eerralls,    order    in 

this  cause,  486. 

Shanganah,  co.  Dublin,  325. 

Shannon,  ironworks  on,  530. 

,  pirates  at  mouth  of,  142, 

Sharpe,  George,  477. 

Shaughness,  WiUiam,  231. 

Shea,  Henry,  mayor  of  Kilkenny,  522. 

, ,  reports  a  supposed  plot  to  Lord 

Butler,  ib. 

Sheale,  a  minister  of  Earl  of  Tyrone,  resides 

in,  at  Blackwater,  280. 
Sheath,  see  Shea. 
Sheephaven,  boats  driven  to,  35. 
Shelton,  WilUam,  373. 
Shepherd,  Henry,  549. 
Sheriff,  eric  of  a,  in  Maguire's  country,  xix. 
, ,  the  first  ever  made  in  Tyrone 

or  Tyrconnell,  ib. 

Sherlock,  James,  grant  to,  of  lands  in  Water- 
ford,  282. 
Sherwood,  Henry,  352,  478. 


ShiUelagh,  88,  90,  93,  95,  96. 

,  wood  of,  and  others  adjacent,  would 

supply  enough  for  the  King's  ships  for 

20  years,  88. 
, ,  a  receptacle  of  thieves  and  ill 

disposed  members,  90. 
,  ,  Mr.  Myttene  and  partners,  who 

have  bought  the  timber,  offer  to  build 

a  strong  castle  there,  90,  95. 
,  ,  Mr.  Philip  Cottingham  employed 

to  survey  the  wood,  93,  96. 

,  ,  a  ward  placed  at  Carnew  in,  95. 

,  the  very  den   of  the  woodkerne 

and  rebels  of  the  borders  of  Dubhn,  ib. 
, ,  who  had  often  sounded  in  the 

ears   of   the   English   in   the   time  of 

Pheagh  (Fay)  M'Hugh,  ib. 
Ship,  a  Spanish,  seized  by  pirates  at  Baltimore, 

100. 
Shipping,  timber  for,  for  20  years  in  Shillelagh 

and  adjacent  woods,  88. 
,   Chichester   suggests   that    ships    be 

built  in  Ireland  or  at  Milford,  ib. 
,  or  at  Eoss  in  Wexford,  ib. 

Ships,  King's,  to  be  kept  on  the  coast  in 
summer  rather  than  in  winter,  420. 

Short,  Robert,  of  Weymouth,  sailor,  examina- 
tion of,  12. 

,    reports    preparations    at    the 

Groyne  for  an  expedition,  13. 

,  ,  fleets  in  readiness  at  several 

places,  lb. 

,  ,  Irish    soldiers  to   embark  in 

them,  ib. 

,  resists  Father  Archer's  efforts 

to  convert  him,  13. 

"  Shrifery"  [Shrievalty]  of  Tyrone,  granted 
to  Rice  Gihnore,  413. 

Shrowle  and  Galway,  passage  between,  rebels 
in,  298. 

,  damage  done  by,  recovered  off 

the  country,  ib. 

Sibthorpe,  John,  third  justice  of  King's  Bench, 
338. 

,  Christopher,  112,  233. 

,Mr.  Justice,  73,  75. 

Sidley,  Sir  Ralph,  222. 

>  ^ ,  his  agreement  with  the  commis- 
sioners of  the  middle  shires  between 
England  and  Scotland,  xcix. 

> ,  undertakes  to  plant  his  seigniory 

at  Roscommon  with  the  Graemes  of 
Esk,  Leven,  and  Sark,  ib. 

,_ ,  their  objections  to  Roscommon, 

ci, 

, ,  all  fly  but  seven,  cii. 

, ,  claim  of,  for  arrears,  395. 

Lady,  493. 

,  ,  bill  to,  19. 

,  widow  of  Henry  Malby,  257. 

Sidney,  Su-  Henry,  his  proposal  for  a  council 

of  Munster,  xviii. 
)  ,  reply  of  Byrne  to,  177. 


684 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


Sidney — cont.       « 

Sir  John,  granted  18  out  of  22  balli- 

bos  to  abbey  lands  in  the  county  of 
Coleraine,  565. 

,  ,  -which   are    purchased    by  the 

Earl  of  Tyrone,  ib. 

,  ,  four  ballibos  (balance  of  22) 

were  granted  to  Sir  Toby  Caulfeild, 
being  part  of  the  possessions  of  the 
abbey  of  Anogh,  in  same  county,  ib. 

Silver  plate,  license  to  Nich.  Wise  to  import 
900  ounces,  329. 

Silvester,  (Sylvester),  Father,  a  Jesuit,  atVal- 

ladolid,  49. 

, ,  minister  of  the  college,  51. 

Simpson,  Humphry,  77. 
Sinnot,  Eichard,  222. 
Skipwith,  Capt.  Henry,  547. 
Slane,  tOTvn  of,  lix. 

,  Lord  Howth  at,  162. 

Slewgannon,  mountain  of,  294. 

Slewsishe,  mountain  of,  294. 

,  lands  of,  in  Ulster,  sued  for  by  Tyr- 

logh  O'Neale,  438. 
Sligo,   map   of,    in   Queen   Elizabeth's    day, 

showing  the  coast,  with  castles  built  by 

the  Irish,  xciv,  note. 

.sheriff  of,  228. 

,  payment  to,  for  safe  keeping  of 

Brian  M'Donogh,  ib. 
,  Donel  O'Knoher  [O'Conachar],  Lord 

of,  465. 
,  garrison  commanded  by  Sir  J.  Fuller- 
ton,  508. 

Slingsby,  Sir  Francis,  228,  508. 

Slught  Airta,  61. 

woods   of,   to   be   reserved  in   Lord 

Audley's  proposal  to  the  King,  259. 

Slutart,  see  Slught  Airta. 

Slute  Arte,  see  Slught  Airta. 

Smith,  Gildaff,  511. 

,  Sir  Thomas,  fee  payable  out  of  re- 
venue of  commissary  of  victuals  in 
Tyrconnell,  301. 

,  Thomas,  607. 

,  William,  508. 

,  Edward,  reversion  of  his  pension,  48. 

,  Capt.  Anthony,  367,  509,  547. 

, ,  to  be  an  undertaker,  428. 

,  was  granted  five  ballibos  ad- 
jacent to  the  castle  of  the  Moyry  in 
Orier  for  21  years,  10  June,  4th  Jas.  I., 
554. 

,  Sir  William,  impeaches  title  of  Sir  J. 

Hamilton,  168. 

,  ,  an  undertaker  in  Tyrone,  180. 

Smithes,  George,  360,  488. 

,   ,  commissioner  for  plantation  of 

Londonderry,  136. 

Smyth,  Thomas,  78,  80,  367. 

,  Sir  Thos.,  clerk  of  the  Council,  162. 

,  Lieutenant,  musters  delivered  to,  4. 


Soccage,  free  and  common,  tenure  by,  160. 
Soldiers,  English,  sent  into  Ireland,  20. 

,  100  still  wanting,  ib. 

,  conducted  by  Earl  of  Thomond,  ib. 

complaint  against  the   President   of 

Munster  for  lodging  them  on  county  of 

Waterford,  446. 
Somersetshire,  names  of  chief  undertakers  of 

Munster,  from,  Ixxvi. 
Somersett,  Robert  Friswell,  great  satisfaction 

of,  with  the  country  in  Coleraine,  290. 

,  ,  its  products,  291. 

Sorleboy,  uncle  of  Angus  M'Connell,  xiii. 

Southampton,  Earl  of,  579. 

South  Wales,  how  the  English  language  was 

preserved  in  parts  of,  358. 
Southwell,  Mathew,  550. 
South  worth,  Edward,  510. 

,Mr.,  367. 

,  Captain,  servitor,  to  be  an  undertaker, 

428. 
Soutoum,  Edward,  383. 
Spain,   supposed  by   some   to  be  the  Earls' 

destination,  xxxvii. 
,  ,  reasons   why  this  is  unlikely, 

xxxviii. 

,  dangerous  persons  from,  474. 

,  great  preparations  in,  to  assist  Tyrone, 

31. 

,  King  of,  83,  98,  105,  120. 

,  ,  Lord  Delvin  will  not  rebel  with 

Tyrconnell  unless  aided  by,  Ixvi, 
, (Ordered  bythe-Popo  to  assist 

Tyrone,  13. 

,  Irish  fugitives  in,  ib. 

,  expected  to  turn  all  his  forces 

to  the  northern  countries  if  the  war 

with  the   Low  Countries  be  renewed, 

25. 
,  Tyrone  is  reported  to  seek  to 

get  the  King  of  Spain  to  mediate  for 

his  pardon  and  return  to  Ireland,  120. 

, ,  Irish  regiment  sent  to,  393. 

,  reports   of    intended   invasion   from 

399. 

,  aid  to  Tyrone  from,  23. 

,  doings  of  the  Irish  in,  Ooruwallis's 

report  on,  179. 
Spainah  [Spaniagh],  Donnell  Kavanagh,  465. 

Spaniard,  a,  that  lived  mth  Tyrone,  account 
of  his  goods  rendered  by  Sir  Toby 
Caulfeild  after  the  flight,  537. 

,  his  wife  and  children  relieved,  543. 

Spaniards  and  French,  Captain  Tobin  em- 
ployed for  the  French,  379. 

,  ,  his  statement  of  his  services  in 

that  war,  ib. 

Spanish  cannon  of  1588  taken  out  of  the  sea 
at  Dunluce,  303. 

Spicer,  Alexander,  211. 

Spies  on  the  conduct  of  the  fugitives,  xl, 
xli. 

set  to  follow  them  over  Italy,  xlili. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


685 


St.  Ambrose,  college  of,  at  Valladolicl,  51. 

St.  Barbe,  Capt.  John,  508,  510. 

St.  George,  Ensign,  men  delivered  to,  4. 

St.  James's  Day,  the  day  of  that  blessed  Saint 

in  Heaven  and  great  monarch  on  earth, 

xci. 

,  Chichester  opens  the   commission  of 

1610  on  that  day  to  give  the  Ulster 
undertakers  possession,  ib. 

St.  John,  Sir  Oliver,  Ixxxviii,  78,  80,  91,  93, 
95,  96,  97,  98,  117,  118,  222,  241,  253, 
254,  363,  366,  481,  485,  486,  507,  510. 

, ,  advises  that  no  grants  of  the 

fugitives'  lands  be  made,  but  that  they 
be  let  to  the  natives  at  dear  rates,  Iv. 

, ,  suit  of,  recommended  for  certain 

leases,  24. 

,  ,  joins  the  plantation  commis- 
sioners, 294. 

,  ,  Chichester's  instructions  to,  at 

going  to  England,  144. 

,  ,  pension  of,  168. 

, ,  an  undertaker  in  Tyrone,  180. 

,  ,   reports    to    Salisbury    on   his 

northern    journey   for   the   plantation, 

303. 

,  on  Erenagh  lands,  ib. 

, ,  on  claims  of  the  natives,  ib. 

,  ,  on  the  Swedish  expedition,  ib. 

,  ,  on  the  London  plantation,  304. 

,  ,  master  of  the  ordnance,  547. 

, ,  number  of  his  men,  33. 

,  Sir  William,  330,  354,  371. 

, ,  jtobe  sent  against   the  Munster 

pirates,  29. 

,  ,  troops  of,  dismissed,  43. 

, ,  return  from  Out  Islands,  ib. 

, ,  captain  of  the  "Advantage," 

301. 
,  ,   demands    500/.    for   provision, 

303. 
,  ,  claims   Spanish    cannon   taken 

out  of  the  sea,  ib. 
,  ,   prisoners  given   in   charge  to, 

398. 

,  William,  of  co.  Tipperary,  324. 

St.  John  Baptist,  abbey  of,  at  Naass,  126. 

of  Jerusalem,  monastery  of,  44 1 . 

St.  Law,  Thomas,  550. 

St.  Leger,  Sir  Antony,  73,  116,  117,  200,  212, 

347. 

, ,  pension  of,  168. 

, ,   commissioner    for    plantation, 

171. 

, ,  report  by,  579. 

,  "  young,"   deserts  the  party   of  the 

fugitives,  xl. 
St.  Lucar,  war  ships  to  come  to  Ireland  from, 

13. 

,  eight  ships  preparing  to  go  to,  398. 

St.  Malo,  O'Ealstaff  takes  ship  at,  30. 


St.  Mary's  Abbey,  Dublin,  granted  (with  ex- 
ceptions) to  John  Wakeman,  506. 
St.  Omer,  English  college  at,  50. 

St.  Patrick's  Purgatory,  in  Termon  Magragh, 

288. 
St.  Paule,  Sir  George,  license  of,  for  sale  of 

wines  and  usquebagh,  415. 
St.  Sebastian,  town  of,  53. 
St.  Thomas,  abbey  of,  in  Down,  448. 
Stafford,  SirErancis,  solicits  a  pension,  47. 

,  ,  84,  366. 

, ,  pensioner,  338. 

,  pension  of,  438. 

Stainhurst,  see  Stanihurst. 

Stalling,  Mr.,  287. 

Standon,  Sir  Anthony,  pension  of,  168. 

Stanhope,  Lord,  commissioner  for  plantation 

of  Londonderry,  136. 
Stanhowe,  William,  550. 

,  Henry,  ib. 

Stanihurst,  Captain,  393. 

,  ,  Irish  soldiers  under   command 

of,  393. 
, a  gentleman  of  co.  of  Dublin, 

398. 
Stanley,  Giles,  227. 

,  ,  pursuivant  at  arms,  76. 

....,  Sir  Rowland,  Ixxvi. 

Stanton,  Thomas,  559. 

Star  Chamber,  382. 

Statute    11th    of  Elizabeth    for   attainder  of 

Shane  O'Neil,  553. 

,  effects  of  that  Act,  ib. 

Statutes,  Irish,  to  be  collected  and  published, 

190. 

,  ,  book  of,  to  be  published,  but  de- 
layed by  the  Ulster  journey,  300. 

Staughton,  John,  512. 

Stephens,  Thomas,  101. 

Steward,  Captain  [  ],  97,  218,  236. 

,  ,  number  of  his  men,  33. 

,  ,  servitor,  to  be  an  undertaker, 

428. 

,  number    of   Scottish    soldiers 

assigned  to,  10. 

,  Sir  Robert,  ought  to  come  with  money 

for  the  troops  for  Sweden,  272. 

,  ,  colonel  in   the  force   designed 

for  Sweden,  287. 

, ,  all  wood  kerne  and  loose  people 

to  be  enlisted  with,  for  Sweden,  292. 

,  ,  arrives  at  Dublin  and  goes  to 

camp  at  Cavan,  296. 

,  ,  recruits  very  willing  at  first,  but 

now  decline  the  service,  ib. 

, ,  withdraw  into  the  woods,  ib. 

,  ,   sends    Lieutenant  Samford  to 

recruit,  among  them,  ib. 

,     ,    three    transports   arrived    at 

Loughfoyle  and  one  at  Carlingford,  ib. 

,  Captain  William,  366,  510,  547. 

,  recommendei  as  a  servitor,  448, 


686 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Stone,  Thomas,  550. 
Story,  William,  511. 
Stowell,  Sir  John,  Ixxv. 
Stoughton,  Anthony,  367. 
John,  lb. 

Strabane,  Straban,  recommended  to  he  re- 
served, 61. 

,366. 

,  precinct  of,  404. 

Straits,  the,  209. 

Strange,  Thomas,  mayor  of  Waterford,  43. 

Strangforde,  town  and  -water  of,  448. 

Strong,  Patrick,  79. 

Stroude,  John,  bill  to,  19. 

,  ,  103,  368,  484,  510. 

,  ,  and  Francis  Annesley,  Chi- 
chester's agents  for  obtaining  for  him 
a  grant  of  the  barony  of  Enishowen, 
103. 

Strutton,  WilUam,  548. 

Stuart,  Lady  Arabella,  petitions  for  grant  of 
duties  on  hides,  152. 

,  ,  objections  to  petition  and  an- 
swers, 153. 

,  ,  grant  of  privilege  to  license 

sale  of  wines,  aquavitse,  &c.,  for  21 
years,  318. 

,  ,  patent  of,  for  license  of  wines 

and  usquebagh,  414. 
,   a   special  grant  of  the  King, 

owing  to  her  rank  and  estimation,  415. 

Submissions  of  Irish  chiefs  to  James  I.,  on 
what  conditions  received,  xxxii. 

Sudbury,  in  the  bishopric  of  Durham,  23. 

Supplies,  certificate  of  last,  from  Lord  Trea- 
surer, 4. 

Supremacy,  oath  of,  mayors,  &c.,  decline  it, 

371. 
, ,  to  be  exacted  from  all  grantees 

of  land  on  the  plantation,  63. 

, ,  some  of  the  natives  may  be  ex- 
cepted, ih. 

, ,  refused  by  mayors,  sheriffs,  &c., 

420. 

, ,  whether  such  are  to  be  removed 

from  ofiace,  420. 

, ,  complaints  regarding,  ib. 

, ,  answer  touching  it,  424. 

Surgeon  to  the  State,  Edmund  Cullen,  507. 

Surrenders,  Act  of,  12  Elizabeth,  xxv. 

J ,  small  result  from,  ib. 

, ,  nature  of,  ib. 

,  tenants  made  tenants  at  will, 

xxvi. 

, evils  not  lessened  under  James 

I.,  xxvi. 

,  it  is  decided  to  remedy  these 

evils,  xxviii. 

,  commission  of,  issued,  ib. 

J ,  mode  of  procedure  under,  xxix. 


Surrenders — cont. 

,  re-grants  of  lands  have  been  made, 

452. 
,  under  commission  of  defective  titles, 

list  of,  324. 

,  but  not  returned  into  Chancery,  ib. 

,  commission  of,  and  defective  titles,  to 

be  renewed,  420. 
Surrey  men,  brought  over  to  Dublin,  4. 
Survey,  the  new,  of  escheated  lands,   very 

laborious  and  costly,  270. 

taken  in  1608,  Ixxix. 

Surveyor-general,  is    deputy  escheator,  and 

"  cheateth  well  for  himself  and  friends," 

408. 

Sussex,  Earl  of,  presidency  proposed  by,  for 

Ulster,  XV. 

,  ,  nature  thereof,  ib. 

Sutton,  Auditor,  333. 

Chichester   stays   his    grant   of  the 

lands  of  Kilmainham,  lying  on  north 

side  of  the  Liffey,  ib. 

Sweden,  67,  251,  334,  496. 

,    transplantation    of     swordmen    to, 

Ixxvii. 

,  transport  of  1,000  men  to,  263. 

,  cost  of  transport,  ib. 

,  men  in  readiness  to  be  transported, 

264. 

,  native  Irish  to  be  sent,  ib. 

,  no  English  to  go  with  them,  265. 

,  where  raised,  271. 

,  how  provided,  ib. 

,  danger  of  bringing  them  together  in 

the  province  of  Ulster,  ib. 
prisoners  in  Coleraine  county  spared 

and  sent  to  serve  in,  281. 
,  recruiting  for  this  service  assigned  to 

Presidents  of  Munster  and  Connaught, 

and  to  Earl  of  Thomond,  286. 
,300  or  400  ready  to  be  transported 

to,  by  Capt.  Ed.  Bingley,  251. 
(hereafter  Irish  and  English  captains 

to  be  employed,  ib. 
,   service   in,   declared  by  priests  and 

Jesuits  to  be  unlawful,  300. 

,  expedition  of  Irish  troops  to,  304. 

mutiny  at  Carlingford,  ib. 

,  Chichester's  steps  in  repressing,  ib. 

,   this    expedition    carries    away    900 

troublesome  natives  of  Ulster,  ib. 

,  and  cessers  of  the  Pale,  ib. 

,  and  followers    of  the    Cavanaghs, 

Byrnes,  and  Tooles,  ib. 
,  all  cruel  wild  malefactors  and  thieves, 

305. 
transportation  of  Ulster  swordmen  to, 

334. 
,   Capt.    Lichfield's  account  of  their 

mutiny  on  board  ship  in  Carlingford 

Lough,  ib. 
,  Hugh  Boy  O'Neale,  their  leader,  son 

of  Sir  Turlough  M'Henry,  ib. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


687 


Sweden — cont. 

,  Hugh  Boy  O'Neale,  was  joined  in 

command,  334. 

,  has  since  deserted,  ib. 

,  Sir  Thomas  Phillips  was  present,  ih. 

,  200  or  300  ready  for  transport  to, 

343. 

Irish  should  command  them,  ib. 

,  English  should  be  kept  in  the  country, 

ib. 
,  the  swordmenhad  better  be  employed 

in  the  service  of  Russia  than  Sweden, 

371. 
600  Irish  of  Ulster  sent  off  (Sept.  25, 

1610)  thither  in  two  ships,  under  Capt. 

Richard  Bingley,  496. 
,  how  the   fear   of  being   transported 

thither  vexes  the  people  of  Ulster,  ib. 
,  no  less  than  the  late  distribution  of 

escheated  lands,  ib. 
,  the  able  and  idle  have  from  this  fear 

run  to  the  woods  again,  ib. 
,  but  got  200  of  them  through  bonds 

for  their  appearance,  ib. 
,   the   oiiicers   employed   to    transport 

them  should  for  the  future  have  liberty 

to  punish  with  death  for  running  away, 

ib. 
,  200  were  from  Ulster,  the  rest  of  the 

600  from  Munster  jindConnaught,  ib. 
,  some  were  English,  as  may  appear 

from  their  names,  ib. 
,  others  pirates  or  desperadoes,  who 

embraced  this  mode  of  escape,  ib. 

,  service  of,  new  levy  of  Irish  for,  458. 

,  Art  Oge  O'Neal's   sons,  and  Oghy 

Oge  O'Hanlon's  sons,  sent  to,  544. 
Swethen,  see  Sweden. 
Swethland,  see  Sweden. 
Sweveland,  see  Sweden. 
Swillabeg,  38. 
Switheland,  see  Sweden. 
Swordmen,  of  Ulster,  transplanted  to  Sweden, 

Ixxvii. 

,  cannot  be  displanted,  176. 

,  or  idle  gentlemen,  removal  of,  161. 

,  fresh  disarming  of,  ordered,  ib. 

,  the,    do    not    affect    the   service  of 

Sweden,  272. 
,  are  "all  peers,  and  prefer  to  be  com- 
manded by  a  stranger  rather  than  to 

serve  under  one  of  their  own  number, 

296. 
,  Irish,   a  new  levy  of,  for  Sweden, 

459. 
Sydley,  see  Sidley. 
Sylvester,  Father,  an  English  Jesuit,  resident 

at  Burgos,  23. 
Synnot,  Sir  William,  76. 


T. 


Taaffe,  Comet,  127. 

,  James,  said  to  swear  falsely  against 

Sir  G.  Moore,  140. 

,  Richard,  512. 

,  Sir  William,  367. 

, ,  Sir  Richard  Boyle's  reversion  on 

book  of,  397. 
, ,  servitor,  to  be  an  undertaker, 

428. 

,  ,  complaint  of  Lady  Desmond 

against,  449. 

Tabular  view  of  all  such  as  offer  to  become 
principal  undertakers  in  Ulster,  with 
their  consorts,  and  abilities  and  estates 
as  themselves  allege,  548. 

Taeffe,  see  Taaffe. 

Talbot,  Walter,  76,  367. 

,  to  be  respected  in  the  settle- 
ment of  Cavan,  56. 

Tallaght,  332. 

Tanfield,  Sir  Laurence,  116. 

Tanistry,  custom  of,  abandoned  by  Magennis, 

xi. 
Tarbert,   bestowed    on    Patrick   Crosbie,   as 

whereon  to  plant  the  Moores  and  other 

Queen's  County  septs,  217. 
,  granted  to  P.  Crosby  for  transplanting 

the  seven  septs  of  Leix,  Ixxiv,  Ixxv. 
Taylor,  499. 

,  John,  550. 

Temporal  lauds,  already  granted,  how  marked 

in  map  of  escheated  counties,  402. 

,  not  to  be  alienated,  175. 

Tenants-at-will  under  the  great  English  barons, 

XXX. 

,  tenants    by  lease,    less    dependent, 

xxxi. 

,  with  leases  to  be  promoted  by  Act  of 

Parliament,  ib. 
Tennis  court,  321,  322. 
Tenures,  conversion  of,  xxv  and  foil. 

,  extent  of,  not  certain,  xxvi. 

,  by  knight's  service,  in  capite,  and  of 

the  Castle  of  Dublin,  an  unfit  and  hard 

mode  of  tenure,  160. 
Termon  lands,  Ixxxvi. 
,  the  purpose   of  the  commission  of 

July  1609,  concerning,  ib. 
,  the  Bishop  of  Derry  claims  them  as 

church  lands,  ib. 

,  how  they  are  not  church  lauds,  ib. 

,  again  found  for  the  King,  Ixxxviii. 

,  distinguished  in  the  maps,  Ixxxix. 

,  and  church  lands,  in  Monaghan,  xxx. 

,  tenure  of,  160. 

,  plantation  of,  171. 

,  report  of,  180. 

,  must  be  defined  in  the  Ulster  planta- 
tion, 211. 


688 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Termon  lands — cont. 

,  will  take  time,  and  plantation  must  be 

deferred  till  1610,  id. 

,  jurors'  report  on,  280. 

,  property  of,  in  the  erenaglie  and  his 

sept,  283. 

,  note  of,  in  Ulster,  293. 

,  the  King's  title  in,  found  hy  juries, 

389. 
and  erenagh  lands  granted  to  bishops 

as  a  free  donation  of  the  King,  410. 

,  in  county  of  Coleraine,  564. 

,  their  nature  set  forth,  ib. 

corb  (coarb)  of,  ib. 

,  to  be  passed  to  the  bishops,  246. 

gained  for  the  church  by  the  Bishop 

of  Derry,  2,56. 
Termon-Magrath,  a   country  in  Fermanagh, 

ix. 
,  dispute    regarding,    between   Arch- 
bishop of  Cashel  and  Bishop  of  Derry 

and  Clogher,  288. 
Termon-o-Mongan,  a  country  in  Fermanagh 

z. 
Terrell,  see  Tyrrell. 
Terry,  David,  see  Tirry. 
Thetford,  court  at,  134. 

Thimble,  William,  violent  letter  of,  to  Salis- 
bury, against  the   Jesuits   and   native 

Irish,  283. 
,    ,   urges   renewal   of    recusancy 

fines,  284. 
,  ,  offers  4,000/.  a  year  for  farm  of, 

ib. 
Thomond,  Donogh,  Earl  of,  76,  97,  200,  217, 

325,  838,  354,  366,  476,  483,  507,  510, 

551. 

, ,  men  delivered  to,  5. 

,  ,  bill  to,  19. 

, ,  conducts  English  soldiers  into 

Ireland,  20. 
, ,  to  be  a  member  of  Council  of 

Munster,  xviii. 
,  proposed  increase  of  his  horse 

refused  by  Privy  Council,  46. 
^ ,  communication  of,  with  pirates, 

142. 
,  ,  proceedings  against  the  pirates, 

151. 
, ,  loses  the  use  of  his  right  arm  in 

taking  Jennings,  162. 
,    recommends    Dr.    Daniel    as 

Archbishop  of  Tuam,  186. 
,    brings    pirates    prisoners    to 

I.lublin,  ib. 
grant  to,  of  100?.  a  year  in  lands, 

39C. 

,  ,  grant  of  town  of  Cathcrlogh  to, 

ib. 

,  ,  meant  to  settle  a  strong  planta- 
tion there   to    bridle   the  Kavanaghs, 

Moores,  and  Connors,  396. 
,  ,  prevented  by  Sir  W.  Ilarpo^e's 

lease,  ib. 


Thomond,  Donogh,  Earl  of — cont. 

, ,  deceived  and  frustrated  by  Sir 

Adam  Loftus,  ib. 
,  his  dispute  with  Sir  A.  Loftus, 

report  on,  submitted  by  Chichester  to 

Sali.sbury,  400. 

,  ,  his  petition,  ib. 

, ,  dispute  with  Sir  Adam  Loftus, 

411. 

,  ,  ,  order  therein,  412. 

, ,  charged  by  Barnaby  Eichewith 

passing  patents  for  so  many  lands  that 

the  parchment  roll  is   16  yards  long, 

552. 

,  ,  fine  paid  by,  579. 

,  country  of,  clerk  of  Council  in,  fees 

received  by  the,  261. 
,    commander  of  forces    in,  Earl   of 

Thomond,  507. 
Thompson,  Isaac,  548. 
Thornton,  Sir  George,  487. 

,  Thomas,  487,  493. 

Throgmorton,  ancient,   raise  a   company  for 

Sweden,  305. 
Capt.,    servitor,  be   an    undertaker, 

428. 
Thurston,  John,  548. 

Tibbot-ne-Long,  Sir  Theobald  Bourke  (Theo- 
bald of  the  ships),  298. 
Till,  Henry,  511. 

Tilletsone,  information  of,  doubted,  49. 
Timber  woods,  goodliest  timber  in  Glancon- 

kein  and  Killeitragh,  208. 
,  of  Kilbarre  and  Kilcoran  in  co.  Wa- 

terford,  225. 
,  concordatum  paid  to  Philip  Cotting- 

ham,  carpenter,  for  hewing  of  timber 

there,  ib. 
,  West  India  merchants  buy  from  pro- 
prietors, 530. 
,  Mr.  Tokefeild  ordered  to  stop  the 

trade  in,  ib. 

,  Mr.  Myttene  employed  to  value,  88. 

,  has  bought  the  woods  of  Shillelagh 

from  Sir  H.  Harrington,  ib. 

,  this  wood  and  others  of  the  King's 

adjacent  would  supply  the  King's  ships 

for  20  years,  ib. 

,  in  Munster  greatly  wasted,  ib. 

,  none  in  Donegal  or  Coleraine,  ib. 

,  but  much  in  Glanconkeyne  and  Kil- 

letra,  89. 
,  none  about  Cai-rickfergus  nearer  than 

Belfast,  ib. 

,  those  of  Killultagh,  ib. 

,  those  of  Permanagh,  ib, 

,  Mr.  Myttene  should  be  employed  to 

survey  all  the  woods  in  the  kingdom, 

ib. 
,  he  and  his  partners  offer  to  build  a 

strong  castle  in  Shillelagh,  90. 
,  Mr.  Cottingham  employed  to  survey 

those  of  Munster,   and  of  Shillelagh 

and  between  Dublin  and  Wexford,  93 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


689 


Timber  woods — cotit. 

,  agreement  between  Wilson,  Dudley 

Norton,  and  Thomas  Crooke  for  pur- 
chase of,  about  Bantry  Bay,  101. 

,  T.  Tounge,  vice-treasurer  of  Munster, 

proposes  that  the  chief  woods  of  Mun- 
ster be  seized  into  the  King's  hands, 
114. 

(Chichester  directs  P.  Cottingham  to 

send  56  tons  of  timber  to  the  Thames 
as  a  specimen,  126. 

,  Londoners  ask  for  those  of  Glancon- 

kein  and  Killeitragh,  349 

,  are  offered  the  use  of  them,  but  not 

the  soil,  lb. 

^ ,  they  are  20  miles  long,  ib. 

,  those  in  TjTone  much  wasted,  ib. 

,  the  King  has  none  of  any  value  but 

in  Ulster,  370. 

Chichester  asks  for  a  surveyor,  ib. 

,  will  be  all  used  in  the  plantation,  ib. 

,  such  benefit  from  export  of  pipe  staves 

and  clap  boards  that  there  is  no  stop- 
ping the  trade,  and  cutting  down  of 

woods,  ib, 
Tipperary   county,   to  what   undertakers   set 

out,  Ixxvi. 
Tircanada  and  Coole,  precinct  of,  405. 
Tirhugh,  precinct  of,  406. 
Tiriagh,  a  country  in  Armagh,  x. 
Tirmiu  O'Mingan,  see  Termon-o-Mongan. 
Tirrell,  Capf.,  interrogatory  to  Sir  G.  Moore 

about,  165. 

, ,  his  answer,  168. 

Tirry,  David,  77,  79. 

, ,   to   have   wardship  of  Robert 

Meighe,  52.'i. 
,  Patrick,  alderman  of  Cork,  first  to 

take  oath  of  supremacy  there,  518. 

,  ,  hated  in  consequence,  ib. 

,  ,  seeks  employment  in  the  De- 
puty's service,  519. 
Tithes  in  Ulster  having  been  relinquished  by 

the   bishops   to   the    incumbents,    the 

bishops  are  to  be  indemnified,  246. 
Titles,  the  King's,  to    escheated  lands   are 

cleared,  452. 

,  defective  commission  of,  xxviii. 

to  lands  of  escheated  counties,  whether 

King's  or  subjects',  recorded  in  a  book, 

410. 

,  compositions  made  for,  420. 

Toaghaghie,  part  of,  to  be  given  to  Sir  Tjrlow 

O'Neill,  177-178. 
Tobbin,  lands  and  mill  of,  289. 
Tobin,  Capt.  James,  379,  380. 
,  ,  prays  lauds  to  value  of  50/.  a 

year  in  co.  Kilkenny,  547. 
, ,  and  a  grant  of  concealed  lands 

throughout  Ireland,  ib. 
, ,  his  services  in  France  against 

the  Spaniards,  379. 
,  ,  King  of  France  gives  him  a 

pension,  ib. 
3. 


Tobin,  Capt.  James— cont, 

,   ......    Sir   H.   Power,   Sir   Francis 

Rush,  and  Sir  Lawrence  Esmond  being 
ordered  into  Ireland  (for  Tyrone's 
war),  the  captain  is  induced  by  Sir 
Lawrence  Esmond,  then  general  in 
France,  to  quit  France  for  Ireland,  ib. 

,  ,  Earl  of  Ormond,  general  in  Ire- 
land, urges  him  to  come,  ib. 

,  ,  is  made  in  Ireland  corporal  of 

the  field,  ib. 

, ,  was  taken  prisoner  with  the  Earl 

of  Ormond  by  Owny  O'Moore,  ib. 

, ,  Sir  Arthur  Savage,  general  in 

France,  promised  to  get  him  a  pension, 
from  the  Queen  of  5s.  a  day,  ib, 

,  ,  the  French  King  gave  him  one 

of  4s.  Gd.  a  day,  ib. 

,  ,  all  his  certificates  of  service- 
burnt  in  Cahir  Castle  at  the  siege,  ib. 

Tod,  John,  Bishop  of  Down,  writes  to  save 
his  right  to  mastership  of  the  Savoy, 
391. 

Toghrany,  a  county  in  Armagh,  x. 

,  now  possessed  by  Earl  of  Tyrone,  ib, 

,  barony  of,  area  of,  402,  405. 

Toghrighie,  lands  of,  62. 

Tokefield,  Mr.,  480,  550. 

,   ,   project   of,  for   ironworks  in 

Munster,  419. 

, ,  Sir  Thomas  Eidgeway's  report 

in  favour  of,  ib. 

Tollochonco  [Tnlla  bunco],  precinct  of,  405. 

ToUogarvey,  precinct  of,  ib. 

Tompkins,  Digory,  alias  Castle,  of  Youghal, 

depositions,  547. 
Tompson,  John,  77.     See  Thompson. 

, ,  Captain,  detained  by  storm,  130. 

Tonragee,  366. 
Tooles  and  Byrnes,  69. 
Toome,  iron  ore  at,  290. 

,  valuable  fishery  at,  ib. 

,  other  products,  ib. 

Toome  Castle,  89,  494. 

Torragh,  see  Terry, 

Torry,  island  of,  1. 

, ,  Tyreonnell  rebels  take  refuge  ' 

in,  ib. 

, ,  invested  by  Bingley,  li. 

, ,  surrender  of  the  castle  and  mas- 
sacre of  the  ward,  lii. 
,  ,  treachery  of  the  defenders  to 

each  other,  liii. 

, ,  rebels  take  refuge  in,  26. 

, ,  letters  regarding,  34. 

, ,  they  escape  from,  ib. 

, ,  boats  employed  there  for  five 

weeks,  230. 
, and  Bealahane,  granted,  12  Oct., 

1  James  I.,  to  Sir  James  Fullerton, 

673. 
,  ,  by  him  sold  to  Sir  Ralph 

Bingky,  ib. 

X  X 


69C' 


GENERAL   INDEX 


Torry,  island  of — emit. 

,  ,  and   Bealahane,  sold  by    Sir 

Ralph  Bingley  to  Earl  of  Tyrconnell,  ih. 

Tougher,  castle  of,  80. 

Toumond,  see  Thomond. 

Tournay,  college  of,  44,  47. 

Tower  HiU,  383. 

Towerson,  "WUliam,  commissioner  for  planta- 
tion of  Londonderry,  136,  360. 

Towlagha,  precinct  of,  405. 

Towns  corporate,  should  not  he  rendered  dis- 
contented by  having  the  customs  taken 
from  them,  86. 

,  hut  should  he  kept  constant  and  faith- 
ful, without  which  all  may  he  endan- 
gered some  time  or  other  (Chichester), 
ib. 

,  must  surrender  the  customs,  128. 

,  the  King  will  not  allow  the  neglect 

or  mere  toleration  of  his  predecessors 
to  bind  him,  ib. 

,  suits  of  the  corporations,  128. 

,  began  to  seek  renewal  of  their  char- 
ters, 214. 

,  and  confirmation  of  ancient  liberties, 

ib. 

,  how  restricted  in  their  new  charters 

by  Sir  John  Davys,  ib. 

,  by  their  old  charters  they  might  shut 

their  gates  against  the  King's  Deputy, 
if  he  came  with  more  forces  than  they 
could  master,  ib. 

,  Sir  John  Davys  has  omitted  this  and 

the  like  from  their  new  charters,  ib. 

Tracy,  Sir  Miles,  defaced  castle  of,  xi. 

Trados,  see  Drogheda. 

Tramontane,  the  suit  against  pirates  into  Mun- 
ster,  28. 

Transplantation  of  the  Graemes,  xcv-cii. 

Travers,  Gaspar,  treachery  of,  xli. 

, ,  a  native  of  Munster,  and  de- 
nounced therefore  as  being  "  false  as 
the  devil,"  ib. 

Treasurer's  disbursements,  docquet  of,  19. 

,  no  part  disbursed  for  his  own  account, 

ib. 

,  the,  has  not  a  pound  in  his  hands, 

400. 

Tredagh,  see  Drogheda. 

Trenton,  Thomas,  494. 

Treswell,  Robert,  488. 

, ,  commissioned  by  city  of  Lon- 
don to  view  the  territory  the  city  had 
undertaken  to  plant,  Ixxxii. 

Trevillian,  Capt.,  366. 

, ,  servitor,  to  be  an  undertaker, 

428. 

(George,  466,  509. 

, warrant  for  provost-marshal- 
ship  of  Munster,  514. 

Trevor,  Capt.,  367,  547. 

, ,  servitor,  to  be  an  undertaker, 

428. 
,  Edward,  229. 


Trevor — cont. 

,  Sir  Richard,  512. 

, pension  of,  168. 

, ,  undertaker  in  Armagh,  180. 

,  William,  511. 

,  a  pirate,  taken  by  Lord  Thomond 

186. 
Tridagh,  see  Drogheda. 
Trinity  CoUege,  Dublin,  484,  487. 
, ,  pay  of  six  footmen  warders  of, 

234. 
, ,  given  some  churches  in  Derry 

county,  349. 
, ,  grant  to,  of  Dungiven  Abbey, 

ib. 
, ,  gets  grant  of  Abbey  of  Kilma- 

crenan,  441. 
,  patent  to,  for  all  the  lands  they 

purchased  of  Thomas  Isham,  466. 
Trinity,  Dean  and  Chapter  of  Blessed,  Dublin, 

325. 
Tristemagh,  107. 
,  Lord  Chancellor  (Jones),  prays  for  a 

fee-farm  of,  92. 
,  fee-farm  of,  granted  to   Chancellor, 

151. 
Trough,  a  country  in  Monaghan,  ix. 
Trow,  see  Trough. 
Tuam,  Archbishop  of,  desires  to  resign  his  see 

in  favour  of  Dr.  Daniell,  184. 
Florence  O'Mulconnor   made  Arch- 
bishop of,  461. 
,  Archbishop  (Catholic)  of,  474.     See 

Elorence  Mulconrj'. 
Tuchborne    (Tichborne),   Francis,    sent    into 

England  by  Francis  Cresswell,  53. 
Tuesday,  a  fortunate  day  for  the  English  in 

Ireland,  14. 
Tuirtres,  the,  of  Clandehoy,  xiii. 
Tulleophelim,  surrender  of  lordship  of,  582. 
Tulloghgarvie,  barony  in  Cavan,  set  out  to 

servitors  and  natives,  505. 
Tunis,  pirates  at,  299. 
Turner,  William,  360. 
, ,  commissioner  lor  plantation  of 

Londonderry,  136. 
Turtures,  the,  see  Tuirtres. 
Turvin,  William,  231. 
Tyrconnell,   country   of,   now   (1609)    called 

Donegal,  194. 

,  assizes  for,  in  1609,  at  Lifford,  ib. 

,  the  worst  country  of  the  north,  ib. 

people    watching    for    forces     from 

beyond  the  sea,  ib. 
,  the  four  notable  rebels  there  in  1609, 

ib. 
,  the  four    M'Swiues,    Sir    Mulmury, 

M'Swiney  na  Do,    M'Swiney  Fanad, 

M'Swiney  Banaght,  the  only  men  of 

account  left  in,  195. 

is  contained  in  county  of  Donegal,  Ix. 

,  O'Donnell  captain  of,  ib. 

,  natives  of,  said  to  be  well  affected  to 

the  law,  XX. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


691 


Tyrconnell,  natives  of — cont. 

,  .......  reverenced  the  King's  judge,  z'J. 

,  but  the  chiefs  opposed  it,  ib. 

,  rebels  of,  all  fly  back  from  Tyrone  on 

Chichester's  arrival,  8. 

,  services  of  officers  against,  acknow- 
ledged, 11. 

all  lands  of,  are  now  in  the  King's 

hands  by  old  outlawry  and  by  late  re- 
bellion, 17. 

,  inhabitants  of,  murder  a  map  maker, 

Ixxxvii. 

,  proclamation  against  rebels  in,  27. 

,  country,  natives  submitted  quietly  to 

the  plantation,  499. 

Earl  of,  219. 

,  ,  opinion  entertained  of,  xxxviii. 

, ,  would  have  no  support  but  for 

Tyrone,  ib. 

,  ,  members  of  his  family  who  ac- 
companied him  in  flight,  xxxix. 

,  death  of,  at  Rome,  xlvii. 

, ,  rumour  of  poison,  ib. 

, ,  ascribed  to  Jesuits  and  to  the 

Spaniards,  ib. 

, ,  death  really  caused    by  fever 

caught  at  Ostia,  xlviii. 

,  ,  his  weak  character,  Ixix. 

,  ,  Sir  J.  Davys's  estimate  of,  ib. 

,  ,  how  far  guilty,  Ixv,  Ixvi. 

, ,  his  death   relieves   Chichester 

from  apprehension,  22. 

,.., ,  lands  to  be  allotted  to  the  mother 

of,  238. 

, Caphar,  child   of  his   brother, 

arrested,  219. 

,  ,  he  and  the  child  of  the  late 

Earl  of  Tyrone  to  have  only  such 
allowance  as  may  be  fit  for  branches  of 
such  ill-deserving  parents,  ib. 

, ,  death  of  his  eldest  son,  399. 

, ,  his  second  son  at  the  Court  of 

Spain,  ib, 
, ,  three  of  his  Irish  followers  dead, 

ib. 
,  creation  of  earldom,  1  Jas.  I., 

567. 
,  remainders  to  Caffer  O'Donnell, 

ib. 

, ,  to  O'Donnell,  Donel  Oge,  ib. 

, ,  surrenders,  and  has  a  re-grant, 

1  Jas.   I.,  under  the   Stat.  12  EUza- 

beth,  ib. 
, ,  the  effect  of  the  re-grant  is  to 

extinguish  the  estates  of  the  two  septs 

of  Laghire  and  O'Derry  in  the  Erenagh 

lands  they  possessed  time  out  of  mind 

in  the  island  of  Derry,  ib. 
,  ,  also  the  estates  of  all  Erenaghs 

in  Tyrconnell,  since  made  the  county 

of  Donegal,  570. 
, afterwards   obtains   surrenders 

from  the  three  M'Swynes  of  their  re- 
spective territories,  ib. 


Tyrconnell,  Earl  of — cont. 

, ,  viz.,  M'Swyne  Banagh, Eaynad, 

and  Ado  [Na-Do],  ib. 

, ,  attainder  of  Eory  Earl  of  Tyr- 
connell and  Caffar  and  Donel  Oge 
O'Donnell,  ib. 

,  grants  a  moiety  of  the  fishings 

of  Lough  Foyle  to  James  Hamilton, 
but  not  to  extend  beyond  two  miles 
above  Lifford,  571. 

,  ,  the    grant  void    because  after 

treason  committed,  ib. 

, and  because  the  Foyle  being  a 

Royal  fishing,  and  not  expressly  men- 
tioned as  such  in  his  patent  from  the 
King,  "  fishings "  do  not  extend  to 
grant  it,  ib. 

,  ,  conveys  Kil  M'ltrien  and  other 

lands  in  the  barony  of  Kilmacrennan 
to  P.  Conley  of  Dublin,  merchant,  ib. 

,  ,  three   months   before  the  Earl 

fled,  ib. 

, ,  it  is  void,  ib. 

, ,  also  a  grant  of  Do   Castle  and 

eight  quarters  of  land  to  John  Arthur 
of  Dublin,  merchant,  which  is  void, 
being  dated  8  July,  5  Jas.  I.,  ib. 

, ,  also    29    quarters   of   land   in 

Portlagh  and  Tirbrasil  to  Nicholas 
Weston,  Mich.  Term.  4  Jas.  I.,  which 
is  also  void,  571,  572. 

,  Countess  of,  117. 

, ,  her  pension,  ib. 

,  ,  widow  of  the  late  attainted  Earl, 

ib. 

,  Admiralty  of,  136. 

,  mother  of,  lands  to  be  allotted,  183. 

Tyimonagrah,  see  Termon-Magrath. 

Tyrone,  Lower  and  Upper,  governments    of 

Ulster,  xxiii. 
,  county  of,  ix,  65. 

, has,  with  Coleraine,  5,000  able 

men,  159. 

, ,  number  of  freeholders  admitted 

in,  said  to  be  small,  161. 

,  ,  the  great  part  of,  comes  to  the 

King  by  Tyrone's  attainder,  61. 

, ,  chief  septs  of,  ib. 

,  ,  forts  of,  ib. 

and  Coleraine,  the  great  numbers  of 

able  inhabitants,  Ixxxv. 

,  and  the  dangers  to  the  planters 

consequent,  ib. 

,  county  of,  found  escheated  to  Crown, 

in  June  1608,  Ixxx. 

,   ,    proceedings    at    Dungannon 

thereto,  ib. 

, ,  proclamation  against  rebels  in 

Tyrone,  27. 

,   ,  chief  captain  of,  Sir  Tirlaugh 

O'Neil,  ix. 

,  the  half  of,   and  more,  let  by 

composition  to  the  Earl,  ib. 

X  X  2 


692 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Tyrone,  county  of — cont. 

,  ,  all  the  land  found  by  the  com- 
mission to  be  escheated  to  the  Crown, 
16. 

,   an  abstract  of  His  Majesty's 

title  to  the  temporal  lands  in,  559. 

, ,   an   abstract  of  His   Majesty's 

title  to  the  ecclesiastical  lands  in,  ib. 

, ,  bishops'  land  in,  561. 

, ,  Erenaghs'  lands  in,  ib. 

,  ecclesiastical  lands  lying  out  of 

the  island  of  Derry,  568. 

,  country  of,  vested  in  the  Crown  by 

Stat.  11th  of  Elizabeth  by  the  attainder 
of  Shane  O'Neal,  553. 

,  glens  of,  servitors  not  provided  for, 

hope  to  be  set  down  in,  500. 

,  people  of,  warmly  disposed  to  accept 

the  King's  law,  xx. 

,  ,  reverenced  the  King's  judge,  t'i. 

,  ,  attend  the  commission  of  oyer 

and  terminer,  7. 

,  project  for  settlement  of,  referred  to 

Chichester,  129. 

,  project  for  plantation  of,  117. 

,  report  of  committee  of  plantation,  ib. 

,  Lord  Audeley's  proposal  for  a  plan- 
tation of  100,000  acres  in,  258,  259. 

,  natives  of,  discontented  by  the  planta- 
tion, 499. 

Tyrone,  Catherine,  Countess  of,  one  of  the 
fugitives,  xxxix. 

,  Countess  of,  her  goods  as  returned  in 

Sir  Toby  Caulfield's  account,  535,  543. 

Earl  of,  ix,   65,  66,  67,  81,  82,  11.5, 

120,  122,  193,  199,  219,  325,  337,  353, 
377,  383,  384,  474,  475. 

,  ,  told  by  Capt.  Leigh  that  Chi- 
chester was  appointed  President  of 
Ulster,  xxii. 

,  ,  his  alarm  thereat,  ib. 

, ,  urges  minor  chiefs  to  forego  their 

independent  grants  of  estate,  xxxiii. 

, ,  and  Tyrconnell,  flight  of,  inter- 
rupts the  progress  of  James  I.'s  policy, 
ib. 

,  ,  and  TjTconnell's  treason,  de- 
mands regardinfr,  1 . 

, embarkation  of,  at  EathmuIIen, 

xxxiii. 

, ,  Sir  J.  Davys's  account  of  Ty- 
rone's   conduct  before  the  departure, 

XXXV. 

, visit  to  Mellifont,  xxxvi. 

,  ,  return  to  Donegal  and  embark- 
ation, ib. 

, ,  seizes  beeves  for  proTJsion  from 

an  Englishman,  ib. 

,  ,  motives  of  his  flight,  xxxvii. 

,  ,  his  Journey  from  Elanders  to 

Italy,  xlii. 

, ,  sets  outfor  Spain, but  is  recalled 

by  the  Archduke,  xlii. 

, ,  reaches  Milan,  ib. 


Tyrone,  Earl  of — cont. 

,   ,  proposal  made  to  Wotton  for 

his  assassination,  xliii. 
, ,  strange  interview  with  intended 

assassin,  xliv-v. 

,  ,  referred  to  the  lOng,  xlvi. 

his    son    seized   with    fever, 

xlviii. 
,   ,lviii.     See   Flight   of  Fugitive 

Earls. 
,  indicted  as  for  treason  for  as- 
suming the  title  of  O'Neale,  xliii,  Ixiv, 

Ixv. 
,    ,    the    separate  indictment    of 

Tyrone  at  Strahane,  Ixiv. 
,  for  assuming  the  title  of  O'Neale, 

ib. 

,  ,  the  proofs  offered,  Ixiv,  Ixv. 

,  ,   Tyrconnell   told    Delvin   that 

Tyrone  would  join  when  the  conspiracy 

should  prove  successful,  Ixvi. 
,    ,  probable  cause  of  his  flight, 

Ixvii. 
, ,  sends  to  Spain  to  know  if  he 

would  be  received  there,  Ixviii. 

,  ,  flies  for  fear  of  arrest,  ib. 

, ,  his  own  account  of  his  motives, 

Ixix. 
,    ,  the  insults   he    suffered  from 

Sir  John  Davys,  Ixx. 

,  ,  has  been  with  the  Pope,  13. 

,  ,  has  hada  grant  of  the  kingdom 

of  Ireland  from  him,  ib. 
,  ,  said  to   have  been  proclaimed 

King  of  Ireland,  ib. 
,  ,  hopes  that  the  Deputy  will  never 

have  government  of  North  of  Ireland, 

29. 

,  ,  his  great  repute  at  Rome,  30. 

,  allowance  to,  from  princes,  ii. 

, ,  his  son  of  seven  or  eight  years, 

62. 

,  ,  how  to  be  disposed  of,  ib. 

,    ,   how   he    forces    Sir    Donnel 

O'Cahan   to   forego   the  King's  grant, 

65. 
,  Chichester  confesses  he  fled  for 

fear  of  his  spies,  82. 
, ,  spent  hours  upon  him  to  try  and 

make  him  loyal,  ib. 
,  ,  Sir  Charles  Cornwallis  depre- 
ciates him  and  Tyrconnell  to  the  King 

of  Spain,  83. 

,  ,  calls  them  "ragged  rebels,"  ib. 

,    ,   tells    him   that    other   Kings 

would  long  since  have  treated    them 

as  the  Kings  of  Spain  did  the  Moors, 

ib. 
,    ,   Captain  Tj'rrell  charges    Sir 

Garrett    Moore,   viz.,  that    he    gave 

Tyrone  warning  that  he  (Tyrrell)  was 

employed  to  take  his  life,  115. 
,  ,  said  to  be  soliciting  the  King 

of  Spain  to  mediate  for  his  pardon  and 

restoration  to  his  country,  120. 


GENERAL   INDEX. 


693 


Tyrone,  Earl  of — cont. 

,  ,  "the  style  he  giveth  himself" 

(in  Latin),  122. 
,  oration  delivered  to  him  (in 

Latin)  at  Douay,  ib. 

,  lands  of,  have  produced  2,OO0Z., 

since  his  flight,  156. 

,  ,  agent  of,  in  Spain,  179. 

, ,  conference  of  this  agent  with  Earl 

of  Bothwell,  ib. 

,    fresh   report  of  his  hopes  of 

return,  188. 

,  ,  reports  renewed,  265. 

, ,  rumours  of  his  return  have  cooled 

men's  affections  to  the  Ulster  planta- 
tion, 193. 

, ,  his    child  and  Tyrcounell's  to 

have  only  such  allowance  as  may  he  fit 
for  branches  of  such  ill  parents,  219. 

,    ,   his   horses   and   other  things 

committed  by  him  to  his  friend  Captain 
Bartholomew  Owine,  ib. 

,  ,  he  brought  a  young  son  of  the 

Earl's  to  Chester  secretly,  ib. 

,  ,  intending  to  carry  him  to  the 

Earl  abroad,  ib. 

,  ,  Chichester  wishes  they  might 

be  sent  into  England  and  put  in  occu- 
pations and  other  services,  240. 

,  his  younger  sons  to  be  kept  in 

restraint,  264. 

,    ,  sends   over  O'Quin  to  obtain 

leave  for  him  to  return  to  Ireland, 
325. 

,  ..-....,  Shane  O'Pounty,  his  treasurer, 

does  the  like,  ib. 

,  ,  James  Nott,  pensioner,  (being 

secretary  to  Tyrone),  for  betraying  his 
secrets,  337. 

,  ,  claimed  a  moiety  of  the  fishing 

of  the  Ban,  353. 
,  ,  his  discontent  at  the  Earl  of 

Devonshire's  claiming  the  whole,  ib. 

,   ,  "malices"  Sir  N.  O'Donnell, 

454. 
,   ,  his  treasons  first  disclosed  l)y 

Sir  N.  O'Donnell,  ib. 

, ,  Tyrone  knew  this,  ib. 

,   ,  reports  concerning  his  doings 

abroad,  461. 

,  distrusted  by  Chichester,  but  he 

has  given  warning  to  the  forts  and  gar- 
risons, 462. 

, ,  reports  among  the  Irish  that  an 

ambassador  newly  arrived  from  Spain 
is  to  solicit  Tyrone's  pardon,  and  the 
restoration  to  his  estates,  474. 

, ,  which  being  refused,  a  war  will 

ensue,  ib. 

,  ,  think  that  Tyrone,  if  ever  he 

can  or  will  come,  will  come  in  the 
next  spring  before  the  utter  ruin  and 
extirpation  of  his  dearest  friends  by  the 
projected  plantation,  ib. 


Tyrone,  Earl  of — cont. 

, ,  the  O'Quins  and  O'Hagans,  his 

late  horsemen,  discontented  at  the  small- 

ness   of  their    lots   in  the   plantation, 

499. 

, ,  gone  blind,  530. 

, ,  his  son  Henry,  dead,  ib. 

, ,  the  hopes  of  the  Irishdead,  and 

now  they  flock  to  accept  the  little  lands 

they  had  scorned,  ib. 

, ,  account  by  Sir  Toby  Caulfield 

of  three  and  a  half  years'  rents  of 
his  lands,  ending  1st  Nov.  1610,  in  the 
counties  of  Tyrone,  Armagh,  and  Cole- 
raine,  532. 

, ,  how  he  let  his  lands  and  what 

rents  he  reserved,  533. 

, ,they  were  grazing  rents,  ib. 

,    ,   collection   of,  by  his   bailiffs, 

ib. 

, ,  the  counting  of  the  cows,  ib. 

,  ,  the  frauds  practised,  ib. 

,  ,  butter  and  provisions  (and  such 

rents),  yielded  by  his  horsemen,  ib. 

, the   Quins,  Hagans,  Conelans, 

and  Devlins  were  his  horsemen,  ib. 

,     ,  these  strove  who  should  give 

most,  ib. 

,  ,  the  advantage  taken  against  the 

time  of  collection,  by  the  inhabitants 
of  the  great  woods,  ib. 

, ,  by  "ridding  away  "  their  cows 

thither,  ib. 

,  ,  his  goods  seized  after  his  flight, 

533. 

, ,  Sir  Toby  Caulfield  renders    ac- 
count of,  ib. 

,   ,   sums  paid  or  allowed  out  of 

rents,  to  some  in  Ulster  to  keep  them 
quiet  on  the  flight  of  Tyrone,  and  also 
after  the  revolt  of  O'Dogherty,  538, 
539. 

,  ........  Sir  Toby  Caulfield  claims  credit 

on  account  for  same,  ib. 

,    ,  20th  of  May,  29th  Elizabeth, 

Hugh  O'Neil  created  Earl  of  Tyrone, 
554,  559. 

, ,  lethDec.,  13th  Elizabeth,  Hugh 

Earl  of  Tyrone  contrives  that  all  the 
countries  of  Armagh  (except  Orier), 
Tyrone  and  Coleraine  should  be  found 
by  inquisition  to  be  within  the  limits  of 
Tyrone,  555. 

,  ,  and  that  he,  like  Con  Backagh 

[Baccagh]  his  father,  1st  Earl  of  Ty- 
rone, had  cessing,  cutting,  and  bonaght 
thereon,  ib. 

,  ,  the   people  of  Ulster  send  to 

Tyrone  for  arms  to  resist  the  plantation, 
503. 

.urge  him  to  come  or  send  his 

eon  Henry,  ib. 

, >  Chichester  just  then  heard  that 

Henry  was  dead,  ib. 


694 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Tyrone,  Earl  of — cont. 

, .after  Shane   O'Neil's  attainder 

and  the  vesting  of  his  countries  in  the 

Crown  by  11th  of  Elizabeth,  the  Queen 

(1st  May,  29th  of  her  reign)   created 

Hugh,  (grandson  of  Con  Baccagh  the 

1st  Earl)  to  be  Earl  (2nd  Earl)  of  Ty- 
rone, 559,  560. 
, ,  and  granted  him  all  that  Con, 

his  grandfather,  had  possessed,  560. 

, ,  Tvith  remainders  stated,  ib. 

,    ,   6th   Dec,  30th   Elizabeth,  by 

inquisition  at  Dundalk,  all  but  1 1  haUi- 

betaghs  in  Slew  Shish  (found  to  be  the 

inheritance   of    Neal    Connelagh,   the 

father  of  Turlagh  Lenagh)  and  Glan- 

conkein  and  Killetragh  found  to  be  the 

Earl's,  ib. 
,  Glanconkein  and  Killetragh  only 

rendered  services  to  O'Neal,  ib. 
, ,  Hugh,  Earl  of  Tyrone,  however, 

at  Queen  Elizabeth's  request,  granted 

the  1 1  baUibetaghs  in  Slew  Shishe  to 

Turlagh  Lenagh,  ib. 
, ,  and  covenanted  to  pass  all  said 

lands  to  Sir  Art  O'Neale,  ib. 
Tyrone's  rents,  collection  of,  xxvi. 
Tyrone's  wars,  state  of  Ulster  after,  viii. 
Tyrrell,    Captain    Richard,    115,    367,   465, 

468. 
, ,  to  be  respected  in  the  settlement 

of  Cavan,  56. 
, ,  Sir  G.  Moore's  statement  about, 

169-170. 
,the  chancellor's  representations 

against,  426. 
,  ,  of  doubtful    affection  to  the 

King,  ib. 
, ,  well  affected  to  the  O'Eeillys, 

ib. 
, ,  the  fugitive  arch-rebel  has  full 

confidence  in  him.  427. 
,    ,   undutiful   departure   without 

license,  434. 

, ,  suspicious  conduct  of,  436. 

,  goes  to  England  without  leave, 

ib. 
,  ,   had  a  troop  of  kerne  in  the 

rebellion,  ib. 
, ,  is  said  to  have  gone  as  a  suitor 

for  the  O'Reillys,  ib. 
,   married    to    Owine    M'Rorie 

O'Moore'a  sister,  437. 
, ,  bardsmake  songs  in  his  praise, 

ib. 
,  ,  prays  to  be  continued  in  his 

purchased  lands  in  the  county  of  Cavan, 

468. 
, and  that  he  may  have  a  grant  of 

escheated  lands  there   as   a  servitor, 

ib. 
Tysted,  202. 


U. 


Ulster,  see  also  Chichester,  Londoners,  Plan- 
tation, Undertakers. 

68,  69,  85,   93,  94,  95,  103,  104,  113, 

193,  194,  195,  196,  202,  204,  207,  208, 
211,  212,  236,  241,  245,  251. 

,  King  of  Arms,  226. 

,  province  of,  the  chief  subject  of  the 

State  Papers  in  this  volume,  vii. 

,  chief  events  in,  ib. 

preface  for  the  most  part  devoted  ex- 
clusively to,  vii,  viii. 

,  account  of,  at  end  of  16th  century, 

viii-xiv. 

,  counties  of,  old  and  new,  viii. 

,  causes  of  its  chargeableness  to  the 

King,  xiv. 

,  intended  court  of  presidency  for,  xiv, 

and  foil. 

., ,  population  of,  obeyed  only  Irish  law, 

XV. 

,  the  province  had  no  cities  or  walled 

towns,  ib. 
,  a  presidency  like  that  of  Munster  im- 
possible in  tJlster,  ib. 
,  English  law  and  usage  unknown  in 

Ulster  down  to  accession  of  James  I., 

xix. 

Sir  John  Davys  on,  ib. 

,  government  of,  under  James  L,  xx, 

and  foil. 
,    presidency  of,    re-proposed    under 

James  I.,  xx. 

, ,  but  on  purely  English  principles,  xxi. 

,  the  better  sort  in,  refuse  commission 

of  the  peace,  unless  Tyrone  consent, 

XX. 

presidency,  no  actual  steps  taken  to 

establish,  under  James  I.,  xxi. 

,  considered  to  be  necessary,  ib. 

,  rumours  of,  ib. 

,  desired  by  Chichester,  xxii. 

,  report  of  his  appoinmentt,  ib. 

I  King  declares  he  had  no  thought  of 

establishing  the  office,  xxiii. 
,  Cecil  wished  to  keep  the  government 

in  his  own  hands,  ib. 
,  no  suitor  for  presidency  encouraged, 

ib. 
chiefs  of,  urged  their  claims  by  the 

number  of  men  they  could  raise,  xxxi. 

,  state  of  government  of,  in  1^07,  xxiii. 

,  purely  military,  ib. 

Chichester's  paper  on,  ib. 

divided  into  10  districts,  ib. 

,  the  survey  of  escheated  lands  in,  is 

Chichester's  second  principal  care,  9. 
,  will  be  promptly  caiiied  out, 

ib. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


695 


Ulster — cont. 

,  plantations  on  the  coast  of,  17- 

,  rebellion  extinguished,  20. 

, ,  nothing  but  good  heard  from,  ib. 

,  caution  necessary  in  disposing  lands 

in,  ib. 

,  survey  of,  to  be  despatched,  26. 

,  grants  of  escheated  lands  to  be  post- 
poned, 34. 

,  wards  of,  40. 

,  instructions  for  plantation  of,  54. 

outlaws  of,  shall  only  save  their  heads 

by  bringing  in  each  as  good  as  his  own, 
94. 

, ,  their  treachery  to  one  another, 

ib. 

,  seems  strange  to  men  of  faith 

and  civiUty,  ib. 

,  wards  in,  95. 

,,,, ,  the  heads  or  corpses  of  late  rebels  in, 

are  often  brought  in  to  Chichester  from 
sundry  countries,  113,  114. 

..., ,  not  above  three  or  four  of  any  note  left 

alive,  114. 

,  only  com  crops  grown  in,  and  barley 

and  oats,  144. 

,  suitors  for  lands  in,  eager  to  go  to 

England  to  press  their  claims,  ib. 

,  ,  Chichester  endeavours  to  re- 
strain them,  ib. 

,  judges  sent  on  circuit  into,  161. 

,   rumours   of    Tyrone's   return    have 

cooled  men's  affections  to  the  Ulster 
plantation,  193. 

,   Sir  Eobt.   Jacob's  report  after  the 

assizes  held  there  in  Feb.  1609,  ib. 

,  all  quiet  in  Down,  but  false  (like  the 

rest  of  Ulster)  in  their  hearts,  ib. 

,  not  a  rebel  out  in  Ulster  (A.D.  1609), 

but  Oghy  O'Hanlon,  196. 

,  now  that  Bryan-ne-Savagh  M'Mahon 

is  slain  and  Bryan  M' Art's  bastard  son 
is  fled  into  Munster,  ib . 

,   only  six  rebels  of  account  left  in 

Ulster,  ib. 

,  whereof  only  Oghy  O'Hanlon  is  in 

action  (A.D.  1609),  ib. 

,  but  all  would  run  out  and  rebel,  if 

,     Tyrone  retiurned,  ib. 

,  all  discontented  at  the  projected  plan- 
tation, ib. 

,  not  so  much  for  the  manner  of  it,  as 

that  they  fear  to  be  supplanted  or 
mastered  thereby  by  the  English,  ib. 

the  numbers  of  swordmen  in  Armagh, 

6,000;  Tyrone,  5,000;  Coleraine,  4,000 ; 

Tyrconnell,   3,000;    elsewhere,   4,000, 

196,  197. 
,20,000  swordmen  still  (1609)  in  Ulster, 

197. 
,,, , ,  require  a  president,  some  great 

man,  to  keep  them  in  order,  ib. 


Ulster — cont. 

,  account  of  the  Lent  assizes   held  (in 

1609)  in  county  of  Down,  193. 

, in  Coleraine,  194. 

in  Derry,  ib. 

, in  Dtmganuon,  for  county  of 

Tyrone,  195. 

, in  Armagh,  ib. 

,  the  commodities  of  Ulster,  208. 

, ,  what  it  may  send  yearly  to  London, 

ib. 

, . ,.,  besides  cattle  and  horses,  has  red  deers, 

foxes,  martens,  squirrels,  ib. 

,  if  the  empty  veins  of  Ulster  were  once 

filled  with  good  British  blood,  the 
whole  body  politic  would  soon  recover 
perfect  health,  214. 

,  after  plantation  to  prove  a  pattern  for 

the  rest  of  the  kingdom,  245. 

,  De  Courcy's  first  conquest  of,  256. 

,  new  maps  of,  280. 

,  old  maps  defective,  ib. 

,  Mr.  Barkeley  appointed  to  di'aw  one, 

was  beheaded  by  the  inhabitants,  ib. 

,  escheated  lands  of,  King's  title  to, 

389. 

,  church  lands  in,  ib. 

,  Brenagh  and  Termon  lands,  ib. 

,  demesne  and  mensal  lands,  ib. 

,  lauds  of,  are  settled  in  the  Crown, 

452. 

,  the  people  discontented,  472. 

,  so  declared  by  Sir  Toby  Caulfeild,  ib. 

,  will  only  be  removed  by  force,  ib. 

,  Chichester  provides  a  small  army  to 

accompany  the  commissioners  of  plan- 
tation, ib. 

,  no  houses  in  Ulster  for  the  commis- 
sioners, 473. 

,  nor  shelter,  unless  the  tents  they  bring 

with  them,  ib. 

,  Irish  of  Ulster  complain  of  the  in- 
justice of  the  plantation  when  all  is 
peace  and  they  were  promised  by  the 
King  protection,  ib. 

if  done  in  war  would  not  have  been 

surprised,  ib. 

say  it  is  the  greatest  cruelty  that  was 

ever  inflicted  on  any  people,  ib. 

,   there   is  not  a  more    discontented 

people  in  Christendom,  ib. 

,  petition  to  the  governors  of  Ulster, 

479. 

, ,  by  Mnian  "Watson,  ib, 

,  the  word  of  removing  and  transplant- 
ing is  as  welcome  to  the  Ulster  Irish  as 
the  sentence  of  death,  ib. 

,  begins   with  Cavan,  because  people 

more  pliable  than  in  the  remoter  parts, 
480. 

,  Sir  T.  Ridgeway  (Treasurer)  and  Sir 

Anthony  St.  Leger  (Master  of  Rolls), 
the  only  commissioners  to  accompany 
him,  ib. 

,-,  but  takes  some  of  the  Council,  ib. 


696 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Ulster — cont. 

,  proclamation  of  20tli  Aug.  1610  from 

Lifford,  with  conditions  of  plantation 

for  natives,  490. 
proclamation  or  warrant  as   to   co- 

mjnes,  491. 
comynes,  customary  gifts,  by  which 

the  lord  attached  his  followers,  ib. 
,  now  that  they  are  detached  the  gifts 

to  he  returned,  ib. 
,    instructions     to    commissioners    of 

comynes,  491. 

Lord  Audley's  grant,  494. 

,  to  have  reversion  of  2,000  acres  after 

death  of  Art  M'Baron,  ib. 
,  and  500  acres  in  Orier,  ib. 

,  fear  of  the  Ulster  men  of  being  trans- 
ported to  Sweden,  496. 

of  600  sent  thither  in  two  ships  under 

Capt.  Eichard   Bingley  (Sept.    1610), 
200  were  from  Ulster,  ib. 

400   from  Munster  and  Connaught, 

pirates  and  desperadoes,  who  sought  that 
mode  of  escape,  ib. 

,  fear  of  trEnsportation  sends  all  the 

able  and  idle  to  the  woods,  ib. 

,  Ulster  inhabitants  never  made  or- 
chards or  buildings  through  the  mise- 
ries of  tenure  in  gavelkind,  498. 

,  plantation  of,  see  Chichester. 

, ,  early  attempts  at  plantation  in, 

,             Ixxii. 
,  defects  of  Leinster  and  Munster 

plantations  designed  to  be  remedied  by 

plantation  of  James  I.,  Ixxv. 
, ,  intermixed  habitation  forbidden, 

Ixxvii. 
,  thus   avoiding  the   fault  of  the 

Leinster  plantation,  ib. 
, ,  natives  not  shut  out  but  assigned 

to  dwell  under  servitors,  ib. 
,  thus  avoiding  the  error  of  the 

Munster  plantation,  ib. 
, ,  principal  men  to  be  gratified  by 

grants  of  land,  ih. 
, ,  swordmen  to  be  removed,  some 

to  Sweden,  ib. 
,   ,   some   to    be   transplanted    to 

Munster  to  dwell  under  Earls  of  Or- 

mond,  ib. 

, ,  and  Clanricarde,  ib. 

, the  three  commissions  for  effec- 
ting the  plantation,  ib. 
, ,  proceedings  under  the  commis- 
sion of  1608,  Ixxix. 
..,, ,    ,  commissioners   for  forming   a 

project    of    plantation,    their     names, 

Ixxxiv,  note. 

, ,  Chichester's  objection  to,  Ixxxv. 

, ,   disapproves     of    the     lottery', 

ib. 
,   ,  it  is  copied  from  the  Jewish 

project  for  the  plantation  of  Canaan, 

ih. 


Ulster,  plantation  of — cont. 

, ,  but  in  Canaan  there  were  cities 

to  occupy,  ready  built,  ib. 

,  ,  none  in  Ulster,  ib. 

,  ,  proceedings  under  the  commis- 
sion of  1609,  Ixxxvi. 

,  ,  how  long  employed,  Ixxxvlii. 

,  ,  what  work  they  did,  ib. 

,  .,....,  Sir  J.  Davys's  account  of  maps 

of  the  escheated  counties,  Ixxxviii, 
Ixxxix. 

,  commission  of  1610,  xci. 

, ,  to  give  the  imdertakers  posses- 
sion, ib. 

,  defence  the  inhabitants  would 

have  made  if  allowed  to  speak,  xcii, 
xciii. 

,  the  opportunity  looked  upon  by 

Chichester  as  "  providential,"  xciv. 

, ,  the  undertakers  being  English 

and  Scotch,  and  made  justices  and  jury- 
men, would  prosecute  priests  and 
Jesuits,  ib. 

,  whom  the  Irish  would  not  con- 
vict for  merely  discharging  their  church 
duties,  ib. 

, ,  Chichester's  first  views  of,  68. 

, ,  as  to  size  of  grants,  ib. 

,  ,  as  to  gratifying  the  natives,  ib. 

,  ,  where  to  place  them,  ib. 

,  ,    cannot    be    begun    till    next 

summer  (1609),  69. 

,  ,  if  the  Scottish  planters  are  to 

bring  over  ihe  islanders  or  their  neigh- 
bours, thinks  the  lands  had  better  have 
been  left  with  the  Irish,  85. 

, ,  distressed  to  hear  that  the  King 

has  promised  100/.  a  year  lands  to  one 
and  200/.  a  year  lands  to  another,  ib. 

, ,  this  will  overthrow  the  planta- 
tion, ib. 

, ,  outlaws  of,  93. 

,  Chichester  will  not  paidon  any, 

unless  such  as  save  their  heads  by  de- 
livering up  others  equally  good,  94. 

,  ,  the  parts  they  act  to  one  another 

are  strange  to  men  of  faith  and  civility, 
ib. 

.., ,  ,    wards    must    be    placed    in 

M'Swyne-na-Banna's  country  to  support 
the  plantation,  95. 

, ,  and  in  O'Boyle's  country,  ib. 

Sir  W.  Whorwood,  of  Sand- 
well,  willing  to  undertake  to  plant 
1,000  or  2,000  acres  with  inhabitants, 
10.3. 

, ,   the   delay  in  commencing  the 

plantation  prejudicial  to  the  King's 
rents,  104,  114. 

,  ,  when  once  the  country  becomes 

waste,  Cliichester  fears  the  undertakers 
will  be  unable  to  stock  it,  1 14. 

,  ,  it  was  so  in  the  Munster  plan- 
tation, which  was  a  better  country  and 
nearer  to  the  sun,  ib. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


697 


Ulster,  plantation  of — com. 

, ,  lottery  scheme  for  undertakers' 

proportions  in,  116. 

, ,  English  and  Scottish  under- 
takers to  be  interwoven,  ib. 

, ,  English  and  Scottish  to  be  next 

to  rivers,  ib. 

, ,  Irish  in  plains,  ib. 

, ,  the  captains  and  servitors  near 

the  Irish,  ib. 

, ,   project   for   the   plantation   of 

Tyrone,  117. 

, ,  report  of  committee  of  planta- 
tion for  plantation  of  Tyrone,  ib. 

, ,  Sir  John  Davys's  objections  to  a 

lottery  of  Ulster  lands,  ib. 

, ,  Chichester  is  to  send  a  list  of 

servitors  to  be  set  down  in  Tyrone, 
128. 

,  ,   rumours   of    TjTone's    retm'n 

have  cooled  men's  affections  towards 
the  Ulster  plantation,  193. 

,  ,  yet  Salisbury  undertakes  for  a 

double  portion  in,  ib. 

, the  store  of  waste  land  to  be 

had  in  Cotmaught  prejudices  the  de- 
mand for  Ulster  lots,  ib. 

,  ,  all  Ulster  discontented  at,  196. 

, ,  because  they  fear,  in  Sir  Eobt. 

Jacob's  opinion,  to  be  supplanted  and 
mastered  thereby  by  the  English,  ih. 

,  ,  for  though  the  Enghsh  consider 

all  the  lands  to  be  now  the  King's,  ib. 

,  ,  the  Irish  claim  it  as  their  own, 

tb. 

,  allege  that  they  have  been  ever 

freeholders  of  it,  and  that  their  lords 
had  only  a  chiefry  out  of  it,  ib. 

,  their  priests  persuade  them  to 

be  ready  to  fight  for  it,  ib. 

, ,  Sir  J.  Fitzpiers  Fitzgerald  re- 
commended as  undertaker  for  a  large 
proportion,  198. 

,  project,  the  printed,  201. 

, ,  commissioners'  powers  enlarged 

beyond,  by  articles  to  their  commission, 
201. 

,  commission  to  hear  suits  con- 
cerning, 202. 

, ,  the   servitors  object  that  they 

are  not  to  choose  their  seats,  "0.5. 

, ,  Alexander  Spicer  offers  to  be 

an  undertaker  in,  210. 

,  reasons  for  deferring,  till  next 

!  pring,  211. 

,  ,  monastery   and  ternion    lands 

must  be  defined,  and  will  take  time,  ib. 

,  survejs  of  six  counties  tedious, 

ib. 

, ,  and  undertakers  if  they  come 

this  spring  or  summer,  and  have  to  wait 
till  Michaelmas,  will  be  ruined,  ib. 

,  plantation  of  Enghsh  and  ser- 
vitors must  go  on  together,  212. 


Ulster,  plantation  of — cont. 

, ,  for  servitors  must  defend  the 

borders  and  fastnesses,  ib. 

, ,  discouragement  of,  by  the  ru- 
mour of  the  return  of  Tyrone  or  his 
sons,  ib. 

,  ,  a   motive    (among  others)  for 

deferring  plantation  till  next  year,  ib. 

,  alterations  of  the  scheme  made, 

but  not  yet  sufficiently  published,  ib. 

, ,  Sir  Thomas  Williams  wishes  to 

undertake,  213. 
, ,  remembrances  for  preparation 

for,  ib, 
,  ,  undertakers  are  of  two  classes, 

Britons  and  servitors,  ib. 

,  ,  Sir  J.  Davys  says  if  the  empty 

veins  of  Ulster  were  once  filled  with 
good  British  blood  the  whole  body 
politic  would  soon  recover  perfect 
health,  214. 

,  postponed  till  1610,  236. 

,  ,  intermediate  preparations,  ib. 

,  ,  commission  of  survey  and  es- 
cheat to  be  prepared,  16. 

, articles  of  instruction  annexed 

to,  237. 

, ,  new   mode  of  distributing  by 

lot,  ib. 

, ,  marking  bounds  of  proportions, 

ib. 

,  ,  glebes  in,  ib. 

, ,  lands  for  Trinity  College,  Dub- 
lin, ib. 

, ,  lands  in,  for  mother  of  the  late 

Ear]  of  Tyrconnell,  238. 
,  lands  in,  for  mother  of  Maguire, 

ib. 
,  ,  for  Katharine  Butler,  widow  of 

Mulmurry  O'Reilly,  ih. 
,   advices   for   removing    native 

swordmen  of,  238. 

,  ,  new  churches  in,  24.5. 

, ,  church  lands  to  be  preserved  for 

the  church,  246. 

, any  pas.sed  by  patent  to  be  re- 
voked, ib. 

,  lands  that  owed  any  refections 

for  services  to  the  bishops  to  be  passed 
to  them,  ib. 

,  ,   the   King's   grant  of  spiritual 

lauds  to  the  church  to  be  enrolled  in 
proof  everlasting  of  his  gracious  plea- 
sure, ib. 

,  ,  transcript   to   be   sent  over  to 

England  by  the  Bishop  of  Derry,  ib. 

, ,  Sir  Thomas  Phillips  suggests  a 

plan  for  cost  of  survey  of  Londoners 
plantation,  243. 

,  ,  Capt.  Kd.  Bingley  to  transport 

men  to  Sweden,  251. 

,  ,  300  or  400  now  ready,  ib. 

,  hereafter  Irish  commanders  (not 

Englifh)  to  be  employed,  ib. 


698 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Ulster,  plantation  oi—cont. 

,  ,    commissioners    will    go    out 

about  31  July,  253. 

,  ,  the  intrigues  of  the  Bishop  of 

Derry,  ib. 

,  his  anger  at  Chichester  and  the 

cause  of  it,  ib. 

, ,  has  compassed  his  own  ends, 

to  the  damage  of  the  plantation,  253, 
255. 

, ,   Chichester  goes  to   Drogheda 

towards  Ulster,  254. 

, ,  has  made  all  the  Bishops  of 

Ulster  commissioners,  ib. 

, ,  who  else  he  takes  with  him,  ih. 

, ,  commission  for  survey  of,  255. 

,  ,  the  Termon  lands  gained  for 

the  church  by  Bishop  of  Derry,  256. 

, ,  Lord  Audeley  and    his   son, 

undertakers,  ib. 

,  ,  the  awordmen  in  transporting' to 

Sweden  mutiny  on  board  ship  in  Car- 
lingford  Lough,  334. 

, ,  seize  it,  ib. 

, ,  Hugh  Boy  O'Neil,  son  of  Sir 

Turlogh  M'Henry,  their  leader,  ib. 

, ,  Capt.  Lichfield  has  since  brought 

his  ship  to  Newcastle  in  Northumber- 
land, ib. 

,  ,  Capt.  T.  Maunsell,  Capt.  W. 

Fisher,  Nich.  Isaac,  and  T.  Binder 
would  undertake  the  whole  county  of 
Donegal,  346. 

,  ,  first  conference  with  Londoners, 

347. 

,  ,   second  conference  with  same, 

ib. 

, ,  certain  considerations  touching 

the  plantation  of  the  escheated  lands  in 
Ulster,  355. 

, ,  King's  title  to  be  cleared,  ib. 

,  ,  men  of  quality  should  be  chief 

undertakers,  ib. 

, ,  few  will  undertake  unless  asso- 
ciated with  such  men,  ib. 

,  ,   lesser   men   will   consume  the 

substance  of  the  land,  and  undo  them- 
selves, ib, 

, ,  knows  men  willing  to  under- 
take a  whole  barony,  ib,  355,  363. 

,   ,  unless   this,   or  planting  on  a 

common  purse,  be  the  manner  of  un- 
dertaking, has  no  good  hope  of  the 
plantation,  355. 

, ,  the  chief  undertaker  should  be 

bound  to  dwell  in  places  of  command, 
or  in  straights,  356. 

, ,  his  tenants  not  to  straggle  to 

edges  of  woods  or  glens,  ib. 

, ,   as  in  the  Munster  plantation, 

ib. 

,  but  to  dwell  near  the  principal 

undertaker,  ib. 

, does  not  think  the  projected 

castles  and  bawns  can  be  built  in  less 
than  four  years,  ib. 


Ulster,  plantation  of — cont. 

, ,  considering  the  want  of  tools, 

&e.,  ib. 

, ,  and  the  many  works  on  hand  at 

once,  ib, 

, ,  tenants  should  be  enjoined  to 

enclose  with  ditches  and  quickset  a 
limited  quantity,  after  the  manner  of 
England,  ib. 

, ,  to  tie  men  of  quality  to  such 

long  residence  would  rather  destroy 
than  further  the  plantation,  ib. 

, no  wise  man  would  bind  him- 
self, ib, 

, ,  besides  he  might  do  it  better 

by  friends  and  substitutes,  ib, 

, ,  undertakers  should  be  rent  free 

for  three  years,  and  next  three  years  at 
half  rent,  ib, 

, ,   Munster  undertakers  had  this 

benefit,  ib. 

, yet  all  too  little,  though  so  near 

to  England,  and  land  better,  and  so 
many  castles  ready  built  there  to  their 
hands,  ib. 

, besides  the  supplies  and  suitors 

they  had  from  the  walled  towns,  ib. 

, ,  all  which  is  wanting  in  Ulster, 

ib. 

,  under-tenants  not  to  be  liable 

for  arrears  of  the  King's  head  rent,  ib. 

, ,  many  seigniories  rendered  waste 

by  this  means  in  Munster,  357. 

, ,  and  private  men  there  ruined, 

ib. 

,  ,  instead  of  tenures  m  capite  or 

by  knight's  service,  the  undertakers 
should  hold  by  common  soccage,  but  be 
bound  to  make  their  tenants'  leases  not 
less  than  three  lives  or  21  years,  ib. 

they  should  not  intermarry  or  foster 

with  the  Irish,  ib. 

, the  descendants  of  the  under- 
takers will  thus  be  linked  by  marriage 
and  kinsmanship,  ib. 

,  ,  in  the  Munster  plantation  the 

Irish  were  allowed  to  dwell  intermixed 
in  hopes  of  civilizing  them,  ib. 

, instead  of  imitating  the  English 

planters,  they  scorned  them,  ib. 

, ,  envied  them,  and  alleged  forged 

titles  to  gain  the  lands  the  planters  had 
built  on  and  enclosed,  ib. 

, plotted  against  their  lives  and 

robbed  them,  ib. 

...,  the  Irish  in  Ulster  should  be 

forced  to  dwell  apart  in  the  plains  or 
environed  by  strongholds,  ib. 

, ,  or  intermixed  with  English  in 

town-reeds,  ib. 
, ,  till  the  greater    number  being 

quieter,  may  outweigh  the  fewer  high 

men  discontented,  358.    . 
, ,  to  preserve  the  English  language 

neat  and  pure,  there  must  be  separation 

of  English  and  Irish,  ib. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


699 


Ulster,  plantation  ot—cont. 

no  intermarrying  or  fostering, 

ib. 
, ,  it  was  by  outnumbering  the  na- 

tiyes  that  the  EngUsh  language  has 

been  preserved  to  this  day  in  the  Pale, 

ib. 

,  and  in  Wexford,  ib. 

, ,  and  in  parts  of  South  Wales, 

ib, 
, ,  the   bishops  should  have  the 

Termon  lands,  ib. 
,  discharged  of  claims  and  estates  of 

the  Corbs  and  Erenaghs,  ib. 
,  does  not  deem  them  worthy, 

ib. 
, ,  unless  as  other  tenants   to  be 

taken  by  the  Bishops,  ib. 
, ,  Bishops  should  give  glebes  of 

60  or  100  acres  to  the  parsons,  ib. 

, ,   should  be  compelled  both  to 

build  a  strong  house  and  to  dwell  in  his 
diocese,  359. 

, ,  and  to  bring  over  tenants  from 

England,  ib. 

, ,  should  not  have  all  the  bene- 
fices, but  some  should  be  for  the  col- 
lege near  Dublin,  ib. 

, and  some  for  the  Lord  Deputy 

to  prefer  hie  chaplains  to,  ib. 

,   ,  lands  should  be   laid   out  for 

towns  corporate,  free  schools,  forts, 
hospitals,  ib. 

,  if  any  English  of  Ireland  will 

undertake  a  barony,  they  should  be  ac- 
cepted, 363. 

,  ,  they  would  draw  friends  out  of 

England  and  Scotland,  and  would  be 
likeliest  to  perform  the  conditions,  ib. 

, ,  Sir  Oliver  St.  John,  Sir  James 

Parrott,  Sir  Thomas  WiUiams,  to  have 
Lower  Orier,  ib. 

,, ,  list  of  servitors  fit  to  be  under- 
takers, and  where  to  be  placed,  365. 

,  ,  list  of  the  Council  willing,  ib. 

, ,  list  of  the  Council  who  maybe 

induced,  ib. 

, ,  list   of  captains  of  companies 

already  dwelling  in  Ulster,  ib. 

, ,  list  of  captains   of  companies 

who  have  no  residence  there,  but  are 
in  garrison  there,  ib. 

,  ,  list  of  constables  of  castles  and 

captains  of  boats  there,  366. 

, ,  list  of  other  knights  and  pen- 
sioners in  pay  who  will  undertake, 
367. 

, ,  Est  of  servitors  not  in  pay,  but 

would  undertake,  ib. 

,  Ust   of    servitors    who    cannot 

build  castles,  but  would  undertake  as 
associates  of  greater  undertakers,  368. 

, ,  list  of  all  the  lieutenants,  en- 
signs, and  Serjeants  in  the  northern 
counties,  ib. 


Ulster,  plantation  of — eont. 

, ,  list  of  some  of  other  parts  now 

or  formerly  in  pay,  ib. 
, ,  Chichester  wishes  the  division 

by    proportions    (single,    middle,    or 

double,)  given  up,  and  to  be  by  baro- 
nies instead,  ib. 
, ,  the  other  will  create  jealousies 

and  difilculties,  ib. 
, ,  Lord  Audley  undertakes  as  a 

servitor,  467. 
, Murtagh  O'Doughan  of  Fegot, 

in  Donegal,  prays  to  be  continued  in 

his  ancient  inheritance  of  1,000  acres, 

468. 
, ,  the  people  of  Ulster  declared 

to  be  discontented,  by  Sir  Toby  Caul- 

feild,  472. 
, ,  Chichester  is   persuaded  they 

will  not  be  removed,  even  to  better  land, 

without  force,  ib. 
, ,  has  accordingly  prepared  a  small 

army  to  accompany  the  commissioners 

of  plantation,  ib. 
, ,  they  think  that  Tyrone,  if  ever 

he  can,  will  come  next  spring,  before 

his  dearest  friends  are  destroyed   and 

extirpated  by  the  projected  plantation, 

ib. 
,  ,  Richard   Waldron  prays  five 

years'  dispensation  from  residence  on 

his  proportion,  477. 
, ,  offers  as  his  deputies,  George 

Sharpe  and  Clement  Cotteril,  ib. 

, ,  Chichester  hopes  to  begin  the 

journey  of  the  commission  for  putting 
the  undertakers  into  possession  at 
Cavan,  on  St.  James's  Day,  479. 

,  the  day  of  that  Blessed  Saint  in 

Heaven,  and  great  monarch  on  earth, 
ib. 

, ,  the  word  of  removing  and  trans- 
planting is  to  the  Ulster  Irish  as  wel- 
come as  the  sentence  of  death,  ib. 

,  ,  advices  set  down  by  the  com- 
missioners of  Irish  causes  touching 
the  plantation,  482. 

, Lysagh  O'Connor  asks  to  un- 
dertake in  Cavan,  483. 

, ,  John   Cottle  recommended  for 

clerk  and  keeper  of  the  books  of  the 
plantation,  484. 

,  ,  was  for  some  years  clerk  to  the 

commissioners  of  arrears  and  sur- 
renders, ib. 

, ,  governor  and  assistants  of  the 

plantation  of  Ulster,  487. 

,  .......  their  names,  488. 

,  lands  omitted  to  be  passed  to 

the  undertaker  in  whose  proportion 
they  he,  ib. 

, ,  fit  places  for  towns  to  be  chosen, 

ib. 

,  ,  when  the  houses  amount  to  40, 

they  may  be  incorporated  and  send 
burgesses  to  Parliament,  ib. 


700 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Ulster,  plantation  of — cont. 

,  ,  the  enclosed  land  near  towns  to 

be  for  commonage,  488. 

,  ,  as  Sir  Turlagh  M'Henry  O'Neil 

is  willing  to  be  removed  from  the  Fews, 
a  fit  place  to  be  appointed  him  in 
Cavan,  489. 

,  ,  proclamation  of  20  Aug.  1610, 

from  LifFord,  with  conditions  of  plan- 
tation, 490. 

form  of  warrant  of  possession 

of,  492. 

,  ,  form  of  warrant  for  timber,  ib. 

, ,  form  of  warrant  of  deputation, 

ib. 

, ,  of  600,  sent  in  two  ships  under 

Capt.  Eichard  Bingley  to  Sweden  (Sept. 
1610),  200  were  from  Ulster,  496. 

,  whom  they  got,  having   taken 

bonds  of  them  for  appearance,  ib. 

,  the  rest  were  from  Munster  and 

Connaught,  pirates  and  other  despe- 
radoes, ib. 

, ,  fear  of  b'ansportation  discon- 
tents the  people  of  Ulster  no  less  than 
the  late  distribution  of  lands,  ib. 

,  ,  Sir  John   Davys's   account   of 

the  proceedings  of  the  commissioners 
(July  and  August  1610),  in  putting 
the  undertakers  into  possession,  497, 
501. 

, they  assigned  their  portions  to 

British  servitors  and  natives  respec- 
tively, 497. 

, ,  made    proclamation    of    what 

baronies  were  assigned  to  English  and 
Scottish,  and  what  to  servitors,  ib. 

,  ,  and  warned  the  natives  to  with- 
draw to  the  servitors'  baronies,  ib. 

,  ,  yet  allowed  them    to   stay  till 

1  May  1611,  as  there  would  otherwise 
be  a  famine,  ib. 

,  ,  as  the  undertakers   had   made 

no  preparations,  ib. 

,  ,  his  account  of  the  opening  scene 

of  the  commission  at  Cavan,  498. 

,  ,  the  natives  make  protest  against 

their  removal,  ib. 

, ,  employ  a   lawyer  of  the  Pale, 

ib. 

,  ,  Sir  J.  Davys's   speech  to  show 

that  the  King  was  bound  in  law,  con- 
science, and  honour  to  remove  them, 
499. 

,  ,  the  proceedings  in  Fermanagh 

and  Donegal,  ib. 

,  ,  in  Tyrone  and  Armagh,  ib. 

,  ,  discontent  of  the  O'Quins  and 

O'Hagans,  Tyrone's  horsemen,  500. 

,  ,  rather  than  take  such  small  free- 
holds, would  live  as  tenants  at  will 
under  the  servitors,  ib. 

, would   thus   escape   serving  at 

assizes  and  sessions  on  juries,  and 
spending  the  yearly  value  of  their 
freeholds,  ib. 


Ulster,  plantation  of— con*. 

,  .......  suggestion  of  Sir  John  Davys 

that  they  he  placed  under  the  bishops, 
and  they  will  grow  fond  of  them  as 
young  pheasants  brought  up  under  the 
wings  of  a  home-hen,  ib. 

,  ,  Lord  Audley  was  the  only  ser- 
vitor to  undertake  last  year,  ib.    .    . 

,  now   there   are  so  many,  that 

there  is  not  land  enough,  ib. 

,  ,  the  unprovided  for  are  soothed 

by  hopes  of  being  placed  under  the 
Londoners,  bishops,  or  in  the  glins  of 
Tyrone,  ib. 

, ,  Chichester's   account   of,   after 

the  commission  for  putting  undertakers 
into  possession,  501-504. 

, ,  the  undertakers  that  had  come 

over  were  not  of  the  quality  he  ex- 
pected, ib. 

,  ,  those  of  the  best  judgment  now 

conceive  the  difficulty  of  planting 
nearly  five  whole  counties  in  that  re- 
mote and  barren  part,  ib. 

, ,  the  undertakers  will  now  press 

for  license  to  take  the  natives  as  ten- 
ants, ib. 

,  if  yielded  to,  the  main  work  of 

plantation  is  overthrown,  ib. 

,  ,  the  Scotch  are  already  in  hand, 

promising  the  natives  they  will  get 
leave  to  keep  them,  ib. 

,  ,  it  will  be  against  the  promise 

to  the  servitors,  who  were  to  have  the 
natives,  ib. 

, ,  the  natives  of  Armagh,  Tyrone, 

and  Coleraine  discontented  at  the 
small  portions  left  them,  ib. 

,  ,  they  had  already  put  on  English 

apparel,  and  promised  to  live  in  town- 
reeds,  and  quit  their  "  creaghting,"  ib. 

,  now  they  have  not  land  given 

them,  and  cannot  be  taken  as  tenants 
under  any,  ib. 

, ,  it  is  very  grievous  to  them,  ib. 

, ,  he  thinks  it  hard  that  the  ser- 
vitors and  natives  should  be  thrust  into 
one  barony  of  Tyrone,  503. 

, the  commissioners  were  remiss, 

or  had  an  ill  design  in  this,  ib. 

,  ,  they  have  ill-feeling  to  him,  ii. 

,  ,  he   prays   he   may   receive   no 

directions  from  them,  ib. 

,  ,  they  do  not  know  Ireland  and 

Ulster  in  especial  as  he  does,  ib. 

, ,  the  Ulster   people  will  rather 

die  than  quit  their  habitations,  or  will 
seek  a  new  dwelling  in  other  countries, 
ib. 

,  they  have  sent  to  Tyrone   to 

come  or  to  send  his  son  Henry,  ib. 

, ,  or  arms   and   ammunition   to 

arm  themselves  with,  against  this  plan- 
tation, ib. 

, ,  the  priests  preach  that  they  are 

a  despised  people,  ib. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


701 


Ulster,  plantation  of — cont. 

, ,  worse  treated  than  any  nation 

ever  heard  or  read  of,  ib. 

, ,  thrust  out  of  their  habitations, 

after  being  pardoned  and  promised 
protection,  ib. 

,  ,  has  himself  given  up  his  3,000 

acres  in  Armagh  to  enlarge  the  lands 
of  the  servitors  and  natives,  504. 

, ,  has  not  3,000  acres  so  good  in 

all  Enishowen,  ib. 

,  ,  has  disappointed  his  own  kins- 
men, ib. 

,  ,  Art  M'Baron  and  wife  to  have 

2,000  acres  in  Orier  for  their  lives, 
529. 

,  ,  given  to  them  to  induce  others 

to  remove,  ib. 

,  ,  his  promise  to  remove  will- 
ingly at  May  next  to  his  new  habita- 
tion, has  worked  wonders,  530. 

, ,  Chichester  now  thinks   it  will 

be  found  easier  to  remove  the  natives 
than  to  bring  in  undertakers  to  replace 
them,  ib. 

,  ,  when  the  natives  are  gone,  sees 

not  how  the  Britons  will  be  supplied, 
ib. 

, ,  it  will  weary  out  the  under- 
takers to  fetch  provisions  from  20  miles 
distant,  ib. 

, ,  thinks  the  natives  will  remove 

at  the  time  limited,  with  a  purpose  to 
destroy  the  plantation,  ib. 

,  ,  knows  no  remedy,  for  to  stay 

them  were  contrary  to  the  end  of  the 
plantation  and  the  proclamation,  531. 

,  ,  to  suffer  them  to  depart  were 

the  ruin  of  the  undertakers,  ib. 

, ,  distribution  of  land  in,  project 

for,  580. 

,  ,  instructions  for,  ib. 

,  commissioners  for,  ib. 

, ,  the   servitors  and  natives  of  a 

whole  county  thrust  into  one  barony, 
503. 

,  they  will   rather  die    than   be 

removed  to  the  small  proportions  as- 
signed them,  ib. 

,    ,   or   seek   a   living   in   foreign 

countries,  ib. 

, ,  have  sent  a  priest  to  Tyrone  to 

urge  him  to  come  or  send  his  son 
Henry,  509. 

,  ,  or  arms  and  munition,  where- 
with to  oppose  the  plantation,  ib, 

,    ,      Chichester,    remarking    the 

hearts'  grief  of  all  the  natives  of  Ulster 
at  the  plantation,  doubled  the  garrisons 
of  Coleraine,  Mountjoy,  and  Charle- 
mont,  505. 

, ,  Chichester  knows  not  how  the 

undertakers  will  live  if  the  natives  (as 
he  now  fears)  should,  out  of  spite,  re- 
move at  the  time  limited  by  procla- 
mation, 530,  531. 


Ulster,  plantation  of — cont. 

,  ,   they  now  accept   those   little 

portions  of  land  they  so  scorned,  hav- 
ing learned  of  Tyrone's  blindness  and 
the  death  of  his  son  Henry,  ib. 

,  ,  list  of  names   of  servitors    and 

undertakers  in  Ulster,  547. 

,   ,   list    of    those  offering   to    be 

principal  undertakers  in  Ulster,  with 
the  names  of  their  consorts,  and  their 
abilities  and  estates,  as  themselves 
allege,  548. 

Ultan,  Father  Maurice,  intercepted  letter  to; 
442. 

Ultough,  Morris,  Dr.,  one  of  the  Pope's  high 
commissioners,  463. 

,  ,  ,  goes  to  Meath  to  mis- 
govern and  do  httle  good,  ib. 

Undertakers,  of  Munster,  names  of  the  chief, 
Ixxvi. 

of  the  plantation   of  Ulster,  the  best 

and  fittest  will   be  the   captains   and 

officers  who  have  served  in  the  wars, 

63. 

,  portions  to  be  assigned  by  lot,  64. 

,  will  have  to  abide  storms,  176. 

,  English  undertakers,  note  of,  180. 

,  no  English  or  Scottish,  in  Fermanagh, 

181. 
,  six  English  proportions  for,  in  Cavan, 

ib. 

,  conditions  to  be  observed  by,  183. 

,  Alexander  Spicer   offers  to  be   one, 

211. 
,  would   be   ruined  if  they  came   and 

had  to    wait    till    the    surveys    were 

finished,  211. 

,  many  petition  to  be  undertakers,  212. 

,  plantations  of  English  and  servitors 

must  begin  together,  ib. 
,  the  servitors  must  defend  the  borders 

and  fastnesses,  ib. 
,  for  the  new  undertakers  will  not  know 

the  country,   nor   the  wars,    nor    the 

qualities  of  the  Irishry,  ib. 
,   Sir  Thomas  Williams  wishes  to  be 

one,  213. 
,  are  of  two  sorts,  servitors  and  Britons, 

ib. 
,  Captain  Steward,  leader  of  a  company 

of  men  out  of  Scotland,  prays  to  under- 
take, 218,  236. 

,  Lord  Audley  and  his  son  become,  256. 

,  many  Scotch  proposed  for,  262. 

,  great   numbers   from   Scotland  have 

found  sureties,  ib. 
decline  to  undertake  less  than   2,000 

acres,  ib. 
,    one   has   undertaken    for   a  roll   of 

names,  in  all  75,000  acres,  ib. 
Scotch,  new  roll  of,  "  men  of  greater 

stuff  and  ability,"  268. 
,   note   of  the    several  proportions   of 

their   lands  in   the   several  escheated 

counties,  339. 


702 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Undertakere — coiit. 

,  W.  Angell,  would  be  undertaker,  341. 

,  Captain  Thomas  Maunsell,    Captain 

W.  Fisher,  Nicholas  Isaac,  and  Thomas 

Finder,  merchants,  would  "  undertake" 

the  whole  county  of  Donegal,  346. 
,  Chichester's  view  of  the  kind  of  men 

required  as,  355. 

,  what  they  should  be  bound  to,  356. 

,  any  English  of  Ireland,  offering  to 

undertake  a  barony  to  be  accepted,  363. 
Sir  Oliver  St.  John,  Sir  James  Par- 

rott,  and  Sir  Thomas  Williams,  to  have 

Lower  Orier,  ib. 
,  Sir  Garrett  Moore,  Upper  Orier  or 

O'Nellan,  ib. 
,  Sir  Ealph  Bingley,  the  barony  of  Kil- 

macrenan,  ib. 
,  list  of  those  of  the  Council  of  Ireland 

who  would  undertake,  and  where  to  be 

placed,  365. 

,  list  of  those  who  might  be  induced,  366. 

,  list   of  captains  of   companies    who 

have  already  houses  in  Ulster,  ib. 
,  list  of  captains  of  companies  who 

have  no  houses,  ib. 

,  list  of  other  knights  and  pensioners 

in  pay,  367. 

,  list  of  other  knights  and  pensioners 

not  in  pay,  but  willing,  ib. 

,  list  of  servitors  not  in  pay,  but  will- 
ing, ib. 

,  list  of  servitors  in  pay,  willing,  368. 

,  Chichester  after  naming  some  lieu- 
tenants for,  suggests  all  lieutenants, 
ensigns,  and  Serjeants  in  the  northern 
counties,  368. 

,  ,  others  in  other  parts  now  or 

formerly  in  pay,  ib. 

,  Chichester  wishes  the  division  by  pro- 
portions (single,  middle,  and  double,) 
given  up,  and  baronies  chosen  instead, 
ib. 

,  Lord  Salisbury  intends  to  be  an,  391. 

,  commission  for  passing  lands  to,  460. 

,  distribution  of  precincts  among,  404. 

,  captains  propose  to  become,  407. 

,  impolicy  of  this  measure,  ib. 

,  eight  principal  English,  to  be  named 

by  the  King,  411. 

,  also  eight  Scottish,  ib. 

inferior,  to  hold  directly  of  the  King, 

ib. 

,  Lord  Audley  formerly  asked  a  large 

grant,  but  is  now  content  to  rank  as  an 
ordinary  undertaker,  467. 

.......,.,  Eichard  Waldrom,  477. 

,  ,  prays  dispensation  from  resi- 
dence, ib. 

, ,  offers  G.  Sharpe  and  Clement 

CotteriU  as  his  deputies,  ib. 

,  Lysagh  O'Connor  asks  to  undertake 

in  Cavan,  483. 

Stephen  Butler,  at  Belturbet,  489, 


Undertakers— eon(. 

,  proclamation  of  20th  August,  from 

Lifford,  with  conditions  of  plantation 
for  undertakers,  490. 

,  James  Clapham  (Clephane) ,  an  under- 
taker, an  old  servant  of  the  King's,  is 
to  have  Newton  in  Tyrone,  491. 

,  Edward  Johnson,  undertaker,  ib. 

Lord  Audley,  his  grant  in  Orier,  494. 

,  Sir  Thomas  Phillips,  ib. 

, ,  to  have  Toome  castle,  ib. 

,  Lord  Audley  the    first    servitor    to 

undertake  in  Ulster,  500. 

,  many  British,  had  come  over  (August 

1610),  and  were  put  in  possession  of 
their  lots,  498. 

,  and  were  given  warrants  for  timber 

for  building,  ib. 

,  those  that  appeared  in  1610  to  receive 

their  allotments,  were  not  of  a  quality 

to  please  Chichester,  502. 
,  those  of  them  of  the  best  judgment 

perceived  the  difBculty  of  planting  five 

whole  counties  in  so  barren  and  remote 

a  country,  ib. 
,  and  would  press  for  leave  to  take  the 

natives  as  tenants,  ib. 
,  the  Scotch  undertakers  were  already 

in  hand  with  them,  promising  them  to 

get  leave,  ib. 
,  this  would  be  to  overthrow  the  main 

work  of  the  plantation,  ib. 
,  Scottish,  have  come  better  attended 

than  the  British,  526. 

their  dealing  with  the  natives,  ib. 

,  are  hated  by  them,  ib. 

,  British,  manner  of  proceeding,  525 . 

, ,  give  little  promise  of  success,  z6. 

, ,  some  have  sold  their  portions 

outright,  526. 

,  list  of  names  of,  S47. 

,  for  plantation  of  Ulster,  number  of, 

581. 
United  Provinces,  the  King's  league  with, 

gives  offence  to  Spain,  17. 
Usher,  Sir  "William,  to  succeed  Sir  G.  Fenton, 

162. 

, ,367,508,546. 

Usquebagh,  suit  regarding,  414. 

Lady  Arabella  Stuart's  patent    for 

license  of  sales  of,  ib. 


Valdeleyd,  see  Valladolid. 

Vale,  Walter,  475. 

Valladolid,  Henry  Killinghall  meets  Robert 

Hanmer  at,  23. 
Valledeloyd,  see  Valladolid. 
Valley,  Sir  Edmund  Fitzgerald,  Knight  of  the, 

384,  388. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


703 


Valley,  Shane  M'Brian,  messenger  from  Sir 

Neal  O'Domiell,  20. 
Varden,  priest,  345. 
Vaughan,  Capt.  Henry,  368,  548. 
, servitor,  to  be  an  undertaker, 

428. 
,  Capt.  John,  97,  227,  230,  326,  366, 

510,  512,  547. 

, takes  deposition  of  M' Allen,  37. 

, ,  sheriff  of  Donegal,  killed  by  a 

Scotchman,  453. 
, ,  servitor,  to  be  an  undertaker, 

428. 

, ,  Scottish  soldiers  assigned  to,  10. 

,  ,  number  of  foot,  33. 

Vaux,  Lord,  23. 

, ,  a  Jesuit  in  service  of,  50. 

Vawes,  see  Vaux. 
Vawse,  see  Vaux. 
Verdon,  John,  pensioner,  337. 

,  Sir  Theobald  de,  221. 

,  Jane,  ib. 

,  Elizabeth,  ib. 

Isabella,  ib. 

,  Margery,  ib. 

Vicars,  presentative,  403. 

general.  Catholic,  appointed  for  every 

diocese  throughout  Ireland,  475. 
, ,  who  must  appoint  a  curate  in 

every  parish,  ib. 
,    ,   there  is   neither    matrimony, 

christening,  or  burying  in  Ireland  with- 
out a  Catholic  priest,  ib. 
,   ,   they   can   dispense   with   any 

couple  as  nigh  by  degrees  but  in  one 

and  two,  ib. 
,  ,  they  have  appointed  guardian 

abbots  in  every  abbey  in  Ireland,  ib. 
Vice-Treasurer,  his  account,  577. 
VictuaUing  of  ships,  480,  481,  482. 
,  Sir  Allen  Apsley  to  be  contracted 

with,  480,  487. 
,  agreement  with  Marmaduke  Darrel 

for,  383. 

,  charge  of,  513. 

efforts  beforehand  to  be  attended  to, 

145. 

the  army  and  navy,  contracts  for,  301. 

,  Lord  Deputy  to  undertake  it  at  the 

same  rates  as  in  England,  316. 
Victuals,  no  provision  of,  in  the  forts,  400. 
Vigo,  fleet  for  Ireland  preparing  at,  13. 
Virgil,  allusion  to,  by  Sir  John  Davys,  16. 
Virginia,  proposed  to  employ  the  pirates  in,  278. 


w. 

Wackley,  Christopher,  336, 510.    See  Wakley. 
Wake,  William,  549. 
Wakeman,  John,  207,  389,  506. 


Wakeman,  John — cent. 

, ,  the  moiety  of  the  fishing  of  the 

Ban  granted  to  John  Wakeman  is  the 

only  thing   in  Coleraine    county  not 

vested  in  the  Crown,  563,  564. 
, ,  who  sold  it  to  James  Hamilton, 

564. 
,   ,  who  undertook   at  request  of 

Sir  A.  Chichester  for  200Z.  to  convey 

same  to  the  Earl  of  Tyrone,  ib. 
,  ,  who  paid  200l.  and  took  the 

fish,  ib. 
, ,  it  is  now  found  vested  in  the 

Crown,  ib. 
, ,  trustee  for  Earl  of  Devonshire 

302. 
,   ,   assigns  his  right    to    James 

Hamilton,  ib. 

,  ,  patent  of,  for  Ban  fishery,  389. 

, ,  objections  to,  ib. 

, ,  true  copy  of  his  grant,  ib. 

Wakley,  John,  121. 
Waldrom,  Richard,  477. 
Walker,  Humphrey,  549. 
Wall,  Edmond,  letter  of,  44. 

,  Gerod,  father  of  Edmond  Wall,  ib. 

Father,  a  Jesuit,  nephew  of  Kearney, 

Archbishop  of  Cashel,  399. 
, ,  returned  from  abroad  and  landed 

in  Ulster,  ib. 

Wallop,  Sir  Henry,  222. 

,  ,  Queen's  commissioner,  xviii. 

Walshe,  Sir  Nicholas,  74, 77, 232, 339, 422, 466 . 

,  Lord  Chief  Justice,  362. 

,  Mr.  Patrick,  102. 

,  James,  of  the  Shanganah,  co.  Dublin, 

325. 
Ward,  John,  a  pirate  at  Tunis,  278. 
,  Pepwell's   attempt   to    reform 

him,  279. 

, ,  represented  as  irreclaimable,  ib. 

,  Edward,  550. 

,  Joseph,  ib. 

,  William,  ib. 

Wards  and  garrisons,  the  condition  of,  in  Ire- 
land, 40. 

,  pay  to  be  raised  to  English  money,  46 . 

,   increase  of,  upon   the  possession  of 

Ulster,  95. 

,  without  them,  would  know  no  more  of 

the  mind  of  the  Ulster  people  than  o 
those  of  Africa,  ib. 

,  Chichester     would    have     one    in 

M'Swyne  na  Banna's  country,  ib. 

,  and  in  O'Boyle's  country,  ib. 

Ware,  Sir  James,  auditor,  112,  362,  367,  374, 

465,  478,  487. 

,  John,  465,478. 

Mr.  Auditor,  referred  to  on  the  claim 

of  James  Hamilton,  302. 

,  reversion  of  his  office  to  his 

son,  recommended,  445. 

>  >  his  reasonable  demand  to  be 

granted,  422. 


704 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Warrants  of   the  Lord  President,    question 
as  to  their  authority,  447. 

,  Mayor  of  Limerick  resists,  ih. 

,   in  Ulster    plantation,  form   of,    for 

timber,  492. 

,  for  possession,  ib. 

,  ,  of  deputation,  ib. 

Warren,  Mr.,  367. 

,  Edmond,  merchant  at  Navan,  140. 

,  Sir  Henry,  373. 

,  Laurence,  549. 

Wars  of  barons,  xxx. 

Warwick,  Earl  of,  secret  of  his  power  lay  in 
number  of  tenants  at  will,  ib, 

Warwickshire,   men   brought    over  from,    to 
Dublin,  4. 

Waterford,  74,  92,  214. 

,  Bishop  of,  to  beof  Council  of  Munster, 

xviii. 

,   ,  claims  the  privilege  that  the 

Mayor  of  Waterford  shall  not  lift  up 
his  sword  within  the  Cathedral  pre- 
cincts, 214. 

,  ,   complains    of  the  waste    and 

decay  of  the  temporalities  of  his  see, 
439. 

,  corporation  of,  230. 

,  ,  solicits  favour  for  their  suit,  43. 

,  petition  to  have  the  town  and 

lands  of  Ballycrokill  brought  into  the 
liberties,  199. 

,  ward  at,  507. 

,  new  charter  for,  1.54. 

,  customs  of,  154,  214. 

, ,  Sir  K.  Morrison's  men  at,  33. 

,  ships  not  to  discharge  at  Wexford,  if 

this  be  found  to  be  against  the  privi- 
leges of  Waterford,  132. 

,   diocese    of,   commission  of    inquiry 

about,  186. 

,400  men  under  Sir  Anthony  Cooke 

landed  at,  in  1602,  232. 

,  complain  of  soldiers  cessed  on  them, 

251,  343. 

citizens  all  papists,  214. 

,  yet  exclaim  against  the  Bishop   that 

he  is  going  to  erect  a  papacy  in  Water- 
ford, ib. 

,  because  he  will  not  allow  the  Mayor 

to  carry  the  King's  sword  into  his 
liberties,  ih. 

,  Sir  J.  Davjshas  omitted  their  ancient 

privilege  to  shut  the  gates  of  the  city 
against  the  King's  Deputy  if  he  comes 
with  forces  more  than  they  could 
master,  ih. 

,  bill   of  resumption,  to   be   prepared, 

440. 

,  commission  of  inquiry  to  issue,  ih. 

,  new  charter  for,  455. 

,  franchises  of,  ih. 

,  complaint  from,  against  Sir  R.  Mory- 

Bon,  446. 
,  people  of,  bako  and  brew  for  them- 
selves, 482. 


Waterford — cont. 

county,  to  what  undertakers   set  out, 

Ixxv. 
Webb,  Dean,  487. 

,  Robert,  nephew  of  Father  Gerrard, 

51. 

,  ,  changed  his  name  to  Haumer, 

for  safety  in  travel,  ib. 

,  Mrs.,  52. 

Welch,  Archd.,  213. 
Weldon,  Walter,  332. 
West,  Lieut.,  368 

,  Lieut.  Richard,  79. 

,  John,  351.  • 

Chester,  see  Chester. 

West  India  jnerchants,  their  trade  of  buying 

wood  in  Ireland  to  be  prevented,  530. 
Weston,  Nicholas,  199. 

his  petition,  198. 

,  title  of,  composition  made  for, 

420. 
,  ,  grant  from  Earl  of  Tyrconnell 

to,  of  20  quarters  of  land  in  Portlagh 

and   Tirbrassil  void,  and   why  ?,   571, 

572. 
,  spreads  a  slander  about  the  young 

prince,  453. 

,  summoned  by  the  Lord  Deputy,  ib, 

,  cannot  be  found,  ib. 

Wexford,  town  of,  99. 

,  new  charter  for,  154. 

,  county  of,  69,  324. 

,  Sir  Wm.  Synnott,  justice  of  liberties 

of,  surrenders  the  office,  76. 
Castle,  Sir   Richard  Masterson,  con- 
stable of,  508. 

and  Carlow  counties,  118. 

,  ,  commission  for  Bonaght   and 

Galloglass  in,  ih. 
,  customs   and  poundage  of,   lease  of, 

132. 
,  all  ships  arriving  in  the  country  to 

discharge  there,  except  those  of  Ross, 

ib. 

,  charter  to  be  renewed,  ib. 

,  how  the  English  language  has  been 

preserved  in  parts  of,  358. 

,  once  all  English,  472. 

,  but  in  the  wars  of  the  Roses   the 

Irish  recovered  a  portion,  which  they 

now  keep,  ih. 
,  their  district  known  as  the  Kinshellas, 

Murroes,    Macdamores,    and    Macva- 

docke,  ib. 
,  the  inferior  tenants  offer  to  surrender 

and  take  re-grants,  ih. 
,  but  a  better  title  is  discovered  for  the 

King,  ih. 
,  and   Sir  Thomas  Beaumont  of  Cole- 

horton  is  incited  to  look  for  it,  ih. 
,  as   representing  Viscount  Beaumont, 

who  held  it  long   ago  of  the  Crown, 

472. 
,  new  plantation  of,  531. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


705 


Wexford — coni. 

,  by  Sir  Laurence  Esmond's  and  Sir 

Edward  Eisher's  labours,  the  cMef  in- 
truders into  the  King's  inheritance 
there  have  been  brought  to  compliance, 
ib. 

,  the  Irish  there  entered  over  the  blood 

and  bodies  of  good  subjects,  ib. 

,  the  State  must  therefore  expect  some 

opposition  from  such  unsound  mem- 
bers, ib. 

,  English  purchasers  &om  some,  and 

others  of  the  Irish,  will  have  to  be 
considered  favourably,  ib. 

,  Chichester  urges  the  speedy  issuing 

of  a  commission  to  find  the  King's 
title,  ib. 

Weynman,  Sir  Edmond,  32,  33,  73. 

, ,  provost  marshal  of  Connaught, 

his  troop  of  horse,  32. 

, ,foot,  33. 

Whaler,  Mr.,  367. 

Wheeler,  Deane,  ib. 

Whitechtirch,  Sir  Marmaduke,  78. 

, ,    a  servitor,    is    granted    six 

ballibetaghs  in  the  county  of  Armagh, 
part  of  the  possessions  of  the  late 
abbey  of  SS.  Peter  and  Thomas,  559. 

,  Marmaduke,  509. 

White,  Bennett,  examination  of,  398. 

,  Edward,  clerk  of  Council  of  Con- 
naught,  complaint  of,  261. 

,  Francis,  Ixiii,  note. 

, beeves  seized  from,  by  the  Earls 

for  provision  on  their  voyage,  xxxvi. 

..,, ,  James,  325. 

, , ,  examination  of,  398. 

,  John,  484. 

, ,  of  Clonmell,  399. 

,  Sir  Nicholas,  367. 

,  Nicholas,  Mayor  of  Clonmell,  399. 

,  Mr.,  title  of  composition   made  for, 

420. 

,  Walter,  pensioner,  337,367,  511. 

, ,  grant  of  reversion  of  esoheator- 

ship  of  Dublin  and  other  counties  to, 
515. 

, ,  joint  grant  of  escheatorship  to, 

583. 

Whitehead,  Eobert,  pensioner,  338,  368,  511. 

White  Knight,  the,  118. 

White  Knight's  country,  in  three  counties, 
yet  auswereth  none,  221. 

,  it   should  therefore  be  thrown 

into  one  of  the  divisions  of  the  county 
of  Cork,  now  projected,  ib. 

Whitte,  Andrew,  sailor,  examination  of,  12. 

, ,  reports  rumours  of  Tyrone's  in- 
vasion of  Ireland,  13. 

, ,  informed  by  Capt.  Brian  Kelly 

of  particulars,  ib. 

,_ , ,,  attempted  to  be  converted  to 

Popery  by  Father  Archer,  but  refused, 
ib. 

3. 


Whitte,  Andrew — cont. 

,  ,   saw    many  Irish    friars    and 

priests,  ib. 

, ,  landing  to  be  at  Broadhaven, 

near  Sleego,  14. 

, could  not  learn  numbers,  ib. 

Whorwood,  Sir  W.,  103. 

Whyte,  see  White. 

Wicklow  Castle,  constable  of.  Sir  W.  Usher, 
508. 

Wilbraham,  Sir  Eoger,  202,  222. 

, ,  commissioner  for  Ulster  plan- 
tation, 171,  347. 

"  William,"  the,  ship  of  Leith,  393. 

Williams,  Capt.,  excuses  of,  for  not  attacking 
pirates,  42. 

,  John,  231. 

, ,  a  Norfolk  man,  a  pirate,  142. 

,  Sir  Thomas,  undertaker,  180. 

,  ,213,367,548. 

, ,  servitor,  to  be  an  undertaker, 

428. 

Williamson,  James,  512. 

Wilmot  Sir  Charles,  329,  367,  384,  511. 

Wilson,  Thomas,  101,  549. 

,  William,  549. 

,  John,  231. 

,  Walter,  239. 

Wiltshire,  the  Lord  President  in,  282. 

Winche,  Sir  Humphrey,  73,  77,  113,117,206, 
207,  213,  232,  389,  477,  492. 

, ,Chief  Baron,  succeeds  Sir  James 

Ley  as  Chief  Justice  of  King's  Bench, 
117. 

, , ,  urges  provision  for  safe  keeping 

of  records,  148. 

, ,   Chief  Baron,  and   his   fellow 

barons,  207. 

,  ,  their  certificate  concerning  the 

manor  of  Glynny,  co.  Cork,  ib. 

, ,  wrongly  confounded  with  Cullen 

manor,  ib. 

, ,  is  the  King's,  though  possessed 

by  David  Roch,  of  Kinsale,  by  intru- 
sion, ib. 

,..., ,  report  on   the   commission  of 

plantation,  295. 

, ,  on  Bann  fishery,  389. 

, ,  takes  exceptions  to  Wakeman's 

patent  of  Bann  fishery,  ib. 

, ,  Chief  Baron,  promoted,  445. 

, ,  charged  with  defaults  of  pay- 
ment, 515. 

, ,  denies  the  charge,  ib. 

, ,  appeals  to  Lord  Deputy,  516. 

,  is  to  return  to  England  at  Can- 
dlemas, ib, 

Windebank,  Mr.,  see  Winlbank. 

Wines,  monopoly  of  sale  of,  though  granted 
in  England,  not  yet  granted  in  Ireland 
though  many  have  importuned  for  it, 
215. 

and  usquebagh,  motives  to  creating  a 

monopoly  of,  336. 

V  Y 


706 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Wines— coKi. 

Earl  of  Ormond'a  prize,  99. 

Wingfield,  Sir  Eidiard,  Ixxviii,  97,  227,  507, 

509,  510. 

, (tiie  marshal),  .547. 

,   ,  marshal,   examinations   takeu 

before,  2,  3. 

, pursues  the  rebels  of  Tyrone 

and  Tyroonnell,  8. 

,  ,  his  services  acknowledged  by 

the  King,  23. 

, ,  his  troop  of  horse,  32. 

,  , foot,  33. 

,  servitor,  to  be  an  undertaker, 

428. 
Robert,  prays  to  be  admitted  an  un- 
dertaker, 430. 

Winibank,  Mr.,  336. 

Wirrall,  Sir  Hugh,  a  principal  undertaker  in 
Ulster,  with  the  names  of  his  consorts, 
their  means  and  abilities,  551. 

Wise,  Nicholas,  329. 

Wogan,  John,  511. 

,  Nicholas,  of  Rathcoffey,  co.  Kildare, 

325. 

Woode,  Thomas,  549. 

Woodkerne,  of  Armagh,  petition  for  pardon 
of,  143. 

,  to  be  granted  for  the  common  sort,  ib. 

,  the,  and  loose  people  in  every  county, 

to  be  sent  to  Sweden,  292. 

withdraw  into  the  woods  to   escape 

service,  296. 

Woods,  Mr.,  203. 

,  ,  curate  of  Kilmallock,  a  Scotch- 
man known  to  the  Bishop  of  Derry,  ib. 

..,     ,     employed    by     Sir     Henry 

Brounoker  (as  he  says)  to  pretend  to 
be  a  Papist,  to  discover  their  practices, 
ib. 

Woods,  see  Timber  woods. 

in  Ireland,  reports  on,  43. 

,  only  to  be  used  henceforward 

for  ships  for  King's  use,  1 74. 

,  great  waste  of,  in  pipe-staves, 

ib. 

great  woods  to  be  surveyed,  ib. 

,  the  King's,  in  Ireland,  if  not  re- 
served will  be  destroyed,  422. 

,  order  for  preservation  of,  461. 

Woodstock,  manor  of,  327,  331,  332,  376. 

Woolwich,  timber  to  be  landed  at,  149. 

Worcester,  Earl  of,  conunissioner  for  plantat 
tion  of  Derry,  136. 

Worcestershire  men  delivered  to  Capt.  Newt's 
lieutenant,  5. 


Workington,  report  of  the  embarkation  of  the 

GrEcmes,  c,  ci. 
Worth,   Eoger,   confesses    that  he   went  on 

board  a  pirate  ship,  and  received  some 

trifles  there,  522. 
Worthington,  Francis,  74. 

Wotton,  Sir  Henry,  ambassador  at  Venice, 
xlii. 

, reports  on  the  fugitives  in  Italy, 

xliii. 

Wright,  Henry,  ship's  timber  for  King's  ser- 
vice from  Ireland,  149. 

,  Richard,  360,  550. 

• , ,  commissioner  of  plantation  of 

Londonderry,  136. 
Wynch,  see  Winch. 


Yarn,  unwoven,  export  of,  1 37. 

Yelverton,  Mr.,  license  for  sale  of  wines   and 

usquebagh,  415. 
Youghal,  23,  96,  126,  220. 

,  danger  in  arriving  at,  50. 

,  suit  of  corporation  of,  133. 

,  to  be  made  chief  town  of  one  part  of 

Cork  county,  ib. 

,  other  privileges,  ib. 

....,,...,  new  charter  for,  154. 

in  theprojecteddivisionof  the  county 

of  Cork  into  two  (being  60  miles  long), 

was  suggested  as  the   second  county 

town,  220. 
....,  this  choice  objected  to  by  the  gentry 

and  freeholders  as  not  central,  ib. 

,  but  lying  on  the  eastern  verge,  ib. 

,  the  Lords  suggest  Ross  Carbery,  ib. 

Young,  Mr.,  91. 

,  Thomas,  75,  231. 

, ,  of  Elorenoe,  xli. 

"  Young  St.  Legcr,"  falls  off  from  the  Earls, 

xl. 


Zant,  see  Zante. 

Zante,  island  of,  pirates  hanged  in  view  of, 
279. 

Zemindar,  the,  in  Bengal,  resembles  the  Irish 
lord  in  the  ancient  land  system  of  Ty- 
rone, xxvii. 

Zouoh,  Lord,  commissioner  of  plantation  of 
Londonderry,  136. 


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