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A07834	An itinerary vvritten by Fynes Moryson Gent. First in the Latine tongue, and then translated by him into English: containing his ten yeeres trauell through the tvvelue dominions of Germany, Bohmerland, Sweitzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland, Jtaly, Turky, France, England, Scotland, and Ireland. Diuided into III parts. The I. part. Containeth a iournall through all the said twelue dominions: shewing particularly the number of miles, the soyle of the country, the situation of cities, the descriptions of them, with all monuments in each place worth the seeing, as also the rates of hiring coaches or horses from place to place, with each daies expences for diet, horse-meate, and the like. The II. part. Containeth the rebellion of Hugh, Earle of Tyrone, and the appeasing thereof: written also in forme of a iournall. The III. part. Containeth a discourse vpon seuerall heads, through all the said seuerall dominions.	Moryson, Fynes, 1566-1630.	1617 (1617)	STC 18205; ESTC S115249	1,351,375	915

And in the very Sepulcher the burning Lampes giue light besides that the dores lye open And because raine must needes fall from the open Globe the Sepulcher hath a couer borne vp with pillars of Marble and laid ouer with Lead to receiue the raine The Sepulcher within and without is beautified with marble and was cut out of a Rocke before the Church was built The Franciscan Friers are for the most part Italians but are vulgarly called Francks of the French who are in league with the Turkish Ottoman and they haue the priuiledge of singing their Masses in the Sepulcher not of free grant but because they are best able to pay for their priuiledges yet it is free for any of the Christian Sects to come into the Sepulcher They say that from the situation of this Sepulcher the custome came among Christians to be buried with their feet face towards the East as expecting the resurrection V A Chappell kept by the Sect of the Gofti X The Sepulchers of Ioseph of Arimathea and of Nicodemus Y The Chappell of the Iacobites Z The Chappell of the Abissines X The Chappell of the Armenians X X The Chappell of the Georgians Some write that this Church hath the forme of a Crosse and if the retreat or chambers of the Italian Friers with the Chappell of Aparition on the North side and the two Towers of the Belfrey on the South side be ioyntly considered with the Church which seeme rather-fastned thereunto then of the same building a superstitious man may faigne to himselfe the figure of a Crosse but shall reuer plainely demonstrate it to others Aboue the roofe of the Church on the outside are two faire Globes whereof the greater couered with leade lies ouer the Sepulcher and the lesse all made of stone is ouer the Chauncell And this greater Globe on the inside of the Church is beautified with engrauen Ceder trees and borlie vp with pillars of Marble and the lesse hath faire pictures of the foresaid rich painting shining like enameled worke The breadth of the Church vnder both Globes containes seuentie paces and the length 140 paces and in generall as well within as without it retaines only the shaddow of the old magnificence We entred the Church on Tuesday in the afternoone and were locked there in all the night following and almost all the next day to fulfill our deuotions But I formerly said that the Italian Friers haue chambers of retreat within the Church in which we did eate and rest at our pleasure Yet these chambers and the like retreats wherein the Priests of other Sects with their wiues children and family doe lodge and eate and performe the rites of their Religion haue not any one dore into the streete but all enter the Church and goe forth by the foresaid onely dore of the Church towards the South and the key of this dore is kept by the Turkes who open it at set times to admit strangers and once euery weeke to let the Friers returne to their Monasteries and to receiue new Friers into the Church which are sent from thence to performe the feuerall rites of Religion And this dore hath a grate or little window at which the inclosed Friers may talke with their friends without and receiue meate sent them from their Monasteries Nine sundry Sects of Christians haue their Monasteries within this City by whom the great Turke and his officers haue great profit and the Turkes them selues repute all the monuments and places holy which Christ in his life frequented but this monument of his death and other like they despise and keepe them onely for their profit From the said Monasteries Friers are weekely sent to performe their seuerall rites and at the weekes end they are recalled to the Monasteries and new sent in their place which custome I thinke they take from the Iewes For when Dauid diuided the twentie foure Families of the sonnes of Aaron into twentie foure courses that each of them might one after the other in due order performe the holy offices in the Temple Iosephus writes that these courses or Families in order one after the other liued in the Temple from Sabbath to Sabbath to performe those duties Of these nine Christian Sects each hath priuiledges to keepe this or that monument within the Citie and in the field in which places they performe the rites of their Religion And according to the number of the Sects they maintaine nine Lampes continually burning in the foresaid common Church vpon the stone of Vnction as many vpon the Sepulcher and as many vpon Mount Caluarie The nine Sects are thus called Franks namely the Italians Georgians Greekes Sorians Costi Abissines Armenians Nestorians and Maronites The Religion of the Frankes namely Papists is so well knowne as I will omit it here and referre it to his due place I will onely say that they haue the keeping of the Sepulcher the Chappell of A parition and therein of the pillar of whipping and of one Altar vpon Mount Caluarie for the performance of their rites The Georgians are a warlike Nation inhabiting Media and the Caspian Mountaines and haue their name of Saint George whom they haue chosen their protecting Saint They haue a King and making warre valiantly sometimes vpon the Turkes sometimes vpon the Persians could neuer bee conquered by either Yea if they bee oppressed by either they easily finde helpe from the other out of their mutuall hatred Therfore they pay no tribute to the Turkes but by singular priuiledge freely enter into Ierusalem armed and with banner displaied Neither dare the Turkes offer them the least iniurie lest when they returne home they should reuenge it vpon the Turkes lying neare them Their very women are warlike like the Amazons and carrying bowes shew valour both in countenance and behauiour The men weare long haire on their heads and beards saue that they all are shauen like Clerkes vpon the Crowne of the head the Lay-men in a foure-square the Priests in a round forme They expresly follow the Religion Rites and Ceremonies of the Greekes and in their Diuine seruice vse the Greeke tongue otherwise speaking their owne language as I thinke Caldean These in the Church of Ierusalem haue the keeping of Mount Caluary and the Altar there built ouer the place where they say the Crosse of Christ stood and in the Citie they keepe the house of the High Priest Annas Of the Greekes Religion I must speake at large in his due place Now I will onely say that in the Church they keepe the Chauncell and therein shew a hole in the pauement compassed with Marble which they say is the very middle point of the world Against which opinion I argued with them and obiected that the earth is round and that in a Globe the center is in the middest all centers in the outside being but imaginarie and to be placed wheresoeuer the measurer will Also that in measuring after their manner the

when I had in silence and through many dangers seene Naples subiect to the King of Spaine and was now returned to Rome I presently went to the said Cardinall and after the fashion hauing kissed the hemme of his vesture I humbly desired that according to this his curtesie for which hee was much honoured in England hee would receiue mee into his protection till I might view the antiquities of Rome He being of a goodly stature and countenance with a graue looke and pleasant speech bad me rest secure so I could commaund my tongue and should abstaine from oftence Onely for his duties sake hee said that he must aduise me and for the loue of his Countrey intreate me that I would be willing to heare those instructions for religion here which I could not heare in England I submitted my selfe to these conditions and when after due reuerence made I would haue gone away the English Gentlemen and Priests there present ouertooke me in the next roome Among these was an Englishman a Priest of Calabria who in my iourney from Naples hither had been my consort by the way at the table and euen in bed whom I had often heard talking with the Italians of English affaires but more modestly and honestly then any man would expect of a Priest He taking my selfe and one Master Warmington an English Gentleman by the hands with an aftonished looke did congratulate with me that I who had bin his companion at bed and boord and whom he had taken rather for any countriman was now become an English man All the rest commended my iudgement in comming to the Cardinall and inquiring after my lodging promised to be my guides in Rome and for Countries sake to doe me a good offices and so after mutuall salutations I went from them I well knew that such guides would be very troublesome to me for they according to the manner disputing of Religion I must either seeme to consent by silence or maintaine arguments ful of danger in that place besides that to gratifie them for their courtesie I must needes haue runne into extraordinary expences Therefore hauing told them my lodging I presently changed it and tooke a chamber in a vitling house in the Market-place close vnder the Popes Pallace where I thought they or any else would least seeke mee and so being free from that burthen and yet secure in the Cardinals promised protection I began boldly yet with as much hast as I possibly could make to view the Antiquities of Rome The description of Rome drawne rudely but so as may serue the Reader to vnderstand the situation of the Monuments I. Il Borgo II. Trasteuere III. l'Isola IIII. The Gate del popolo V. The gate Pinciana VI. The gate Salara VII The gate Pia. VIII The gate di San ' Lorenzo IX g. Maggiore X. g. di S. Gionanni XI g. Latina XII g. di S. Sebastiano XIII g. di S. Paolo XIV g. di Ripa XV g. di S. Pancratio XVI g. Settimiana XVII g. di S. Spirito XVIII g. Fornac XIX g. la portusa XX. g. di Belucdere XXI g. di S. Angelo XXII Monte Capitalino XXIII M. Palatino XXIIII M. Auentino XXV M. Coelio XXVI M. Esquilino XXVII M. Viminale XXVIII M. Quirinale XXIX M. Vaticano XXX M. Ianiculo XXXI M. Pincio XXXII M. Citorio XXXIII M. Iordano XXXIIII M. Testaceo XXXV The bridge di S. Angelo XXXVI b. Vaticano XXXVII b. Sisto XXXVIII b. di quatro Capi. XXXIX b. di S. Maria. XL. b. di S. Bartolomco XLI b. Sublicio A. The Church of S. Giouanni Lateran ' B. C. of S. Pietro C. C. of S. Maria Maggiore D. C. of S. Croce in Hierosolyma Q. The Pallace of the Pope 3. Beluedere 4. Castel ' di S. Angelo 5. l'obelisco di Ginlio Cesare 6. The sepulcher di Cestio 7. Circus Maximus 8. The Church of S. Stefano rotondo 9. Trofei di Mario 10. lacolonna di Traiano 11. la colonna d' Antonio 12. The Church of S. Maria srpra la Minerua 13. C. di S. Maria rotonda 14. The Market-place Nanona 15. C. di S. Maria della consolatione 16. The Market place di Fiori 17. C. de la Trinita 18. C. di S. Rocco 19. The Bath of Dioclesian 20. le sette sale 21. The Arch of Constantine 22. The Arch of Vespasian 23. The Arch of Septimius Seuerus 24. The Theater of Marcellus 25. The Pallace of the Cardinall di Farnese Rome being situated on the East side of Tiber may further bee distinguished into three parts seated on the West side of Tiber whereof the first is called I I l Borgo and it containeth the Popes Pallace compassed with high walles by Pope Nicholas the fifth and the Garden thereof which of the faire prospect is called Beluedere and the Librarie and the Church of Saint Peter In vaticano and the field or Market-place lying before the Church and the strong Castle Saint Angelo all which were compassed with walles by Pope Leo the fourth and for a time this part was of him called Leonina but now it is called Il Borgo The second part is called II Trasteuere that is beyond the Tiber and was called of old I anicolo of the Mountaine included therein and also was called the Citie of the men of Rauenna of the Souldiers which Augustus kept at Raucnna against Anthony and after placed them here And because the aire is vnwholesome as the winde is that blowes heere from the South it is onely inhabited by Artisans and poore people And at this day it is compassed with walles which seeme ancient saue that it lies open towards the Tiber and Rome and it is adorned with Churches and buildings but much seuered one from the other The third part is called III l' Isola that is an Iland of Tiber which of old was called Licaonia of the Temple of Iupiter of Licaonta When Tarquinius the proud was of old banished from Rome the people abhorring to conuert the goods of such a wicked man to priuate vses did make his ground a field for training of souldiers and called it Campus Martius and the Senate commanded the great store of his corne chaffe and straw to bee cast into the Tyber of which matter growing together they say this Iland first came After a Temple was built in this Iland to Esculapius brought hither from Epidaurus in the shape of a Serpent and the Ile being consecrated to him was then made in the forme of the ship that brought that serpent whereof there is a monument in the Garden of Saint Bartholmew namely a stone in the forme of a ship with a Serpent grauen vpon it It is a quarter of a mile in length and some fiftie paces in bredth and it is full of stately Churches and houses If you draw a line from the East-side of the Mountaine Capitolino XXII to the Gate del popolo IIII lying towards the North and from the said Mountaine draw aline to the furthest part of the Bridge vpon the West side of

left they should fall into some Turks hands who might abuse them And when our consorts at Bethlehem printed the signe of the Crosse with inke and a pen-knife vpon their armes so as the print was neuer to bee taken out wee would not follow them in this small matter but excused our selues that being to passe home through many Kingdomes we durst not beare any such marke vpon our bodies whereby wee might bee knowne Besides it was some aduantage to vs that the Frenchmen our consorts were of their Kings partie and professed no lesse hate against Spaine then our selues To conclude the Friers of our consorts told me and my brother that the Guardian would make vs Knights of the Sepulcher so we would craue that honour which was neuer granted to any but them that craued it in which case they offered to be intercessors for vs. I well knew that they had offered this honour as they termed it to a Plebean Frenchman our consort and had heard that the Friers vsed this art to get money from Pilgrimes making no difference to whom they gaue this title And for my part I neuer affected titles thinking better to be of an interiour condition with plenty then of high degree with want Therefore I so answered them as giuing due thanks for their courtesie yet I professed that if I were worthy of that title I might not craue it nor receiue it offered in respect of the oath imposing militarie duties vpon me and the profession of seruice to the King of Spaine the publique enemy of our Country besides that I should be tied thereby to hate and prosecute all of the reformed Religion which many of my friends and kinsmen professed It is true that if wee had had a Ianizare to guide and protect vs wee might haue lodged in Terusalem with some Christian who would haue shewed vs the monuments without troubling the Italian Friers And it is well knowne that the great Turke giues libertie to all Religions But the other Sects of Christians being poore and these Friers being full of money as well the Christians as Turkes depend greatly vpon them so as if they would they might easily haue brought vs into danger neither could wee haue had such conuenient diet and lodging with any other as with them And howsoeuer by our Merchants helpe we might haue obtained letters from the Italian Merchants at Haleppo for our entertainement and good vsage in this Monastery yet since for the foresaid reasons we had at Cyprus committed our selues to the protection of the Friers our consorts we had now no meanes but honest dissembling to free our selues from danger For it had been easie for these Friers secretly to haue drawne vs into danger of life and we knew that Papists make no conscience or rather thinke it meritorious to vse like practises against those of our Religion And if they would not practise against our liues yet we knew that they might haue cast vs into many dangers both here and in our returne through Italy if wee should haue prouoked them to wish vs ill Therefore this our foresaid dissembling may well bee excused especially since thereby wee did not in any sort wound our consciences to my best remembrance Now that this dissembling might proue more profitable and honest it behooued vs thorowly to know our consorts and so to apply our selues to them Of which the two French Lay-men were yong and of no experience in the World and one of the Friars was more simple then simplicity it selfe so as small art was required to deceiue these The second Friar had beene a Souldier in the warre of France and had made himselfe Friar after the peace onely to escape the priuat reuenge of some whose friends he had killed for they neuer seeke reuenge of those that put on a religious habite and to gaine this mans loue it was sufficient to vse good fellowship towards him The third Friar had a sharpe wit ioined with the wisdome of experience so as all the rest chose him for their guide and to gouerne their expences And because he might easily incense our consorts and the Friars at Ierusalem against vs we thought good to gaine his good will by all good respects to him so as howsoeuer we were not ignorant to manage our owne affaires yet ioining our selues to the rest we made him also gouernour of our expences to witnesse our confidence in his loue and cared not to beare some losse so we might bind him to vs vnder the title of friendship which we easily effected with him being of a curteous disposition To conclude I did often experience his good will and howsoeuer I found him louingly and courteously to make vs respected as well of our consorts as the Friars at Ierusalem yet I perceiued by many and cleere arguments that he thought vs to differ from him in religion For in particular when I refused for the foresaid reasons and with due modesty the Friars offer to make me Knight of the Sepulcher he smiling said to me alluding to my name in the French tongue Enverité vous estes fin c. That is in truth you are crafry as your name imports but I will endeauour to make the Guardian interpret your excuse to the best Besides his friendship it was no small aduantage to vs that our stay at Ierusalem was so short as the time permitted them not to inquire after our religion By the aforesaid art we freed our selues from all danger yet would I not aduise any by imitating vs to incurre the like who can haue the foresaid better commodities of performing this iourney since it would bee hard for any so to disguise their condition who haue not first had good practice and acquaintance with Friars in Italy as my selfe had Besides that all our skill was sharpened to greater warinesse by a late Tragicall example of others the memory whereof was daily and hourely before our eies For we beheld vpon the wall in the chamber where we lodged the names written of Henry Bacon and Andrew Verseline two English Gentlemen of Abraham Serwenterb Frederichson and Henry Vonwildt Peterson Van Narden two Flemmings whose names were written there vpon the foureteenth of August 1595 and lay before vs both sleeping and waking warning vs like so many prodigies or visions to take wary beed to our steps These foure comming in company to Ierusalem had beene receiued into this Monastery and when they had seene the monuments within and neere Ierusalem they went to Bethlehem where it happened that vpon a health drunke by the Flemmings to the King of Spaine which the English refused to pledge they fell from words to blowes so as two of them returned wounded to the Monastery of Ierusalem Then these Italian Friars according to the Papists manner who first make the sicke confesse their sinnes and receiue the Lords Supper before they suffer Physitian or Apothecary to come to them or any kitchin physicke to begluen them I say the Friars

Kings Letters Pattents to the Lord President for his gouernement and as formerly I aduised you so againe I pray you to transport as great a proportion of victuals and munition as you can out of the City of Corke into the Fort of Halebolyn and the Castle of Shandon and if you may by faire meanes you shall doe well to endeuour to draw some Companies into the Towne which if you cannot effect yet I would haue you not to slacke the carrying of victuals and munition I haue drawne together some 5000 men and shall be able to employ them in reducing and setling the Townes of those parts and if the Citizens of Corke vpon the renewing of your authority and my late directions proue more conformable then they were you shal doe well to gouerne all without violence but if they continue obstinate in their former insolencies I aduise you to set guards vpon the stores of victuals and munition and to leaue the Towne The same day his Lordship wrote this following letter to Sir Charles Wilmot one of the said Commissioners SIR Charles I haue receiued your letter of the twentieth of Aprill and am glad of the good successe you had in taking the Castles in Kerry and for your men of Corke I haue heard of their insolencies and I beleeue them and for any thing I know all the Townes in Mounster stand vpon little better tearmes Assoone as I could possibly for I had no Forces in all Lemster I haue gathered together 5000 men and am comming towards you and haue so disposed of all things in the North that if need be I will draw the whole Army of Ireland ere it be long into Mounster some few excepted to guard the garrisons With Waterford I thinke to beginne for they gaue the first example but it is true that if they hold against me I am ill prouided to force them for at Dublyn wee are ill stored of all things but we will doe aswell as we may I doe like your course well to draw as many as you can to one head and I thinke it fit that it were about Corke If your munition and victuals be in the power of the Towne I know not what to say but I haue first written to the Towne not to interrupt you in the disposing of the Kings munition and victuals and vpon my commandement if they denie it it is treason therefore I thinke they will be aduised therein If you may therefore as suddenly as you can conuay as great a proportion of victuals but especially and first of munition out of the Towne then I will command them to receiue you with such forces as you shall appoint into the Towne which if they denie it is treason too And if you haue any store out of the Towne and your Forces be gathered together and they continue obstinate it were good some little guard though it were but seuen or eight men were put into the Castles where the munition and victuals are and for all the rest of the English to with-draw themselues out of the Towne by little and little and then if they continue obstinate still in not receiuing the King Forces my desire is that you shall presently inuest the Towne which I presume may bee done with some 1000 men if you put two or 300 men into the Fort next to Kinsale gate which with so many men will be easily guardable and with the rest of your foote intrench neere to the gate next toward Shandon and with some 100 Horse beat the wayes When you are in this forwardnesse if you thinke this way feasable I will send you either more men if with those you haue you thinke not fit to engage the Cannon or if I be loose my selfe from being ingaged in any other place I will come to you but if Waterford hold out I shall for the time haue my hands full Let me heare from you at large of all things and in the meane time it is fit you put the best Arlillery you haue into Halebolin Fort. I haue sent this by one whom I thinke to be trusty and I pray you to send him backe speedily to me and to impart this proiect to as few as you thinke good Write to me how Lymricke and the other Cities doe stand And so c. The thirtieth day his Lordship receiued letters from the Mayor of Corcke and his brethren signifying that the Commissioners had by directions charged them to suffer his Maiesties Ministers to passe through their ports with eight and forty barrels of powder and leade and match proportionable to be brought from his Maiesties store in that City to the Fort of Halebolyn and that in regard they wondered so great a proportion should be carried to the Fort where no Artillery was yet planted especially the quantities formerly issued being not yet spent nor any seruice being in hand they fearing the Commissioners purposed to assault the Towne or at least to starue them were enforced thereby to make stay of the said munition till his Lord ps pleasure were further known renewing their suit to haue the custody of the Fort committed to the corporation That they did all they could to cause the mixed money of the new standard to passe currant but it was with such griefe losse to the poore town as they hoped his L p would be a means to his Maiesty for altering the same That they had receiued rebuke from his Lordship concerning certaine insolencies but could not call to mind any particular wherein they had offended the State except that be an offence after many abuses and wrongs done them to keepe watch and ward to preserue themselues and keepe the City for the Kings Maiesty in those doubtfull times as they tearmed them That touching the point of Religion they onely exercised now publikely that which euer before they had beene suffered to exercise priuately and as their publike praiers gaue publike testimony of their faithfull hearts to the Kings Royall Maiesty so they were tied to bee no lesse carefull to manifest their duties to almighty God in which they would neuer be dissembling temporisors Thus they foolishly rushed into apparant treason by making stay of the Kings munitions and presumed to excuse their mutinous and insolent establishing the publike exercise of the Romish Religion and that vpon their owne heads without any direction yea in opposition of publike authority The Lord Deputy now being ready to take his iourney for Mounster and purposing first to attempt Waterford wrote to the Maior thereof the first of May to this effect Because it seemes by your neglect of my directions and your impertinent answeres that you do not know or haue forgotten both my authority and your selues I thinke good to let you vnderstand that it hath pleased the most mighty Prince King Iames the first Our Soueraigne by his letters Pattents vnder his Great Seale of England to make me his Deputie and chiefe Gouernour vnder himselfe of this Kingdome and

quarter of the Countrie was appointed for Father Mulrony to take the charge thereof to be assembled to the rescue of Waterford 8. Whether they knew Father Leinaghs haunt likewise so of Father Ractor and the rest whose names they are not to seeke of themselues 9. Whether they haue or can tell certainlie that any intended yet to draw these Rescues to Corke or any other head to preuent the Army 10. Whether themselues are sworne to liue and die in the quarrell or what Noble men or Lawyers are sworne also 11 Whether they be able themselues to deliuer any of these seducers to the Lord Deputy yea or no by what reason they should not if they denie it being conuersant with them daily 12. Whether they knew any messengers gone for Spaine or else-where to procure helpe to those confederates who are gone when they went and what they bee or from whence and what was their message or how charges were collected for them From Waterford his Lordship by small iournies in regard of the impediments by the slacknesse and failing of supplies of Garrons and Beeues from the Countrey marched to the Citie of Corke and comming thither vpon the tenth of May was without any contradiction receiued into the Towne with all the forces he brought with him though Sir Charles Willmott had inuested the Towne and at the same time with the forces of the Mounster List lay before it The eleuenth day his Lordship to make it apparant to them and all the World how willing he was to giue them gentle audience in their iust complaints first admitted them to speake what they could of any offence they had receiued or iustly suspected before they were called in any question for their owne disorders But their accusations for the most part were such as if they had been proued which was not done the proofe as lesse important being deferred to a more conuenient time yet imported rather imputation of want of discretion in rash speeches then any iust pretext for their proceeding and therefore were laied a part as impertinent to the maine cause then to be handled And for the rest of their more selected accusations they were iudged to haue in them no important excuse for their seditious carriage but were such for the greater part as his Lordship was forced to iustifie without calling the aduerse partie to his answere as being done either by his Lordships directions or out of dutie imposed vpon the Commissioners of this Prouince by vertue of the place of authority committed to their charge Thus the Townesmen laboured to diuert their publike offences by a colourable excuse of priuat spleene and some grudges against one of the Commissioners And in regard the Earle of Ormond came that night to Corke the Lord Deputy being desirous not onely to haue his Lordship but as many of the Nobilitie and men of the best ranke as he could to be witnesses of their hainous offences and of the milde proceedings against them did deferre till next day the receiuing of the Townesmens answeres in iustification of their owne actions At which time many breaches of his Maiesties Lawes and their duties were obiected against them First in the publike erection of the Romish Religion against the Lawes and the abolishing that profession which was allowed by the same Secondly in their maintaining these actions by force and armed men Thirdly in their attempt to demolish the Kings Fort at the South Gate of the City Fourthly in staying the issue of the Kings munition and victuals with the seazing of them into their owne hands and the imprisoning of the Kings Officers and Ministers to whose charge they were committed Lastly in bearing Armes and doing all actes of Hostilitie against his Maiesties forces wherein their insolent proceedings were so farre followed as they had killed a graue and learned Preacher walking vpon the Hilles adioyning to their walles and had battered Shandon Castle wherein lay the Lady Carew wife to the Lord President then absent in England After due examination taken of all these points his Lord P resolued as he had formerly done at Waterford to leaue the censure to his Maiesties pleasure that hee vpon view thereof might vse his Royall mercy or iustice in remitting or punishing and reforming the same Onely his Lordship tooke notice of some few of the principall offenders and ringleaders whose offences were apparant and seuered from the common action and them his Lordship commanded to be hanged for example and terror to others Some his Lordship left in prison to be tried by course of Law as Master Meade the Recorder who was a most principall offender but hee might as well haue forgiuen him for no man that knew Ireland did imagine that an Irish Iurie would condemne him The chiefe Citizens of Corke tooke the aboue mentioned oath of Alleageance to his Maiesty abiuring all dependancy vpon any forraigne Potentate From Corke his L P wrote to the Earle of Tyrone to meete him at Dublyn in readidinesse to beare him company into England This done his Lordship lest a strong garrison of souldiers in the Towne of Corke and so vpon the fifteenth of May matched towards Lymrick and the Citizens thereof hauing proceeded to no further disorder then the publike celebration of Masse were soone reduced to order and willingly tooke the oath of alleageance with abiuration of dependancy vpon any forraigne Potentate as the other Cities had done The sixteenth of May his Lordship receiued letters from the Earle of Tyrone whereby he gaue him many thankes that he had procnred out of England authoritie to proceede with him according to the instructions he had formerly from the late Queene promising to bee readie at Dublyn to attend his Lordship into England and touching a complaint of Shane O Neales sonnes for some cowes his men had taken from them promising to make restitution And because he thought many complaints would be made against his people by reason of their pouerty he besought his Lordship not to giue credit to them till he might repaire to his Lordship to satisfie him protesting that he would be ready at all times to come vnto his Lordship and to doe all duties of a faithfull subiect The Lord Deputy hauing giuen order to fortifie the Castle of Lymrick and hauing from thence written to the Maior of Corke to assist the Commissioners in building the Fort at their South Gate tooke his iourney towards Dublyn the nineteenth of May and came to Cashell the twentieth of May where he reformed the Towne as hee had done the rest and tooke the like oth of Alleageance from the Townesmen There he vnderstood that a Priest commanding all the people had tied a Goldsmith of our Religion to a tree threatning to burne him and his hereticall bookes at which time he burnt some of our bookes which he so termed but that vpon a Townesmans admonition the Priest set the said Goldsmith free after he had stood so bound to a tree some six houres