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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09178	A briefe description of Ireland: made in this yeare, 1589. by Robert Payne, vnto xxv. of his partners for whome he is vndertaker there. Truely published verbatim, according to his letters, by Nich. Gorsan one of the sayd partners, for that he would his countreymen should be partakers of the many good notes therein contayned	Payne, Robert, fl. 1589.; Gorsan, Nicholas.	1589 (1589)	STC 19490; ESTC S102904	7,777	18

A Briefe description of Ireland Made in this yeare 1589. by Robert Payne vnto xxv of his partners for whome he is vndertaker there Truely published verbatim according to his letters by Nich. Gorsan one of the sayd partners for that he would his countreymen should be partakers of the many good Notes therin contayned AT LONDON Printed by Thomas Dawson 1589. To his very good friend M. Nicholas Gorsan of Trowell in the Countie of Nottingham and the rest of his xxv partners for Ireland giue these LET not the reportes of those that haue spent all their owne and what they could y any meanes get from others in England discourage you from Ireland although they and such others by bad dealinges haue wrought a generall discredite to all English men in that countrie which are to the Irishe vnknowne These men will say there is great danger in trauelling the countrie and much more to dwell or inhabite there yet are they freed from three of the greatest dangers first they cannot meete in al that land any worsse then themselues secondly they need not feare robbing for that they haue not any thing to loose lastly they are not like to run in debt for that there is none wil trust them The greatest matter which troubleth them is they cannot get any thing there but by honest trauell which they are altogether ignorant of These men cannot tel what good fruites England hath the which Ireland wanteth neyther can they iustly say but that it lyeth better for the vent of all commodities then England doth What these men haue reported or what the simple haue credited that woulde rather beleeue a runneagate then trauell to see I care not But what I haue discouered or learned in that countrey I will herein recite vnto you First the people are of three sortes the better sort are very ciuill and honestly giuen the most of them greatly inclined to husbandrie although as yet vnskilfull notwithstanding through their great trauel many of them are rich in cattel some one man there milketh one hundred kine and two or three hundred yeawes and goates and reareth yearely most of their breed Their entertainement for your dyet shal be more welcome and plentifull then cleanly and handsome for although they did neuer see you before they will make you the best cheare their countrey yeeldeth for two or three daies take not any thing therefore Moste of them speake good English and bring vp their children to learning I sawe in a Grammer schoole in Limberick one hundred and threescore schollers most of them speaking good and perfite English for y● they haue vsed to conster the Latine into English They keepe their promise faythfully and are more desirous of peace then our English men for that in time of warres they are more charged And also they are fatter praies for the enemie who respecteth no person They are quicke witted and of good constitution of bodie they reforme them selues dayly more and more after the English manners nothing is more pleasing vnto them then to heare of good Iustices placed amongst thē They haue a common saying which I am perswaded they speake vnfaynedly which is Defend me spend me meaning from the oppression of the worser sort of our countreymen They are obedient to the lawes so that you may trauell through all the land without any danger or iniurie offered of the very worst Irish and be greatly releeued of the best The second sort being least in number are called Kernes they are warlike men most of that sorte were slayne in the late warres The third sort are a very idle people not vnlike our English beggers yet for the moste part of pure complexion and good constitution of body one of the greatest ouersights in the better sort is for y● they make not that idle sort giue accompt of their life They haue the Englishe lawes and gouernours as is in England First there is a Lord deputy ouer the whole land that representeth her Maiestie also a Lord Chancellor a Lord Treasurer a Lord chiefe Iustice and all other Magistrates Officers and Courtes in like maner as belongeth to Westminster The land is deuided into fiue great parts that is to saye Munster Lanster Conath Meath and Vlster In Munster are these vit great countries Owrmwood Deasmond Corke Waterford Typerare Lymbericke and Carrey a great part of Munster was forfited to her Maiestie by meanes of the Deasmondes late rebellion There is two very riche countries called Kennory and Conelogh both within the countie of Lemereck they are called the gardens of the land for the varietie and great plentie of all graine and fruites and also there is more plentie of venison fish and fowle then els where in Ireland although in euery place there is great store This land belonged sometime to the knight of the valley who for high treason was executed at Lemerecke Ouer euery part is an Englishman liefetenant which hath authoritie as fully as the Marshall to erecute Marshall lawes vpon the Irishe offēders at al times Also there are Iudges of assize for euery circuit who keepe their assises as our Iudges doe if any matter be to be tryed there betweene an English man and an Irish the Iury is half English and halfe Irish There is a sheriffe of euery countie with vndersheriffes Arrant Bayliffes al other officers appertaining Also there is a conuenient number of Iustices of peace in euery countie with Constables and pettie Constables who keepe their quarter sessions orderly The countrey is scituated some what neerer the Equinoctiall lyne then England but yet for that it lyeth more vpon the Ocean seas is full of Riuers smal brookes it is not so hote in summer as England neyther is it so cold in winter for that the seas fretteth away the Ice Snowe there much more then in England The general Map of Ireland which is ioyned with the olde Map of England is moste false The authour as it seemeth drew them both by report and the common computation of myles and made his Scale after the English measure that is one thousand paces or fiue thousand footes to the myle but therein he greatly deceiued himselfe for the shortest myles in England are much longer then that measure and an Irish myle is longer then two of those myles by which meanes he hath made the Map of England lesse by the halfe then it should be Notwithstāding he hath ouer reached in his nūber of parish Churches and the Map of Ireland littell more then one fourth of that it would be if it were truely drawen This seemeth strange and hath deceiued many ignorant in Geometrie but alwayes take this for a principle that the square of two myles contayneth iust foure tymes so much as the square of one myle and so of al proportions from the greatest to the least wherefore as much may be sayd of the long myle which containeth two short myles Some mistrust that the Spaniardes will

enter the land that the Irish wil releeue them no doubt there are some Traytors in Ireland I would I could truely say there were none in England but this I dare assure you the greater number and al the better sort doe deadly hate the Spaniardes yet I thinke they beare them fayre weather for that they are the popes champions a great part of the Irish for want of good preaching discipline are greatly inclined to papistrie But their intertainemēt this last yeare amongst the Irish notwithstāding they brought the popes holy candles pardons sheweth how they affect Spāish gouernemēt Most of the better sort of the Irish haue read of their mōsterous cruelties in the west Indiās where they most tiranously haue murthered many millions moe of those simple creatures thē now liueth in Ireland euē such as sought their fauours by offering vnto thē al that they had neuer resisting nor of fering thē any harme Wherfore I doubt not that the Irish are so foolish to entertain such proud guestes knowing their tyrannie hauing not so well deserued at their hands as those simple soules whō they so cruelly murdered Neyther are the Spaniardes so vn wise to trust those irish who so lately imbrued their hands in their bloud slaying them as doggs in such plentifull maner that their garments went about the countrey to be sold as good cheape as beastes skins If you haue not the sayd booke of the Spanishe cruelties I pray you buy it it is wel worth the reading I haue for got the title but it is of a small volume in quarto it is written by a learned Bishop of their owne countrey about forty yeares sithens in the Castalian toonge and dedicated to their king for reformation of those cruelties afterwardes translated into English diuers other languages to make their monsterous tyrannie knowne to the worlde When you haue read the same conunend it to our Catholickes that wil be saued by their workes and yet will not giue God thankes at their meate for that they will not once haue in their mouth the praier for our Queene annexed to our vsual thanks giuing at meate I pray God open the eies of their vpholders and let them see what these men gape for which is no doubt the ruine and ouerthrow of her highnesse whome I pray God preserue But none are so blind as they that will not se The Catholikes are borne with for their conscience sake yet from such consciences spring all the Traiterous practises agaynst her Maiestie Although some of smal iudgements which thinke euery soile good that beareth long grasse haue fayled of their erpected woad crops by meanes of their vn skilfull choyse of ground yet assuredly the commodities of the countrie are many moe then eyther the people can well vse or I recite Their soyle for the most part is very fertile and apt for Wheate Rye Barly Peason Beanes Oates Woade Mather Rape Hoppes Hempe Flaxe and al other graines and fruites y England any wise doth yeeld There is much good timber in many places of the straightnesse and so good to reaue that a simple workeman with a Brak axe wil cleaue a great Oke to boards of lesse then one ynche thicke xiiii ynches broad and xv footes in length such a board there is vsuallysold for ii d. ob There is very riche and great plentie of Iron stone and one sort more then we haue in England which they call Bogge myne of the which a Smith there wil make at his forge Iron presently Also there is great store of Lead Ore Wood sufficient to mayntayne diuers Iron and lead workes with good husbandrie for euer A barrel of Wheat or a barrell of bay Salt contayning three bushels a halfe of Winchester measure is sold there for iiii s. Malt Peason Beanes for ii s. viii d. Barly for ii s. iiii d. Oates for xx d. a freth Sāmō worth in London x. s. for vi d. xxiiii Herrings or vi Makerels vi sea breames a fat hen .xxx. Egges a fat Pigge one pound of Butter or ii gallōs of new Milke for apēny A redde Deare without the skinne for ii s. vi d. A fat Beefe for xiii s. iiii d. A fat Mattō for xviii d. There be great store of wild Swannes Cranes Phesantes Partriges Heathcocks Plouers green gray Curlewes Woodcockes Rayles Quailes al other fowles much more plentiful then in Engand You may buy a dosen of Quayles for iii. d. a dosen of Woodcocks for iiii d. all other fowls ratablie Oysters muskels cockles and Samphiere about the sea coastes are to be had for gathering great plentie the Phisitions there hold that Samphier is a present remedie agaynst the stone you may buy the best Heafers there with Calues at their feet for xx s. a peece the which are nothing inferiour to the better sorte of Lyncolnshire breed Their chiefe horsses are of as great price as in England but carthorsses mares and little hackneyes are of very small price the meāest Irish man disdayneth to ryde on a mare You may keepe a better house in Ireland for L. li. a yeare then in England for CC. li a yeare Al your commodities you may transport from the sea side in the countie of Corke where I haue prouided for eache of vs foure hundred Acres of land to England for viii d. the hundred waight so that you make the same ready about S. Andrewes tide when the herring fishers goe home from Irelād The charg of which carriage for so much as you barrell you may saue a great part through Cheapenes of the caske then wil the most of your cōmodities viz. Butter Cheese Bacon Beefe Honny Ware Tallowe Corne and Herring with diuers other Marchandize bee readie for the market The worsser sorte of vndertakers which haue seignories of her Maiestie haue done much hurt in the countrie and discouraged many from the voyage for they haue entyced many honest men ouer promising them much and performing nothing no not so much as to paie their seruantes workmen wages They wil not let any terme aboue xxi yeres or three liues and the demaund for rent xii d. the Acre this is so farre from the meaning of her Maiestie as appeareth by her highnes graūt y● as I think they haue or shortly will make all their estates voyde They finde such profite from the Irishe tenantes who giue thē the fourth sheafe of al their corne and xvi d. ●earel● for a beastes grasse besides diuers other Irish accustomed duties So that they care not although they neuer place any English man there But the better sort of vnder takers being many good knights gentlemen of great worship do seek by al meanes possible to plant their landes with Englishmen according to the meaning of her Maiesties graunt they offer to any man either three hundreth acres of land in fee-farme or foure hundred acres by lease for one hundred yeares for vi d. the