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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01404	The true exemplary, and remarkable history of the Earle of Tirone vvherein the manner of his first presumption, affrighting both England and Ireland with his owne and the King of Spaines forces, and the misery of his ensuing deiection, downefall, and vtter banishment is truely related: not from the report of others, or collection of authors, but by him who was an eye witnesse of his fearefull wretchednes, and finall extirpation. Written by T.G. Esquire.	Gainsford, Thomas, d. 1624?	1619 (1619)	STC 11524; ESTC S121075	36,786	60

THE TRVE EXEMPLARY AND REMARKABLE HIStory of the Earle of Tirone Wherein the manner of his first presumption affrighting both England and Ireland with his owne and the King of Spaines Forces and the misery of his ensuing deiection downefall and vtter banishment is truely related Not from the report of others or collection of Authors but by him who was an eye witnesse of his fearefull wretchednes and finall extirpation Written by T. G. Esquire LONDON Printed by G. P. for Ralph Rownthwaite and are to bee sold at the signe of the Floure de-Luce and Crowne in Paules Church Yard 1619. Est vero vbi silentium sermone potius sit est porro vbi silentio sermo Eurip Orestes TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE THE Earle of Clenricard Gouernor of Conach and Councellor of State in his Maiesties Kingdome of Ireland RIGHT HONORABLE I Haue my selfe beene an eye-witnesse of your Loyaltie and generall loue to our Country or if you please the Maiesty of England and can resolue the strangest humor'st that neuer man deserued better of the State then your selfe for many employments But especially when I saw you Knighted in the Field and none but your selfe yea the durty fields before Kinsole my heart leaped for ioy to apprehend that your Vertue and worth commanded that addition of Honour without which let ambitious hastinesse imagine what it list Princes cannot set their best Fauorites on a more substantiall Seate of glorious eminence And thus much for the generall For particulars I was in those dayes beholding to your Table and Purse and in a manner the third Officer of your Regiment as it pleased you to grace and fauour me farre beyond my desert All which considered as I haue great reason to bee thankefull vnto you so could I thinke of no better meanes then this poore Dedication First because I am resolued it will out-last a Marble Toombe and when Death hath vndertaken to obliterate our memories yet shall after-ages demand who this Earle of Clenricard was and wish from their hearts that the Noble men of their times would set you before them for a Mirror Secondly because it is the remarkeablest Story of Ireland and a businesse so well knowne to your selfe that I submit to your better iudgement if I haue fayled in any thing Thirdly because I am taught by experience that there is no presenting of Bookes to any man without a primordiall acquaintance secret supportation or as wee call it Court friendshippe Last of all and I hope the best of all because it may stand in the steade of Precept or Caution to detaine such worthy persons within their owne Circles or diuert them from presuming on any power against such a Prince as the Monarch of Great Britaine of gouernement as the Maiesty of England In which assurance I leaue you to the Commander of all Thoughts Words and Actions submitting my selfe and the worke to your fauourable censure and Honourable acceptation Your Honours humbly deuoted Th. Gainsforde THE EXEMPLARY HISTORY AND Lamentable deiection of the Heart of Tyrone THEY which write of the Basilisck and would seeme to dispell the vapours of ignorance with the strong and swift winde of knowledge report that whosoeuer hee lookes vpon dies the death but if he be first discouered his owne venome poysons himselfe whereupon Treasons are resembled to his eyes which of their owne nature must needes preuaile without preuention but made apparant by some timely intelligence they are broken as wee say in the shell and strangled in the Wombe Notwithstanding such hath been the secrets of Innouation and disposition of turbulent spirits that they euer had a trick to flie to forraigne Princes for refuge when their owne designes were vnable to stand vpright in the frame of gouernement And although I neuer read of subiect that returned to recouer his estate or purposes by the meere coadiutement of a forraigne King except that King proiected for himselfe to make anothers disloyaltie the steps to stand more firmely vpon and raise his owne ambition to a greater height yet haue they not desisted to follow the deceits of their owne hearts and as the Iewes found a rotten Reede and broken Staffe of Egypt vndertaken impossibilities to the destruction of infinite thousands and at the best but the sauing of their owne liues for a time For although Hadad an Edomite of the Kings seede fled vnto Pharao King of Aegypt who gaue him a House Land and the sister of his wife euen Taphnes the Queene whereby it should seeme hee thriued in his reuolt Yet alas was it so farre from preiudicing of Salomon that he onely discouered a willingnesse without power or meanes to disturbe the State and made the great King stand on his guard the better Although Ieroboam fled vnto Sisag continuing there vnto the death of Salomon and so receiued as it were supportation in his Treasons Yet it was the reuolt of the tenne Tribes and the curse which branded Salomons Idolatry made Israel rebell against Rehoboam and settled this Seruant in his Masters Throne Although as Herodotus reporteth that Harpagus Medus after Astiages had with great immanity murthered his Sonne fled vnto Cirus into Persia in hope of reuenge and so set the East and whole Asia in combustion Yet alas hee onely made hauock of his Countrey and brought a stranger to possesse both the Monarchies If you ouerlooke the story of Hannibal and would know what entertainement hee had with Prusias King of Bithinia you shall finde him a miserable spectacle of deiection and that hee onely opened him the doores of death scarce affording him leisure to enter before hee was deliuered into the hands of scorne according to their intention to leade him captiue to Rome Looke vpon Pompeis miseries who fled vnto Ptolomy his supposed friend but to what end Euen to be brought to the house of slaughter for feare of the preuailer What could Cleopatra auaile her Anthony or Lepidus Sestus Pompeius and infinite others sufficiently shrowd themselues vnder forraigne shades when the greater cloudes were thickned to raine downe shewres of deuastation vpon their heads and Octauius held vp his head in the turbulent Sea of those ciuill warres And thus could I send you into the wilde fields of instances especially concerning traytors who were all choaked with this Machiuillian Position of admitting the Treason but not suborning the Traytors did I not purpose to disclaime an vnciuill vncouering the hoary head of Antiquity and diuulge this Principle that there is no confidence in Princes further then the reuolts of others may second their own businesse and the priuate quarrels of a kingdome weaken themselues for a strangers admission which yet must be done by the factions and coadiutements of the same Nation Therfore I stand amazed at the fanaticall hopes of diuers Spirits in our nation that in those daies relied vpon the supportation of Spayne are still confident on the blessings and cursings of the Pope especially his ridiculous excommunicating of Princes now