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A11227	The gouernment of Ireland vnder the honorable, iust, and wise gouernour Sir Iohn Perrot Knight, one of the Priuy Councell to Queene Elizabeth, beginning 1584. and ending 1588 Being the first booke of the continuation of the historie of that kingdome, formerly set forth to the yeare 1584, and now continued to this present 1626. Whereof the rest succeeding this already collected, but not fully perfected, shall shortly follow.	E. C. S, fl. 1626.	1626 (1626)	STC 21490; ESTC S116308	77,201	172

exceeding her Maiesties yearely charge one yeare with another since the beginning of her Maiesties Reigne and short of her Highnes charges in three yeares not long since by almost 50000 pounds as may appeare by Auditors Bookes and as humbly I pray you that you doe conceiue that this my motion doth not proceede from any direction but onely from the cause itselfe which I haue at Eye and wherein for zeale and duties sake I auowe and protest not onely to imploy my body and minde but also all that substance that I am well able to spare which I know will fall out vpon mee the greatest Subsidie of any Subiect in the Land through the charge that hath and will arise of my continuall trauailing to effect these Seruices from place to place for otherwise it will not be done where I might saue by feeling my selfe in places certaine Hauing thus protested to spend mine owne with good contentation I trust I may easily auoyde all opinion of intent to get by issuing of the money for I vtterly denounce the handling or directing of one penny otherwise then by the aduice of such as shall be specially assigned to that trust with me If our Auncestors when the world was more needy bare did not make stay at great summes to lesser purpose I trust the present plentifull State of England will shewe a franke and cheetefull readinesse to aduance a matter that according to the occasion now offered requireth present helpe and remedy I humbly beseech you thinke what a continuall sinke both of men and money hath this State beene vnto that Thinke also what Forraine Princes haue attempted and doe still gape for it wayting onely opportunity and if they doe catch it what a dangerous and noysome neighbour vnto England they will make it Choake vp the sinke at once make one charge of all conceiuing you doe but lend so much vpon large Interest and that you cast now your seede into a fruitfull ground that will yeeld a profitable Haruest and by your Honourable Magnanimity and care put downe the courages of those ambitious Princes and stop the course of their ambitious intentions against this Realme and consequently that And I for my part doe auowe besides that small portion of wealth that God hath lent me to afford my life well bestowed in that action with no lesse care and diligence then I haue already vsed in the short time of gouernment I haue passed which I trust seemeth not altogether fruitlesse And so crauing humble pardon if zeale and affection haue any way miscaried me I humbly end from her Maiesties Castle of Dublin this 17 of Ianuary 1584. Shortly after to confirme these conclusions and to reduce the people to conformity of gouernment a Parliament before resolued Parliament in Ireland on is now summoned to be held at Dublin where the Nobility Clergie and Commons being assembled Order was taken that none Order for Irish apparell not to be worne in Parliament were permitted to goe in Irish attire as in former time they vsed but to sort themselues in such habite after the English manner as was answerable to their seuerall rankes and qualities and because the charge might breede no difficulty with the chiefe men in Parliament to yeeld to this Order Hee bestowed vpon Tirlogh Leynogh the principle Lord of Vlster and on some others chiefe of the Irish Gowns and other Roabes fit for that place and their degrees which they embraced like fetters of which being weary one of them came to the Deputy and besought him that one of his Chaplaines which hee called Priests might goe with him along through the Streetes clad in his Irish Trouses for then quoth he the Boyes will laugh as fast at him as they now doe at me whereat though the Deputy could haue smiled yet casting a frowne vpon his countenance told him there was no cause he should thinke any laughed at him for wearing those which were fit ornaments for the place he now held and did present in Parliament but if any did so it was at his ill wearing of the same which want of ciuill custome caused Therefore since vse would make that seemely which now was ridiculous he aduised him to view the difference of being fit for all Assemblies and onely fit for the Woods and barbarous Places but quoth the Deputy if any idle or ill affected person shall put the contrary into your head beleeue it to be done out of an ill meaning to the State and worse vnto your person for contempt of order and decencie will in the end be your downfall This aduice was taken eyther as found good or out of necessity to be followed but hereby wee may discerne that custome is commonly preferred before decency and opinion before reason especially amongst people where ciuility is vnplanted Withall it is to be obserued in the The reason the Irish are vnwilling to sort themselues to the English habit proud condition of the Irish that they disdaine to sort themselues in fashion vnto vs which in their opinion would more plainely manifest our Conquest ouer them and this I take to be the cause of their vntowardnesse in this particular which made the Deputy to set the reformation more to heart well knowing that the Lords and chiefe of the Irish framing themselues in habite and plainenesse to their Vnderlings made themselues the more popular Willing or vnwilling they were constrayned to come to the Parliament in that ciuill habit which did best fit the place and present seruice In this Parliament which began at Dublin the 26 of Aprill 1585 in the 27 yeare of the Queenes Reigne Sundry Bills were passed in the first Session which being Enacted and new Printed therefore neede here no further mention but their disputes and differences arose about a Bill preferred in the Commons A Bill for the suspension of Poynings Acts. House for the suspention of Poynings Act which past in the tenth yeare of King Henry the seauenth before Sir Edward Poynings then Deputy That no Bill should passe in any Parliament in Ireland for a Law vntill the same had first a Royall assent in England This the Deputy would haue suspended by Act of Parliament to the end that opportunity might be taken for passing such Bills as the present occasion might offer for the good of the Seruice without attending the further resolution of England whereby the aduantage of aduancing present Seruices might be lost making that by delay more vnpassable which at the present might easily be perfected But this howsoeuer grounded vpon good iudgement by the Deputy was impugned especially by some chiefe stirrers in the English Pale and ouerthrowne by them at the third reading who feared perchance that something might be propounded and speedily Enacted which might crosse some purposes of their owne and therefore by suspition were caried to their own preiudice yet afterwards vpon better information that doubt being cleared they then seemed more enclinable to

the passage of the Bill and vpon demaund obtained conference with the Deputy touching the same and departed seeming satisfied in their duties wherevpon the Parliament was adiourned for three weekes Afterwards notwithstanding the qualification The Cōmons against the Bill concerning Poynings Act. of this Bill agreed vpon by their Cōmitties they ouerthrew it the second time The iealousie and mistaking of some Lawyers ioyned to them of the English Pale likewise suspecting the repeale of this Statute was intended for some other end then was pretended made much contention and dislike about it and by withstanding it gaine-saide their owne profits for indeede it was preferred to no other end but to haue free liberty without restraint to treate of such matters as might equally concerne the good of that Kingdome yet such strength hath Iealousie and Suspition to hinder good endeuours as seeking to auoyd harmes preuents the good which is intended and by a by course runnes with a full sayle vpon the mischiefes feared Notwithstanding this discention about Poynings Act whereof some that did most in publique oppose it did afterwards in priuate confesse their errour yet diuers profitable Acts were passed both for the priuate and publique in this first Session which ended the 25 of May and was prorogued till Aprill following Amongst the rest a Bill being preferred Prerogation of the Parliament for the Attainder of the late Earle of Desmond and passing his Lands by Excheate to the Crowne receiued at the first some opposition by the meanes of one Iohn Fitzedmonds A Bill for the attainder of Desmond passed who shewed there a Feofment made by the late Earle before he enterd into actuall Rebellion vntill Sir Henry Wallop the Treasurer brought in an Instrument of Confederacy betweene the Earle and his Followers bearing date before the Feofment vnto which Fitzedmonds own hand was subscribed which Treasonable subtilty being well weighed and considered of the Bill passed without difficulty Soone after the end of this Session notice was giuen to the Deputy of a new practise of Alexander Mac Surly's intention to inuade the North. Alexander Mac Surly sonne to Surleboys vnder the colour of a discention betweene him and the chiefe Lords of Vlster to draw againe the Scottish Islanders thither who had prepared in a readinesse 400 of those firebrands daily expected to arriue And because Tirlogh Leynaugh Oneale was weakened by want of gouernment and by age growne vnable to rule his people but much more disabled by his late dependency vpon the State and conformity to the will of the Deputy through the peruerse Nature of those people growth was giuen to the Baron of Donganon his aspiring who quickly tooke occasion thereby to aduance himselfe into the hearts of those barbarous and State despising people Therefore the Deputy by the assent of the Councell resolued vpon another iourney into Vlster and so speedily performed it as hee was enforced to go with much lesse power prouision then hee had done in the former setting forwards The Deputies second iourney into the North. vpon the 26 day of Iuly and passed speedily as farre as Donganon in the County of Tyrone the Barons chiefe seate Hether being by the Deputy sent for repaired all the Chiefetaines of Vlster except those of the Claniboyes whom hee appointed to defend that Coast of the Country against the Islanders inuasion Oneale with his pretended Vriaghs and Dependents Odonnell and his Followers especially Hugh Duffe Odonnell the elected Tawnist or next succeeding Lord of that Countrey who brought with him Odogherty and Sir Owen Otoole yeelded to all his Lordships demands which hee thought meete to require at their hands but Iames Caraugh a man of account amongst the Donelaughs and most deuoted to Shane Oneales family auoyded the Deputies All the chiefes sauing Bryan Caragh submit themselues to the Deputy presence of which for the present no great notice was taken At this time the Deputy did perfect the reducing of this Prouince into Shires or Counties as was before appointed by placing and setting bounds with aduice of the Country to each County After which perceiuing that the Ilanders continued on in their purpose of Incursion into Vlster he sent one Captaine Dawtrey vnto the King of Scots with Captain Dawtry sent into Scotland Letters to moue his Maiesty against this their frequent course of inuading the Queenes Dominion and that if hee would be pleased to restraine his people from the same and to cause restitution to be made of some Irish Merchants goods taken and with-held in some parts of Scotland there should bee the like correspondencie of Iustice shewed to his Maiesties Subiects comming into Ireland while he gouerned in that Kingdome The King of Scots answer To this the King returned a Princely answere signifying that he had receiued his Letter which manifested his good disposition to Iustice as formerly he had taken notice thereof by his Order with the Merchants of Scotland restoring their goods restrained in sundry parts of Ireland for which good Office he gaue him many thanks promising the like that the Merchants of Dublin and Carick Fergus lately robbed or pretended so to bee should haue the same course of Iustice at his hands As for the restraint of Surleboy with his brother their sonnes and followers which the Deputy omitted in his Letter as a point committed onely to the credite of the Bearer the King also promised immediately to direct his Letters to inhibit them vpon paine of Treason from molesting any of the Queenes Subiects and if they neuerthelesse should attempt the contrary his Highnesse would vse them as Rebels and to that end gaue Commission to Mac Allen and the Country thereabouts to rise and prosecute them accordingly but before the deliuery of this Letter which bore date at Saint Andrews in Scotland the fourth of August 1585 or immediately after and before the Kings pleasure could be made knowne to any his Gouernours or Subiects The Ilanders to The arriuall of the Ilanders in Vlster the number of 400 arriued in Vlster and ioyning with Con Mac Neale Oges sonne and with those of the Dufferin The Okelleys most of the Wood kerne of Kilwarlen Mac Cartines Country and with Hugh Mac Felmis son they had doubled their number within a fortnight to at least 800 such being the condition of that Country people as to be quickly weary of Peace wherein the worke of ciuillity might be wrought being a thing as hatefull to the Barbarous as Barbarisme and wildnesse is to a people flourishing in wealth and ciuillitie vnder a vvise Gouernement So sweet is Idlenesse to those who haue neuer tasted the fruite of Industry wherein the Gouernours of Ireland for the most part had hitherto fayled euen since the Conquest of the same neglecting the wayes and courses to ciuilize those called the wilde Irish whereby the English Families gouerned according to the custome of England following the Nature of man euer enclining to