Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicus

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A t .'2 ., '.. L, T T E R, WRITTEN IN THE YEAR, fc6, BY Sir JOHN DAVIS, K'irt. ATTORNEY GfiNERAL Ot IftELAtffr, to ROBERT, EARL Of SALISBURY. MY MOST HONOURABLE GOOD LORD, lAM not ignorant how little my advertife- mentsdo add unto your lordlhip's knowledge of the affairs of this kingdom; forafmuch as I...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A t .'2 ., '.. L, T T E R, WRITTEN IN THE YEAR, fc6, BY Sir JOHN DAVIS, K'irt. ATTORNEY GfiNERAL Ot IftELAtffr, to ROBERT, EARL Of SALISBURY. MY MOST HONOURABLE GOOD LORD, lAM not ignorant how little my advertife- mentsdo add unto your lordlhip's knowledge of the affairs of this kingdom; forafmuch as I know, your lordfhip doth receive fuch frequent dif- patches from the lord deputy and council here, M nothing worthy of any confideration is left by them unadvertifed. Becaufe, they, knowing things a. priori, in that they fee the caufes and grounds of all accidents, can give your lordfhip more full and perfect intelligence, than fuch an inferior minifter as I am, who come to under- ftand things a pofteriori, only by the effect, and by the fuccefs. Notwithltanding, becaufe the diligence of others cannot excufe my negligence, if I omit duty in this behalf, I prefume Hill to write to your lordmip; and, though I write the fame things as are written by others in fubftahce, yet perhaps I may fometimes add a circumftance, which may give light to the matter of fubftancc, and make it the clearer unto your lordfhip. After the end of the laft term, my lord deputy tookarefolution to vifit three counties in Ulfter, namely, Monaghan, Fermanagh, and Cavanj which, being the moil unfettled and unreformed parts of that province, did mod of all need his lordftiip's vifitation at this time. For Monaghan, otherwife called M'Mahon's country, Sit William Fitz-Williams, upon the attainder and execution of Hugh Roe M'Ma- hon, chief of his name, did with good wifdom and policy, divide the greateft part of that county among the natives thereof, except the church- lands, which he gave to Englifh fervitors, in which divifion he did allot unto five or fix gentlemen, fundry lar...