British Library, Additional MS 11600
Your: Ma
Janus Temple by hauinge peace ws
princes & Cuntreys & wee your subiect
under soe peacable & soe Just a kinge to Inioy the
frewt
I cannot but desire that your Ma
your perpetuall fame & the eternizinge of your glorious
memorey . effecte that w
you haue begone, namly the p
your kingdome of Ireland to Religion Civilitey &
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obedeince w
maney of them in there owne p
valorious & divers of them wise & pollitique) yet
could neuer attayne unto. And therefore out of
my euer Inducinge desire to doe yow servis doe
humbly prsent unto your Ma
& meditacions of myne owne Concern
& goverment w
mee in that kingdome I Collected.
offices and . Judg
to purchase land
The wisdome of those tymes thought that the makinge of
estat
maney Temptacions.
Your Ma
men placed in Chayres of supreame government or
seates of Justice in kingdomes & provinces remote
are to bee transitorey.
That lounge Continuance breedes p
much prsuminge of theire power or too little respecting
theire Charge /
The further remote that those gouerment
your Ma
more care is to bee taken uppon whome they are conferred
If your Ma
stage where uppon those that shall bee sent from hence
either for Ecclesiasticall or Civell goverment shall
play there prize & giue proofe of theire abillityes and
Integrities to the end the may att there returne Receaue
the reward of them in prefferment to places of honnor and
Authoritey heere, yow shall bee assured that duringe those
yeares that they shall Remayne there they will imploy
the uttmost of there skills and diligence to do
servis in that kingdome and euery one will Emulate
& striue to exceed other in well p
Comitted unto them /
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strengthned w
Abiliteys then some of them are that nowe possesse them
The remoues to haue pensiones w
your Ma
or increase of your profit
Court
Your Ma
charge but of little use or utilitey were there either
by forren invasion or Intestyne Insurreccion occasion
to use forces.
To Ashure the obedience of that wateringe people
and secure the p
and not to drawe aney thinge from your treasure) your
Maty may bee pleased . that bee fore the tyme of your
parlement & soe euery yeare here after there bee in
the shires of England . & Walles Confyninge upon
Ireland
upon a dayes waringe to bee transported into Ireland
iff uppon aney tumulte or other generall acte of
disobedience by the Irish it shall bee thought requisett
and those Cuntreys att there owne charges to hould
them coated & armed & redy to passe into that kingdome
The like allsoe to bee done in the Confyninge p
Scotland to the end the same may bee knowen to the
Irish as allsoe that those forces are to bee continued
wholly of that kingdome if theire disloyaltey & disobedience
shall giue unto your Ma
passinge thither
Allsoe that in the seuerall Cuntreys all the Brittish
Inhabitant
ormitey in religion or by other firme Ingagment
Judged to bee faithfull and Assured to the State bee
turne in the yeare mustred by Appoynment of some
Commissionrs for the musters w
to bee named by your Ma
of the provinc
ende that both the Deput
number of able men are upon aney sudden occasion
to bee had . in redynes w
that the bee trayned and Armed . and that all theire
princiapll armor & militarey municons bee layd up
in some stronnge & shure place or forte within that
Countey or the shire Confyninge to the ende the
Irish by noe sudden Insurreccion may prvaile them
selues of
done.
And this beeinge done by the English it will not bee
euill taken by the Irish. if they alsoe w
seuerall Cuntreys . bee inioyned to doe the like &
that all there Armes and military weapones bee
delivered to be layd up by your Ma
places of surety and none to bee p
aney weapon other then sword or rapier by theire
side when the ride or travell . from home and yt
only to gen
and Abillitey.
FFor your Ma
Watterford w
that kingdome as those w
of forraigne forces & most popish and Spanish in theire
Religion and affections. and for the better gardinge
And
And suerty of keepinge your Ma
sions of ware all redy there and such others as shall bee delivred
upp. by the Cittizens of those Cittyes whome it will bee as
fitte . to disarme as those of the Cuntryes . abroad.
The Charge of 1000 or little more w
of some Increase of profitt that may bee raysed to your
maty in that kingdome will att your Castle of Skiddies
in Corke make a barre before the dore and a platforme
Whereuppon to place some ordinance upon the gate of that
Cittye . Adioyninge unto it and at Waterford like wise
make up a forttification allredy bee gon
forte there.
And these for the prsent addinge unto them the redin
an hundred English men & familyes Inhabitinge w
Corke Consistinge of maney ould souldiers may bee putt in
uppon all occasion
bee drawen theaither and well spared out of the foote
Compeneys of the Lord prsedinte & vice=prsident of
Munster, and out of those of the Erle of Thomand.
& Sr Thomas Roper will sufficently secure the Cytteys.
In the Cittyes of Limricke there is all redy a Castle and
Ward: Youghall is well replennished w
the Collidge there nowe mad an house of stringht soe
as the Cittyes of Corke & Watterford before said beinge in
maner before provided for, of all the rest of the Marityne
townes of that kingdome there will bee noe doubte att
all /
The greatest Impediment
Lawes for Religion & to the incivilinge of that people are
two.
1 The Authoritey & excample of the noblemen & gent
kingdome whoe nurrish the Roman preist
Incurradge theire tenna
maney Idle sword men beinge the younger sonnes & bastard
of gent
2 The want of breedinge & imployinge the meaner sort in good
artes and maniuel trades the might keepe them from
Idlenes & giue them a tast for thrift and proffitte . and
a proofe & experience howe much Comlines & cleannes
in theire apparrell & in there howses exceed theire nowe
barbarous & sordid Cloathinge & livinge.
Ffor remedy of the first, Conformitey of what hath bine
done in England . in like Cause, all the noble men & gent
that are of greatest power beinge recusant
tyes are most doubted of, may bee confined to seuerall
Cittyes of most suritey w
there habitacion
Bee
as the behaviour of them selues, for by that meanes
will the Continuall repaire that the Jesuitt
ffryares and other Romish Preist
bee either prvented or remedied.
Neather shall them selues dwellinge in places remote
from theire owne Cuntreyes haue that Comand and
power of theire tennan
Assemblyes as nowe the haue, And much more facill
it will bee in the absence of them to reduce theire
tenan
That in euery of those townes by Proclamation peanall
& ymprisenmt
that shall suffer aney man or woman Cominge from
aney other p
space of one day and a night in his or theire houses
w
selfe to som
for that purpos w
account from whence hee cometh and how lownge he
purposseth to remayne w
like penalty to the p
that order prsumeth to lodge him selfe either in the
house of another or in aney house hired bought or
Lent unto him, And that in euery Cittie Borrough
towne Corporrate the like order bee established for
the ymployinge of the meaner sorte in good art
manuall trad
of euery Cittey towne Corporrat & villadge w
the kingdome bee well viewed & Considered of by
p
The people in euery of them to bee numbred and by
theire seuerall familyes to be seene what proffession
mistrey or other exercise of
Land
or in what maner or by what meanes the sustayne and
mayntayne them selues.
That in
to some arte trade or occupation whereby to gett theire
owne livinge and become profitable to the Com
wealth.
And that a stocke bee provided for the erectinge
of such occupations or trad
the Cor scituation of the said Citteys & townes Corporate
Corporate
worke the people to the end . that none may live Idley
to theire owne p
ympoverishment of the Com
And if aney younger sonnes or bastard
where upon to live shall not aplay them selues to some
honest course of life or trade whereby to sustayne
them selues . or follow there wares in some forran
Cuntrey where by direction from your Ma
bee sent or lycensed to . serue . but will remayne
in that kingdome as dependa
or gent: from whoes house the cleame to bee desended
That then all such as
in soe Idle & unprofitable course of life shall giue
good securetey for their good behaviour . & for theire
forth Com
state for aney delict
by them Com
Ffor the coertion and inforcement of the p
of it will bee fitt that in euery great Cittey or
shire towne there bee erected an house of correction
for the punishmt
vagrant
mastrs or your Ma
profitable orders, And this Charge is allsoe that of
the stocke for settinge people one worke to bee
raised upon the forfyturs imposed by the Statut
for not repairinge to the Church upon the sundayes and
holydayes.
Ffor the better efectinge here of euery Countey might
bee devided into sertayne Lymitt
Justices of the peace bee charged w
lymitte that they are specially to gouerne & to take
Charge of besides theire generall charge & regard
to the observance of your Ma
& quitte of the whole Cuntrey, and that they giue euery
quartr of a yeare at least unto the Lord Debutey
or the presidente of that province & the prsidente
to the Lord Deputie an accountt or relation in writtinge
howe they fynd the gent & people w
lymitte disposed . to good order . & to the observance of
Your Ma
gouerment whoe bee the well disposed & observars of good
order. To the end from the Lord Deputey & the state they
may Receaue Comendation & incurragment & whoe bee
the delinquent
(May)
as allsoe what euery of the said Justices haue or shall
doe in theire owne p
Barbarisme Idlenes & disordrs, or for drawinge them
to Conforme them selues to the English in apparrell
in theire houses and in theire language & other
Civell Courses /
That the said Justices of the peace use the like
order w
quarterly accountt or oftener if they shall thinke
fitt of the Chiefe Cunstables w
& they in the maner of the pettey Cunstables in euery
parrish . to the end that by this distributiue order noe
man within the whole kingdome may escape unknowen
nor aney remayne unrestrayned that either is or likly
to bee a disorderly or unruly p
tumult or to bee a disturber of the peace.
In all formar tymes it hath bine helde a fitt pollicy
of state in that kingdome to hould disunite & devided
men of power suspected in theire Loyaltie & affeccions
to the gouerment /
And I make noe dowte but your Ma
wisdome will hould yt necessary that your Deputie
obserue that rule & haue an Attentiue eye upon
the Combinacions . alliances . & Coniuncions of men of
that qualitey & giue by all good menes Impediment
unto them endeaveringe theire mariadges . w
& those of the Religion whereunto weare your Ma
word
up in the English Collidge & theire p
Committed to those of sownd Religion & not to
those of Romish proffession could bee a very great
helpe & furtherance.
By an anciant statute it was p
of the English Race should marey w
yet Contray to the same hath the Lord Barry latly
married the dowghter of Cormacke Mac-Dermy
Carty Lord of Muskarry /
And these of late haue
strounge Alliances . amoungst the great ones of that
kingdome.
I will not truble yowr Ma
but doe most humbly end w
I make no doubte but w
theare
your yearly charge asmuch abated . your kingdome in
riched your subiect
p
if your pleasure it shall bee to p
of the Comodytys . of that kingdome unwrought wch
to the great uttilitey of you & your people may bee
wrought w
unto them wch, willbee the greatest & most necessarey
and Assured menes to bringe them to order and take
away Idlenes w
euill and unsetldnes amoungst them.