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Show The Chronicles of Ireland. and plentie was twell forednet onlital themfelues, fhe foleinnities, perteining to thee actions,becalled but bp veafon thatit was the receptacle ant place of and atembiedall thofe perfors kbtch bir bighnedle receipt of all the pzetes and fpotles from outof fhe a hadaypotntedadmitted, ad alloted fo be of bir ma: ther prouinces: but as fo, lotaltic , dtitifolnefie, ano fefties priuie councell for that realmtembdid (iueare obedience to bir mateftic, they tucre moft difoiall, themaccording to the accufomed manner. Then rebellions, anv difordered. Foz after that Shane D: Stoneg: from time to time thep allembled and met,confule nefle by blod and murther bad gotten fhe maitterie, ted," fing anddeliberating that toate and order tere bet Mhebzoken to be taken for reparing of that broker commons be alone thenruled the rofl, Abo in paide exceeded all fate of Frcs fweale and ruinousfate,being asit tere a man ale fhe men bpon the earth, abiding no fuperio2, no2al: tand. togither infected with (o2es and biles , and in thet 10 lotving. anie equall .. and here it were not smifle, Che canted but berie expedientfo fet dDotonethe firft oigin any Dbaned: bodie from the crotone of the head to the Cole of the canfe thie the (ain Shane vid fii bzeakse out from MiseteH fot there is no bealth.And furclie if the fate of that bis due obedience, and did thake off the gonerne, _ land twas ever miferable and in perill to be overs mentof bir maieftie, tht) (as farre as the titer throtone : if teas nener moze like than at thefe peer - bath gathered and collected ) is as bere follo« The Englith ferrts; for as for the Englith pale, it was oucriabels eth. pale matted ep with infinite numbers of caterpillers , tubo Dale andfpoked. tie hy fysiles and robberies haure Deuotted and twas "Con Dueile; the firk carle of Tiron, hav to fornnes,Patthety and this Shane oz Jobn. And king Ponrie the eight hauing god liking of this Con fied the fame: thereby the people tniuerfallie iuere fa pooze,and the commonsin fud)ertreante penurte, that thep had not hoztfes, armio2 1102 fueapons to der 20 Dneile, and to rete ine and keepe him aged {nbied, he being a mightie mart, and of great polwer in bis countric, be made and created bint earle of iron, Con Oneit fend them, noz apparel,bittels, no: ante other necet The folvioes facies to releue them; the folviors fo beggerlie that andbis eldeff fon Matthelp be made baron of Dune Marcel wero they were moft intolerable to the people , and fora 10ers ten in infolentcie, lofenede and fdlenemfe,that bnlefe the remebie twere the moze fpeedie, they would be patt correction : and fo much the torte, bicaufe mas nie of thent were alied in mariage, and companies of the Jrif}:tho the mozethcp tuere affected to them, their truth and feraice moze Doubtfall to hic mate einer: fie . Zhe prouinceof Leinffer and thep altogither 30 biefareot mot miiferable , the Tals, DbzinesAxinthelaghes, * Oooiles, Dmoroughs, Carenaughs , the Pores, ano the refinue in their accuffomable manners thor lie bent to fpottes and all mifciefs, no placeof anie fafetie remaining for the god fubiec; efpectallie in the countie of itlkennic, thich being fometimes a fertile rich fofle, and Well manured and inbabited,bes casteof allothers moft defart and beggerlie , verie fetu being left to inhabit the fame. Tbe fertile foile of the conntte of HRilkennte mane Walk, MBountter bp ganoi, alto the remainder ofthe (ato earledome to ©" the faio Matthety, and to the heirs male of his bodie. This Shane being the fecond brother, and of an al piring mind, enuicd bis elder bzother,and tn no tlle couln be brake bin, but from time to tine lebeth occafions to quarell and fall ont with bim,andin the endmoff trattozouflie and tninaturallic murthered him : thetic father pet lining , abo did not ( much la ment and betwaile the fame , but began mud moe to diffruft of bisotonefafetie, Peuerthelele, itis not knotven that the fain Shane dio offer bimante Diolence, but then be was dead,although be bad no right to fucceed into the earledoine, by reafon that $Patthew his elocr beother bad left fois behind bim, tho bp the letters patents and courfe of the com monlat tere fo fucceed the grandfather :pet Shane (Pountker, the inhabitants there liketwile for the 40 bfurped the name of Dneile, ao entred into bis far Shem - cutll@ar de= moft part being follotvers to the earle of Defmond, firo1ed. and following bis wars againf the erle of Dzmond, mabe that prouiice, and efpectallic the counties of Tipozarie and Wicrie, being wealthie and rich , to become bare and beggerlie 5 and berie felw of thont bic maiettie was 02 could be affured. Pottwtthitanve ingerperfence had taught them , and thep affured, that no twale twas fo thefr recouerte and fafetic fo god and afured,as to bumble themfelues,anv to be« come bir bighnefie lofall and obedient fubieds : pet as fine delighting tn their dirt and puddles , con: fented themfelues rather totth abeggerlie life to be niiferable, than in dutifull obedience tobe at peace Thonrond ait WVallured. The prouineesallo of Thomond altogt: Soattenbyci: ther almott twatten by the warres betweenethe earls Hillwarres. there and fir EDonell Dbrien . Ozmond ltkewile by reafon of viffention betiveene the earles of Def. mond and Damond, and by the datlic inuaffons and paciesof Piers Czace was almoft tyatted mod bw thers inheritance according to the Frith manner , a "8 or mong ahomethe cuffome ts, that the clock in pears qe ant of the nameof anie boule o3 fannilie neoth faccéed bis cutome # anceffo2, titleffe at the fine of bis Death be baba fon face ofthe full age ofone and tiuentie peers, And thus bas ning perforce entred into bis fathers inberftance,be feo2neth at the Englith gouvernement, and after the Frith manner proclamieth bimfelfe Ducile, andthe. capteine of bis countrie, refufeth liketwile all ober oored $0 dience to bir matetfte, andbzcaketh out into ope (caw rebellion. Sir Henrie Sfonete then lor tustice, tm the abfence of the erle of Suffer,being aduertifen of thele to firs, taketh abutte of the councell abat twas belt bedone, Andthen if was agreed, that the faidlo {uttice fhould take bis tomneie totwards Dunbdallie, fo: the foxtifieng of the Englith pale,and thould fend a meffenger to Shane Dnetle, bo then late at 4 lozdthip of bis about fir miles from Dundalke, a? babited. 60 to twitl him come to Dundalke to bis loxvthip:th!d Connagh , one of the godlieff, pleafantetf, av Connagh de{pas Done.But Shane returned bis anfiwer,pratens tronren bp cis nioft fertile forles of that land, tn times pat derie parbor,and alfo moft bumblie requeffcd bis 1o:d001P span Gill Soarres, rich ad twealtbie, and twell inbabited,is watked with the tars bettweene the erle of Clanrichard and gac William Cnter : the Jrith countries all wwatted and imponerithed, partlic by reafon oftheir viMimulations,focieties, and conferences with the rebelles, and partlic by the particular difcozs among thems The wentle= felues . Zinallie, all the gentlemen throughout, men altumpos twat in times paft to be keepers of bofpitalitte, werihed. tacre bp the Dailicpreies mave bpon them and thete tenants impoucrithen ¢ diftretfed, that thep were Ciiter Sorat= not able to mainteine and reldene themfelues no thieandvich, thetetamiles, Ehepronince of Witter fez twealtly mae thatit toonla pleate bin to cbzittcra fon of bis, #0? brneaPy bis gofltp, ¢ then be would cometo his lozd{hip to 00 all things tnfernice fox bir matettic, as bis to! Sm fhould command and appoint. Zhis anfncre at He firft toas not thought ged,no; pet bonozable f0 the loz {uftice fo to doo , bniill the faid Shane bad Sch come and {ubmitted bimfelfe. But teen it tas col" - fidered tthat great inconuentences might infar, tf bis requeff tuere nenicd ; tf foas agreed that the fa io2d tnftice houta conde fcend unto his reque f- and accozdinglie bpon the latt of Januarie,ore thonfand fine bunbzed fitie : and eight, be teent tito pn - The Chronicles of Ireland. 13 cefue at bir hands,abat thoule be four mect.right, anv int. ‘ And fo having bieo manic gov and freendlie Shane D- Shured horite, aid there bis loxoihip and Jaques UWingficls were godfathers, and haning performed * thebaptifirg of the child, thep both had conference of dymertn= the matter : ahere the Cato Shane, to excufe bis dav ony iligs, o(0 allegefor bis vefenfe fundgte articles as for fpéeches ano crhoztations buts bim; the fat Shane poreMont piomtfes to bfe and bebaue hinsfelfe welt and bo caliet : ee, weld. iohet, os Relies ote, uodkaida ® Shane Daal agi tentie of Satter td bDnete, TCreiviched Firtk, he faid that atthetw baron of Dungars neftlic, ¢as to bis Dutic ould aperteine: thep departed in berie freendite manner, Gnd thus in {uch wifedome and politike mannerthe lozd tuftice bande landsare btterlie boid , becanfe that Con Dneile trie: iberof fo bmmesfurablic be twould dzinke and nor twas the fonnie of one isellaie of Dundalke, a led the matter, that bp tempoztfing and gaining of {mtith by occupation, begoftert and boane During the fpoufals of the fain ikellate,and one Alton his totfe, 10 time all matters were pacified,and fo continued bi till fhe comming ouer of the carle of Suffer to2d dee and that the {ato Watthetw tuas altwaies taken and putte: tho then of a netw twke the matter tn band, reputed to be the fonnieof the fatd Hellate , wntill he and be did fo ffreidlic and feuerelie follow the fame; {was of the age of firtceente peares 02 thereabouts at that be ourrmatched Shane Dueile. Wuttt fo gree fihich fime Con Dneile bis father, bpon the fateng ued the (aid Shane, that nottoithtanding he diffe of the fatd Alfon, that be twas the father of the fato bled ad gaue a geod countenance,¢ promifed tell; Patthetv, oid accept and take the fatd Pattheiw to petin the end being once at libertie,be performed be bis fonne, ¢ qaué bint the name of Fardarough, nothing: but as the twolfe thic) offen catketh his _ Gndhere bnderffand pou the twickednefle of this batres but neuer dhangeth bis conditions, was one Shane Oneis countrie ; ihich ts, that ifante oman do mifltke ts become a bichutband,and will depart from him, he Mall hauc 2 and the fame ran 02 rather toozfe, amd thenlefort) tpzant and tpzannized and died moft cruveltie, and of all others allfuch chiltzert as tere boone of bir bodie during moff diflofall and offobedtent; to the depufie tyonld thefr abodetogither, ercept {uch as the Hall name to he not conte, 1b? would hein ante iife confer toith bebegotten bp ariie other man: thich manfo named bfm,but at bis otone pleafare, } fhall by their cuffome baue the faid chilo : aitfo Thequenes matellte in Home termes he fwonld it hould feeme to be meantof this point. Alte Honoz, but inogeds he oenfed all obedtence ; tubtill the {afd Matthety fd vpon this the affirmation of and craftie he tvas efpectallie in the mozning: but bis mother (ake to dfurpe the name of a fegniozie of the Dnéiles, and the dominions aperteining to iri the refinue of the Date berie brcerteine and on flableand mud) given to erceffiue gulping and fats Hane Onett that fegniozie at furnante. Alfo that there be aboue abundzed of that name, hich will not in anie tetle 3° fetting . And albett he bad mot commonlie tivo adgunkara Hundied fumes of wines in bis cellar at Dury anda furtetpeld to this the clame of Patthelv , although he My Deum, and bad bis full fll therofpet was he nener fav f° bisotune part iwoulobe contented therewith. Alf fiffied, till be bad fvallowed bp marucllous great he faith that the letters patents (if ante {uch be) that quantities of Wfkebagh 02 Aqua vite of that couns fhonld intitle the fore of the fatd baron to the fad bonfe,that for the quenchitg of the beat of the bodice, father to the fafo Shane had no other right nozinters fibich bp that meanes twas moft ertremelie inflas eft to that countric, but during bis otone life: and nied and diffempered,be twas eftfonesconucied (as therefore inithont the confent of the Logos and inbabitants of that countrie, could make no furrender no? conuctanceherby he might be tnabled to take 40 andbauethe fain lands bp force of letters patents. Alf he faith, that by the lawes in the Crglith pale of 4reland,no letters patents, madeto ante perfon,be of anie force 07 balue,tntill hat an inquts fition be taken of the lands fo giuen before that the letters patents do pale: abtcy in this cafe neither twas, no3 could be dene, fith the countrie of Liron tsno thire ground. Altif the fatd Lands fhould accoy ding to the queents latwes defcend to the right hetre, then in right it ought to defcend to bimas nert heire being mulierlie bo2ne ; and the other not fo boze, the common report twas) inte a deepe pit,and fans pie asi ding bpzight inthe fame, the carth toas cat round commer atees abont bin bp to the bard chin,and there he bid re- Hig dzunbenmaine bntill fuch time as bis bodie twas recoucren nese, tofome temperature; by which meanes though be cameaffer in (ome better plight fox the time,pet bis manners and condittons dailie warfe, And in tye end bis pride toined with wealth, oxunkennefe, ano infolencie,be beganto bea tpzant,and to tpzaniitje ouerthe fhole countries greatlie it toas feared that bts intent toas to haue made a conquelt oner the 50 fhole land.We pretended to be hing of Uiffer,cuct as he fad bis anceffo2s tere, ann afteding the mas ner of the great Lurbe, was continuallie garvey Shane ®- Alo he faith, that bpon the death of bis father lor of the countrie, the hole countrie according to the with fir hundzen armted ment, as it were is Farntfas M8 M26 ttifome of the countrie Did aflemble themfelnes to- gither,anv bp acommon confent oid elect and cafe (without ante contradiction) bim the fain Shane to ries about bint, and ad in readinefle to bring tnto the fietos a thoufand ho2femen, and foure thoufand ¢,,, pefantet fotmen. Ie furntthen all the pefants and bafband: jn aztter trat- tountrie, Which election by the cuffome ofthe coun: trained them bpin the knotwledge of the wars: ann arte. trie bath bene altwaies bed twithoutante confirma, tion, atked of the kings and queenes of England. Ala he fatth that as Dnetle be clameth {uch authort» all the people to his becke and commanbement, bes ing feared and not beloued. be Dneile ,as the moft tvorthte anv ablett of that ties, iurifoicions, and duties bpon bis men ¢ couns trie,as are due time out of mind to bis predecefo2s, and which duties for the mol part are reco2beD, and Temaine in writing. Gen the lord tuffice bad at full beard thefe articles and confivered well of them togither with the councell,made anflwer dato Shane at the matter twas of great weight and impox tance, ¢ tic nefther he noz the councell colo octets ming of themfelues, before bir mateffte tere made Pluie and acquainted therewith; ad therefore in the Meane time tilled wm required im tobe quiet,ano te he himtelfe a ontifall (ubiec bute bir maieffie, boding vowdting but that be thould baue ano res men ofbis countrie with armour and weapons ,and ned dp th as lion bath t1 atvethe beats of the ficlv,fo hab be Dinerle meanes and twates were pradifen and fed by the lozd depntie and councell fo;the pacifieng and recouerte of bm, and commiiffioners from time fotime Cent onto him; fo2 and aboutthe fame, abo fometimes would be veric flerible, but fozthwith as backwards and bntoward. Dfallthe refioue of Free Isnd there toas the leffe doubt to reconer them, by reafonthat thep by thefr otone ciuill tars bab cone famed and fpotled the one and the other; but of this man ,fmall 02 10 bope at all,onlefle he might be char fifen,and with force be reduced to confopmities, hich in the end it pleated the 0x0 Codto take the matter in band,and to --1,offf.fame bp ss |