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Show The Chronicles ofIreland. 144 bimfelfe quict, and cante in fo the fafd prefident, aw peliuered in bis men that tere Demanded, ¢ hich before he dented, being berie nofozious malefacays and pradifers of bnquietneffe, And nowthat the fhole land twas (as twas thought) in quict,o2 at leat in outivard MHeiv more quietthan in times paff, the noblemen ¢ gentlementn the Ens glith paleof thonte leaf fafpicion of aniccutll Mas Chegentis thongbt, they begin beris tnconfinervatlic to vepine men inte t of September,and in the pere of our 3Loyd onethow thisearico begin Glierin the pany Ane hundzedlenentic and fir,left this tworld,to ro againft the . celle :. tho ifthcy had centred into theo ite pale t ni chzonicies of com the confideration thereof, thep (although fometbat:to neti of lofle and , frends bis (ozoof great the €ngiend, their further charge) ould haue mainteined it z.becele, pag. 1263. montwealth; but to the gaine of bimfelfe , tobyall caufe that the Cante was procured forthe defente of awarant arguments and teftimontes of bis bndou themfclues, aud thep onelie had the benefit thereof. fed faith , dothadure bs of bis euerlatting foie , and Fo2 you thal onderffandthat the lord aeputie,being : efernall felicitic. teas inpecter, and requeficd allbis companie to aie and the verie laft wozdsthat be fpate twas, The lord Zefus . And when his tong gaucouct to fpeake ante moze, be lifted bp bis hands ¢ cies fo fhe Ledhis God, bntill moff fivertlic,mildlie, ano godlic he DiDpeld dp bisabolt, thich manie times before be bad commendedto bis Aoand God. And Semore ot thas this noble man bpon the ting and tiuentith date He Histetters Avoutthsee dates before his death,beto20t bis lait amanof great iwifvome,knotwlege,and experience, then be confidercs the fickle fate of that waucring tothe iorde= letters to theloze deputic , being then in the remote and rebelifons nation of the Jritjzie, tho nottwitly parties of Connagh; and derie delicous he was to patic, ffanding thep had neuer fo firmly promiled,fioome, _bane fpoken with him. In which letters he gaue bis lowdihip mohartie thanks for all the god frend: 20 and bowed all allegfance and obedience to bivma ieftie : pet bpon everielightoccafion , without anie fhips patk betipeene them, and twithed that the gad refpect of fatth ano dutie, woul Ging ont into focret Theellec of ano faithfulloealings vetiweene them were knotwne confpiractes., and fo intospen rebellion; amid then thecarlestet= 46 tnell in Gnglandaseliekbere. Then hecommen: for the aeafing thereof, and the preferuation ofbir fersto theDes den to bint all bis feruants generallie , ab fomteby godlubieds, bit highnette was nzinen to inlarge bit particular names and thereina {pectall requeft fea i garrifons, and fo increafe bir amie to bir erceffiue his tonne and bette, that though be bimfelfe Houta charges , and all frbfch companies fwere bittelled die tobis frends, pet his fonne tye caricof Ciler bp the Cnglith pale : and farther, confinering that might line to the ferutce of bis peince,and the gad of the benefit which grew hereby, tyas generallte ev the commontuealth . And latflte , he touched fornes be that concerning bis burfall, and beretwith be fent 30 fendedto the tolepale, to in equitic Should contributozie to the burthen , as thep vere parti into his loihip alittle George and agaricr, the bers of the eafe,, atid pet mante of them,pretending enfignesof the oxder of the garter,abercol thep both to haue ltberties andpetuileges, claimicd to be et iherties fwere knights and compantons, fo be a memorial empten from anie contribution at all, wbercbp the hates 30 of theloue and goodwill pat betiwene them. Gnd refivuetere the more qraeued,¢ the greater burtier pichaan® noiy leauing this bonozable earle tn bis heauentie tied,to their inpouerithing«the binderance of theit ty _ foigana bliffe : let bs refurie to the biffogie of this fernicesthe loz bepntie canfer a through {earch tobe effere and cffrenated nation. mave it biehighneme court of the evchebser tm Ire| Searched ShreeL] ve vites The prontiice of Mountier twas indifferent qui. land,ofall the recozds,for and concerning all anda gtements be: 2t,butfomerepiningstuere bettveene the earles of tofoyebin bad time ante at thich liberties mannerof nor,40 abiving not one the tweencthe Ghomondand Delmond, caris of Del nigesting the orders, tic) bpon {undsie complaints vanted to anie perfor 02 perlons tepatoeuer sad yom. {were made again him, which he refulen to obete, nitill volens nolens he Were prelled therednto bp the lord prefident : theotber, tho was alwates a berie fwilfull man, notwithtanding be had at Corte peel: dedbimfelfe (of his otune free content) to abioe the 20ers there made fo2 the quietnetfe of the countrie, petnoly haning taker the aduife of bis difozvered fo, be eavieot lowers,be tuould not be Wwithozawenfrom bis won: Wefinondre: tederactions, and therefore repined fo beare further pineth againt anioceffe ; and tozote bis letters to the lozns of bir allgmdozmaieffies pointe councellin England, complaining ate much, and proving nothing, and aggranating the gunttye tefle. fakingof the celle, toith mot mantfct tntruths. And fo far be twas carried in niiflibing the qouerns nient, bicanfe he fat bis otune wonted finaic was inch abated,that be would berie faine haue flipped out if beconld, Andit was derelie thought that be twas combined ina fecret confptration with the fore: anctent liberties fn the end found that (beric fety by flatute roped excepted'), all tuere ofarped, 02 bad prontifed him aid out of Dounfer, tf he woul holdout, and fox khich he Was committed to war. Which cavied the moze likelipwd,bicanfe bis intenti. on Wwas to put alpaic his otwne tuife, gto haue mat, cheb bimfelfe in marriage twith Shanes fitter, abo SHir P. Del: twas Drwackestoife,+ of late foxfaken by him. Mee pipes) vertheleffe,the erle twas fearefull to offendthe fate, andmarrieth £02 theprefident twas o wwatddfull to efvis out bott anothermang Disand all the reff of their doings,and in fudy.a reas Swife, Dineffe to be at inches with thent, and bpon their bones ifep farted ont neuer fo little, that be kept and councell, ahich uas reectued berie totllinglie, and offer made that conference (houtd be had iwith them, Hoty and that wate it might beft be deutfen to fale there griefes, € not to charge the queene.. Tethers bpon ata fine appointed thep all met,and came tn perfons before the deputie andcouncell , there the faid malecontents fir opened their griefes , that inbifferentlie; and for the better furtherance - ; iw Highaelle ferntce: he commanded by proclama ‘5 oa cams 50 tibich cfther hap no grant at all02 txbich bad not that the Lo2d bimfelfe bath renenges ofcitimes on the Difobedient. Wherfore euerie man is to be fubiect iin all bunttliti¢e ¢ obedience tuto them in all manerof Ndinances, being not again Gov,iot onli btcaute of twrath,but alfofoy confetence fabe,efpectallic in ‘When thelozd deputie andcourcell heard thems thetr one benefit and fafetic. 3f this be theinfallible truth, bow farre tere thefe men ouerfhot,that thus twould difpute the princes prerogatine ‘with their Littletons tenuves;amd meafure the fame twith their olwne rules and denifes? At bad bin munch betterfor them, moze to theft commendations,tf thep had(as -_the {cholersofPpthagozas)kept filence ad had belo atfall,thep aypointes a date, then thep thould come their peace, ontill {ach time as thep had bene better and recetue thefr anfilver. Jn the meane time the fudied in their otone latwes ; and then thep fhouly fo2d deputie and comncell confulted and confiocted 20 bane found it toritten that the prince o2 bing ts the The birigs of the matter, and refolued themfelues bpon an ans Head and moff ercellont part of the bodie of the coms peerogatinc fiver.And aber the date came and thep appeered,ary mMoritwealth;and thzough bis gouernance the prefers pe) thelawes fer twas made brite them by the mouth of the loon tier and defenderof the whole bodie, and(as the pos © *°FaIme thancello2, that thep had no charters noz liberties at whet termeth them)to be nourithing fathers of the alito be found in bie bighnelle records, other than people hbtch are the refk of the bodie, amd for hich fach as ‘ere erpired ano of no baliditie. Gnd as fo caulesthe lators dw attribute tuto bim all hono2, the greatnéfe of the ceffe, the biirden thereof thep dignitie,pzerogatiue, and preeminence aboue allo Hadalleged to be tnreafonable and not tobe bosne, thers; and tthich bis prerogatine doth not onelie ere bicaufe thep Maid ¢ auonched thatit tuas ten pounes tend fo bis otwne perfon,and all that tbtch be bath of # twelue pounds of ech plough land; it tas offered 30 his one, but alfoto all bis {ubiets. Ano the lato that thep Mould be difcharged, if thep would pate but fine markes fo} eucrie plough land. And hati euer thep fain tn dentalof the pafeng of the ceffe, it foas andis tobe proued, that if was not onelic bir matefies prerogatiue which map not befmpeached; buf alf tobe proved by moft ancient reco20s , that erect fince the time of hing Penrie the fonrth, for fhe (pace of cight o2 nite {core peares,there hath bin Hill from time to fime,as occalion bath required the like charges {mpofed bp the nanie of ceffe by the vee putie and councell, and feb nobilitie as tuere fent for a did come fo the fame, Now in queftfon and pers themfelues dm fo far fretch this for a acavime, that that foenet latves be made and effablithen et ther fo the benefit of bolic church 02 common pro« fit , it fs altpafes implied salssasn omnibus regis previa fstmasand that nothing thall be intended to be preine Dictall to bts crotune and dignitic. Mut bp all likeli Hod thefe men iwere not fo farce read;o2if thep bad, theft malice 02 defire of fome pelting tuere, trbtdy blindeth manie of that p2ofefion , had mane them 40 forgetfull of themfclucs ¢ of thetr duties, Gatell, the fe great latwicrs beate the mtalecontented lords ¢ gene tlemen in band,that thetr canfe ¢ {ute twas gad ant reafonable,and by the laty to be tparranted,7 not to flatlie denied that thep tvoulo peeld to ante ceffe, be doubted but the fame would baue geo fucceffe, Saint reafon and latw,ann therefore praied that thep ters tobic matettic,with the like letters to ble bono: Pann into wma tight baue bis lozoihfps livertie to make their res patre ouer into England, and to acquaint bic bigh hefle with thelr cafe. Uherebvnto be anfwered, that table pziule councell, dated the tently of Zanuarie, Gland their as 157 6,and bnder the hanog of Rotwland bieount sents to conte of Waltinglas, Eb. of Deluin, Chrittoyher of Hoth, Panes fore nol that thepare greeued , and therefore wt:4 tofolloty this fute , and contribated a mafle of mos Bedlawiers md malecontented gentlemen, tho bap Hivred and fet thent a wwo2ke to confoine themfelnes pineagaint cefle; and with sper mouths cc pot that thep iyere (6 poze that they could not beare = coffe, and that it twas againt thelatv . And Ly at oem pour better tnberttmnding that celles, a) be pelinte! : hindof vittels for men ana hortfe, to a reafonable pricecalled the queens p2ice, t "* at , enerte fuch fouldfors as the is contented t charge twithall, an fo mud) as is thought comp' tobe fo: she loz deputies honte ; and bid) prtce a perrelie rated and affetied by the lod ooputte councell, with the afliftants and atent of the i 8 tie of the countrie, at {uch rates and -> ce fouldiors mayline of bis wages , amd the ft we fie of bis interteinmient. Fhefe things altbough thep twe' re ornetlic DON, = < pet cerfeine malecontents,finding tic nfelues ST shee Led,bicaute thep Choula alia now beare apertier hie amongtt themfciues , for the charge of the faiv latwicts , namelie Warnabie Scurlocke, Richard eteruill, and Wenrie Wurnell, who hauing bene fometimes fudents tn the ins of the court tn Lone | Wherdpon thep mare bp their fuyitcation anv lets & be tmpaico be wonlo nefther giue anp (uch leauc noz denie them 50 Weter of Crimleston, James of ielletw, anv Pa to go. Wdherebpon thep allembled themfelues togt trike Paugle barons; fic Diiuer plunket, fic Tho» ther againe, and bp the avutfe of certeine bufte heas mas Qugeat, fir Chrittoyher Chivers, and fir Wile fo indure onelie fox ten peares, andall wae e fa a expired. and for this canfe thep neuer ford + refifleth God,and abate refittances ¢ oifobedicnece See e of this latter foxt were manfe made bya confiriuance offinves out of memozie of man. ins 145 authozitie 2 eramtaing bis soucrimient, 302 there ts no poluer (as the apottle faith)bat of Gob, thep are ordeinedof Ooo; wherfore txho to re fifkety them, thep bad certeine old and ancient priuileges andit: ro matters beitig well confinered,s whic) do concerne berties tthich were faben from them;then that thep tuere compelled to peeld to ant bnreafonable cette, fibich thep tuere not able to beare, and that was twill andpleafure onlte, and contrarie to all latw and reas fon, that anie {ach charge Mould be tmpofen bpon them without a parlement ozgrand councell. fofeng anv alledging as before , that it twas a+ lowte fonnesof the earle of Clanricard, as twas bis 6o is meant thereby;it isa prerogatine of the ptm " {mpofe pon the countvie acerteine ager it ote Fotmot bzother fir Jobn of Defmond, tho for bis confer Wefmond rence had with Shane Wurke,was fulpected to haue cCommittedto {oinen iwith hint in bis rebellion ; asalfo becaufebe tonclltoUE her,and make there fupplication tothe lox neputie by them repincd at, Periertheletle, thep repined ano so j led. Ulerebparr to eale the owretfed, amd fomase") borther to be borne moze. bntwerfallic, and fo moze all {ach liberties and freedomis to be pftiolucd s The Chronicles of[reland. Wddepatie® be contributaries : firl thep diatw their heads togt ltam Seatefield knights; Coward plunket, pa trike Pangle, Patrike Wulleic, George Plunket, Francis Pugeat , Laurence Mugeat, Micolas Walle, James Pugeat, and Witliiam Dalbot, in the names of all the inbabitants {within the Gngs 1h pale,bad fubfcrtben.Andthen alfo thep veliueren in the Ifke oper their letters of atturncte bnito theie don, ¢ acquainted with Littletons tenures, thought 6° faibagents, and fo mud) monte fotheir erpenfes themfeines fo well frangbted twith knotwledge in as twas thoughtfufficient, toith their order and po the latys,as thep tere able te twade in all matters mife to fupplte that foener they Mhould ned, Ano of the deepe ff pointsof the latw.iuttf thep bad firtt thus being furntthen twith all things to their cons (as it becommeth dutifull (nbteas)to haue loked in tentinents,thep patt oner the feas, and made their the boke of Good, thep (hould bane found it twzitten tepatre bnto the court of Cnglaw,and there at time there,that it twas God bimfelfe who firft made kings conuentent did erbibit thelr (applications anoletters aNd efablithed their thrones, and gaue them moft to bir mateftie and fhe lords of the councell, ubich excellent preeminznces nert to bimfelfe, that thep in effect confiffed in thefe points. be onder bim the fupzeme gouernours bpon Firtt,that there there was aceffe tmpolenbp the 1 thecarth; and haus that anthozitie and prerogatiue, lov deputie andcouncell opon the Cnglify pale for aye clea of Sat all inferiors and fabieas thould and ought in bic mateffies garrifons, they finding themfetues the Ieiters# all bumblenede and dutifulne fe (nbmit themfelues buto the obedience of them fos the Lozds fake : by Canle his tt the will of Gad, toitpout Aétingofbis gricued therewith , made thelr Complatnt thereof Complains ‘outa the fai tow deputic and councell fo redzeffe, {PeiI and could not be beard. and connecit. 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