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Ireland Under Elizabeth and James the First
Ireland Under Elizabeth and James the First Author:Edmund Spenser 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 DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE CAUSES IRELAND WAS NEVER ENTIRELY SUBDUED NOR BROUGHT UNDER OBEDIENCE OF THE CROWN OF ENGLAND UNTIL THE BEGINNING OF ... more » HIS MAJESTY'S HAPPY REIGN: By SIR JOHN DAVIES ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR IRELAND UNDER JAMES THE FIRST. MDCXII. DEDICATED TO THE KING, BY HIS Majesty's Attorney-general Of Ireland, SIR JOHN DAV1ES. Frincipis est virtus in,ixima, ndsse suos. M D C X I I. DISCOVERY True Causes Why Ireland Was Never Entirely Subdued And Brought Under Obedience Of The Crown Of England, Until The Beginning Of His Majesty's Happy Reign. TOURING the time of my service in Ireland, which began in the first year of His Majesty's reign, I have visited all the provinces of that kingdom in sundry journeys and circuits; wherein I have observed the good temperature of the air; the fruitfulness of the soil; the pleasant and commodious seats for habitation; the safe and large ports and havens lying open for traffic into all the west parts of the world; the long inlets of many navigable rivers and so many great lakes and fresh ponds within the land, as the like are not to be seen in any part of Europe; the rich fishings and wild-fowl of all kinds; and lastly, the bodies and minds of the people endued with extraordinary abilities of nature. The observation whereof hath bred in me some curiosity to consider what were the true causes why this kingdom, whereof our kings of England have borne the title of sovereign lords for the space of four hundred and odd years, a period of time wherein divers great monarchies have risen from barbarism to civility, and fallen again to ruin, was not in all that space of time thoroughly subdued and reduced to obedience of theCrown of England, although there hath been almost a continual war between ...« less