VOL. III.
2 vols. 8vo. 32s.
IRELAND UNDER THE TUDORS.
WITH A SUCCINCT ACCOUNT OF THE EARLIERHISTORY.
By RICHARD BAGWELL, M.A.
Vols. I. and II.
From the First Invasion of the Northmen to the year 1578.
London: LONGMANS, GREEN, & CO.
IRELAND UNDER THE TUDORS
WITH A SUCCINCT ACCOUNT OF THE
EARLIER HISTORY
BY
RICHARD BAGWELL, M.A.
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VOL. III.
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By a mistake which was not the author’s, the title-pagesof its first instalment described this book as being in twovolumes. A third had, nevertheless, been previously announced,and this promise is now fulfilled. The Desmondand Tyrone rebellions, the destruction of the Armada, thedisastrous enterprise of Essex, and two foreign invasions,have been described in some detail; and even those who speakslightingly of drum and trumpet histories may find somethingof interest in the adventures of Captain Cuellar, and inthe chapter on Elizabethan Ireland.
A critic has said that your true State-paper historianmay be known by his ignorance of all that has already beenprinted on any given subject. If this wise saying be true,then am I no State-paper historian; for the number oforiginal documents in print steadily increases as we go downthe stream of time, and they have been freely drawn uponhere. But by far the larger part still remains in manuscript,and the labour connected with them has been greater thanbefore, since Mr. H. C. Hamilton’s guidance was wantingafter 1592. Much help is given by Fynes Moryson’s history.Moryson was a great traveller, whose business it had beento study manners and customs, who was Mountjoy’s secretaryduring most of his time in Ireland, and whose brother held[Pg vi]good official positions both before and after. Much of whatthis amusing writer says is corroborated by independentevidence. Other authorities are indicated in the foot-notes,or have been discussed in the preface to the first two volumes.Wherever no other collection is mentioned, it is to be understoodthat all letters and papers cited are in the public RecordOffice.
It has not been thought generally necessary to give thedates both in old and new style. The officials, and Englishmengenerally, invariably refused to adopt the Gregoriancalendar, but the priests, and many Irishmen who followedthem, naturally took the opposite course. As a rule, therefore,the chronology is old style, but a double date has beengiven wherever confusion seemed likely to arise.
It has often been said that religion had little or nothingto do with the Tudor wars in Ireland, but thi