And in the struggles that intervened, Ulster was invariably against the Crown. To the English and Scotch squatters, and the Irish Society, were given arable and pasture lands, fishings, courts leet and baron, ferries, bishoprics and livings, mountain-lands and bogs, courts of pie-powder, exemptions, titles, licences to beg, recusants’ fines, wardships and marriages of minors, charters of the staple, customs on tobacco-pipes, and monopolies of all kinds, and in a few score years the grandchildren of these favoured persons made themselves famous by their bitter opposition to James’s grandson. Thus the whirligig of time brings its revenges.
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Tract by Sir Thomas Smith on the Colonisation of Ards, in Co. Down, 1572.
_Patent Rolls_, 1 James I., lxx., 22, Dorso, p. 5.
See _The Broken Sword of Ulster_, by R. Cuninghame.
_State Papers, Ireland_ (1609), p. 330, (1608), pp. 108, 109.
_Calendar State Papers, Ireland_ (1608-10), Preface.
_Broken Sword of Ulster_, p. 153, &c. For the earlier plots of Mountjoy against Tyrone, see Docwra’s _Narrative_, Celtic Society’s _Miscellany_, Notes, p. 315.
_State Papers, Ireland_ (1608), Preface, p. xli.
Celtic Society’s _Miscellany_, Docwra’s _Narrative_, Notes, p. 315.
_Carew Papers_, “Discourse for the Reformation of Ireland” (1583). See also Sir J. Perrott’s Proposals, same vol., II., p. 368; II., p. 415.
_State Papers, Ireland_ (1607) Preface, p. lvii.
Enrolled _Patent Rolls_, 16 James I., pp. 419, 420.
MacNevin (_Confiscation of Ulster_, p. 137, note) says the Irish had to pay £10 13s. 4d. for 60 acres. He does not state how he gets at this fact. The grants to the natives seem to have been at the rate of £1 1s. 4d. for 100 acres, which would work out at £10 13s. 4d. for 1,000. (See _Patent Rolls_, James I., passim.)
Rev. George Hill, _Montgomery MS._, p. 55, note. _Patent Rolls_, 14 James I., lxiii., 4, Dorso, and 15 James I., xll., 3, Dorso.
_Patent Rolls, Ireland_, 19 James I., Part II., xvii., 41.
Hill, _Plantation of Ulster_, pp. 220, 223.
Hill, _Plantation of Ulster_. See Sir J. Davies’ letter to Salisbury, 27th June, 1609, about Sir Neale. When the jury were found to be favourable to him they were dismissed by a trick. Davies recommends to have him tried by a jury in Middlesex, or kept till the colonies of English or Scotch may be planted in Tyrconnell.