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GENERAL HISTORY
I. A ſull and impartial Account of the Original of that KINGDOM; With the Lives and Reigns of an Hundred and Seventy-four Succeeding Monarchs of the MIL ESIA VN Race. The Original o the GAD EL IANS,
Their Travels into Span, and from thence into Ireland.
The Iriſh often aſſiſt the Scots againſt their Enemies the Romans and Britons, particularly their obliging the Britons to make a Ditch from Sea to Sea between England and Scotland.
An Account of the Courage and Hoſpitality of the ancient Iriſb, their Laws to preſerve their Rx cORDS and ANTIQUITIES ; with an Account of the Laws and CusToMs of the Tiſh, and their RoyaL ASSEMBLIES at 74 RA, &c.
A RE LATION of the long and bloody Wans of the Triſh init the "I whoſe | Yoke they at laſt threw off, and reſtored
LIBERTY to their COUNTRY,
| Which they preſerved till the Arrival of _ "HENRY II. King of ENGLAND.
E Collected by he Frm FE 0 F F R ＋ I E Pp: Tr Y 2 D. D. | | ; With his Preface ſhewing the Partiality, c. of the Engit ;/þ Hiſtorians, and others on that Subject
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Faithfully TRANSLATED from the Original IRISH Language, By DERMO D O CONNOR, Eſq; | | With many Improvements taken from the Pſalters of TARA and Cc ASHEL, and other 3 AUTHENTICK RECORDS.
Nlluftrated with aloe one Hundred and Sixty Cors of Arms of the ancient IRISH,
with particular GENE ALoG1Es of many Noble Families, curiouſly Engrav'd upon Forty Two CoPPER-PLATES.
ALSO, A curious Print of Bryen Boiroimbe, Monarch of Ireland, in 1027.
The THIRD EDñIT ION.
With an APPENDIX (not in the former Edition) collected from the REMARKS Of the Learned Dr. e Raymond, of Trim,
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Printed for B. CREAKE, and Sold by OL1vt PayNe, at Horace \ had "MW Round-Court, in the Strand.
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The following Recommendation was ſent by Dr. Finle ey, to JO Warburton, Eſq Somerſet Herald.
SIR,
Have read over Dr. Keating's 2h Hory f Ireland with a great deal of Pleaſure, and do think it as valuable a Piece of Avtiquity as ever was publiſhed, notwithſtanding what any malicious, ill-defigning Perſon, who would deny or defiroy all Antiquity that is valuable, may
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able Events and heroic Exploits of the rs Iriſh, among whom che Royal Anceſtors of your Lordſhip 21 have
The DEDICATION. _ have filled the Throne of Ireland for
twenty nine Succeſſions, (as appears
from the ſubſequent Genealogy of your Lordſhip s moſt Iluftrious Houſe) and with ſignal Bravery have repelled the Fovdſions of foreign Enemies, and
gave a freſh Supply of Life and Vi. gour to the Cauſe of their expiring Country.
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Iliam 0 Bryen, the
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Earl Orkney.
| William O Bryen, third Earl of Inchiquin , married _
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liers Knight, and Siſter to the Earl of Jerſey.
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Orrer | 3 O Bryen, 22 Lord
Baron of Inchiquin, created firſt Earl of Inchiquin, married Elizabeth,
Preſident of Munſter
Dermod © Bryen, fourth Lord
Baron of Inchiquin, married
Ellen, Daughter of. Sir Ed-
mond Fitz Gerald of Ballima- loe, Kught.
| Morrough O Bryen, third Lord Baron of Inchiquin, married Margaret, Daughter of Sir Thomas Culiack, MKnight,
of the Lord Fuſtices of Ireland.
Morough O bryen ſecond Lord Baron of Inchiquin, married to Mable, Daughter of Chriſto-
pher Nugent, Lord Baron of lvin.
| Dermod O Bryen, firſt Lord Ba-
ron of Inchiquin, married to
| Lady Margaret Daughter to
Donough, ſecond Earl of Tho- mond.
Morough O Bryen, fourth Son ro the laſt Prince of Thomond, married to Ellenor, Daughter of Thomas Fitz Gerald, called ' Knight of Valley.
Turlough © Bryen Prince of Limerick and Thomond, married to Joan Fitz Maurice Daxghter to Lord Fitz Maurice,
alias Vulgo Balbus, Lord Ba-
| I ron of Kerry and Lixnaw,
fourth Earl of Inchiquin, | married to the Lady Anne Ha» 1 milton, eldeſt Daughter and
[ Teig au Condaig O Bryen, married to Annabella Pourk, Daughter to Mac William.
ny, Dawughter to Loghlen Ladir Macnamara.
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Teige O Bryen, married Fyn- wola Daughter to Kenuedy
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married More Macnamara.
Donogh Cairbreagh O Bryen,
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Donough O Kennedy.
Daniel More O Bryen, vixit
temp. Henrici II. Xing of Caſhel and Limerick 30 Years,
to Mac Morough. | urlough-O Bryen, King of Munſter 5 Years married to Nariait, Daughter to O Fog- herta.
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Morough, Lord of Weſt
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Mahon O Bryen marricd the |
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Lorcan, King of Thomond /ix Years,
| Lag htna, Xiag of Thomond three Years. |
Corc, King of Munſter 17 Years.
Anluan, Prince of Munſter.
Mahon vixit circa ſeptimum
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Turlough, King ef Munſter 36 Years.
Cathal, King of Thomond auen Years.
| Aodh Caomh, King ef Tho-
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Conall, Prince of Thomond.
Eochaidh Baldearg, Xing of Mun- ſter 29 Nears.
Carthan Fionn, Xing of Tho- mond 45 Nears.
Bloid. King of Thomond 16 Tears.
Cas, King of Thomond 16 Tar..
| Conal! Each iluath, King of Mun-
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Luighaich Mean, King of Mun-
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, Aongus Cinaithreach, King of Munſter 30 Years.
Fearchorb, King of Munſter 16
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Oilioll Olum, Ring of Munſter 27 Tears.
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Herd to the Morid as an ixſallible Record, perfebtly free from Errors and Myftakes, for it is in ble "that the
true Origin of any Kingdom. or Peopie in 1 Mori cum be
Agſcover d at this remote Diſtance ; and it is certain that the Hiſtories of all Nations, the bigher then urè traced, the more
they are incumber'd with Fictioms, and aften with Relavions utterly incredible. But does it. follow that\the whole of theſe
Accounts is nothing but Fable, becaaſs ome Matters are re-
corded which carty an Av of. 1 F this: Nule be ad. mited, no Hiſtory or Chronicle in the' World ercepr hd inſpir d Writings, world e/cape.; for human Compuſitzons norwethfrandmng all n Care, e n 4 Rig zo lagfallibilisy.
{is well known that a. Wien N Ds. Keating 5. Hiern has been often attempted, bia without $1 hocefs';. nor
did the Deſign miſcarry from any Diſcouragements it met with, but bemg a Work of great Expence, and written in a
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PREFACE
erious l. 75 did nt come 70 Mati- Times. 10 the, „ is ſap pomeoient. of the No- bil. ang. Cemey of that Kingdon, who Hay the.Or1 inal in that Elen thas i ey thon eb. juſtly deferv'd a Tfanſla
arffecult ang
tian, and [Ye oh 1 70 fapport it; t was fare: Yeats ago when
T entertam Sy the firſt Thoug hrs of this Undertaking, and I communicated my ſelf to Dr. 7 Raymond of „
wy my eſig 2 45 222
fff s fe ngprrvat
WK; Country of —
ah E, CF W 55 ai / Af De 14 e, zo the World by way of Sul eription: Y undertook the Work aud funſh'd u, 3 have met «with Enchuirugemen 1 aw my Expeitation..' The \maſ noble Perbtages\in phe Kings dom of Ireland for Bib, Qualit, mud" Heurn « * ang
Amp rips
ent to 777 iſh e, -
of the high E em they 3 Hubre Orig mat, V
that they; Judg u it ro be ſo far from Bein 8.4% — 1
Legend uf Fables," that they ket; it as\the ehh Colle
of PAT Records-that poſſibly can be recover d from the Ruins of Time, to, ſupport the Honour of their Anceſtors, and
o gi the Morid a Juf Idea ow the. Ne of: 1h. Country where they were horn. xs 1
There is an Author, wike RD vinceats his e that has wh grear Ignorance and Emvy\attempied-toexplode and ridi-
cule the 2 ofthe great Dr. Keating, and to fligmaniſe the following Hiſtory as d ficlitioum and romantiol Compoſition. He has Leuze Bbeflowed ſome Flowers of his" Oratory in re-
preſenting the Weakneſs of nm Abilities, and my Incapacity
for the Work ] had 'undertaken.” -. What relates to my ſelf being intirely Perſinal, and weak) inſignificant $ re is be- low * Concern of the Reader and. my. 0wn, and therefore L. ſhall only in this Place anſaubr an 0 1977709 or two where- in he has dſpers d theCharatter of my ado: and vindicate the Reputation of this Hiſtory,” whoſe inrrinſict Worth, in the Opiniom of Men of Learning, is pla®d beyond the Reach of his Malice, though among the Injudicious, and before the publiſhing of thi Tranſlation, his Spleen had in ſome Mea- fare the 2 he deſired, W in a TROY We Prune” d me in wy ae che
2 2 and offer it
q FE" So Mee 2 LS A N — * 1 COLOR STAY I ASE REL IS FFF 7 k 2 2 car N — * Lake . CES WIS Eo er Fo NE II n 2 Pc Eos EE 7 8 Pads 0 WE - » x 3 2 * * 3
by the D AAA W vid Ho R.
Tbe Prefacer to the Memoirs of the; Marqui of Clanri- Pome promiſes, the W. orld in bis pompoeus File age a Learns ed Diſſertation, wherein. was inſetted a Digreſſion con-
raining ſeveral curious Obſetvations conceri the And
tiquities of Ireland. And be has Julfelld bits Mord ſo far 46 10 labour in the Proof thut there ar Mos eo Hutiquities in the Kingdom 0 „Ireland, hat their Rrcvrds are not Dow
ine, but the Invention a, Bardi wr. Drain 0c in
the Times of. I guorance and. Superſtition. imgoſcel upon' the World, and that the Chronicle of Dr. K eating ac alla on from thoſe | ſpurious amd romantic Cumpuſiums, whoſe Authority he knew t0 be mualid, and to whoſe Teflimony he
neve). gave any real Bebef. - Bu the Iuſolence of hit Genfure appears not only by defiroying in one Breath the Eumlenceof all the, national Chranicles of Iteland, but ag it proebed from«a
Perſin, who never had in hig Poſſefſron: one of thoſe ancient
Records, which- if he had, bis Ignorance and want of ill in
the Lan guage made. him. incapable is underfland. It ds certain that the Abilities of this\ Prefacer in the Iriſhi Tongue)
extends no farther than the\ Knowledge of a School Boy a
a ſinall Acquaintance with the — Charatters of that,
Language, and the 'utmoſt of bis Learning chn/afts 22 in turning over ſome fabulous Tracls of a late Date ſuch. as
Bruighean Chaorthuin, Eachtra an Ghiolla Dkeacain, Cath Fionntragh, Sc. which. by tbe ung was the.
true Reaſon why he never per form d'bis Premiſe. in the Warld.
of publiſhing a Hiſtory of Ireland from the anctent: Recott.; | for he was ſenſible bis Ignorance of the argnn Iriſh Language render d him incapable 10 fulfil it; and therefare
i is nd II ander that he. has traduced thoſe. venerable Anti-
quities as falſe and incredible Fiftions, having uo other way 10 make a tolerable Excuſe to thoſe Perſons," bum fot many
Tears he put in Expeclation of an Iriſh Hiſtory J coofefe ;
T have in one Senſe done him an irreparable Damage by publiſhmg this Tranſlation, , becauſe ve can no longer N
poſe upon his Friends by amuſing them with.an Eiftory of 13 and conſequently he muſs ſenſibly be affefted bythe Di/e
continuance of the many Favours he has received unum the Me- rits of that Proſpett. However it wut. alwaysbeefteens'd a malicious and ungenerous Practice, for 4 Man to. throw Aperſious upon the publick Records of 4 Nation, upom whoſe Charadler aud Reputation he has been fupported' for. many
Tears, and upon whoſe Authority he. 4 4 W W. his future Subſeſtence. CHAT
11 his Gal
RR FA E . i with great Confidence aſſerted by rhis Prefacer; that hat: is 1d ob Perpn in bi Age asan Anti thin our the Kingdom of Ireland; "when ir is moſt evident, and I call _ Thouſands ro uneff ir, bar there are Numbers of whoſe i is 20 wr anſcribe #ht ancient Ohyo- nioles, and Yo inffru8t-vbe Touth"in the . wit Language f vhe * 5 Au bes Malice i is equally conſpicuous where he
% Copy of Dr. Keating's Hi. 3 Catbir; Vince rt 16 MN
Dr. Lloyd, i 8 we hs toll with
of Iriſh Manuferip ts he found in Trinity College Dublin, makes no Mon » the Paalter of Caſhel
and Tara; from whence it is mfer , that there are no fuch
Records, and confequently 10 retend ro quote, them is an Impoſition and an Abuſe upon Mankind. In Anſiver to this
Charge it miſt be of, hat Dr. Lloyd was a profeſpd
Sanger ro the old Maiwferip 160 that Kingdom, as he gene-
uy" confeſſes m his Avekwoldy ia Britannica; and it i well known that there is a large Folio in fine Vellum fairly
or itten ome hundred Years age in Balimore in the Corm-
of Mearh, which contains ibe Hiftorical Tranſc crept 0 : Pfalters, abe Book of Ardina agh, and other valuable An-
auer. This choice Record is now preſervd in Trinity College, which I had the Favour of peg, and I kept it in
ney Suach for fix Months. I take this Opportunity to ex-
preſs my Grainade to the learned Dr. Anthony Raymond of Ten for the Favour he did me in entring into a Bond
of a thouſand Pounds, as Security for my reflormg this an- crent Mannſcrip! + after my Peruſal of is.
What this: Prefater dhſerves, concerning a Tranſlation of
Dr. Keating's Hiftory by the Procurement of the Right Honourable the Earl * Orrery, Grandfather 10 the Pre-
ſent Earl, is true in Fa, and P confeſs that this Chronicle
Was tranſlated by Timothy Roe O Connor, the Father
of Conn 0 Connor /ately deceaſed; but the R election made upon a, that the E mw ſup 2 7% d this Tranſlation out of Juſtice to the World, which he reſold not to abuſe with Lies and Fables, is a Charge 'as falſe as malicious, For the true Reaſon Tranſlation come abrvad, was 10 enhance the Value of it, and to make his Marnufers + + the greater Curigſity which would have laſt much of its Efteem if it had been printed and
pubhiſh'd. Thus
great | Thicmpb,
why that noble Lord refuſed to let that
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by the TRANSLATOR. Thus far have I followed and dettfed the Iguorauce aid Peeviſhneſs of this Writer, whoſe Emy and Diſappontt- ments have carried him imo manifold Errors, and into the loweſt of perſonal Refleftions. But ] leave him tu be corre d by the Torment of his own Mind, and the Contempt of his
former Friends, who juſtly ſenſible of his ungenerous Proceed- | |
ings, his invincible Malice, and his notorious want of Capa- city, have baniſhed him their Acquanitance as an inſumous Nene gad and wicked Libeller upon the Glory and Honour of his Natiue Country, _ rot. ey
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Bod of the Hiſtory, the Account I have recerved ſhall be com-
municated in this Place.
There has been a Diſpute among learned Men, whether the ancient Kings of Ireland of the Mileſian Race, wore Crowns of Gold after the Manner of other Nations. We are inform'd by Hector Boetius in his ſecond and tenth Book,
that the Kings of Scotland from the Time of Fergus to the Reign of Achaius, afſed a_plam Crown of Gold militaris
Valli forma; in the Form of a military Trench: And in is more than probable, that in this Practice they followed
the Iriſh Monarchs from whom they derived rbeir Deſcent and Cuſtoms. Aud this Conjecture is ſtill render d more rea>
ſonable by a Golden os ſuppoſed to be a Provincial Crown
the County of Tipperary, at a Place calld Barnanely by theIriſh, and by theEngliſhzbe Devil's Bit; iz was d;/tover'd
about ten Foot under Ground by ſome Workmen that were digging up Turf for firing. This _ or Crown weighs about
ue Ounces ; the Border and the Head is raiſed in Chaſe-
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Some of the Antsquarians of Ireland have imagin d, that this was the Crown worn by ſome Provincial Kings under the Command of Bryen Boiroimhe, who beat the Danes in /0 many Battels; others are rather inclined to believe that it belong'd to the Iriſh Monarchs before the Planting of Chri- {tianity z#: that Kingdom; and they give this Reaſon, becarſe
it is not adorned with a Crols, which, was the common
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with: a gad, Alas upon the "River Aule in Champaigne, 4 which he has ſettled in default of Iſſue from himſelf, upon 1 „ his Brother Captain Luke Comerford (an Officer of great 1051/8 Aſieem in be French & 2 and his Heirs Male, and in | if i 8 | default of fuch. Iffue-upon his Kin/man Sir John Comerford,
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on, or Kingdom, ought to give a true and impartial Account, not only of the Country and the Laws, but alſo of the Cuſtoms and Manners of the People: And — . therefore, having undertaken to deduce the Hiſtory of Ireland from the moſt diſtant Ages; I think myſelf oblig d to remove before. hand, thoſe falſe and injurious Repreſentations, which have been publiſh'd, concerning the ancient 1[#://5, who, for above theſe three thouſand Vears, have inhabited this Kingdom, as well as what relates to the old Engliſh, who have been ſettled here ever ſince the Reign of King HENRY II.
The Engliſh His rORIANS, who have fince that Time wrote about the Affairs of Ireland, have induſtriouſly ſought occaſion to leſſen the Reputation of both, as appears by Giraldus Cambren- fis, Spencer, Stainhurſt, Morriſon, Campion, and others, who, when they write of Ireland, ſeem to imitate the Beetle, which, when enliven d by the Influence of the Summer Heats, flies abroad, paſles over the delightful Fields, neglectful of the ſweet Bloſſoms, or fra- grant Flowers that are in its way, till at laſt directed by its ſordid Inclination, it ſettles itſelf upon ſome nauſeous Excrement. Thus the above-mention'd Authors proceed, when they write of this King- dom: What was worthy or commendable" in the J1riſþ Nobility and Gentry, they paſs over, take no Notice of their Piety, Learn- ing and Courage, of their charitable Diſpoſition to build Churches and religious Houſes, with the great Privileges and Endowments they confer'd and ſettled upon them: They omit to ſpeak of the Protection and Encouragement they gave to their Hiſtotiographers, and to other Men of Learning to whom their Liberality was ſo abounding, that they not only reliev d the Indigency of thoſe who made their Applications to them, but made publick Invitations ex- preſſly for an Opportunity to beſtow Gratifications upon Perſons of Merit and Deſert. They forget to mention their Virtues and commendable Acti- ons; but in their Accounts of this Kingdom, theſe Authors dwell upon the Manners of the lower and baſer ſortof People, relate idle and fabulous Sto-
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ties, invented on purpoſe to amuſe the Vulgar and Ignorant, and paſs over all that might be ſaid with Juſtice, to the Honour of the Nobility and Gentry of that Nation. 9888
It is certain that the old Iriſß before the Engliſß Invaſion were a generous and brave People, as appears particularly by the Trouble they gave the Romans, by the A ſſiſtance they afforded the Scots, and by obliging the Britains to erect a Wall of a vaſt Extent be- tween England and Scotland, to defend themſelves from the terrible Incurſions of the valiant fr; and though the Romans were oblig d to keep up an Army of fifty two thouſand Foot and three hundred
Horſe, to preſerve the Boundaries and to ſecure the Limits of their
Conqueſts, and likewiſe had in conſtant Pay a Body of twenty three thouſand Foot and thitoen hundred, Horſe, to protect the Sea- Coaſts and ther Parts ef the Country from the Hoſtilities of the Scots and Pigs, yet the Braycry of the ancient Iriſh broke through their Lines and Fortifications, and often defeated the whole Power of the Roman Army, and carried off immenſe Booty from the In- habitants, as Samuel Daniel an Enghſh Hiſtorian in his Chronicle expreſſly teſtifies. 5 ö
Cummac mac Cuillenain the K ing of Munſter and Archbiſhop of Cafhe!
gives an Account in his P/a#er, that the irreſiſtible Valour of the [rip and Picts, compell'd the Britains three ſeveral Times to give up
as a Sacrifice the chief Commander of the Romans, in Order to
op the Fury of their Arms and obtain their Freindſhip. Nor is
_ neduiced by the 1ri/p in the Reign of Vortigern, who found himſelf
eblig'd to rein Hlengiſt and his German Auziliaries to defend him from their Incuilions, as the ſame. Enghſp Annaliſt particularly aſ- ferts, The ſame Author relates that the Nomans, who call'd them-
ſelves the Conquerors of the World, were farc'd to creft fourteen
Brong Gariſens to proteft them from the Hoſtilitics of the Scots
and Pitts, who harafd; them with continpal Inroads, and cut off Numbers of their legionary Soldiers, notwithſtanding they Were
aſſiſted by the whole Power of the Britains from the Time of Ju- bus Ceſar, to the Reign of Valentiniun the third Emperor of that
Name, which conſiſted of the Space of five hundred Years. The Na-
mans loft the Command of Britain in the Year of our Redemption four hundred forty one; before which Time it was that the Con- teſt happen d between Theodgſius and Maximus, which obliged the latter 10 trapſport with him a confiderable Number of Britazns, into that Part of, France calld Armorics or Little Bri- tain; the Natives of that Country he-expell'd, and fixed the Britaius
in their Poſleflions, wine Poſterity are known in that Place to this
There are Authors in being of ſome Antiquity, who are very ſo- licitous to blemiſh the Character of the ancient Viſb, particularly $trabo in his fourth. Book aſſerts, that they were Cannibals, and led upon human Fleſh. In anſwer to this opprobrious Charge it is to be Obſetyd, that Haus had no Opportunities to inform himſelf of the Diſpoſition and Manners of the Jriſb, nor is there any Chro- nicle relating to that Nation, that gives the leaſt Encouragement to this Opinion, or any [Inſtance of this Practice to be found in the an-
cient Records, excapt of a Lady whoſe Name was Eithny Daugh-
ter te a King of Lainſier, that was .nus'd in the Country of Dei. fees in the Province of Mwfter, whoſe Folterers fed her with the Fleſn of Children in Order to make her the ſooner xipe for matri-
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monial Embraces. But the Reaſon of this it muſt be obſery'd was
to accompliſh a Prediction {which forctold that the Foſterers of this Lady ſhould be fixed in the Poſſeſſion of large Territories by the Prince who was to be her Husband, who proved to be Aueas mac Nadfaoich King of Munſter, as will be taken Notice of in the Body of the following Hiſtory. f | But is t his candid, to pronounce upon the Manners of a | whole Nation from one Example? and if ſuch Barbarity were conſiſtent with the general Diſpoſition of the People, is it not ſtrange, that this Inſtance of Eithny ſhould ſtand by it ſelf upon Record, which it would have been impertinent to mention, if the Body of the old triſh concur d in this ſavage Practice. The Teſtimony of this Au- thor therefore is not to be regarded, who aſſerts, that the eating of human Fleſh was a Cuſtom in that Nation, which is impoſſible to be proved but from one ſingle Inſtance, and even this Action was com- | mitted in the Times of Paganiſm and Idolatry, and upon a particu- lar Occaſion. The Authority of Strabo is well known by the Learn- ed not to be ſacred, nor will this Aſperſion affect the Humanity of the ancient Iriſß among ſober and impartial Judge. Never was any Nation under Heaven ſo traduced by Malice and Ignorance as the ancient Iriſo; Among other Falſhoods and Abſurdities Solinus in his twenty firſt Chapter aſſerts, that there are no Bees in the Ifland, that the Male Children re- ceive the firſt Food they eat from the Point of a Sword, and ſcandalouſly relates that the 77:4 waſh their Faces with the Blood of their Enemies whom they flew in Battel; and theſe Facts are poſitively laid down without Evidence or Quotation, and with no other Deſign than to ſtigmatiſe a Nation he hated, to all Poſterity. PVomponius a Writer of the ſame Authority ſpeaking in his third Book of the ancient Iriſh, gives them the Character of a Peo- ple Onnium Virtutum izuari, ignorant of all Virtues; Other Writers might be produced who fixed the ſame. falſe Imputation upon the Triſh, without the leaſt Certainty; which made the Judiciaus Cam- den, when he ſpoke of the Manners of the Iriſb, expreſs himſelf thus, with great Truth and Integrity): Harum commemoranus, dignos fide Teſtes nou habemus. We only mention the Names of theſe 1 on we have no Witneſſes to depend upon worthy of Credit ar Belief. The ſame Camden refutes expreſſly one of the Falſhoods of Solinus, who _ affertcd that there were no Bees in Treland, where he ſays, Anum eff tanta Multitudo' ut nam folum alvearthus | ſed etiam in Ar. borum & terre Cavernis reperiantur; ſo great is the Multztude of Bees in that Country that they: are ta b found not only in Hives but in the hollow Places of Trees and of the Earth. The Englifh Writers particularly have never fail d to exert; their Malice againſt the IJriſh, and repreſent them as a baſe and ſervile People. I ſhall here mention fome remarkable Inſtances of their Falſhoods, as they have tranſcrib'd them from: that ignorant and malicious Writer G:raldus Cambrenuſis, the great Patron of theſe mercenary and fordid Hiſtori- ans. This poſitive Writer aſſerts with an Air of Certainty, that the Kingdom of Trelaud paid Tribute and Chicfry to King Arthur, who obliged them to this Acknowledgment of Subjection in the Cit7 of Lean, in the Near of our Lord five hundred and nineteen, as Cam- piun obſerves in the ſecond Chapter of the ſecond Book of his Chro- nicle, Where he ſays, that one Giallamara was King of Treland at that Time; yet notwithſtanding the Author of the Nalicronicom and other Engliſ Writers of a later Date make mention of Giallamaru
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that there ever was a King of that Name, unleſs they are deccived
by the Analogy of the Sonnd, and intend Mortough More Mac Arca, who was Monarch of the Iſland in King Arthur's Time, and ſent ſix of his Brothers into Scotland, one of whom Feargus More Mac Arca, became afterwards King, and raiſed himſelf to the Sovereignty of that Country. It is certain that King Arthur himſelf fell by the Sword
of the Scots and Picts, and of equal Credit it is that the Feargus
abovemention'd was the firſt King of the Scots; though Hector Boe- tius a fabulous Writer labours to evince the contrary, and to prove that twenty nine Kings ſat upon the Throne of that Kingdom be- fore Feargus wore the Crown. He relates likewiſe with the ſame
Certainty, that Feargus the Son of Fearaghar, King of Ireland, was
the firſt King of the Scotiſ Race, which is an Aſſertion without
Support; for never was there a Monarch of Ire/and of the Name
of Fearaghar, and therefore Feargus Mac Fearaghar was not King of Scotland, as Hector Boetius confidently lays down. It is certain
that Mortoug h More King of Ireland was pleaſed that his Brother Feargus Mac Arca ſhould wear the Crown of Scotland, but upon
Condition to pay Homage to Mortough, who in the Annals of J[re-
land is call d Rex Scotorum King, of the Scots, to intimate that he poſſefs d the Sovercignty over the two Kingdoms of Scotland and
_ treland, and therefore was a Prince of a ſuperior Note than to ſub-
mit or confeſs himſelf a 'Tributary to King Arthur.
Speed in his Chronicle with greater Juſtice obſerves that the King
of Ireland ow'd no Manner of Chiefry or Tribute to King Ar- thur, but that both Princes engaged in a League Offenſive and De-
fenſive againſt all their Enemies. This he calls Fus Belli ſocialis, the Right f a ſocial War, in the ſame Manner as the Treaty is
concluded between the King of Spain and the Emperor; not that it was intended as if the Emperor was to pay a Tribute to the King of Spain, or the King of Spain was under any Acknowledgments of _Lheifry to him, but they were bound mutually. to ſupport one ano- ther againſt all Attempts. The ſame Friendſhip and Stipulation was eſtabliſh'd between King Arthur and Mortough, they were equally obliged to defend each other, but under no Teſtimonies of Submiſſi- on either Side. And the Truth of this Equality between the two
Kings is abundantly confirm'd by the Teſtimony of Nubigenſis, who
in the twenty ſixth Chapter of the ſecond Book of his Hiſtory has
this Expreſſion concerning the Kingdom of Ireland; Hibernia nun- en ſubjacuit externæ Ditioni, Ireland never lay under a foreign
Power; and Cambrenſis himſelf agrees with this Opinion in his forty
fixth Chapter, where he thus ſpeaks to the ſame Purpoſe ; Hibernia ab
initio ab ommi alienarum Gentium imcurſu libera permanſit ; Ireland from the: beginning remain d free from the Incurſion of 7 Nati ons; from whence it is evident that neither King Arthur nor any other Power received Tribute or any ſervile Acknowledgment from the Kingdom of Ireland, untill they ſubmitted to King Henry the Second: Nor is it to be ſuppoſed that the Britains could lay. Claim to any Authority over that Ifland , ſince the hardy Romans could never make her tributary, ſo far from
that, that inſtead of loſing her Liberty, ſhe not only preſerv'd her own Freedom, but was a Safeguard and Protection to other Nations,
and was a Scourge to the Romans and other Oppreſſors, wherever ſhe diſplay d her Banners. 1. | At 1 | The
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The learned Camden gives this Teſtimony in his Britannia, Cum ſuum Romani Imperium — * propagaſſent, multi proculdubio ex Hi- ſpania, Gallia & Britannia Hic ſe receperunt, ut iniquiſſimo Romano- rum jugo colla ſubducerent : When the Romans had extended their Empire on all Sides, many no doubt out of Spain, France and Bri- tain removed into Ireland, in Order to avoid the moſt unjuſt Toke of the Romans. From this Evidence it is to be collected, not only that the Romans never extended their Conqueſts into Ireland, but that the miſerable People of the neighbouring Countries found a Re- fuge from the Oppreſſions of the Romans among the invincible 1rifh, who were never ſubdued 3 whoever ſo much envies the Glory of the ancient Jriſh as to aſſert that they were under the Power of the Romans, let him have recourſe to the ſame judicions Writer, who ſays, Ego Animum vix inducere poſſum ut hanc Regionem in Ro- manorum Poteſtatem ullo Tempore conceſſiſſe credam ; It will be the utmoſt Difficulty to make me believe that the Country of Ireland was at any Time under the Dominion of the Romans. . Cambrenſis (an inexhauſtible Fund of Falſhood) injuriouſſy relates, in his ninth Chapter, that the IJriſs Men ſucceeded in their Brother's Bed, and married the Women who had been be- fore married to their Brothers, and that Tythes were never paid to the Clergy in Ireland till the Arrival of Cardinal John Papirion from Rome, which will appear to be a Forgery and an Impoſition upon Mankind, not only in the Body of this Hiſtory, but in this preliminary Vindication now before us. The ſame Author ſpeaking in his ſeventh Chapter of the natural Curioſities of Ireland, writes, that there is a Fountain in the Province of Munſter which inſtant- ly makes the Hair of the Head grey when it is dipp'd into it; and | that there is another Fountain in Ufer of a quite contrary Quality, 5 that upon wetting it reſtores the Hair to its genuine Colour; tho upon a Survey there are now no Footſteps, not even in the Traditi- ons of the People, remaining of ſuch Wells, nor were they in the Days of Cambrenſis, who impoſes upon the World with his fabu- lous Rarities, and amuſes his Readers at the Expence of his own 1 Credit and Veracity. Equally worthy of Belief is what he relates 1 in his twenty ſecond Chapter, that when the Gentlemen of Ireland, who had been at Variance, were willing to become Friends, they uſed the Cuſtom of Kiſſing the Relicks of Saints in the Preſence of a Biſhop, as a ſolemn Teſtimony of their Reconciliation: But what follows is monſtrous and incredible, that they took a Draught of each other's Blood. This is boldly aſſerted with his uſual Effrontery' and without Proof or Foundation; for if this Practice had been re- ceived among the Tr:ſh, how come the profeſſed Antiquaries and Hiſtorians of the Kingdom to be ſilent and take no Notice of it, who were bound to record fuch a Cuſtom, if it had been uſed, under no leſs Penalty, than upon Omiſſion of being degraded and deprived of their Patrimonies? So that this Romantick Writer is to be ſtript of the Character of a true Hiſtorian, and to be placed among the vain Authors of Fables. In his tenth Chapter he entertains us with a notorious. Falſhood, and gives a Character of the Iriſp, that they are a penurious and poor ſpirited People; his Expreſſion is, Eſt autem Cens bæc Gens inhoſpita; The Iriſh are an inhoſpitable People. But Stamburſt gives a quite contrary Teftimony, and ſufficiently confutes this Scandal; his Words are, Sunt ſane Homines hoſpit aliſſimi, neque illis ulla in re magis gratificari potes quam vel ſponte ac voluntateeorum Do- mus frequentare ; The Iriſh are the moſt hoſpitable Men, nor cun you 287 b oblige
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F aur om Accord and without lruit ation This Cambrenſis has perverted a Fact of great Conſequence in the
a we Hiſtory, where he. aſſerts poſitively, that it was the Queen of N
h who ran away from her Husband with Diarmuid Nanga/l g of Leinſter; but the univerſal Teſtimony of the Treſh Antiqua- ies is againſt him upon this Subject, who agree unanimouſly, that that lakcivious Lady was the Wife of Teirnan O Ruorke, King of Bre- 7 that her Name was 'Dearbhurgill, and ſhe was Daughter to Mor- wh Mac Flom King of Meath. He writes that the Rivers Suir, coir and Bearow flow out of the Mountain of S/iabb Bladhma, N is a manifeſt F alſhood eaſie to be difproved; for it is evident that the Bearow riſes out of the Eaſt Point of Shabh Bladbma, and that Fivire and Heoir proceed out of the Eaſt Point of Mount Aildiun, otherwiſe call'd. Hau Bearnain in the Territory of Cuirnin. He abuſes the World in the twenty fifth Chapter of his Hiſtory, by ſay- ing that the Ceremony of Inauguration in making Kings of the Fa- mily of O Dainill was perform'd in this Manner; Al the Inhabi- tants of the Country were aſſembled upon an high Hill, there they kill'd a white Mare, whoſe Fleſh they boiled in a great Cauldron in the middle of à Field, when it was ſufficiently boiled the King was o ſup up the Broth with his Month, and cat the Fleſh out of his * hout: the A ſſiſtance of a Knife or any other Inſtrument but with his een omy; then he divided the reſt of the Fleſh a - Aſſembly, and afterwards bathed himſelf in the Broth. This is i&ion not to be parallel'd, compounded of Ignorance and Malice, — directiy oppoſite to the Teſtimony of the Iriſßh Antiquaries, o have deliverd to us an expreſs Deſcription of this Ceremony. heſe Writers inform us that the Jriſb Kings of the Line of G Donill fat upon the Summit of a Hill ſurrounded with the princi- pal Nobility, and Gentry of their Country; One of the Chief of them advancing towards him, preſented him with a firait . white Vand, and upon rhe Delivery of it he uſed this Form: Revive, O King, the Command. of thine ewn Country, and diſtribute Juſtice im- partially umong thy Subjects. The ä — of the Rod was attend- ed with an excellent Moral, for it was ſtrait and white, to re- ommend Uprightneſs in Judgment, and to intimate that a Prince Id xuze with clean and unſpotted Hands, ſhould keep them white neyer ſtain them with the Blood of his People. So that the onfidence of Camprenſis is the mote aſtoniſhing, who conceals ſo ra- tional and laudable a Cuſtom, and introduces in the Room of it a and abominable Practice, that has no Foundation in Truth or in * but is the Effect of inveterate Malice, which urges him b. into Abſurdities and monſtrous Relations, which derive more es upon the Charafter of his | Hiſtory than upon the ancient 47 4 at all Hazards he reſolves to traduce. It is certain that is foal Family has produced Perſons of the firſt Order for Reli- n and Pixty, and many of this illuſtrious Line have retired: from the World, and ended their Days in Privacy and devout Contem- plstions, particularly St. Columbe, whoſe Memory among rhe Jriſb Vill be ever ſacred. Not is it to be ſuppoſed that the Nobility of eland, "who were a polite and civilized People, would permit the an f . Douiſi to Make uſe of this abominable Cuſtom, had they JC diſpoſed; and it is unjuſt to charge this Family with ſuch a favoge ue ſince they were Princes of ſttict Piety and exem-
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PREFACE. vii tent with the Religion they profeſsu, and ſavotir'd ſo ſtrongly of Pa. \ FW gan Superſtition. This therefore is another Falſhood of Cumbrenſts, which ought to deſtroy his Oredit for ever among Lovers of I ruth, and brand him with an indelible Mark of Infumy to dll Poſte- *rity. RE SY aha . . is one Spencer, a Writer of a Chronicle, Who in the thirty third Page of his Hiſtory aſſerts with great Injuſtice, that Ep frid King of the Protombi, and Bagar King of Buglanu, exerciſed a ci- vil Juriſdiction over the Kingdom of Ireland, but he brings no Evidence to ſupport this Opinion; and as it appoſes the authentic Records of the Kingdom, it muſt be manifeſtly falſe: Beſides it is well known that the ZEmpliſh Authors themſelves are "forced to (confeſs that tlie Favont deſtroy'd all the publick Monuments and Chronicles of that Nation, and (defaced or melted down 4ll the Coihs before their o. Time, with a Deſign that there ſhould no certain Memorial re- main of the Tranſactions of former Ages. And Daniel agrees that the principal Part of the Britiſß Antiquities are loſt, as Gdus com- plains in che fourch Part of his Miltery. gs. 1 remember that Rider a Latin Lexicographer (in treating of tlie Word Brigaine) is of Opinion that Hritannin dots not receive its Derivation from: Brutus, becauſe it ſhould then with more Pro- priety be call'd Brutia or Brutica; and this Etymology would ſcarce thave eſcaped the Obſervation of Julius Cæſur, Chrmalius Tacirus, '"Diodorus Siculus, the learned Bede, or other Writers, wtio have Rad -occaſion frequently to relate the Tranſactions of Nritain, aud yet make no mention of this Derivation. Spencer therefore Thotild ra- ther have ſearch'd into the Name of his own Country, and attempt- ed to clear ſome dark and incredible Pages in the Exgiiſß Hilto- 38 ry, than to take upon him to write of the Affairs of Treland, which 8 it was impoſſible he could ever come to the Knowledge of. But 5 what is "moſt ſarpriſing in this audacious Writer, is, that he ſhould undertake to fix the Genealogies of many of the Gentry of Trelan. and pretend to derive them originally frem an Engliſbß Extraction. He particularly takes Notice ef ſeven Families of Note in that Kingdom, the Family of the Mac Mzhons, Swyttes, Shyhies,” Mac- numara c, Cæuanag his, Tuathallagh's, and Byrns; and ſays that from Urſa, Fitz Urſula, or Bears (Siinames that are in * ) Aeſcend- ed the Mac Mahons of Ulſter, and that Beure and Mahon ate of the ſame Signification ; ' and conſequently, that the Mic Mahins aforeſaid
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1 My Anſwer to this Aſſertion is, that it is as reafonable, by the Etymo- 5 logy of the Word, that the Mac Mahoms of Thumond, or the O Moho- 90 ms of Cairbry ſhould deſcend from thence, as the Mar Mubhuus of Ul. fer: And fince it is certain that thoſe of Thumond or Cairbry did not deſcend/ from thence, it may be concluded that the Mar Mahons of Lier are not deſeended from the Honſe of 'Ur/a, or Fits. Urfula in -Enpland,” but are litieally derived from Colla du Chriorh 80a ck 5h Dwbblein Son ef Cuirbre Liffeachair Monarch of Trelud, of tliè Royal | Line of Heremon. CELLS 2 5 8 3 * "ol 8 | — The Swynies he would Rke wife perſuade his Readets are origi- nally of an Engliſʒi Deſcent, and are derived from a 'Houſe call'd Suh in that Kingdom; but this Aſſertion' Has no more Foundati- on than the former, for it may be queſtion'd whether there ever was ſuch a Family in England, and there is not an” Antiquary in Ireland but knows and can demonſitate that the Seyler are-a ge. nuine Branch of the Race of | Heremom, OY NID
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to be true, yet the Family of the Byrne are not derived from the
by their ſucceſſive Genealogies that they are lineal Deſcendents from Collavaiſb, and that Shighagh Mac Eaghduin, Mac Allaſaruim Mac
r The Family of the Shyhies this Writer pronounces of a! Engliſh Extraction, but this is a Falſhood ſo eaſily evincd, that it appears
Donill, (from whom deſcended the Mac Donills of Scotland and 8 ) was the great Anceſtor to whom the Mac Shyhies owe their Original. Lt 36414 EEE, | With the ſame Freedom and Ignorance he deduces the Family of the Macnamaras from a Houſe in England call'd Mortumer, but
there is no Manner of Analogy in the ſound to prove this Opinion,
and it is certain that this Family are the genuine Offspring of a Per- ſon call'd Cumara, from whom they were diſtinguiſhd by the Title of Clan (which ſignifies the Children of) Macnamara. The proper Sirname of this Tribe is Sil Aodha, that is the Iſſue of Aodha, and they came originally from Caiſin Mac Caiſs Mac Conilleagh- luath of the Poſterity of Eiuir or Hiberus.
This confident Author attempts to prove that the Sirnames of the Byrns, of the Tuathalaghs and the Cavanaghs, were firſt brought out of Britain into Ireland. But the Evidence is very inconcluſive, by
which he ſupports this Conjecture, for he is deceived by the Simili-
tude of Sound, which made him believe that theſe Names were de-
rived from Words in the Britiſo Language; for inſtance, the Word Brin, he ſays, is the ſame as Woody in Engliſs; but ſuppoſing this
Word Brin, but from a Perſon whoſe Name was Branmuztt.'' The
Word Toll, he ſays, ſignifies Hilly, by which means the Tuathalaghs from thence muſt derive their Name, as he affirms. But notwithſtanding
Toll and Hilly we allow to be the fame, yet Tol and Tuathall are vaſtly different. Beſides it is well known that the ancient Family of the Tua- thallaghs are deſcended from a Perſon whoſe Name was Tuathall, and therefore this Suppoſition of Spencer is falſe and ill grounded. This Writer is equally abſurd in his Conjecture relating to the Family of
the Cavanaghs. The Word Cavanagh, he ſays, ſignifies Strength ot Strong, and from hence he declares that the Famliy of the Cavanaghs are
derived; but he ſhould have conſider'd likewiſe that the Word Cavan ſignifies a Perſon of a Mild and good natur d Diſpoſition , and the Tribe of the Cavanaghs deſcended lincally from Daniel Cavanaugh
Mac Dermond ne Ngall, to whom this Name of Diſtindtion was
given becauſe he had his Education in à Place call'd Cillcaouan, in the lower Part of the Province of Leinſter; which Tribe, according
to their Sirname, are derived of the ſame Race with the Kinſalaghs, But
of Meath was the Diviſion that juſtly fell to Slainge Mac Deata : I |
that they are of an Exgliſb Extraction is ſo far from being true, that they are originally Iriſb, as expreſſly appcars by their Genealogies, and ate deriv-
ed from Charles the Great King of Ireland. It is ſurpriſing to me how |
Spencer could advance ſuch Falſhoods, as carry with them their own Con- futation., He was a Writer that was unable to make himſelf acquainted with the Iriſß Affairs, as being a Stranger to the Language; and beſides being of a poetical Genius, he allowed himſelf an unbounded Licenſe in his Compolitions, It was the Buſineſs of his Profeſſion to advance poetical Fictions, and clothe them with fine inſinuating Language in Order to
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not come at the Truth. | A vert. 7 2 | | ike en Stainhurſt is likewiſe: juſtly to be cenſured for his Miſrepreſentati- ons, in relating the Affairs of Ireland. He aſſerts, that the Counrty
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Territory that lies in the Neighbourhoqd | of | /3/peagh, and did not.
extend farther till the Time, of Tat hal Teachtmar, He ſays likewiſe, that the River of Hainge (chat paſſes through the Middle of the Pro- vince of Leinſter and runs to Wexford) received its Name from, Hlainge, and therefore it appears to him that the Country of Meath was the Diviſion he obtained from his Brethren ; and for a. Reaſon. equally invalid, he declares that Dube Shaimge (otherwiſe, call'd Dion Riogh, ſituated upon the Bank of Bearow between Cabarlagh and Lagh- lin, upon the Weſt Side of that Riyer) had that Name from the Slainge abovementioned; whoſe Manſion Houſe, he aſſerts it was, and the Place where he died But theſe Notions are the genuine Off. ſpring of his own - Brain, for he was ignorant of the Antiquities of Ireland; he had no Opportunities of conſulting the ancient. Records, and therefore he muſt be a Stranger to the Concerns and the Tranſ- actions of that Kingdom. 50 WWP and Inquiry into the Chronicles of that Nation, when he. ſays, that Noſſinacruin lies in the Province of f Aſunſter ? ang. ſo ußterly unac- quainted was he with the Diviſion of the Kingdom, that he poſitively aſſerts that Meath was a Province, when Cambramſis (whoſe Ignorance or Malice cartied him into notozious Falſhoods) never gives it that Appellation, but agrees ſo far with the publick; Chronjigjcy; as to call it only a Diviſion. of the Country taken ont of the other; Provinces, This Srainhunſt with great Confidence divides the Kingdom of Ire- laud into two Parts, the one inhabited by. Engliſh, the other poſſeſs d by Engliſh and Iriſh ; and with uncommon Kffrontery aſ- ſerts, that the meaneſt Singallian in Ireland would eſteem it a; Cor- ruption of his Blood ta marry his Daughter into the beit Families among the Iriſh. The Words he uſes in his Chronicle axe, Culina- rum onmium ultimus qui in Anglia Provancid habitat, filiam- ſuam nabiliſſima Principi Hibernorum in Matrimonium nam daret. The weaneft Cuillincach that lives in the Engliſh Province would nat give his Daughter in Marriage ta the maſt noble Prince among the Iriſn; but where is the Fidelity of this Author, when it is evident that many Nablemen of the firſt Quality, who, are originally of Exg/:/a Extraction, have married into Iriſſi? Noble Families without any Dimi- nution of their Honour, or Blewiſh to their Paſterity. Among many In- ſtances that might be offer d, it will be ſufficient to mention the Earl of Kildare, who married into the Family of Mac Carty Neagh. and O Neill, and by that Means is related to many Gentry in the Kingdom; The Earl of Ormond contraged into the Family of Q Bryen and Mac Gully Patrick ; the Earl of Deſinend is allied to the Tribe of Mac Carthy More, and the Earl of Conecht to the Family of O Ruorke ; not to (peak particularly of Viſcounts, Barons and Gen- tlemen of Eng/:fþ Deſcent, and as nobly extracted as any Cuillincach in Fingall, who have not diſdained to marry among the Original Jriſp, and upon all Occaſions to. cultivate an Alliance with them.
But in Order the more effectually to invalidate the Teſtimony of Stainhurſt, that falſe Hiſtorian, it muſt be obferv'd that he was the moſt improper to write a Chronicle of Ire/az4, becauſe he was over- run with Prejudice, and ſet to work by Perſons who naturally ab- hor'd an Jriſbman, and urg'd him on to miſrepreſent them at all Ad- ventures as a worthleſs and ignominious People. This Author was
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he teceived his Education) he conceived an inflexible Averſion tothe Iriſb,
which he diſooverd upon his Return, when he undertook, without
any "Abilities or propet Materials, to write the Hiſtory of Ireland.
This doughty Performance he was big with for ſome Years, and by
the help of Spleen and Ill. nature, was at laſt deliver'd of to the gteat
Joy of his Engliſh Patrons, who bought him off from his Honeſty
with large Bribes, arid are much 'more induſtrious to ſtigmatiſe the
Iriſh, than to deliver the Memorials of their own Nation uncorrupt to Poſtetity. As one notorious Inſtance of the Hatred this Author bore to the People of Ireland, he remarks that the Cuillineach's of Fin-
gall were highly to blame for not expelling the Trib Language out
of that Part of the Country, when they drove out the Inhabitants, and forꝰd them to look ont for new Settlements; and the more to expreſs his Virulency he obſerves, that notwithſtanding the great En- comiums beſtowed upon the Ir;fþ Language, whoever makes himſelf acquainted with it, will ſoon diſcover the Rudeneſs and Incivility of thoſe who ſpeak it. 2 What can be the Deſign of theſe Reflections but
to intimate that the Zng/ſp, when they got the Sovercignty of the
Kingdom into their Hands, ought to have extirpated the 1rifþ Race, and like Pagan Conquerors have rooted out the very Name and
Language from off the Earth? Whatever People carry their Arms
into another Country and ſubdue it, if they are Chriſtians, are con-
rented with the Submiſſion of the Inhabitants, and with tranſplant-
ing Colonies of their own Country to ſettle among the Natives:
But the 'PraQtice of the Pagans was, after they had reduced a Coun-
try to Obedience, to extirpate the native Poſſeſſors, and compel them
to look out for new Abodes in foreign Countries. Thus, according to
the Barbarity of this Author, ought the Engliſh to have carried on their Conqueſts, to have ſhaken Hands with the Principles of Hu- manity and Religion, and put all the Ir; to the Sword. A Con- queror who has any Sentiments of Chriſtianity about him, never ſup- preſſes the Language of the Country he overcomes, and in this Man- ner the Engliſh were treated by William of Normandy, when he made a Conqueſt of that Kingdom ; he permitted the People to re- tain their Language, by which means it is continued by the Inha- bitants with ſome. Alterations to this Day. But Hengiſt the Saxon, when by the Succeſs of his Arms he became formidable in England, compell'd the Inhabitants to forſake the Country and tranſplanted
People of his own in their Room; by which Means the native
Language was extirpated, and the new Colonies introduced another of their own. This Pagan Conqueror acted conſiſtent with the cruel Sentiments of Stainhurſt, who laments that the Ir;fþ Language was not baniſh'd the Iſland, which could not have been done unleſs the Inhabitants who uſed it had been expell'd, which had been an Act ſo barbarous and wicked, that no Politician but Hainhurſt would have ſuggeſted it, and no Conqueror unleſs a Pagan would have put it in Execution. Such therefore we perceive was the irreconcileable Hatred of this Writer to the Nation of the 1r;ſh, that the Princi- ples of Humanity and Religion, and Law of Nature and Nations, are to be violated, to deſtroy the native Iriſß, and in the general Maſ. ſacre the People and the Language are to be rooted out.
This Writer among other Reflections condemns the Judges for their Methods of adminiſtring Juſtice, and cenſures the Phyſicians of Ireland as unskilful and of the meaneſt Capacity in their Profeſſion.
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Theſe! Aſperſions are unpardonable in one, who! had? not the leaſt .
Knowledge of the Iriſo Language, and by Conſoquence muſt be 3 Stranger to the Method they uſed in their judicial Proctedings; he
muſt be ignorant of the Laws and .Cuftonis of the Country, nor is he able to form a judgment of the! Abilities of one Profeſſion! of Men in it. This was the Caſe of Starburſt, who neither was able to read or underſtand the Jriſß Tongue, and might with great Juſtice
be compared to a blind Man, who finds fault with the Colour of a
Piece of Cloth, when it is impoſſible he ſhould have any Idea of Colours, or know the Difference between Black and Biue. The
ſame improper Judge is this Writer to pronounce Sentence upon the
Arts and Sciences, the Laws and Cuſtoms of the Iriſp, when he underſtood not a Word in the Language, could not read their Books, nor converſe
with the learned Profeſſors in their own' Tongue.
_ Equally to be exploded is the Teſtimony of this Writer, when he
paſſes a Cenſure upon the Muſicians of {reland, and contemns them as ignorant of that divine Art, and Strangers to that Harmony which
belongs to it. With what Face could Stainhurſt aſſert this Falſhood;
who had no Notion of Muſick, of Harmony, or Diſtinction of Sounds, and had no Capacity to judge of the Notes and Excellency of that Art. But Malice and Prejudice have betray d him into Ignorance to all impartial Judges; for it is well known to all who have convers'd
in the leaſt with the ancient Chronicles of Ireland, that noi People in the World had a better Taſte of Mulick, and took more Delight, or
employ'd more of their Time in the Pleaſures of it. Their Laws, their Syſtems of Phyſick, and other Sciences, were poetical Compoſi- tions, and ſet to Muſick, which was always eſteemed the moſt polite
Part of Learning among them: This Author therefore is raſh and
ignorant in his Cenſures, when he traduces the Iriſb as a rude and
unharmonious Nation, when their Genius peculiarly inclined them to Muſick, in which they became excellent Proficients, and improved the Art to a wonderful Advantage. I admire that he had not upon this
Occaſion conſulted Giraldus Cambrenſis, who gives a different Charac-
ter of the Triſh, and particularly applauds them for their Aecompliſh-
ments in Muſick. In the nineteenth Chapter of his Hiſtory he has this
Expreſſion: In muſicis ſolum Inſtrumentis commendabilem mwuenio Gen-
tis iſtius Diligentiam, in quibus pre omni Natione quam vidimus in. comparabiliter eſt inſtructa; 1 ſind the commendable Diligence of that Nation to be particularly employ'd in muſical Inſtruments, with which:
they are incomparably furniſh'd, above any other Nation that I have ſeen.
But Stamburſt overlooks whatever tends to raiſe the Character of the Iriſh, and throws Scandal and Invective in an abundant manner; and even in his Spleen excceds the Falſhoods of Cambrenſis himſelf, who
had more Modeſty than to oppoſe Truth fo notoriouſly evident, as that the 1ri/þ are naturally Lovers of Muſick, and have a polite Taſte of that Art. The fame Author beſtows a great Encomium upon the Iriſh Muſick in the ſame Chapter: Tam ſuavi Velocitate, tam diſpari Pari- tate, tam diſcordi Concordia, conſona redditur & completur | Melodis : The Melody is completed and render d agreeable. by ſo ſweet a Swiftneſs, by ſo unequal a Parity of Sound, by ſo diſagreeing a Concord. From theſe Citations, taken from a Writer who renounc'd all Partiality in Favour of the Iriſh, it appears that what Stramburſt advances concern- ing the Iriſß Mufick, is the Effect of his Malice, and of the ſame Cer- tainty with the Character which he gives of the Muſicians of Ireland, whom he calls a Set of „nd Harpers; whereas if he had inquired at the time when he wrote his romantick Hiſtory, he would have found,
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me for one Muſician: that was blind, there were twentywho had their perfect Sight, and could ſee clearly into the Malice of his rotten Heart, when he undertook! to vilify and traduce the Iriſb, and tepreſent them in It ought to be obſery'd/in this Place, that S7aimburſf was for three unanſwerable Reaſdus utterly unqualified to write a Chronicle, and therefore he had no Right to the Title of an Hiſtorian, nor ought by Men of Learning to be eſteemd as ſuch. In the firſt Place he
not allow him to read and examine the ancient Chronicles . of the Kingdom, or to arrive at the leaſt Knowledge of thy Genealogies or
Years would have permitted him to peruſe the publick Records of the Kingdom, he had not the leaſt . with the 1ri/þ Language, in which all the memorable Tranſactions, and the Pedigrees of the Inhabitants were originally written. And thirdly, he had renounced
ing a Perſon of an ambitious Nature, and ſolicitous of Applauſe, thoſe who urg d him on to engage in this Deſign courted him with large Gifts and Promiſes of Advancement, upon Condition he would blacken the Iriſni Nation; ſo that his Integrity was corrupted by Bribes, and therefore he was diſabled, unleſs he would betray his Fruſt and diſappoint his Patrons, to write the Truth, and be juſt in his Repre- fentations; it is certain that Stamburſt was faithful to thoſe who im- ploy'd him, and the Hiſtory which he drew up fully anſwerd their Ex- pectations; buit he lived to repent of the Injuſtice he had been guil- ty of, and when afterwards he enter d into holy Orders, he promiſd by a formal Recantation publickly to revoke all the Falſhoods he nad recorded in that Work; and for thar Purpofe (as T am eredibly inform'd) a Writing was drawn up in Order to be printed in Ireland and laid before the whole World; bat, if it was ever publiſhd, I could never find a Copy of it, and therefore am apt ro believe that it was by ſome Means or other utterly ſuppreſs d. If this Recanta- tion had ſeen the Light, among infinite Miſtakes that would have been corrected, his Hiſtory I am perſuaded would have been purged of this ignorant Blunder, where he fays that the Ii, when they are fighting, cry out Pharo, Pharo, Pharo, which Word, with great
_ Stupidity, he imagines is derived from Pharaob King of Egypt; whereas the Word is the fame with Faire, Faire, which in the <4 gliſs ſignifies watch, watch, and imports as much as is intended by the French, who cry out Garda, Garda, when they apptehend their Friend, whom they value, is in imminent Danger. Doctor Hanmer likewiſe, in his Chronicle, has been guilty of great Miſtakes; He aſſerts that one Hart holinus was the Commander of the Mileſians when they firſt came into Ireland; Partholanus is the Name
there was more than the Diſtance of ſeven hundred Years between the coming of Part holauus and the landing of the Mileſians in Tre.
1 Noah's Flood, and it was a thouſand and eighty Years after the Flood 1 when the Sons of Milgſus fet Foot upon the Jriſb Shore: And ag 1 the great Camden: juftly obſerves, more Regard is to be paid to the
Wi old Records of the Kingdom, than to the Teſtimony of Hammer,
11 whoſe Authority is far from being infallible. Detur ſud Antiquitate
1 Venia, was the ſaying of that learned Antiquary, whofe Opinion it
1 was that the Antiquities of Ireland are much more valuable, and of
1 I more
Vas ſo young wien he undertook this Work, that his ears would
the People whoſe Hiſtory he propoſed to write. Secondly, if his
that Impartiality which is effectually neceſſary to an Hiſtorian; for be-
he means in this Place, and it is evident by the Iriſi Chronicles, that
land. Partholanus diſcoverd the Coaſts three hundred Years after
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more Authority than thoſe of any other Nation in the World; .
When he ſpeaks of Ireland in his Britannia he has this Expreſſion;
Non immerito hær Inſula Ogygia perantiqua 4 Plutarcho dic ta fuit;
This Iſland was not without Reaſon call d the aucient Ogygia by Plutarch; and the Reaſon he gives is, 4 profundiſima enim Antiquitatis Me- mori Hiſtorias ſuas auſpicantur, adeo ut pro illis omnis ammium Gen- tium Antiquitas ſit Novitas ; for they begin their Hiſtories. from the moſt profound Memory of Antiquity, ſo that the Antiquity of all other Nations, in reſpect of them, is mere Novelty. From whence; it may be concluded reaſonably, that the publick Chronicles of Jre- land are of unconteſted Authority, and ſufficient to overthrow the Teſtimony of Hanmer, or any modern Writer -whatſoeyer., 11 There are ſome; Writers, who aſſert expreſſiy that Frota the King of Denmark was King of Ireland at the Time when Chriſt was born; and among the reſt Haumer gives into this Opinion; but this
Aſſertion has no Foundation, for the ancient Records of the King-
dom obſerve that Criomt han Niadhnar was the Monarch of the Iſland at the Birth of Chriſt; and Hanmer, who was an Engliſhman, and never ſaw nor underſtood the Chronicles of Ireland, could neyer know.
what particular Prince had the Soyereignty of the Iſland at that Time;
and no Wonder, when it was out of his Power to diſcover, who was the King of Britain at ſo great a Diſtance of Time as the Birth of Chriſt ; Daniel, Gildas, Rider, and many other Authors, who have attempted to write the Hiſtory of Britain, confeſs that they can come
at no Certainty concerning the "Tranſactions of that Kingdom before the Arrival of the Saxons and Normans ; which gave Occaſion to the
learned Camden to obſerve, that he could not abſolutely determine ſo much as from whence the Country of Britain received its Name,
and therefore is contented to give us his Conjecture among other Wri-
ters: from hence I infer, that if Hanmer and other Eng/i/h Hiſtorians found it impoſſible to diſcover, who reigned in the Kingdom of Bri- tain at the Diſtance of ſo many Ages as the Birth of Chriſt, it is Pre-
ſumption and Ignorance in him to aſſume a Right of aſſerting poſitively
that Froto the King of Denmark was the Monarch of Ireland when our Saviour firſt appear d in the World: It was impoſlible for him to arrive at any Knowledge of the Iriſß Affairs, and therefore what he ſays is no more than Conjecture, and his Authority of no Ac- COunt. 1 * x | |
Nor is this Writer to be leſs cenſured, for declaring, that St. Pa- trick had no Right to be call'd the 1r;þ Apoſtle ; that he was not the firſt who planted the Chriſtian Faith in the Kingdom of Ireland, neither was he the firſt who diſcover'd St. Patrick's Cave in the Iſland of Purgatory. Theſe Actions he ignorantly aſcribes to another Pa- trick, an Abbot, who lived in the Year of Chriſt eight hundred and fifty. But there is no Foundation in Truth for this Aſſertion; and to prove this, the Words of St. Cæſarius, who lived ſix hundred Years after the Birth of CHriſt, and a hundred and fifty before Patrick the Ab- bot was born, are of great Conſequence: This Author, in the thirty
eighth Chapter of his Book, entitled, Liber Dialogorum, has this Ex-
preſſion: Qui de Purgatorio dubitat, Scotiam pergat, & amplius de penis Purgatorii non dubitabit; Whoever doubts of Purgatory, let him go to Scotland, and he will no longer queſtion the Pains of Pur- gatory. From hence it appears evidently, that St. Patrick's Cave, in the Iſland of Purgatory, could not be originally diſcover'd by the Abbot abovemention'd, but, by St. Patrick, who is juſtly call d the Apoſtle of the Jriſh; for to lay otherwiſe would be to confeſs that Patrick the Ab-
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D N EKA CRE bot found this Cave two hundred and fifty Vears before he was born; ſince it is evident, that Ciſurius. ſpeaks expreſſly of Patrick's Purga- tory two hundred and fifty Years before that Abbot lived, and con- ſequently that Cave received its Name from St. Parrick the Apoſtlt of the Triſh. Beſides the ancient Records and Traditions of the King- dom agree unanimouſly, that St. Patrick originally found out the Cave in the Ifland of Purgatory, which is Authority of Weight ſuffici-
ent to over. rule the Opinion of Hanmer, who from his Averſion to the Iriſh advanc d this Falſhood, and that the Ii might have the leaſt
Title to Favour in that Cave...
Another Obſervation of equal Credit is made by this Author in his
twenty fourth Page, where he declares, that Fionmm Mac Cumbaill was originally of Br:ztsfþ Extraction: In this Aſſertion he is oppoſed by the ancient Records of Ireland, which pronounce him of 1rifþ De- ſcent; that he came from Nuadba Neacht King of Leinſter, who
g from the royal Line of Heremon, Son of Mileſius King of
ain. With the ſame Falſhood he aſſerts that the Iriſh Authors make Men-
tion of one Gialla Marra that was King of Ireland, who, he ſays, was Son to the King of Thumond. I ſhall content my ſelf with what has been already faid with regard to this Fiction, and take no further Notice of it, ſince it carries its own Confatation. The Account he gives in his Chronicles of the Battel of Fionn Tragha, I ſuppoſe was deſign d to ridicule the Authority of the Ir; Records, and to perſuade the World that their Teſtimony ought to be eſteem d of no Weight, ſince it is evident to
the meaneſt Capacity, that the Battel of Finn Tragha, tho' it be re-
lated in ſome of the Chronicles of Ireland, yet is no more than a poe · tical Fiction, deſign'd to entertain and divert the Reader, and not re- lated as a Matter of Fact; which Anſwer is ſufficient to deſtroy. the Credit of what he writes of ſome other Tranſactions which he has recorded, particularly what he ſpeaks of Fianna Eirionn, &c..
Among other notorious Falſhoods of this Author, he aſſerts that Slainge the Son of Dela, the Son of Loich, was King of Ireland thirty Yeats; but this is contradicted by our authentick Chronicles, which determine, that one Year was the whole Extent of his Reign.
Nor is he to be believed, when he declares that the Archbiſhop of
Canterbury exerciſed a ſuriſdiction over the Clergy of Irelaud from the
Time of Auguſtine the Monk, ſince the Chronicles of Ireland obſerve
expreſſly, that the Archbiſhop of Canterbury never claim'd any Au- thority over the 1riſþ Clergy till the Reign of William the Conque- ror ; and even then he did not pretend to a Power that extended far- ther than the Clergy of Dablin, Wexford, Waterford, and Cork, who deſcended originally from the Danes, and were called Normans, from their Affection to the People of Normandy, and put themſelves un- der the Juriſdiction of the Archbiſhop of Canterbury, out of an in- flexible Averſion to the [rzf, and to introduce a foreign Power among them. Beſides, there is good Authority to believe that that Part of the Clergy acknowledg'd no Subjection to the See of Canterbury, but during the Government of three Archbiſhops, Radolph, Lanfranc, and Anſelm : So that what Hanmer advances in this Place, that the Ir;/p Clergy were under the Archiepiſcapal Sec of Canterbury, from the Time of Auguſtine the Monk, is a Falſhood as igno- rant as malicious, and deſeryes no Credit. + OG Nor is he to be bclieyd, when he writes that Morouęb the Son of Coghtan, was King of Ireland in the Year of our Redemption one thouſand and ſixty ; for it is evident beyond Denial, that Roderick O Connor was the Monarch of the Iſland at that Time, which was four
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Vears before the Hugliſß landed upan the feaſts. He. aſſerm lik wis WW that Comhig ball. the. A bbot of Hęauuc Hir Was: porn - in G Br t aux, which is intitely a Fiction of his ©wn-5: ſon it appears; 18 hg, Acaguar of his Life, that he was horn af 4 Place in the Province, of Halter gall g Vail na Ruigbe, and that he deſrended fromthe; Fami fh D ma Ruis bes in that Country 3 but this Writer had a Neſian in making this Abbot of Britiſi Extraction, which muſt be dete gad goſpr it maſt be obſerv'd. that the pious. Comſg hall was the Founder of the Abby Beannchuir in the Province of U{ffer, which vas the Mother ef all the Monaſteries in Europe. The ſame religiaus Perſon railed a, Monaſtery in Holes neat Maſi Cheſter eall'd; Ranger, fy that. if this doughsy Hiftgrian could perſyade the Weld that Compata/t was! of a Britiſt Deſcent, whatever Foundations he laid, and Structates he ereged. would contributę to the Glory of the Engliſß Nation, and the 1ryſp would be rob d of the Hononx of them. The ſame inyeterate Enemy of the Jriſb alſexts farther, that #ar/4 Faolan, and Lian. were illegir timate Children of the King of Leinſter; but this is a malicigus Per- verſion of Fact, fox the Chronicles of Irelaud {peak, cxpreilly, that they were the Sons of Ae Branain ' King of Mwy/ters, Were I to enumerate all the Errors ariſing either from Malice or Ignorance which Hanmer has committed in his Chronicle, I ſhould inlarge, chis Preface
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. Diet, and neglets the fragrant Flowers, and a more delicate Nouriſh- * ment. In like Manner Barclay deſcribes the mean and contemptable 6 Abodes of the loweſt of People, and paſſes over in Silence the ſtately Palaces and magnificent Structures erected from Time to Time by the
Nobility and Gentry of Treland, equal to, if not ſurpaſſing, in Gran-
deur and Expence, the moſt coſtly and ſplendid Fabricks of the neigh- 4 bouring Nations, This Partiality is ſufficient to overthrow the Teſti- ”* mony of this Author among learned Judges, and to invalidate his Eyi- 1 dence, when he attempts to deriye a Scandal and Reproach upon the State and Magnificence of the ancient Ih.
Fi Moriſan has given himſelf wonderful Diverſion, and fancies he delight- 2 fully entertains his Reader, by writing ig a ludicrous Manner of the 5 Cuſtoms and Manners of the {ri; but notwichſtanding his Flucacy of Style in the Exgliſßi Language, his Pen contradicted his Knowledge, and he was feaſible, that under a humotous Way of Expreſſion he diſguiſed the Truth, and impoſed Fables in the Room of it. Such a Writer is not worthy of the Name of an Hiſtarian, who attempts to give an Account of the Inhabitants of any Country, and yet con- ceals whatever is praiſe-Worthy and honourable relating to them, and with the moſt abuſive Partiality gecords only what gives them a mean and deſpicable CharaQter, and tends to reproach and leſſen them in the Eyes of Poſterity. This Author had conceived the wtmaſt Prejudice and a moſt cordial Deteſtation of the YViſb, and was urg d on to write by profeſsd Enemies to the Glory of that Nation; and therefgre it is not to be wonder d that he deſcribes them as a baſe and contemptible People. It were an eaſie Matter, were it conſiſtent with the Rules of
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aue Hiſtory, "to take among the Dregs"of any Nation,” and enlarge-up-
on the Rudeneſs and Ineivilities of their Manners; but this is not the Buſineſs of an Hiſtorian, who ſinks beneath his proper Character when he ſtoops to ſuch low Akts and pteſtitutes his Pen upon ſo infighifi- cant a Subject. Take a Survey of the obſtinate and - unruly Temper of the common People in Srotlana, the ungovernable Diſpoſition of the Engliſ# Popùlace, the ptoud and in ſolent Peaſants in France, and the tordly Mechanicks in Flanders, the Vanity and. Pride of a poor Spaniard, and Booriſhneſs of the Germans; go into /tah, and inquire into the moſt leatned and polite Parts of Zurope, and it would ſwell Volumes
to deſctibe the rade Manners and Cuſtems of the meaner Sort, tho' it
zs below tlie Dignity of an Hiſtorian to take Notice of them, ſince it diſ-
covers the Malice and Partiality of the Writer, and tends tather to corrupt
than to improve Mankind. Whoevet attempts to treat in general of the Manners of à Country, and deſcribes only the Diſpoſition of the unci- vilized Populace, without giving an Account of the Nobility and Gentry, ought not to retain the Name of an Hiſtorian; but of a Libeller and Pamphleteer, who conceals the Truth to' oblige the Party that employ him, which was the Caſe of Moriſon, Campion, and ſome others.
Nor is the learned Camden free from the Imputation of Partiality, when he ſpeaks of the Inhabitants of Jre/and. - He aſſerts, that it is a
_ Cuſtom'in-that Country that the Prieſts with their Wives and Children
have their Dwelling in the Churches conſecrated to divine Uſe, where
they feaſt and riot and play upon Muſick, by which Means thoſe holy
Places are deſecrated and uſed to profane Purpoſes. In Anſwer to this Charge it muſt be obſerv'd; that this irteligious Cuſtom was introduced after the Reformation by Henry the eighth King of England, nor has it been practiſed for many Ages but in the moſt uncivilized Part of the Kingdom, and by a fort of Clergy, who pretend to be exempt from the Authority of Eccleſiaſtical Superiors, and plac'd beyond the Reach
of Church Diſcipline. Giraldus Cambrenſis has given a ſatisfactory Ac-
count of the Piety and Devotion of the Ir; Clergy, and ſufficiently refutes this Falſhood of Camden. The Expreſſion he makes uſe of is this, Si qui Rehgion: ſe conſecrant, religioſa quadam Auſteritate ſe con- tinent, vigilando, orando, & jejuniis ſe macerando; if any dedicate gious Auſterity in Ne and praying and mortifying themſelves by Faſting. And the ſame
Religione Commendabilis, & inter varias quibus prælucet Virtutes,
Caſtitas prærogati va præminet; The Clergy are ſufficiently commenda- ble for their Religion, and among other Virtues that are perſpicuous in
them, their Chaſtity is moſt eminently diſtingui ſp d. From whence the Partiality of Camden appears, by charging the whole Body of the 1r:þ
Clergy with that indecent and profane Cuſtom. Stainburſt, who was
never partial in fayour of the 1r;/þ, has this Expreſſion in his Hiſtory of Ireland, written in the Year one thouſand five hundred and eighty four: Hibernici etiam Magna ex parte ſunt Religionis ſumme colentes ; The People of Ireland a” the moſt Part are of a very religious Diſpoſiti- ractice could not be juſtly charg'd upon the Clergy of Ireland, but upon ſuch of them, who denied the Authority of their Superiors, and indulged themſelves in many rude and unjuſtifiable Actions without Controll or Reſtraint. This Eng/;h Antiquary aſſerts / farther, that the People of Ireland
made no Account of Matrimony, except ſuch as lived in Cities and in the civilized Part of the Kingdom. This is an Accuſation not only falſe | and
uthor, in his twenty ſeventh Chapter, ſpeaking particularly of the [r;ſp Clergy, gives them this Character, E/# autem Clerus ſatis
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and invidious, and highly reflecting upon the Nobility and Gentry, Who
are Natives of the Iſland, but upon the Engliſn, who have ſettled and obtained Poſſeſſions in the Country. I confeſs indeed, that ſome of the meaneſt Sort are of a wild and untractable Nature, and like the Popu- lace in all Parts of the World, are ungovernable in their Appetites, and not to be reſtrained by any Laws, either Civil or Eccleſiaſtical. It is an unpardonable Inſtance of Partiality therefore in Camden, to condemn the whole Body of the [r:fþ Nobility and Gentry, who live in the Country remote from Towns and Cities, as if they followed wildly the Rules of Luſt without any Reſpect to Matrimonial Con- tracts; ſince it is evident that a few only of the baſer Sort are guilty of this abominable Practice, and indulge themſelves in ſuch beſtial Li berties. It is Barbarity for a whole Nation to be aſpers d for the Guilt of a few, and thoſe the very Dregs of the People. I pay a great Re- ſpect in other Caſes to the Memory of Camden, and confeſs the Value of his Writings, but I cannot acquit him of Prejudice in laying this ſavage Cuſtom to the whole Nation of Ire/and, who are, generally ſpeak- ing, apolite and virtuous People, and juſt to their Matrimonial Engage- ments, and deſerye not to ſuffer for the ſake. of a few, who, like the Vulgar in all Countries, allow themſelves unchriſtian Freedoms, and fly in the Face of the Laws which attempt to correct them. With regard to what is-charg'd upon the [r;/þ by other Writers, that they very religiouſly obſerve their Matrimonial Contracts for the Space of a Year, and then think they may lawfully - diſſolve them, it is ſuffi- cientto reply, that this Opinion prevailed only among the rude and un- poliſh'd Part of the People, who deſpiſed the Diſcipline of the Church, and denied the Authority of their Eccleſiaſtical Superiofs.
Campion, in the ſixth Chapter of the firſt Book of his Hiſtory; with great Injuſtice remarks upon the Iriſp, that they are ſo weak in their fudg- ments as to believe implicitly whatever is declared to them by their ſpiritual Guides, whom they obey without Reſerve, and who have it in their Power to impoſe upon and lead them which way they pleaſe; and to ſupport this Charge he relates a fabulous Story to this Effect. There Was, ſays he, a very covetous Prelate in Ireland, who had the Art to impoſe upon his People, and make them believe whatever he pleaſed, however monſtrous or incredible. This Biſhop upon a Time wanted a Sum of Money, and in Order to obtain it from his Congre- gation, he tells them, that ſome Vears ago St. Patrick and St. Peter had a very violent Conteſt about an Iriſh Gallaglach that St. Patrick deſign d to introduce into Heaven: But St. Peter oppoſed him, and in his Paſſion ſtruck St. Patrick with his Key, and broke his Head; So that he - deſired their Contribution; by which Means the Peo- ple were prevailed upon to part with their Money, and the Biſhop ob- tained his Purpoſe. This is the Story related by Campion, who like an Actor upon the Stage impoſes upon the World with Fictions that could not poſſibly have any Foundation in Nature; for can it be ſup- poſed that a Chriſtian of the meaneſt Capacity would believe that St. Patrick, who died above a thouſand Vears ago, and St. Peter ſhould quarrel and come to Blows, and that St. Patric ſhould have his Head broke by St. Peters Key; as if the Key had been made of Iron, which every Body knows to be nothing Material, but implies only, a Power of binding and looſing? Beſides, this fabulous Writer, to ſhew his Ac- compliſhments, confeſſes in his Epiſtle prefix d that he ſpent but ten Weeks in compiling: his Hiſtory of Ireland, which is ſufficient to con- vince impartial Judges of the Merits of his Performance, and how im-
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* —— ix was in ſo ſhort a time to ptovide Vatter for tho Work zor if the terials were ready to his Hand; to diſpoſe them into Method and
Fotm, and to judge of the Truth of Facts, whichin his Hurry he wrote at all Adventures, and inſolently calls his Book The Hiftory of Ireland. There was an Engi Prieſt, whoſe Name was Good that taught a School in Limtrict in the Year of Chriſt one thouſand five hundred ſixty ſix, and upon the ſtricteſt Survey and Enquiry gives this Account of the People of Irelmd. Gens het * vuliua, * mix apilis,, animo fortis, & elata, ingenio acris & briliroſa, Vite La boris & Frigoris, & Inedie patiens, Veners inuulgens, benigna, Amore tonſtans, Inimico implacabilts, Credulitate levis, Con- tumelie & Iujuriæ impatiens They are a 1 ws 2 of great Diſpoſition , of a
and warlike Genius, prodigal of Life, patient of 2 of 4. —
Hunger, f an amprous Inclination, exceeding kind and hoſpitable to
lacable to their Enemies, eaſy
Stranpers, conſtant in their Love, — A 7 Injury. StamPurſe gives
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them the following Character: In Laboribus ex omni hominum genere
putientiſſimi, in rerum anguſtiis rato fratti : In Labours the moſt
.. Tp Tract to % 2 | One John Davis, an Exgliſb Author, takes upon him to cenſure the
patient of Mankind, and ſeldom deſpairing under the greateſt Diff-
Laws and Uſages of Irelanu, particularly he rematks how unjuſt the Cu-
ſtotms arc, that the Brother of a deceaſed Perſon ſhould ſucceed in the
Inheritance of the Eſtate before the Sen; that the Eſtate of a Family
ſhould be divided equally among the Brothers, and that the Law will accept of a Satisfaction in Money and Cattel from the Murderer when
a Perſon is killed. In Anſwer to the Complaint of this Writer, it muſt be obſerv'd', that the Laws and Cuſtoms of Countries generally differ,
and are variable in their own Nature, as the Exigency of Affairs requires; and likewiſe that theſe three Cuſtoms were not originally admitted in-
to the Body of the 1rifþ Laws, but were introduced when the Na- tives fell into civil Diſſentions among themſelves in every Part of the
Kingdom, ſo that they were killing and plundering one another with the utmoſt Cruelty without Mercy or Diſtinction, for which Reaſon
acquainted with the -1riſþ Laws and Conſtitutions, conſider d wiſely what fatal Conſequences might follow, and with great Prudence thought fit to
_ eſtabliſh the three Cuſtoms abovemention d; firſt, they thought
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fend them and lead them into the Field: for if the Son were to ſuc-
ceed in the Command of his deceaſed Father, it muſt ſometimes un- avoidably happen that he will be an Infant, or of too raw Years to de- fend the Family from the Attempts of their Enemies. Secondly, the Quſtom of dividing Eſtates among the Brothers could not well be avoid- ed in Ireland, for otherwiſe he Rent of every Country Would be inſuf. ficient to pay the Number of Soldiers that was neceſſary for its Defence; but when tlie Lands were divided, the Brother who!had the leaſt Lot, would be as able to defend his Country as the Chieftain himſelf: And thirdly, it was neceſſary that Money or Cattel ſhould be admitted as Sa- tisfaction for a Perſon kill d, becauſe if the Murderer could find Means to eſcape into the next Country, he avoided the Hands of Juſtice, and it was impoſſible to puniſh him; and therefore the La ordain'd , that the Friends of the Deceaſed (ſhould receive Satisfaction from the Rela- tions of the Murderer, which was a Sum of Money, or a Nu
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their Lawyers, whom they call Brehons ; their Hiſtorians, "ao dere their Exploits; their J hyſicians, their Pocts,. 25 they call Bards; aud Muſicians, and all of 4 certain an eweral Fami ; that js, ihe Brchous were of one Tribe and Name, 1 Hein, 45 another, and o of the reſt; who 1 their Children and , n their ſevergd Arts and Profeſſions, and they. are. always th 25 Surcelſ ars, dc um they leave the Eſtates. and Revenues allign'd thew. From this Tei; wony of Camden, it appears, that the 3 2 PFOPST, 1 — to improve and preſerve the erat Arts, 20 Sc iences 3 farthey :
ed a ſuitable Maintenance and Proviſion, for cyery 1 = — cell d in the Art which he particularly profeſs'd ; and the Artiſt fo. gif. tinguiſh's had Authority and J . gyer 1 Members of the ſame Art or Profeſſion, and was principally eſteemed, and mora honourably provided for by the Patron that retained him. Sg that theſe Salaries and Revenues being ſettled upon the learned Profcſſors; Qcca; ſion d an Emulation, and provok'd the Induſtry of all the Youth: in the Kingdom; who, incourag d by the Rewards ppoe d endeavour'd with the ytmoſt Application to arrive at à Perfection in their ſeyexal Studies; and this Eltabliſhment among the Triſt preſery d the rare of orice and Art in a flouriſhing Condition, inſomuch that the neighbouring Nations were ſupplied with Profeſſors from thence, who inſtructed the Youth, and propagates their Knqwledge over the greateſt Part of the Weſtern; World. And the Nobility and Gentry of {re/ard. did not only confer a handſome Maintenance and Support upon their learned Profeſſors; but it was/eſtabliſh'd, by the Laws, that the Lands and Pa- trimonies belonging to them ſhould be eſteam di dgcred, and not be vio- lated, and they were allowed as a Refuge and. Alylum to all who fled thither for Sanctuary, So that When many fiercg Wars fell out between the Engliſh and Iriſp, the Learned and their Scholars were! exempt _ Plunder and: gniligary Executions, and. aging, Calamities of
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Whos reads the ſixth Chapter of. the wah Book of the Com: | mentaries of Julius Ceſar, will find chat their Sages and Men, of Learn- ing, who. went from other Parts of . Europe. to teach in France, were indulg'd the ſame + oc.” A perhaps Were originally vopied from the Practice of the {rj/þ. This Introduction would be tog tedieus and
rolix, ſhould 1 dee reſſgct upon all the Malicious and ignorant
alſhoods related by Eugliſʒ Writers, in what: they call their iſteries are for molt of them are eee eee chat they
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XViii PREFACE | 1 ible ir was in ſo ſhort a time to ptovide Vatter for the Werk 3 0r if the Materials were ready to his Hand; to diſpoſe. them into Method and Fotm, and to judge of the Truth of Facts, which/in his Hurry he wrote at all Adventures, and inſolently calls his Book The Hiftory of Ireland. There was an Eng Prieſt, whoſe Name was Good, that taught a School in Limerick in the Year of Chriſt one thouſand five hundred ſixty ſix, and upon the ſtricteſt Survey and Enquiry gives this Account of the People of Ireland. Gens bet corpore valida,. & imprimir agilis, animo fortis, & elata, ingenio atris & briliroſa, Vite prodiga,. La. boris & Frigoris, & Inedie patient, Veners indulgens,. Hoſpitibus per-. benigna, Amore tonſlans, Inimico implacabilis, Credulitate levis, Con- tumelit & Iujuriæ inmpatiens They are a 5 robuſt and of great Agility of Body, of a flout and magnanimous Diſpoſition , of a. ſharp and warlike Genius, prodigal of Life, patient of Labour, of Cold and pe: Hunger, of an amorous Inclination, exceeding kind and hoſpitable to | Stranpers, conſtant in their Love, 3 to their Enemies, eaſy to bees, impatient of Reproach and Injury. And Stainhurſt gives them the following Character: In Laboribus ex omni hominum genere patientiſſimi, in rerum anguſtiis rato fratti: In Labours the moſt patient of Mankind, and ſeldom deſpairing under the greateſt Diffi- cities. © 21 [15 9535 #90 One Fohn Davis, an Engliſh Author, takes upon him to cenſure the Laws and Uſages of Trelanz, particularly he remarks how unjuſt the Cu- ſtotns are, that the Brother of a deceaſed Perſon ſhould ſucceed in the Inheritance of the Eftare before the Son; that the Eſtate of a Family ſhould be divided equally among the Brothers, and that the Law' will accept of a Satisfadtion in Money and Cattel from the Murderer when a Perſon is killed. In Anſwer to the Complaint of this Writer, it muſt be obſervd, that the Laws and Cuſtoms of Countries generally differ, and are variable in their own Nature, as the Exigency of Affairs requires ; and likewiſe that theſe three Cuſtoms were not originally admitted in- to the Body of the Iriſ Laws, but were introduced when the Na- tives fell into civil Difſentions among themſelves in every Part of the Kingdom, ſo that they were killing and plundering one another with the utmoſt Cruelty without Mercy or Diſtinction, for which Reaſon the Nobility and Gentry of the Ifland, who were beft acquainted with the Trip Laws and Conſtitutions, conſider d wiſely what fatal Conſequences might follow, and with great Prudence thought fit to eſtabliſh the three Cuſtoms abovemention d; firſt, they thought pro that the Eſtate ſhould deſcend to the Brother, in Order that 12 | mily might be ſupplied with an able and experiencd'Commander to de- fend them and lead them into the Field: for if the Son were to ſuc- ceed in the Command of his deceaſed Father, it muſt ſometimes un- avoidably happen that he will be an Infant, or of too raw Years to de- fend the Family from the Attempts of their Enemies, Secondly, the Quſtom of dividing Eſtates among the Brothers could not well be avoid- ed in Treland, for otherwiſe che Rent of every Country would be inſuf. ficient to pay the Number of Soldiers that was neceſſary for its Defence; but when the Lands were divided, the Brother who had the leaſt Lot, would be as able to defend his Country as the Chieftain himſelf: And thirdly, it Was neceſſary that Money or Cattel ſhould be admitted as Sa- tisfaction for a Perſon kill'd, becauſe if the Murderer could find Means to eſcape into the next Country, he avoided the Hands of Juſtice, and it Was impoſſible to puniſn him; and therefore the Law ordain'd, that the Friends of the Deceaſed ſhould receive Satisfaction from the Rela- tions of the Murderer, Which was a Sum of Money, or a Number of
Cattel,
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upon the 1ri/ſh, Laws for thoſe Cuſtoms, the two former 1:46, Conſtitution could not poſſibly ſubſſiſt 158 and they were ahr ſolutely neceſſaty to the Suppoxt of the publick Peace; the laſt, I am inform d, is now practiſed in England, and eh Davis might have look d at home, and firſt have reformed the Laws of his own. Country, before bs „ to cenſure and reflect upon the inoffenſive Cuſtoms: The learned Camden, while he writes of Ireland, has this Expreſſion: Hahent enim hi Magnates ſuos Furidicoc quos Brehones vacant; ſugs Hiſtaricos qui res geſtas deſcribunt ; Madicaſ, Poętas, ques Bardas vo. cant & Citharados, & certæ & ſmgule Fam/ie, [cilicet, Brebons unius Stirpis & Nominis, Hiſtorici alterius, &. {i 4 cætſeris, qui ſuos Libe. res [ove Cognatos in ſua qualibet arte erudiumt, & 1775 weeeſſorgs ha. bent quibus ſingulis ſua Treat apnea ſunt : Theſe their Lawyers, whom they call Brehons ; their Hiſtarians, wwho deſcribe their Exploits ; their Phyſicians, their Poets,. whom. they call Bards, aud Muſicians, and all of a certain and ſtueral Family ;. that is, the | Brehons were of one Tribe and Name, the Hiſtorians of another, and ſo of the reſt; who inſtruct their Children aud Relations in their ſevergd Arts and Profeſſions, and they are. always their Succe(ſprs,1 to when they leave the Eſtates and Revenues aſign d them. From this Teſti⸗ mony of Camden, it appears, that the Iriſb inſtituted a proper Method
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to improve and preſerve the liberal Arts and Sciences ; for hey appoint; =
ed a ſuitable Maintenance and Proviſion, for cycry. Ferſon, ho cx- eld in the Art which he particularly profeſs d; and the; Artift, fo giſ-
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tinguiſſrd had Aurhorizy and Juriſgition ayer the, ſeveral; Members of
the ſame Art or Profeſſion, and was principally eſteemed, and more honourably provided for by the Patron that retained him. Sꝗ that theſe Salaries and Revenues being ſettled upon the learned Profeſſors, occa: ſion d an Emulation, and provok d the Induſtry of all the Vouth in the
Kingdom; who, incourag'd by the Rewards annex d, cndeayour'd wich the
ytmoſt Application to arriye at à Perfection in their ſeycral Studies; and this Eſtabliſhment among the 1z:/4, preſery d the State of Learning and Art in a flouriſhing Condition, inſamuch that the neighbouring Nations were ſupplied with Profeſſors from thence, who inſtructed the Youth, and propagated their Knowledge over. the greateſt Fart of the Weſtern World. And the Nobility and Gentry f Traland did not only confer a handſome; Maintenance and Support upon their learngd
Profeſſors; but it was cſtabliſh'd. by. the, Laws, that the Lands and Fa-
trimonies belonging to them ſhould be eſteem di Jacred, and not be vio- lated, and they were allowed as a Refuge and Aſylum to all who fled thither for Sanctuary. So that when many fiercg Wars fell out between the Exgliſo and Irifſp, the Learned and their Scholars were exempt
Ne Plunder and milicary Executions, and never. falt the Calamities of
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War. 12111 bilgos 2d 11D ogg ag UDO 10 43! | Whoever reads the ſixth Chapter of the ſixth Book of the Com-
mentaries of Julius Ceſar, will find that their Sages and Men, of Learn- ing, who went from other Parts, of Europe to tcach in France were indulg'd the ſame Privileges, which perhaps were originally gopigd: from the Ptactice of the Id. This Introduction would be tog tedigys.and
olix, ſhould I particylarly reflect upon all the malicious and ignorant
alſhoods related by Engliſʒ Writers, in What they call their Hiſtories of Ireland; for moſt of them are ſo monſtrous and incredible, chat they
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PREFACE. VV cattywith'therh' their own Confutation; and it ought farther to be con- | ſiddet d, that whatever theſe Writers deliver in Diſpraiſe of the Iriſb Na- tion, has no othet Authority than the bare Relation of Perſons, who bore am inflexible Hatred to the Ii Name, and were ignorant of | the Tranſactions of that Kingdom, by Reaſon of their Unskilfulneſs in = -- the Language, and by Conſequence muſt unayoidably be miſtaken, and impoſe 'Falſhoods upon the World, al - Camden,' who bears the principal Character among theſe Hiſtorians, has very blind Information to ſupport what he obſerves of the Affairs of Treland. He has not taken the leaſt Notice of the, Conqueſt of the Tu- atha de Dananmns, who held the Sovereignty of the Iſland one hundred and nincty ſeven Years; anderroncouſly fixes the firſt Invaſion of Ireland to be that of Ceſar, which the publick Chronicles of the Kingdom never men- tion under the Name of a Congueſt, tho they give a particular Account of it: So that the Deſign of this Engliſß Antiquary could be no leſs than to throw a Blemiſh upon the tr „both ancient and modern. Beſides, it muſt be obſerv'd, that this Writer had but a very ſhort Time to ſearch into the Chronicles of Ireland; he continued in the Country but the Space of a Year and a half, and then return'd to England: His Hiſtory, When he left Ireland, was ſo far from being finiſh'd, that a Year would not ſerve to complete it, and he was obliged to leave it to the Care of his Companion, whoſe Name was Bertram Verdon, who was as un- 36quainted with the genuine Chronicles of Ireland as himſelf. Upon the whole, it is left to all impartial Judges to conſider, whether I have unjuſtly - cenſuted Cambrenfis, and tfie Engliſß Authors, who followed his Steps, and copied his Falſhoods, and to pronounce impartially,: whe- ther my Hiftory does not ſtand upon a better Fobt of Credit than any Relation'6f tlieirs, which they received only by Tradition, and recorded upon that Authority only, '- And it cannot be improper upon this Occaſion to obſerve, that, with regard to my ſelf, I am a Perſon of an advanced Age, and have acquired a more valuable Experience, by underſtanding the publick Chronicles arid ancient Authors in their original Language, than they (being of other Countries ,/ of minor Vears, and not having Time to digeſt, or Capacity to underſtand the ancient Records) could poſſibly arrive at. It is not from a Principle of Love or Averſion, nor that Jam moved by the Importunity of Friends, or the ſtrong Influence of Rewards, that I undertook to write the following Hiſtory of {re/and, but | | : was urg d on by reflefting, that ſo noble a Country as. the Kingdom of | Treland, and fo worthy and generous à People who: poſſeſſed it, ought not to be abuſed by fabulous Relations, or have their Memories buried in Oblivion, without being tranſmitted, and the Antiquity and Names of the Inhabitants recorded with Honour to Poſterity : And I humbly conceive that my Hiſtory ſhould the-rather take Plate, becauſe I trace the Antiquity of the 1r;/5 tnuch higher, and with better Authority than other Writers, and give a particulat Account of the moſt ancient Iriſh, the Gadelians : And if any one ſhould" ſuppoſe that I beſtow too large Encomiums upon that brave and illuſtrious Tribe, or ſpeak with Partia- lity of their Exploits, let it be conſider'd that I have no Temptation to be unjuſt, being my ſelf originally of an Engliſs Elttuttio. have obſervd that every modern Hilorian; who has undertaken to write of Ireland, commends the Countty, but deſpiſes the People; which ſo far raiſed my Reſentment and Indignation, chat I fer out in this un- trodden Path, and reſol /d to vindicate ſo brave à People from ſuch ſcan- dalous Abuſes, by ſearching into original Records, and from thence com- piling a true and impart Tory. It grieved me to ſee a Nation hunted down by Ignorance and Malice, and recorded as tlie Scum and Refuſe of CATE 1 Mankind,
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Mankind, when upon a ſtrict Inquiry they;havei made as; good a Figure, and have ſignaliſed themſelves in ag c mmendable à mannes te Poſteritg as any People in Hurqne. The Malour and unſhaken Bravery of the old Triſh, and particularly their fixed Conſtancy in the Chriſtian Religion, and
the Chatholick Faith, ought to he honqurably-mentian'd, as aproper Stand
ard and Example for Ages that follow. I have no Qecaſion: k partieu- larly of the Number of Saints and holy Perſons, that this Aland has pra · duced; excerding in Proportion any Country in Hurope. All Hiſtories al- low. that Ireland was the eſtabliſn d Seat of Learning; that annually af-
forded Numbers of Profeſſors that were ſent th cultivate and improve the
neighbouzing Nations of France, Italy, Germany, Flanders,” England and Scotland; as appears abundantly, from the Preface before. the Book; that treats of the Lives of St. Patrick, Caluumba and Hniaget that is Written in Engliſh. Vf 1 319% 93907 bits ebic waar En bebo!
If it be objected, that the Chronicles of Irelaud arc liable. to-Suſpicion; and may be juſtly. queſtion'd; let it he obſeryd in Reply, that no-People in the World took more Care to preſerve the Authority of their publickRe-
cords, and to deliver them uncorrupt to Poſterity. The Chronicles of the
Kingdom were ſolemnly purg d and examind every three Years in the royal Houſe: of Tara, in the Preſence of the Nobility aud Clergy, and in a full Aſſembly of the moſt learned and eminent Antiquaries in the Country: And te prove this,. the under: named ok s of the firſt Note that ate to be {cen at this Day, are indiſputable Authorities: The Book
of Ardmach, the Pſaltex of Caſaed, ritten by the Holy Cormee Mar Cuille- nan King of Munſter and Archhiſhop of Caſbel; the Book entitled
Leabhat ua Huachhungabbala; the Beek call'd Leabbar Chluama Hia- ten by St. Beningus, V igbhir Chiara, vititten in Cluain Mas Nacis, Leabhar Buidbe, or the Tellom Beal of Maling, the Black.'Beok of Molaige, and Fiumntas a Laaglut. The particular Titles and Con- tents of many ancient Books are as follow: Leabbar Gabhala ſignified the Book of Conqueſts, Leabhar us Gesigeadb the Book of Provincialils, Neim Riogradh, otherwiſe call'd the Noll af the Kings, the:Baok of Ages, the Book call d L,eabhar Combſiergachta, or, an Account of the People who lived iu the ſame Age, the Book of Antiquity, che Book calld Coraumab, or of Etymolggies, the Book calld Uracept, that Was writ- ten by the learned Cionn Faola, the Book call d the Fiſions of Coliuuba, writ- ten by Dallan Farguill ſoon after the Death of that Saint; Au Account why the Waods, the Hills, the Rivers and Lakes in the Kingdom uiere diſtin guiſh'd bythe Names they bear, the Pedigress of Women, and many others.
The Treatiſes that arc to be ſeen at this Day in the.[re. Language, contain particular Relations of all memorable Battels and Tranſactions that happen d in Ireland from the firſt Account of Time, and give an Account of the Genealogies of the principal Families in the land; and the Au- thority of theſe publick Records cannot be queſtion d, when it is conſi- der d that there were above two hundred Chroniclers and Antiquarics, whoſe Buſineſs was to preſerve and record all Actions and Affairs of Con- ſequence relating to the Publick; they had Revenues and Salaries ſettled upon them for their Maintenance, and to ſupport the Dignity of their Character, their Annals and Hiſtories were ſubmitted to the Examination and Cenſure of the Nobility, Clergy and Gentry, who were moſt emi- nent for Learning, and aſſembled for that very Purpoſe; which is Evi- dence ſuthicient to evince their Authority, and to procure them, upon the Account of what has been mentioned, a ſuperior Eſteem to the An- tiquities of any other Nation, except the Jeuiſh. throughout the World.
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Not are we te omit in this Place i to obſerve, that the Chronicles of Holand feceive an addirtertal, Value from this Confideration, that they were never ſuppreſs d by te Tyrannyl and Invaſion of aàhy foreign Power; for tho the Hanes oecà ſtond great Troubles in the Kingdom of Treland f er of theſe publick Regiſters, whoſe Office
was to efternpon Record the ffalrs of the Kingdom, were ſo many, that the Dames could not — 4 them all, tho ix muſt be eonfeſs d 0 . (e Times did acdtaally periſn. No o-
ther Country in Europe, that know of; can 8 of the ſame Advan- au Saracens, Moors,
and Danes, generally were careful to ſuppreſs the publick Records ifi their reſpective Incurſions, yet it: Was impoſſible that the Antiquities of {re/and ſhould be involvd in the fame Fate, becauſe the Copies of them were lodg'd in ſo many Hands, and there were ſo many Antiquaries to take Care of them. And this Cambrenſis, in his forty ſixth Chapter, ſufficient-
ly confirms; his Words are; Hibernia uh #nitio ab omni alina um Gentium in.
curſu libera permanſit. Ireland, from te beginning; uus free from the In- our ſions of other Nations; by which is intended that Ireland was never ſo
fat under the Yoke of any foreign Powet, as to confeſs itſelf conquer d, or
that the publick Antiquities of the Kingdom were ſuppreſsd, wich is a Privilege that no other Nation in Europb can juſtly pretend to
I have taken the Liberty, in the following Hiſtory, upon good Grounds, to change the Number of Years that are applied t& the Reigns of ſome of
the Pagan Ii Kings; and have vatiedfrom'the Account I have met with | in ſome ofthe Annals of the Kingdom3-and the Reaſon is, becauſe I can- not reconcile the Time allotted them, to any Chronology ſince the Crea- tion to the Birth of Chriſte Beſides, there muſt he Miſtakes: which no
true Hiſtory can conſiſt with, particularly with regard to the Reign of
Siorna Saoplach, who, if we are directed by the ancient Annals of the Kings, reign d Monarch of the Iſland two hundred and fifty Years. The
Chronicles aſſert that Siorna, when he began to reign, was fifty Years old; ſo that if Thad relied wholly upon the Authority of the old Records this King would have lived three hundred Years, / which is utterly incredi- ble; for this Reaſon I thought it proper to allow him a Reign of one and twenty Years, which I collected from an old Verſe-that expreſſly declares his Reign to be of no longer a Date. / Cobhthach Caolbreac is ſaid in
the ancient Records to be King of Ireland fifty Years, yet it is impoſſible
reaſonably to allow him any more than thirty; for it muſt be conſiderd that Moriat the Daughter of Scoriat King of Concadnibbne, fell in Love
with Maoine, otherwiſe call'd Labhra Lompseach, a Youth, and a Stran-
ger that wasentertain'd in her Father's Houſe ; She wasat that Time very
young, and after ſhe was married ſhe bore him many Children; ſo that if
the Length of fifty Years was properly the Reign of Cobhthach, it would follow that Moriat was ſixty Years of Age when ſhe bore thoſe Children to Labhra Lomgseach, which is ſcarce poſſible to ſuppoſe; for which Rea- ſon the Reign of Cobhthach muſt be ſhorten'd and reduced to the Space of thirty Years. Forother Reaſons of equal Force with theſe mention'd, I have chang d the Date of the Reign of ſome other Kings in the Times of Paganiſm, but I may venture to acquit the publick Antiquaries and origi- nal Chronicles from being blamed for theſe Miſtakes ; they certainly are with greater Juſtice to be imputed to the Ignorance of ſome Tranſcribers, who copied their Works, and were incapable to mend thoſe Defects.
It muſt be lamented that the Iriſb, ſince the Engliſh got Poſſeſſion of the Kingdom, have omitted the ancient and laudable Cuſtom of purging and examining into their Chronicles; and the Reaſon ſeems to be becauſe
the publick Antiquaries and Hiſtorians deſiſted from their Employments,
their
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It will not ſeem range that the Chonol bey che following Hi: tory may in ſome Caſes be imperfe& and defectivt, if it be obſerv d what Diſs teement there is among Authors in their Computation of Time from 5 to the Birth of Chriſt; inſomuch that the moſt learned Chronolo- gers in the World have differ d in their Accounts, as will abundantly ap-
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waugſt the eee * as 4 3 Greek Authors, fr tho the 1 1 ate, unte 3518 Metrodorus 5000 St. Hierom 3941 if Ihe 7. almumdiſſes 3784 TE Avre/l $199 St. Auguſtin 5351 * new Ne, 3760 Theophilys , 5476 1ſidorus.. 3270
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Jae 4192 30 112 Alphonſus 5984 Theſe are . Authors of FLA Note for Chronological Com-
putations, and it is eaſie to obſerve the notorious Variations there are in their ſeveral Accounts; ſo that it is not to be wonder d at, if the Ir;/þ
Chronicles differ in that Point; yet were I to decide this Controverſy, I
think it would be the moſt playſibleStandard to allow four thouſand and
fifty two Vears between Adam and the Birth of Chriſt. My Deſign there- fore is to follow the Computation that comes neareſt to the Account I have mentioned with Regard to the Reign of the [r:/5 Monarchs, petty Princes,
and Chieftains of the Iſland, and the publick Concerns and Tranſactions
of the Kingdom. Ff it ſhould: ſeem ſurpriſing that the following Hiſtory is diverſified with
ſo many Quotations out of ancient Poetry, to prove ſeveral Matters of Fact — d, but to adjuſt the Chronology of the Iriſb Hiſtory; it muſt be cConſider d, particularly that the Authors of the Iriſo Chronicles compoſęd their Work generally in Verſe, that their Records might be the leſs ſubje&
to Corruption and, Change, that the Obſcurity of the Style might be a De- fence to them, and that the Youths, who were inſtructed in that Profeſſion; might be the better able to commit them to Memory. The Iriſb Com-
poſitions in Verſe or Daun, that were of principal Note, were called in
the 1r:ſþ Language Pſalter na Teamhrach, which was always preſerv'd in the Cuſtody of the chief Antiquaries of the Kings of Ireland; the Pſalter Caſhel was written by Cormac Mac Cuilleanan; and as the Word Pſalm in Engliſh, and Duainor Dan in the Triſh, are of the ſame Significati- on; ſoa Pſalter (in Latin P/a/terium) is a Book that contains many par- ticular Pocms ; ; and ſince moſt of the authentick Records of Ireland are compoled in Daun, or in Verſe, I ſhall receive them as the principal
Teſtimonies to follow in compiling the following Hiſtory : For notwith-
ſanding that ſome of the Chronicles of Ireland differ from theſe poetical Records in ſome Caſes, yet the Teſtimony of the Annals that were writ- ten in Verſe is not for that Reaſon invalid, becauſe all the publick Chroni- cles, as well inVerle as in Proſe, were ſubmitted to a ſolemn Correction and
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I bave often heard it pronounced impoſſible that the Genealogy of any Perfon could be linealiy traced ſo high as Adam, but this ſeeming Dif. ficulty will vaniſh, hy obferving that it was caſy for the Iriſb to keep ex- act Pedigrees from the Time of Gadelas. The Irifþ were furniſh'd with a learned Body of Men calld Druide or Suot hſarers, whoſe peculiar Of. fice it was to take a ſtrict Account of the ſeveral Genealogies, and to record tlie moſt memorable Tranſactions that happen d in the Kingdom: It will ap- pear by the Courſe of this Hiſtory that thefe Prigffs or Druids were ſuf. ficiemiy c compliſhi d for this Buſineis, particularly that Niui the Father of Galas obtained all his Riches and Honour upon the Account of his Learning and exquiſite Art, from whom were derived not only the Streams of Learniig and Knouiledgeñ but a ſuſficient Skill to adjuſt the Pedigrees of Families, and to tranſmit them uncorrupt to after Ages. I ſhall inſtance in this Place an Example taken from a Welſ Author, _ whoſe Name was Afberns," where he gives the Pedigree of one of the Kings of Britain, and traces it as high as Adam, which I mention as an Exidence of the Poſſtbility of the Thing, and to take off the Wonder how the Iriſb could be Maſters of fach. an Art,” or depend upon the Certainty Bite the Son of Creds ' Benn . © | Seldouin
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_ 1 a | Fi | 0 Old Name. [ Now Called: | Ange nw and ]Yer | Ser of bam of [ 83 22 Brazanſa — |Brigantia in Trales Montes in Portugal, butt borders on Galicia. | 85 2i Oileach Neid | — | — Donnegal | Innithowen 95 24 Breogan Brigantes — of| w__— 2 Kilkenn. & | Waterford 961 3 — — Cambrenſis — 1200 | 5 Biſcany — in Spain = — W. of Scotland. 7X 42 | — — Higden — 6; 08 ult Sliabh Cula — | — 5 — Sligo 99 I Cualgne — | — — r 1 | 2|-—— Blaidhma Bloom — --- — * . F5Muirthemhne — — — Cork | 7|Corca Luighe — | —— — [Louth | 8 |Sliabh Eibhle —— 11 — Clare Moyart | 4 12|Bladhma —— [Bloom — ——| —- m— Kerry and Queen's | = | [25] For Northern|Coaſt, — read — Southern VV | = 27] After Wexford read lies South, and is called ————| Inverſlaine (acmy] = | [|37|[Inbherſcen [Bant — —— — — Kerry Truchan- = | [z/r[Sliabh Eibhline — — — [ _\Chre Moyart = [roo] 30[Teamair _ — — — ( |Meath | Screen | 102 | 10|Deſmond — 1 — Cork Bear | and Bantry 103] 4|Eamhain — — 3 Armagh 8 104j15|Inbher Scein —|Bantry / — —2 _ Cork ( acmy 19 Mis — | — — c 1— Ker ry Truchan- | 105 240 Tailton — | ——— — Tipperary Kells 4 1060 8{Michil. F of Deſmond — — „„ 16|Inbher Scein —|Bantry + — — | Cork = = 24|Fell — — — — — Kerry Clanmorris} JET IBULON © . — — — [——— Meath Kelles | 108 | 18|Sliabh Cuail ne — ——— — Antrim | | I9 Fuaid — ] — — . 3 Armagh | : = | |28|Boyne e — Meath te Drogheda 111339 Rath Beothaic Down Patrick — on W Liffy © Wicklow | New Caſtle 114] 4|Eamhain — — —— Armagh Fews IS [Laoighis — [Lex — REINER Queen's 5 | | Conmacne — — 1 — „ Mayo | 1 Corcamruadh Corcamroe -x ; wrrmn—_ — — [Clare 28 O Dwyers — — — — — Tipperary 330 Ryans — — —— — — Carlow Idrone 39 [Leinſter to Munſter — * — 6 | 113 a Mac Di — 3 Donnegal 6 Mac Mahons —| —— ——— — Monaghan 7|Maguires ——. —— — Fermana | 8 O Hanlans —_— — — — — — Armagh 14 Deſſiggg — |[Defie — n — |Tippcrary Midlethird | 38]0 Headhra — [O Hara —— j——— —— |—|Mayo Leney | O Gara —ͤ— — — — Sligo | 1116 5[Airdiodroſs — — 1 — — — Queen's Z [117] 4Ai Kiltartaa — — Galway Galway x 5 |Meidhe — — —_— — — Roſcomon 1 _— I. a= =. Y = | 7 |Defligh ————|Deſfie — — — Meath and Waterford = 29|Finghin vious. — — — Kerry I. [|43|Geifiol -— — — — __— Kings Geiſiol 7 119 13 Cuil Breagh | - —-—— —_—C — — con Meath Screen 3 17|Freamhain —| — — | — Tipperary | Midlethird 3 { — | pperary | 1 20]Loch Cime — — Fe ——|—|Gallway Clare Y | Buadhaige | [omen — wn perm nn ibid. i Bagha os ens anna — — — ibid. | — Rein Bl — _ em} ns. ct ibid. | (e Fionm mhaighe
F ..*; | 4 Authors Names and AO 5 | 1 Old Name. | Now Called, Kings Reign. | Year. | County of |Barrony of 119|20|Fionnmaighe | between Longford |and Roſcommon —— Galway Loch Laoigh between Leitrim and Roſcommon — Sligo 120] 28 Inbher Slainghe — — — Wexford 121] 13|Slainge | — | — Wexford 123021 [Cathluan — — |Catheralagh - — 2 Queen's —| Oſſory 29|Eithne — — |Liffe, the Tail and] Head is calld, The Finn Tyrone and] Donegal 124410 Dalriada AlbanyinScotland | — —— — | 3 + 21 | For Counties, read | Weſtmorland, Cumberland, and —|——|Durham | |4 1251 30|Sliabh Mis _ — — | — Kerry —Truchan- 12613 Sliabh Beatha | — — — Kerr . (achmy 14|Geifille — — — — (— — _ [Queen's 15|Mudhurni — |Mourn —— |—— ̃ ⁊F½ͤ— =--| [Down 16]Loch Lein — — — — Carlow : 17 Beirr — — — — n—— King's 1 Egliſh 18] Aonogh ——|Macha —— — — IDEs x 32|Eille ——a [Ely — — — — King's 33 Comair — — — — Kilkenny IMaighe Teacht — — — — Wexford 34] Loch Moige — _ A -.-" - [Antrim | | 35| Culllard — | — — |= — — Clare —[Ibrachan 42 | Cuill Fabhair — — — — . fſult Cuil! — lar Airgiod Roſs — — Queen's 2 — — Letrim I 5|Magh Falchnair V. of Abby Boylexↄ — Roſcomon Loch Nualline — — — — 1— —U ——— Derry 6 Niarum — . — | Mayo : FF — — — — I[Cavan —Kells —— Saiglean | Hawer — —— — Galway BD 11— Dabhuil [—_ ———_—_—_ſ—_—_ — — Tvrone and] Down 13 Fubno — — — Cork Carbry Calluin— — — — — Kilkenny —|Cranagh 128] 1] Lahain 0 88 1 N 29 Dum Sobhair Down Patrick e Down 34 | Courcies — —| _ — — Cork 129111 Deaghadh — ——— — — — Cork 12] Foſuighe — — — — Galway —|Kiltartan 13 three Streams | — — — Wexford [near Roſs 17 | Magh Laoighion | a Plain 3 Leitrim . —— Luirg in O Dahaly —[—— — Kildare and King's 18.— Leamt na — — a Down — Manair — | noon — — — Roſcomon 119 — Fubhna — — Down | |—— da Gabhal — — — Tyrone 132 Inbher Fleiſge — e ——— — [Cavan — [Coole // ͤ ᷣ ᷣ— 35 Magh Geanuinn „ — — |Cavan and] Fermane 130033 Orcades — — — | ws | — | |— North of |—Scotland| ® 135 | Loch Enibheithe —ͤ—— — 1— — — Monaghan | 3 — Failcheadain „ ee — "—_ Roſcomon _ 36 — Gaſan as pv e, 2 Donegal 131240 Rath Cuachain [or the Shanon — — Clare 137118 —V — [:. Patrick — | 4xo| | 14341 |Magh Inis — — — — Down —|Lecale 145]27|Aillin — Allen — — — Kildare — |Conel 35 Dom Sobhari Down Patric! Down 146]10|Imleach Emly 444 © 1247] 34|Airgiod Roſs — . ͤ ee Gn. Queen's alt Clochair — [Clogher— —[—— — Tyrone 15134 Binneadair — E. of Dublin — — — | 35 | Eaſruadh . len the Mourne — Donegal
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