'Reform' treatises on Tudor Ireland /
"During the sixteenth century hundreds of treatises were written on the 'reform' of Ireland by officials and interested parties active in the country These documents were central in shaping how senior ministers in England viewed Ireland and consequently how they formulated policy for...
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Dublin, Ireland :
Irish Manuscripts Commission,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. 'Devices for the ordering of the Kavanaghs, the Byrnes, Tooles and 'Omayles' [Imaals] for such lands as they shall have within the county of Carlow and the marches of the same county, and also of the marches of the county of Dublin', 1537 / Anonymous
- 2. Report on the state of Ireland, 1552 / Thomas Walshe
- 3. 'Articles to be inquired of concerning the state and affairs of Ireland', 1553 / Anonymous
- 4. 'A description of the power of the Irishmen of Leinster made in these days', c. 1556 / John Alen?
- 5. 'Matters for the good government of Ireland', 1558 / Thomas Alen?
- 6. Proposals for provisioning, 1559 / James Barnewall?
- 7. Proposals for acts to be passed through parliament and other measures to be taken in Ireland, 1559 / James Barnewell?
- 8. 'Information given by your orator John Walshe of Youghal in Ireland for the reformation of the enormities of the said realm and to bring the same unto civility', 1559 / John Walshe
- 9. 'Articles of advice sent from the lord lieutenant, from Drogheda, by Gilbert Gerrard, attorney general', 1561 / Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd earl of Sussex
- 10. Petition of sundry subjects to the queen for lands in Munster, 1568 / Jerome Brett
- 11. 'Certain brief notes set forth by your Majesty's most humble servant and subject, Patrick Sherlock, for the speedy reformation of the province of Munster in Ireland, 1569 / Patrick Sherlock
- 12. Learning and a knowledge of true religion, 1570 / Robert Weston
- 13. 'The humble petition and offer of Sir Thomas Gerrard, knight, in the behalf of himself and the companions of his attempt for the planting and inhabiting of the Glens and part of Clandeboye in the north of Ireland', 1570 / Thomas Gerrard
- 14. Notes for the reformation of Ireland, 1571 / Edmund Tremayne
- 15. Petition for a grant of the Ards, 1571 / Thomas Browne and Thomas Barrow
- 16. Answers to objections to their petition for a grant of the Ards, 1571 / Thomas Browne and Thomas Barrow
- 17. 'Anthony Power his notes for reformation of Ireland unto Mr. Secretary Walsingham', 1573 / Anthony Power
- 18.'Whether the Queen's Majesty be to be counselled to govern Ireland after the Irish manner, as it hath been accustomed, or to reduce it as near as may be to English government', 1573 / Edmund Tremayne
- 19. 'A plot for the better inhabiting of Clandeboye, the Route and the Glens, upon an offer made by certain inhabitants of the same countries', 1573 / Walter Devereux, 1st earl of Essex
- 20. ' A note set forth by your Majesty's faithful servant, Patrick Sherlock, for the reformation of Ireland, and how to augment your Majesty's revenues, and to cut off a great part of the charges that your Majesty is daily at for the same', c. 1574 / Patrick Sherlock
- 21. 'The book for the reformation of Ireland', 1574 / Humphrey Gilbert
- 22.'My lord chamberlain's opinion touching the state of Desmond's rebellion'. 1574 / Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd earl of Sussex
- 23. 'My opinion for the government and reformation of Ulster', 1574 / Walter Devereux, 1st earl of Essex
- 24. 'Necessary things to be considered of concerning the quiet maintenance of the state of Munster', c. 1574 / John Perrot
- 25. 'Notes within the compass of memory touching cess', 1577 / Henry Burnell and Richard Netterville?
- 26. 'Henry Burnell his device to ease the cess upon the country for the victualing of the garrison in Ireland', 1577 / Henry Burnell
- 27. 'A plot conceived how that realm may be governed with contentation of the inhabitants and surety of the state', 1578 / Nicholas White
- 28. 'Notes of certain inconveniences in Ireland with the remedies', 1578 / John Chaloner
- 29. 'Russell's discourse of the present state of Ireland and the way to redress and reform the same', 1579 / William Russell?
- 30. 'His opinion for divers things necessary to be observed for her Majesty's better service in Ireland', 1580 / Edward Baeshe
- 31. 'Evils which annoy the Pale', 1580 / William Gerrard
- 32. 'Notes from the lord chancellor of Ireland to be considered of upon his dispatch', 1580 / William Gerrard
- 33. 'A probable discourse how upon the extinguishing of this rebellion the province of Munster may be kept from any revolt hereafter, how it may bear the charge of 1,200 men, yield revenue to her Majesty, and in short time repay the charge of the war', 1580 / William Pelham
- 34. Governing Ireland: a new polity, 1581 / Lodowick Bryskett
- 35. 'Ill husbandry' in the governance of Ireland, 1581 / Robert Dillon
- 36. 'His opinion of the proceedings and state of that realm', 1581 / Nicholas White
- 37. Proposing a university at Kilmainham, 1582 / John Ussher
- 38. 'My poor opinion how to overthrow the traitors in Munster', 1582 / Edward Barkley
- 39. 'The bishop of Rosscarbery to the lord justices touching the present estate of Munster', 1582 / William Lyon
- 40. ' A book for the reformation and preservation of the realm of Ireland, as well against all foreign enemies as also against all traitorous rebels devised by John Ussher of Dublin, alderman', c. 1583 / John Ussher
- 41. ' A discourse of the cause why Ireland hath continued so long in disorder and a mean to reform the same', c 1583 / John Perrot
- 42. 'The humble requests of Richard Spert and others for a fee farm of certain lands in Desmond's country', 1583 / Richard Spert
- 43. 'Short notes to be considered upon the reducing and sttling of Munster', 1584 / Morgan Colman?
- 44. 'An humble offer of a service', 1584 / Ralph Lane
- 45. 'Touching the converting of St Patrick's church to a university'. 1584 / John Perrot
- 46. 'Device for the reformation of Ireland', c. 1585 / Thomas Williams?
- 47. 'For the reformation of the north of Ireland, the banishing of the Scots and discharging her Majesty of a great charge', 1585 / Nicholas Taaffe
- 48. 'Informations for her Majesty's behalf and for the commonwealth of the province of Munster in her Majesty's realm of Ireland', 1585 / Edmund Tyrrye (Terrye)
- 49. Reforming the MacMahons, Maguires and O'Reileys: Henry Duke's proposal for service in the north, 1587 / Henry Duke
- 50. 'A demonstration how Ulster may be governed without danger to the Pale or increase of her Majesty's charges, with assurance of the uirrithe to he Majesty and to prevent the greatness of the O'Neills hereafter', 1587 / Edward Waterhouse
- 51. 'A plot for the establishing of a sound and severe government within your Majesty's province of Munster in Ireland', 1589 / Warham St Leger
- 52. 'Answers to be made to such objections as may be alleged against the plot set down for a sound government to be established in the province of Munster in Ireland', 1589 / Warham St Leger
- 53. 'Mixed collections proving it necessary to make wars in Connacht and showing the easiness to overthrow the rebels', 1589 / John Merbury
- 54. 'Memorial', 1590 / Robert Gardener
- 55. 'The course in my simple opinion best to be observed in the cause of O'Farrell', 1590 / Robert Gardener
- 56. 'Notes to be considered upon touching the earl of Tyrone', 1590 / Geoffrey Fenton
- 57. 'For division of O'Rourke's country', 1591 / John Merbury
- 58. 'The beginning and continuance of the rebels of Ireland, by degrees truly discovered', c 1592 / Tomas Lovell
- 59. 'A plot for erecting of certain wards within the province of Connacht, for the increase of her Majesty's revenue and the defence of the good subjects of the country, without charging of her Majesty with any pay for the same', 1593 Ralph Lane or Richard Bingham?
- 60. 'Articles most important for the thorough reformation of Ireland, easily hereby compassed, to be a most quiet and rich commonwealth in short time', 1593 / Alexander Cosby?
- 61. 'Remembrances for her most excellent majesty concerning her realm of Ireland', 1593 / Robert Legge
- 62. Propositions for the south and north Clandeboyes, Killultagh, Kilwarlin, and Kinelarty, to be granted to the chieftains in fee farm for a reasonable chief rent to her Majesty, 1594 / Nicholas Dawtrey
- 63. 'project for Ireland delivered to the queen by an old captain of Ireland', c. 1594 / William Piers?
- 64.'Mr Saxey about Irish inconveniences', 1595 / William Saxey
- 65. 'Mr Goring's discourse of Irish matters', 1595 / J. Goring
- 66. 'A project for Ireland', 1595 / John Norris
- 67. ' A brief discourse declaring how the service against the northern rebels may be advanced and the Connacht tumults in some sort represses', 1597 / Francis Shane
- 68. 'The opinion of William Mostyn touching the service of Connacht, how the same may be brought to better obedience to her Majesty than it was these 40 years past without any charge to her Highness', 1597 / William Mostyn
- 69. A paper of advice concerning the disposal of troops and garrisons in Ireland, c. 1598 / Anonymous
- 70. 'Opinions for the recovery of Ireland', 1599 / William udall.