certain consideration touch the plantation in Ireland present TO his majesty  it seem God have reserve to your majesty time two work which among the work of  king have the supreme preeminence the union and plantation of kingdom for  although it be a great fortune for a king to deliver or recover his kingdom  from long continue calamity yet in the judgement of those that have  distinguish of the degree of sovereign honour to be a founder of estate or  kingdom excel all the rest for as in be and science to be the first inventer  be more then to illustrate or amplify and as in the work of God the creation  be great then the preservation and as in the work of nature the birth and  Nativity be more then the continuance so in kingdom the first foundation or  plantation be of more noble dignity and merit then all that follow of which  foundation there be but two kind the first that make one of more and the  second that make one of none the latter resemble the creation of the world  which be de nothing and quid and the former the edification of the church  which be de with many folds and simplex well and One it have please the divine  providence in singular favour to your majesty to put both these kind of  foundation or regeneration into your hand the one in the union of the island  of Britain the other in the plantation of great and noble part of the island  of Ireland which enterprise be once happy accomplish then that which be utter  by one of the best orator in one of the Worst verse oh to make prosperous born  I consul Rome may be far more true and proper apply to your majesty Act born  te king britain born Scotland for he speak unproper of deliverance and  preservation but in these act of you it may be verify more natural for indeed  union and plantation be the very nativity or birth day of kingdom wherein  likewise your majesty have yet a fortune extraordinary and differ from former  example in the same kind for most part of union and plantation of kingdom have  be find in the ffusion of blood but your majesty shall build in Solo puro in  open space free from dirt that shall needs no sacrifice expiatory or blood and  therefore no doubt under a high and more assure blessing wherefore as I  adventure when I be less know and less particular bind to your majesty then  since by your undeserving favour I have be to write somewhat touch the union  which your majesty be please to accept and which since I have to my power  second by my travel not only in discourse but in action so I be thereby  encourage to do the like touch this matter of plantation hope that your  majesty will through the weakness of my ability iscern the strength of my  affection and the honest and fervent desire I have to see your majesty person  name and time bless and exalt above those of your royal progenitor and I be  the rather invite this to do by the remembrance that when the lord chief  justice decease Popham serve in the place wherein I now serve and afterward in  the attorney place he labour great in the last project touch the plantation of  Munster which nevertheless as it seem have give more light by the error  thereof what to avoid then by the direction of the same what to follow first  therefore I will speak somewhat of the excellency of the work and then of the  mean to compass and effect it for the excellency of the work I will divide it  into four noble and worthy consequence that will follow thereupon the first of  the four be honour whereof I have speak enough already be it not that the harp  of Ireland put I in mind of that glorious emblem or allegory wherein the  wisdom of antiquity do figure and shadow out work of this nature for the poet  feign that Orpheus by the virtue and sweetness of his harp do call and  assemble the beast and bird of their nature wild and savage to stand about he  as in a theater forget their affection of Fierceceness of lust and of prey and  listen to the tune and harmony of the harp and soon after call likewise the  stone and the wood to remove and stand in order about he which fable be  ancient interpret of the reduce and plantation of kingdom when people of  barbarous manner be bring to give over and discontinue their custom of revenge  and blood and of dissolute life and of theft and of rapine and to give ear to  the wisdom of law and government whereupon immediate follow the call of stone  for building and habitation and of tree for the seat of house orchard and  enclosure and the like this work therefore of all other most memorable and  honourable your majesty have now in hand special if your majesty join the harp  of David in cast out the evil spirit of superstition with the harp of Orpheus  in cast out desolation and barbarism the second consequence of this enterprise  be the avoid of a inconvenience which common attend upon happy time and be a  evil effect of a good Cause the revolution of this present age seem to incline  to peace almost general in these part and your majesty most Christian and  virtuous affection do promise the same more special to these your kingdom a  effect of peace in fruitful kingdom where the stock of people receive no  consumption nor diminution by war do continual multiply and increase must in  the end be a surcharge or overflow of people more then the territory can well  maintain which many time insinuate a general necessity and want of mean into  all estate do turn external peace into internal trouble and sedition now what  a excellent diversion of this inconvenience be minister by God providence to  your majesty in this plantation of Ireland wherein so many family may receive  Sustentations and fortune and the discharge of they also out of England and  Scotland may prevent many seed of future perturbation so that it be as if a  man be trouble for the avoidance of water from the place where he have build  his house and afterward shall advice with himself to cast those water and to  turn they into fair pool or stream for pleasure provision or use so shall your  majesty in this work have a double commodity in the avoidance of people here  and in make use of they there the three consequence be the great safety that  be like to grow to your majesty estate in general by this Act in discomfit all  hostile attempt of foreigner which the weakness of that kingdom have  heretofore invite wherein I shall not needs to fetch reason afar off either  for the general or particular for the general because nothing be more evident  then that which one of the Roman say of Peloponnesus testudo intra tegumen  to look at be the tortoise be safe within her shell but if she put forth any  part of her body then it endanger not only the part that be so put forth but  all the rest and so we see in armour if any part be leave naked it put in  hazard the whole person and in the natural body of man if there be any weak or  affect part it be enough to draw rheum or malign humour unto it to the  interruption of the health of the whole body and for the particular the  example be too fresh that the indisposition of that kingdom have be a contial  attractive of trouble and infestations upon this estate and though your  majesty greatness do in some sort discharge this fear yet with your increase  of power it can be but envy be likewise increase the four and last consequence  be the great profit and strength which be like to redound to your crown by the  work upon this unpolished part thereof whereof your majesty be in the strength  of your year be like by the good pleasure of almighty God to receive more then  the first fruit and your posterity a grow and spring vein of riches and power  for this island be another Britain as Britain be say to be another world be  endow with so many dowry of nature consider the fruitfullness of the soil the  port the river the fish the Quarries the wood and other material and special  the race and generation of man valiant hard and active as it be not easy no  not upon the continent to find such confluence of commodity if the hand of man  do join with the hand of nature so then for the excellency of the work in  point of honour policy safety and utility here I cease for the mean to effect  this work I know your majesty shall not want the information of person expert  and industrious which have serve you there and know the region nor the advice  of a grave and prudent counsel here which know the pulse of the heart of  people and the way and passage of conduct great action beside that which be  abve all which be that fountain of wisdom and universality which be in your  self yet notwithstanding in a thing of so public a nature it be not amiss for  your majesty to hear variety of opinion for as Demosthenes say well the good  fortune of a prince or state do sometime put a good motion into a fool mouth I  do think therefore the mean of accomplish this work consist of two principal  part the first the invitation and encouragement of undertaker the second the  order and policy of the project it self for as in all engine of the hand there  be somewhat that give the motion and force and the rest serve to guide and  govern the same so it be in these enterprise or engine of estate as for the  former of these there be no doubt but next unto the providence and carry in of  God which writ these virtuous and excellent desire in the table of your  majesty heart your authority and affection be primus motor in this Cause and  therefore the more strong and full your majesty shall declae your self in it  the more shall you quicken and animate the whole proceed for this be be a  action which as the worthiness of it do bear it so the nature of it require it  to be carry in some height of reputation and fit in I opinion for pulpit and  parliament and all place to ring and resound of it for that which may seem  vanity in some thing I mean matter of fame be of great efficacy in this case  but now let I descend to the inferior sphere and speak what cooperation in the  subject or undertaker may be raise and kindle and by what mean therefore to  take plain ground which be the sure all man be draw into action by three thing  pleasure honour and profit but before I pursue the three motive it be fit in  this place to interlace a word or two of the quality of the undertaker wherein  my opinion simple be that if your majesty shall make these portion of land  which be to be plant as reward or as suit or as fortune for those that be in  want and be like to seek after they that they will not be able to go through  with the charge of good substantial plantation but will desicer in need medio  and then this work will succeed as Tacitus say the maple iiis fine careless so  that this must rather be a adventure fr such as be full then a set up of those  that be low of mean for those man be fit indeed to perform these undertake  which be fit to purchase dry reversion after life or year or such as be fit to  put out money upon long return I do not say but that I think the undertaker  themselves will be glad to have some captain or man of service intermix among  they for their safety but I speak of the generality of undertaker which I wish  be man of estate and plenty now therefore it follow well to speak of the  aforesaid three motive for it will appear the more how necessary it be to  allure by all mean undertaker since those man will be least it which be like  to be most in appetite of themselves and those most fit which be like least to  desire it first therefore for pleasure in this region or tract of soil there  be no warm winter nor orange tree nor strange beast or bird or other point of  curiosity or pleasure as there be in the Indies and the like so as there can  be find no foundation make upon mater of pleasure otherwise then that the very  desire of Novely and experiment in some stir nature may work somewhat and  therefore it be the other two point of honour and profit whereupon we be whole  to first for honour or Counenance if I shall mention to your majesty whether  in wisdom you shall think convenient the better to express your affection to  the enterprise and for a pledge there of to add he earldom of ulster to the  prince title I shall but learn it out of the practice of king Edward the first  who first use the like course as a mean the better to restrain the untrey of  Wales and I take it the prince of Spain have the addition of a province in the  kingdom of Naples and other Prsients I think there be and it be like to put  more life and Encuragement into the undertaker also consider the large  territory which be to be plant it be not unlike your majesty will think of  raise some Nobiliy there which if it be do mere upon new title of dignity  havig no manner of reference to the old and if it be do also without put to  many portion into one hand and last if it be do without any great franchise or  command I do not see any peril can ensue thereof as on the other side it may  draw some person of great estate and mean into the acion oh the great  furtherance and supply of the charge hereof and last for knighthood to such  person as have not attain it or otherwise knighthood with some new difference  and precedence it may no doubt work with many and if any man think that these  thing which I propound be to some degree very much for the roportion of this  action I confess plain that if your majesty will have it real and effectual  perform my opinion be you can bestow too much sunshine upon it for Lunae ray  non to become ripe Botrus thus much for honour for Prit it will consist in  three part fist the Asia rate that your majesty shall be please to give the  undertaker of the land they shall receive second the liberty which you may be  please to to undertake Pon they when I speak of liberty I mean not liberate of  jurisdiction as county palatine or the like which it seem have be the error of  the ancient donation and Platations in that counry but I mean only liberty  tend to commodity as libery to transport any of the commodity grow upon the  counry new plant liberty to import from hence all thing appertain to their  necessary use custom free liberty to take timber or other material in your  majesty wood there and the like the three be ease of charge that the whole  mass of charge do not rest upon the private purse of the undertaker for the  two former of these I will pass they over because in the project which with  good diligence and providence have be present to your majesty by your minister  of that kingdom they be in my opinion well handle for the three I will never  despair but that the parliament of England if it may perceive that this action  be not a flash but a solid and settle pursuit will give aid to a work so  religious so politic and so profitable and the distribution of charge if it be  oserved fall natural into three kind of charge and every of those charge  respective ought to have his proper fountain and issue for as there proceed  from your majesty royal Bouny and munificence the gift of the land and the  other material together with the endowment of liberty and as the charge which  be private as building of house Stcking of ground victual and the like be to  rest upon the particular undertaker so whatsoever be public as building of  church wall of town town house bridge Cawsies or high way and the like Ought  not so proper to lie upon particular person but to come from the public estate  of this kingdom to which this work be like to return so great a addition of  glory strength and commodity for the project it self I shall needs to speak  the less in regard it be so considerate digest already for the county of  Tyrone and therefore my labour shall be but in those thing wherein I shall  either add to or dissent from that which be set down which will include five  point or article first hey mention a Commission for this plantation which of  all thing be most necessary both to direct and appease controversy and the  like to this I add two proposition the one that which perhaps be mean though  not express that the commissioner shall for certain time reside and abide in  some habitable town of Ireland near in distance to the country where the  plantation shall be to the end both that they may be more at hand for the  execution of the part of their Commission and withal it be like by draw of  concourse of people and trade man to such town it will be some help and  commodity to the undertaker for thing they shall stand in needs of and  likewise it will be a more safe place of receipt and store wherein to unladen  and deposit such provision as be after to be employ the second be that your  majesty will make a correspondency between the Commission there and a Council  of plantation here wherein I warrant my self by the precedent of the like  Council of plantation for Virginia a enterprise in my opinion differ as much  from this as Amadis de Gaul differ from caesars commentary but when I speak of  a Council of plantation I mean some person choose by way of reference upon who  the labour may rest to prepare and report thing to the Council of estate here  that concern that business for although your majesty have a grave and  sufficient Council in Ireland from who and upon who the commissioner be to  have assistance and dependence yet that supply not the purpose whereof I speak  for consider that upon the advertisement as well of the commissioner as of the  Council of Ireland it self there will be many occasion to crave direction from  your majesty and your privycouncil here which be busid with a world of affair  it can but give great expedition and some better perfection unto some  direction and Resolutious if the matter may be consider of afore hand by such  as may have a continual care of the Cause and it will be likewise a comfort  and satisfaction to some principal undertaker if they may be admit of that  Council second there be a clause wherein the undertaker be restrain that they  shall execute the plantation in person from which I must dissent if I will  consent with the ground I have already take for it be not probable that man of  great mean and plentiful estate will endure the travail Diseasements and  adventure of go thither in person but rather I suppose many will undertake  portion as a advancement for their young child or Kinsolks or for the  sweetness of the expectation of a great bargain in the end when it be overcome  and therefore it be like they will employ son kinsfolk servant or tenant and  yet be glad to have the estate in themselves and it may be some again will  join their purse together and make as it be a partner ship or joint adventure  and yet man forth some one person by consent for the execute of the plantation  three there be a main point wherein I fear the project make have two much of  the line and compass and will not be so natural and easy to execute nor yet so  politic and convenient and that be that the building shall be sparsim upon  every portion and the castle or principal house shall draw the tenement and  farm about it as it be into village Hamlets or ndships and that there shall be  only four corporate town for the artificer and tradesman my opinion be that  the building be altogether in town to be compound as well of husbandries as of  be my reason be first when man come into a country vast and void of all thing  necessary for the use of man life if they set up together in a place one of  they will the better supply the want of another work folk of all sort will be  the more continual on work without lose of time when if work fail in one place  they may have it fast by the wage will be more more passable for carriage to  those seat or town then they can be to a number of disperse solitary place and  infinite other help and easement scarce to be comprehend in cogitation will  ensue in vicinity and society of people whereas if they build scatter as be  project every man must have a cornu copy in himself for all thing he must use  which can but breed much difficulty and no less be second it will draw out of  the inhabit country of Ireland provision and victual and many necessary  because they shall be sure of utterance whereas in the disperse habitation  every man must reckon only upon that that he bring with he as they do in  provision of ship three the charge of Bawnes as they call they to be make  about every castle or house may be spare when the habitation shall be  congregate only into town and last it will be a mean to secure the country  against future peril in case of any revolt and defection for by a slight  fortification of no great charge the danger of any attempt of Kierns and  swordman may be prevent the omission of which point in the last plantation of  Munter make the work of year to be but the spoil of day and if any man think  it will draw people too far off from the ground they be to labour it be to be  understand that the number of the town be increase accord and likewise the  situation of they be as in the centre in respect of the portion assign to they  for in the champion country of England where the habitation use to be in town  and not disperse it be no new thing to go two mile off to blow part of their  ground and two mile compass will take up a good deal of country the four point  be a point wherein I shall differ from the project rather in quantity and  proportion then in matter there be allow to the undertaker within the five  year of restraint to alien a three part in feefarm and to demise another for  forty year which I fear will mangle the portion and will be but a shift to  make money of two part whereas I be of opinion the more the first undertaker  be force to keep in his own hand the more the work be like to prosper for  first the person liable to the state here to perform the plantation be the  immediate undertaker second the more his profit depend upon the annual and  spring commodity the more sweetness he will find in put forward manurance and  husband of the ground and therefore be like to take more care of it three  since the native be exclude I do not see that any person be like to be draw  over of that condition as be like to give fine and undertake the charge of  building for I be persuade that the people transport will consist of gentleman  and their servant and of labourer and hind and not of yeoman of any wealth and  therefore the charge of building as well of the tenement and farm as of the  capital house themselves be like to rest upon the principal undertaker which  will be recompense in the end to the full and with much advantage if they make  no long estate or lease and therefore this article to receive some  qualification five I shall think it requisite that man of experience in that  kingdom shall enter into some particular consideration of the charge and  provision of all kind that will be incident to the plantation to the end that  thereupon some advice may be take for the furnish and accommodate they most  convenient aid private industry with public care and order thus I have express  to your majesty those simple and weak cogitation which I have have in my self  touch this Cause wherein I most humble desire your pardon and gracious  acceptance of my good affection and intention for I hold it for a rule that  there belong to great monarch from Faithull servant not only the tribute of  duty but the oblation of cheerfulness of heart and so I pray the almighty to  bless this great action with your majesty care and your care with happy  success