Ireland under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Vol. 1 (of 3), 1603-1642

Ireland under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Vol. 1 (of 3), 1603-1642

These volumes have been written at such times and seasons as could be made available during an active life in Ireland, and this may induce critics to take a merciful view of their many shortcomings. I have been diligent, but there is still much extant manuscript material which I have been unable to use. Ireland is the land of violent and persistent party feeling, and no party will be pleased with the present work, for I hold with an ancient critic that the true function of history is to bring out the facts and not to maintain a thesis. If I am spared to finish the third volume, it will bring the narrative down to the Revolution, and will contain chapters on the Church or Churches and on the social state of Ireland. The dates of all documents relied on have been given, and unless it is otherwise stated they are among the Irish State Papers calendared from 1603 to 1660. Many papers, chiefly, but not exclusively, from the Carte manuscripts, were printed by Sir J. T. Gilbert in the Contemporary History of Affairs in Ireland, or in the History of the Confederation and War in Ireland. As these collections are more generally accessible than the Bodleian Library, I have referred to them as far as they go. The Aphorismical Discovery, which forms the nucleus of the first, is cited under that title, and the narrative of Bellings in the second under his name. The original Carte papers at Oxford have been often consulted, as well as the transcripts in the Public Record Office, while the manuscripts in the British Museum and in[Pg vi] Trinity College, Dublin, have not been neglected. In the case of old tracts and newsletters, of which I have read a great many, dates and titles are given. The late Lord Fitzwilliam did not consider it consistent with his duty to let Dr. Gardiner see the Strafford correspondence preserved at Wentworth Woodhouse, and my application to his successor has also been refused. No restriction seems to have been imposed on the editors of Lauds works, of which the last instalment was published as late as 1860. All the Archbishops letters are printed, Straffords being omitted only because they would have taken too much room. In 1739 Dr. William Knowler, working under Lord Maltons directions, published the well-known Strafford Letters, and Mr. Firth has thrown fresh light upon them by printing some of the editors correspondence in the ninth volume of the Camden Miscellany. There is, Knowler wrote, four or five times the number of letters uncopied for one transcribed, and yet I believe those that shall glean them over again wont find many things material omitted. Yet Lauds editors thought it worth while to publish a good deal of what had been left out, and probably there is still something to be done. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 53473
Author: Bagwell, Richard
Release Date: Nov 7, 2016
Format: eBook
Language: English