MAY IT PLEASE YOUR LORDSHIPS,-I have, in the Book before written, set down all the Particulars I find of the State of the Plantation of his Majesty's escheated Lands in Ulster now to stand.

And, First, it appears by the Particulars, that in the Brittish Families within mentioned, there are 6,215 Bodies of Men; but I may presume further to certify, partly by observing the Habitation of these Lands, and partly by conferring with some of knowledge among them, that upon occasion, there be found in those Lands at least 8,000 Men of Brittish Birth and Descent, to do his Majesty's Service for Defence thereof, though the fourth part of the Land is not fully inhabited.

"Secondly, It appears by the Particulars, that there are now built within the Counties of Ardmagh, Tyrone, Donagall, Fermanagh, Cavan, and London-Derry, 107 Castles with Bawnes, 19 Castles without Bawnes, 42 Bawnes without Castles or Houses, and 1,897 Dwelling Houses of Stone and Timber, after the English manner in Townreeds, besides very many such Houses in several parts which I saw not; and yet there is great want of Buildings upon their Lands, both for Townreeds and otherwise. And I may say, that the abode and continuance of those Inhabitants upon the Lands is not yet made certain, although I have seen the Deeds made unto them. My reason is, that many of the English Tenants do not yet plough upon the Lands, neither use Husbandrie, because I conceive they are fearful to Stock themselves with Cattle or Servants for those Labours. Neither do the Irish use Tillage, for that they are also uncertain of their Stay upon the Lands; so that, by this means, the Irish ploughing nothing, do use greasing; the English very little; and were it not for the Scottish Tenants, which do plough in many places of the Country, those Parts may starve; by Reason whereof the Brittish, who are forced to take their Lands at great Rates, do lie at the greater Rents, paid unto them by the Irish Tenants, who do grease their Land; and if the Irish be put away with their Cattle, the Brittish must either forsake their Dwellings, or endure great Distress on the suddain. Yet the

combination of the Irish is dangerous to them, by robbing them, and otherwise. I observe the greatest number of Irish do well upon the Lands granted to the City of London; which happeneth, as I take it, two ways, First, There are five of the Proportions assigned to the several Companies, which are not yet estated to any Man, but are in the Hands of Agents; who, finding the Irish more profitable than the Brittish Tenants, are unwilling to draw on the Brittish, perswading the Company that the Lands are mountainous and unprofitable, not regarding the future security of the whole: Secondly, The other seven of the Proportions are leased to several Persons for 61 years, and the Lessees do affirm that they are not bound to plant English, but may plant with what people they please; neither is the City of London bound to do it by their Patents from his Majesty, as they say; and by these two actions, the Brittish that are now there, who have many of them built houses at their own charges, have no estates made unto them, which is such Discouragement unto them, as they are minded to depart the Land; and without better settlement will seek elsewhere, wherein it is very fit the City have Direction to take a present Course, that they may receive their assurances; and this being the Inconveniency, which in this Survey I have observed, further than what was set down formerly by Sir Josias Bodley's last Survey, I have thought good to make the same known to your Lordships, submitting the further Consideration thereof to your Lordships' deep judgment."

Such, then, was Pynnar's account of the state in which he found the Ulster Plantation, with particular reference to the small number of British settlers therein, and their sadly halting progress towards the attainment of those objects for which they had been sent hither. "This account, indeed, it must Le fairly admitted, presents but a humiliating picture of the results of the movement, after so much effort on the part of the Government during the preceding twelve years, and such an appalling amount of suffering as had been thereby inflicted on the native population. It would have been more than remarkable, however, had not the new comers prospered sooner or later, seeing that they enjoyed all the encouragement and protection they could have desired, or that mere earthly power could afford that they got hold of the very best land in the province, teeming, as it did, with natural fertility, and so rested as to yield its abundant harvests with but little toil—and that, in fact, they were compelled by the Government to go forward with a certain amount of effort, which they would hardly have put forth if left to themselves. But the paradise of plenty, if not of peace, to which these strangers at times attained, was only secured by a very heavy and dreadful sacrifice of the general interests of Ireland as a nation; for to this settlement in Ulster, and in a minor degree, to similar settlements or plantations in the other provinces at the same period, may be traced the awful scenes and events of the ten years' civil war commencing in 1641, the horrors of the revolutionary struggle in 1690, and the re-awakening of those horrors in 1798—not to mention certain less notable phases of the struggle during the intervals between those disastrous eras. The dragons' teeth, so plentifully, and as if so deliberately sown in this Ulster plantation, have, indeed, sprung up at times with more than usually abundant growth, yielding their ghastly harvests of blood and death on almost every plain, and by almost every river side, and in almost every glen of our northern province.

INDEX.

Archdale, Edward, son of John, had a re-grant, of the
family estate in 1629, 488; his lands erected into the
manor of Archdale and Dromra, ib.; succeeded in 1620,
at the age of 17, 496.

John, grant to, 278; notice of, ib.; Carew's ac-
count of him in 1611, 481; Pynnar's account of his
buildings, and the number of his British tenants, 487,
488; bought his lands of Dromragh or Dromra from
James Hamilton of Keckton, 496; was known as of
Archdalestowne, ib.

497.

the manor so called, 278; beauty of its demesne,

Ardgorte, the proportion and manor so called, 303;
known as Carrynroe in Pynnar's time, 499.
Ardrie, see Dunboy.

Ardleston, the manor so called, 270, 543; comprised the
two proportions of Eddergoule and Carnevrackan, 536,
537.

Ardmagh, the proportion and manor so called, 274; sold
by Thomas Plumstead to Sir Hugh Worrall, 481, 484;
Pynnar's account of, 484 ; names of Irish occupants on
the lands in 1631, ib.; granted to Sir Thomas Rother-
ham and others, ib.

Areskine, see Erskine.

Armada, the Spanish, vessel of, wrecked near Elagh
castle, 32.

Armagh, barony of, its acreage, 202; contains no entire
parish, but is made up of portions from several parishes,
ib.
-, county of, divided by ballyboes, 114; how its
lands were to be distributed by the Project of Planta-
tion,' ib.; amount of available for plantation, ib.;
Primate's lands in, 114, 115; lands for incum-
bents, 115; monastery lands to whom granted, ib.;
lands in, belonging to Sir Tirlagh McHenry O'Neill,
ib.; the undertakers' portion, 115, 116; the natives of
fraternise with swordmen, 116; names of contemplated
undertakers for, ib.; visited by the commissioners of
plantation in 1609, 155-158; its several baronies, 201;
summary of its temporal and church lands, 196, 197;
number of freeholders, lessees, and cottagers planted in,
589.

dean of, his lands and revenues, 158.

primate, termon lands in Tyrone claimed by, 93;
was seized of 26 towns, and received rents and duties
from 160 towns, 158; required to surrender certain
claims in favour of the Londoners, 403; his dispute
with Sir Archibald Acheson, 565.

,

vicars choral, alienation of lands intended to sup-
port a college of, 158.

Arnett, Andrew, a lessee on the manor of Fort-Cunning-
ham, 507.

William, a lessee on the manor of Fort-Cunning-
ham, 507.

Ashe, Sir Thomas and John, grant to, 346; notice of, ib.;
Pynnar's account of buildings on their lands, 459.
Atkinson, Anthony, grant to, 341; notice of, ib.; joint-
owner of the proportion called Tullabin, 468; sold his
interest therein to Archibald Moore, ib.

Charles, a lessee, 515.

Roger, grant to, 335; notice of, ib.
Aubignie, Lord. See Stuart, Esme.

Audley, Lord, his offer to undertake 100,000 acres in
Tyrone, 79; his ancestors great planters, 135; his

offer treated with ridicule by Chichester, 136; grant to
him and his wife, 268; his family, ib.; grant in the
barony of Orier to, 311; charge made against by the
Earl of Abercorn, 528; Carew's account of, 534; died
in April, 1616, at Dromquin, in the county of Tyrone,
535; had owned the proportions of Brade, Fentonagh,
Edergoole, and Carnevrackan, 536; held 2,000 acres
in reversion of Arte McBaron, and 500 acres as servitor,
569; Carew's account of, in 1611, ib.

Sir Ferdinando, Carew's account of, 534.
Sir Marvin, Carew's account of, 534.
Aulant Aula [Aula Macaula], agent to the Duke of Len-
nox, 505.

Averell, Thomas, a tenant-settler, 547.

BABINGTON, Brutus, his letter describing his proselytis-
ing operations at Derry, 415; alienated 81 townlands
belonging to the church, 420.

Richard, a lessee, 515.

Bacon, Francis, his ideas about Ulster plantation, 71, 72;
his gross flattery of the King, ib; describes the plan-
tation as a providential outlet for England, 132, 133.
Bagenall, Sir Henry, his evil influence in Ulster, 38;
how he got Maghery-Morne, 48.

Mabel, her marriage with the Earl of Tyrone, 54;
at Castleroe near Coleraine, ib.

Nicholas, his coming to Ulster, 21; grant of
monastery lands to, 115, 158.

Bagenalls, the, intermeddled in the affairs of the O'Neills,

22.

Bagshaw, Sir Edward, owned the proportion called
Monaghan, county Cavan, 464.

Baillie, Edward, a leaseholder in the barony of Clonkee,
425; a fee-farmer, 456.

-, George, a lessee, 515.

James, a fee-farmer, 456.

John, a lessee, 456.

, William, grant to as an undertaker, 309; his
buildings at Bailieborough, 456; tenants on his pro-
portion of Tonregie, ib.; his new patent, 457.
Baker, John, a lessee on the proportion of Dromany, 453.
Balfour, Anne, daughter of James, Lord Glenawley, 457 ;
her marriages, ib.; recovered damages from the Bishop
of Clogher for the loss of her first husband, 536.

-, James, Lord Glenawley, his grant from the
Crown, 475. See Glenawley.

Sir James, Clerk-Registrar of Scotland, Knox's
account of, 479.

Michael, Lord Burleigh, grant to, 300; notice of,
ib.; family troubles, 411.

Michael, Laird Mountwhanny, grant to, 300, 301;
sold his lands to Sir Stephen Butler, 475; built in part
of the old castle of Crom, io. See Mountwhanny.
Susanna, married to Hugh Hamilton, Lord Glen-
awley, 541; her children, ib.

Sir William, of Mountwhanny and Pitcullo, 541.
Ballaclogh, the proportion so called, 267; named Bal-
leneclogh by Pynnar, 545; Pynnar's account of, ib.;
known as the manor of Cecill, ib.

Balleconnell, the proportion so called, 473; owned by
Captains Culme and Talbott, ib.; Pynnar's account of,

ib.

Ballemonehan, Pynnar's account of, 576; comprised in
the manor of Drumbanagher, ib.