Lascelles' Res Gestæ Anglorum in Hibernica.
Leland's History of Ireland.

Lingard's History of England.

Lodge's Irish Peerage by Archdall.
Lodge's Geneaology of the British Peerage.

Mac Geoghegan's History of Ireland.
Madden's United Irishmen.

Mac Skimmin's Carrickfergus.

Milner's Inquiry about Ireland.

Mitchel's Life and Times of Hugh O'Neill.

Moore's History of Ireland.

Montgomery Manuscripts.

Murray's Ireland and her Church.

O'Connell's Memoir on Ireland.

Ordnance Memoir of Derry.

Palgrave's Rise and Progress of the Commonwealth.
Patent Rolls of James and Charles the First.

Playfair's Family Antiquity.

Political Dictionary.

Pynnar's Survey.

Reid's History of the Irish Presbyterian Church.

Selden's Works.

Shirley's Dominion of Farney.

Smith's (Sir Thomas,) Commonwealth.

Smith's History of Cork.

Smith's History of Waterford.

Smyth's Ireland Statistical and Historical.

Spenser's View of the State of Ireland.

State Papers in the time of Henry VIII.
Stuart's History of Armagh.

Taylor's Civil Wars of Ireland.

Temple's History of the Irish Rebellion.

Wallingford's Anglia Sacra.

Warner's History of Ireland.

I have given this list of authorities, which I have repeatedly examined, to serve as a guide to the study of the most interesting period of Irish history.

TO

SIR ROBERT KANE,

ETC. ETC.

MY DEAR SIR ROBERT,

I beg to inscribe this Book with your distinguished name-distinguished for the most signal and most enduring services to your country.

Yours is the truest patriotism. You have taught us practically to appreciate the wealth of our fertile soil, our mines, and our rivers; and how we can best avail ourselves of the great natural treasures of this island.

Your labours for your country have conferred infinite advantages upon her, the most valuable acquisitions on scientific and industrial knowledge, and distinguished honour on yourself.

In addition to your numerous titles to public gratitude, on me you have the highest claims of any, namely, of sincere esteem and friendship; and allow me to remark that I should not have presumed to select your name, with which to inscribe my page, if I did not feel conscious that I had not any intention of teaching, in this book, agrarian doctrines, which I abhor and contemn. The selection of such a name is my answer to any one who charges me with preaching a resumption of estates-a thing morally dishonest and legally impossible.

Yours, &c. &c.

THOMAS MAC NEVIN.

26, Summer-hill, Dublin.

* The idea of making title at this time of day is ridiculous.

SINCE this Work went to press the House of Lords has affirmed a decision of Lord Langdale in the Rolls, in the case of The Skinners' Company against the Irish Society. The principle of the decision is this, that the Irish Society is a trustee of the Crown and of the City of London only for public and political purposes, and that although it is bound to divide the surplus remaining in hands, after working out these purposes, amongst the London Companies Grocers, Fishmongers, Drysalters-yet no single Company has a right to an account from the Society. It was a decision on grounds of technical equity, having no general interest, except so far as the history of the Plantation was introduced. It has certainly given unlimited powers of extravagant expenditure in tavern bills and travelling expenses, and the like, to the Society. Reports of Cases adjudged in the Rolls' Court during the time of Lord Langdale, by Charles Beavan, vol. vii., part iii., p. 593. See Chapter VII. of this Work.