CONSIDERATIONS TOUCHING THE 



a chastisement of rebels, without fruit or emolument 

 to this state, had been spent in &quot; praemio,&quot; that is, 

 in rewarding, things had never grown to this ex 

 tremity. But to speak forwards. The keeping of 

 the principal Irish persons in terms of contentment, 

 and without cause of particular complaint ; and 

 generally the carrying of an even course between the 

 English and Irish ; whether it be in competition 

 or whether it be in controversy, as if they were one 

 nation, without that same partial course which hath 

 been held by the g-overnors and counsellors there, 

 that some have favoured the Irish, and some contrary, 

 is one of the best medicines of that state. And as 

 for other points of contentment, as the countenancing 

 of their nobility as well in this court as there ; the 

 imparting of knighthood ; the care of education of 

 their children, and the like points of comfort and 

 allurement; they are things which fall into every 

 man s consideration. 



For the extirpating of the seeds of troubles, I 

 suppose the main roots are but three. The first, the 

 ambition and absoluteness of the chief of the families 

 and septs. The second, the licentious idleness of 

 their kernes and soldiers, that lie upon the country, 

 by cesses and such like oppressions. And the third, 

 the barbarous laws, customs, their brehon laws, 

 habits of apparel, their poets or heralds that enchant 

 them in savage manners, and sundry other such 

 dregs of barbarism and rebellion, which by a number 

 of politic statutes of Ireland, meet to be put in 

 execution, are already forbidden ; unto which such 



