264 SPEECH OF SIR W. JONES, 



dustry, and dispatcli of Sir Humphry Winch ; the 

 care and affection to the commonwealth, and the 

 prudent and politic administration of Sir John Den- 

 ham, and you shall need no other lessons. They 

 were all Lincoln s-Inn men as you are, you have 

 known them as well in their beginnings, as in their 

 advancement. 



But because you are to be there not only chief 

 justice, but a counsellor of estate, I will put you in 

 mind of the great work now in hand, that you may 

 raise your thoughts according unto it. Ireland is 

 the last &quot;ex filiis Europe,&quot; which hath been re 

 claimed from desolation, and a desart, in many parts, 

 to population and plantation ; and from savage and 

 barbarous customs to humanity and civility. This 

 is the King s work in chief: it is his garland of he- 

 roical virtue and felicity, denied to his progenitors, 

 and reserved to his times. The work is not yet con 

 ducted to perfection, but is in fair advance : and this 

 I will say confidently, that if God bless this kingdom 

 with peace and justice, no usurer is so sure in seven 

 years space to double his principal with interest, and 

 interest upon interest, as that kingdom is within the 

 same time to double the stock both of wealth and 

 people. So as that kingdom, which once within 

 these twenty years wise men were wont to doubt 

 whether they should wish it to be in a pool, is like 

 now to become almost a garden, and younger sister 

 to Great Britain. And therefore you must set down 

 with yourself to be not only a just governor, and a 

 good chief justice, as if it were in England, but under 



