128 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



Eritish Treasury, contain frank and sometimes far from complimentary 

 criticisms of men and measures in Ireland ; and tlie writer is parti- 

 cularly severe upon the defects or abuses which he notes in the legal 

 tribunals of the country. Altogether the document serves as a useful 

 commentary on the well-known work with which it is so closely 

 contemporary, Sir John Davies' "Discovery," and forms an interest- 

 ing addition to the available sources of information concerning the 

 administration of this country in the reign of James the First. 



I have endeavoured in the notes to explain such allusions and 

 resolve such obscurities as seem to require observation. The text has 

 been accurately transcribed from the original manuscript, which is 

 among the Lansdowne Papers at the British Museum. 



REMEMBRAJSTCES, BY CAPTAIX BARNABY RICH, 

 CONCERNING THE STATE OE IRELAND, 14 Aug. 1612. 

 Lajj-sdowne Ms. 156, No. 6. 

 Caesar Papees. 

 Teeasuet. 



To THE EYGHT HONOEABLE S^i 



Julius Ceasee kntght etc. 



I have psumed to psent youl ho' wyth thos intelygences for hyj 

 Mt'^ servyce in Ireland wythowt any respect eyther of love o] 

 hatred borne to any man, the whych to set downe accordyuge t( 

 a trwth would aske a large and a longe dyscourse but knowyHi 

 that an Item to you] ho' is as much as a volume may it pleas 

 you to understand as foloweth : 



OF SOME ImPEDTMENTES THAT HATH 

 Eu] MOEE BTNE HYNDERYNGE TO THE 

 PrTNCES SEBVYCE in IEELA^'DE. 



The combynation between the Englyshe & the Iryshe by fosteryi 

 & marryeinge contrary to the statutes of that realme^ hath eul moj 

 byne so piudicyall to the servyce of the prynce as psydentes wj 

 infynit here to be inferred when murther treason Rebellyon and 

 maul of contemptyous demeananances towards the prynce shall 

 boulstered & borne owt by the Englyshe & when hys Ma*! ai 



1 The Act for INEarieing with Irishmen, 28 Hen. YIII., cap. 28. 



