Falkiner — ^'Rememlrances of the State of Ireland, 1612.'' 131 



knowe not how to give hyin, I may therefore conclude that for a 

 deputy and a Treasurer Ireland was neuer better sped than now 

 it is. 



Of the L cheef Justyce of Ieelaxde.^ 



I myght speake the lyke of that worthy gentylman, that is now 

 the Lorde cheefe Justyce of Irelande, by whom that courte of hys 

 Ma*'' Benche is now the thyrd tyme [ ? term] made happy. 



Of the L cheef Justyce of the 

 CoMox Pleas in Irelande.'^ 



A man of lyttell hurte, that lyves wythout offence to any, yet 

 suspected to be a papyst and a secret frend to assyst popery. And 

 allthough hym selfe in the tearme tyme doth use to follow the 

 L deputy to church, yet his wyf could ne3er be brought to Church 

 And an offyce belongynge to the courte of comon pleas that is in hys 

 gyft namely the keapinge of the sealle, he hath bestowed of a most 

 obstynat knowne papist and such a one as allmost eu'^ry Sunday 

 through the yeare hath a mass sayd in hys house. 



Of uxwoethy peesoxs pfereed 



TO OFFYCE IN IrELAND. 



before I speake of inferyor offycers in any pticular maS. wyth 

 all humblnes I crave pdon fyrst to set downe what form experyence 

 hathe taught, whereby it doth apeare, that ther is nothynge more 

 hurtfull to the servyce of a souraygne, than when unworthy psons 

 have byne advanced to offyces of trust, whos bare and needy estate 

 hath byne a spure to prycke them forward to brybery & to all maS 

 of other corupt dealynge : let me here yet once agayne besech a pdon 

 but to set downe thys one Jsydent, how in the late raygne of our 

 most gracyous Queue duringe the tyme of Tyrones rebellyon one 



^ Sir John Denham, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, 1612-1617. He had pre- 

 viously held the office of Chief Baron of the Irish Court of Exchequer, and 

 subsequently became a Baron of the English Exchequer. Denham was a lawyer 

 of considerable distinction, and was one of the Judges in Hampden's case. He 

 was the father of the poet Denham. — Vide Ibid., vol. xiv. 



' Sir Nicholas Walsh, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 1597-1615. In 

 Perrott's Parliament, "Walsh had been Speaker of the House of Commons. See a 

 notice of him in "The ParUament of Ireland under the Tudor Sovereigns," in 

 "Proceedings," vol. xxv., sect, c, pp. 541, 542. 



