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thes feew yeares, then called by the name of Eobert Jacobe^^ maryed 

 a sailers wydowe of Southampton called by the name of Mall Target, 

 as famous of reporte in the towne of Southampton as Mall iS"eubery in 

 the cytty of London : thys Jacobe comynge into Irelande in a poore 

 & needy estat, & lykwyse in debt to dyuse cytyzens of London, 

 found meanes (by the helpe of frendes) to becom hys Ma*'' solycyter, 

 And shortly after (for hys wyves sake that before she cam into 

 Irelande had bydden defyance to modesty) he got to be made knyght 

 when he had neuer a foote of lande, neu a house, nor so much as a 

 bedde of hys owne to lye uppon. 



And allthough it be conceyved by many that it is not Syr Robert 

 Jacob's purse that hath sythence borne owt hys "wyves excessyve 

 bravery, hyr pompe, hyr pryde, hyr prodygalyte, hyr roystynge, 

 hyr rampynge, hyr revelynge, hyr feastynge, hyr gamynge and 

 other hyr idell & inordynat expendynge, yet it is agayne as 

 credybly beloved that hys Ma*"' revenue doth somethynge fare the 

 worse for it, and that now in thys late busy tyme of thys passyng of 

 lands by the comyssyon for defectyve tytelless, that Syr Eobert Jacob's 

 hand hath passed to many bookes that were but lyttell to hys Ma*'' 

 advantage. 



It is well yenough knowne that when Syr Eoger Wylbrowne^ 

 supply ed the place of the Quen's solycytor in Irelande the wholl 

 parquysytes of hys offyce amounted not so much in one wholl yeare, 

 as Syr Eobert Jacob's lusty wyf wyll play at a payre of cardes in a 

 peece of a nyght. 



laws had their recourse through all the parts of Ireland, so that all was quiet and 

 in a peaceable security : when in truth his Majesty's laws were disobeyed 

 throughout the whole realm of Ireland, and Dublin itself could not be reformed, 

 but there was every day masses and massing priests walking openly in the streets 

 without controlment ; and when it is very well known that the Irish were never 

 more maliciously bent against the prince, and that they do but watch their 

 opportunities when his Majesty should be molested either with foreign war or 

 civil dissensions, for these be the times when the Irish doth ever more take their 

 advantages." Report of Barnaby Rich to Sir Julius Caesar for his Majesty's 

 especial service in Ireland, 12th June, 1663. Lansdowne ms. 156, No. 62. 



1^ Sir Robert Jacob, Solicitor-General, 1606-1618. Sir John Davies, whom Rich 

 omits to notice in these *' Remembrances," was Attorney -General throughout Jacob's 

 tenure of oflfice ; and the latter died before Davies vacated the higher position. 



^- Sir Roger Wilbraham, Solicitor- General, 1586-1603. See as to the emolu- 

 ments of his office the Queen's Letter of 19th April, 1586, and the letter of the Lords 

 of the Council of 13th February, 1585, printed in Smyth's "Law Officers of 

 Ireland," p. 175. 



