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heare a masse then after that they wyll brynge the mayor to Christ- 

 church & havyng put hym into hys pew they convey themselves to a 

 taverne tyl the sermon be done, that they brjnge the mayor back 

 agayne to hys house-^ If I be here a lyttell teclyous I besech youl 

 h' to pdon me, for now I do speake for the glory of god & yet no lesse 

 for the servyce of the kynge, for it is strange that in Dublyne wher 

 the worde of god hath byne so plentyfuUy preached, that they shuld 

 make no better choyce but of such offycers for the servyce of hys ma*', 

 but such as Tvyll impugne hys ma^'^ lawes, but they will say a 

 papyst may be a good subiecte, yet I would knowe but what they 

 do thynke whyther at Eome or at Eemes or wher some eul other 

 wyse wher popery beareth sway, whyther they would put a knowne 

 protestant in comyssyon or in any manl of authority for the servyce 

 of the pope. 



May it now please you ho' to undrestand the frutes of ther servyce 

 that do not onely execut ther offyces to the great detryment of hys 

 nia*', but also when any of hys best a:ffected subiectes that haue con- 

 formed them selves to hys ma*'^ proceadinges, yf he shall lyght into 

 the laps eyther of a sargant, a cunstable or a jaylor that is a papist 

 he shall be afflycted & exacted on wyth more rygore & crewelty, 

 then yf he wer amonge Turkes or Jewes. 



"Wher contrary yf a papyst be brought in questyon (allthoughe 

 some tymes for hys dysobedyence towardes hys prynce) ther is scarce 

 an offycer that wyll do hys duty to ap^hend hym, nor a jayler that 

 wyll scantell hym wyth that short alowance belongynge to an 

 offendre but wyll rayther enterteyne hym as a frend and the more 

 repugnant he sheweth hym self agaynst hys ma*'' procedyngs so much 

 the more favours the jayler wyll showe hym. 



leavyng to speake of infynit p^sydentes that myght be inferred 

 concernyng thes matters let me besech but one example how hys 

 ma^' hymself was handeled now very lately about certeyne landes in 

 the county of AYaxford that had byne long deteyned from hym, And 

 beynge now brought to a tryall of lawe in the county itself the 

 jury would in no wyse fynd for hys ma*" ryght, allthough the 

 evydence gyven them was most pregnant & aparant, Wher uppon 

 the jury was brought to Dublyne, wher as well by the testy[mony] 

 of recordes as by such other evydence as was ther gyven in the 



On this point the writer of these "Remembrances " has dwelt at large in his 

 ''New Description of Ireland," chapter xvi. 



