[265] Petition presented March 1655, ib. The allusion is to chap. 6 of Campion’s History of Ireland, first printed in 1587, and republished by Sir James Ware in 1633, with a dedication to Strafford.
[266] Henry Cromwell to Thurloe, March 8, 1653-4, in Thurloe, ii. 149; Jenkin Lloyd to Thurloe, March 13, ib. 162; Fleetwood to Thurloe, April 8, ib. 224; appendix to Fourteenth Report of Deputy-keeper of Public Records, Ireland, p. 28; Ludlow, i. 377, 542.
[267] The names and constituencies of the Irish members of Parliament are in Parl. Hist., xx. 307; Ludlow, i. 388. Instructions of August 17, 1654, in Thurloe, ii. 508.
[268] The Great Case of Transplantation &c., London, printed for J. C. 1655, to which Thomasson gives the date January 3. A potato-field is still called a ‘garden’ in Ireland. The ‘handy-man’ who builds with bad tools out of bad materials, is even now not extinct. The declaration of November 30, 1654, is not extant, but is recited in a later one, see Eng. Hist. Review, xiv. 722.
[269] Fleetwood to Thurloe, February 7, 1654-5, Thurloe, iii. 139. The Interest of England in the Irish Transplantation stated, &c., by a faithful servant of the Commonwealth, Richard Lawrence, London, 1655, dated March 9. The Author and Case of Transplanting, &c., vindicated against the Unjust Aspersions of Colonel Richard Lawrence, by Vincent Gookin, Esquire, London, 1655, published May 12. Petty had a hand in Gookin’s first pamphlet, see his Life, by Lord Fitzmaurice. Lawrence was a brother of the English President of Council; he came to Ireland with Cromwell and was governor of Waterford.
[270] Letters of November 25, 1653, in Thurloe, i. 587; of January 25 1653-4. ib. ii. 27; of April 27, 1655, ib. iii. 384; Fleetwood and forty-four other officers to the Protector, ib. iii. 466; Nieuport to the States General, ib. iii. 477; Morland’s Hist. of the Evangelical Churches, book iii. chap. 3, art. 1.; Hist. of Down Survey, p. 66; Henry Cromwell to Thurloe, January 30, 1655-6, Thurloe, iv. 484.
[271] H. Cromwell to Thurloe, March 12, 1655-6, Thurloe, iv. 606.
[272] Petty’s Reflections on some persons and things in Ireland, ed. 1790, pp. 54, 106; Hist. of the Down Survey, chaps. 1 and 2. The name ‘Down’, comes simply from the particulars being laid down in map form and not merely described.
[273] Dr. Petty’s proposals at p. 9 of Hist. of Down Survey; Articles with Worsley ratified by the Lord Deputy and Council, December 25, 1654, ib. 29; H. Cromwell to Thurloe, October 9, 1655, in Thurloe, iv. 73; Prendergast, Cromwellian Settlement, p. 206. In consequence of the delays interposed by Worsley and others, the thirteen months were made to run from February 1 1654-5.
[274] Brief account of the Survey in Hist. of Down Survey, xiii.; Petty’s Political Anatomy of Ireland, chap. iv.; Fitzmaurice’s Life of Petty, chap. ii.; Prendergast, 2nd. edition, 221, where there are many details as to the sale of debentures to officers, and a facsimile of one by way of frontispiece. On August 29, 1655, Henry Cromwell wrote to Thurloe: ‘I believe we reduce near 5000 men, and as good soldiers as are in the three nations. I am afraid few of them will betake themselves to planting; if you could find out some employment for them abroad, it would be of good service to the public,’ Thurloe, iii. 744. State Papers, Domestic, December 28, 1654. As late as November 6, 1657, Broghill wrote to Montagu ‘if all things move at the rate our settlement of Ireland has done, I shall think the body politic has got the gout,’ Thurloe, vi. 600.