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[Sir] James Ware, Sir James Ware [evidently issued by
Robert Ware], The Annals of the Affairs of Ireland (Dublin 1705)
| Bibliographical details: [Sir] James Ware, Sir James Ware [evidently issued by
Robert Ware], The Annals of the Affairs of Ireland, from the first
conquest by the English in the reign of Henry II, unto the end of the
reign of queen Elizabeth by Sir James Ware, Knight, together with a continuation
of the most memorable transactions there, from the end of the Reign of
Elizabeth unto the present time (Dublin: Andrew Crook, for M. Gunne in Essex
St and E. Dobson at the Stationers Arms in Castle St, 1705). |
| [Prefatory
remarks:] |
I am of Opinion, many things worthy to be known, and hitherto
unheard of, very pertinent to the History of the times of King EDWARD,
and Queen MARY, might be added out of the Manuscripts in that incomparably
well furnish’d, and inestimable COTTONIAN Library at Westminster;
but, to my sorrow, I neglectd whilst I was in England, thence to enrich
my Collections. Yet in these which I now Present, I have not only deliver’d
Matters of Fact, but also (according to *Sempronius A[f]ellio’s advice
to Agellius) have added as far as I could learn, the Reason and Design
of thir being done; from which Maxims may be drawn, which may be of no
small Utility to the Public.
I have touched upon Ecclesiastical
Affairs very sparingly ... hardly to be separated ... It was never
my Intention to obtrude Frauds and Falsehoods for Truths: Yet, wherever
I may, through Credulity, have been Imposed on, I shall upon friendly
Information, most willingly acknowledge and Correct My Mistakes; For I
always esteem’d it a most commendable Quality, and the most worthy
of a Free-Man, to be always a Proficient in the Truth; and modestly without
odious Reflections, to Communicate the same to Posterity [&c.] The
annals begin with an Introduction: ‘Dermot King of Leinster, Song
of Murchard, having committed a Rape upon Dervorgill the Wife of Tigernach
Ó Roirk King of Brefinia, Tigernac[h] in Revenge, deals with Rodrick
Ó Connor, at that time King of Ireland, to fall upon Dermod with
their United Forces ... This was in the Year 1167. [1]
The book is
organised as year by year chapters, to 1602 [Chap. XLV], between half
a page and two pages extent, though the last is five. Note also the section
headings running from page to page, among which ‘the Life and Death
of George Brown’. An additional section by Harris beginning p.175,
and entitled Gesta Hibernorum [running head] takes the form of a two column
‘Brief Chronology,, beginning, King James Proclaimed in Dublin. Ó
Rourk submits to him., for Anno 1603, and continuing to 1702, in a Protestant
patriotic vein, with entries such as, ‘General Ginkel departed to
great Applause’ and mac-Cabe and four of his Men hanged at the Naas’.
Note Oct 19, 1691, Hagan and his Crew take the benefit of the Proclaimation.
He is afterward Murdered by Rapparees. [191]
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| *Sempronius Asellio (d. circa 91BC) was an early Roman historian, Rerum Gestarum Libri or Libri Rerum Gestarum or Historiae . He was a tribune of Scipio Africanus in the First Punic War and later found a patron in Scipio Aemilianus, together with his contemporary Polybius, who influenced him. His relation of contemporary events as they happened incorporates an account of why they happened and, as such, are considered the earliest examples of analytic historiography. [Wikipedia - online]. |
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