Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E570001-001
A Letter sent by I. B. Gentleman vnto his very frende Mayster R. C. Esquire
Author: Sir Thomas Smith/Thomas Smith junior
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Electronic edition compiled by Beatrix Färber
Proof corrections and Preamble by Hiram Morgan
Introduction by Hiram Morgan
Funded by University College, Cork, School of History
1. First draft, revised and corrected.
Extent of text: 12070 words
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Text ID Number: E570001-001
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Sources
Sources- Tract by Sir Thomas Smith on the colonisation of Ards in County of Down, appendix V, in George Hill, An historical account of the MacDonnells of Antrim: including notices of some other septs, Irish and Scottish (Belfast, 1873) 405415. (Online at archive.org https://archive.org/details/historicalaccoun00hill/page/404) Errors in this edition have been corrected using source no. 2.
- Henry Huntington Library, San Marino, California, A letter sent by I.B. Gentleman vnto his very frende Mayster R.C. Esquire wherin is conteined a large discourse of the peopling & inhabiting the cuntrie called the Ardes, and other adiacent in the north of Ireland, and taken in hand by Sir Thomas Smith one of the Queenes Maiesties priuie Counsel, and Thomas Smith Esquire, his sonne. [Imprinted at London: By Henry Binneman for Anthonhson [i.e. Anthony Kitson], dwelling in Paules Churc [sic] yard at the signe of the Sunne, [1572].
Literature- Robert Dunlop, 'Sixteenth-Century Schemes for the Plantation of Ulster', Scottish Historical Review 22 (1925) 199212.
- D.B Quinn, 'Sir Thomas Smith and the beginning of English colonial theory', Proceedings of the American Philological Society LXXXIX (1945) 5460.
- Mary Dewar, Sir Thomas Smith: a tudor intellectual in office (London 1964).
- Nicholas Canny, The Elizabethan conquest of Ireland: a pattern established 156576 (London 1976).
- Hiram Morgan, 'The colonial venture of Sir Thomas Smith in Ulster, 157175', Historical Journal, 28/2 (June 1985) 261278.
- Lisa Jardine, 'Encountering Ireland: Gabriel Harvey, Edmund Spenser, and English Colonial Ventures', in Brendan Bradshaw et al. (eds.), Representing Ireland: literature and the origins of conflict, 15341660 (Cambridge 1993) 6070.
- Mark Thompson, Before Hamilton and Montgomery: Sir Thomas Smith's forgotten English Colony of 1572 (Newtownards, 2010), see online at http://www.ulster-scots.com/uploads/15561912473172.pdf.
- David Heffernan, Walter Devereux, first earl of Essex, and the colonization of north-east Ulster, c.15736 (Dublin 2018).
- Christopher McMillan, 'A Letter from I.B. Gentleman: Sir Thomas Smith's Ulster scheme and its Scottish context', Prose Studies, 39/23 (January 2018) 8398.
The edition used in the digital edition- George Hill, Tract by Sir Thomas Smith on the colonisation of Ards in County of Down, appendix V in An historical account of the MacDonnells of Antrim: including notices of some other septs, Irish and Scottish. , Belfast, Archer (1873) page 405415
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Created: by Sir Thomas Smith/Thomas Smith junior
(1572)
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Language: [EN] The text is in sixteenth-century English.
Language: [LA] Some phrases and citations are in Latin.
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