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A Discovery of the true causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued (...)

Author: Sir John Davies

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Henry Morley

Electronic edition compiled by Beatrix Färber

Funded by University College, Cork, School of History

1. First draft.

Extent of text: 45150 words

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CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a Department of History Project at University College, Cork
College Road, Cork, Ireland—http://www.ucc.ie/celt

(2016)

Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: E610003

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Sources

    Selected further reading
  1. Richard Butler (ed), The Annals of Ireland. By Friar John Clyn, of the Convent of Friars Minors, Kilkenny; and Thady Dowling, Chancellor of Leighlin. Together with the Annals of Ross (Dublin 1849). Online at CELT. A new edition and translation was published by Bernadette Williams, The Annals of Ireland by Friar John Clyn (Dublin 2007).
  2. Patrick Baron Finglas of Westpalstown, Discourse of the Decay of Ireland (c. 1534?) [=Of the Getting of Ireland and of the Decay of same, printed in W. Harris, Hibernica (Dublin 1747).]
  3. Sir John Davies, A Discovery of the True Causes Why Ireland Was Never Entirely Subdued [and] Brought Under Obedience of the Crown of England Until the Beginning of His Majesty's Happy Reign, ed. James P. Meyers (London, 1612;Washington, D.C.: 1969). [A critical edition].
  4. James L. Sanderson, Sir John Davies. (Boston 1975).
  5. Hans S. Pawlisch, "Sir John Davies, the Ancient Constitution, and the Civil Law", Historical Journal 23 (1980): 689–702.
  6. Hans S. Pawlisch, Sir John Davies and the Conquest of Ireland: A Study in Legal Imperialism (Cambridge 1985).
  7. James P. Myers, "Early English Colonial Experience in Ireland: Captain Thomas Lee and Sir John Davies", Éire-Ireland 23 (1988): 8–21.
  8. Hiram Morgan (ed.), Sir John Davies, Of the Lawes of Irelande, The Irish Jurist 31 (1995-96) 307–312. Online at CELT.
  9. Clare Carroll, Vincent Carey (eds), Solon his Follie, or, A politique discourse touching the reformation of common-weales conquered, declined or corrupted (New York 1996).
  10. Steven G. Ellis, Ireland in the Age of the Tudors, 1447–1603: English Expansion and the End of Gaelic Rule (Harlow 1998).
  11. Eugene Flanagan, "The Anatomy of Jacobean Ireland: Captain Barnaby Rich, Sir John Davies and the Failure of Reform", in: Political Ideology in Ireland, 1541–1641, ed. Hiram Morgan (Dublin 1999) 158–80.
  12. D. Alan Orr, "From a View to a Discovery: Edmund Spenser, Sir John Davies, and the Defects of Law in the Realm of Ireland", Canadian Journal of History 38 (2003): 395–408.
  13. Jean R. Brink, "Sir John Davies: Lawyer and Poet", in: Ireland in the Renaissance, c. 1540–1660, ed. Thomas Herron and Michael Potterton (Dublin 2007) 88–104.
  14. Valerie McGowan-Doyle, The Book of Howth: Elizabethan Conquest and the Old English (Cork 2011).
  15. D. Alan Orr, "Sir John Davies's Agrarian Law for Ireland", Journal of the History of Ideas, 75:1 (January 2014) 91–112.
    The edition used for the digital edition
  1. Henry Morley, Sir John Davies A Discovery of the true causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued nor brought under obedience of the Crown of England until the Beginning of His Majesty's happy Reign (...) 1612 in Ireland under Elizabeth and James the First. , London, Routledge (1890) page 217–342

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Created: (1612)

Use of language

Language: [EN] The text is in seventeenth-century English, but has been modernized. (Some 3rd p. sing. forms in -eth occur.)
Language: [LA] Many phrases and quotations are in Latin.
Language: [FR] A number of words is in French.
Language: [GA] One word is an anglicized Irish.
Language: [OFR] A number of quotstions is in Old French.
Language: [IT] One phrase is in Italian.

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