The history of Ireland; from the earliest period of the Irish anals, to the present time . ourt,did not venture to carry it into effect, andthe recusants became more insolent, as thegovernment, whose duty it was to restrainthem, showed greater weakness. They notonly continued to celebrate their worshipopenly, and persevered in .their courses, butthey began to cry out about the grievousweight of the public burdens, blamed theiragents, who had unadvisedly involved themin the obligation to pay so large a contribu-tion, and made so much clamour, that thecourt was at length obliged to agree to acom
The history of Ireland; from the earliest period of the Irish anals, to the present time . ourt,did not venture to carry it into effect, andthe recusants became more insolent, as thegovernment, whose duty it was to restrainthem, showed greater weakness. They notonly continued to celebrate their worshipopenly, and persevered in .their courses, butthey began to cry out about the grievousweight of the public burdens, blamed theiragents, who had unadvisedly involved themin the obligation to pay so large a contribu-tion, and made so much clamour, that thecourt was at length obliged to agree to acompromise, and accept a quarterly paymentof five thousand, instead of ten thousandpounds, until the whole voluntary subsidyshould be discharged. King Charles, as washis custom, sacrificed his friends and servants for the expediency of the moment;lord Falkland was recalled ; and the govern-ment of Ireland was left in the hands of twolords justices, Adam Loftus viscount Ely,the Irish lord chancellor, and Richard earlof Cork, who then held the office of lordhigh treasurer of Ireland. 617 71. CHAPTER XXI. THE GREAT EARL OF CORK AND HIS GAINS. IR Richard Boyle, whohad now risen to therank of an earl, and tothe high office of lordjustice, was one of themost remarkable menwho ruled Ireland atthis period, and deserves a more lengthenednotice as a type of that class of greedy Eng-lishmen who rushed into Ireland to raisetheir fortunes on the rebellions of the latteryears of the reign of queen Elizabeth. Tothe unscrupulous dealings of such men wemust attribute much of the hostile feelingwhich marked the relations between the na-tive Irish and their English rulers in thesucceeding age. The earl of Cork, from avery mean beginning, amassed in the spaceof a few years an immense fortune, which hewould fain attribute to the favour of pro-vidence, but we have documentary evidenceto prove that his contemporaries in Irelandattributed it to a much less honourableagency.* In the pride of his elevation
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