[Excerpts from "Irish Life in the Seventeenth Century: After Cromwell" by Edward MacLysaght, 1939]
[excerpted 7 Dec 2006 by Mark Murphy]

p. 270
The Calendars of State Papers, entitled "West Indies & America," describe a vast quantity of documents,
among which there are many references to the Irish there in the seventeenth century.  Most of them appear
to have had little love for the English, who in turn disliked and distrusted the Irish.  A very full collection of
documents bearing on the question of transportation of Irish men and women as slaves to Barbadoes and
other places and the hardships they there endured has been made by the Rev. A. Gwynn, S.J., and is
printed in Analecta Hibernica, No. 4, October, 1932.

p. 396-397
Dunton's Letter #6
[John Dunton. Descriptions of his Tours in Ireland. Unpublished MSS in Bodleian Library, Oxford. bef. 1699]
[description of Dublin, Christ's Church, King's Chapel Royal, St. Mary's Chapel]
In the middle of the great aisle on the south side by the wall is to be seen the tomb of Richard Strongbow,
earl of Pembroke, the first English adventurer in the conquest of Ireland, he has the effigies of half his son
lying by him, whom they say he cut into two at the middle for showing some fear in an engagement with
the Irish.  In the wall above are these words inscribed in gilded letters: This ancient monument of Richard
Strongbow called Comes Stranguliae Lord of Chepstow and Ogny the first and principal invader of Ireland
1169, the monument was broken by the fall of the roof and body of Christ church in anno 1567, and set 
up again at the charges of the Right Honourable Sir Henry Sydney, knight of the noble Order Lord
President of Wales, Lord Deputy of Ireland 1570.

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