3. His Graces Estate in Lands there is the greatest that ever was in _Ireland_, and consequently he is out of the danger incident to those _Proreges_, against whom _Cambden_ sayes, _Hibernia est semper querula_; there being no reason for ones getting more Land, who hath already the most of any. 4. Whereas some chief Governours who have gone into _Ireland_, chiefly to repair or raise fortunes, have withdrawn themselves again when their work hath been done, not abiding the clamors and complaints of the people afterwards: But his Grace hath given Hostages to that Nation for his good Government, and yet hath taken away aforehand all fears of the contrary. 5. His Grace dares do whatever he understands to be fitting, even to the doing of a single Subject Justice against a Confederate multitude; being above the sinister interpretations of the jealous and querulous; for his known Liberality and Magnificence shall ever keep him free from the clamor of the people, and his through-tried fidelity shall frustrate the force of any subdolous whisperings in the Ears of His Majesty. 6. His good acceptance of all ingenious endeavours, shall make the wise men of this Eastern _England_ be led by his Star into _Ireland_, and there present him with their choicest advices, who can most judiciously select and apply them. Lastly, this great Person takes the great Settlement in hand, when _Ireland_ is as a white paper, when there sits a Parliament most affectionate to his Person, and capable of his Counsel, under a King curious as well as careful of Reformation; and when there is opportunity, to pass into Positive Laws whatsoever is right reason and the Law of Nature. Wherefore by applying those Notions unto _Ireland_, I think I have harped upon the right string, and have struck whilest the Iron is hot; by publishing them now, when, if ever at all, they be useful. I would now advertise the world, that I do not think I can mend it, and that I hold it best for every mans particular quiet, to let it _vadere sicut vult_; I know well, that _res nolunt male administrari_, and that (say I what I will or can) things will have their course, nor will nature be couzened: Wherefore what I have written (as I said before) was done but to ease and deliver my self, my head having been impregnated with these things by the daily talk I hear about advancing and regulating Trade, and by the murmurs about Taxes, &c. Now whether what I have said be contemned or cavilled at, I care not, being of the same minde about this, as some thriving men are concerning the profuseness of their Children; for as they take pleasure to get even what they believe will be afterwards pissed against the wall, so do I to write, what I suspect will signifie nothing: Wherefore the race being not to the swift, &c. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient. [Illustration: (decorative header)] The Index.