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                                                       1626 AD - 1630 AD

1626 AD Now fearing an invasion by Spain was still possible, Charles 1st the French Stuart King of England instructed Henry Carey / Lord Falkland in Ireland to negotiate with the Catholic Irish to allow them some concessions, which were to become known as the "51 Graces," that would be granted to the Catholic Irish in return for financial support for Charles 1st. It was not to be very successful as Lord Falkland's heart was not in it as he had previously been given the position in Ireland by Charles 1st's father, the bigoted James 1st to carry out his particular agenda as a hard - line Calvinist Episcopalian.

     The Quin Abbey in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province was reoccupied by the Franciscan friars under the authority of Fr. Francis Matthew their Provincial leader in Ireland and Fr. Teige / Bonaventure Mac Gorman was put in charge.

      This year the Old Hall was built on the site of the O Rourke's Breifne Castle on the River Bonet at Dromahair in Co. Leitrim in Northern Connacht. - Lord Dunboyne rebuilt the Heberian Dal gCais Ui Bloid U Turlough Ui mBriain Holy Cross Abbey in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province.

1627 AD The English Ascendancy Parliament, now under Charles 1st the French Stuart King of England, passed an Act, "That Catholics were not to be allowed into Office." On the other hand they now agreed to the non - Catholic Planters in Ireland defaulting on James 1st's original decree of "no Catholics being allowed to work Irish land." They now gave them permission to use Native Irish tenants to work their previously Confiscated land as they once again began to further increase the English non - Catholic Plantations in Ireland. 2,000 more Church of England non - Catholic Planters were  put into the Ulster Province with further threats of expulsion for, "Anyone who did not conform to the Church of England and English habits." To this end, Charles 1st  granted the English appointed Viscount Conway the region of Lisburn in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province where he built a castle against the surrounding Irish Septs there.

April: Henry Carey / Lord Falkland the previously determined anti - Catholic who was now acting for James 1st's son, Charles 1st finally had to allow the Catholic Irish delegates the right to go to England to deal directly with Charles 1st himself who was more then ready to make an agreement for financial considerations.

     Thomas Walsh the Archbishop of Cashel also wrote a History of Ireland this year.

1628 AD May: The Catholic Irish made an agreement with Charles 1st the French Stuart English King whereby the Catholic Irish would make 3 annual payments of 40,000 pounds to him in return for the 51 Graces, most of which the English Church of England Episcopalians already took as part of their common rights, and he advised the delegates that a Parliament would be called to confirm them in English Law. Included in these 51 Graces was be only an Oath of Allegiance, instead of the one of Religious Supremacy, that had been imposed on the Catholic Irish, which further upset the Ascendancy in the Church of England in Ireland who now although small in numbers owned 1/4 of all Irish land. They would also be subject to their share of the annual payment besides giving in to the Catholic Irish on religious grounds, while the particular Grace to remit the Recusancy Fines for not attending Episcopalian services was left out of the final draft. Subsequent to this the election for the Parliament was not held and the Graces were not confirmed as he had promised.

    During this period there was a lack of corn to feed the population in Ireland and many Irish and Anglo - Irish crossed over to the west of England and into Wales were they upset the English populations there while trying to gain employment to survive.   

      The region of Newtown Stewart in Co. Tyrone in Central Southern Ulster passed to Sir William Stewart.

August: James 1st's original and Charles 1st's subsequent advisor, the Duke of Buckingham, was assassinated !!

     Thomas "Black Tom" Wentworth - the English Viscount Wentworth was at this time appointed the Governor of Northern England by Charles 1st after he had changed sides against his fellow M.P.'s among the English Puritan Parliamentarians and joined up with Charles 1st and was to carry Charles 1st's passion further for raising revenues by terrible further repression, also into Ireland later on.

1629 AD Henry Carey / Viscount Falkland the appointed English Lord Deputy in Ireland quarrelled with Adam Loftus the Lord Chancellor and tried to also confiscate the lands of the Ui Dunlainge O Byrnes in Co. Wicklow in the south - east of Southern Leinster so that he could introduce more non - Catholic English Planters there, which was to bring him into further conflict in both England and Ireland. He also pursued the Irish Catholic religious Orders and revived threats to many property Titles in Ireland to obtain his ends and after he went as far as arresting the Catholic friars in Dublin there was great rioting carried out by the population there.

October: With the Duke of Buckingham now gone off of the scene, Henry Carey / Lord Falkland had lost his strongest ally in the English Court and was removed as the appointed English Lord Deputy in Ireland and was not replaced.  Adam Loftus the English Viscount Loftus the Anglo - Irish Chancellor, who was the nephew of the Church of England Archbishop of Dublin, and Richard Boyle the English 1st Earl of Cork were now appointed as English Lord Justices to control Ireland for Charles 1st. When it was apparent that they did no see eye to eye Lord Wilmot the English appointed President in the Connacht Province was created the English Commander - in - Chief and he was able to get them together for a reconciliation meeting. Meanwhile Richard Boyle who was strongly anti - Catholic  was to suppress all of the Irish Catholics religious gatherings including their Mass houses in their own private homes they were to individually set up to conduct Sunday Mass.    

April: England now under Charles 1st  the French Stuart King concluded a Peace settlement with France.

   At this time the Book of Lismore, a highly detailed historical and topographical recount of ancient Ireland, was at Timoleague near Kinsale in Co. Cork in Southern Munster and Michael O Cleary was able to transcribe from it.

1630 AD Father Geoffrey Keating the parish priest of Tubrid near Clonmel in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province while in hiding from the English appointed President in Munster was able to begin to compile a History of Ireland from the earliest times to the Anglo - Norman Invasion in 1170 AD, into the Gaelic language.

      Charles 1st's agent in Ireland, Sir Thomas Phillips complained that the English City Companies were allowing the Catholic Irish to stay in the City of Derry in Co. Derry in the north - east of the Ulster Province for their own financial gain, which went against the original express purpose of his father, James 1st for the non - Catholic English Plantations there, which was the removal of all the Irish Septs totally from the scene. - Sir Lucas Dillon was granted the Manor House and the castle at Loch Glinn this year, where their original residence there is now a Franciscan Convent, and where they were to build a mansion up from the Fitz Gerald Castle ruins there. The Dillons were to leave Ireland for England after the forced Immoral Union later on in 1800 AD where they would also join the ranks of the Absentee - Land Lords and leaving only their agents to run their Estates in Ireland.

    English non - Catholic Plantations now also began in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province on the Estates there under the control of James Butler the 12th English Earl of Ormonde, and also in the Connacht Province.

    Richard Boyle the English 1st Earl of Cork was now in joint control of Ireland and was finding that it was not as easy as it looked, as he was to come out and describe the Scottish Presbyterians who now basically controlled the Ulster Province, "As a rude and remote kingdom, of austere, exalted, unbending, cantankerous people, prone to hysteria and conspiracy theories, committed to a democracy that extended to the elect alone." He was also to be hampered by Francis Annesley / Lord Mountnorris the English appointed Vice - Treasurer in Ireland in his joint administration of Ireland.      

November: England, under Charles 1st the French Stuart King, finally concluded a Peace settlement also with Spain.  

                                                                                         +On to 1631 AD - 1635 AD

 

                                                                          

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