1611. Lord Duke de Feria, Ambassador for his Catholic Majesty at 1. First, his Holiness granted to all such that should carry any of the aforesaid holy things, or saying his prayers before any of these holy images, saying the Office of our Lady, or of The Dead, or the seven Penitent Psalms, or the third part of the Rosary Psalter, shall obtain all the indulgences and graces, as if he had visited all the churches within and without Rome.. 2. So many times as he confesses and receives the holy Sacrament, praying God for his Holiness, for the exaltation of our Mother the Holy Catholic Church, and for the extermination of our heresies, he shall gain plenary indulgence. 3. Also, he shall participate all church sacrifices, prayers, fastings, and all other spiritual works of all religious men as if he had been a member of them, praying God for the conservation of all religious orders. 4. So many times as he has examined his conscience with grief for his sins, and with a purpose to confess them, he shall gain the third part of his sins. 5. So often as he passes by any image, either of our Saviour or of our Lady, or any other Saint, making reverence, commending him to God, he shall gain 200 days of remission of his sins. 6. As often as he hears mass, or preaching, or fasts, or makes any other work of mercy, he shall gain 200 days indulgence, and that offering for every soul in purgatory shall double it. 7. As often as he shall say one Pater Noster and Ave Maria, or the psalms, Dum Omnes Gentes, or De Profundis, or Magnificat after his prayers, he shall gain all the defects or wants committed in hearing mass or saying his prayers, either bound upon him by devotion or obligation. 8. By saying in the article of death (Jesus) either by word of mouth or the heart, he shall gain plenary indulgence in form of jubilee. 9. As often as he visits every church or any particular oratory saying there Pater Noster and Aves in the honour of the most Holy Trinity, praying God for the extirpation of heresies, for the exaltation of our Mother the Holy Catholic Church, and for increasing peace betwixt all Catholic princes, and for his Holiness he shall gain all the indulgences of the stations at Rome that day, and by saying one De Profundis may apply the aforesaid to any soul in purgatory. 10. Whosoever by carrying any of the aforesaid holy things, giving good example, admonition, or in any way being causer that you shouldst omit to commit one sin or continue in any other wicked resolution, he shall obtain the third part of his 1611. 11. As often after confessing and receiving the holy sacrament of the altar, saying seven times the Salve Regina with the verses and orations, or not knowing the orations, one Ave Maria for the exaltation of our Mother the Holy Catholic Church, he shall gain plenary indulgence. 12. Finally, as often as after receiving or saying mass, he says one Pater Noster and Ave Maria, he shall deliver one soul out of purgatory. His Holiness granted that all the aforesaid graces might be applied to the dead in purgatory; and to obtain this it is sufficient that one shall have some of the aforesaid holy things, and if it happen that any of them should break or be lost it is lawful to take the like in its stead for one time only and no more. Papal Indulgences. Indulgences granted by the Holy Father Paul the Fifth to crosses, medals, &c., at the instance and request of the Rt. Reverend Father in God, Lord Paul Raggett, Doctor of Divinity, and Abbot of St. Mary's of Dublin, Dwyskt, Dronbrody, and Gerpont, Vicar-General of the Sacred Order of Cisteveians, in the Kingdoms of Ireland, England, and Scotland. His Holiness has granted to any that carries any of the said holy things, or shall pray before any of them, the indulgences and graces following: First, as often as he shall say five Pater Nosters and as many Aves in reverence of the five wounds of our Saviour, and pray for the exaltation of the Church, extirpation of heresy, and for his Holiness, being confessed and communicated, he shall gain plenary indulgence, and so forward to the same or like effect as in the former Bull. There was a dispensation brought over from the Pope by the Friar Tho. FitzGeralde unto all Ireland, that they may lawfully forswear themselves, in all matters moved unto them by the Protestants equivocal; viz., so that interna mente secus opinentur; and this dispensation was brought over by the said Friar twelve months ago under the Pope's broad seal which John Drea saw and read. These Bulls were brought over in English and printed in Rome of purpose for this kingdom. Signed: John O'Dea, Donough O'Dea. This is copied as it was indited by the parties themselves, and I will amend neither the letter nor the phrase thereof, lest the truth of this matter might be suspected.-Lau. Parsons. A true copy, Lau. Parsons. 1611. Vol. 629, p. 179. 115. THE points of the PETITION touching the transportation of the Raw Hides of Ireland. This suggestion is true. These are known mischiefs and are fit to be restrained by proclamation, until a law may be made for reformation thereof. The Petition: (1.) This commandment agrees with the common law which punishes forestallers of markets, but it is to be noted that in some parts of Ireland there are no markets, and in some parts of Conaght the markets are not frequented. (2.) This inhibition his Majesty may justly make for the benefit of his people, if it appear when the markets are fully served and when not, which will be a very doubtful point and can hardly be reduced to a certainty. (3.) This surplusage will be very uncertain, and it is to be considered who shall judge whether the markets are fully served and whether there remains a surplusage or not; perhaps indifferent commissioners in every county by their certificates may reduce it to a certainty. The imposition of 58. a dicker, which is 6d. upon a hide, is too much at this time; The suggestion.-That the raw hides are bought by the merchants, before they are brought to the markets, and so transported into foreign countries, paying small or no custom for the same, which breeds three mischiefs : 1. The impoverishing of the tanners in particular. 2. Raising the price of the leather to all the subjects of Ireland in general. 3. The defrauding of his Majesty's customs. (2.) To inhibit the transportation of all raw hides until the markets are fully served upon pain of forfeiture, and if the markets being fully served there remain any surplusage. (3.) To give liberty to the merchants to transport the same, paying his Majesty 58. for every dicker that shall be transported. Hereupon the petitioner desires two things for herself: a grant of the imposition of 5s. and of the forfeitures for 31 years, a license to transport 40,000 hides yearly during the same term, for which grant and license his Majesty 1611. Vol. 629, p. 180. 116. 3d. upon a hide is enough, Endorsed. P. 1. shall receive 50l. rent per annum, and a poundage for the hides transported. ASTONS' SUIT. That the King would grant him license for 12 years to transport within that time 2,000 lasts of raw hides and 3,000 tons of rendered tallow, paying the King yearly during the said term 8007. Reasons to prove the goodness of the Suit. The King in 12 years shall receive for his customs 9,600l. There is partly by licenses from the Dep. and otherwise sent out of the realm more salt hides in number than is here demanded, and the King has no profit by them. It is in the choice of the Irish subject to sell or not to sell these commodities to such as must receive benefit by the grant, for none will now buy but at undervalue, because they must stand to the hazard of their confiscation if they be discovered. And if it be for the country's good that a stranger should benefit by the exportation, and not themselves, they will sooner invite them to make use of them than the restraint of the law which thay have found to many several desires to avoid. If any prejudice be given to the Irish subject by the grant of this license it is damnum sine injuria, for themselves are the instruments of their own ill, and volenti not fit injuria, and the English shall profit by their loss, which may seem rather a purchase than a prejudice, for the greatest part of the aforesaid hides shall be transported into England, whereby many people would be set a work, as is already in the counties of Chester and Lancaster by the Irish yarn. Reasons against the Suit. The merchants of Ireland would be discontented at the grant, being the chiefest merchandise which they transport. The grant forbids any selling of hides but in open market whereby some men would be constrained to carry their hides 20 miles, and perhaps make an ill market, which would be grievous to the subject in general, and the merchant stranger also is restrained. The imposition of 5s. upon every dicker of hides transported (being not heard of before), would give factious people occasion to speak against the Government, especially being for a particular end to restrain the general and to license anyone and his assignee to buy where and when they list, and to transport for the old custom. The rent paid to the King will not countervail the loss of the love of his people, nor the loss which will ensue in his customs. 1611. Vol. 629, p. 182. 117. The merchant strangers, by whom the King is to receive his greatest benefit by customs, should have nothing to pay in this kingdom to return their money in, which they receive here, if this proclamation proceed, which will decay their traffic and lose the King 1007. yearly at least in his customs; but, what is more uncertain, all other commodities of this kingdom being forbidden to be transported by statute although some are set at liberty to the mislike of the subjects that any particular is preferred before them. The proclamation can be no restraint of transportation of raw hides, but will increase the sending them over, and increase the price of leather exceedingly. The undertakers of Mounster and Ulster have liberty to transport their hides, and they will bring none to the market. In most of the market towns in the kingdom there is not a tanner within 20 miles of the market, and in Ulster there is but one that tans hides as they ought to be wrought. In this city, which is the principal of the kingdom, few butchers, are of ability to buy beeves without loan of money from the merchants, who will not part with it to him but upon condition to have the hides at a price, and so they never come to the markets; if this be restrained the city and we shall be ill served with provision of this kind. Besides all which there is not 40,000 hides transported out of the kingdom in one year, nor in two, as may be collected by cer tificate of the customs which I send herewith. Written by Carew. Endorsed by Carew. OBJECTIONS against the license of transporting of Raw It is to be wished that all hides and other merchandise were sold only in common market, but until the people are better settled, and markets kept according to the fashion of England, this proclamation should be forborne. The merchants of this country be discontented with inhibitions and licenses to transport contrary to the statutes made for the good of this country. This proclamation will increase their discontentment, for they will be restrained of this which is the chief merchandise of the kingdom which they transport The merchant stranger is also by this proclamation to be restrained. The sellers of hides are also restrained to sell to merchants. The undertakers of Mounster have license and liberty to transport the commodities of their own, and the like will be granted in Ulster, and they will not bring their hides to the market. The remainder is a copy of the foregoing. |